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Exhibit 4.15

SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

by and among

LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.,

LDK Silicon Holding Co., Limited,

Jiangxi LDK Solar High-Tech Co., Ltd.,

Jiangxi LDK PV Silicon Technology Co., Ltd.,

Jiangxi LDK Solar Polysilicon Co., Ltd.,

PENG Xiaofeng,

the Ordinary Shareholder

(as defined herein)

and

the Preferred Shareholders

(as defined herein)

 

Dated as of March 9, 2011

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

     This SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 9, 2011, is made and
entered into by and among LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., an exempted company with
limited liability organized and existing under the Laws of the Cayman Islands (the
“Company”), the shareholder of the Company set forth in Schedule A hereto (the
“Ordinary Shareholder”), the shareholders of the Company set forth in Schedule B
hereto (collectively, the “Preferred Shareholders” and individually, a “Preferred
Shareholder”), Xiaofeng Peng (the “Founder”), LDK Silicon Holding Co., Ltd., a company
duly incorporated and validly existing under the Laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of
the PRC (the “Hong Kong Subsidiary”), Jiangxi LDK Solar High-Tech Co., Ltd
() LDK , the
“Solar High-Tech”), Jiangxi LDK PV Silicon Co., Ltd.
( LDK  the “PV Silicon”) and Jiangxi LDK Solar Polysilicon
Co., Ltd. ( LDK ,
the “LDK Solar Polysilicon”), three companies with
limited liability organized and existing under the laws of the PRC. The Ordinary Shareholder and
the Preferred Shareholders are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Shareholders”
and individually as a “Shareholder”.

RECITALS

     WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Subscription Agreement (the
“Subscription Agreement”), dated as of December 30, 2010 by and among the Company, certain
Preferred Shareholders, Oxygen Infrastructure Investment Limited and certain other parties thereto
and the deed of assignment dated March 8, 2011 by Oxygen Infrastructure Investment Limited and
among the same parties and Apollo Asia Investment Limited, the Preferred Shareholders have agreed
to subscribe for up to 240,000,000 Series A Preferred Shares in the Company as set forth in the
Subscription Agreement;

     WHEREAS, the Shareholders believe that it is in the best interests of the Company and the
Shareholders that provision be made for the continuity and stability of the business and policies
of the Company, and, accordingly, desire to make certain arrangements among themselves with respect
to the election of directors of the Company and with respect to certain other matters.

     WHEREAS, each of the parties herein understands that, China Development Bank Capital
Corporation Ltd. () (the “CDBC”) is in the process
of establishing its
offshore entity as its ultimate investment vehicle (the “CDBC Designated Entity”) with
respect to the transaction proposed herein and in the Subscription Agreement, and CDBC shall, at
its own discretion and at any time following the establishment of the CDBC Designated Entity by
CDBC, have the right to transfer and assign this Agreement and the rights and obligations herein to
its CDBC Designated Entity.

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     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and obligations
hereinafter set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement, and unless the context requires a different
meaning, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings, and all capitalized
terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in
the Subscription Agreement:

     “Acceptance Period for Equity Equivalents” has the meaning ascribed to it under
Section 3.1.

     “Affiliate” means, in respect of a Person, any other Person that, directly or
indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common
Control with, such Person, and, without prejudice to, nor intention to deviate from, the above, (a)
in the case of a natural Person, includes, without limitation, any of such Person’s Immediate
Family Members, (b) in the case of a Preferred Shareholder, includes (i) any Person who holds
Series A Preferred Shares as a nominee for such Preferred Shareholder pursuant to a written
agreement, a copy of which has been provided to the Company, (ii) any shareholder of such Preferred
Shareholder, and (iii) any entity or individual which has a direct and indirect Controlling
interest in such Preferred Shareholder (including, if applicable, any general partner or limited
partner of the Preferred Shareholder or such entity) or any fund manager thereof (but excluding any
shareholders of such fund manager). For the avoidance of doubt and for purposes of this Agreement,
each of the Preferred Shareholders shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Group Member.

     “Board” means the board of directors of the Company, as constituted from time to time.

     “Board of Arbitrators” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 12.2.

     “Bona Fide Purchaser” means any Person who or which has delivered a good faith written
offer to purchase all or any portion of a Shareholder’s Shares.

     “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in the PRC or Hong Kong are authorized or required by law or governmental order to
close.

     “CDBC” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Recitals.

     “CDBC Designated Entity” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Recitals.

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     “CFC” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 10.5.

     “CIETA” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 12.2.

     “Closing” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Subscription Agreement.

     “Control” of a given Person means the power or authority, whether exercised or not, to
direct the business, management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, which power or authority
shall conclusively be presumed to exist upon possession of beneficial ownership or power to direct
the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of the votes entitled to be cast at a meeting of the
members or shareholders of such Person or power to control the composition of a majority of the
board of directors of such Person; the terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “Co-Sale Period” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.3.

     “Co-Sale Shares” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.3.

     “Co-Sale Shareholders” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.3.

     “Deed of Adherence” means the deed of adherence in substantially the form set out in
Exhibit 1.

     “Directors” means a director of the Company, including where applicable any alternate
director of the Company.

     “Dispose” or “Disposition” (and any derivatives thereof) means (i) a
voluntary or involuntary sale, assignment, mortgage, grant, pledge, hypothecation, exchange,
transfer, conveyance or other disposition of a Shareholder’s Shares, and (ii) any
agreement, contract or commitment to do any of the foregoing.

     “Disclosing Party” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 12.4.

     “Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Eligible Shareholders” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 3.1.

     “Encumbrance” or “Encumber” means any lien, claim, charge, pledge, mortgage,
option, security interest, right of first refusal, right to acquire, hypothecation, title
retention, right to set-off, counterclaim, trust arrangement, preferential arrangement and
restriction on voting or alienation of any kind, adverse interest, or the interest of a third party
under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention.

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     “Equity Equivalents” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of equity capital of the Company and any rights to acquire the
foregoing, including, without limitation, securities exercisable for, convertible into or
exchangeable for the foregoing or any rights to acquire any of the foregoing.

     “ESOP Plan” means the share option plan to be adopted by the Company in accordance
with Section 10.6.

     “Excess Offer Participating Shareholders” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section
3.2.

     “Governmental Authority” means the governments or any political subdivision of the
governments of any nation, state, city, locality, any entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, regulation or
compliance, and any corporation or other entity owned or controlled, through share or capital
ownership or otherwise, by any of the foregoing.

     “Group” means, collectively, the Company, the Hong Kong Subsidiary, LDK Solar
Polysilicon PV Silicon and every subsidiary of the Company from time to time and a Group Member
means anyone of them.

     “HKFRS” means the Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards promulgated by the Hong Kong
Institute for Certified Public Accountants, together with its pronouncements thereon from time to
time, and applied on a consistent basis.

     “Hong Kong” means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic
of China.

     “Key Holder Proposed Transfer” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Key Holder Proposed Transfer Notice” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section
4.2.

     “Key Holder ROFR Exercise Period” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Key Holder Transferor” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Key Holder Transfer Shares” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Immediate Family Member” means a child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, steparent,
grandparent, spouse, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law,
brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, of a person referred to herein.

     “Information” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 5.8.

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     “Investors” means, collectively, China Development Bank Capital Corporation Ltd.,
Excel Rise Holdings Limited, Prosper East Limited and Apollo Asia Investment Limited, and an
“Investor” means anyone of them.

     “Key Employees” means each of the Chief Executive Officer (or the General Manager in
the absence of such a position), Chief Financial Officer, Deputy General Manager, Corporation
Controller, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Engineering Officer and Secretary of each member of the
Group, as set forth in Schedule 1 of the Subscription Agreement.

     “Key Holders” means collectively the Founder and the Ordinary Shareholder herein and
each, a “Key Holder”.

     “Laws” means, collectively, any federal, state, foreign or local statute, rule,
regulation or other law including Environmental Laws.

     “Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, lien
(statutory or other), charge, claim, restriction or preference, priority, right or other security
interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (excluding preferred share
and equity related preferences).

     “New Equity Equivalents” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 3.1.

     “Non-Disclosing Parties” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 12.4.

     “Non-Electing Offerees” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.3.

     “Notice of Intention to Issue” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 3.1.

     “Observer” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 5.2.

     “Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares with par value of US$0.10 each in the
share capital of the Company.

     “Original Shareholders” means the holders of the Ordinary Shares from time to time
and, as at the date of this Agreement, Original Shareholders only include LDK Solar Co., Ltd., an
exempted company with limited liability organized and existing under the laws of the Cayman Islands
and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

     “Permitted Transferee” means (i) in the case of a Preferred Shareholder, any
of its Affiliates; and (ii) in the case of the Ordinary Shareholder, any Immediate Family Member,
Affiliates or wholly-owned Subsidiary, a parent company owning all of the outstanding share capital
of such Ordinary Shareholder, or a wholly-owned Subsidiary (directly or indirectly) of such parent
company; provided, however, that in each case such Person shall agree in writing
with the parties hereto to be bound by and to comply with all applicable provisions of this
Agreement by executing a form of Deed of Adherence substantially in form attached hereto as
Exhibit A.

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     “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock company,
Governmental Authority or other entity of any kind, and shall include any successor (by merger or
otherwise) of such entity.

     “PFIC” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 10.5.

     “PRC” means the People’s Republic of China, but solely for the purposes of this
Agreement, excluding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macau Special Administrative
Region and Taiwan.

     “PRC GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the PRC, in effect from
time to time.

     “Preferred Shareholders” means the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares.

     “Prohibited Transfer” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.8.

     “Proposed Transfer” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.1.

     “Put Notice” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.8.

     “Put Option Exercise Price” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.8.

     “Qualified IPO” means a firm-commitment underwritten public offering by the Company of
its Ordinary Shares pursuant to a registration statement or similar document that is filed with and
declared effective by the Governmental Authority in accordance with relevant securities Laws of any
jurisdiction on an internationally recognized stock exchange acceptable to all of the Preferred
Shareholders (including but not limited to Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, New
York Stock Exchange or the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, as applicable), pursuant to which the
public offering shares shall be not less than 15% of the total outstanding shares of the Company
post public offering, and the offering price of the public offering shall be, subject to the share
split, combination, share dividend, contribution or other similar adjustments, (i) not less than
US$1.364 per Share if aforesaid listing occurs within one year following the Closing; or (ii) the
price as mutually agreed by the parties hereof and in no event less than US$1.364 per Share if
aforesaid listing takes place after one year following the Closing.

     “Registration Rights Agreement” means the registration rights agreement by and among
the Company and the holder(s) of the Series A Preferred Shares dated as of the date hereof.

     “Restated Articles” means the amended and restated memorandum and articles of
association of the Company (including its schedules), in such form and substance as agreed by the
Preferred Shareholders (as may be amended from time to time).

     “Right of First Refusal” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

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     “Second Acceptance Period” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 3.2.

     “Second Participation Notice” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 3.2.

     “Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     “Series A Original Purchase Price” means US$1.00 per Series A Preferred Share.

     “Series A Preferred Shares” means the series A redeemable convertible preferred shares
with par value of US$0.10 each in the share capital of the Company.

     “Shares” means the shares in share capital of the Company from time to time and as at
the date hereof consists of the Ordinary Shares and Series A Preferred Shares of the Company.

     “Shareholder” means any holder of the Shares from time to time.

     “Subscription Agreement” has the meaning ascribed to it under Recitals.

     “Subsidiaries” means, with respect to any Person, (i) a corporation or other entity,
of which (x) more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the voting equity securities or
equity interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person, or (y) more than fifty percent
(50%) interest in the profits or capital of such entity are owned or controlled directly or
indirectly by such Person or through one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any entity
whose assets, or portions thereof, are consolidated with the net earnings of such Person and are
recorded on the books of such Person for financial reporting purposes in accordance with the HKFRS,
or (iii) any entity with respect to which such Person has the power to otherwise direct the
business and policies of that entity directly or indirectly through another Subsidiary.

     “Terms” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 12.4.

     “Third Party Sale Notice” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.3.

     “Transaction Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Subscription
Agreement, the Restated Articles, the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of March 9, 2011 by
and among the Company and the Preferred Shareholders, the indemnification agreement dated as of
March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and the CDBC Director, the share pledge agreement dated as
of March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and CDBC, the relevant deed of guarantee dated as of
March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and the Preferred Shareholders, and other ancillary
documents in connection with the transactions proposed in the Subscription Agreement.

     “Under Subscription Notice” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

     “Under Subscription Period” has the meaning ascribed to it under Section 4.2.

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1.2 Principles of Construction. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

	(a)	 	any reference in this Agreement to a “Party” shall be construed as a reference to a party to
this Agreement;
	 
	(b)	 	any reference in this Agreement to “writing” or comparable expressions includes a reference
to facsimile transmission or comparable means of communication (excluding, for the avoidance
of doubt, email);
	 
	(c)	 	words expressed in the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa, words
expressed in the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter gender and vice versa;
	 
	(d)	 	references to Sections, Schedules and Recitals are references to clauses, schedules and
recitals of this Agreement;
	 
	(e)	 	reference to “day” or “days” are to calendar days;
	 
	(f)	 	this “Agreement” shall be construed as a reference to this Agreement as the same may have
been, or may from time to time be, amended, varied, novated or supplemented;
	 
	(g)	 	“include,” “includes,” and “including” are deemed to be followed by “without limitation”
whether or not they are in fact followed by such words or words of similar import;
	 
	(h)	 	the table of contents and headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the
construction of this Agreement;
	 
	(i)	 	references herein to statutory provisions shall be construed as references to those
provisions as amended or re-enacted or as their application is modified by other provisions
and shall include any provisions of which they are re-enactments (whether with or without
modification); and
	 
	(j)	 	references to a “company” include any company, corporation or other body corporate wherever
and however incorporated or established.
	 
	1.3	 	Schedules and Exhibits. The Schedules and Exhibits to this Agreement are incorporated
into and form an integral part of this Agreement.

SECTION 2

INFORMATION RIGHTS; INSPECTION RIGHTS

2.1 Information Rights. The Company and each of the Group Members covenant and agree that,
commencing on the date of this Agreement, for so long as a Preferred Shareholder holds any Series A
Preferred Shares and to the extent not

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inconsistent with the applicable laws and listing rules applicable to the Company or to it as a
subsidiary of the Founding Entity, the Company will deliver to such Preferred Shareholder the
following with respect to the Group:

	(a)	 	quarterly un-audited consolidated financial statements of the Group within forty-five (45)
days from the end of each quarter;
	 
	(b)	 	un-audited annual consolidated financial statements of the Group within sixty (60) days after
the end of each fiscal year;
	 
	(c)	 	a draft of the annual consolidated financial reports of the Group within ninety (90) days
after the end of each fiscal year;
	 
	(d)	 	audited annual consolidated financial reports of the Group, prepared in accordance with HKFRS
by KPMG within six (6) months after the end of each fiscal year;
	 
	(e)	 	an annual consolidated budget of the Group for the coming year at least thirty (30) days
prior to the end of each fiscal year;
	 
	(f)	 	as soon as practicable, copies of all documents or other information sent to any other
Shareholders that are related to the Group, which the Company reasonably believes to be
material to the rights of the Preferred Shareholders; and
	 
	(g)	 	promptly upon the request of any Preferred Shareholders, current versions of this Agreement
and other related investment documents and all documents relating to any subsequent financings
by the Group, the management of the Group or otherwise affecting the Series A Preferred Shares
or shares issued upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, bearing the signatures of
all parties and of the Restated Articles bearing the file stamp of the appropriate government
authority, in each case with all amendments and restatements; the copies of the documents to
be provided under this Section 2.1 may be delivered in either hardcopy or in Portable Document
Format (PDF).

The foregoing financial statements shall, to the extent not inconsistent with the applicable laws
and listing rules applicable to the Company or to it as a subsidiary of the Founding Entity, be
prepared in English in relation to the Group on a consolidated basis and include the profit and
loss statement and cash flow statement for the relevant period and the balance sheet ending on the
relevant date.

2.2 Inspection Rights. The Company and each of the Group Members further covenant and agree
that, commencing on the date of this Agreement, for so long as any Preferred Shareholder holds any
Shares, such Preferred Shareholder shall have the right to inspect facilities, records and books of
the Group, and to discuss the business, operations and conditions of each Group Member with their
respective directors, officers, employees, accounts, legal counsel, auditors, financial advisors
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investment bankers, at any time during regular working hours on reasonable prior notice to the
Company or the respective Group Member, respectively.

2.3 Special Audit and Account Financial Review. The Company and each of the Group Members
further covenants and agrees that, commencing on the date of this Agreement, any Preferred
Shareholder shall have the right to require (at its own expense) financial review of the accounts
of, and conduct special audit against, the Group, in commercially reasonable manner and at any time
during regular working hours on reasonable prior notice to the Company or the relevant Group
Member, respectively.

2.4 Termination upon Qualified IPO. The information rights, inspection rights and rights
relating to special audit and account financial review set forth in Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 shall
terminate upon consummation of a Qualified IPO.

2.5 Compliance with Applicable Law. Each party hereto (i) understands that the Company is a
Subsidiary of the Ordinary Shareholder, which is a reporting issuer under the U.S. securities law
with its American depositary shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange, (ii) acknowledges that
information obtained by any Preferred Shareholder under this Section 2.1 may constitute material
non-public information and, accordingly, may subject any user thereof to various criminal and civil
liabilities under the U.S. securities laws if used in violation of such securities laws and other
applicable Laws, and (iii) expressly confirms that it will not release or otherwise use the
information about the Group hereunder in violation of the U.S. securities laws and such other
applicable Laws.

SECTION 3

PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHTS

3.1 Pre-emptive Rights. Subject to provisions set forth in Section 3.4, if at any time the
Company proposes to issue any Equity Equivalents to any Person or Persons (the “New Equity
Equivalents”), the Company shall first deliver a written notice of its intention (the
“Notice of Intention to Issue”) to the Preferred Shareholders (collectively, the
“Eligible Shareholders” and each, a “Eligible Shareholder”) setting forth a
description of the New Equity Equivalents to be issued, the proposed issue price thereof and terms
of issue. Upon receipt of the Notice of Intention to Issue, each Eligible Shareholder shall have
the right to elect to subscribe, at the price and on the terms stated in the Notice of Intention to
Issue, up to a number of the New Equity Equivalents that is equal to the product of (i) a fraction,
the numerator of which is such Eligible Shareholder’s aggregate ownership of Shares (calculated on
an as converted and fully-diluted basis) and the denominator of which is the number of such Shares
held by all Eligible Shareholders (calculated on an as converted and fully-diluted basis), in both
cases, immediately prior to the proposed issue, multiplied by (ii) the number of New Equity
Equivalents to be issued. Such election is to be made by the Eligible Shareholders by written
notice to the Company

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within twenty (20) Business Days after receipt by the Preferred Shareholders of the Notice of
Intention to Issue (the “Acceptance Period for New Equity Equivalents”).

3.2 If any Eligible Shareholder fails or declines to fully exercise its preemptive right in
accordance with Section 3.1 above, the Company shall promptly give notice (the “Second
Participation Notice”) to other Eligible Shareholder(s) who have/has fully exercised their/its
preemptive right (the “Excess Offer Participating Shareholders”) within (ten) 10 Business
Days after the expiry of the Acceptance Period for New Equity Equivalents. Each of the Excess Offer
Participating Shareholders shall have 10 Business Days from the date of the Second Participation
Notice (the “Second Acceptance Period”) to notify the Company of the number of additional
New Equity Equivalents it proposes to subscribe from the remaining New Equity Equivalents. If such
subscription exceeds the total number of the remaining New Equity Equivalents available for
subscription, the subscription of the remaining New Equity Equivalents by each of the Excess Offer
Participating Shareholders will be automatically adjusted to a number that equals to a product
obtained by multiplying (i) the number of New Equity Equivalents it proposes to subscribe from the
remaining New Equity Equivalents, by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Shares held by
such Excess Offer Participating Shareholder and the denominator of which is the total number of
Shares held by all Excess Offer Participating Shareholders (calculated on an as converted and
fully-diluted basis), in both cases, immediately prior to the proposed issue of the New Equity
Equivalents in Section 3.1.

3.3 Sale and Issue of Remaining Equity Equivalents. To the extent that the Eligible
Shareholders or Excess Offer Participating Shareholders have not exercised their preemptive right
under Sections 3.1 and 3.2 above within the time periods specified thereunder, the Company may, at
its election, during a period of sixty (60) days following the expiration of the Acceptance Period
for New Equity Equivalents, issue the remaining New Equity Equivalents to any Person at a price and
upon terms not more favorable than those stated in the Notice of Intention to Issue;
provided, however, that in each case such Person shall agree in writing with the
parties hereto to be bound by and to comply with all applicable provisions of this Agreement by
executing a form of Deed of Adherence substantially in form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
In the event the Company has not issued the New Equity Equivalents, or entered into an agreement to
issue the New Equity Equivalents, within such sixty (60)-day period, the Company shall not
thereafter issue or sell any Equity Equivalents without first offering such securities to each
Preferred Shareholder in the manner provided in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 hereof. For the avoidance of
doubt, failure by a Preferred Shareholder to exercise his or its option to purchase with respect to
one offering, sale and issuance of Equity Equivalents shall not affect his or its option to
purchase Equity Equivalents in any subsequent offering, sale and purchase.

3.4 Payment. In the event that a Preferred Shareholder gives notice to the Company pursuant
to the provisions of this Section 3, that he or it desires to subscribe for any of the New Equity
Equivalents, it shall make payment to the Company by check or wire transfer against the issuance of
the New Equity Equivalents following

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the later of (i) within twenty (20) Business Days after giving the Company such notice, or (ii) the
closing date for the offering of such New Equity Equivalents.

3.5 Compliance. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained herein,
the Company shall not, and the Original Shareholder shall procure the Company not to, issue or
allot any Equity Equivalents to any third party unless such issuance or allotment is in compliance
with this Section 3.

3.6 The preemptive rights contained in this Section 3 shall not apply to Ordinary Shares that are
issued: (i) as a share dividend, stock split, subdivision, combination, recapitalization, or other
similar transaction of the Company, (ii) pursuant to a Qualified IPO, (iii) upon the conversion of
any equity security or debt security of the Company issued and outstanding on or prior to the date
hereof, (iv) the Post-Closing Restructuring, and (v) under the ESOP Plan.

SECTION 4

DISPOSITION OF SHARES

4.1 Restrictions on Transfer. Subject to Section 4.5, any proposed assignment, sale, offer
to sell, pledge, mortgage, hypothecation, encumbrance, disposition of or any other like transfer or
encumbering, through one or a series of transactions, of any interest in any Shares now or
hereafter owned or held by a Shareholder, either directly or indirectly (in each case, a
“Proposed Transfer”) shall be made in compliance with the terms of this Section 4. For the
avoidance of doubt, any change in the Founding Entity’s shareholding or interest in the Company
shall constitute a “Proposed Transfer” for purposes of this Agreement, except however for the
Post-Closing Restructuring.

4.2 Right of First Refusal - Key Holder Transfers

          (a) Proposed Transfer Notice. Each Key Holder (including their successors and
permitted assigns) (a “Key Holder Transferor”) proposing to make a Proposed Transfer (a
“Key Holder Proposed Transfer”) must first deliver a notice (the “Key Holder Proposed
Transfer Notice”) to the Company and each of the Preferred Shareholders no later than sixty
(60) calendar days prior to the consummation of such Key Holder Proposed Transfer. Such Key Holder
Proposed Transfer Notice shall contain the material terms and conditions of such Key Holder
Proposed Transfer and all other information which are reasonably necessary to fully describe such
Key Holder Proposed Transfer, including without limitation, (i) a description of the Shares (the
“Key Holder Transfer Shares”) that such Key Holder Transferor propose to transfer, the
consideration and the identity of the Bona Fide Purchaser, a written certification by the Key
Holder Transferor that it has received a firm offer from the prospective transferee(s) and in good
faith believes a binding agreement for the Bona Fide Purchaser is obtainable on the terms set forth
in the Proposed Key Holder Transfer Notice; and (ii) copy of any written proposal, term sheet or
letter of intent or other agreement relating to the Key Holder Proposed Transfer. In the event of a
conflict between this Agreement and any other agreement that may have been entered

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into by a Key Holder Transferor with the Company that contains a pre-existing right of first
refusal, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail and the pre-existing right of first refusal
shall be deemed satisfied by compliance with this Section 4.2.

          (b) Grant of Right of First Refusal to Preferred Shareholders. Each Key Holder
Transferor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably grants to each Preferred Shareholder (including
its successors and permitted assigns) a right of first refusal (for the purposes of this Section
4.2(b), the “Right of First Refusal”) to purchase the Preferred Shareholder Pro Rata ROFR
Shares. To exercise its Right of First Refusal, a Preferred Shareholder must, within thirty (30)
calendar days after the receipt of the Key Holder Proposed Transfer Notice (the “Key Holder
ROFR Exercise Period”), deliver an exercise notice to the Key Holder Transferor and the Company
indicating the number of Key Holder Transfer Shares such Preferred Shareholder wishes to purchase.

          For the purposes of this Section 4.2, a Preferred Shareholder’s “Preferred Shareholder Pro
Rata ROFR Shares” of a specified quantity of Key Holder Transfer Shares shall mean such number of
Key Holder Transfer Shares that represents: the specified quantity of Key Holder Transfer Shares
proposed to be transferred, multiplied by a fraction equal to: (i) the number of Shares then held
by such Preferred Shareholder (on an as converted and fully diluted basis), divided by (ii) the
total number of Shares (on an as converted and fully diluted basis) then held by all Preferred
Shareholders.

          In the event that the Rights of First Refusal to purchase the Key Holder Transfer Shares have
been exercised by the Preferred Shareholder(s) with respect to some but not all of the Key Holder
Transfer Shares by the end of the Key Holder ROFR Exercise Period, the Key Holder Transferor shall,
within five (5) Business Days after the expiration of the Key Holder ROFR Exercise Period, deliver
a written notice to the Company and those Preferred Shareholders who have fully exercised their
Right of First Refusal (the “Under Subscription Notice”) offering to them the remaining Key
Holder Transfer Shares. Each Preferred Shareholder that has fully exercised its Right of First
Refusal shall have an additional right to purchase all or any of the remaining Key Holder Transfer
Shares. To exercise such right, a Preferred Shareholder must, within ten (10) calendar days from
the receipt of the Under Subscription Notice (the “Under Subscription Period”), deliver an
exercise notice to the Key Holder Transferor and the Company indicating the additional number of
Key Holder Transfer Shares such Preferred Shareholder wishes to purchase. In the event that such
purchase exceeds the total number of the remaining Key Holder Transfer Shares available for
purchase, the purchase of such remaining Key Holder Transfer Shares by each of the abovementioned
Preferred Shareholder will be automatically adjusted to a number that equals to the product
obtained by multiplying (i) the number of Key Holder Transfer Shears it proposes to subscribe from
the remaining Key Holder Transfer Shares, by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number
of Shares held by such Preferred Shareholder and the denominator of which is the total number of
Shares held by all Preferred Shareholders which have fully exercised its

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Right of First Refusal (calculated on an as converted and fully-diluted basis), in both cases,
immediately prior to the Key Holder Proposed Transfer.

          (c) Consideration; Closing. The consideration proposed to be paid for the Proposed
Key Holder Transfer Shares shall be in cash. The closing of the purchase of any Key Holder
Transfer Shares by the Series A Preferred Shareholder shall take place, and all payments from the
Series A Preferred Shareholder shall have been delivered to the Key Holder Transferor, fifteen (15)
Business Days following the later of (i) the expiry of the Key Holder ROFR Exercise Period; (ii)
the expiry of the Under Subscription Period; or (iii) the closing date for the sale of the Key
Holder Transfer Shares, against delivery of the relevant Proposed Key Holder Shares.

          4.3 Co-Sale Right.

               (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if the Key Holder Transferor shall sell
the Key Holder Transfer Shares subject to the Key Holder Proposed Transfer Notice to the Bona Fide
Purchaser, the Key Holder Transferor shall notify in writing (the “Third Party Sale
Notice”) each Preferred Shareholder that has not exercised pursuant to Section 4.2 its Right of
First Refusal (collectively, the “Non-Electing Offerees”), and no such sale shall be made
unless and until each Non-Electing Offeree (the “Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder”) shall have
been afforded the right exercisable upon written notice to the Company and the Key Holder
Transferor within twenty (20) Business Days after the receipt of the Third Party Sale Notice (the
“Co-Sale Period”), to participate in the sale of the Key Holder Transfer Shares at the same
time and on the same terms and conditions under which the Key Holder Transferor will sell the Key
Holder Transfer Shares to the Bona Fide Purchaser.

               (b) Each such Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder may sell all or any part of that number of Shares
(the “Co-Sale Shares”) held by such Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder equal to the product
obtained by multiplying (x) the aggregate number of Key Holder Transfer Shares covered by
the relevant Third Party Sale Notice by (y) a fraction the numerator of which is the number
of Shares (on an as converted, fully-diluted basis) at the time owned by such Eligible Co-Sale
Shareholder and the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate number of Shares (on an as
converted, fully-diluted basis) owned by all Eligible Co-Sale Shareholders exercising their co-sale
rights under this Section 4.3 (the “Co-Sale Shareholders”) and the number of Shares (on an
as converted, fully-diluted basis) then owned by the Key Holder Transferor. To the extent that any
Co-Sale Shareholders participate in the subject sale of Key Holder Transfer Shares hereunder, the
Key Holder Transferor shall be required to proportionately reduce the number of its Shares included
in the Key Holder Transfer Shares. No transfer of the Co-Sale Shares shall be made on terms and
conditions, including the form of consideration, more favorable than those contained in the
Proposed Key Holder Transfer Notice unless the Key Holder Transferor re-offers the Key Holder
Transfer Shares to all Preferred Shareholders in accordance with this Section 4.

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               (c) Upon the exercise of a Co-Sale Right by an Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder, where the Co-Sale
Shares have not converted into Ordinary Shares pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or the
Restated Articles, the Company shall, at the request of the relevant Eligible Co-Sale Shareholder,
upon or prior to the transfer of the Co-Sale Shares, procure the conversion of such Co-Sale Shares
to Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Restated Articles.

               (d) The closing of any purchase of the Co-Sale Shares by the Co-Sale Shareholder shall be held
at the principal office of the Company fifteen (15) Business Days after the later of the expiration
of the Co-Sale Period or at such other time and place as the parties to the transaction may agree.

          4.4 Closing.

               (a) At the relevant closing, the Key Holder Transferor and/or the Co-Sale Shareholder shall,
in addition to the delivery of certificates representing the Key Holder Transfer Shares and/or the
Co-Sale Shares, deliver duly executed instruments of transfer and the Key Holder Transferor’s
and/or the Co-Sale Shareholder’s portion of the requisite transfer taxes, if any. Such Key Holder
Transfer Shares and Co-Sale Shares shall be free and clear of any Encumbrances (other than
Encumbrances arising hereunder or attributable to actions by the Preferred Shareholders and/or the
Bona Fide Purchaser, as the case may be), and the Key Holder Transferor shall so represent and
warrant and shall further represent and warrant that it is the beneficial and record owner of such
Key Holder Transfer Shares, free and clear of all Liens and Encumbrances. The Co-Sale Shareholder
shall only be obligated to represent and warrant that it is the beneficial and record owner of the
Co-Sale Shares, free and clear of all Liens and Encumbrances. Each Preferred Shareholder and/or
each Bona Fide Purchaser purchasing the Key Holder Transfer Shares and/or the Co-Sale Shares shall
deliver at such closing (or on such later date or dates as may be provided in the Proposed Key
Holder Transfer Notice with respect to payment of consideration by the proposed Bona Fide
Purchaser) payment in full of the purchase price for the Key Holder Transfer Shares.

               (b) At such closing, all of the parties to the transaction shall execute such additional
documents as may be necessary or appropriate to effect the sale of the Key Holder Transfer Shares
and/or the Co-Sale Shares to the relevant Preferred Shareholder and/or the Bona Fide Purchaser, as
the case may be.

               (c) Any stamp duty or transfer taxes or fees payable on the transfer of any Key Holder
Transfer Shares and/or the Co-Sale Shares shall be borne and paid equally by the Key Holder
Transferor and any Co-Sale Shareholders on the one hand, and the relevant Preferred Shareholders
exercising Right of First Refusal and/or the Bona Fide Purchaser on the other. At such closing,
the Bona Fide Purchaser shall agree in writing with the parties hereto to be bound by and to comply
with all applicable provisions of this Agreement by executing a form of Deed of Adherence
substantially in form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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          4.5 Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement that may provide to the contrary, (i) the
Ordinary Shareholders shall not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of or any direct or
indirect interest in its Shares and (ii) the Founder shall not own, directly or indirectly, in the
aggregate less than 35% of voting stock in the Founding Entity, each prior to the consummation of
the Qualified IPO or initial public offering of the share of the Company without the prior written
consent of all the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares then outstanding.

               4.6 [Intentionally Deleted]

               4.7 Permitted Transfers.

          (a) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, any Transfer by a
Preferred Shareholder of any or all of its Shares to any of its Permitted Transferees shall not be
subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 4; provided that such transferee or assignee,
prior to the completion of the sale, shall have executed a Deed of Adherence assuming the
obligations of the transferring Shareholder under this Agreement with respect to the transferred
Shares.

          (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, the provisions of
Section 4 shall not apply (i) to the sale of any Shares to the public in a Qualified IPO, (ii)
under an ESOP; (iii) pursuant to Section 10.6.

          4.8 Put Option.

          (a) In the event that: (i) the Company or any of the Key Holders, prior to the Qualified IPO,
is in material breach of the obligations under the Transaction Documents, or (ii) the Company has
not completed a Qualified IPO within two (2) years from Closing, each Preferred Shareholder shall
be entitled to require the Key Holders to purchase, at a purchase price (the “Put Option
Exercise Price”) with respect to each Series A Preferred Shares, equal to the Series A Original
Purchase Price (as adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations
and similar transactions), plus twenty-three percent (23%) of an internal rate of return for such
Series A Original Purchase Price, in each case as proportionally adjusted for share subdivisions,
share dividends, reorganizations, reclassifications, consolidations, or mergers.

          (b) In the event that a Key Holder Transferor transfer any Shares in disregard or
contravention of Section 4.5 or the right of first refusal or co-sale rights under this Agreement
(a “Prohibited Transfer”), at the option of any Preferred Shareholder with a written notice
to the Key Holder Transferor so requesting (the “Put Notice”), each Preferred Shareholder
shall have the right (but not the obligation) to sell to anyone of the Key Holder Transferors the
number of Shares equal to the number of Shares such Preferred Shareholder would have been entitled
to transfer to the Bona Fide Purchaser under Section 4.3 hereof had the Prohibited Transfer been
effected pursuant to and in compliance with the terms hereof. Such sale shall be made on the
following terms and conditions:

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          (i) the price per Share at which the Shares are to be sold to the Key Holder Transferor shall
be equal to the price per Share paid by the Bona Fide Purchaser to the Key Holder Transferor(s) in
the Prohibited Transfer or Put Option Exercise Price, whichever is higher. The Key Holder
Transferor shall also, on a joint and several basis reimburse each Preferred Shareholder for any
and all reasonable fees and expenses, including legal fees and out-of-pocket expenses, incurred
pursuant to the exercise or the attempted exercise of such Preferred Shareholder’s rights under
this Section 4.8.

          (ii) each Preferred Shareholder shall, if exercising the option created hereby, deliver to the
Key Holder Transferor within thirty (30) days after the later of the dates on which the Preferred
Shareholder: (A) received notice of the Prohibited Transfer; or (B) otherwise become aware of the
Prohibited Transfer, a notice describing the type and the number of shares to be transferred by the
Preferred Shareholder.

          (iii) the Key Holder Transferor shall, promptly upon receipt of the notice described in
subsection 4.8(b)(ii) above from the Preferred Shareholder(s) exercising the option created hereby,
pay to each such Preferred Shareholder the aggregate purchase price for the Shares to be sold by
such Preferred Shareholder, and the amount of reimbursable fees and expenses, as specified in
subparagraph 4.8(b)(ii), in cash or by other means acceptable to the Preferred Shareholder.

          (iv) upon receipt of full payment of the amount due from the Key Holder Transferor, the
Preferred Shareholder shall deliver to the Key Holder Transferor the certificate or certificates
representing shares to be sold, together with a transfer form signed by the Preferred Shareholder
transferring such Shares.

          (v) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any attempt by a Key Holder Transferor to Transfer any of
the Shares in violation of Section 4 hereof shall be void, and the Company undertakes it will not
effect such a Transfer nor will treat any alleged transferee as the holder of such Shares without
the prior written consent of the holders of all the Series A Preferred Shares then outstanding.

          (c) Prohibited Transfer in Violation of Laws. No Shareholder may transfer any Shares
in disregard or contravention of applicable Laws and no Proposed Transfer by any Shareholder may
cause any liability or damages, legal or otherwise, to the Company without reasonable and proper
indemnification.

SECTION 5

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

5.1 Composition of the Board. 

	 	(a)	 	The Company shall have a Board consisting of a maximum of ten (10) directors, of
which (i) one (1) Director shall be appointed by CDBC (the “CDBC Director”) at or
prior to the Closing, (ii) three (3) Directors as

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	 	 	 	independent non-executive directors and shall be determined in accordance with the
then applicable stock exchange rules upon Qualified IPO or any initial public
offering of the Shares (the “Independent Directors”).
	 
	 	(b)	 	Subject to applicable Laws, the CDBC Director, in the case of his absence, shall be
entitled to appoint an alternate to serve at any Board meeting, and such alternate shall
be permitted to attend all Board meetings and vote on behalf of the director for whom she
or he is serving as an alternative, it being understood, acknowledged and confirmed by
CDBC that any vote or decision taken by such alternate at any such Board meeting shall
constitute the vote and decision of the CDBC Director as if so taken by the CDBC Director
him/herself at such Board meeting, with full reliance permitted on such vote and
decision. The Board and all committees thereof shall meet in person or by teleconference
no less than once every half year. The Company shall reimburse all reasonable,
documented expenses of all the Directors and all the persons of the committees related to
all activities of the Board and all committees thereof, including but not limited to
attending the meetings of the Board and all committees thereof.
	 
	 	(c)	 	The Board and all committees thereof shall meet in person or by teleconference no
less than once every half year. The Company shall reimburse all reasonable, documented
expenses of all the Directors and all the persons of the committees related to all
activities of the Board and all committees thereof, including but not limited to
attending the meetings of the Board and all committees thereof.

5.2 Board Observers. Each of the Preferred Shareholders other than CDBC shall be entitled
to appoint/remove an observer (each, an “Observer”) to the Board of Directors and each
committee thereof and each Observer or its designated Person shall be entitled to receive notice
and to attend board of directors or board committee meetings of the Company and each of the other
Group Member in a non-voting observer capacity, it being understood, acknowledged and confirmed by
each such Preferred Shareholders that any action or omission by its Observer with respect to any
such meeting shall constitute the action or omission of such Preferred Shareholder as if committed
by such Preferred Shareholder, with full responsibility attached to such action or omission. The
Company shall provide each such Observer copies of all notices and materials (including, where
applicable, any resolutions in writing of the Board and each committee thereof) at the same time
and in the same manner as the same are provided to the Directors or committee members. Each party
hereto (i) understands that the Company is a Subsidiary of the Ordinary Shareholder, which is a
reporting issuer under the U.S. securities law with its American depositary shares listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, (ii) acknowledges that information obtained by its designated Observer
under this Section may constitute material non-public information and, accordingly, may subject any
user thereof to various criminal and civil liabilities under the U.S. securities laws if used in
violation of such securities

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laws and other applicable Laws, and (iii) expressly confirms that it (including its Observer) will
not release or otherwise use the information about the Group hereunder in violation of the U.S.
securities laws and such other applicable Laws.

5.3 Convening Board Meetings. Any director may call a meeting of the Board.

5.4 Notice of Board Meeting. Where practicable, at least five (5) clear calendar days’
notice of each meeting of the Board shall be given to each Director entitled to attend and the
notice shall be accompanied by an agenda and a board paper setting out in such reasonable detail as
may be practicable in the circumstances with respect to the subject matter of the meeting. Breach
of this Section 5.4 shall not affect the validity of any meeting of the Board which has otherwise
been validly convened.

5.5 Quorum; Voting at Board meetings. The Board and all committees thereof shall meet in
person or by teleconference no less than once every half year. A quorum necessary for the
transaction of the business of the Directors shall be half or more than half of the total number of
the Directors, including the CDBC Director. Unless otherwise provided herein or in the Restated
Articles, each resolution of the Board shall be adopted by a majority of the Board except for a
written board resolution which shall be passed by all directors unanimously.

5.6 At the request of the Board, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from
financially sound and reputable insurers, directors and officers liability insurance in favor of
the members of the Board, in an amount satisfactory to the Board, and will use reasonable best
efforts to cause such insurance policies to be maintained until such time as the Board determines
that such insurance should be discontinued. The Restated Articles shall at all times provide that
the Company shall indemnify the members of the Board to the maximum extent permitted by the Law of
the jurisdiction in which the Company is incorporated.

     5.7 Members of the Board or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board or
such committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of
which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation in a meeting
pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. A resolution in
writing (in one or more counterparts), signed by all the directors for the time being or all the
members of a committee of directors (an alternate director being entitled to sign such resolution
on behalf of his appointer) shall be as valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting
of the directors or committee, as the case may be, duly convened and held.

     5.8 Waiver. The Company acknowledges that each Preferred Shareholder will likely
have, from time to time, information that may be of interest to the Company or its Subsidiaries
(the “Information”) regarding a wide variety of matters including: (a) a Preferred
Shareholder’s technologies, plans and services, and plans and strategies relating thereto; (b)
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Shareholder has made, may make, may consider or may become aware of with respect to other
companies and other technologies, products and services, including technologies, products and
services that may compete with those of the Group; and (c) developments with respect to the
technologies, products and services, and plans and strategies relating thereto, of other companies,
including companies that may compete with the Group. The Company and each of the Group Members, as
a material part of the consideration for this Agreement, to the extent permissible under applicable
Law,: (i) agrees that neither any CDBC Director nor any Observer shall have any duty to disclose
any Information to the Group, or permit the Group to participate in any projects or investments
based on any Information, or otherwise to take advantage of any opportunity that may be of interest
to the Group if it were aware of such Information, and (ii) hereby waives, to the extent permitted
by the applicable Laws, any claim based on the corporate opportunity doctrine or otherwise that
could limit any Preferred Shareholder’s ability to pursue opportunities based on such Information
or that would require any Preferred Shareholder, any representative, any CDBC Director or the
Observer to disclose any such Information to the Group or offer any opportunity relating thereto to
the Group.

          5.9 Indemnification.

The Company and each Group Member shall, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold harmless the
CDBC Director (and his/her alternate) and the Observer, to the fullest extent permissible by Laws,
from and against all liabilities, damages, actions, suits, proceedings, claims, costs, charges and
expenses suffered or incurred by or brought or made against such CDBC Director (or his alternate)
and the Observer as a result of any act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done by him in good
faith in the course of acting as a Director or alternate Director, as applicable, of the Company or
any Group Member, by delivering to such CDBC Director (or its alternate) and the Observer, at the
time of its appointment as a Director or an alternate Director, an indemnification agreement duly
executed by the Company substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

SECTION 6

SHAREHOLDERS MEETINGS

	 	6.1	 	Convening General Meetings. The Board may, and the Board on the
requisition of any Shareholder shall, call a general meeting. General meetings shall
be held (and may be attended by the Shareholders in person or by means of a video or
telephone conference) at least once every year and shall be called by at least
twenty-one (21) clear calendar days’ notice. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a general
meeting may be called by shorter notice if it is so agreed by all the Shareholders
entitled to attend and vote thereat.
	 
	 	6.2	 	Quorum at General Meetings. The quorum for any meeting of the
Shareholders shall be Shareholders holding at least 75% of the Ordinary

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	 	 	 	Shares and all the Preferred Shares at such time. In the event that a duly called
Shareholder meeting shall be inquorate, such meeting shall be adjourned. At least
five (5) clear calendar days’ notice of the reconvened meeting shall be given unless
all of the Shareholders agree. At the reconvened meeting, the required quorum shall
be Shareholders holding at least 50% of the Ordinary Shares and 85% of the Preferred
Shares at such time.
	 
	 	6.3	 	Voting at General Meetings. Every Shareholder shall have one vote for
every Share of which he is the holder. In the event of an equality of votes cast, the
chairman of the meeting shall not have a casting vote and the relevant resolution shall
not be passed.
	 
	 	6.4	 	Proxies at general meetings. Each Shareholder may appoint one or more
proxies to attend and vote on his behalf at any general meeting.
	 
	 	6.5	 	Shareholder Procedures. Any Shareholder may give its approval in
relation to any matters requiring the approval of Shareholders (including those listed
in Section 7):
	 
	 	(a)	 	in writing; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	by a vote in favour of a specific Shareholders’ resolution on that matter.
	 
	 	6.6	 	Written Resolutions. A resolution in writing signed by all the
Shareholders shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as a resolution passed at
a general meeting duly convened, held and constituted.

SECTION 7

PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

     7.1 Shareholder Matters. So long as any Series A Preferred Shares are issued and
outstanding, the Company and the holders of Ordinary Shares shall not take any of the following
actions, whether by amendment of the Restated Articles or otherwise, and whether in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions, with respect to the Company and any Group Member
without obtaining the prior written approval of all Preferred Shareholders, and in the context of
such matters set forth in this Section 7.1 which are by applicable laws required to be
determined by the shareholders of the Company, the approval of all Preferred Shareholders shall be
deemed obtained if the matter is approved at a general meeting of the Company with the affirmative
votes of all Preferred Shareholders or by way of written resolution signed by all Preferred
Shareholders:

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          (a) make any alteration or amendment to the Memorandum and/or Restated Articles or other
constitutional documents of the Company and/or any Group Member (except for the Post Closing
Restructuring);

          (b) effect any merger, initial public offering (other than a Qualified IPO), spin-off,
consolidation, concerning the Company and/or any Group Member (except for the Post Closing
Restructuring);

          (c) dispose of or dilute the Company’s interest, directly or indirectly, in any of its
Subsidiaries except for the Post Closing Restructuring;

          (d) increase, reduce or cancel the authorized or issued share capital or issue, allot,
purchase or redeem any shares or securities convertible into or carrying a right of subscription in
respect of shares or any share warrants or grant or issue any option rights or warrants or which
may require the issue of shares in the future, other than (i) a reduction in the issued share
capital of the Company resulting from the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, (ii) the
repurchase or redemption of the Series A Preferred Shares pursuant to the terms herein, or (iii)
the Post Closing Restructuring;

          (e) effect any change to the rights attaching to any class of shares;

          (f) any issues of Equity Securities, other than (i) such resulting from the conversion of the
Series A Preferred Shares, or (ii) a Qualified IPO;

          (g) consolidate, sub-divide, convert or cancel any share capital, other than (i) such
resulting from the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, or (ii) a Qualified IPO;

          (h) sell, transfer, encumber or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the
properties or businesses of the Company and/or any Group Member, other than the Post Closing
Restructuring;

          (i) pass any resolution to wind up, adopt any scheme of arrangement, reorganise, reconstruct
or liquidate the Company and/or any Group Member, except for the Post Closing Restructuring;

          (j) file a petition for winding up, bankruptcy or any similar proceeding or any application
for an administration order or for the appointment of a receiver or administrator;

          (k) make any distribution of profits amongst the Shareholders by way of dividend (interim or
final), capitalization of reserves or otherwise; approve or change the dividend policy;

          (l) adopt the Company’s annual budget (including budget relating to the income statement,
balance sheet and cash flow statement), capital commitment plan, loan facility and annual business
plan;

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          (m) appoint, remove or change the auditors of the Company and/or any Group Member; amend the
accounting policies previously adopted or change the financial year of the Company and/or any Group
Member;

          (n) commence or settle any material litigation, arbitration or administrative proceeding that
is of a value exceeding US$3,000,000; and other than the polysilicon transactions with the Solar
High-Tech, approve, create, or allow any related transaction of the Company and/or any subsidiary
in excess of RMB10,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currency or currencies) or in excess of
RMB60,000,000 at any time in any financial year;

          (o) acquire any share capital or other securities of any body corporate, onshore or offshore,
or the establishment of any brands or subsidiary;

          (p) make any material change to the business scope, including, without limitation, any
decision to engage in a new line of business, or cease to conduct the business substantially as
conducted as at the date of issue of the Series A Preferred Shares or any material change any part
of its business activities.

          7.2 Director Matters. Without the consent of the Board of Directors,
including the affirmative vote or written consent of CDBC Director, the Company or
any other Group Member shall not effect or validate any of the following actions
(either directly or by amendment, merger, consolidation, or otherwise):

          (a) change the number or the power of the board of directors and board committees;

          (b) sell, transfer, license, charge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any trademarks,
patents, know-how, software or other intellectual property owned by the Company and/or any Group
Member;

          (c) appoint, remove or settle the terms or compensation of any Senior Manager (including but
not limited to the Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, General Manager, Vice General Manager,
Financial Controller, Head of Department/Division or equivalent positions, Secretary of the board
of directors or other key manager(s));

          (d) other than the renewal of the existing contracts or agreements, borrow any money in excess
of US$20,000,000 in any calendar year over the annual budget approved under Article 5.2(A);

          (e) enter into any transaction, or make any payment or commitment, involving an expense or
capital expenditure in excess of US$10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business or US$5,000,000
not in the ordinary course of business in any calendar year, each over the annual budget approved
under Article 5.2(A);

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          (f) other than statutory lien or that with a value less than US$5,000,000, make or suffer to
exist any lien, security interest, pledge or other encumbrance on any of the assets of the Group or
any of its Subsidiaries in any calendar year not contemplated in the annual budget approved under
Article 5.2(A);

          (g) dispose of any of its assets with a value less than US$10,000,000 in any calendar year
except for sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business;

          (h) acquire any assets (including intangible assets) with a book value or cost in excess of
US$2,500,000 in any calendar year, other than in the ordinary course of business;

          (i) enter into any material lease or contract for the purchase or sale of any property, real
or personal, tangible or intangible, or the purchase of other assets (tangible or intangible)
except in each case for a lease or contract involving aggregate payments of less than US$2,500,000
or entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in any calendar
year, or enter into any agreement that would be an agreement material to the Group or its
Subsidiaries.

SECTION 8

LEGEND ON SHARE CERTIFICATES

     Each existing or replacement certificate for Shares now owned or hereafter acquired by any
Shareholder shall bear the following legend until such time as the Shares represented thereby are
no longer subject to the provisions hereof

“THE SALE, TRANSFER OR ENCUMBRANCE OF THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE
SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A SHAREHOLDERS’ AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF MARCH 9, 2011
AMONG LDK SILICON & CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD AND CERTAIN HOLDERS OF ITS OUTSTANDING
SHARE CAPITAL, AS SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE AMENDED. COPIES OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED
AT NO COST BY WRITTEN REQUEST MADE BY THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY
THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF LDK SILICON & CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.”

SECTION 9

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     Each Shareholder represents and warrants to the other Shareholders as follows:

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          9.1 The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Shareholder will not
violate any provision of Law, any order of any court or other agency of government, or any
provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which such Shareholder or any of his,
her or its properties or assets is bound, or conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute
(with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any such indenture, agreement or other
instrument, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien, charge or Encumbrance of any
nature whatsoever upon any of the properties or assets of such Shareholder.

          9.2 This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Shareholder and constitutes
the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Shareholder, enforceable against such Shareholder
in accordance with its terms.

          9.3 The Shares of such Shareholder listed in Schedule A or Schedule B hereto
constitute all of the shares of equity capital owned by such Shareholder and, except as set forth
in the Transaction Documents, such Shareholder does not have any right or obligation to acquire any
additional shares of equity capital of the Company.

          9.4 The Ordinary Shareholder hereby acknowledges the rights conferred upon the holders of the
Series A Preferred Shares by the Registration Rights Agreement.

SECTION 10

ADDITIONAL COVENANTS

          10.1 Going Public. The Founder, Ordinary Shareholder and each Group Member undertake
to use best endeavors to cause the Company to achieve a Qualified IPO in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the Transaction Documents.

          10.2 Full Time Commitment of Founder. Except as otherwise consented to in writing by
all the Preferred Shareholders, the Founder warrants, undertakes and covenants to the Preferred
Shareholder that, for such time as such Founder continues to be employed by any member of the
Group, he shall commit all of his efforts to furthering the business of the Group and shall not,
without the prior written consent of the Preferred Shareholders representing all the Series A
Preferred Shares then outstanding, either on his own account or through any of his Affiliates, or
in conjunction with or on behalf of any other person, carry on or be engaged, concerned or
interested directly or indirectly whether as shareholder, director, employee, partner, agent or
otherwise carry on any business other than the business of the Group. The Founder further agrees
to all the terms of the Restated Articles including the schedule thereto and to abide by all the
provisions applicable to him thereunder.

          10.3 Non-Competition.

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          (a) Each of the Ordinary Shareholder and the Founder undertakes to each of the Preferred
Shareholders that (i) during the period of the Ordinary Shareholder’s or the Founder’s holding,
directly or indirectly, shares in the Company and for a period ending two (2) years from the date
of the transfer of all the shares held by such Ordinary Shareholder or the Founder in the Company
to other third parties in accordance with the Restated Articles and this Agreement; or (ii) as long
as the Founder continues his service for the Group and for a period of twenty-four (24) months
after he ceases his service for any Group Member, neither the Ordinary Shareholder nor the Founder
(as applicable), without the prior written consent of all the holders of Series A Preferred Shares
then outstanding, and subject to any payment required to enforce the provisions of this Section
10.3 pursuant to applicable Law:

               (i) either on its /his own account or through any of its /his Affiliates, or in conjunction
with or on behalf of any other person, carry on or be engaged, concerned or interested directly or
indirectly whether as shareholder, director, employee, partner, agent or otherwise carry on any
business which is of the same or similar type to the principle business of the Group, or which
competes or may compete directly or indirectly with the principal business of the Group, or have
any interest in any project or proposal in any such business or activities on behalf or for the
benefits of any Person, or exploit his/its knowledge or information obtained from the Group to
compete, directly or indirectly, with the principal business of the Group;

               (ii) either on its /his own account or through any of its /his Affiliates or in conjunction
with or on behalf of any other person solicit or entice away or attempt to solicit or entice away
from any member of the Group, the custom of any person, firm, company or organization who is or
shall at any time within twenty-four (24) months prior to such cessation have been a customer,
client, representative, agent or correspondent of such member of the Group or in the habit of
dealing with such member of the Group;

               (iii) either on its /his own account or through any of its /his Affiliates or in conjunction
with or on behalf of any other person, employ, solicit or entice away or attempt to employ, solicit
or entice away from any member of the Group any person who is or shall have been at the date of or
within twelve (12) months prior to such cessation of employment an officer, manager, consultant or
employee of any such member of the Group whether or not such person would commit a breach of
contract by reason of leaving such employment; and

          (b) Each and every obligation under Section 10.3 shall be treated as a separate obligation and
shall be severally enforceable as such and in the event of any obligation or obligations being or
becoming unenforceable in whole or in part, such part or parts which are unenforceable shall be
deleted from such Section and any such deletion shall not affect the enforceability of the
remainder parts of such section.

          (c) The Parties agree that in light of the circumstances, the restrictive covenants contained
in Section 11.3 are reasonable and necessary for the protection of the Group and the shareholders
of each Group Member, and further

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agree that having regard to those circumstances, the said covenants are not excessive or
unduly onerous upon the Ordinary Shareholders or the Founder. However, it is recognized that
restrictions of the nature in question may fail for technical reasons currently unforeseen and
accordingly it is hereby agreed and declared that if any of such restrictions shall be adjudged to
be void as going beyond what is reasonable, in light of the circumstances, for the protection of
the Group or the Shareholders thereof, but would be valid if part of the wording thereof were
deleted or the periods thereof reduced or the range of activities or area dealt with thereby
reduced in scope, the said restriction shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to
make it valid and effective.

          10.4 [Intentionally Deleted]

          10.5 Tax Covenants.

          (a) The Company shall use best efforts to avoid being a passive foreign investment company
(“PFIC”) as defined in Section 1297 of the IRC. The Company shall grant each Preferred Shareholder
access to such Company information as may be required for the purposes of making and maintaining a
qualified election fund election and filing its U.S. federal income tax returns.

          (b) The Company shall use best efforts to avoid (i) being a controlled foreign corporation
(“CFC”) as defined in Section 957 of the IRC, and (ii) generating for any taxable year in which the
Company is a CFC, amounts includible in the income of any “United States shareholder” of the
Company as defined by Section 951(b) of the IRC as a result of the Company’s status as a CFC. The
Company shall timely provide each Preferred Shareholder with such information as required for such
Preferred Shareholder to satisfy its tax return compliance obligations resulting from the Company’s
status as a CFC.

          10.6 Sale of Shares held by Preferred Shareholders. Each of the Company and the
Founder hereby undertakes to each Investor that, upon an initial public offering of the shares,
each Investor shall have the right to sell up to the respective
percentage of the outstanding shares of the Company held by such Investor set forth below (calculated on a fully diluted and
converted basis) to the public at a price not less than the price per share at the initial public
offering (subject to the share split, combination, share dividend, contribution or other similar
adjustments):

          (a) up to twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Shares held by CDBC;

          (b) up to twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Shares held by Excel Rise Holdings Limited;

          (c) up to twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Shares held by Prosper East Limited; and

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          (d) up
to twenty percent (20%) of the outstanding Shares held by Apollo
Asia Investment Limited.

          10.7 ESOP Plan.

          The Company has reserved up to 130,000,000 Ordinary Shares representing up to 10% of the total
issued and outstanding share capital of the Company for issuance to the Key Employees and officers
of the Company pursuant to ESOP. Each of the Company and the Founder undertakes to each Investors
that, immediately prior to the consummation of a Qualified IPO, the Ordinary Shares subject to the
options which may be granted to the Key Employees and officers shall not exceed three percent (3%)
of the total amount of the Ordinary Shares reserved under the ESOP; notwithstanding the above, if
recommended by the Company and approved by each of the Investors, the Company may grant additional
options representing up to one percent (1%) of the total amount of the Ordinary Shares reserved
under the ESOP prior to Qualified IPO.

SECTION 11

TERMINATION

     11.1 This Agreement shall automatically terminate upon:

	 	(a)	 	a Qualified IPO;
	 
	 	(b)	 	a distribution of all assets of the Company to the Shareholders;
	 
	 	(c)	 	the date of commencement of the Company’s dissolution or winding up;
	 
	 	(d)	 	the date on which only one (1) Shareholder holds any Shares; or
	 
	 	(e)	 	the written agreement by all Shareholders that it be terminated,

in each case without liability by any Shareholder to any other Shareholder save in respect
of any antecedent breach. This Agreement shall expire and be of no further force and
effect in respect of any one Shareholder (save in respect of any antecedent breach) if it
ceases to be a Shareholder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Restated
Articles with effect from the date that such Shareholder ceases to be a Shareholder.

     11.2 Effect of Termination

On ceasing to be a Shareholder, this Agreement will terminate as to such Shareholder and
such Shareholder shall:

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	 	(a)	 	if requested by the Company and to the extent that it is practicable, hand
over to the Company all material correspondence, documents, books, records or other
information relating to the Company that is held by it or any third party which has
acquired such matter through that Shareholder and shall not keep any copies; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	procure the resignation of all its appointees to the Board. If the continuing
Shareholders request, it shall do all such things and sign all such documents as may
otherwise be necessary to procure the resignation or dismissal of such Persons from
such appointments in a timely manner.

          Upon the consummation of a Qualified IPO, the CDBC Director shall automatically resign from
his/her directorship in the Company; provided, however, that the CDBC Director shall agree, in
compliance with the Company’s corporate governance, to provide a resignation letter to the Company
at such time.

SECTION 12

MISCELLANEOUS

          12.1 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, AND ENFORCED UNDER, THE LAW OF HONG KONG WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF
LAWS.

               12.2 Arbitration.

     (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, any dispute, controversy or claim arising
out of or in connection with this Agreement, or the breach, termination or validity thereof, shall
be finally settled by a board of arbitrator consisting of three members (hereinafter referred to as
the “Board of Arbitrators”) under the rules of the PRC International Economics and Trade
Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”). The place of arbitration shall be in Beijing, and the
language used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English and Chinese, with Chinese prevail in the
event of any inconsistency.

     (b) The Preferred Shareholders and the Company shall each select one member to the Board of
Arbitrators and the third member shall be selected by mutual agreement of the other members, or if
the other members fail to reach agreement on a third member within twenty days after their
selection, such third member shall thereafter be selected by CIETAC upon application made to it for
such purpose by the members.

     (c) The arbitral proceeding shall accord the right of cross-examination of witnesses, the
right to provide witnesses, including expert witnesses, and the right to make both written and oral
submissions.

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     (d) The arbitral award made and granted by the Board of Arbitrators shall be final, binding
and incontestable and may be used as a basis for judgment thereon in any court having jurisdiction.
All costs of arbitration (including, without limitation, those incurred in the appointment of
arbitrator) shall be apportioned in the arbitral award.

     (e) No person who is, or has been, an employee or agent of, or consultant or counsel to, the
Preferred Shareholders, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates shall be eligible to act
as an arbitrator at any time.

     (f) This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto and the Company shall
remain in full force and effect pending the award in any arbitration proceeding hereunder.

     (g) Notwithstanding this Section 13.2 or any other provision to the contrary in this
Agreement, no party shall be obligated to follow the foregoing arbitration procedures where such
party intends to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for an interim injunction or similar
equitable relief against any other party, provided there is no unreasonable delay in the
prosecution of that application.

     12.3 Notices. All notices, demands and other communications provided
for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing and shall be by facsimile,
commercial express courier service or personal delivery:

if to any Group Member, the Founder or Solar High-Tech:

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. Shanghai Office

c/o Room 2303, No. 18, Xizhang Mid-Road,

Harbour Ring Plaza, Shanghai

Tel No.: 86-21-53853600

Fax No.: 86-21-63508707

Attention: Mr. Bing Zhu

if to the Ordinary Shareholders, at each Ordinary Shareholder’s address set forth in Schedule A hereto.

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. Shanghai Office

c/o Room 2303, No. 18, Xizhang Mid-Road,

Harbour Ring Plaza, Shanghai

Tel No.: 86-21-53853600

Fax No.: 86-21-63508707

Attention: Mr. Bing Zhu

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if to the Preferred Shareholders, at each Preferred Shareholder’s addresses set forth on Schedule B hereto.

or to such other address or addresses as shall have been furnished in writing to the other parties
hereto. Each of the Parties agree, at all times, to provide the Company with an address for notices
hereunder. All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: when
delivered by hand, if personally delivered; when delivered by courier, if delivered by commercial
express courier service; or if faxed, when receipt is acknowledged.

               12.4 CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE.

               (a) Disclosure of Terms. Each party hereto acknowledges that the terms and conditions
(collectively, the “Terms”) of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, and all exhibits,
restatements and amendments hereto and thereto, including their existence, shall be considered
confidential information and shall not be disclosed by it to any third party except in accordance
with the provisions set forth below. Each Preferred Shareholder agrees with the Company that such
Shareholder will keep confidential and will not disclose or divulge, any information which such
Preferred Shareholder obtains from the Company, pursuant to financial statements, reports,
presentations, correspondence, and any other materials provided by the Company to, or
communications between the Company and such Preferred Shareholder, or pursuant to information
rights granted under this Agreement or any other related documents, unless the information is
known, or until the information becomes known, to the public through no fault of such Preferred
Shareholder, or unless the Company gives its written consent to such Preferred Shareholder’s
release of the information.

               (b) Press Releases. Within sixty (60) days of the Closing, the Company may issue a
press release related to such Closing, disclosing that the Preferred Shareholders have invested in
the Company provided that (a) the release does not disclose any of the Terms, (b) the press release
does not disclose the amount or other specific terms of the investment, and (c) the final form of
the press release is approved in advance in writing by each Preferred Shareholder mentioned
therein. Preferred Shareholders’ names and the fact that Preferred Shareholders are shareholders
in the Company can be included in a reusable press release boilerplate statement, so long as each
Preferred Shareholder has given the Company its initial approval of such boilerplate statement and
the boilerplate statement is reproduced in exactly the form in which it was approved. No other
announcement regarding any Preferred Shareholder in a press release, conference, advertisement,
announcement, professional or trade publication, mass marketing materials or otherwise to the
general public may be made without such Preferred Shareholder’s prior written consent, which
consent may be withheld at such Preferred Shareholder’s sole discretion.

               (c) Permitted Disclosures. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary,

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                    (i) the Company may disclose any of the Terms to its current or bona fide prospective
investors, directors, officers, employees, shareholders, investment bankers, lenders, accountants,
auditors, insurers, business or financial advisors, and attorneys, in each case only where such
persons or entities are under appropriate nondisclosure obligations imposed by professional ethics,
Law or otherwise;

                    (ii) the Company may disclose any of the Terms in commercially reasonable manners in
connection with the Qualified IPO in accordance with the applicable Laws and stock exchange rules
and practices;

                    (iii) the holder of Ordinary Shares may disclose any of the Terms in commercially reasonable
manners to the extent required by the U.S. securities Laws and regulations applicable to it;

                    (iv) each Preferred Shareholder (and its fund manager) may, without disclosing the identities
of the other Preferred Shareholders or the Terms of their respective investments in the Company
without their consent, disclose such Preferred Shareholder’s investment in the Company to third
parties or to the public and in relation thereto may use the Company’s logo and trademark in
commercially reasonable manners and may include links to the Company’s website (without requiring
the Company’s further consent). If it does so, the other parties shall have the right to disclose
to third parties any such information disclosed in a press release or other public announcement by
such Preferred Shareholder;

                    (d) each Preferred Shareholder shall have the right to disclose:

                    (i) any information to such Preferred Shareholder’s Affiliate or fund manager, such Preferred
Shareholder’s and/or its fund manager’s and/or its Affiliate’s legal counsel, fund manager,
auditor, insurer, accountant, consultant or to an officer, director, general partner, limited
partner, fund manager, shareholder, investment counsel or advisor, or employee of such Preferred
Shareholder, fund manager, or Affiliate or any of their respective Preferred Shareholders or
Affiliates, provided, however, that such counsel, auditor, insurer, accountant,
consultant, officer, director, general partner, limited partner, fund manager, shareholder,
investment counsel or advisor, or employee shall be advised of the confidential nature of the
information or are under appropriate non-disclosure obligation imposed by professional ethics, Law
or otherwise;

                    (ii) any information for fund and inter-fund reporting purposes;

                    (iii) any information as required by Law, government authorities, exchanges and/or regulatory
bodies, including by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, the PRC Securities and
Regulatory Commission or the SEC (or equivalent for other venues); and/or

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               (iv) any information to bona fide prospective purchasers/investors of any share, security or
other interests in the Company, and

               (v) any information contained in press releases or public announcements of the Company
pursuant to Section 12.4(b) above.

               (e) the confidentiality obligations set out in this Section 12.4 do not apply to:

               (i) information which was in the public domain or otherwise known to the relevant party before
it was furnished to it by another party hereto or, after it was furnished to that party, entered
the public domain otherwise than as a result of (A) a breach by that party of this Section 12.4, or
(B) a breach of a confidentiality obligation by the discloser, where the breach was known to that
party;

               (ii) information the disclosure of which is necessary in order to comply with any applicable
Law, the order of any court, the requirements of a stock exchange or to obtain tax or other
clearances or consents from any relevant authority; or

               (iii) the disclosure of information by any director of the Company to its appointer or any of
its affiliate or otherwise in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.4(c).

               (f) Legally Compelled Disclosure. In the event that any party is requested or becomes
legally compelled (including without limitation pursuant to securities Laws and regulations) to
disclose the existence of this Agreement or any Terms in contravention of the provisions of this
Section 12, such party (the “Disclosing Party”) shall if and to the extent that it can
lawfully do so provide the other parties (the “Non-Disclosing Parties”) with prompt written
notice of that fact so that the appropriate party may seek (with the cooperation and reasonable
efforts of the other parties) a protective order, confidential treatment or other appropriate
remedy. In such event, the Disclosing Party shall furnish only that portion of the information
that is legally required and shall exercise reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that
confidential treatment will be accorded such information to the extent reasonably requested by any
Non-Disclosing Party.

          12.5 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto. No Party may assign any
of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the parties,
and any such purported assignment by one party without the written consent of the Parties shall be
void and of no effect. No Person other than the parties hereto and their successors and permitted
assigns is intended to be a beneficiary of any of the Transaction Documents. Notwithstanding the
above, CDBC shall, at its own discretion and at any time following the establishment of the CDBC
Designated Entity by CDBC, have the right to transfer and assign this Agreement and the rights and
obligations herein to its CDBC Designated Entity without the prior consent of the other parties
hereof.

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               12.6 Waiver.

          No failure or delay on the part of any of the parties hereto in exercising any right, power or
remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or remedy. The remedies provided for herein are cumulative and are not
exclusive of any remedies that may be available to the parties hereto at law, in equity or
otherwise.

     12.7 Amendment. Subject to Section 12.7, this Agreement may only be amended with the
written consent of: (i) the Company; (ii) by persons or entities holding all of the then
outstanding Series A Preferred Shares; (iii) persons or entities holding a majority of the then
outstanding Ordinary Shares. Any amendment effected in accordance with this Section 12.6 shall be
binding upon each party hereto and their respective successors; provided that the Company shall
promptly give written notice thereof to any party hereto that has not consented to such amendment.

     12.8 Limitations on Amendments and Waivers. If an amendment or waiver affects any
Ordinary Shareholder or any holder of Series A Preferred Shares in a manner that is different from
the effect thereof on all other Ordinary Shareholders or holders of Series A Preferred Shares, or
imposes any material obligation or liability on an Ordinary Shareholder or a holder of Series A
Preferred Shares beyond that already imposed on such Ordinary Shareholder or holder of Series A
Preferred Shares hereunder prior to such amendment or waiver, then the written consent of such
Ordinary Shareholder or holder of Series A Preferred Shares shall be required in order for such
amendment or waiver to be effective and binding.

     12.9 Signatures; Counterparts. Facsimile transmissions of any executed original
document and/or retransmission of any executed facsimile transmission shall be deemed to be the
same as the delivery of an executed original. At the request of any party hereto, the other
parties hereto shall confirm facsimile transmissions by executing duplicate original documents and
delivering the same to the requesting party or parties. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the same agreement.

     12.10 Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only
and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

     12.11 Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement,
or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every
other respect and of the remaining provisions hereof shall not be in any way impaired, unless the
provisions held invalid, illegal or unenforceable shall substantially impair the benefits of the
remaining provisions of this Agreement. The parties hereto further agree to replace such invalid,
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unenforceable provision of this Agreement with a valid, legal and enforceable provision that
will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such invalid,
illegal or unenforceable provision.

     12.12 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires, “or” is not
exclusive, and references to sections or subsections refer to sections or subsections of this
Agreement.

     12.13 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including the exhibits and schedules hereto,
and the other Transaction Documents, are intended by the parties as a final expression of their
agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding
of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein and therein. There are no
restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to
herein or therein. This Agreement, together with the exhibits and schedules hereto, and the other
Transaction Documents supersede all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with
respect to such subject matter.

     12.14 Further Assurances. Each of the parties shall execute such documents and
perform such further acts (including, without limitation, obtaining any consents, exemptions,
authorizations, or other actions by, or giving any notices to, or making any filings with, any
Governmental Authorities or any other Person) as may be reasonably required or desirable to carry
out or to perform the provisions of this Agreement.

     12.15 Specific Performance Nothing in this Agreement contained shall be so
construed as to prevent any parties from bringing an action and obtaining a decree for specific
performance of this Agreement either in lieu of losses and damages or in addition thereto as the
party bringing such action may have sustained by reason of the failure or breach by the other party
to this Agreement

     12.16 No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the
negotiation and drafting of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. In the event an
ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises under any provision of this Agreement or
any Transaction Document, this Agreement or such other Transaction Document shall be construed as
if drafted jointly by the parties thereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise
favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

     12.17 Shareholders Agreement to Prevail. If, during the continuance of this Agreement,
there shall be any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of the
Restated Articles then, during such period, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail as
between the Shareholders over the Restated Articles and in the event of such conflict the
Shareholders shall procure at the request of any of the Shareholders such modification to the
Restated Articles as shall be necessary to cure such conflict. The Shareholders will not, by
amendment of

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the Restated Articles or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation,
merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other action, avoid or seek to avoid the
observance or performance of any term of this Agreement or the Restated Articles, but will at all
times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such
action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the holders of Series A
Preferred Shares against dilution or other impairment. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Shareholders (a) will not increase the par value of any shares receivable on the
conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, (b) will at all times reserve and keep available the
maximum number of its authorized Ordinary Shares, free from all preemptive rights therein, which
will be sufficient to permit the full conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, and (c) will
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that all Ordinary Shares as may be
issued pursuant to the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares will, upon issuance, be duly and
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and free from all taxes, Liens and charges with
respect to the issue thereof.

     12.18 Delays or Omissions. No delay or omission to exercise any right, power or
remedy accruing to any party upon any breach or default of any other party hereto under this
Agreement, shall impair any such right, power or remedy of the aggrieved party nor shall it be
construed to be a waiver of any such breach or default, or an acquiescence therein, or of any
similar breach or default thereafter occurring; nor shall any waiver of any other breach or default
theretofore or thereafter occurring. Any waiver, permit, consent or approval of any kind or
character on the part of any party of any breach or default under this Agreement or any waiver on
the part of any party of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement, must be in writing and
shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing. All remedies, either
under this Agreement, or by law or otherwise afforded to the parties shall be cumulative and not
alternative.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	COMPANY:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	HONG KONG SUBSIDIARY	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	LDK Silicon Holding Co., Limited	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	Jiangxi LDK Solar High-Tech Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Jiangxi LDK PV Silicon Technology Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Jiangxi LDK Solar Polysilicon Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	FOUNDER:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	PENG Xiaofeng	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	ORDINARY SHAREHOLDER:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	LDK Solar Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Peng Xiaofeng
 

PENG Xiaofeng
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Chairman / CEO	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	China Development Bank Capital Corporation Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Zhang Xuguang
 

ZHANG Xuguang
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Executive Director / President	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Excel Rise Holdings Limited	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Leon Li
 

Leon LI
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Director	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Prosper East Limited	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Zhang Jianwen
 

ZHANG Jianwen
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Director	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed and delivered
by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 

	PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Apollo Asia Investment Limited	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By: 

Name:

	 	/s/ Xia Xiaoning
 

XIA Xiaoning
	 	 
	Title:

	 	Director	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

 

SCHEDULE A

ORDINARY SHAREHOLDER

	 	 	 
	 	 	Number of Shares Held at the date of this
	Name of Shareholder
	 	Agreement
	LDK Solar Co., Ltd.
	 	1,060,000,000

 

 

SCHEDULE B

SERIES A PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Number of Series A Preferred	 	 
	Name of Preferred	 	Shares Held at the date of this	 	 
	Shareholders	 	Agreement	 	Address for Notice
	China Development Bank
Capital Corporation Ltd.

	 	 	150,000,000	 	 	China Development
Bank Capital Corporation
Ltd.

Unit 1111, No. 7,
Financial Street

Xicheng
District, Beijing

Tel No.: +(86 10) 5887 8524

Fax No.: +(86 10) 6655 3276

Attention: Ms. GAO Ya
	Excel Rise Holdings Limited

	 	 	30,000,000	 	 	CCB International
Asset Management Limited

34/F., Two Pacific Place, 

88 Queensway, Admiralty,
Hong Kong Hong Kong 
Tel No.: +852
2532 6100

Fax No.: +852 2537 4008

Attention: Mr. Leon Li
	Prosper East Limited

	 	 	10,000,000	 	 	CCB International
Asset Management Limited

34/F., Two Pacific Place,
88 Queensway, Admiralty,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong 
Tel No.: +852
2532 6100

Fax No.: +852 2537 4008

Attention: Mr. Leon Li
	Apollo Asia Investment Limited

	 	 	50,000,000	 	 	CITP Advisors (Hong
Kong) Limited

26/F Bank of China Tower,

1 Garden Road, Central,
Hong Kong.

Phone: +(852) 3988 6161

Fax No.: + (852) 3988 6150

Attention: Dr. XIA Xiaoning
	Total

	 	 	240,000,000	 	 	 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

DEED
OF ADHERENCE

THIS DEED OF ADHERENCE is made on the [    ] day of [    ].

BETWEEN

	(1)	 	The persons whose name and registered address are set out in Schedule 11 (together
referred to as the “Continuing Parties”); [and]
	 
	[(2)  	 	[                    ] (the “Transferor”); and]*
	 
	(3)	 	[                    ] (the “New Member”).

[Note: Whether as a Shareholder or transferee with respect to the New Member].

RECITALS:

	(A)	 	This deed is entered into pursuant to a Shareholders Agreement dated [•] in relation to
the capital and affairs of LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) (such
agreement as varied, supplemented, novated or amended being the “Shareholders’ Agreement”).
	 
	(B)	 	The New Member intends to become the holder by [transfer] [subscription] of
[•]
[Ordinary Shares / Series A Preferred Shares] * of $[•] in the capital of the Company
(the “Shares”) and enters into this deed pursuant to and for the purposes of the Shareholders’
Agreement so as to take effect in accordance with the terms thereof.

 

			
	*	 	delete as appropriate

IT IS AGREED as follows:

	1.	 	Definition and interpretation
	 
	1.1	 	Unless the context otherwise requires, clause 1 of the Shareholders’ Agreement shall have
effect (as to interpretation and other matters) also as to this deed and any other terms
defined in the Shareholders’ Agreement shall, when used in this deed, have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Shareholders’ Agreement.
	 
	1.2	 	In this deed the “Effective Date” shall mean [•].

 

			
	1	 	Schedule to be added setting out the Company and
all current shareholders at such time.

 

 

	2.	 	Novation
	 
	2.1	 	With effect from the Effective Date, the Continuing Parties hereby release and discharge the
Transferor (save in relation to any antecedent breach) from all its obligations under the
Shareholders Agreement and (without prejudice to the rights of the other parties to the
Shareholders Agreement in respect of any antecedent breach) the Transferor shall cease to be a
party to the Shareholders Agreement.
	 
	2.2	 	The Continuing Parties agree that, with effect from the Effective Date, the following shall
apply:

	 	2.2.1	 	(the New Member shall assume all the rights of the Transferor pursuant
to the Shareholders Agreement; and)
	 
	 	2.2.2	 	the New Member shall be subject to and shall perform the obligations
(from which the Transferor is released and discharged pursuant to sub-clause 2.1)
and shall be bound by and entitled to the benefit all other provisions of the
Shareholders Agreement except as hereby provided,

	 	 	as if the New Member had at all times been a party to the Shareholders Agreement as a
Shareholder.
	 
	2.3	 	For the purposes of this clause, references to “the Shareholders Agreement” shall be
interpreted in the same way as “Agreement” as set out in clause 1.1 of the Shareholders
Agreement.
	 
	 	 	[Note: On a partial transfer of shares by a Transferor, the Transferor will be deemed to
be a Continuing Party and full release of rights and obligations not appropriate]
	 
	3.	 	Warranties
	 
	 	 	By execution of this deed the New Member warrants, represents and undertakes to the
Continuing Parties, as at the Effective Date, on the following terms:
	 
	 	 	(Warranties similar to the Investor Warranties — to be tailored on a case by case basis
as applicable).
	 
	4.	 	Notices
	 
	 	 	For the purposes of the Shareholders Agreement, the New Member’s address for service
shall be as set out at the head of this deed.

 

 

     IN WITNESS this deed has been duly executed and delivered on the date first set out above.

	 	 	 	 	 

	EXECUTED and DELIVERED
	 	 	 	 
	as a Deed on behalf of
	 	 	 	 
	[the name of the New Member]
	 	 	 	 
	[by its duly authorized
	 	 	 	 
	representatives ]
	 	 	 	
	 
	 	 	 	[Director]
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	[Director/ Secretary]

 

 

EXHIBIT B

FORM OF INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

     INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of March 9, 2011 by and among LDK
Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., an exempted Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), and
the indemnitees listed on the signature pages hereto (individually, as “Indemnitee” and,
collectively, the “Indemnitees”).

RECITALS

          A. The Company and Indemnitees recognize the continued difficulty in obtaining liability
insurance for its directors, officers, employees, shareholders, controlling persons, agents and
fiduciaries, the significant increases in the cost of such insurance and the general reductions in
the coverage of such insurance.

          B. The Company and Indemnitees further recognize the substantial increase in corporate
litigation in general, which subjects directors, officers, employees, controlling persons,
shareholders, agents and fiduciaries to expensive litigation risks at the same time as the
availability and coverage of liability insurance has been severely limited.

          C. The Indemnitees do not regard the current protection available as adequate under the
present circumstances, and Indemnitees and other directors, officers, employees, shareholders,
controlling persons, agents and fiduciaries of the Company may not be willing to serve in such
capacities without additional protection.

          D. The Company (i) desires to attract and retain highly qualified individuals and entities,
such as Indemnitees, to serve the Company and, in part, in order to induce each Indemnitee to be
involved with the Company, and (ii) wishes to provide for the indemnification and advancing of
expenses to each Indemnitee to the maximum extent permitted by law.

          E. In view of the considerations set forth above, the Company desires that each Indemnitee be
indemnified by the Company as set forth herein.

          NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and each Indemnitee hereby agree as follows:

          1. Indemnification.

               (a) Indemnification of Expenses. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each
Indemnitee (including its respective directors, officers, partners, members, employees, agents and
spouse, as applicable) and each person who controls any of them or who may be liable within the
meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or Section
20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), to the fullest extent
permitted by law if such Indemnitee was or is or becomes a party to or witness or other participant
in, or is threatened to be made a party to or witness or other participant in, any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit, proceeding or alternative dispute resolution mechanism, or any
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believes might lead to the institution of
any such action, suit, proceeding or alternative dispute resolution mechanism, whether civil,
criminal, administrative, investigative or other (hereinafter a “Claim”) by reason of (or arising
in part or in whole out of) any event or occurrence related to the fact that Indemnitee is or was
or may be deemed a director, officer, shareholder, employee, controlling person, agent or fiduciary
of the Company, or any subsidiary of the Company, or is or was or may be deemed to be serving at
the request of the Company as a director, officer, shareholder, employee, controlling person, agent
or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust
or other enterprise, or by reason of any action or inaction on the part of such Indemnitee while
serving in such capacity, including, without limitation, any and all losses, claims, damages,
expenses and liabilities, joint or several (including any investigation, legal and other expenses
incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit, proceeding or
any claim asserted) under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory
law or regulation, at common law or otherwise or to any fiduciary obligation owed with respect
thereto or as a direct or indirect result of any Claim made by any shareholder of the Company
against an Indemnitee and arising out of or related to any round of financing of the Company
(including but not limited to Claims regarding non-participation, or non-pro rata participation, in
such round by such shareholder), or made by a third party against an Indemnitee based on any
misstatement or omission of a material fact by the Company in violation of any duty of disclosure
imposed on the Company by federal or state securities or common laws (hereinafter an
“Indemnification Event”) against any and all expenses (including attorneys’ fees and all other
costs, expenses and obligations incurred in connection with investigating, defending a witness in
or participating in (including on appeal), or preparing to defend, be a witness in or participate
in, any such action, suit, proceeding, alternative dispute resolution mechanism, hearing, inquiry
or investigation), judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (if, and only if,
such settlement is approved in advance by the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld) of such Claim and any federal, state, local or foreign taxes imposed on Indemnitee as a
result of the actual or deemed receipt of any payments under this Agreement (collectively,
hereinafter “Expenses”), including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in
connection with or in respect of such Expenses. Such payment of Expenses shall be made by the
Company as soon as practicable but in any event no later than ten (10) days after written demand by
the Indemnitee therefor is presented to the Company.

               (b) Reviewing Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the obligations of the
Company under Section 1(a) shall be subject to the condition that the Reviewing Party (as described
in Section 10(e) hereof) shall not have determined (in a written opinion, in any case in which the
Independent Legal Counsel referred to in Section 1(e) hereof is involved) that Indemnitee would not
be permitted to be indemnified under applicable law, and (ii) each Indemnitee acknowledges and
agrees that the obligation of the Company to make an advance payment of Expenses to Indemnitee
pursuant to Section 2(a) (an “Expense Advance”) shall be subject to the condition that, if, when
and to the extent that the Reviewing Party determines that Indemnitee would not be permitted to be
so indemnified under applicable law, the Company shall be entitled to be reimbursed by Indemnitee
(who hereby agrees to reimburse the Company) for all such amounts theretofore paid; provided,
however, that if Indemnitee has commenced or thereafter commences legal proceedings in a court of
competent jurisdiction to secure a determination that Indemnitee should be indemnified under
applicable law, any determination made by the Reviewing Party that Indemnitee would not be
permitted to be

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indemnified under applicable law shall not be binding and Indemnitee shall not be
required to reimburse the Company for any Expense Advance until a final judicial determination is
made with respect thereto (as to which all rights of appeal therefrom have been exhausted or
lapsed). Indemnitee’s obligation to reimburse the Company for any Expense Advance shall be
unsecured and no interest shall be charged thereon. If there has not been a Change in Control (as
defined in Section 10(c) hereof), the Reviewing Party shall be selected by the Board of Directors,
and if there has been such a Change in Control (other than a Change in Control which has been
approved by a majority of the Company’s Board of Directors who were directors immediately prior to
such Change in Control), the Reviewing Party shall be the Independent Legal Counsel referred to in
Section 1(e) hereof. If there has been no determination by the Reviewing Party or if the Reviewing
Party determines that Indemnitee substantively would not be permitted to be indemnified in whole or
in part under applicable law, Indemnitee shall have the right to commence litigation seeking an
initial determination by the court or challenging any such determination by the Reviewing Party or
any aspect thereof, including the legal or factual bases therefor, and the Company hereby consents
to service of process and to appear in any such proceeding. Any determination by the Reviewing
Party otherwise shall be conclusive and binding on the Company and Indemnitee.

               (c) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 1(a) above for any
reason is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an Indemnitee in respect
of any losses, claims, damages, expenses or liabilities referred to therein, then the Company, in
lieu of indemnifying such Indemnitee thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by
such Indemnitee as a result of such losses, claims, damages, expenses or liabilities (i) in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the
Indemnitee, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable
law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in
clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Indemnitee in connection with
the action or inaction which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, expenses or liabilities, as
well as any other relevant equitable considerations.

          The Company and the Indemnitee agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution
pursuant to this Section 1(c) were determined by pro rata or per capita allocation or by any other
method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the
immediately preceding paragraph.

               (d) Survival Regardless of Investigation. The indemnification and contribution
provided for in this Section 1 will remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation
made by or on behalf of the Indemnitee or any officer, director, employee, agent or controlling
person of the Indemnitee.

               (e) Change in Control. The Company agrees that if there is a Change in Control of the
Company (other than a Change in Control which has been approved by a majority of the Company’s
Board of Directors who were directors immediately prior to such Change in Control) then, with
respect to all matters thereafter arising concerning the rights of Indemnitee to payments of
Expenses under this Agreement or any other agreement or under the Company’s Memorandum and
Articles of Association, as amended (the “Articles”), as now or hereafter in effect, Independent
Legal Counsel (as defined in Section 10(d) hereof) shall be

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selected by the Indemnitee and approved
by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld). Such counsel, among other
things, shall render its written opinion to the Company and Indemnitee as to whether and to what
extent Indemnitee would be permitted to be indemnified under applicable law. The Company agrees to
abide by such opinion and to pay the reasonable fees of the Independent Legal Counsel referred to
above and to fully indemnify such counsel against any and all expenses (including attorneys’ fees),
claims, liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its engagement
pursuant hereto.

               (f) Mandatory Payment of Expenses. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee has been successful on the merits or otherwise, including,
without limitation, the dismissal of an action without prejudice, in the defense of any action,
suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation referred to in Section 1(a) hereof or in the defense of
any claim, issue or matter therein, each Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses
incurred by such Indemnitee in connection herewith.

          2. Expenses; Indemnification Procedure.

               (a) Advancement of Expenses. The Company shall advance all Expenses incurred by
Indemnitee. The advances to be made hereunder shall be paid by the Company to Indemnitee as soon
as practicable but in any event no later than fifteen (15) days after written demand by such
Indemnitee therefor to the Company.

               (b) Notice/Cooperation by Indemnitee. Indemnitee shall, as a condition precedent to
Indemnitee’s right to be indemnified under this Agreement, give the Company written notice as soon
as practicable of any Claim made against Indemnitee for which indemnification will or could be
sought under this Agreement. Notice to the Company shall be directed to the Chief Executive Officer
of the Company at the address of the principal corporate offices of the Company (or such other
address as the Company shall designate in writing to Indemnitee). In addition, Indemnitee shall
give the Company such information and cooperation as it may reasonably require and as shall be
within Indemnitee’s power.

               (c) No Presumptions; Burden of Proof. For purposes of this Agreement, the termination
of any Claim by judgment, order, settlement (whether with or without court approval) or conviction,
or upon a plea of nolo contendere, or its equivalent, shall not create a presumption that
Indemnitee did not meet any particular standard of conduct or have any particular belief or that a
court has determined that indemnification is not permitted by applicable law. In addition, neither
the failure of the Reviewing Party to have made a determination as to whether Indemnitee has met
any particular standard of conduct or had any particular belief, nor an actual determination by the
Reviewing Party that Indemnitee has not met such standard of conduct or did not have such belief,
prior to the commencement of legal proceedings by Indemnitee to secure a judicial determination
that Indemnitee should be indemnified under applicable law, shall be a defense to Indemnitee’s
claim or create a presumption that Indemnitee has not met any particular standard of conduct or did
not have any particular belief. In connection with any determination by the Reviewing Party or
otherwise as to whether Indemnitee is entitled to be indemnified hereunder, the burden of proof
shall be on the Company to establish that Indemnitee is not so entitled.

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               (d) Notice to Insurers. If, at the time of the receipt by the Company of a notice of
a Claim pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof, the Company has liability insurance in effect which may
cover such Claim, the Company shall give prompt written notice of the commencement of such Claim to
the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in each of the policies. The Company
shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of
Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation in accordance with the terms of such policies.

               (e) Selection of Counsel. In the event the Company shall be obligated hereunder to
pay the Expenses of any Claim, the Company shall be entitled to assume the defense of such Claim,
with counsel approved by the applicable Indemnitee, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld, upon the delivery to such Indemnitee of written notice of its election to do so. After
delivery of such notice, approval of such counsel by the Indemnitee and the retention of such
counsel by the Company, the Company will not be liable to such Indemnitee under this Agreement for
any fees of counsel subsequently incurred by such Indemnitee with respect to the same Claim;
provided that, (i) the Indemnitee shall have the right to employ such Indemnitee’s counsel in any
such Claim at the Indemnitee’s expense, and (ii) if (A) the employment of counsel by the Indemnitee
has been previously authorized by the Company, (B) such Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded
that there is a conflict of interest between the Company and such Indemnitee in the conduct of any
such defense, or (C) the Company shall not continue to retain such counsel to defend such Claim,
then the fees and expenses of the Indemnitee’s counsel shall be at the expense of the Company. The
Company shall have the right to conduct such defense with the prior written consent of the
Indemnitee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

          3. Additional Indemnification Rights; Nonexclusivity.

               (a) Scope. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent
permitted by law, even if such indemnification is not specifically authorized by the other
provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement, the Articles or by statute. In the event of
any change after the date of this Agreement in any applicable law, statute or rule which expands
the right of a Cayman Islands company to indemnify a member of its Board of Directors or an
officer, shareholder, employee, controlling person, agent or fiduciary, it is the intent of the
parties hereto that Indemnitee shall enjoy by this Agreement the greater benefits afforded by such
change. In the event of any change in any applicable law, statute or rule which narrows the right
of a Cayman Islands company to indemnify a member of its Board of Directors or an officer,
employee, agent or fiduciary, such change, to the extent not otherwise required by such law,
statute or rule to be applied to this Agreement, shall have no effect on this Agreement or the
parties’ rights and obligations hereunder except as set forth in Section 8(d) hereof.

               (b) Nonexclusivity. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, the indemnification
provided by this Agreement shall be in addition to any rights to which Indemnitee may be entitled
under the Articles, any agreement, any vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, the laws of
the Cayman Islands, or otherwise. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, the indemnification
provided under this Agreement shall continue as to each Indemnitee for any action such Indemnitee
took or did not take while serving in an indemnified capacity even though the Indemnitee may have
ceased to serve in such capacity and such

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indemnification shall inure to the benefit of each
Indemnitee from and after Indemnitee’s first day of service as a director with the Company or
affiliation with a director from and after the date such director commences services as a director
with the Company.

          4. No Duplication of Payments. The Company shall not be liable under this Agreement
to make any payment in connection with any Claim made against any Indemnitee to the extent such
Indemnitee has otherwise actually received payment (under any insurance policy, the Articles, or
otherwise) of the amounts otherwise indemnifiable hereunder.

          5. Partial Indemnification. If any Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this
Agreement to indemnification by the Company for any portion of Expenses incurred in connection with
any Claim, but not, however, for all of the total amount thereof, the Company shall nevertheless
indemnify Indemnitee for the portion of such Expenses to which such Indemnitee is entitled.

          6. Mutual Acknowledgement. The Company and each Indemnitee acknowledge that in
certain instances, applicable law or applicable public policy may prohibit the Company from
indemnifying its directors, officers, employees, controlling persons, agents or fiduciaries under
this Agreement or otherwise.

          7. Liability Insurance. To the extent the Company maintains liability insurance
applicable to directors, officers, employees, control persons, agents or fiduciaries, each
Indemnitee shall be covered by such policies in such a manner as to provide Indemnitee the same
rights and benefits as are accorded to the most favorably insured of the Company’s directors, if
such Indemnitee is a director, or of the Company’s officers, if such Indemnitee is not a director
of the Company but is an officer; or of the Company’s key employees, controlling persons, agents or
fiduciaries, if such Indemnitee is not an officer or director but is a key employee, agent, control
person, or fiduciary.

          8. Exceptions. Any other provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company shall not be obligated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement:

               (a) Claims Initiated by Indemnitee. To indemnify or advance expenses to Indemnitee
with respect to Claims initiated or brought voluntarily by Indemnitee and not by way of defense,
except (i) with respect to actions or proceedings brought to establish or enforce a right to
indemnification under this Agreement or any other agreement or insurance policy or under the
Articles now or hereafter in effect relating to Claims for Indemnification Events, or (ii) in
specific cases if the Board of Directors has approved the initiation or bringing of such Claim,
regardless of whether Indemnitee ultimately is determined to be entitled to such indemnification,
advance expense payment or insurance recovery, as the case may be;

               (b) Lack of Good Faith. To indemnify Indemnitee for any expenses incurred by
Indemnitee with respect to any proceeding instituted by Indemnitee to enforce or interpret this
Agreement, if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that each of the material assertions
made by Indemnitee in such proceeding was not made in good faith or was frivolous;

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               (c) Claims Under Section 16(b). To indemnify any Indemnitee for expenses and the
payment of profits arising from the purchase and sale by such Indemnitee of securities in violation
of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act or any similar successor statute;

               (d) Unlawful Indemnification. To indemnify an Indemnitee if a final decision by a
court having jurisdiction in the matter shall determine that such indemnification is not lawful;

               (e) Fraud. To indemnify an Indemnitee if a final decision by a court having
jurisdiction in the matter shall determine that the Indemnitee has committed fraud on the Company;
or

               (f) Insurance. To indemnify any Indemnitee for which payment is actually and fully
made to Indemnitee under a valid and collectible insurance policy.

          9. Period of Limitations. No legal action shall be brought and no cause of action
shall be asserted by or in the right of the Company against any Indemnitee, any Indemnitee’s
estate, spouse, heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives after the expiration of two
(2) years from the date of accrual of such cause of action, and any claim or cause of action of the
Company shall be extinguished and deemed released unless asserted by the timely filing of a legal
action within such two (2) year period; provided, however, that if any shorter period of
limitations is otherwise applicable to any such cause of action, such shorter period shall govern.

          10. Construction of Certain Phrases.

               (a) For purposes of this Agreement, references to the “Company” shall include, in addition to
the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent)
absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have
had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, employees, agents or fiduciaries, so
that if Indemnitee is or was or may be deemed a director, officer, employee, agent, control person,
or fiduciary of such constituent corporation, or is or was or may be deemed to be serving at the
request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee, control person, agent or
fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other
enterprise, each Indemnitee shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Agreement
with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as each Indemnitee would have with respect
to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

               (b) For purposes of this Agreement, references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes
assessed on any Indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at
the request of the Company” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee, agent or
fiduciary of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer,
employee, agent or fiduciary with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or its
beneficiaries.

               (c) For purposes of this Agreement a “Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if
(i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d)(3) and

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14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act),
other than a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the
Company or a corporation owned directly or indirectly by the shareholders of the Company in
substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company, (A) who is or
becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 20%
or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding Voting Securities, increases
his beneficial ownership of such securities by 5% or more over the percentage so owned by such
person, or (B) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under said Exchange Act),
directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than 30% of the total voting
power represented by the Company’s then outstanding Voting Securities, (ii) during any period of
two (2) consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the Board of
Directors of the Company and any new director whose election by the Board of Directors or
nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds
(2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the
period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any
reason to constitute a majority thereof, or (iii) the shareholders of the Company approve a merger
or consolidation of the Company with any other corporation other than a merger or consolidation
which would result in the Voting Securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto
continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into Voting
Securities of the surviving entity) at least two-thirds (2/3) of the total voting power represented
by the Voting Securities of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such
merger or consolidation, or the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation
of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of (in one transaction or
a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.

               (d) For purposes of this Agreement, “Independent Legal Counsel” shall mean an attorney or firm
of attorneys, selected in accordance with the provisions of Section 1(e) hereof, who shall not have
otherwise performed services for the Company or any Indemnitee within the last three (3) years
(other than as Independent Legal Counsel hereunder or under any similar agreement between the
Company and any other director, officer, shareholder, employee, agent or fiduciary of the Company).

               (e) For purposes of this Agreement, a “Reviewing Party” shall mean any appropriate person or
body consisting of a member or members of the Company’s Board of Directors or any other person or
body appointed by the Board of Directors who is not a party to the particular Claim for which
Indemnitee is seeking indemnification, or Independent Legal Counsel.

               (f) For purposes of this Agreement, “Voting Securities” shall mean any securities of the
Company that vote generally in the election of directors.

          11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of
which shall constitute an original.

          12. Binding Effect; Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective

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successors,
assigns, including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise
to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, spouses, heirs, and
personal and legal representatives. The Company shall require and cause any successor (whether
direct or indirect by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all, substantially all, or a
substantial part, of the business and/or assets of the Company, by written agreement in form and
substance satisfactory to each Indemnitee, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement
in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform if no such
succession had taken place. This Agreement shall continue in effect with respect to Claims
relating to Indemnifiable Events regardless of whether any Indemnitee continues to serve as a
director, officer, employee, agent, controlling person, or fiduciary of the Company or of any other
enterprise, including subsidiaries of the Company, at the Company’s request.

          13. Attorneys’ Fees. In the event that any action is instituted by an Indemnitee
under this Agreement or under any liability insurance policies maintained by the Company to enforce
or interpret any of the terms hereof or thereof, any Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid all
Expenses incurred by such Indemnitee with respect to such action if such Indemnitee is ultimately
successful in such action. In the event of an action instituted by or in the name of the Company
under this Agreement to enforce or interpret any of the terms of this Agreement, the Indemnitee
shall be entitled to be paid Expenses incurred by such Indemnitee in defense of such action
(including costs and expenses incurred with respect to Indemnitee counterclaims and cross-claims
made in such action), and shall be entitled to the advancement of Expenses with respect to such
action, unless, as a part of such action, a court of competent jurisdiction over such action
determines that each of the material assertions made by Indemnitee as a basis for such action was
not made in good faith or was frivolous, in each case only to the extent that such Indemnitee is
ultimately successful in such action.

          14. Notice. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, shall be effective when given, and shall in any event be deemed to be given
(a) upon delivery, if delivered by hand, (b) three (3) business days after the business day of
deposit with FedEx or similar internationally recognized express courier, freight prepaid, (c) one
day after the business day of delivery by facsimile or email transmission, if deliverable by
facsimile or email transmission, with copy by first class mail or FedEx or similar internationally
recognized express courier, postage prepaid, and shall be addressed if to Indemnitee, at each
Indemnitee’s address as shown on Schedule A hereto, or at such other address as the
Indemnitee shall have furnished to the Company in writing, and if to the Company at the address of
its principal corporate offices (attention: Chief Executive Officer), or at such other address as
such party may designate by ten (10) days’ advance written notice to the other party hereto.

          15. Severability. The provisions of this Agreement shall be severable in the event
that any of the provisions hereof (including any provision within a single section, paragraph or
sentence) are held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or otherwise
unenforceable, and the remaining provisions shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent
permitted by law. Furthermore, to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Agreement
(including, without limitations, each portion of this Agreement containing any provision held to be
invalid, void or otherwise unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, void or

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unenforceable) shall
be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal
or unenforceable.

          16. Choice of Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced,
and the arbitrators shall decide any disputes submitted by the parties of this Agreement, in
accordance with the substantive laws of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region without regard to
principles of conflicts of laws.

          17. Dispute Resolution.

               (a) Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of, relating to, or concerning this
Agreement, or the interpretation, performance, breach, termination or validity of this Agreement,
shall be settled by arbitration to be held in Hong Kong under the UNCITRAL Rules in accordance with
the HKIAC Procedures for the Administration of International Arbitration in force at the time of
arbitration. However, if such rules are in conflict with the provisions of this Section 17,
including the provisions concerning the appointment of arbitrators, the provisions of this Section
17 shall apply. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Chinese and administered under
the auspices of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (“HKIAC”). There shall be a single
arbitrator agreed upon by the parties or, if the parties are unable to agree within thirty (30)
days after notice of arbitration, appointed by the HKIAC.

               (b) Each party irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, any
objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such arbitration in Hong
Kong and the HKIAC, and hereby submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of Hong Kong and the HKIAC in
any such arbitration. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any party to a dispute under this Agreement
shall be entitled to seek preliminary injunctive relief from any court of competent jurisdiction
pending the constitution of the arbitration tribunal.

               (c) Each party shall cooperate with any of the parties to the dispute in making full
disclosure of and providing complete access to all information and documents requested by any
parties to the dispute in connection with such arbitration proceedings, subject only to
confidentiality obligations binding on such party.

               (d) The award of the arbitrator(s) shall be final, conclusive and binding on the parties to
the arbitration. The prevailing party may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for
enforcement of such award.

          18. Subrogation. In the event of payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be
subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee who shall
execute all documents required and shall do all acts that may be necessary to secure such rights
and to enable the Company effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights.

          19. Amendment and Termination. No amendment, modification, termination or
cancellation of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing signed by the parties to
be bound thereby. Notice of same shall be provided to all parties hereto. No waiver of any of the
provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions
hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver except to the
extent expressly provided for therein.

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          20. Corporate Authority. The Board of Directors of the Company and its shareholders
in accordance with Cayman Islands law have approved the terms of this Agreement.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Indemnification Agreement on
and as of the day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	COMPANY:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Name: PENG Xiaofeng	 	 
	 	 	Title: Chairman	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Indemnification Agreement on
and as of the day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 

	 	 	 	INDEMNITEE:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Name:
	 	 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

 

Schedule A

Name and Address of Indemnitees

[ ],

Unit 1111, No. 7, Financial Street Xicheng District, Beijing

 

 

EXHIBIT C

FORM OF RESTATED ARTICLES

Company No.: [       ]

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

Incorporated on the Ninth day of March, 2011

INCORPORATED IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

 

 

Company No.: [       ]

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

Incorporated on the 9th day of March, 2011

INCORPORATED IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

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THE COMPANIES LAW (2010 Revision)

Company Limited by Shares

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

(as amended and restated by special resolution, passed on March 9, 2011)

	1.	 	The name of the Company is LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.
	 
	2.	 	The Registered Office of the Company shall be at the offices of Offshore
Incorporations (Cayman) Limited, Scotia Centre, 4th Floor, P.O. Box 2804, George
Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1112, Cayman Islands or at such other place as the Directors
may from time to time decide.
	 
	3.	 	The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and shall
include, but without limitation, the following:

	 	(a)	 	(i)	 	To carry on the
business of an
investment company and
to act as promoters and
entrepreneurs and to
carry on business as
financiers, capitalists,
concessionaires,
merchants, brokers,
traders, dealers,
agents, importers and
exporters and to
undertake and carry on
and execute all kinds of
investment, financial,
commercial, mercantile,
trading and other
operations.

	 	(ii)	 	To carry on whether
as principals, agents or
otherwise howsoever the
business of realtors,
developers, consultants,
estate agents or
managers, builders,
contractors, engineers,
manufacturers, dealers
in or vendors of all
types of property
including services.

	 	(b)	 	To exercise and enforce all rights and powers
conferred by or incidental to the ownership of any
shares, stock, obligations or other securities
including without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing all such powers of veto or control as may be
conferred by virtue of the holding by the Company of
some special proportion of the issued or nominal amount
thereof, to provide managerial and other executive,
supervisory and consultant services for or in relation
to any company in which the Company is interested upon
such terms as may be thought fit.
	 
	 	(c)	 	To purchase or otherwise acquire, to sell,
exchange, surrender, lease, mortgage, charge, convert,
turn to account, dispose of and deal with real and
personal property and rights of all kinds and, in
particular, mortgages, debentures, produce,
concessions, options, contracts, patents, annuities,
licences, stocks, shares, bonds, policies, book debts,
business concerns, undertakings, claims, privileges and
choses in action of all kinds.

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	 	(d)	 	To subscribe for, conditionally or
unconditionally, to underwrite, issue on commission or
otherwise, take, hold, deal in and convert stocks,
shares and securities of all kinds and to enter into
partnership or into any arrangement for sharing
profits, reciprocal concessions or cooperation with any
person or company and to promote and aid in promoting,
to constitute, form or organise any company, syndicate
or partnership of any kind, for the purpose of
acquiring and undertaking any property and liabilities
of the Company or of advancing, directly or indirectly,
the objects of the Company or for any other purpose
which the Company may think expedient.
	 
	 	(e)	 	To stand surety for or to guarantee, support or
secure the performance of all or any of the obligations
of any person, firm or company whether or not related
or affiliated to the Company in any manner and whether
by personal covenant or by mortgage, charge or lien
upon the whole or any part of the undertaking, property
and assets of the Company, both present and future,
including its uncalled capital or by any such method
and whether or not the Company shall receive valuable
consideration thereof.
	 
	 	(f)	 	To engage in or carry on any other lawful trade,
business or enterprise which may at any time appear to
the Directors of the Company capable of being
conveniently carried on in conjunction with any of the
aforementioned businesses or activities or which may
appear to the Directors or the Company likely to be
profitable to the Company.

	 	 	In the interpretation of this Memorandum of Association in general and of this Clause
3 in particular no object, business or power specified or mentioned shall be limited
or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object, business or power,
or the name of the Company, or by the juxtaposition of two or more objects, businesses
or powers and that, in the event of any ambiguity in this clause or elsewhere in this
Memorandum of Association, the same shall be resolved by such interpretation and
construction as will widen and enlarge and not restrict the objects, businesses and
powers of and exercisable by the Company.

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	4.	 	Except as prohibited or limited by the Companies Law (2010 Revision), the Company
shall have full power and authority to carry out any object and shall have and be
capable of from time to time and at all times exercising any and all of the powers at
any time or from time to time exercisable by a natural person or body corporate in
doing in any part of the world whether as principal, agent, contractor or otherwise
whatever may be considered by it necessary for the attainment of its objects and
whatever else may be considered by it as incidental or conducive thereto or
consequential thereon, including, but without in any way restricting the generality of
the foregoing, the power to make any alterations or amendments to this Memorandum of
Association and the Articles of Association of the Company considered necessary or
convenient in the manner set out in the Articles of Association of the Company, and
the power to do any of the following acts or things, viz: to pay all expenses of and
incidental to the promotion, formation and incorporation of the Company; to register
the Company to do business in any other jurisdiction; to sell, lease or dispose of any
property of the Company; to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue
promissory notes, debentures, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants and other
negotiable or transferable instruments; to lend money or other assets and to act as
guarantors; to borrow or raise money on the security of the undertaking or on all or
any of the assets of the Company including uncalled capital or without security; to
invest monies of the Company in such manner as the Directors determine; to promote
other companies; to sell the undertaking of the Company for cash or any other
consideration; to distribute assets in specie to Members of the Company; to make
charitable or benevolent donations; to pay pensions or gratuities or provide other
benefits in cash or kind to Directors, officers, employees, past or present and their
families; to purchase Directors and officers liability insurance and to carry on any
trade or business and generally to do all acts and things which, in the opinion of the
Company or the Directors, may be conveniently or profitably or usefully acquired and
dealt with, carried on, executed or done by the Company in connection with the
business aforesaid PROVIDED THAT the Company shall only carry on the businesses for
which a licence is required under the laws of the Cayman Islands when so licensed
under the terms of such laws.
	 
	5.	 	The liability of each Member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on
such Member’s shares.
	 
	6.	 	The share capital of the Company is US$500,000,000 divided into 4,760,000,000
Ordinary Shares of US$0.10 par value per share, and 240,000,000 Preferred Shares of
US$0.10 par value per share, all 240,000,000 of which are designated as Series A
Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares of US$0.10 par value per share (the “Series A
Preferred Shares”) each with power for the Company insofar as is permitted by law, to
redeem or purchase any of its shares and to increase or reduce the said capital
subject to the provisions of the Companies Law (2010 Revision) and the Articles of
Association and to issue any part of its capital, whether original, redeemed or
increased with or without any preference, priority or special privilege or subject to
any postponement of rights or to any conditions or restrictions and so that unless the
conditions of issue shall otherwise expressly declare every issue of shares whether
declared to be preference or otherwise shall be subject to the powers hereinbefore
contained PROVIDED ALWAYS that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
contained in this Memorandum of Association, the Company shall have no power to issue
bearer shares, warrants, coupons or certificates. The rights, preferences, privileges
and restrictions of the Series A Preferred Shares are set forth in Schedule 1 to the
Articles of Association.
	 
	7.	 	If the Company is registered as exempted, its operations will be carried on
subject to the provisions of the Companies Law (2010 Revision) and, subject to the
provisions of the Companies Law (2010 Revision) and the Articles of Association, it
shall have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by
shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be
deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

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THE COMPANIES LAW (2010 Revision)

Company Limited by Shares

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.

(As amended and restated by special resolution passed on March 9, 2011 )

	1.	 	In these Articles Table A in the Schedule to the Statute does not apply and, unless there be something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith,

	 	 	 

	“Affiliate”

	 	means, in respect of a Person, any other Person that,
directly or indirectly, through one or more
intermediaries, Controls, is Controlled by, or is under
common Control with, such Person, and (a) in the case
of a natural Person, includes, without limitation, such
Person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, (b) in the case of the holders of
Preferred Shares, includes (i) any Person who holds
Series A Preferred Shares as a nominee for such
Investor pursuant to a written agreement, a copy of
which has been provided to the Company, (ii) any
shareholder of such holders of Preferred Shares, and
(iii) any entity or individual which has a direct and
indirect Controlling interest in such holders of
Preferred Shares (including, if applicable, any general
partner) or any fund manager thereof (but excluding any
shareholders of such fund manager). For the avoidance
of doubt, each of the holders of Preferred Shares shall
not be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Group Member.
	 
	 	 
	“Articles”

	 	means these Articles, which for the avoidance of doubt
includes Schedule 1 hereto, as from time to time
altered by Special Resolution.
	 
	 	 
	“Auditors”

	 	means the persons for the time being performing the
duties of auditors of the Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Board”

	 	means the board of directors of the Company, as
constituted from time to time.
	 
	 	 
	“CDBC”

	 	means China Development Bank Capital Corporation Ltd.
()
and/or its designated offshore entity to be holding shares in the Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Company”

	 	means the above named Company.

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	“Control”

	 	“Control” of a given Person means the power or
authority, whether exercised or not, to direct the
business, management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, which
power or authority shall conclusively be presumed to
exist upon possession of beneficial ownership or power
to direct the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of
the votes entitled to be cast at a meeting of the
members or shareholders of such Person or power to
control the composition of a majority of the board of
directors of such Person; the terms “Controlling” and
“Controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
	 
	 	 
	“Directors”

	 	means the directors for the time being of the Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Governmental Authority”

	 	means the governments or any political subdivision of
the governments of any nation, state, city, locality,
any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining
to government, regulation or compliance, and any
corporation or other entity owned or controlled,
through share or capital ownership or otherwise, by any
of the foregoing.
	 
	 	 
	“Group”

	 	means, collectively, the Company, the Hong Kong
Subsidiary, LDK Solar Polysilicon, PV Silicon and other
Subsidiaries of the Company and a “Group Member” means
any one of them.
	 
	 	 
	“Hong Kong Subsidiary”

	 	means LDK Silicon Holding Co., Limited, a company duly
incorporated and validly existing under the Laws of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC.
	 
	 	 
	“LDK Solar Polysilicon”

	 	Jiangxi LDK Solar Polysilicon Co., Ltd.
(
LKD), a company with
limited liability organized and existing under the laws
of the PRC.
	 
	 	 
	“Member”

	 	shall bear the meaning as ascribed to it in the Statute.
	 
	 	 
	“Ordinary Share”

	 	means an ordinary share in the capital of the Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Person”

	 	means any individual, firm, corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, trust, incorporated or
unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock
company, governmental authority or other entity of any
kind, and shall include any successor (by merger or
otherwise) of such entity.
	 
	 	 
	“PRC”

	 	means the People’s Republic of China, but solely for
the purposes of this Articles and the other Transaction
Documents excludes Hong Kong, the Macau Special
Administrative Region and Taiwan.
	 
	 	 
	“Preferred Shares”

	 	means preferred shares in the capital of the Company
which may be issued in one or more series. At the date
of adoption of these Articles the Preferred Shares only
comprises Series A Preferred Shares.
	 
	 	 
	“PV Silicon”

	 	Jiangxi LDK PV Silicon Technology Co., Ltd.
( LKD
), a company with limited
liability organized and existing under the laws of the
PRC.

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	“Qualified IPO”

	 	means a firm-commitment underwritten public offering by
the Company of its Ordinary Shares or by any other
member of the Group of such member’s shares pursuant to
a registration statement or similar document that is
filed with and declared effective by the applicable
Governmental Authority in accordance with relevant
securities laws of any jurisdiction on an
internationally recognized stock exchange acceptable to
all of the holders of Series A Preferred Shares
(including but not limited to Shanghai Stock Exchange,
Shenzhen Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange or the
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, as applicable), pursuant
to which the public offering shares shall be not less
than 15% of the total outstanding shares of the Company
post public offering, and the offering price of the
public offering shall be, subject to the share split,
combination, share dividend, contribution or other
similar adjustments, (i) not less than US$1.364 per
Share if aforesaid listing occurs within one year
following the issue date of the Series A Preferred
Shares; or (ii) the price as mutually agreed by the
Members and in no event less than US$1.364 per Share if
aforesaid listing takes place after one year following
the issue date of the Series A Preferred Shares.
	 
	 	 
	“Seal”

	 	means the common seal of the Company and includes every
duplicate seal.
	 
	 	 
	“Secretary”

	 	includes an Assistant Secretary and any person
appointed to perform the duties of Secretary of the
Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Series A Preferred Share”

	 	means a series A redeemable convertible preferred share
in the capital of the Company.
	 
	 	 
	“Shares”

	 	means the shares in share capital of the Company from
time to time and as at the date hereof consists of the
Ordinary Shares and Series A Preferred Shares.
	 
	 	 
	“Solar High-Tech”

	 	means Jiangxi LDK Solar High-Tech Co., Ltd.
( LKD
), a company with
limited liability organized and existing under the laws
of the PRC.
	 
	 	 
	“Special Resolution”

	 	has the same meaning as in the Statute and includes a
resolution approved in writing as described therein.
	 
	 	 
	“Statute”

	 	means the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands as
amended and every statutory modification or
re-enactment thereof for the time being in force.

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	“Subsidiaries”

	 	means, with respect to any Person, (i) a corporation or
other entity, of which (x) more than fifty percent
(50%) of the voting power of the voting equity
securities or equity interest is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person, or (y) more than fifty
percent (50%) interest in the profits or capital of
such entity are owned or controlled directly or
indirectly by such Person or through one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any entity whose
assets, or portions thereof, are consolidated with the
net earnings of such Person and are recorded on the
books of such Person for financial reporting purposes
in accordance with HKFRS, or (iii) any entity with
respect to which such Person has the power to otherwise
direct the business and policies of that entity
directly or indirectly through another Subsidiary.
Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a
“Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement
shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the
Company or members of the Group, as applicable.

	 	 	Words importing the singular number only include the plural number and vice versa.
	 
	 	 	Words importing the masculine gender only include the feminine gender.
	 
	 	 	Words importing persons only include corporations.
	 
	 	 	References in these Articles to Schedule 1 shall mean a reference to Schedule 1 to these Articles which shall be construed as an integral part of these Articles.
	 
	2.	 	The business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation as the Directors shall see fit, notwithstanding that part only of the shares may have been allotted.
	 
	3.	 	The Directors may pay, out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or about the formation and establishment of the Company including the
expenses of registration.

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

	4.	 	Certificates representing shares of the Company shall be in such form as shall be determined by the Directors. Such certificates may be under Seal. All certificates for
shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the shares to which they relate. The name and address of the person to whom the shares
represented thereby are issued, with the number of shares and date of issue, shall be entered in the register of Members of the Company. All certificates surrendered to the
Company for transfer shall be cancelled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and
cancelled. The Directors may authorise certificates to be issued with the seal and authorised signature(s) affixed by some method or system of mechanical process.
	 
	5.	 	Notwithstanding Article 4 of these Articles, if a share certificate be defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of a fee of one dollar (US$l.00) or such
less sum and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of the expenses incurred by the Company in investigating evidence, as the Directors may
prescribe.

ISSUE OF SHARES

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	6.	 	(a)	 	Subject to the provisions, if any, in that behalf in the Memorandum of Association and to the provisions of these Articles and to any direction
that may be given by the Company in general meeting and without prejudice to any special rights previously conferred on the holders of existing shares,
the Directors may allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of shares of the Company (including fractions of a share) with or without
preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether in regard to dividends, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons,
at such times and on such other terms as they think proper. The Company shall not issue shares in bearer form.

	 	(b)	 	The Ordinary Shares shall participate in the profits and assets of the Company but subject always to being subordinate in their rights to the
Preferred Shares to the extent provided by the terms of issue of the Preferred Shares attached as Schedule 1.
	 
	 	(c)	 	The Preferred Shares shall carry the rights (preferential or otherwise) set forth in these Articles and, in particular, in Schedule 1 attached
hereto. If at any time there shall be any conflict between the provisions of Schedule 1 and the provisions contained in the remainder of the Articles
then the provisions of the Schedule 1 shall prevail.

	7.	 	The Company shall maintain a register of its Members and every person whose name is entered as a Member in the register of Members shall be entitled without payment to
receive within two months after allotment or lodgement of transfer (or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall provide) one certificate for all his shares or
several certificates each for one or more of his shares upon payment of fifty cents (US$0.50) for every certificate after the first or such less sum as the Directors shall from
time to time determine provided that in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and
delivery of a certificate for a share to one of the several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

	8.	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and any agreements binding on the Company and as otherwise provided herein, any Member may transfer all or any of his shares by instrument in writing
in any usual or common form or any other form which the Directors may approve. The instrument of transfer shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor and the transferor
shall be deemed to remain the holder of a share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof.
	 
	9.	 	The Directors may decline to register any transfer of shares in the event that, in their belief, any such transfer is in violation of any applicable laws and regulations;
unless any such transfer is supported by a legal opinion of a reputable law firm qualified to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
	 
	10.	 	The registration of transfers may be suspended at such time and for such periods as the Directors may from time to time determine, provided always that such registration
shall not be suspended for more than 45 days in any year.

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REDEEMABLE SHARES

	11.	 	(a)	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and the provisions of the Statute and the Memorandum of Association and these Articles, shares may
be issued on the terms that they are, or at the option of the Company or the holder are, to be redeemed on such terms and in
such manner as the Company, before the issue of the shares, may by Special Resolution determine.

	 	(b)	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and the provisions of the Statute and the Memorandum of Association and these Articles, the Company
may purchase its own shares (including fractions of a share), including any redeemable shares, provided that the manner of
purchase has first been authorised by the Company in general meeting and may make payment therefor in any manner authorised by
the Statute, including out of capital.

VARIATION OF RIGHTS OF SHARES

	12.	 	If at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of
issue of the shares of that class, including Schedule 1) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied (a) with respect to Series A Preferred Shares, with the
consent in writing of all Series A Preferred Shareholder or with the sanction of an unanimous resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of Series A Preferred Shares;
and (b) with respect to any other class, with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths of the issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a Special
Resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.

The provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply to every such general meeting of the holders of the specific class of shares except that the necessary
quorum shall be (a) with respect to Series A Preferred Shares, persons holding or representing by proxy at least 90% of the issued Series A Preferred Shares; or (b) with respect
to other class, persons holding or representing by proxy at least half of the issued shares of the class. Any holder of shares of the class present in person or by proxy may
demand a poll, unless there is only one member of such class, in which case such quorum shall be one person.
	 
	13.	 	The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue
of the shares (including as provided in Schedule 1) of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking senior, pari passu or subordinate
therewith.

COMMISSION ON SALE OF SHARES

	14.	 	The Company may in so far as the Statute from time to time permits pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe whether
absolutely or conditionally for any shares of the Company. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the lodgement of fully or partly paid-up shares or partly
in one way and partly in the other. The Company may also on any issue of shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful.

NON-RECOGNITION OF TRUSTS

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	15.	 	No person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when
having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future, or partial interest in any share, or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or (except only as is otherwise
provided by these Articles or the Statute) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

LIEN ON SHARES

	16.	 	The Company shall have a first and paramount lien and charge on all shares (whether fully paid-up or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with
others) for all debts, liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such Member or his estate, either alone or jointly with any other
person, whether a Member or not, but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The registration of a
transfer of any such share shall operate as a waiver of the Company’s lien (if any) thereon. The Company’s lien (if any) on a share shall extend to all dividends or other monies
payable in respect thereof.
	 
	17.	 	The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any shares on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless a sum in respect of which the
lien exists is presently payable, nor until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of such part of the amount in respect of
which the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder or holders for the time being of the share, or the person, of which the Company has
notice, entitled thereto by reason of his death or bankruptcy.
	 
	18.	 	To give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof. The purchaser shall be registered as the
holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer, and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by
any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.
	 
	19.	 	The proceeds of such sale shall be received by the Company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable and
the residue, if any, shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the
date of the sale.

CALL ON SHARES

	20.	 	(a)	 	The Directors may from time to time make calls upon the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether
on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium or otherwise) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof
made payable at fixed terms, provided that no call shall be payable at less than one month from the date fixed for the payment
of the last preceding call, and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen days notice specifying the time or
times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified the amount called on the shares. A call may be revoked
or postponed as the Directors may determine. A call may be made payable by instalments.

	 	(b)	 	A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising such call was passed.
	 
	 	(c)	 	The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.

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	21.	 	If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on a day appointed for payment thereof, the persons from whom the sum is due shall pay interest on the sum from
the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate not exceeding ten per cent per annum as the Directors may determine, but the Directors shall be
at liberty to waive payment of such interest either wholly or in part.
	 
	22.	 	Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium
or otherwise, shall for the purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, notified and payable on the date on which by the terms of issue the same becomes
payable, and in the case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become
payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
	 
	23.	 	The Directors may, on the issue of shares, differentiate between the holders as to the amount of calls or interest to be paid and the times of payment.

	24.	 	(a)	 	The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any Member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the monies
uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him, and upon all or any of the monies so advanced may (until the same would but
for such advances, become payable) pay interest at such rate not exceeding (unless the Company in general meeting shall
otherwise direct) seven percent per annum, as may be agreed upon between the Directors and the Member paying such sum in
advance.

	 	(b)	 	No such sum paid in advance of calls shall entitle the Member paying such sum to any portion of a dividend declared in
respect of any period prior to the date upon which such sum would, but for such payment, become presently payable.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES

	25.	 	(a)	 	If a Member fails to pay any call or instalment of a call or to make any payment required by the terms of issue on the day
appointed for payment thereof, the Directors may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call, instalment
or payment remains unpaid, give notice requiring payment of so much of the call, instalment or payment as is unpaid, together
with any interest which may have accrued and all expenses that have been incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment.
Such notice shall name a day (not earlier than the expiration of fourteen days from the date of giving of the notice) on or
before which the payment required by the notice is to be made, and shall state that, in the event of non-payment at or before
the time appointed the shares in respect of which such notice was given will be liable to be forfeited.

	 	(b)	 	If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has
been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of
the Directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared in respect of the forfeited share and not
actually paid before the forfeiture.
	 
	 	(c)	 	A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and at

any time before a sale or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit.

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	26.	 	A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of the forfeited shares, but shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to pay to the Company all
monies which, at the date of forfeiture were payable by him to the Company in respect of the shares together with interest thereon, but his liability shall cease if and when the
Company shall have received payment in full of all monies whenever payable in respect of the shares.
	 
	27.	 	A certificate in writing under the hand of one Director or the Secretary of the Company that a share in the Company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the
declaration shall be conclusive evidence of the fact therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share. The Company may receive the consideration given
for the share on any sale or disposition thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of and he shall thereupon
be registered as the holder of the share and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the share be affected by any
irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the share.
	 
	28.	 	The provisions of these Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed
time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

REGISTRATION OF EMPOWERING INSTRUMENTS

	29.	 	The Company shall be entitled to charge a fee not exceeding one dollar (US$l.00) on the registration of every probate, letters of administration, certificate of death or
marriage, power of attorney, or other instrument.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

	30.	 	In case of the death of a Member, the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a
sole holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares, but nothing herein contained shall release the estate of any
such deceased holder from any liability in respect of any shares which had been held by him solely or jointly with other persons.

	31.	 	(a)	 	Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a
Member (or in any other way than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by
the Directors and subject as hereinafter provided, elect either to be registered himself as holder of the share or to make such
transfer of the share to such other person nominated by him as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made and to have such
person registered as the transferee thereof, but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend
registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the share by that Member before his death or bankruptcy as the
case may be.

	 	(b)	 	If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered himself as holder he shall deliver or send to the Company
a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects.

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	32.	 	A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of the holder (or in any other case than by transfer) shall be
entitled to the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that he shall not, before being
registered as a Member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the Company PROVIDED
HOWEVER that the Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share and if the notice is not
complied with within ninety days the Directors may thereafter withhold payment of all dividends, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the share until the requirements
of the notice have been complied with.

AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION, CHANGE OF

LOCATION OF REGISTERED OFFICE & ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

	33.	 	(a)	 	Subject to and in so far as permitted by the provisions of the Statute and the terms hereof, including Schedule 1, the
Company may from time to time by Special Resolution alter or amend its Memorandum of Association and may, without restricting
the generality of the foregoing:

	 	(i)	 	increase the share capital by such sum to be divided into shares of such amount or
without nominal or par value as the resolution shall prescribe and with such rights,
priorities and privileges annexed thereto, as the Company in general meeting may determine;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount
than its existing shares;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	by subdivision of its existing shares or any of them divide the whole or any part of
its share capital into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of
Association or into shares without nominal or par value;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been
taken or agreed to be taken by any person.

	 	(b)	 	All new shares created hereunder shall be subject to the same provisions with reference to the payment of calls, liens,
transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the shares in the original share capital.
	 
	 	(c)	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and the provisions of the Statute, the Company may by Special Resolution change its name or alter
its objects.
	 
	 	(d)	 	Without prejudice to Article 11 hereof and subject to the provisions of the Statute and the provisions of Schedule 1, the
Company may by Special Resolution reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund.
	 
	 	(e)	 	Subject to the provisions of the Statute and the provisions of Schedule 1, the Company may by resolution of the Directors
change the location of its registered office.

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CLOSING REGISTER OF MEMBERS OR FIXING RECORD DATE

	34.	 	For the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members entitled to receive payment of any
dividend, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other proper purpose, the Directors of the Company may provide that the register of Members shall be closed for
transfers for a stated period but not to exceed in any case 40 days. If the register of Members shall be so closed for the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of
or to vote at a meeting of Members such register shall be so closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting and the record date for such determination shall be
the date of the closure of the register of Members.
	 
	35.	 	In lieu of or apart from closing the register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of Members entitled to
notice of or to vote at a meeting of the Members and for the purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any dividend the Directors may, at or within 90
days prior to the date of declaration of such dividend fix a subsequent date as the record date for such determination.
	 
	36.	 	If the register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Members or Members
entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Directors declaring such dividend is
adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote at any meeting of Members has been made
as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.

GENERAL MEETING

	37.	 	(a)	 	Subject to paragraph (c) hereof, the Company shall within one year of its incorporation and in each year of its existence
thereafter hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling
it. The annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint and if no other time and
place is prescribed by them, it shall be held at the registered office on the second Wednesday in December of each year at ten
o’clock in the morning.

	 	(b)	 	At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented.
	 
	 	(c)	 	If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute it may but shall not be obliged to hold an annual general meeting.

	38.	 	(a)	 	The Directors may whenever they think fit, and the Directors on the requisition of any Member shall, call a general
meeting of the Company.

	 	(b)	 	The requisition must state the objects of the meeting and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the
registered office of the Company and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionists.
	 
	 	(c)	 	If the Directors do not within 21 days from the date of the deposit of the requisition duly proceed to convene a general
meeting, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of them, may
themselves convene a general meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three months after
the expiration of the said 21 days.

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	 	(d)	 	A general meeting convened as aforesaid by requisitionists shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as
that in which general meetings are to be convened by Directors.

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS

	39.	 	An annual general meeting or any other general meeting shall be held (and may be attended by the Members in person or by means of a video or telephone conference) at least
once every year and shall be called by at least twenty-one (21) clear calendar days’ notice. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a general meeting may be called by shorter notice if
it is so agreed by all the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat. Every notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is given or deemed to be given and of the day for
which it is given and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business and shall be given in manner hereinafter mentioned or
in such other manner if any as may be prescribed by the Company.
	 
	40.	 	The accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the
proceedings of that meeting.

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

	41.	 	No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of Members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business; subject to Schedule 1,
the quorum for any general meeting shall be members holding at least 75% of the Ordinary Shares and all the Preferred Shares at such time, provided always that if
the Company has one Member of record the quorum shall be that one Member present in person or by proxy.
	 
	42.	 	A resolution (including a Special Resolution) in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all Members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend
and vote at general meetings (or being corporations by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the same had been passed at a general meeting
of the Company duly convened and held.
	 
	43.	 	If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved and in
any other case it shall stand adjourned. At least five (5) clear calendar days’ notice of the reconvened meeting shall be given unless all of the members entitled to attend and
vote thereat agree to waive such notice. At the reconvened meeting, the required quorum shall be members holding at least 50% of the Ordinary Shares and 85% of the Preferred
Shares at such time. If at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the Members present shall be a quorum.
	 
	44.	 	The Chairman, if any, of the Board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company, or if there is no such Chairman, or if he shall not be
present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting, or is unwilling to act, the Directors present shall elect one of their number to be
Chairman of the meeting.
	 
	45.	 	If at any general meeting no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting,
the Members present shall choose one of their members to be Chairman of the meeting.

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	46.	 	The Chairman may, with the consent of any general meeting duly constituted hereunder, and shall if so directed by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and
from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
When a general meeting is adjourned for 30 days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting; save as aforesaid it shall not be
necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned general meeting.
	 
	47.	 	At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is, before or on the declaration of the result of the
show of hands, demanded by the Chairman or any other Member present in person or by proxy.
	 
	48.	 	Unless a poll be so demanded a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or
lost, and an entry to that effect in the Company’s Minute Book containing the Minutes of the proceedings of the meeting shall be conclusive evidence of that fact without proof
of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
	 
	49.	 	The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.
	 
	50.	 	Except as provided in Article 52, if a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman directs and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the
resolution of the general meeting at which the poll was demanded.
	 
	51.	 	In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the general meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the
poll is demanded, shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote.
	 
	52.	 	A poll demanded on the election of a Chairman or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as
the Chairman of the general meeting directs and any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded or is contingent thereon may be proceeded with pending the
taking of the poll.

VOTES OF MEMBERS

	53.	 	Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, on a show of hands every Member of record present in person or by proxy
at a general meeting shall have one vote and on a poll every Member of record present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for each share registered in his name in the
register of Members.
	 
	54.	 	In the case of joint holders of record the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the
other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of Members.
	 
	55.	 	A Member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court, having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by
his committee, receiver, curator bonis, or other person in the nature of a committee, receiver or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver,
curator bonis or other persons may vote by proxy.

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	56.	 	No Member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a shareholder of the Company on the record date for such meeting nor unless all calls
or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the Company have been paid.
	 
	57.	 	Members may participate in a general meeting by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting
can hear each other and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. No objection shall be raised to the
qualification of any voter except at the general meeting or adjourned general meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered and every vote not disallowed at such
general meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the Chairman of the general meeting whose decision shall be final and
conclusive.
	 
	58.	 	On a poll or on a show of hands votes may be given either personally or by proxy.

PROXIES

	59.	 	The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and shall be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the
appointor is a corporation under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised in that behalf. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company.
	 
	60.	 	The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited at the registered office of the Company or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening
the meeting no later than the time for holding the meeting, or adjourned meeting provided that the Chairman of the Meeting may at his discretion direct that an instrument of
proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited upon receipt of telex, cable or telecopy confirmation from the appointor that the instrument of proxy duly signed is in the
course of transmission to the Company.
	 
	61.	 	The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any usual or common form and may be expressed to be for a particular meeting or any adjournment thereof or generally until
revoked. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the power to demand or join or concur in demanding a poll.
	 
	62.	 	A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the
proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the proxy is given provided that no intimation in writing of such
death, insanity, revocation or transfer as aforesaid shall have been received by the Company at the registered office before the commencement of the general meeting, or
adjourned meeting at which it is sought to use the proxy.
	 
	63.	 	Any corporation which is a Member of record of the Company may in accordance with its Articles or in the absence of such provision by resolution of its Directors or other
governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members of the Company, and the person so
authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member of
record of the Company.
	 
	64.	 	Shares of its own capital belonging to the Company or held by it in a fiduciary capacity shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting and shall not be counted
in determining the total number of outstanding shares at any given time.

DIRECTORS

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	65.	 	There shall be a Board of Directors consisting of a maximum of ten persons (exclusive of alternate Directors) who shall be appointed, subject to Schedule 1 of these
Articles, in accordance with articles 95 and 96 of these Articles; PROVIDED HOWEVER that, subject to Schedule 1, the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution
increase or reduce the limits in the number of Directors.
	 
	66.	 	The remuneration to be paid to the Directors shall be such remuneration as the Directors shall determine. Such remuneration shall be deemed to accrue from day to day. The
Directors shall also be entitled to be paid their travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in going to, attending and returning from meetings of the
Directors, or any committee of the Directors, or general meetings of the Company, or otherwise in connection with the business of the Company, or to receive a fixed allowance in
respect thereof as may be determined by the Directors from time to time, or a combination partly of one such method and partly the other.
	 
	67.	 	The Directors may by resolution award special remuneration to any Director of the Company undertaking any special work or services for, or undertaking any special mission
on behalf of, the Company other than his ordinary routine work as a Director. Any fees paid to a Director who is also counsel or solicitor to the Company, or otherwise serves it
in a professional capacity shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.
	 
	68.	 	Subject to Schedule 1, a Director or alternate Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor) in conjunction
with his office of Director for such period and on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine.
	 
	69.	 	A Director or alternate Director may act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for
professional services as if he were not a Director or alternate Director.
	 
	70.	 	A shareholding qualification for Directors may be fixed by the Company in general meeting, but unless and until so fixed no qualification shall be required.
	 
	71.	 	A Director or alternate Director of the Company may be or become a director or other officer of or otherwise interested in any company promoted by the Company or in which
the Company may be interested as shareholder or otherwise and no such Director or alternate Director shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits
received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company.
	 
	72.	 	No person shall be disqualified from the office of Director or alternate Director or prevented by such office from contracting with the Company, either as vendor, purchaser
or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or any contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director or alternate Director shall be in any
way interested be or be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director or alternate Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any
profit realised by any such contract or transaction by reason of such Director holding office or of the fiduciary relation thereby established. A Director (or his alternate
Director in his absence) shall be at liberty to vote in respect of any contract or transaction in which he is so interested as aforesaid PROVIDED HOWEVER that the nature of the
interest of any Director or alternate Director in any such contract or transaction shall be disclosed by him or the alternate Director appointed by him at or prior to its
consideration and any vote thereon.

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	73.	 	A general notice that a Director or alternate Director is a shareholder of any specified firm or company and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction with such
firm or company shall be sufficient disclosure under Article 72 and after such general notice it shall not be necessary to give special notice relating to any particular
transaction.

ALTERNATE DIRECTORS

	74.	 	Subject to the exception contained in Article 82, a Director who expects to be unable to attend Directors’ Meetings because of absence, illness or otherwise may appoint any
person to be an alternate Director to act in his stead and such appointee whilst he holds office as an alternate Director shall, in the event of absence therefrom of his
appointor, be entitled to attend meetings of the Directors and to vote thereat and to do, in the place and stead of his appointor, any other act or thing which his appointor is
permitted or required to do by virtue of his being a Director as if the alternate Director were the appointor, other than appointment of an alternate to himself, and he shall
ipso facto vacate office if and when his appointor ceases to be a Director or removes the appointee from office. Any appointment or removal under this Article shall be effected
by notice in writing under the hand of the Director making the same.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

	75.	 	The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may pay all expenses incurred in promoting, registering and setting up the Company, and may exercise all
such powers of the Company as are not, from time to time by the Statute, or by these Articles, or such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid, as may be
prescribed by the Company in general meeting required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting PROVIDED HOWEVER that no regulations made by the Company in general
meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made. Notwithstanding the foregoing generality, the Directors
shall not, without complying with the Director Consent set forth in Schedule 1, take any action described in Article 5.3 in Schedule 1.
	 
	76.	 	The Directors may from time to time and at any time by powers of attorney appoint any company, firm, person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by
the Directors, to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purpose and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by
the Directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such powers of attorney may contain such provisions for the
protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorneys as the Directors may think fit and may also authorise any such attorney to delegate all or any of the
powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.
	 
	77.	 	All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for monies paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted,
endorsed or otherwise executed as the case may be in such manner as the Directors shall from time to time by resolution determine.
	 
	78.	 	The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:

	 	(a)	 	of all appointments of officers made by the Directors;
	 
	 	(b)	 	of the names of the Directors (including those represented thereat by an alternate or by proxy) present at each meeting of
the Directors and of any committee of the Directors;

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	 	(c)	 	of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Company and of the Directors and of committees of Directors.

	79.	 	The Directors on behalf of the Company may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit
with the Company or to his widow or dependants and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.
	 
	80.	 	Subject to these Articles including without limitation to Schedule 1, the Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its
undertaking, property and uncalled capital or any part thereof and to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whether outright or as security for any debt,
liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

MANAGEMENT

	81.	 	(a)	 	The Directors may from time to time provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such manner as they shall
think fit and the provisions contained in the three next following paragraphs shall be without prejudice to the general powers
conferred by this paragraph.

	 	(b)	 	The Directors from time to time and at any time may establish any committees, local boards or agencies for managing any of
the affairs of the Company and may appoint any persons to be members of such committees or local boards or any managers or
agents and may fix their remuneration.
	 
	 	(c)	 	The Directors from time to time and at any time may delegate to any such committee, local board, manager or agent any of
the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in the Directors and may authorise the members for the time
being of any such local board, or any of them to fill up any vacancies therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies and any
such appointment or delegation may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit and the
Directors may at any time remove any person so appointed and may annul or vary any such delegation, but no person dealing in
good faith and without notice of any such annulment or variation shall be affected thereby.
	 
	 	(d)	 	Any such delegates as aforesaid may be authorised by the Directors to subdelegate all or any of the powers, authorities,
and discretions for the time being vested in them.

MANAGING DIRECTORS

	82.	 	The Directors may, from time to time, appoint one or more of their body (but not an alternate Director) to the office of Managing Director for such term and at such
remuneration (whether by way of salary, or commission, or participation in profits, or partly in one way and partly in another) as they may think fit but his appointment shall
be subject to determination ipso facto if he ceases from any cause to be a Director and no alternate Director appointed by him can act in his stead as a Director or Managing
Director.
	 
	83.	 	The Directors may entrust to and confer upon a Managing Director any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they may
think fit and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.

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PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

	84.	 	Except as otherwise provided by these Articles, the Directors shall meet together no less than once every half year for the despatch of business, convening, adjourning and
otherwise regulating their meetings as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Directors and alternate Directors present
at a meeting at which there is a quorum, the vote of an alternate Director not being counted if his appointer be present at such meeting. In case of an equality of votes, the
Chairman shall not have a second or casting vote.
	 
	85.	 	A Director or alternate Director may, and the Secretary on the requisition of a Director or alternate Director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the Directors by at
least five (5) days notice in writing to every Director and alternate Director which notice shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is
waived by all the Directors (or their alternates) either at, before or after the meeting is held and PROVIDED FURTHER if notice is given in person, by cable, telex or telecopy
the same shall be deemed to have been given on the day it is delivered to the Directors or transmitting organisation as the case may be. The provisions of Article 40 shall apply
mutatis mutandis with respect to notices of meetings of Directors.
	 
	86.	 	The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors shall be half or more than half of the total number            of Directors then in office
including one Director appointed by CDBC, provided, however, that if such quorum cannot be obtained for a Board meeting after two (2) consecutive notices of Board meetings have
been sent by the Company with the first notice providing not less than five (5) days’ prior notice and the second notice providing not less than two (2) days’ prior notice, then
the attendance of any two Directors shall constitute a quorum. A Director and his appointed alternate Director being considered only one person for this purpose, provided
always, that if there shall at any time be only a sole Director, the quorum shall be one. For the purposes of this Article an alternate Director or proxy appointed by a Director
shall be counted in a quorum at a meeting at which the Director appointing him is not present.
	 
	87.	 	The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to these
Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number, or of summoning
a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.
	 
	88.	 	The Directors may elect a Chairman of their Board and determine the period for which he is to hold office; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the
Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
	 
	89.	 	The Directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of the Board of Directors (including Alternate Directors in the absence of
their appointors) as they think fit; any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the
Directors.
	 
	90.	 	A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in the case of
an equality of votes the Chairman shall not have a second or casting vote.

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	91.	 	All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors (including any person acting as an alternate Director) shall, notwithstanding that it be
afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director or alternate Director, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every
such person had been duly appointed and qualified to be a Director or alternate Director as the case may be.
	 
	92.	 	Members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board or of such committee by means of conference telephone or similar
communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall
constitute presence in person at such meeting. A resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts), signed by all the Directors for the time being or all the members of a
committee of Directors (an alternate Director being entitled to sign such resolution on behalf of his appointor) shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a
meeting of the Directors or committee as the case may be duly convened and held.

	93.	 	(a)	 	A Director may be represented at any meetings of the Board of Directors by a proxy appointed by him in which event the
presence or vote of the proxy shall for all purposes be deemed to be that of the Director.

	 	(b)	 	The provisions of Articles 59-62 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the appointment of proxies by Directors.

VACATION OF OFFICE OF DIRECTOR

	94.	 	The office of a Director shall be vacated:

	 	(a)	 	if he gives notice in writing to the Company that he resigns the office of Director;
	 
	 	(b)	 	if he absents himself (without being represented by proxy or an alternate Director appointed by him) from three
consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors without special leave of absence from the Directors, and they pass a resolution
that he has by reason of such absence vacated office;
	 
	 	(c)	 	if he dies, becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally;
	 
	 	(d)	 	if he is found a lunatic or becomes of unsound mind;
	 
	 	(e)	 	if he is removed from office under the provisions of these Articles.

APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

	95.	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and the terms hereof, the Company may by ordinary resolution appoint any person to be a Director and may in like manner remove any Director and may in
like manner appoint another person in his stead.
	 
	96.	 	Subject to Schedule 1 and the terms hereof, the Directors shall have power at any time and from time to time to appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a casual
vacancy or as an addition to the existing Directors but so that the total amount of Directors (exclusive of alternate Directors) shall not at any time exceed the number fixed in
accordance with these Articles.

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

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	97.	 	A Director of the Company who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the
action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the Minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such action with the person acting as the
Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to such person immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such
right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action.

SEAL

	98.	 	(a)	 	The Company may, if the Directors so determine, have a Seal which shall, subject to paragraph (c) hereof, only be used by
the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors in that behalf and every
instrument to which the Seal has been affixed shall be signed by one person who shall be either a Director or the Secretary or
Secretary-Treasurer or some person appointed by the Directors for the purpose.

	 	(b)	 	The Company may have for use in any place or places outside the Cayman Islands a duplicate Seal or Seals each of which
shall be a facsimile of the Common Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, with the addition on its face of the
name of every place where it is to be used.
	 
	 	(c)	 	A Director, Secretary or other officer or representative or attorney may without further authority of the Directors affix
the Seal of the Company over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under Seal
or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever.

OFFICERS

	99.	 	The Company may have a President, a Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer appointed by the Directors who may also from time to time appoint such other officers as they consider
necessary, all for such terms, at such remuneration and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal as the Directors from time to
time prescribe. The appointment of any officers or new key management members of the Company, other than the President of the Company, must be discussed and approved by the
Directors.

DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND RESERVE

	100.	 	Subject to Schedule 1, the Statute, and these Articles, the Directors may from time to time declare dividends (including interim dividends) and distributions on shares of
the Company outstanding and authorise payment of the same out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefore.
	 
	101.	 	The Directors may, before declaring any dividends or distributions, set aside such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall at the discretion of the
Directors, be applicable for any purpose of the Company and pending such application may, at the like discretion, be employed in the business of the Company.
	 
	102.	 	No dividend or distribution shall be payable except out of the profits of the Company, realised or unrealised, or out of the share premium account or as otherwise permitted
by the Statute.

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	103.	 	Subject to the rights of persons, including the holders of Preferred Shares as provided on Schedule 1, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends or
distributions, if dividends or distributions are to be declared on a class of shares they shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the
shares of such class outstanding on the record date for such dividend or distribution as determined in accordance with these Articles but no amount paid or credited as paid on a
share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purpose of this Article as paid on the share.
	 
	104.	 	The Directors may deduct from any dividend or distribution payable to any Member all sums of money (if any) presently payable by him to the Company on account of calls or
otherwise.
	 
	105.	 	The Directors may declare that any dividend or distribution be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and in particular of paid up shares, debentures,
or debenture stock of any other company or in any one or more of such ways and where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as
they think expedient and in particular may issue fractional certificates and fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that
cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the footing of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all Members and may vest any such specific assets in trustees
as may seem expedient to the Directors.
	 
	106.	 	Any dividend, distribution, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered
address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the holder who is first named on the register of Members or to such person and to such address as such holder or joint
holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. Any one of two or more joint holders may give
effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses, or other monies payable in respect of the share held by them as joint holders.
	 
	107.	 	No dividend or distribution shall bear interest against the Company.

CAPITALISATION

	108.	 	Subject to Schedule 1, the Company may upon the recommendation of the Directors by ordinary resolution authorise the Directors to capitalise any sum standing to the credit
of any of the Company’s reserve accounts (including share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund) or any sum standing to the credit of profit and loss account or
otherwise available for distribution and to appropriate such sum to Members in the proportions in which such sum would have been divisible amongst them had the same been a
distribution of profits by way of dividend and to apply such sum on their behalf in paying up in full unissued shares for allotment and distribution credited as fully paid up to
and amongst them in the proportion aforesaid. In such event the Directors shall do all acts and things required to give effect to such capitalisation, with full power to the
Directors to make such provisions as they think fit for the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby the benefit of fractional
entitlements accrue to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Directors may authorise any person to enter on behalf of all of the Members interested into an
agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all
concerned.

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

	109.	 	The Directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:

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	 	(a)	 	all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt or expenditure
takes place;
	 
	 	(b)	 	all sales and purchases of goods by the Company;
	 
	 	(c)	 	the assets and liabilities of the Company.

	 	 	Proper books shall not be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and
to explain its transactions.
	 
	110.	 	Subject to any agreement binding on the Company, the Directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what
conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors and no Member (not being a
Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by Statute or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in
general meeting.
	 
	111.	 	The Directors may from time to time cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in general meeting profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if
any) and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law.

AUDIT

	112.	 	The Company may at any annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the next annual general meeting and may fix his or
their remuneration.
	 
	113.	 	The Directors may before the first annual general meeting appoint an Auditor or Auditors of the Company who shall hold office until the first annual general meeting unless
previously removed by an ordinary resolution of the Members in general meeting in which case the Members at that meeting may appoint Auditors. The Directors may fill any casual
vacancy in the office of Auditor but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing Auditor or Auditors, if any, may act. The remuneration of any Auditor appointed
by the Directors under this Article may be fixed by the Directors.
	 
	114.	 	Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the
Directors and Officers of the Company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors.
	 
	115.	 	Auditors shall at the next annual general meeting following their appointment and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any
general meeting of the Members, make a report on the accounts of the Company in general meeting during their tenure of office.

NOTICES

	116.	 	Notices shall be in writing and may be given by the Company to any Member either personally or by sending it by post, cable, telex or telecopy to him or to his address as
shown in the register of Members, such notice, if mailed, to be forwarded airmail if the address be outside the Cayman Islands.

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	117.	 	(a)	 	Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying
and posting a letter containing the notice, and to have been effected at the expiration of 5 days after the letter containing
the same is posted as aforesaid.

	 	(b)	 	Where a notice is sent by cable, telex, telecopy or electronic message, service of the notice shall be deemed to be
effected by properly addressing, and sending such notice through a transmitting organisation and to have been effected on the
day the same is sent as aforesaid.

	118.	 	A notice may be given by the Company to the joint holders of record of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder first named on the register of Members in respect of
the share.
	 
	119.	 	A notice may be given by the Company to the person or persons which the Company has been advised are entitled to a share or shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy
of a Member by sending it through the post as aforesaid in a pre-paid letter addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the
bankrupt, or by any like description at the address supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled, or at the option of the Company by giving the notice in
any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.
	 
	120.	 	Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to:

	 	(a)	 	every person shown as a Member in the register of Members as of the record date for such meeting except that in the case
of joint holders the notice shall be sufficient if given to the joint holder first named in the register of Members.
	 
	 	(b)	 	every person upon whom the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his being a legal personal representative or a
trustee in bankruptcy of a Member of record where the Member of record but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to
receive notice of the meeting; and

	 	 	No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.

WINDING UP

	121.	 	Subject to Schedule 1, if the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, with the sanction of a Special Resolution of the Company and any other sanction required by the
Statute, and the terms of Schedule 1, divide amongst the Members in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of
the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried
out as between the Members or different classes of Members, subject to the rights provided by the terms of issue of any series of Preferred Shares. The liquidator may with the
like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator, with the like sanction, shall
think fit, but so that no Member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.

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	122.	 	If the Company shall be wound up, and the assets available for distribution amongst the Members as such shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the paid-up capital,
such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, subject to the rights provided by the terms of issue of any series of Preferred Shares, including Schedule 1, the
losses shall be borne by the Members in proportion to the capital paid up, or which ought to have been paid up, at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held by them
respectively. And if in a winding up the assets available for distribution amongst the Members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the capital paid up at the
commencement of the winding up, the excess shall be distributed amongst the Members in proportion to the capital paid up at the commencement of the winding up on the shares held
by them respectively. This Article is to be without prejudice to the rights of the holders of shares issued upon special terms and conditions.

INDEMNITY

	123.	 	The Directors and officers for the time being of the Company and any trustee for the time being acting in relation to any of the affairs of the Company and their heirs,
executors, administrators and personal representatives respectively shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company from and against all actions, proceedings, costs,
charges, losses, damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may incur or sustain by reason of any act done or omitted in or about the execution of their duty in
their respective offices or trusts, except such (if any) as they shall incur or sustain by or through their own wilful neglect or default respectively and no such Director,
officer or trustee shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other Director, officer or trustee or for joining in any receipt for the sake of
conformity or for the solvency or honesty of any banker or other persons with whom any monies or effects belonging to the Company may be lodged or deposited for safe custody or
for any insufficiency of any security upon which any monies of the Company may be invested or for any other loss or damage due to any such cause as aforesaid or which may happen
in or about the execution of his office or trust unless the same shall happen through the wilful neglect or default of such Director, Officer or trustee. Without prejudice to
the generality of the preceding Article, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Director who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative by reason of the fact that he is or was a Director of the Company, or
is or was a Director of the Company serving at the request of the Company as a director of another company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other
enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgements, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

FINANCIAL YEAR

	124.	 	Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31st December in each year and, following the year of incorporation, shall begin on
1st January in each year.

AMENDMENTS OF ARTICLES

	125.	 	Subject to the Statute, Schedule 1 and the terms hereof, the Company may at any time and from time to time by Special Resolution alter or amend these Articles in whole or
in part.

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TRANSFER BY WAY OF CONTINUATION

	126.	 	If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Statute and with the approval of a Special Resolution, have the power to
register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

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SCHEDULE 1

PREFERRED SHARES

     The rights, preferences and restrictions attaching to the Series A Redeemable Convertible
Preferred Shares (the “Series A Preferred Shares”) shall be as hereinafter specified in this
Schedule 1.

ARTICLE 1

DIVIDEND RIGHTS

          1.1 The Series A Preferred Shares shall with respect to dividends and distributions of assets
and rights upon the occurrence of a Liquidation Event rank senior to: (i) all classes of ordinary
shares of the Company (including, without limitation, the Ordinary Shares; and (ii) each other
class or series of Equity Securities which does not expressly rank pari passu with or senior to the
Series A Preferred Shares.

          1.2 The Company shall, commencing from the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, declare and
pay as dividends to the Shareholders on a pro rata basis up to an amount of the retained earnings
of the Company as finally determined in the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for
such fiscal year, so that the Investors shall receive at least US$15 million of such dividend each
year; provided, that such declaration and distribution of dividend (i) shall comply with applicable
laws then valid and enforceable against the Company and contractual obligations valid and
enforceable against the Company as at the date hereof and expressly disclosed to the Investors on
or prior to the date hereof, (ii) shall not be made if, prior to December 31, 2011, the Company
shall have received a listing approval (“Listing Approval”) to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock
Exchange or other internationally recognized stock exchange acceptable to all of the Investors for
a Qualified IPO and the Qualified IPO is consummated in that year or within three months from the
Listing Approval; and (iii) shall not be made with respect to the fiscal year ending December 31,
2012 only (but shall not affect that with respect to the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011) if,
prior to December 31, 2012, the Company shall have received a Listing Approval and the Qualified
IPO is consummated in that year or within three months from the Listing Approval.

ARTICLE 2

LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE

     Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company (a “Liquidation”) or a Deemed
Liquidation Event, either voluntary or involuntary, the

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assets of the Company available for distribution shall be distributed as provided in this
Article 2.

          2.1 Series A Preferred Shares Liquidation Preference. Before any distribution or payment shall
be made to the holders of any Ordinary Shares and all other holders of share capital of the
Company, (i) each holder of Series A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive an amount equal
to one hundred percent (100%) of the Series A Original Purchase Price (adjusted for any share
splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions), plus
twenty-three percent (23%) of an internal rate of return, on an annualized basis, for such Series A
Original Purchase Price (the “Liquidation Preference”). If, upon any Liquidation, the assets of
the Company shall be insufficient to make payment of the foregoing amounts in full on all Series A
Preferred Shares, then such assets shall be distributed among the holders of Series A Preferred
Shares, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively
entitled thereon.

          2.2 Participation. After distribution or payment in full of the Liquidation Preference
distributable or payable on the Series A Preferred Shares pursuant to Article 2.1, the remaining
assets of the Company available for distribution to all Shareholders shall be distributed ratably
among the holders of outstanding Shares on an as-converted and fully diluted basis.

          2.3 Definition of Deemed Liquidation Event. The following events shall be treated as a
liquidation (each, a “Deemed Liquidation Event”) under this Article 2 unless waived by all holders
of the then outstanding Series A Preferred Shares:

          (a) any consolidation, amalgamation or merger of the Company with or into any Person, or any
other corporate reorganization or transaction or series of transactions, including a sale,
conveyance, exchange, transfer or acquisition of all or a portion of the share capital of the
Company, as a result of which the Shareholders immediately before such transaction or series of
transactions will not retain more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the surviving
entity immediately following the consummation of such transaction (excluding any transaction
effected solely for tax purposes or to change the Company’s domicile); or

          (b) a sale, lease, transfer, exclusive license or other disposition, in a single transaction
or series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company on a
consolidated basis, except for the Post Closing Restructuring set forth in the Subscription
Agreement;

and upon any such event, any proceeds resulting therefrom shall be distributed to the Shareholders
in accordance with the terms of Articles 2.1 and 2.2.

          2.4 In the event the Company proposes to distribute assets other than cash in connection with
any Liquidation or Deemed Liquidation Event, the value of the assets to be distributed to the
holders of Series A Preferred Shares and Ordinary Shares shall be determined in good faith by an
independent appraiser appointed by all

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Preferred Shareholders and Ordinary Shareholder, or by a liquidator if one is appointed. Any
securities that are not subject to restrictions on free marketability shall be valued as follows:

          (a) if traded on a securities exchange, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the
security’s closing prices on such exchange over the thirty (30) day period ending one (1) day prior
to the distribution;

          (b) if traded over-the-counter, the value shall be deemed to be the average of the closing bid
prices over the thirty (30) day period ending three (3) days prior to the distribution; and

          (c) if there is no active public market, the value shall be the fair market value thereof as
determined in good faith by the an independent appraiser appointed by all Preferred Shareholders
and Ordinary Shareholders.

     The method of valuation of securities subject to restrictions on free marketability shall be
adjusted to make an appropriate discount from the market value determined as above in sub-clauses
(a), (b) or (c) of this Article 2.4 to reflect the fair market value thereof as determined in good
faith by an independent appraiser appointed by all Preferred Shareholders and Ordinary
Shareholders, or by a liquidator if one is appointed.

ARTICLE 3

REDEMPTION RIGHT

          3.1 Redemption. If:

     (i) prior to the Qualified IPO, any of the Group, the Key Holders or Solar High-Tech
is in material breach of the terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents, including
but not limited to, a failure to consummate the transactions under Section 8.5 and Section
8.7 of the Subscription Agreement; or

     (ii) the Company has not completed a Qualified IPO within two (2) years following
Closing,

     each holder of the then outstanding Series A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to, voting as
a separate class , at its sole discretion, require the Company and/or the Ordinary Shareholder
and/or the Founder to redeem or purchase (out of funds legally available therefor including capital
in the case of a redemption by the Company) within two (2) months from the Company’s receipt of
such holder’ written notice, any and/or all the relevant Series A Preferred Shares held by such
holder of Series A Preferred Shares, at a redemption/purchase price per share (the “Redemption
Price”) with respect to the relevant Series A Preferred Shares held by such holder equal to, unless
otherwise required by relevant applicable laws, one hundred percent (100%) of the Series A Original
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redeemed or purchased (adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations,
recapitalizations and similar transactions), plus twenty-three percent (23%) of an internal rate of
return, on an annualized basis, for the Series A Original Purchase Price paid by such holder
(adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar
transactions), in each case as proportionally adjusted for share subdivisions, share dividends,
reorganizations, reclassifications, consolidations, or mergers.

          3.2 The Company, the Ordinary Shareholder and the Founder shall, jointly and severally, redeem
or purchase all of the Series A Preferred Shares requested to be redeemed or be purchased at the
Redemption Date (as defined below). If on the Redemption Date the number of Series A Preferred
Shares that may then be legally redeemed or purchased by the Company and/or the Ordinary
Shareholder and/or the Founder is fewer than the aggregate number of Series A Preferred Shares
requested to be redeemed or purchased, then the number of such shares that the Company and/or the
Ordinary Shareholder and/or the Founder may legally redeem or purchase from the holders thereof
shall be calculated ratably in proportion to the respective aggregate Redemption Price each
redeeming holder of Series A Preferred Shares is entitled to receive.

          3.3 Holder(s) of the Series A Preferred Shares requesting redemption shall furnish to the
Company or the Ordinary Shareholder or the Founder and the other holders of Series A Preferred
Shares, a notice of redemption (the “Initial Redemption Notice”), and such notice shall be given by
hand or by mail to the principle office of the Company, the Ordinary Shareholder, the Founder and
the other holders of the Series A Preferred Shares at any time. Upon receipt of the Initial
Redemption Notice, the other holders of the Series A Preferred Shares may also elect to redeem or
request the Company, the Ordinary Shareholder and/or the Founder to purchase their Series A
Preferred Shares by delivering a separate redemption notice to the Company, the Ordinary
Shareholder and the Founder (copying all other holders of Series A Preferred Shares) within fifteen
(15) days of the receipt of the Initial Redemption Notice. The closing of the redemption or
purchase of any Series A Preferred Share (the “Redemption Closing”) pursuant to this Section
3 shall take place within two months from the date of the Initial Redemption Notice (the
“Redemption Date”) delivered to the Company, or such earlier date or other place as the holders of
all the Series A Preferred Shares and the Company or Ordinary Shareholder or the Founder (as the
case may be) may mutually agree in writing. The Company and/or the Ordinary Shareholder and/or the
Founder and the holders of Series A Preferred Shares representing all Series A Preferred Shares
requested to be redeemed or purchased pursuant to this Article 3 may through negotiation agree on a
payment schedule (the “Payment Schedule”) based on which the aggregate Redemption Price shall be
paid in full by the Company and/or the Ordinary Shareholder and/or the Founder, provided that in no
event shall the payment period contemplated under the Payment Schedule be more than two months from
the date of the Initial Redemption Notice, unless otherwise consented by all Series A Preferred
Shareholders.

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          3.4 Where the Series A Preferred Shares are redeemed by the Company, from and after the
redemption in full of all Series A Preferred Shares requested to be redeemed by the Company, all
dividends on the Series A Preferred Shares designated for redemption shall cease to accrue and all
rights of the holders thereof, except the right to receive the Redemption Price thereof (including
all accrued and unpaid dividend up to the Redemption Date), with interest, upon the surrender of
the certificate or certificates representing the same, shall cease and terminate with respect to
the Series A Preferred Shares redeemed or purchased by the Company only and the Series A Preferred
Shares redeemed or purchased by the Company shall cease to be issued shares of the Company and
shall not be reissued. Any Series A Preferred Shares which are requested to be redeemed but yet to
be redeemed shall continue to enjoy all rights and privileges attached to such Shares until the
Company makes payment of the Redemption Price for such Series A Preferred Shares in full.

          3.5 Upon a redemption of Series A Preferred Shares by the Company:

          (a) the nominal or par value of such Series A Preferred Shares shall be redeemed
or paid out of profits of the Company or the proceeds of a fresh issue of Shares or at
the discretion of the Board in such other manner (including out of the Company’s
capital and otherwise than out of its profits or the proceeds of a fresh issue of
Shares) subject to the applicable legal restrictions and these Articles; and

          (b) the premium on such Series A Preferred Shares shall be paid from the share
premium account or out of profits of the Company or the proceeds of a fresh issue of
Shares or at the discretion of the Board in such other manner (including out of the
Company’s capital and otherwise than out of its profits or the proceeds of a fresh
issue of Shares) subject to the applicable legal restrictions and these Articles.

ARTICLE 4

CONVERSION

     Any holder of the Series A Preferred Shares shall have the following rights with respect to
the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares into such number of fully paid and non-assessable
Ordinary Shares. Subject to the provisions of this Article 4, the number of Ordinary Shares to
which a holder shall be entitled upon conversion of any Series A Preferred Share, shall equal to
the quotient of the Series A Original Purchase Price, divided by the then-effective Conversion
Price (as defined below). For the avoidance of doubt, subject to the provisions of this Article 4,
the price at which each Ordinary Share shall be issued upon conversion of each Series A Preferred
Share without the payment of any additional consideration by the holders thereof (the “Conversion
Price”) shall initially be the Series A Original Purchase Price; the initial conversion ratio for
Series A Preferred Shares to Ordinary Shares

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shall be 1:1, and shall be subject to adjustment (the “Conversion Rate”), as set forth below:

          4.1 Optional Conversion. At any time prior to the closing of a Qualified IPO, and subject to
and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 4.1, the holder of any Series A Preferred
Shares shall have the right, at its option, to convert all or any portion of the outstanding Series
A Preferred Shares then held by it into such number of fully paid and non-assessable Ordinary
Shares as determined by multiplying the number of Series A Preferred Shares to be converted by a
fraction determined by dividing the Series A Original Purchase Price by the Conversion Price
determined in each case as hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of conversion. Nothing in
this Section 4.1 shall limit the automatic conversion rights of the Series A Preferred Shares
described in Section 4.2 below.

          4.2 Automatic Conversion.

          (a) Without any action being required by any holder of Series A Preferred Shares and whether
or not the certificates representing such Series A Preferred Shares are surrendered to the Company
or its transfer agent, the Series A Preferred Shares shall automatically be converted into fully
paid and non-assessable Ordinary Shares upon (i) the closing of a Qualified IPO or any other
initial public offering consented to in writing by all of the holders of Series A Preferred Shares,
or (ii) the occurrence of a Deemed Liquidation Event, at the then-effective Conversion Price.

          (b) The Company shall not be obligated to issue certificates for any Ordinary Shares issuable
upon the automatic conversion of any Series A Preferred Shares unless the certificate or
certificates evidencing such Series A Preferred Shares is either delivered as provided below to the
Company or any transfer agent for the Series A Preferred Shares, or the holder notifies the
Company or its transfer agent that such certificate has been lost, stolen or destroyed and executes
an agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Company to indemnify the Company from any loss incurred
by it in connection with such certificate. The Company shall, as soon as practicable after receipt
of certificates for Series A Preferred Shares, or reasonably satisfactory agreement for
indemnification in the case of a lost certificate, promptly issue and deliver at its office to the
holder thereof a certificate or certificates for the number of Ordinary Shares to which the holder
is entitled. Any person entitled to receive Ordinary Shares issuable upon the automatic conversion
of the Series A Preferred Shares shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder of such
Ordinary Shares on the date of such conversion.

          4.3 Mechanism of Optional Conversion. The conversion under Article 4.1 of any Series A
Preferred Share (the “Conversion Share”) shall be effected in the following manner:

          (a) Upon receipt of any such conversion request from the holder of any Series A Preferred
Shares to convert all or any portion of the outstanding Series A

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Preferred Shares then held by it
into such number of fully paid and non-assessable
Ordinary Shares pursuant to Article 4.1, the Board shall by resolution resolve to redeem or
repurchase the Conversion Shares subject to such optional conversion for the purpose of this
Article 4.3 (and, for accounting and other purposes, may determine the value therefor) and in
consideration therefor issue fully-paid and non-assessable Ordinary Shares in relevant number, or
if the conversion ratio is one for one, by way of re-designation of each Series A Preferred Share
to an Ordinary Share.

          (b) As promptly as practicable after the surrender by a holder of the certificates for the
Series A Preferred Shares (together with a duly completed and signed notice of election to convert)
and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after such surrender, the Company shall issue and
deliver to the Person for whose account such Series A Preferred Shares was surrendered, or to its
nominee or nominees (subject to compliance with applicable shareholders’ agreements and other
applicable agreements restricting transfer), a certificate or certificates for the number of
Ordinary Shares or other securities issuable upon the conversion of those Conversion Shares and any
fractional interest in respect of Ordinary Shares or other security arising upon the conversion
shall be settled as provided below. In the event that a holder of Series A Preferred Shares
converts less than all of the Series A Preferred Shares evidenced by the certificate(s) surrendered
by such holder, the Company shall, simultaneously with the issuance of certificates for Ordinary
Shares, issue and deliver to such holder (or in accordance with the instructions of such holder) a
new certificate for the balance of the Series A Preferred Shares not so converted.

          (c) Each optional conversion shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the
close of business on the date on which the holder delivers the certificates for the Series A
Preferred Shares and the notice of election to convert to the Company, and the Person or Persons in
whose name or names any Ordinary Shares or other securities shall be issuable upon such conversion
shall be deemed to have become the holder or holders of record of the Ordinary Shares or other
securities at such time on such date and such conversion shall be at the Conversion Price in effect
at such time, unless the share register of the Company shall be closed on such date, in which event
such Person or Persons shall be deemed to have become such holder or holders of record at the close
of business on the next succeeding day on which such share register is open, and such conversion
shall be at the Conversion Price in effect on the date such share register is open. All Ordinary
Shares issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares will upon issuance be duly and
validly issued and credited as fully paid and nonassessable, free of all liens and charges and not
subject to any preemptive rights, rank pari passu in all respects and form one class with the
Ordinary Shares then in issue and shall entitle the holder to all dividends payable on the Ordinary
Shares by reference to a record date after the date of conversion, except for those created by the
holders thereof. Upon any such conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, such Conversion Shares
shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and all rights of a holder with respect to the
Conversion Shares so converted shall immediately terminate except the right to receive the
Ordinary Shares or other securities, cash or other assets as herein provided.

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          4.4 No Fractional Shares. No fractional Ordinary Shares shall be issued upon conversion of
the Series A Preferred Shares, and the number of Ordinary Shares to be so issued to a holder of
converting Series A Preferred Shares (after aggregating all fractional Ordinary Shares that would
be issued to such holder) shall be rounded to the nearest whole share (with one-half being rounded
upward and less than one-half being rounded downward). If more than one certificate representing
Series A Preferred Shares shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the
number of full shares issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the
aggregate number of the Series A Preferred Shares so surrendered for conversion.

          4.5 Adjustment of Conversion Price. The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustment as
follows if any of the events listed below occur prior to the conversion of the Series A Preferred
Shares.

          (a) Share Splits, Combinations, Share Dividends and Distributions. In case the Company shall
(a) pay a dividend or make a distribution on its Ordinary Shares in Ordinary Shares, (b) subdivide
or reclassify its outstanding Ordinary Shares into a greater number of shares, or (c) combine or
reclassify its outstanding Ordinary Shares into a smaller number of shares, the Conversion Price in
effect immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted so that the holder of the Series A
Preferred Shares thereafter converted shall be entitled to receive the number of Ordinary Shares
which it would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of such event had
the Series A Preferred Shares been converted immediately prior to the happening of such event. An
adjustment made pursuant to this paragraph shall become effective immediately after the record date
in the case of a dividend or distribution and shall become effective on the effective date in the
case of subdivision, combination or reclassification. If any dividend or distribution is not paid
or made, the Conversion Price then in effect shall be appropriately readjusted.

          (b) Sale of Shares below the Conversion Price.

          (i) Without prior written consent of each holder of Series A Preferred Shares, the
Company shall not issue any New Securities for a consideration per share less than the
Series A Original Purchase Price plus twenty-three percent (23%) of an internal rate of
return, on an annualized basis, for the Series A Original Purchase Price paid by such
Investor from the date of Closing to the date of such proposed new issue (adjusted for any
share splits, share dividends, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions)
(the “Floor Price”) on the date the Company fixes the offering price of such New
Securities. In case the Company issues any New Securities at a price per share less than
the Floor Price (adjusted for any share splits, share dividends, combinations,
recapitalizations and similar transactions) on the date the Company fixes the offering
price of such New Securities upon prior written consent of all the holders of Series A
Preferred Shares, then in each such case the Series A Original Purchase Price prior to the
issuance of such New Securities (adjusted for any share splits, share dividends,

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combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions) shall be adjusted to the
price at which such New Securities are issued and the relevant Series A Preferred Shares or shares converted from such Series A Preferred Shares shall be adjusted to reflect aforesaid
adjustment so that the number of additional Series A Preferred Shares shall be such number
of shares that is equivalent to the Series A Preferred Shares multiplied by the Floor Price
and divided by the offering price per share of such New Securities.

          (ii) The adjustment provided for in Article 4.5 (b) shall be made successively
whenever any New Securities are issued (provided, that no further adjustments in the
Conversion Price shall be made upon the subsequent exercise, conversion or exchange, as
applicable of such New Securities pursuant to the original terms of such New Securities)
and shall become effective immediately, after such issuance. In determining whether any
New Securities shall entitle the holders of the Ordinary Shares to subscribe for or
purchase Ordinary Shares at less than the Conversion Price, and in determining the
aggregate offering price of the Ordinary Shares so offered, there shall be taken into
account any consideration received by the Company for such New Securities, the minimum
consideration required to be paid upon the exercise, conversion, or exchange, as
applicable, of such New Securities and the value of all such consideration (if other than
cash) shall be determined by the Board (whose determination, if made in good faith, shall
be conclusive). If any or all of such New Securities are not so issued or expire or
terminate without having been exercised, converted or exchanged, the Conversion Price then
in effect shall be appropriately readjusted to the Conversion Price in effect immediately
prior to the issuance of such New Securities, subject, however, to such other adjustments
as may have been made or that would have otherwise been made under this Article 4.5 (b)
since the issuance of such New Securities.

          (c) Adjustments for Other Dividends. If the Company, at any time, or from time to time, makes
(or fixes a record date for the determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive) a
dividend or other distribution payable in securities of the Company other than Ordinary Shares or
Ordinary Share Equivalents, then, and in each such event, provision shall be made so that, upon
conversion of any Series A Preferred Share thereafter, the holder thereof shall receive, in
addition to the number of Ordinary Shares issuable thereon, the amount of securities of the Company
which the holder of such share would have received had the Series A Preferred Shares been converted
into Ordinary Shares immediately prior to such event, all subject to further adjustment as provided
herein. Such adjustment shall be made whenever any such distribution is made, and shall become
effective retroactive to the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive
such distribution. If any such distribution is not made or if any or all of such rights, options
or warrants expire or terminate without having been exercised, the Conversion Price then in effect
shall be appropriately readjusted.

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          (a) “New Securities” means all Ordinary Share Equivalents, provided that the term “New
Securities” does not include (i) the securities issuable upon conversion of any of the Series A
Preferred Shares, or as a dividend or distribution on the Series A Preferred Shares, (ii) the
Ordinary Shares issued upon consummation of a Qualified IPO or (iii) the Ordinary Shares reserved
under the ESOP Plan.

     (b) Notwithstanding any provision in Article 4 to the contrary and without limitation to any
other provision contained in Article 4, in the event any securities of the Company (other than the
Series A Preferred Shares), including, without limitation those securities set forth as exceptions
in paragraph (a) above (collectively, the “Subject Securities”), are amended or otherwise modified
by operation of their terms or otherwise (including, without limitation, by operation of such
Subject Securities’ anti-dilution provisions) in any manner whatsoever that results in (i) the
reduction of the exercise, conversion or exchange price of such Subject Securities payable upon the
exercise for, or conversion or exchange into, Ordinary Shares or other securities exercisable for,
or convertible or exchangeable into, Ordinary Shares and/or (ii) such Subject Securities becoming
exercisable for, or convertible or exchangeable into (A) more shares or a greater dollar amount of
such Subject Securities which are, in turn exercisable for, or convertible or exchangeable into,
Ordinary Shares, or (B) more Ordinary Shares, then such amendment or modification shall be treated
for purposes of Article 4.5(b) as if the Subject Securities which have been amended or modified
have been terminated and New Securities have been issued with the amended or modified terms. The
Company shall make all necessary adjustments (including successive adjustments if required) to the
Conversion Price in accordance with Article 4.4, but in no event shall the Conversion Price be
greater than it was immediately prior to the application of this Subsection to the transaction in
question. On the expiration or termination of any such amended or modified Subject Securities for
which adjustment has been made pursuant to the operation of the provisions of this Article 4.6 (b)
and Article 4.5 (b), without such Subject Securities having been exercised, converted or exchanged
in full pursuant to their terms, the Conversion Price shall be appropriately readjusted in the
manner specified in Article 4.4(b).

          (c) Other Dilutive Events. In case any event shall occur as to which the other provisions of
this Article 4 are not strictly applicable, but the failure to make any adjustment to any
Conversion Price would not fairly protect the conversion rights of the Series A Preferred Shares in
accordance with the essential intent and principles hereof, then, in each such case, the Company,
subject to the written consent of all Preferred Shareholders, shall determine the appropriate
adjustment to be made, on a basis consistent with the essential intent and principles established
in this Article 4, necessary to preserve, without dilution, the conversion rights of such Series A
Preferred Shares.

          (d) Notice of Adjustment. Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein provided, the
Company shall promptly prepare a notice of the adjustment of the Conversion Price setting forth the
Conversion Price and the date on which the adjustment becomes effective and shall mail the notice
of such adjustment

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of the Conversion Price (together with a copy of an officer’s certificate setting forth the
facts requiring such adjustment) to each holder of the Series A Preferred Shares at such holder’s
last address as shown on the shareholder records of the Company.

          4.7 Ordinary Shares Reserved.

          (a) The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, out of the aggregate of its
authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares, for the purpose of effecting conversions of the Series A
Preferred Shares, the full number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon the conversion of all
outstanding Series A Preferred Shares not theretofore converted including, for purposes of this
paragraph, the number of Ordinary Shares which shall be issuable upon conversion of all of the
outstanding Series A Preferred Shares which shall be computed as if, at the time of computation,
all of the outstanding shares were held by a single holder. The Company shall from time to time,
in accordance with the laws of the Cayman Islands, increase the authorized amount of its Ordinary
Shares if at any time the number of Ordinary Shares remaining unissued shall not be sufficient to
permit the conversion of all the then outstanding Series A Preferred Shares.

          (b) Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the Conversion Price
below the then par value of the Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred
Shares, the Company will take any corporate action which may be necessary in order that the Company
may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Ordinary Shares at the adjusted
Conversion Price.

          4.8 Except where registration is requested in a name other than the name of the registered
holder, the Company will pay any and all documentary stamp duty or similar issue or transfer taxes
payable in respect of the issue or delivery of Ordinary Shares on conversion of the Series A
Preferred Shares pursuant hereto.

          4.9 Reorganizations, Mergers, Consolidations, Reclassifications, Exchanges, Substitutions. In
case of any reclassification or change of outstanding Ordinary Shares (other than a change in par
value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination), or in case of any consolidation of the
Company with, or merger of the Company with or into, any other entity that results in a
reclassification, change, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding Ordinary Shares or
any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company on a consolidated
basis (except for the Post Closing Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement), each
holder of Series A Preferred Shares then outstanding shall have the right thereafter to convert the
Series A Preferred Shares held by the holder into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other
property which the holder would have been entitled to receive upon such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer if the holder had held the Ordinary Shares immediately
prior to the reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or transfer.

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ARTICLE 5

VOTING RIGHTS OF THE SERIES A PREFERRED SHARES

          5.1 General Voting Rights. The holders of the issued and outstanding Series A Preferred Shares
shall vote with the holders of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares at any annual or
extraordinary general meeting of the Company, or the holders of such Series A Preferred Shares may
act by way of unanimous written resolution in the same manner as holders of the Ordinary Shares,
upon the following basis: at any general meeting, each holder of the Series A Preferred Shares
shall be entitled to such number of votes for the Series A Preferred Shares held by such holder on
the record date fixed for such meeting, or if no such record date is fixed, at the date such vote
is taken, as shall be equal to the largest number of whole Ordinary Shares into which all of such
holder’s Series A Preferred Shares are convertible immediately after the close of business on the
record date fixed for such meeting, or if no such record date is fixed, at the date such vote is
taken.

          5.2 Protective Provisions.

     (a) Shareholder Matters. So long as any Series A Preferred Shares are issued and
outstanding, the Company and the holders of Ordinary Shares shall not take any of the following
actions, whether by amendment of the Restated Articles or otherwise, and whether in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions, with respect to the Company and any Group Member
without obtaining the prior written approval of all the Preferred Shareholders, and in the context
of such matters set forth in this Section 7.1 which are by applicable laws required to be
determined by the shareholders of the Company, the approval of all Preferred Shareholders shall be
deemed obtained if the matter is approved at a general meeting of the Company with the affirmative
votes of all Preferred Shareholders or by way of written resolution signed by all Preferred
Shareholders:

          (a) make any alteration or amendment to the Memorandum and/or Restated Articles or other
constitutional documents of the Company and/or any Group Member (except for the Post-Closing
Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement);

          (b) effect any merger, initial public offering (other than a Qualified IPO), spin-off,
consolidation, concerning the Company and/or any Group Member (except for the Post Closing
Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement);

          (c) acquire any share capital or other securities of any body corporate onshore or offshore or
the establishment of any brands or subsidiary;

          (d) make any material change to the business scope, including, without limitation, any
decision to engage in a new line of business, or cease to conduct the business substantially as
conducted as at the date of issue of the Series A Preferred Shares or any material change any part
of its business activities;

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          (e) dispose of or dilute the Company’s interest, directly or indirectly, in any of its
Subsidiaries except for the Post Closing Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement;

          (f) increase, reduce or cancel the authorized or issued share capital or issue, allot,
purchase or redeem any shares or securities convertible into or carrying a right of subscription in
respect of shares or any share warrants or grant or issue any option rights or warrants or which
may require the issue of shares in the future, other than (i) a reduction in the issued share
capital of the Company resulting from the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, (ii) the
repurchase or redemption of the Series A Preferred Shares pursuant to the terms herein, or (iii)
the Post Closing Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement;

          (g) effect any change to the rights attaching to any class of shares;

          (h) any issues of Equity Securities, other than (i) such resulting from the conversion of the
Series A Preferred Shares, or (ii) a Qualified IPO;

          (i) consolidate, sub-divide, convert or cancel any share capital, other than (i) such
resulting from the conversion of the Series A Preferred Shares, or (ii) a Qualified IPO;

          (j) sell, transfer, encumber or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the
properties or businesses of the Company and/or any Group Member, other than the Post Closing
Restructuring set forth in the Subscription Agreement;

          (k) pass any resolution to wind up, adopt any scheme of arrangement, reorganise, reconstruct
or liquidate the Company and/or any Group Member, except for the Post Closing Restructuring set
forth in the Subscription Agreement;

          (l) file a petition for winding up, bankruptcy or any similar proceeding or any application
for an administration order or for the appointment of a receiver or administrator;

          (m) make any distribution of profits amongst the Shareholders by way of dividend (interim or
final), capitalization of reserves or otherwise; approve or change the dividend policy;

          (n) adopt the Company’s annual budget (including budget relating to the income statement,
balance sheet and cash flow statement), capital commitment plan, loan facility and annual business
plan;

          (o) appoint, remove or change the auditors of the Company and/or any Group Member; amend the
accounting policies previously adopted or change the financial year of the Company and/or any Group
Member;

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          (p) commence or settle any material litigation, arbitration or administrative proceeding that
is of a value exceeding US$3,000,000; and other than the polysilicon transactions with the Solar
High-Tech, approve, create, or allow any related transaction of the Company and/or any subsidiary
in excess of RMB10,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currency or currencies) or in excess of
RMB60,000,000 at any time in any financial year.

     (b) Director Matters. Without the affirmative vote or written consent of CDBC
Director, the Company or any other Group Member shall not effect or validate any of the following
actions (either directly or by amendment, merger, consolidation, or otherwise):

          (i) change the number or the power of the board of directors and board committees;

          (ii) sell, transfer, license, charge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any trademarks,
patents, know-how, software or other intellectual property owned by the Company and/or any Group
Member;

          (iii) appoint, remove or settle the terms or compensation of any Senior Manager (including but
not limited to the Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, General Manager, Vice General Manager,
Financial Controller, Head of Department/Division or equivalent positions, Secretary of the board
of directors or other key manager(s));

          (iv) other than the renewal of the existing contracts or agreements, borrow any money in
excess of US$20,000,000 in any calendar year over the annual budget approved under Article 5.2(A);

          (v) enter into any transaction, or make any payment or commitment, involving an expense or
capital expenditure in excess of US$10,000,000 in the ordinary course of business or US$5,000,000
not in the ordinary course of business in any calendar year, each over the annual budget approved
under Article 5.2(A);

          (vi) other than statutory lien or that with a value less than US$5,000,000, make or suffer to
exist any lien, security interest, pledge or other encumbrance on any of the assets of the Group or
any of its Subsidiaries in any calendar year not contemplated in the annual budget approved under
Article 5.2(A);

          (vii) dispose of any of its assets with a value less than US$10,000,000 in any calendar year
except for sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business;

          (viii) acquire any assets (including intangible assets) with a book value or cost in excess of
US$2,500,000 in any calendar year, other than in the ordinary course of business; and

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          (ix) enter into any material lease or contract for the purchase or sale of any property, real
or personal, tangible or intangible, or the purchase of other assets (tangible or intangible)
except in each case for a lease or contract involving aggregate payments of less than US$2,500,000
or entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in any calendar
year, or enter into any agreement that would be an agreement material to the Group or its
Subsidiaries.

ARTICLE 6

APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

          6.1 The Company shall have a Board consisting of a maximum of ten (10) directors, of which (i)
one (1) Director shall be appointed by CDBC (the “CDBC Director”) for so long as CDBC remains as a
holder of any share in the Company, (ii) three (3) Directors shall be appointed as independent
non-executive director in accordance with the then applicable stock exchange rules upon Qualified
IPO or any initial public offering of the Shares (the “Independent Directors”).

          6.2 A CDBC Director may only be removed with the consent of CDBC and any vacancy on the Board
occurring because of the death, resignation or removal of a Director appointed by CDBC or holders
of any class or series of shares shall be filled by the vote or written consent of CDBC or the
holders of a majority of the shares of such class or series of shares (as applicable); provided,
however, that the directorship of the CDBC Director shall automatically terminate upon the
consummation of a Qualified IPO.

          6.3 Subject to applicable Laws, the CDBC Director, in the case of his absence, shall be
entitled to appoint an alternate to serve at any Board meeting, and such alternate shall be
permitted to attend all Board meetings and vote on behalf of the director for whom she or he is
serving as an alternative, it being understood, acknowledged and confirmed by CDBC that any vote or
decision taken by such alternate at any such Board meeting shall constitute the vote and decision
of the CDBC Director as if so taken by the CDBC Director him/herself at such Board meeting, with
full reliance permitted on such vote and decision. The Board and all committees thereof shall meet
in person or by teleconference no less than once every half year. The Company shall reimburse all
reasonable, documented expenses of all the Directors and all the persons of the committees related
to all activities of the Board and all committees thereof, including but not limited to attending
the meetings of the Board and all committees thereof.

          6.4 Observer

     So long as any Series A Preferred Share remains outstanding (as appropriately adjusted for
share split, subdivision, consolidation, share dividends and the like), each of the Investors other
than CDBC shall be entitled to appoint/remove an observer to the Board of Directors and each
committee thereof and each Observer or its designed person shall be entitled to receive notice for
and to attend board of directors or board

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committee meetings of the Company and each Group Member in a non-voting observer capacity
(each, an “Observer”). The Company shall provide each such Observer copies of all notices and
materials at the same time and in the same manner including, where applicable, any resolutions in
writing of the Board and each committee thereof, as the same are provided to the Directors or
committee members of the relevant board of directors or board committee.

ARTICLE 7

MISCELLANEOUS

          7.1 Upon any conversion or redemption of the Series A Preferred Shares (other than by way of a
re-designation), the shares so converted or redeemed shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued,
and the Company may from time to time take such appropriate action as may be necessary to diminish
the authorized number of Series A Preferred Shares accordingly.

          7.2 (Intentionally Deleted)

          7.3 If any right, preference or limitation of the Series A Preferred Shares set forth herein
(as amended from time to time) is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any
rule or law or public policy, all other rights, preferences and limitations set forth in this
Schedule which can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable right, preference
or limitation herein set forth shall not be deemed dependent upon any other such right, preference
or limitation unless so expressed herein.

          7.4 Any registered holder of Series A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to apply for an
injunction or injunctions or obtain a decree for specific performance to prevent violations of the
provisions of the Restated Articles or the Shareholders Agreement and to enforce specifically the
terms and provisions of the Restated Articles and the Shareholders Agreement in any court of the
Cayman Island or any countries having jurisdiction, this being in addition to any other remedy to
which such holder may be entitled at law or in equity.

          7.5 These Restated Articles shall be further amended and restated in preparation of, and
effective upon, a Qualified IPO in accordance with the requirements of the applicable stock
exchange listing rules and the relevant securities laws.

ARTICLE 8

DEFINITIONS

     Unless otherwise defined in this Schedule 1, capitalized terms shall have the meaning provided
in the Restated Articles. For the purposes of this Schedule, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:

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     “Affiliate” shall have the meaning as ascribed to it in the Subscription Agreement.

     “Board” means the board of directors of the Company, as constituted from time to time.

     “Bona Fide Purchaser” means any Person who or which has delivered a good faith written offer
to purchase all or any portion of a Shareholder’s Shares.

     “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial
banks in the PRC, Hong Kong or the Cayman Islands are authorized or required by law or governmental
order to close.

     “CDBC” means China Development Bank Capital Corporation Ltd. and/or its designated offshore
entity to be holding shares in the Company.

     “CDBC Director” means the director designated by CDBC to the board of directors of the
Company.

     “Closing” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Subscription Agreement.

     “Conversion Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4 of this Schedule 1.

     “Conversion Share” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.3 of this Schedule 1.

     “Deemed Liquidation Event” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2.3 of this
Schedule 1.

     “Dispose” or “Disposition” (and any derivatives thereof) means (i) a voluntary or involuntary
sale, assignment, mortgage, grant, pledge, hypothecation, exchange, transfer, conveyance or other
disposition of a Shareholder’s Shares, and (ii) any agreement, contract or commitment to do any of
the foregoing.

     “Encumbrance” or “Encumber” means or refer to any lien, claim, charge, pledge, mortgage,
encumbrance, security interest, preferential arrangement, and restriction on voting or alienation
of any kind, adverse interest, or the interest of a third party under any conditional sale
agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement.

     “Equity Securities” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s capital stock, membership
interests, partnership interests, registered capital, joint venture or other ownership interests or
any options, warrants or other securities that are directly or indirectly convertible into, or
exercisable or exchangeable for, such capital stock, membership interests, partnership interests,
registered capital, joint venture or other ownership interests (whether or not such derivative
securities are issued by such Person).

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     “ESOP Plan” means the share option plan adopted or to be adopted by the Company, pursuant to
which up to 130,000,000 Ordinary Shares representing up to 10% of the total issued and outstanding
share capital of the Company upon Closing, as appropriately adjusted for share split, share
division, share consolidation and the like, shall be reserved for issuance to the key employees and
officers of the Company, with the specific terms, granting amount, exercise price and vesting
schedule thereof subject to the approval by CDBC Director and provided to each Investor.

     “Floor Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.5 of this Schedule 1.

     “Founder” means Xiaofeng Peng.

     “Group” means the Company, LDK Silicon Holding Co., Limited, Jiangxi LDK PV Silicon Co., Ltd.
and Jiangxi LDK Solar Polysilicon Co., Ltd. and every subsidiary of the Company from time to time
and “Group Member” shall mean any member of the Group.

     “Investors” means, collectively, CDBC, Excel
Rise Holdings Limited, Prosper East Limited and
Apollo Asia Investment Limited, and an “Investor” means anyone of them.

     “Key Holders” means collectively the Founder and the Ordinary Shareholder herein and each, a
“Key Holder”.

     “Laws” mean any federal, state, foreign or local statue, rule, regulation or other law,
collectively.

     “Liquidation” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2 of this Schedule 1.

     “New Securities” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.6 of this Schedule 1.

	 	 	“Observer” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6.3 of this Schedule 1.

     “Ordinary Share Equivalents” means warrants, options and rights exercisable for ordinary
shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable for ordinary shares of the Company.

     “Ordinary Shareholder” means the holder of Ordinary Shares.

     “Payment Schedule” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.3 of this Schedule 1.

     “Persons” means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, joint

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stock company, Governmental Authorities or other entity of any kind, and shall include any
successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.

     “Preferred Shareholders” means the holders of Series A Preferred Shares.

     “Qualified IPO” has the meaning as defined in the Subscription Agreement.

     “Redemption Closing” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.3 of this Schedule 1.

     “Redemption Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.1 of this Schedule 1.

     “Restated Articles” shall mean the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association
of the Company (including its schedules), as amended from time to time.

     “Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     “Series A Preferred Share Holders” means the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares.

     “Series A Original Purchase Price” shall mean US$1.00 per Series A Preferred Share.

     “Shares” means the shares in share capital of the Company from time to time and as at the date
hereof consists of the Ordinary Shares and Series A Preferred Shares or any of them.

     “Shareholders” means all Ordinary Shareholder and Preferred Shareholders.

     “Shareholders Agreement” means the Shareholders Agreement dated as of March 9, 2011 by and
among the Company, the Series A Preferred Share Holders and certain other parties thereto.

     “Subject Securities” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.6 of this Schedule 1.

     “Subscription Agreement” means the Subscription Agreement dated as of December 30, 2010 by and
among the Company, the Series A Preferred Share Holders and certain other parties thereto.

     “Subsidiaries” means, with respect to any Person, (i) a corporation or other entity, of which
(x) fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of the voting equity securities or equity
interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person, or (y) more than fifty percent (50%)
interest in the profits or capital of such entity are owned or controlled directly or indirectly by
such Person or through one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any entity whose assets, or
portions thereof, are

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consolidated with the net earnings of such Person and are recorded on the books of such Person
for financial reporting purposes in accordance with the HKFRS or U.S. GAAP, or (iii) any entity
with respect to which such Person has the power to otherwise direct the business and policies of
that entity directly or indirectly through another Subsidiary.

     “Transaction Documents” means, collectively, the Subscription Agreement, the Shareholders
Agreement, the Restated Articles, the registration rights agreement dated as of March 9, 2011 by
and among the Company and the Preferred Shareholders, the Indemnification Agreement dated as of
March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and the CDBC Director, the share pledge agreement dated as
of March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and CDBC, the relevant deed of guarantee dated as of
March 9, 2011 by and among the Company and the Preferred Shareholders, and other ancillary
documents in connection with the transactions proposed in the Subscription Agreement.

20exv10w56

Exhibit 10.56

WebMD Health Corp.

111 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10001

As of February 11, 2011

William E. Pence

c/o WebMD Health Corp.

111 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10011

Dear Mr. Pence:

     Reference is made to the letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) between you and WebMD
Health Corp. dated October 1, 2007, as previously amended as of December 10, 2008; capitalized
terms used herein without definition have the meanings specified in the Letter Agreement). The
purpose of this letter is to further amend your Letter Agreement effective as of February 11, 2011,
as follows:

     1. Paragraph 5(a) of the Letter Agreement is hereby amended to remove the words “prior to the
fourth anniversary of the Employment Commencement Date”.

     Except as set forth herein, the Letter Agreement remains in full force and effect and is
hereby ratified in all respects.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	WebMD Health Corp.

 	 
	 	      /s/ Douglas Wamsley
 	 
	 	Douglas Wamsley 	 
	 	EVP - General Counsel 	 
	 

Agreed to:

	 	 	 

	      /s/ William Pence
 

William Pence

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