Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement · Regulation FD Disclosure
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement Registered Direct Offering On February 4, 2025, ATIF Holdings Limited (the “ Company ”) entered into certain securities purchase agreement (the “ Purchase Agreement ”) with certain non-affiliated institutional investor (the “ Purchaser ”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell (1) 1,580,000 ordinary shares, par value $0.001 per share (the…
Filed Feb 5, 2025Accepted Feb 5, 2025, 11:30 AM ESTCIK 1755058Accession 0001213900-25-010548
We are a British Virgin Islands business company. We are a business consulting company providing financial consulting services to small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) and prior to August 1, 2022, our Affiliated Entity ATIF USA, managed a private equity fund with approximately $1.3 million assets under management (“AUM”). Since our inception in 2015, the main focus of our consulting business has been providing comprehensive going public consulting services designed to help SMEs become public companies on suitable stock markets and exchanges. Our goal is to become an international financial consulting company with clients and offices throughout North America and Asia. In order to expand our business with a flexible business concept and reach our goal of high growth revenue and strong profit growth, on January 4, 2021, we opened an office in California, USA, through our wholly owned subsidiary ATIF USA. Our clients located within United States are serviced by ATIF USA. ATIF relies on a professional service team, who is rich in business consulting experiences, extensive social relations, and international integrated services, to make the IPO process as easy as possible for its clients. We operate with competitive fee schedules and in the cases of clients with attractive financial performance and/or great growth potential, we would offer the option of paying no fees upfront.
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Item 1.01Item 1.01 - Entry into Material Agreement
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1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Registered
Direct Offering
On
February 4, 2025, ATIF Holdings Limited (the “ Company ”) entered into certain securities purchase agreement (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”) with certain non-affiliated institutional investor (the “ Purchaser ”) pursuant to which the Company
agreed to sell (1) 1,580,000 ordinary shares, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Ordinary Shares ”), and (2) certain
pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 887,553 Ordinary Shares (the “ Pre-Funded Warrants ”) in a registered direct offering,
and (3) in a concurrent private placement, restricted warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 2,467,553 Ordinary Shares (the “ Restricted
Warrants ”), for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.5 million (the “ Offering ”).
Each
Pre-Funded Warrant is exercisable for one Ordinary Share at an exercise price of US$0.01. We are offering the Pre-Funded Warrants to
the Purchaser whose purchase of the Ordinary Shares in this offering would otherwise result in such purchase, together with its affiliates
and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchase, 9.99%) of our outstanding Ordinary
Shares immediately following the consummation of this offering. The Pre-Funded Warrants are exercisable immediately and may be exercised
at any time until all of the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full.
Each
Restricted Warrant is exercisable six months after the date of issuance at an exercise price of $1.20 per Ordinary Share and expires
five and a half years from the date of issuance. The Restricted Warrants and the Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of the warrants
are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”) and are being offered
pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or
Rule 506(b) of Regulation D.
The
Company agreed in the Purchase Agreement that it would not issue any Ordinary Shares, ordinary shares, or ordinary share equivalents
until a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which the Restricted Warrants are first exercisable, subject to certain exceptions
set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
Concurrently
with the execution of the Purchase Agreement, the officers and directors of the Company and shareholders of the Company holding 10% or
more of the Company’s Ordinary Shares entered into lock-up agreements (the “ Lock-Up Agreement ”) pursuant to
which they have agreed, among other things, not to sell or dispose of any Ordinary Shares which are or will be beneficially owned by
them until a period of thirty (30) days after the Restricted Warrants are registered.
The
Company currently intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for working capital and general corporate use. The Offering closed
on February 5, 2025.
The
Company entered into certain placement agent agreement dated February 4, 2025 (the “ Placement Agent Agreement ”),
with R. F. Lafferty & Co., Inc., as exclusive placement agent (the “ Placement Agent ”), pursuant to which the Placement
Agent agreed to act as the sole lead/exclusive placement agent in connection with the Offering. The Company agreed to pay the Placement
Agent an aggregate fee equal to 7% of the gross proceeds raised in the Offering. The Company also agreed to reimburse the Placement Agent
up to an aggregate of $75,000 for the for non-accountable expenses and reasonable and accounted fees and expenses of legal counsel.
Copies
of the form of the Purchase Agreement, form of Pre-Funded Warrant, form of Restricted Warrant, form of Lock-Up Agreement and form of
Placement Agent Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, respectively, and are incorporated herein
by reference. The foregoing summaries of the terms of the Purchase Agreement, Prefunded-Warrants, Restricted Warrants, Lock-Up Agreement
and the Placement Agent Agreement are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, such documents. A copy of the legal opinion issued
by the Company’s British Virgin Islands counsel Ogier is attached hereto as Exhibit 5.1.
Item 7.01Item 7.01 - Regulation FD Disclosure
Item
7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On February 4, 2025 and February
5, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing and the closing of the Offering, respectively. A copy of the pricing
press release and closing press release is furnished hereto as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
The information included
in Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 attached hereto are being furnished and shall not be deemed
“filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall
it be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless
of any general incorporation language in any such filing.
Item
9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit No. Description
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5.1 Legal Opinion of Ogier
10.1 Form of the Purchase Agreement
10.2 Form of Pre-Funded Warrant
10.3 Form of Restricted Warrant
10.4 Form of Lock-Up Agreement
10.5 Form of Placement Agent Agreement
99.1 Pricing Press Release
99.2 Closing Press Release
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EX-99.1
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PRICING PRESS RELEASE
Exhibit 99.1
ATIF
Holdings Limited Announces Approximately $2.5 Million Registered Direct and Private Placement
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Feb. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ZBAI) (the “Company”), a Lake Forest-based business consulting company that specializes
in providing professional IPO, M&A advisory and post-IPO compliance services to small and medium-sized companies seeking to go public
on a stock exchange in the United States, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with an institutional investor
for the purchase and sale of its ordinary shares, par value $0.001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”) and pre-funded warrants to
purchase Ordinary Shares (each, a “Pre-Funded Warrant”) in a registered direct offering. In a concurrent private placement,
the Company also agreed to sell to the same investor warrants to purchase Ordinary Shares (the “Warrants”). Aggregate gross
proceeds to the Company from both transactions are expected to be approximately $2.5 million.
The transactions consisted of the sale of 1,580,000
Ordinary Shares (each, a “Share”) and 887,553 Pre-Funded…
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EX-99.2
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CLOSING PRESS RELEASE
Exhibit 99.2
ATIF Holdings Limited Announces Closing
of $2.5 Million Registered Direct Offering and Private Placement
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Feb. 05, 2025
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ZBAI) (the “Company”), a Lake Forest-based business consulting company
that specializes in providing professional IPO, M&A advisory and post-IPO compliance services to small and medium-sized companies
seeking to go public on a stock exchange in the United States, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct
offering and concurrent private placement with an institutional investor. The Company issued ordinary shares and pre-funded warrants
(“Pre-Funded Warrants”) in a registered direct offering. In a concurrent private placement, the Company also issued to the
same investor warrants to purchase ordinary shares (the “Warrants”). Aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from both transactions
were approximately $2.5 million. The transactions closed on February 5, 2025.
The transactions consisted of the
sale of 1,580,000 ordinary shares (each a “Share”) Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase 887,5…