TERMS & CONDITIONS
Terms and Conditions for the Provision of Registered Office Services by Catalyst Fund Services (Cayman Entities)
Interpretation
These terms and conditions (these "Terms") set out the entire agreement between CFS and the Company for the provision of registered office services to the Company. In these Terms the following words shall have the following meanings:
“Act" means the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands;
"AEOI Laws" means the Tax Information Authority Act of the Cayman Islands and any and all regulations and orders passed pursuant to it relating to the automatic exchange of financial account information and any related Guidance Notes issued by the TIA;
"Business Day" means any day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the Cayman Islands on which banks are open for non-automated business;
"CFS" means Catalyst Fund Services Limited of PO Box 1096, 142 Seafarers Way, Suite 201, KY1-1102, George Town, Grand Cayman, which is licensed by CIMA;
"CIMA" means the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority whose contact details are available from www.cima.ky;
"Commencement Date" means the date of registration of the Company or the date on which CFS began providing registered office services to the Company, as the context may indicate;
"Company" includes the company, whether incorporated outside of the Cayman Islands and registered in the Cayman Islands as a foreign company or a Company registered in the Cayman Islands including, but not limited to an SPC, LLC, Exempted Limited Partnerships or Exempted Liability structure, which has requested, directly or indirectly, that CFS provide it with registered office services and which CFS has agreed to do under these Terms;
"Electronic Record" has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act;
"Electronic Transactions Law" means the Electronic Transactions Act of the Cayman Islands;
"Fee Schedule" means the schedule of fees published by CFS and in effect from time to time for the provision of registered office facilities and related services which may be varied in accordance with the Variation provision of these Terms. The current Fee Schedule is available on request at any time;
"Applicable Law" means Any law, rule, regulation or self-regulatory requirement that is binding upon the relevant Company, as the context may require. ;
"Constitutional document(s)" means the charter, statutes, operating agreements, memorandum and articles of association or other instrument (howsoever called) constituting or outlining the business or affairs of the company as in effect from time to time.
"Catalyst" means the firm of Catalyst Global Financial Group (Cayman) and any entities, whether partnerships, companies or otherwise, owned or controlled by, or under common control with or affiliated with, Catalyst Global Financial Group (Cayman) as may be established from time to time;
"Operator" means with respect to a Company, the person or persons in whom the management of such Company is vested, including directors, managers, trustees or general partners (as applicable);
"Members" means the members/registered shareholders (as the context may require) from time to time of the Company;
"Registrar" means the Cayman Islands General Registry;
"TIA" means the Tax Information Authority of the Cayman Islands; and
"Written Confirmation" means a written confirmation of exemption (containing such information as required by the Applicable Law) from the requirement under the Law to establish and maintain a beneficial ownership register.
For the purpose of these Terms:
use of the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
references to provisions of any law or regulation shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended, modified, re-enacted or replaced from time to time;
"written", "in writing" and "maintain" include all modes of representing, reproducing or maintaining words in visible form, including in the form of an Electronic Record;
any requirements as to delivery under these Terms include delivery in the form of an Electronic Record;
any requirements as to execution or signature under these Terms can be satisfied in the form of an electronic signature as defined in the Electronic Transactions Law; and
sections 8 and 19(3) of the Electronic Transactions Law shall not.
Appointment of CFS
With effect from the Commencement Date, CFS shall provide at its address in the Cayman Islands the registered office of the Company and shall perform the services set out in Schedule 1 to these Terms, in each case in accordance with these Terms. The Company's use of CFS's services shall be deemed and constitutes the Company's acceptance of these Terms.
Documents & Information to be Supplied by the Company
The Company shall promptly forward to CFS originals, duplicate originals or photocopies as signed of the following (as applicable to the legal structure) together with attachments (if any):
(a) the Constitutional document(s) and any amendments, additions or alterations effected from time to time;
(b) where CFS has agreed to prepare and update the register of Members, any subscription documentation or equivalent executed by Members in relation to their admission to the Company;
(c) any offering material (howsoever called) published in connection with the offering of interests in the Company;
(d) notices and minutes of Managers' and Members' meetings (including committee and class meetings);
(e) written resolutions or consents passed by the Managers or Members (including committee and class resolutions or consents);
(f) letters of resignation from the Managers;
(g) documentation relating to the withdrawal of any Member or to the assignment or transfer (whether absolute or by way of security) of any interest in the Company;
(h) where it has not been agreed that CFS shall maintain the register of Members, (i) a record of the address at which the register of Members is maintained; and (ii) upon request by CFS, the register of Members as updated from time to time by the appointed registrar;
(i) any notices containing required particulars of registrable persons relating to the maintenance of the Company's beneficial ownership register;
(j) any Written Confirmation;
(k) powers of attorney or other documents (howsoever called) conferring authority on one or more persons to act on behalf of the Company;
(l) documentation (photocopies not originals) executed by the Company constituting a mortgage, charge or other security interest (howsoever called) over any of its property; and
(m) financial statements prepared in relation to the Company (if any).
The Company shall provide the following promptly on request from time to time by CFS:
(a) a written explanation of the nature of the Company's business and source of funds and an indication of actual and expected turnover;
(b) evidence satisfactory to CFS of (A) the identity of, and references in relation to: (i) each of the Members holding not less than a 10% interest in the Company or with principal control over the Company's assets; (ii) each of the beneficial owners, relevant legal entities and registrable persons (as defined in the Law) of the Company; (iii) the Managers; and (iv) any person (or persons) on whose instructions CFS may act in relation to the Company; and (B) any exemption claimed by the Company in any Written Confirmation; and
(c) such other information and documentation as CFS may from time to time reasonably require in relation to the Company, its Managers, Members, beneficial owners (or additional matters to be noted in the Company's beneficial ownership register), exemptions from the requirement under the Law to establish and maintain a beneficial ownership register or activities including in relation to the steps taken pursuant to the paragraph below.
The Company shall, for the benefit of CFS and Catalyst, take all reasonable steps to satisfy itself that all capitalisation monies and other funds passing through the Company do not represent the proceeds of, and that it does not engage in, any unlawful activity.
CFS may refuse to perform any or all of its obligations under these Terms if it determines, in its sole and unfettered discretion, that to do so would constitute a criminal or regulatory offence in the Cayman Islands or would otherwise contravene a law of the Cayman Islands. CFS will inform the Company promptly of any decision to refuse to perform an obligation under these Terms made in accordance with this provision.
Services Non-Exclusive
CFS shall be at liberty to provide services of a like nature to any other person or persons it may think fit whether for its own account or that of any other person.
Neither CFS nor Catalyst nor any company, partnership or other person associated with CFS or Catalyst shall, in consequence of the appointment of CFS pursuant to these Terms or in consequence of any transaction entered into by the Company with CFS (or with Catalyst or with any such associate), be liable to account to the Company for any profits (whether disclosed or not) accruing to CFS (or to Catalyst or to any such associate) from, or by virtue of, any such transaction.
Remuneration
Where CFS registers the Company under the Law, CFS shall be entitled to receive a registration fee payable promptly when invoiced in accordance with the Fee Schedule in effect as at the Commencement Date.
CFS shall be entitled to receive a non-refundable fee for the provision of the registered office of the Company payable in advance by 1 January in each year in accordance with the Fee Schedule in effect at the time when the relevant fee is invoiced. Such fee will be pro-rated (on a monthly basis) in the initial calendar year of these Terms but not thereafter.
CFS shall be entitled to receive a fee for the provision of the other services set out in Schedule 1 to these Terms and other fees as set out in the Fee Schedule payable promptly when invoiced in accordance with the Fee Schedule in effect at the time of provision of such services.
CFS shall be entitled to recover from the Company all expenses and disbursements (including, but not limited to, filing and registration fees paid to the Registrar, charges for messengers and couriers, faxes, word processing, printing, postage, photocopying, scanning, telephone charges, secretarial overtime (where attributable to the Company's special needs) and other similar costs and expenses), properly incurred or paid by CFS on behalf of the Company or otherwise in the performance of its services under these Terms. Further details of the rates and manner in which CFS charges for these costs is available on request.
The Company shall also pay CFS the applicable fee as set out in the Fee Schedule and any expenses and disbursements incurred as a consequence of responding to any notices or requests for information under the Law in relation to the beneficial ownership register or responding to queries in respect to it however so arising.
If CFS is requested to undertake any services not covered in these Terms it shall inform the Company that such services are not covered by these Terms and, if CFS agrees to provide such services, unless otherwise agreed, it shall charge the then applicable fixed rate for such service or, if inapplicable or higher, the then applicable time charges incurred by Catalyst officer(s) and/or employee(s) in carrying out such services.
All fees, expenses and disbursements payable to CFS pursuant to these Terms shall be paid net of any taxes or surcharges.
CFS reserves the right to charge interest in the event that an invoice remains unpaid for a period of more than 30 days after receipt and after sending at least one (1) payment reminder. If CFS exercises its right to charge the Company interest, such interest will be at a daily rate of 2% per annum above the Bank of Butterfield (Cayman) Limited USD Prime rate at the relevant times or the maximum permitted by law, whichever is the lesser, until payment in full of the invoice.
CFS has appointed Catalyst as its billing and collection agent and it is agreed that fees, expenses and disbursements payable by the Company to CFS shall be invoiced by, and promptly paid to Catalyst as agent for CFS.
Any requests received by CFS from the Company for legal advice or services and any legal issues arising or assistance required (in either case as determined by CFS) from or in relation to documentation received at the registered office including, but not limited to, the updating of the statutory registers, shall be referred to Catalyst and the Company agrees to settle promptly the resulting fees and disbursements of Catalyst, which shall be charged in accordance with its fee rates and terms and conditions of business as then in effect.
Termination
CFS shall be entitled to terminate its appointment under these Terms:
(a) by giving not less than three (3) months' written notice to the Company;
(b) by giving not less than thirty (30) days' written notice to the Company if the Company shall have: (i) committed any breach of its obligations under these Terms and shall have failed to make good such breach within thirty (30) days of receipt of notice served by CFS requiring it to do so; and/or (ii) failed to perform its obligations under the applicable Law to provide CFS with either the required particulars of registrable persons (each such phrase as defined in the applicable Law) for its beneficial ownership register or any subsequent changes and shall have failed to make good such failure following receipt of a notice served by CFS requiring it to do so in accordance with the applicable Law; or (B) a Written Confirmation, where applicable
(c) by giving not less than seven (7) days' written notice to the Company if the Company: (i) is in material breach of any regulatory law applicable to it or is subject to any international financial sanction or is otherwise designated as a person with whom CFS is prohibited from dealing; or (ii) makes a statement to CFS which is false, deceptive or misleading in respect of (A) any material particular of a registrable person entered on its beneficial ownership register (including but not limited to failing to identify a registrable person); or (B) any Written Confirmation.
The Company may terminate the appointment of CFS under these Terms:
(a) by giving not less than three (3) months' written notice to CFS; or
(b) by giving not less than thirty (30) days' written notice to CFS if CFS shall have committed any breach of its obligations under these Terms and shall have failed to make good such breach within thirty (30) days of receipt of notice served by the Company requiring it to do
A termination of the appointment of CFS under the provisions above shall be without prejudice to any pre-existing liability of the parties to these Terms. CFS shall be entitled to receive all fees, expenses and disbursements accrued due up to the date of such termination, whether under these Terms or otherwise.
CFS shall, on the termination of its appointment under these Terms and upon payment by or on behalf of the Company of any outstanding fees, costs and expenses due to CFS or to Catalyst, deliver or procure to be delivered to the Company, or as the Company may direct, the registers, minute book and other corporate records of the Company which are in its possession or under its control.
The Company shall, on the termination of the appointment of CFS under these Terms, if still in existence, procure that all necessary steps are taken by the Company to cease any services provided by CFS to the company including, but not limited to, secretarial services or AMLCO service and/or transfer the registered office of the Company to an alternative location and CFS shall be entitled to serve notice on the Registrar advising that it is no longer providing the registered office to the Company.
Complaints
If you have any complaint about any aspect of the service being provided to you under these Terms, you should raise your concern with your usual Catalyst Group contact. If your complaint is not thereafter resolved to your satisfaction, you should email your complaint to info@thecatalystgroup.com and your complaint will be considered by a director of CFS.
Legal Action
If you have any complaint about any aspect of the service being provided to you under these Terms, you should raise your concern with your usual Catalyst Group contact. If your complaint is not thereafter resolved to your satisfaction, you should email your complaint to info@thecatalystgroup.com and your complaint will be considered by a director of CFS.
Instructions & Reliance
In performing its duties CFS shall be entitled to rely upon instructions given by, or purporting to be given by, a Member, a Operator, an officer or an authorised signatory of the Company or by any legal adviser or administrator appointed by the Company. In particular, but without limitation, CFS may rely on instructions given by any such persons to appoint, name or designate a person as a Operator and update the Company's register of Managers accordingly as instructions given with the agreement of the person to be appointed, named or designated, without requiring any independent enquiry by CFS.
Responsibility, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity & Release
CFS shall not be liable for any damages, losses, claims, proceedings, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses whatsoever suffered or incurred by the Company or any other person at any time from any cause whatsoever arising out of or in connection with these Terms or related to the performance or non- performance of the services provided under these Terms unless arising directly as a result of CFS's actual fraud or wilful default or that of any of its directors, officers, employees or agents (as the case may be).
The Company shall indemnify (on a full indemnity basis) and hold harmless CFS and Catalyst, their successors and assigns and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and partners (collectively, the "Indemnified Persons") and each of them, as the case may be, against all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, proceedings, claims, judgments, demands, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind (including legal fees and expenses) whatsoever which they or any of them may incur or be subject to in consequence of these Terms or as a result of the performance of these Terms or as a result of the performance of the services under these Terms except and to the extent that the same is as a result of the actual fraud or wilful default of the relevant Indemnified Person and this indemnity shall expressly inure to the benefit of any such Indemnified Person existing or future. No person shall be found to have committed actual fraud or wilful default under these Terms unless or until a court of the Cayman Islands has reached a final non-appealable determination to that effect.
CFS shall not be liable in tort, statutory duty, pre-contract or misrepresentation (other than fraudulent misrepresentation) or otherwise for (i) any consequential, indirect or special loss; or (ii) any economic losses (including loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings), arising out of or in connection with these Terms in each case whether or not CFS has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage and howsoever incurred. For the avoidance of doubt CFS shall not be so liable for any loss of goodwill or reputation.
This Responsibility, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity and Release provision shall survive termination of these Terms.
Miscellaneous
These Terms may not be assigned by either party without the written consent of the other save only that CFS may assign the benefit and/or burden of these Terms to a suitably licensed Catalyst entity as part of any group restructuring.
Without prejudice to the seventh paragraph of the Remuneration provision above, CFS may, at its own expense, delegate all or any of the services on its part to be performed under these Terms to another Catalyst entity. If CFS does delegate all or any of the services to another Catalyst entity in accordance with this paragraph (a "Delegate"), CFS shall nonetheless remain solely responsible to the Company for the provision of the services and liable to the Company for any loss caused to the Company by the Delegate but only to the extent that CFS would have been liable for such loss under these Terms if such loss were caused by CFS itself and the Delegate shall have no liability of any sort whatsoever or howsoever arising under these Terms or as a consequence of the delegation of all or any services to it. The Company agrees that it may not bring any claim against any Delegate in relation to the provision of services under these Terms by CFS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms CFS shall, at all times, comply with all laws and regulations applicable to it including but not limited to its obligations as the holder of a trust licence regulated by CIMA.
Anti-bribery
CFS has policies and procedures in place relating to bribery and corruption. CFS will not on the Company's behalf or otherwise:
(a) make any payment, offer or promise to pay money or anything of value to any public official for the purpose of influencing the act or decision of, or for securing an improper advantage from such public official; or
(b) make any payment, offer or promise to pay money or anything of value to any other person or entity if such payment, offer or promise is made for the purpose of influencing or securing any improper advantage; or
(c) undertake any activities which will result in a contravention of the Anti- Corruption Law of the Cayman Islands or any other anti-bribery legislation applicable to CFS.
Third Party Rights
A person who is not a party to these Terms may not, in its own right or otherwise, enforce any term of these Terms except that the Indemnified Persons and any Delegate may, in their own right, enforce their rights pursuant to the Responsibility, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity and Release provision and the Miscellaneous provision of these Terms subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Law of the Cayman Islands.
Notwithstanding any other term of these Terms, the consent of any person who is not a party to these Terms (including, without limitation, any Indemnified Person or Delegate) is not required for any amendment to, or variation, release, rescission or termination of these Terms.
This Third Party Rights provision shall survive termination of these Terms.
Notices
Any notices to be given under these Terms shall be sufficiently given if sent by hand, pre-paid courier or email and shall be deemed to be received (in the case of email) at 10.00 a.m. (GMT-5) on the next business day in the place of receipt following dispatch or (in the case of by hand or by courier), five (5) days after the dispatch thereof and shall be sent:
(a) in the case of CFS, to its address specified against its name in the Interpretation provision or by e- mail to legal@thecatalystgroup.com;
(b) in the case of the Company, to such correspondence address or email address as specified by the Company to CFS in writing on or about the Commencement Date;
(c) to such other correspondence address or email address or for the attention of such other person as may from time to time be notified by one party to the other party by notice given in accordance with the provisions of these Terms; and
(d) in the absence of any address specified or notified pursuant to (b) and (c) above, to such other address as CFS in its sole and absolute discretion considers appropriate.
Severance
If any provision of these Terms shall be found by any court or arbitrator to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of these Terms which shall remain in full force and effect.
If any provision of these Terms is so found to be invalid or unenforceable but would be valid or enforceable if some part of the provision were modified, the provision in question shall apply with such modification(s) as may be necessary to make it valid.
Variation
The Company acknowledges and agrees that CFS may, in its sole discretion, at any time and from time-to-time change, alter, adapt, add or remove portions of these Terms (including the Fee Schedule), and, if CFS does so, CFS will post any such changes on the Catalyst site (www.thecatalystgroup.com) bearing the date on which such Terms came into effect. The current version of these Terms is also available on request. The Company's continued use of CFS's services following any such change shall be deemed and constitutes the Company's acceptance of those changes and the Company acknowledges and agrees to be bound by the current version of these Terms at all times and that unless stated in the current version of these Terms all previous versions shall be superseded by the current version.
Arbitration & Waiver of Legal Proceedings
All claims, disputes and controversies arising out of or in connection with these Terms, may, at CFS's option, be subject to binding arbitration to be held in the Cayman Islands before a retired judge or senior lawyer to be agreed upon between the parties or in the absence of such agreement to be appointed by the President of the Cayman Islands Law Society or the President of any successor self-regulatory association for Cayman Islands attorneys (or, if such President is affiliated with Catalyst, the Vice President). The arbitration will be conducted in English and in accordance with the London Court of International Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator's award shall be final and binding and may be entered in or enforced by any competent court. If court action (including any kind of claim, suit or proceeding) has been initiated by the Company against CFS at or prior to the time CFS elects to refer the issue to arbitration as provided for under these Terms, then it is agreed that such action shall be discontinued, unless any arbitrator appointed determines that CFS has waived the right to such a discontinuance by participating in the action without having raised, reserved or asserted its rights under this provision.
Entire Agreement
These Terms supersede all previous agreements between the Company and CFS for the provision of registered office services and the services set out in Schedule 1 to these Terms to the Company. These Terms set out the entire agreement and understanding between the parties relating to its subject matter.
Proper Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute, claim, suit, action or proceeding of whatever nature arising out of or in any way related to them or their formation (including any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Cayman Islands.
Subject to the Arbitration and Waiver of Legal Proceedings provision set out above, each of the parties to these Terms irrevocably agrees that the courts of the Cayman Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any claim, suit, action or proceeding, and to settle any disputes, which may arise out of or are in any way related to or in connection with these Terms, and, for such purposes, irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.