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| S-1MEF - S-1MEF - BeiGene, Ltd. | a15-18241_14s1mef.htm |
| EX-23.1 - EX-23.1 - BeiGene, Ltd. | a15-18241_14ex23d1.htm |
Exhibit 5.1
6th Floor
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mourantozannes.com
BeiGene, Ltd.
94 Solaris Avenue
Camana Bay
PO Box 1348
Grand Cayman, KY1-1108
Cayman Islands
2 February 2016
We have acted as Cayman Islands legal advisers to the Company in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1, including all amendments or supplements thereto (the Registration Statement), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended to date and the related registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement), relating to the offering (the Offering) by the Company of certain American Depositary Shares (the ADSs) representing the Company’s ordinary shares of par value US$0.0001 each (the Shares).
We are furnishing this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
1. Documents Reviewed
For the purposes of this opinion we have examined a copy of each of the following documents:
(a) The certificate of incorporation of the Company dated 28 October 2010.
(b) The Third Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company as adopted on 20 April 2015 with effect from 20 April 2015 (the Pre-IPO M&A).
(c) The Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company as adopted by a special resolution passed on 14 January 2016 and effective conditional upon and immediately prior to completion of the Company’s initial public offering of the ADSs representing the Shares (the IPO M&A).
(d) The minutes of the meeting of the directors of the Company held on 14 January 2016 (the Directors’ Resolutions).
(e) The minutes of the extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Company held on 14 January 2016 (the Shareholders’ Resolutions and together with the Directors’ Resolutions the Resolutions).
(f) A certificate from a Director of the Company addressed to this firm a copy of which is attached hereto (the Director’s Certificate).
(g) A certificate of good standing dated 2 February 2016, issued by the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands (the Certificate of Good Standing).
(h) The Registration Statement and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement.
2. Assumptions
The following opinions are given only as to, and based on, circumstances and matters of fact existing and known to us on the date of this opinion letter. These opinions only relate to the laws of the Cayman Islands which are in force on the date of this opinion letter. In giving
Mourant Ozannes is a Cayman Islands partnership
A list of the partners is available at mourantozannes.com
these opinions we have relied (without further verification) upon the completeness and accuracy of the Director’s Certificate and the Certificate of Good Standing. We have also relied upon the following assumptions, which we have not independently verified:
2.1 Copy documents or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.
2.2 The genuineness of all signatures and seals.
2.3 There is nothing under any law (other than the law of the Cayman Islands) which would or might affect the opinions set out below.
3. Opinion
Based upon the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set out below and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:
3.1 The Company has been duly incorporated as an exempted company with limited liability and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands.
3.2 Immediately prior to the completion of the Company’s initial public offering of the ADSs representing the Shares the authorised share capital of the Company will be US$1,000,000 divided into 9,500,000,000 Ordinary Shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each and 500,000,000 shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each of such class or classes (however designated) as the board of directors may determine in accordance with the IPO M&A.
3.3 The issue and allotment of the Shares have been duly authorised and when allotted, issued and paid for as contemplated in the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the Shares will be legally issued and allotted, fully paid and non-assessable. As a matter of Cayman law, a share is only issued when it has been entered in the register of members (shareholders).
3.4 The statements under the caption Taxation in the prospectus forming part of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, to the extent that they constitute statements of Cayman Islands law, are accurate in all material respects and that such statements constitute our opinion.
4. Qualifications
Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in any of the documents or instruments cited in this opinion or otherwise with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.
In this opinion the phrase non-assessable means, with respect to Shares in the Company, that a member shall not, solely by virtue of its status as a member, be liable for additional assessments or calls on the Shares by the Company or its creditors (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement and to the reference to our name under the headings Enforceability of Civil Liabilities, Taxation and Legal Matters and elsewhere in the prospectus included in the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we