WF Holding Limited (WFF) Risk Analysis

Under Nasdaq's rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power is held by an individual, group or another company is a "controlled company" and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including, without limitation, (i) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (ii) the requirement that the compensation of our officers be determined or recommended to our board of directors by a compensation committee that is comprised solely of independent directors and (iii) the requirement that director nominees be selected or recommended to the board of directors by a majority of independent directors or a nominating committee comprised solely of independent directors. As noted above, Lew Capital is able exercise approximately 63% of our total voting power, As a result, we are a "controlled company" within the meaning of the Nasdaq listing rules. Although we currently do not intend to rely on the "controlled company" exemption, we could elect to rely on this exemption in the future. If we elected to rely on the "controlled company" exemption, a majority of the members of our board of directors might not be independent directors and our nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees might not consist entirely of independent directors. Our status as a controlled company could cause our ordinary shares to look less attractive to certain investors or otherwise harm our trading price.

We are exempted from certain corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq by virtue of being a foreign private issuer. As a foreign private issuer, we are permitted to follow the governance practices of our home country in lieu of certain corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq. As result, the standards applicable to us are considerably different than the standards applied to domestic U.S. issuers as, except for general fiduciary duties and duties of care, Cayman Islands law has no corporate governance regime which prescribes specific corporate governance standards. For instance, we are not required to: - have a majority of the board be independent (although all of the members of the audit committee must be independent under the Exchange Act);- have a compensation committee and a nominating committee to be comprised solely of "independent directors"; or - hold an annual meeting of shareholders no later than one year after the end of our fiscal year. Although we do not currently intend to rely these "home country" exemptions, we may rely on some of these exemptions in the future. As a result, our shareholders may not be provided with the benefits of certain corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.

We qualify as an "emerging growth company" under the JOBS Act. As a result, we are permitted to, and intend to, rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements. These provisions include exemption from the auditor attestation requirement under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the assessment of the emerging growth company's internal control over financial reporting. In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an emerging growth company can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have elected to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period. Our financial statements may therefore not be comparable to those of companies that comply with such new or revised accounting standards. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (i) the last day of the fiscal year during which we have total annual gross revenues of at least $1.235 billion; (ii) the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering; (iii) the date on which we have, during the preceding three year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt; or (iv) the date on which we are deemed to be a "large accelerated filer" under the Exchange Act, which could occur if the market value of our ordinary shares that are held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter. Once we cease to be an emerging growth company, we will not be entitled to the exemptions provided in the JOBS Act discussed above. Because we are subject to ongoing public reporting requirements that are less rigorous than Exchange Act rules for companies that are not emerging growth companies, our shareholders could receive less information than they might expect to receive from more mature public companies. We cannot predict if investors will find our ordinary shares less attractive if we elect to rely on these exemptions, or if taking advantage of these exemptions would result in less active trading or more volatility in the price of our ordinary shares.

Because we qualify as a foreign private issuer under the Exchange Act, we are exempt from certain provisions of the securities rules and regulations in the United States that are applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, including: - the rules under the Exchange Act requiring the filing with the SEC of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or current reports on Form 8-K;- the sections of the Exchange Act regulating the solicitation of proxies, consents, or authorizations in respect of a security registered under the Exchange Act;- the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their stock ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time; and - the selective disclosure rules by issuers of material nonpublic information under Regulation FD. We are required to file an annual report on Form 20-F within four months of the end of each fiscal year. In addition, material events will also be furnished to the SEC on Form 6-K. However, the information we are required to file with or furnish to the SEC will be less extensive and less timely compared to that required to be filed with the SEC by U.S. domestic issuers. As a result, you may not be afforded the same protections or information that would be made available to you were you investing in a U.S. domestic issuer.

We are a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands. We conduct our operations outside the United States and substantially all of our assets are located outside the United States. In addition, most of our directors and executive officers are nationals or residents of jurisdictions other than the United States and all or a substantial portion of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult or impossible for you to bring an action against us or against them in the United States in the event that you believe that your rights have been infringed under the U.S. federal securities laws or otherwise. Even if you are successful in bringing an action of this kind, the laws of the Cayman Islands, Malaysia or other relevant jurisdiction may render you unable to enforce a judgment against our assets or the assets of our directors and officers. For more information regarding the relevant laws of the Cayman Islands and Malaysia, see "Enforceability of Civil Liabilities" included in our registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-282294), initially filed on September 23, 2024 and declared effective by the SEC on March 26, 2025, or the IPO Registration Statement.

We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon our directors or officers. Our corporate affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (as may be amended form time time), the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands (as may be amended form time time) and the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders to take action against our directors, actions by our minority shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from the common law of England, the decisions of whose courts are of persuasive authority, but are not binding, on a court in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors under Cayman Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws than the United States. Some U.S. states, such as Delaware, may have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law than the Cayman Islands. In addition, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States. Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records (other than the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and any special resolutions passed by such companies, and the register of mortgages and charges of such companies) or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders of these companies. Our directors have discretion under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to determine whether or not, and under what conditions, our corporate records may be inspected by our shareholders, but are not obliged to make them available to our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder resolution or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest. As a result of all of the above, our public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by our management, members of our board of directors or our controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a company incorporated in the United States. For a discussion of significant differences between the provisions of the Companies Act (Revised) of the Cayman Islands and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders, see "Differences in Corporate Law" included in Exhibit 2.1 to this report.

The SEC has adopted rules that regulate broker-dealer practices in connection with transactions in penny stocks. Penny stocks are generally equity securities with a price of less than $5.00, other than securities registered on certain national securities exchanges or authorized for quotation on certain automated quotation systems, provided that current price and volume information with respect to transactions in such securities is provided by the exchange or system. If we do not retain a listing on Nasdaq or another national securities exchange and if the price of our ordinary shares is less than $5.00, our ordinary shares could be deemed a penny stock. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer, before a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from those rules, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document containing specified information. In addition, the penny stock rules require that before effecting any transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from those rules, a broker-dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive (i) the purchaser's written acknowledgment of the receipt of a risk disclosure statement; (ii) a written agreement to transactions involving penny stocks; and (iii) a signed and dated copy of a written suitability statement. These disclosure requirements may have the effect of reducing the trading activity in the secondary market for our ordinary shares, and therefore shareholders may have difficulty selling their shares.

Lew Capital Private Limited, or Lew Capital, a company controlled by two directors, including Chee Hoong Lew, our Chief Executive Officer, is able to exercise approximately 63% of our total voting power. Accordingly, Lew Capital could have significant influence in determining the outcome of any corporate transaction or other matter submitted to the shareholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations, the election of directors and other significant corporate actions. Lew Capital will also have the power to prevent or cause a change in control. Without the consent of Lew Capital, we may be prevented from entering into transactions that could be beneficial to us or our minority shareholders. The interests of Lew Capital and its beneficial owners may differ from the interests of our other shareholders. The concentration in the ownership of our ordinary shares may also cause a material decline in the value of our ordinary shares. For more information regarding Lew Capital and its beneficial owners, see "Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions-7.A. Major Shareholders."

The market for our ordinary shares may be characterized by significant price volatility when compared to the shares of larger, more established companies that have large public floats, and we expect that our share price will be more volatile than the shares of such larger, more established companies for the indefinite future. The stock market in general has recently been highly volatile. Furthermore, there have been recent instances of extreme stock price run-ups followed by rapid price declines and stock price volatility following a number of recent initial public offerings, particularly among companies with relatively smaller public floats. We may also experience such volatility, including stock run-ups, which may be unrelated to our actual or expected operating performance and financial condition or prospects, making it difficult for prospective investors to assess the rapidly changing value of our ordinary shares. The market price of our ordinary shares is likely to be volatile due to a number of factors. First, as noted above, our ordinary shares are likely to be more sporadically and thinly traded compared to the shares of such larger, more established companies. The price for our ordinary shares could, for example, decline precipitously in the event that a large number of shares is sold on the market without commensurate demand. As a consequence of this enhanced risk, more risk-adverse investors may, under the fear of losing all or most of their investment in the event of negative news or lack of progress, be more inclined to sell their shares on the market more quickly and at greater discounts than would be the case with the shares of a larger, more established company that has a large public float. Many of these factors are beyond our control and may decrease the market price of our ordinary shares regardless of our operating performance. The market price of our ordinary shares could also be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a broad and diverse range of factors, including the following: - actual or anticipated variations in our operating results;- increases in market interest rates that lead investors of our ordinary shares to demand a higher investment return;- changes in earnings estimates;- changes in market valuations of similar companies;- actions or announcements by our competitors;- adverse market reaction to any increased indebtedness we may incur in the future;- additions or departures of key personnel;- actions by shareholders;- speculation in the media, online forums, or investment community; and - our ability to maintain the listing of our ordinary shares on Nasdaq. Volatility in the market price of our ordinary shares may prevent investors from being able to sell their ordinary shares at or above the price at which they purchased them. As a result, you may suffer a loss on your investment.

Our ordinary shares are listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "WFF." We must meet certain financial and liquidity criteria to maintain the listing of our ordinary shares on Nasdaq. If we violate any of Nasdaq's listing requirements or if we fail to meet any of Nasdaq's listing standards, our ordinary shares may be delisted. In addition, our board of directors may determine that the cost of maintaining our listing on a national securities exchange outweighs the benefits of such listing. On October 28, 2025, we received a written notification from Nasdaq indicating that we were not in compliance with the $1.00 closing bid price requirement for the last 30 consecutive business days from September 15, 2025 and October 27, 2025 under the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). Pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we were granted a 180-calendar day compliance period, or until April 27, 2026, to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. On April 13, 2026, we implemented a 1-for-5 reverse share split. On April 28, 2026, we received a written notification from Nasdaq indicating that we have regained compliance with the closing bid price requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) since the closing bid price of our ordinary shares was at or above $1.00 for eleven consecutive trading days from April 13, 2026 to April 27, 2026. We cannot guarantee that we will meet all of Nasdaq's continued listing requirements in the future. A delisting of our ordinary shares may materially impair our shareholders' ability to buy and sell our ordinary shares and could have an adverse effect on the market price of, and the efficiency of the trading market for, our ordinary shares. The delisting of our ordinary shares could significantly impair our ability to raise capital and the value of your investment.

Most of our directors and officers are nationals and residents of a country other than the United States and most of their assets are located outside the United States. In addition, all of our assets are located outside of the United States. It may therefore be difficult for investors in the United States to effect service of process within the United States upon us or our directors and officers or to enforce their legal rights based on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us or our directors and officers in the courts of the U.S., Cayman Islands or Malaysia and, even if civil judgments are obtained in U.S. courts, to enforce such judgments in Malaysian courts.

Future issuances of our ordinary shares or securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, our ordinary shares, could cause the market price of our ordinary shares to decline. We cannot predict the effect, if any, of future issuances of our securities on the price of our ordinary shares. In all events, future issuances of our ordinary shares would result in the dilution of your holdings. In addition, the perception that new issuances of our securities could occur could adversely affect the market price of our ordinary shares.