“specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”) or the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor, except as authorized pursuant to an exemption under the Sanctions or under general or specific license issued by the United States or other relevant government authority, or as otherwise permitted by law, is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of comprehensive, geographic-based Sanctions (currently, Cuba, the Crimea region of Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, and Syria, each, a “Sanctioned Territory”). For the past five years, except as authorized pursuant to an exemption under the Sanctions or under general or specific license issued by the United States or other relevant government authority, or as otherwise permitted by law (including, for the avoidance of doubt, such subsidiary’s governing law prior to the time such entity became a subsidiary of the Company), (i) none of the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective directors or officers, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any employee, agent, affiliate, joint venture partner or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of their subsidiaries has engaged in activities sanctionable under the Iran Sanctions Act, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2013, Executive Order Nos. 13628, 13622 and 13608, or any other U.S. economic sanctions relating to Iran (collectively, the “Iran Sanctions”), and (ii) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, none of the Company or its subsidiaries has knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person or Sanctioned Territory that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions. In the past five years, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been the subject of any claims, complaints, charges, investigations, voluntary disclosures, enforcement actions, or other Sanctions-related proceedings, and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there are no pending or threatened claims or investigations of possible violations of Sanctions by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(ii) No Conflicts with Export Controls. For the past five years, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have been in compliance, in all material respects, with all laws and regulations related to the regulation of imports, exports, re-exports, transfers, releases, shipments, transmissions, or any other provision or receipt of goods, technology, technical data, software, or services, including the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730-774), the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. § 2778), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 C.F.R. § 120-130), Sanctions, and any other applicable law in the jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries operates (collectively, “Export Control Laws”). The Company and each of its subsidiaries is, and has at all times in the past five years, been, in possession of all export licenses, authorizations, and other approvals that are required by Export Control Laws for the export, reexport, or transfer of its products, services, software or technologies from the United States or other countries, as applicable. In the past five years, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has been the subject of any material claims, complaints, charges, investigations, voluntary disclosures, enforcement actions, or other related proceedings under applicable Export Control Laws, and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, there are no pending or threatened claims or investigations of possible violations of Export Control Laws by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(jj) No Dividend Restrictions. No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.
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