(y) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject of any sanctions administered by the U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of comprehensive country- or territory-wide Sanctions, except as authorized under U.S. law (each, a “Sanctioned Country”; as of the date of this Agreement, each of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, the non-government controlled areas of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria); and, except as authorized under U.S. law, the Company will not, directly or knowingly indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing, funding or facilitating (i) the activities of any person that, at the time of such financing, funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions or (ii) any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country; except as set forth or described in the Pricing Disclosure Package or as authorized under U.S. law, for the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in and will not engage in any unlawful dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country;
(z) Except (i) as set forth or described in the Pricing Disclosure Package or (ii) as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is in violation of any applicable statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, rule of common law or order of or with any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, management, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes or relating to pollution or the protection of the environment or human health or relating to exposure to hazardous or toxic substances or wastes (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has received any claim, request for information or notice of liability or investigation arising under, relating to or based upon any Environmental Laws, (C) neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is aware of any pending or threatened notice, claim, proceeding or investigation which might lead to liability under Environmental Laws and (D) there are no existing or budgeted future costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, investigation or closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license, approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties);
(aa) The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries own, possess, license, have other rights to use, or can acquire on reasonable terms, all material patents, copyrights, trade secrets, know-how, confidential information, systems, procedures, trademarks, service marks and trade names necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has received any written notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any of the foregoing that would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
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