KULIK GOTTESMAN SIEGEL & WARE LLP
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. and Kennedy-Wilson, Inc.
December 12, 2019
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novation, (h) any provision to the extent it requires that a claim with respect to a security denominated in other than U.S. dollars (or a judgment in respect of such a claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange at a particular date, to the extent applicable law otherwise provides, (i) provisions purporting to make a guarantor primarily liable rather than as a surety and provisions purporting to waive modifications of any guaranteed obligation to the extent such modification constitutes a novation, (j) advance waivers of claims, defenses, rights granted by law, or notice, opportunity for hearing, evidentiary requirements, statutes of limitation, trial by jury or at law, or other procedural rights, (k) waivers of broadly or vaguely stated rights, (l) covenants not to compete, (m) provisions for exclusivity, election or cumulation of rights or remedies, (n) provisions authorizing or validating conclusive or discretionary determinations, (o) grants of setoff rights, (p) proxies, powers and trusts, (q) provisions prohibiting, restricting, or requiring consent to assignment or transfer of any right or property, and (r) the severability, if invalid, of provisions to the foregoing effect. We express no opinion or confirmation as to federal or state securities laws, tax laws, antitrust or trade regulation laws, insolvency or fraudulent transfer laws, antifraud laws, compliance with fiduciary duty requirements, pension or employee benefit laws, usury laws, environmental laws, margin regulations, FINRA rules or stock exchange rules (without limiting other laws excluded by customary practice).
With your consent, we have assumed (i) that each of the Warrants, Debt Securities and Guarantees, and the respective Warrant Agreements and Indentures, and supplements to the foregoing, and other agreements or instruments governing the Securities (collectively, the “Documents”) will be governed by the internal laws of the State of California or Illinois, (ii) that each of the Documents will be duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, (iii) that each of the Documents will constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto other than KWH, KW and the Guarantor parties thereto, enforceable against each of them in accordance with their respective terms, and (iv) that the status of each of the Documents as legally valid and binding obligations of the parties will not be affected by any (a) breaches of, or defaults under, agreements or instruments, (b) violations of statutes, rules, regulations or court or governmental orders, or (c) failures to obtain required consents, approvals or authorizations from, or to make required registrations, declarations or filings with, governmental authorities.
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