(v) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, demands, claims, suits, arbitrations, inquiries or proceedings (“Actions”) pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or, to the Company’s knowledge, may be a party, or any of its executive officers, directors or key employees is a party, or to which any property or rights of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or, to the Company’s knowledge, may be the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of the Company, no such Actions are threatened or contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others; and (i) there are no current or pending Actions that are required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (ii) there are no statutes, regulations or contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(w) Independent Accountants. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Certified Public Accountants LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.
(x) Title to Real and Personal Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(y) Intellectual Property. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, and except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess valid and adequate rights to use or can acquire on reasonable terms all patents, inventions, trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names and other source indicators, copyrights and copyrightable works, licenses, technology, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), proprietary or confidential information and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights (including all registrations, applications for registration and goodwill associated with the foregoing) (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), in each case, used in, held for use in or otherwise necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; (ii) there are no rights of third parties to any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company and its subsidiaries that would prevent the Company or its subsidiaries from continuing their business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conduct in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus; (iii) the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ conduct of their respective businesses does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate, and has not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property of any person; (iv) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of any Action relating to Intellectual Property, including any claim of infringement, misappropriation, breach, default or other violation of any Intellectual Property of any person, or any notice challenging the ownership, validity, enforceability or scope of any Intellectual Property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and (v) to the knowledge of the Company, all Intellectual Property of the Company and its subsidiaries is valid, enforceable and has not been, and is not currently being, infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person.
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