(xlvii)Compliance with OFAC.(i) Neither the Company nor any of the Controlled Entities, nor any director or officer of the Company or any of the Controlled Entities, nor, to the best knowledge of the Company, any employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Company or any of the Controlled Entities, is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is, or is owned 50% or more or controlled by a Person that is:
(A) the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, including but not limited to the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), 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 (“EU”), or Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other applicable sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor
(B) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the target of Sanctions (including, without limitation, the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria);
(ii) The Company represents and covenants that the Company and the Controlled Entities will not, directly or 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, including the Controlled Entities:
(A) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is, or whose government is, the target of Sanctions; or
(B) in any other manner that will result in a violation of applicable Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise); and
(iii) The Company represents and covenants that, for the past five years, the Company and the Controlled Entities have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was, or whose government was, the target of Sanctions.
(xlviii)Registration Statement Exhibits.There are no legal or governmental proceedings or contracts or other documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement, the ADS Registration Statement, any Additional Registration Statement or the most recent Statutory Prospectus or, in the case of documents, to be included as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described and filed as required.
(xlix)Related Party Transactions. No material relationships or material transactions, direct or indirect, exist between any of the Company or the Controlled Entities on the one hand and their respective shareholders, sponsors, affiliates, officers and directors or any affiliates or family members of such persons on the other hand, except as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. The description of the transactions, agreements, arrangements and relationships set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the captions “Related Party Transactions” and “Principal Shareholders” fairly summarizes the transactions, agreements, arrangements and relationships that are required to be disclosed therein pursuant to the Act and is true and accurate in all material respects.
(xlx)Foreign Private Issuer. The Company is a “foreign private issuer” within the meaning of Rule 405 of the Act.
(xlxi)Independence of PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP. PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP (“PwC”), who has certified the financial statements filed with the Commission as part of the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and each Registration Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and the Controlled Entities within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United Sates) and as required by the Act.
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