or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental or regulatory agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(ee) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, agent, or affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“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, Her 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, region or territory that is the subject or the target of Sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory, including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund, in violation of any Sanctions, any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding, is the subject or the target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund, in violation of any Sanctions of the applicable jurisdiction, any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country to the extent such funding would be prohibited at the time of funding by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States or in a European Union member state or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. Except as permitted by applicable law, for the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.
(ff) Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, to the Company’s knowledge, the Company or its subsidiaries own or possess the right to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patentable inventions, trade secrets andknow-how used by the Company or its subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ businesses as now conducted or as proposed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus to be conducted and material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”). Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there are no material legal or governmental actions, suits, proceedings or claims pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) challenging the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ rights in or to any Intellectual Property, (ii) challenging the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) alleging that the operation of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ businesses as now conducted infringes or otherwise violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of a third party.
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