(xlviii) Compliance with OFAC. (i) Neither the Company nor any of the Controlled Entities, nor any director, officer, or employee thereof, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate, representative or other Person acting for or on behalf 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 any Person that is:
(A) the target of or subject to any sanctions or trade embargoes administered or enforced by the U.S. government, including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Commerce (and including, without limitation, persons designated as a “specially designated national”, “blocked person” or “foreign sanctions evader”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union (“EU”), or Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or any other applicable sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor
(B) is or has been located, organized or resident in or otherwise affiliated with a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the target of or subject to Sanctions (including, without limitation, the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria) (each, a “Sanctioned Territory”). No inquiry, action, suit proceeding or, to the knowledge of the Company, investigation, by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of the Controlled Entities, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate, representative or any other person acting for or on behalf of the Company or any of the Controlled Entities, with respect to Sanctions, is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened;
(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, subject to or the target of or subject to 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 the Company and the Controlled Entities, since their respective dates of incorporation, have not engaged in, are not now engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions directly or indirectly: (a) with or relating to any Person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was subject to or the target of or subject to Sanctions, or is or was owned 50% or more or controlled by any such Person; or (b) in, with or relating to any country or territory that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was, or whose government is or was, the target of or subject to Sanctions.
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