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This excerpt taken from the C 10-Q filed Oct 31, 2008. Whereas:
(A) The Seller is the sole shareholder of, and owns all of the Shares in, each of Citicorp Deutschland GmbH (Citicorp Deutschland), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Düsseldorf and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Düsseldorf under No. HRB 48323, Citicorp Akademie GmbH (Citicorp Akademie), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Düsseldorf and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Düsseldorf under No. HRB 49743, Citigroup IT Consulting GmbH (CIT Consulting), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Duisburg and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Duisburg under No. HRB 17501, and Citigroup Realty Services GmbH (Citigroup Realty), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Düsseldorf and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Düsseldorf under No. HRB 49744 (CIT Consulting, Citicorp Deutschland, Citicorp Akademie and Citigroup Realty, together, the Target Companies). Each of the Target Companies is a limited liability company incorporated under German law.
(B) The Seller holds a silent partner interest in the nominal amount of 229,058,762.78 in Citicorp Deutschland (the Silent Partner Interest) on and subject to the terms of a silent partnership agreement dated December 30, 1992, as amended on November 9, 2000, and acquired by the Seller through assignment agreements dated August 19, 2003 and August 21, 2003 (the Silent Partnership Agreement).
(C) Citicorp Deutschland directly or indirectly holds shares in the entities further described in Schedule 3 (excluding CGMM, CGMD and CKG (each as defined below), the Subsidiaries). Each of the Target Companies and the Subsidiaries shall be referred to as a Group Company and collectively as the Group Companies or the Group.
(D) The Group carries on the business of consumer banking in Germany (the Business).
(E) Citibank Privatkunden AG & Co. KGaA (Citibank Privatkunden), a partnership limited by shares incorporated in Germany having its seat in Düsseldorf and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Düsseldorf under No. HRB 48380, owns and operates two data centres located in and around Meerbusch, Germany and certain real estate used for purposes of operating the data centre in Frankfurt, Germany that will not form part of the sale of the Group Companies. The Seller intends to complete the transfer
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of these data centre assets and the Frankfurt data centre real estate substantially on the terms set out in Schedule 4 (the Data Centre Transfer).
(F) Citicorp Deutschland is the sole shareholder of Citigroup Global Markets Management AG (CGMM), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Frankfurt am Main and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Frankfurt am Main under No. HRB 57153 and the general partner of Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG & Co. KGaA (CGMD), a partnership limited by shares incorporated in Germany having its seat in Frankfurt am Main and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Frankfurt am Main under No. HRB 57295, the German entity of the Sellers Global Corporate and Investment Bank. Citicorp Deutschland intends to, in its sole discretion, either (i) spin-off all of its shares in CGMM and CGMD, its interests in the Investment Bank Profit Pooling Agreements (as defined below) and all of its silent partner interests in CGMD substantially on the terms set out in Schedule 5 or (ii) sell such shares and silent partner interest to the Seller in accordance with Clause 7.3.6 (the Investment Bank Carve-out).
(G) Citibank Privatkunden owns and operates a branch in London and intends to transfer certain assets of the branch, together with the employment arrangements of certain specified employees, substantially on the terms set out in Schedule 6 (the London Branch Transfer).
(H) Citibank Privatkunden is the sole shareholder of Citi Kartendienstleistungs GmbH (CKG), a company incorporated in Germany having its seat in Düsseldorf and registered in the commercial register of the Local Court Düsseldorf under No. HRB 56824, the German entity of the Sellers Diners Cards business. Citibank Privatkunden intends to, in its sole discretion, either (i) sell all of the shares in CKG and the Diners card issuing business (CIB) operated by Citibank Privatkunden to a Seller Affiliate or (ii) spin-off all of the shares in CKG to a Seller Affiliate and hive down CIB to CKG, in each case, in accordance with an agreement a draft of which is set out in Schedule 7 (the CKG Transfer and, together with the Data Centre Transfer, the Investment Bank Carve-out and the London Branch Transfer, the Preliminary Reorganisations).
(I) The Group Companies participate in a Contractual Trust Arrangement (CTA) of the Sellers group together with certain of the Sellers Affiliates in order to externally fund certain pension obligations of the Group Companies based on direct commitments (Direktzusage) including deferred compensation (Entgeltumwandlung) according to the Pension Schemes (Schedule 11.12.6) and old-age part-time (Altersteilzeit) obligations (collectively the Pension Commitments). For this purpose, certain assets that serve to fulfil the Pension Commitments (the Pension Assets) are held by Citibank Pension Fund e.V. as trustee (treuhänderisch) on behalf of the relevant Group Companies. It is intended that the joint participation by the Group Companies and the Sellers Affiliates in the CTA prior to Closing will be terminated and the Pension Assets will be transferred to a new CTA in accordance with the provisions set out in Schedules 21 and 21.1 21.5 (the CTA Transfer).
(J) The Seller and certain of the Sellers Affiliates have granted financing loans to the Group Companies. Furthermore, the Seller and the Target Companies are parties to the domination and profit and loss pooling agreements listed in Part A of Schedule 8 (each a Target Company Profit Pooling Agreement and, collectively, the Target Company Profit Pooling Agreements) and Citicorp Deutschland and the Subsidiaries are parties to the domination and profit and loss pooling agreements listed in Part B of Schedule 8 (such agreements together with the Target Company Profit Pooling Agreements, the Profit
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