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This excerpt taken from the HPQ 8-K filed May 28, 2009. Offering Restrictions
Each of the Underwriters severally represents, warrants and agrees as follows:
(a) it will not offer, sell, or deliver any of the Floating Rate Global Notes due May 27, 2011, the 2.25% Global Notes due May 27, 2011 or the 2.95% Global Notes due August 15, 2012 (collectively, the Global Notes), directly or indirectly, or distribute the Preliminary Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Final Prospectus or any other offering material relating to the Global Notes, in or from any jurisdiction except under circumstances that will result in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations and which will not impose any obligations on the Company except as set forth in the Underwriting Agreement to which this Schedule V is attached.
(b) in relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a Relevant Member State), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the Relevant Implementation Date), it has not made and will not make an offer of Global Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Global Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time: (i) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities, (ii) to any company which has two or more of (1) an average of over 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than 43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than 50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts, (iii) to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive) subject to obtaining the prior consent of the representatives for any such offer, or (iv) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive; provided that no such offer of Global Notes shall require the issuer or any underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.
For the purposes of this provision, the expression an offer of Global Notes to the public in relation to any Global Notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Global Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Global Notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression Prospectus Directive means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
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(c) it and each of its affiliates: (i) has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the FSMA)) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Global Notes in circumstances in which section 21(1) of FSMA does not apply to us, and (ii) has complied with, and will comply with, all applicable provisions of FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Global Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
(d) the Global Notes may not and will not be publicly offered, distributed or re-distributed in or from Switzerland and neither the prospectus supplement, accompanying prospectus nor any other offering material relating to the Global Notes may be communicated or distributed in Switzerland in any way that could constitute a public offering within the meaning of Articles 1156 or 652a of the Swiss Code of Obligations. The prospectus supplement, accompanying prospectus or any other offering material relating to the Global Notes may not be copied, reproduced, distributed or passed on to others without our prior written consent. The prospectus supplement, accompanying prospectus or any other offering material relating to the Global Notes do not constitute a prospectus within the meaning of Articles 1156 and 652a of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus according to the Listing Rules of the SWX Swiss Exchange (and may not comply with the information standards required thereunder). No application for a listing of the Global Notes on any Swiss stock exchange or other Swiss regulated market has been or will be made, and the prospectus supplement, accompanying prospectus or any other offering material relating to the Global Notes may not comply with the information required under the relevant listing rules.
(e) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell, by means of any document, any Global Notes other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), or (ii) to professional investors within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a prospectus within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), and that it has not issued or had in its possession for the purposes of issue, and will not issue or have in its possession for the purposes of issue, any advertisement, invitation, prospectus or other document relating to the Global Notes (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Global Notes which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to professional investors within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder.
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(f) it is aware that the securities have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Investments and Exchange Law of Japan (the Financial Investments and Exchange Law) and has not directly or indirectly offered or sold and it will not, directly or indirectly, offer or sell any securities, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used herein means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan), or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to a resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Financial Investments and Exchange Law and any other applicable laws, regulations and ministerial guidelines of Japan.
(g) it is aware that this prospectus has not been registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and, accordingly, neither this prospectus nor any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the Global Notes may be circulated or distributed, nor may the Global Notes be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore (the SFA), (ii) to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA; it is also aware that where the Global Notes are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 by a relevant person which is: (a) a corporation (which is not an accredited investor) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or (b) a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary is an accredited investor, shares, debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or the beneficiaries rights and interest in that trust shall not be transferable for 6 months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the Global Notes under Section 275 except: (1) to an institutional investor (for corporations under Section 274 of the SFA) or to a relevant person defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA; (2) where no consideration is given for the transfer; or (3) by operation of law.
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