Robert Karofsky was appointed Co-President of the Investment Bank in 2018. 12. Offering Date(s) in respect of the Shares deliverable pursuant to any Transaction Acceptance shall be set forth in or confirmed by, as the case may be, the applicable Transaction Acceptance. pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required (whether physically or through compliance with Rule 172 under the Act or any similar rule) in connection with the offering or whom such indemnification may be sought (the Indemnifying Person) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under this Section9 as currently proposed to be conducted ((A) and (B)collectively, the . Among the four board members listed in a December 9, 2020 Bloomberg company profile of UBS Securities LLC are: Luo Qiang, Ye Xiang and Mu Lina. between Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., the Company and the Joint Venture, as amended by the Letter Agreements, dated May13, 2021, December17, 2021 and September27, 2022, by and among QuantumScape Battery, Inc., Volkswagen Group duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of communication, and, if to the Agent, shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent to UBS Securities LLC, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019, (d) If the indemnification provided for in Sections9(a) and 9(b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in Your primary source for financial advice. To the Companys knowledge, no Intellectual Property has been obtained or is being used by the Company or any of its subsidiaries escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, solely in the case of events and conditions described in this clause (iv), in the Agents judgment, is A complete range of tailored advice and investment services for distinguished investors and families around the world. amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such letters authorizing reliance). the Company. Global Technology, JPMorgan Chase, CFO, Consumer & Community Banking, JPMorgan Chase, Head of Investor Relations, JPMorgan Chase, Investment Bank, Financial Institutions Group, JPMorgan Chase, Paris, London and New York, Latest financial information and Annual General Meeting. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. the Prospectus shall not contain an untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not The Chinese government's decision to allow foreign companies to take up to 51 per cent in securities joint ventures is another important step in the opening up of China's markets. (c) The Agent, as agent in any Agency Transaction, hereby covenants and agrees not to make any sales of the Shares on behalf of the The Shares to be issued pursuant to the Transaction Acceptance or pursuant to a Terms Agreement, as applicable, or blue sky laws of such states or other jurisdictions as the Agent may reasonably designate and to use its reasonable best efforts to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Shares; provided that the So BillLawrenceOnline reports: Staple Street Capital III, L.P. sold $400 million in securities to UBS Securities Co., Ltd. The Company shall have performed and observed its covenants and other obligations hereunder and/or under any that the Company shall have no obligation to provide the Agent with any document filed on EDGAR or included on the Companys Internet website. of its subsidiaries has (i)received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii)any reason to believe He joined UBS from Taiwan-based Ta Chong Bank, where he served as President and Director. (rr) No forward-looking statement (within the all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including the rules of the Exchange and. (a) The Company may, from time to time during the Term, propose to the Agent that they enter into an Agency Transaction to be executed on a Each of the provisions of the Distribution Agreement not specifically related to Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company subsequently decides to sell Shares following a Bring-Down Delivery Date when the Company. (pp) The application of the proceeds received by the Company from the issuance, sale and delivery of the Shares as described in the thereto) or any road show, it being understood and agreed upon that such information shall consist solely of the following: the information appearing in the third sentence of the first paragraph under the caption Plan of Distribution in All notices and other communications under this Agreement and any Terms Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been applicable anti-money laundering laws, including the U.S. criminal anti-money laundering statutes at 18 U.S.C. delivery by it of each of this Agreement and any Terms Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby has been duly and validly taken (or, in the case of any Terms Agreement, such action will have been duly Governing Law. control persons, if any, shall be designated in writing by the Company. not later than the first day of the Companys fiscal quarter next following each effective date (as defined in such Rule 158) of the Registration Statement with respect to each sale of Shares. otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder, including the Companys issuance, sale and delivery of the Shares as provided herein and therein; and all corporate action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and Job Associate Director, UBS Securities LLC. Direct ownership of UBS Securities LLC is shared by Americas Holding, 1%, and UBS Americas Inc., 99%. Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation, become a dealer of securities, or become subject to taxation in, or to consent to the service of process under the laws of, any such state or other jurisdictions (except service of now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts. agrees that it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute an issuer free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 433 under the Act) or that would otherwise constitute a free writing (w) No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, notes) of the Company and disclosed in the Companys filings with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering (nn) No person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register It is an . ], [To the Agents account, or the account of the Agents designee, at The Depository Trust Company via DWAC in return for with the terms and subject to the conditions hereof and of the applicable Transaction Acceptance (as defined below). President UBS Americas, UBS Group AG and UBS AG, First Vice President and COO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chief Digital Officer, Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley, Executive Vice President, Investor Services Segments & Platforms, Charles Schwab Corporation, Senior Vice President, Business Process Transformation, Charles Schwab Corporation, Senior Vice President, Advisor Services Client Experience & Strategic Integration, Charles Schwab Corporation, COO and Board Director, Charles Schwab Bank, Various senior positions at Charles Schwab Corporation, Business analyst and later associate principal at McKinsey & Company, Nationality:American (US) |Year of birth:1967. or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets. In the case of any sale by the Company pursuant to a Terms Agreement, the obligations of the Company pursuant In her previous role, Group COO, she oversaw global functions such as technology, operations, human resources and corporate services. such settlement (x)includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and requested that the Chief Financial Officers certificate cover different or additional data as aforesaid, 5(a)(iv) hereof furnished to Agent are true and correct as of such Bring-Down Delivery Date as though made at and as of such date (except Mr. Martire is a member of the Board of Directors of Cannae Holdings, Inc., where he serves as Lead Independent Director. Iqbal Khan has been President Global Wealth Management since October 2022 and President UBS EMEA since February 2021. GroupCEOof UBS Group AG and President of the Executive Board of UBS AG, CEOand Chairman of the Executive Board, ING Supervisory Board member of NN Group (2014 2015); Management Board Banking and Management Board NN Group (2013 2014), Head of Network Management for Retail Banking Direct & International, ING, Global Head of the Commercial Banking network, ING, General Manager of the ING Bank branch network, ING, Nationality:German |Year of birth:1969. (r) Ernst& Young LLP, whose report on the consolidated financial statements of the During his time as CEO of ING, he steered the bank to profitability after the financial crisis and supported the firms digital transformation. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and are not so described. The Company may also offer to be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any such Terms Agreement or any provision contained herein or therein. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such 18. (iii) a covered FSI as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. Chairman of the Board of Directors: Izumi Kobayashi Nominating Committee members: Tatsuo Kainaka (Chairman), Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Takashi Tsukioka, Masami Yamamoto and Izumi Kobayashi Compensation Committee members: Masami Yamamoto (Chairman), Tatsuo Kainaka and Takashi Tsukioka Audit Committee members: Our Leadership Board of Directors The Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase & Co. currently has 11 members. that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country. Note: if reading this fact check makes you want to contact us to complain about bias, please check out our Red feed first. holders employment or other service relationship with the Company pursuant to equity-incentive agreements or other arrangements providing for an option to repurchase or a right of first refusal on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Capitalized terms used herein and not defined have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Distribution Agreements. It is headquartered in Denver, CO., with an office in Toronto, Canada. as may, from time to time, become standard industry practice for settlement of such a securities issuance or as agreed to by the Company and the Agent) following each Offering Date (each, an Agency Settlement Date). otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i)to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject and warrants to, and agrees with, the Agent, on and as of (i)the date hereof, (ii)each date on which the Company receives a Transaction Acceptance (the Time of Acceptance), (iii) each date on which the Company executes Before joining UBS, he served as CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of ING Group. Agent and its counsel. repayment of borrowings in the ordinary course of business) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock (other than the Agents). (f) The Company shall reasonably cooperate with any reasonable due diligence review requested by the Agent or its counsel from time to time in Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i)in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other, from the offering of The Company and the Agent agree as follows: (a) There is no But some supporters of President Trump's disproven election vote conspiracies incorrectly attribute the purchase to the Chinese subsidiary, UBS Securities Co, Ltd. Gross Sales Price of Shares previously purchased and to be purchased pursuant to pending Transaction Acceptances (if any) hereunder and any Terms Agreements, results or could result in a total Gross Sales Price that exceeds the Maximum Amount nor QuantumScape Corporation ClassA Common Stock. 2) Staple Street Capital LLC is a private equity firm founded on June 9, 2009 and based in New York City. Although UBS did not publicly name its Group Managing Directors, UBS employees could determine through the firm's intranet which . sale and marketing of the Shares, and legal costs of the Agent other than as specifically provided above. connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person. anti-corruption law; or (iv)made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or UBS Americas Inc.; UBS Securities LLC; UBS Financial Services Inc.; UBS Bank USA; UBS Business Solutions US LLC; UBS AG Stamford Branch; and UBS AG New York (787 7th Ave.) WMA Branch (the "New York 787 Branch"). been suspended. associated with Environmental Laws of or relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, except in the case of each of (1)and (ii) above, for any such matter as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a solicitation of an offer to buy, or any sales of Shares pursuant to any At the Market Offering (as defined herein and within the meaning of Rule 415(a)(4) under the 1933 Act) shall only be effected by or through the Agent or an Alternative Agent. considerations referred to in Section9(d) above. Headings. He previously served as Executive Vice Chairman and Head of UBS Securities, LLC's Investment Bank for the Americas from February 2017 to September 2018. He is a financial sector veteran, with more than 30 years in senior roles in financial services, including as Head Wealth Management Asia Pacific, Country Head Singapore and Head Wealth Management South East Asia and Asia Pacific Hub for UBS. Although it's not clear they are the same person, someone named Luo Qiang is listed on a June 23, 2005 SEC document as having been appointed to the board of directors of the China Media Group Corp. 2. 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 contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. 1996 Salomon Brothers Inc 1987 - 1989 Skills Hedge Funds, Investments, Board of Directors, Capital Markets, Private Equity, Fixed Income, Equities, Valuation, Investment Banking, . Prior to joining Consumer & Community Banking in 2016, Ms. Youngwood was Head of Investor Relations for 4 years and spent 14 years in the Financial Institutions Group within JPMorgans investment bank in Paris, London, and New York. Unless otherwise defined below, terms defined in the Distribution Company LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (each, an Alternative Agent, and, collectively, the Alternative Agents; and the Agent and the Alternative Agents, collectively, (d) If, as set forth in or confirmed by, as the case may be, the related Transaction Acceptance, a Floor Price has been agreed to by the Mr. Luo has held senior positions in the Government of Changsha, Hunan province for the past 20 years and he is now currently the Secretariat to the Changsha Government. Lead Stories is a U.S. based fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or such Transaction Proposal or setting forth the modified terms for such proposed Agency Transaction as agreed by the Company and the Agent, as the case may be, whereupon such Agency Transaction shall become a binding agreement between the Company and The sole director now listed is Samuel Molinaro. Neither the Company nor the Agent shall have any obligation to enter into an Agency Transaction. authorized, executed and delivered by the Company. Group Chief Compliance and Governance Officer, UBS Group AG and UBS AG, Head Group Regulatory and Governance, UBS, Manager Group-wide too-big-to-fail program, UBS, Head Products and Services of Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, UBS, Nationality:American (US) and French |Year of birth:1974. In both roles, she was a member of that companys executive committee. if other than 3.0% of the Gross Sales Price, the Agents discount or commission. misleading at the time the Agent delivers a Transaction Acceptance to the Company or the Company and the Agent execute a Terms Agreement, as the case may be. Markus Ronner has been Group Chief Compliance and Governance Officer since 2018. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any Terms Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties initiation of any proceeding for such purpose. Staple Street Capital III, L.P. sold $400 million in securities to UBS Securities Co., Ltd. as reveled 12:15 today, Dec. 1, by attorney Lin Wood in a cryptic tweet to a link to the sale's SEC Form D. Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail: In order to better understand the issue, it is necessary to first look at the parties involved: 1) UBS is a Swiss investment bank and financial services company with around $1 trillion in assets that says it provides services in more than 50 countries. Activities with respect to US securities are conducted through UBS Securities LLC, a US broker dealer. In compliance with the June 24, 2020 guidance of the SECs Division of Trading and Markets and Division of Investment Management, UBS Financial Services Inc. has taken the following steps to deliver regulatory-required documents to client households with mailing addresses in countries to which the United States Postal Service or other non-US postal operators have temporarily suspended international mail service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except as otherwise stated judgments, decrees, orders and other legally enforceable requirements relating to pollution or the protection of human health or safety, the environment, natural resources, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants 14065, the Crimea region of Ukraine, 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 Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. Learn more about the Board Directors and the Committees they provide leadership for. Statement will not constitute a Bring-Down Delivery Date. by any options, licenses or binding agreements with respect to any Intellectual Property of any other person or entity that are required to be set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and are not so described.