United Kingdom Each Underwriter severally, but not jointly, represents and agrees that: (i) it has not offered, sold or otherwise made available and will not offer, sell or otherwise make available any Offered Notes to any retail investor in the United Kingdom (the "UK"); (ii) it 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 (as amended), or the "FSMA") received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any Offered Notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Trust or the Depositor; (iii) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA for anything done by it in relation to any Offered Notes in, from or otherwise involving the UK; (iv) for the purposes of this provision, the expression "retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of the following: (A) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2017/565, as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended, the "EUWA"), or (B) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014, as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA, or (C) not a "qualified investor" as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the "Prospectus Regulation"), as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; and (v) for the purposes of this provision, the expression "offer" includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Offered Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the Offered Notes.
citizens abroad Unless the circumstances described in the parenthetical in paragraph 1 above are applicable, either (a) at the time the buy order was originated, the buyer was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the buyer was outside the United States or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market, and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States.
Ireland There are no country-specific provisions.
Belgium NOTIFICATIONS
RESIDENT 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term “resident of a Contracting State” means any person who, under the laws of that State, is liable to tax therein by reason of his domicile, residence, place of management or any other criterion of a similar nature, and also includes that State and any political subdivision or local authority thereof. This term, however, does not include any person who is liable to tax in that State in respect only of income from sources in that State or capital situated therein.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Notifications
Resident Educator A Resident Educator is a teacher employed under a resident educator license.
Italy If the Territory is Italy, the MicroStrategy contracting entity on the order is MicroStrategy Italy S.r.l., with offices at Corso Italia 13, 20122, Milan, Italy, with tax identification number 12313340155, and the following terms apply: (a) The Governing Law will be the laws of Italy; and (b) any disputes, actions, claims or causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the parties’ relationship under it will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Milan; and (c) the second sentence of the “Notices” section of the General Terms is deleted and replaced with the following: “You will provide notices to: MicroStrategy Italy, S.r.l. Attention: Legal Representative, at Corso Italia 13, 20122, Milan, Italy; email: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx“; and (d) references to “CPI” in the Agreement will be deemed to refer to “Italy CPI.”
Norway There are no country-specific provisions.
India No country-specific provisions apply.
