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Risks Related to the Guarantee
The existing liabilities of the Guarantor together with its liabilities under the Guarantee may exceed its
assets; the Guarantee may therefore prove less valuable or even valueless.
The Guarantor is the borrower of certain loans. In addition, the Guarantor has guaranteed certain bank
facilities of its subsidiaries. These facilities include borrowings, receivable discounting and performance
bonds. These existing liabilities of the Guarantor together with its liabilities under the Guarantee may
exceed its assets. If the Guarantor is required to fulfil some or all of these obligations, the Guarantee may
prove less valuable or even worthless if the other creditors have equal rank with or priority over the Note-
holders. The Guarantor could grant security for certain other liabilities, including for capital market in-
debtedness. In an insolvency of the Guarantor the Noteholders face the risk that their claims under the
Guarantee will not be satisfied because the remaining assets of the Guarantor may have been pledged as
collateral and will be used for satisfying the claims of the secured creditors prior to satisfying the claims
of Noteholders. Thus, secured creditors, even those who became creditors after the issue of the Notes,
would have a priority claim to the assets of the Guarantor in which they had a security claim.
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