Company: TCOM
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-078429
Chunk: 171

Company: Trip.com Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 171
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 the courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely to (i) recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts obtained against us or our directors or officers, predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States, or (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against us or our directors or officers, predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. 
 
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 We have also been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel that, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in any federal or state court in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and enforce in the courts of the Cayman Islands a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given, provided such judgment (i) is given by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction, (ii) imposes on the judgment debtor a liability to pay a liquidated sum for which the judgment has been given, (iii) is final, (iv) is not in respect of taxes, a fine or a penalty, and (v) was not obtained in a manner and is not of a kind the enforcement of which is contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands. 
 A Cayman Islands court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere. 
 Our PRC legal counsel, Commerce & Finance Law Offices, has advised us that there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of mainland China would: 
 

•   recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States; or
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•   entertain original actions brought in each respective jurisdiction against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.
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 Our PRC legal counsel has further advised us that recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedures Law. Courts of mainland China may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law and other applicable laws and regulations based either on treaties between