Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001140361-25-006661
Chunk: 63

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 424B5
Chunk 63
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 its Subsidiaries as of such date, as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. “Finance Lease” means any Indebtedness represented by a lease obligation of a Person incurred with respect to real property or equipment acquired or leased by such Person and used in its business that is required to be recorded as a finance lease in accordance with GAAP. “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination. “Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “guarantee,” when used as a verb, has a correlative meaning. “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person under:

| (1) | interest rate swap agreements (whether from fixed to floating or from floating to fixed), interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements; |

| (2) | other agreements or arrangements designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk; |

| (3) | forward foreign exchange transactions, currency floor, cap, collar or swap transactions or currency options; |

| (4) | other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or commodity prices; and |

| (5) | other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such person against fluctuations in equity or bond (or equity or bond index) prices. |

“Indebted