Company: BEP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001533232-25-000006
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Company: Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 most EU member states now have a foreign investment screening mechanism in place or has initiated a consultative or legislative process expected to result in the adoption of a new mechanism or amendments to an existing mechanism, adopted a regulation aimed at regulation of foreign subsidies that could distort the internal EU market. Additionally, we and our portfolio companies are required to comply with sanctions imposed by the United States and by other countries, for which the full costs, burdens, and limitations on our and our operating subsidiaries and prospects are currently unknown and may become significant.

Under these laws, governments have the authority to impose a variety of actions, including requirements for the advance screening or notification of certain transactions, blocking or imposing conditions on certain transactions, limiting the size of foreign equity investments or control by foreign investors, and restricting the employment of foreigners as key personnel. These actions could limit our ability to find suitable investments, cause delays in consummating transactions, result in the abandonment of transactions, and impose burdensome operational requirements on our portfolio companies. These laws may make it difficult for us to identify suitable buyers for our investments that we want to exit and could constrain the universe of exit opportunities generally. Complying with these laws imposes potentially significant costs and complex additional burdens, and any failure by us or our portfolio companies to comply with them could expose us significant penalties, sanctions, loss of future investment opportunities, additional regulatory scrutiny, and reputational harm.

Risks Relating to Our Relationship with Brookfield

Brookfield exercises substantial influence over Brookfield Renewable and we are highly dependent on the Service Provider.

A subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation is the sole shareholder of the Managing General Partner. As a result of its ownership of the Managing General Partner, Brookfield is able to control the appointment and removal of the Managing General Partner’s directors and, accordingly, exercise substantial influence over Brookfield Renewable. In addition, BEP holds its interest in the Operating Entities indirectly through BRELP and will hold any future acquisitions indirectly through BRELP, the general partner of which is indirectly owned by Brookfield Corporation. As BEP’s only substantial assets are the limited partnership interests and preferred limited partnership interests that it holds in BRELP, except for rights under the Voting Agreement, BEP does not have a right to participate directly in the management or activities of BRELP or the Holding Entities, including with respect to the making of decisions (although it has the right to remove and replace the BRELP GP LP).

BEP and BRELP depend on the management and administration services provided by or under the direction of the Service Provider under our