Company: KYIV
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-026261
Chunk: 121

Company: Kyivstar Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: DRS
Chunk 121
---
 such merger, acquisition, strategic partnerships or investment or failure of any such transaction to materialize (including any such failure caused by regulatory or third -partychallenges), we may experience: •difficulties in realizing expected synergies and investment returns from acquired companies, joint ventures, investments or other forms of strategic partnerships; •unsuccessful integration of personnel, products, property and technologies of the acquired business or assets; •higher or unforeseen costs of integration or capital expenditures (including the time and resources of our personnel required to successfully integrate any combined businesses); •adverse changes in our operating efficiencies and structure; •difficulties relating to the combined business’ compliance with telecommunications or other regulatory licenses and permissions, compliance with laws, regulations and contractual obligations, ability to obtain and maintain favorable commercial terms and ability to optimize and protect our assets (including spectrum and intellectual property); •adverse market reactions stemming from competitive and other pressures; •difficulties in retaining key employees of the merged or acquired business or strategic partnerships who are necessary to manage the relevant businesses; 39 •risks related to loss of full control of a merged business, or not having the ability to adequately control and manage an acquired business, strategic partnership or investment, including disagreements or difference in strategy with joint venture partners; •risks that different geographic regions present, such as currency exchange risks, competition, regulatory, political, economic and social developments, which may, among other things, restrict our ability to successfully capitalize on our acquisition, merger, joint venture or investment; •adverse customer reaction to the business acquisition or combination; •increased liability and exposure to unforeseen contingencies and liabilities that we did not contemplate at the time of the merger, acquisition, strategic partnership or investment, including tax liabilities or claims by the counterparty or regulator related to the transaction, for which we may not have obtained contractual protections; and •a material impairment of our operating results by causing us to incur debt or requiring us to amortize merger or acquisition expenses and merged or acquired assets. For more information about our recent transactions, see “ Kyivstar Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Significant Factors Affecting our Results of Operation — Recent Acquisitions.” From time to time, we may also seek to divest some of our assets, including divestitures of operations infrastructure or tower assets or business lines. Such divestitures may take longer than anticipated or may not happen at all. If similar divestitures do not occur, close later than expected or do not