Company: BBU
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-017216
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Company: Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 unpredictable award of new contracts in the construction market.

• Risks relating to reduced profits or losses under contracts if costs increase above estimates.

• Risks relating to performance guarantees and operating under various types of construction-related contracts.

• Risks relating to macroeconomic factors and climate change affecting our construction operation.

• Risks relating to the real estate industry in Canada.

• Risks relating to our dealer software and technology services operation.

• Risks relating to regulations and laws governing our entertainment operation.

• Risks relating to our construction operation, including our work access services.

• Risks relating to our convertible preferred security investment in Nielsen.

• Risks relating to our Australian asset manager and lender.

• Risks relating to our payment processing services operation.

Risks Relating to our Infrastructure Services Operations

• Risks relating to our lottery services operation.

• Risks relating to the demand for and growth of our offshore oil services.

• Risks relating to the significant loss of product, environmental contamination, and physical damage to marine transportation and oil production equipment due to extreme conditions in which our offshore oil services operate.

• Risks relating to equipment failure on our business, reputation, financial position and results of operation.

• Risks relating to our modular building leasing services.

Risks Relating to our Industrials Operations

• Risks relating to decreased demand and an inability to successfully respond to competition and pricing pressures in our advanced energy storage operation.

• Risks relating to our water and wastewater operation in Brazil.

• Risks relating to oil and gas exploration, development and production.

• Risks relating to the dependence on supplies of raw materials and the volatility of commodity prices.

• Risks relating to the Brazilian government’s control over the Brazilian economy and Brazilian corporations.

• Risks relating to our engineered components manufacturing operation.

• Risks relating to our electric heat tracing systems manufacturing operation.

  12      Brookfield Business Partners  

Risks Relating to our Relationship with Brookfield

• Risks relating to our dependence on Brookfield and the Service Providers.

• Risks relating to Brookfield’s ownership position of our company.

• Risks relating to Brookfield’s lack of fiduciary duty to our unitholders.

• Risks relating to senior executives of Brookfield exercising influence over our company.

Risks Relating to Taxation

• Risks related to United States, Canadian and Bermudian taxation, and the effects thereof on our business and operations.

Risks Relating to our Operations Generally

Our operating businesses are highly cyclical and subject