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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ITEM 3. KEY INFORMATION

3. A [RESERVED]

3. B CAPITALIZATION AND INDEBTEDNESS

Not applicable.

3. C REASONS FOR THE OFFER AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Not applicable.

3. D RISK FACTORS

Your holding of units of our company involves substantial risks. The following summarizes some, but not all of the risks provided below. You should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information set forth in this Form 20-F. If any of the following risks were actually to occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations and the value of your units would likely suffer.

Risks Relating to Our Operations Generally

• Risks relating to the cyclical nature of our operations and general economic conditions.

• Risks relating to completion of new acquisitions and changes to the scale and scope of our operations.

• Risks relating to identifying acquisition opportunities and acquiring distressed companies.

• Risks relating to the accuracy of our management’s assumptions and estimates.

• Risks related to our indebtedness and our ability to distribute equity.

• Risks relating to our access to the credit and capital markets and our ability to raise capital.

• Risks relating to changes or developments in U. S. laws or policies, including U. S. domestic and economic policies and trade policies and tariffs.

• Risks relating to the structure of our operations and our level of control over our operations.

• Risks relating to our technology and information systems.

• Risks relating to maintain effective internal controls.

• Risks relating to the market price of our units.

• Risks relating to our company’s status as an “ SEC foreign issuer” and a “foreign private issuer”.

• Risks relating to unfamiliar cultural factors, political instability or changes in government policy or legislation.

• Risks relating to foreign anti-corruption and trade sanctions laws and restrictions on foreign direct investment.

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Risks Relating to our Business Services Operations

• Risks relating to insurance and competition in our residential mortgage insurer.

• Risks relating to government policies and regulations of our residential mortgage insurer.

• Risks relating to our healthcare services and its dependence on revenues from private health insurance funds and its relationships with accredited medical practitioners.

• Risks relating to our healthcare services reliance on suppliers and skilled labor.

• Risks relating to indemnification for our healthcare services.

• Risks relating to operating costs and maintaining operations of our healthcare services.

• Risks relating to the