Company: BLCO
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001860742-25-000004
Chunk: 212

Company: Bausch & Lomb Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 212
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 assets acquired to market.  In addition, delays encountered in the integration process could result in a failure to realize the anticipated benefits on the anticipated timeline, or at all.Finally, these acquisitions and other arrangements, even if successfully integrated, may fail to further our business strategy as anticipated or to achieve anticipated benefits and success, expose us to increased competition or challenges with 

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respect to our products or geographic markets, and expose us to additional liabilities associated with an acquired business, product, technology or other asset or arrangement. Any one of these challenges or risks could impair our ability to realize any benefit from our acquisition or arrangement after we have expended resources on them. In addition to the integration challenges we face, the anticipated benefits we expect from these acquisition are subject to numerous assumptions, including assumptions derived from our diligence efforts concerning the status of and prospects for the acquired business, product or other assets. We cannot provide any assurances with respect to the accuracy of our assumptions, including our assumptions with respect to future revenues of the business or products or assumptions regarding our ability to successfully develop and obtain regulatory approval for any acquired pipeline assets. There are a variety of risks and uncertainties, some of which are outside of our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from these anticipated benefits. In addition, as described above, we may expend significant expenses in connection with the consummation of these transactions and the integration of the acquired business with our business. These expenses may include, but are not limited to, fees paid to legal, financial and accounting advisors, filing fees and fees associated with any financing required in connection with the funding for such transactions. Many of these expenses must be paid regardless of whether the transaction is consummated. Additional unanticipated costs may be incurred in the integration of the acquired business with our business. In addition, we may also incur additional indebtedness to finance the transaction, which indebtedness may be material and may limit our operating or financial flexibility relative to our then current position.We have various indemnity agreements and indemnity arrangements in place, which may result in an obligation to indemnify or reimburse the relevant counterparty, which amounts may be material.We have entered into customary indemnification agreements with our directors and certain of our officers. We have also obtained directors’ and officers’ liability insurance to mitigate the cost of any potential future lawsuits or actions. The maximum amount of any potential future payment cannot be reasonably estimated but could have a material adverse effect on the Company.In the normal course of business, we have entered or may enter into agreements that include indemnities in