Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000883241-25-000017
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Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 4
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 on third-party intellectual property rights.

•We may not be able to continue to obtain licenses to third-party software and intellectual property on reasonable terms or at all, which may disrupt our business and harm our financial results.

•Liquidity requirements in our U.S. operations may require us to raise cash in uncertain capital markets, which could negatively affect our financial condition.

Risks Related to the Ansys Merger

•We may fail to complete the Ansys Merger or may not complete it on the terms described herein or in our other filings with the SEC.

•The Ansys Merger is subject to the receipt of governmental approvals that may impose conditions that could have an adverse effect on us or, if not obtained, could prevent completion of the Ansys Merger.

•Failure to realize the benefits expected from the Ansys Merger could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. 

•As a result of the Ansys Merger, we anticipate that the scope and size of our operations and business will substantially change and will result in certain incremental risks to us, including increased competition. We may not realize the full expected benefits of the Ansys Merger.

•Our significant debt may limit our financial flexibility following the Ansys Merger.

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•The covenants contained in the agreements governing our indebtedness following the Ansys Merger may impose restrictions on us and certain of our subsidiaries that may affect our ability to operate our businesses.

Legal and Regulatory Risks

•Changes in tax laws and regulations or interpretations thereof, or any change in the application of existing laws and regulations may adversely affect our effective tax rates and financial results.

•Our business is subject to evolving corporate governance and public disclosure regulations and expectations that could expose us to numerous risks.

•We may be subject to litigation proceedings that could harm our business.

General Risks

•Catastrophic events and the effects of climate change, pandemics or other unexpected events may disrupt our business and harm our operating results.

Factors that May Affect Future Results

Descriptions of risks associated with our business are set forth below. Some of these risks are highlighted in the following discussion and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, Legal Proceedings, Controls and Procedures and Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk of this Quarterly Report. The occurrence of any of these risks or additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and stock price.