Company: SVV
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: S-3
Source: 0001193125-25-118371
Chunk: 45

Company: Savers Value Village, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: S-3
Chunk 45
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 determined that a provision stating that federal district courts are the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act is not
enforceable. This decision may be reviewed and ultimately overturned by the Delaware Supreme Court. If a court were to find any of the exclusive-forum provisions in our certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action,
we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could seriously harm our business.

These exclusive-forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for
disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with federal securities laws and
the rules and regulations thereunder.

Our certificate of incorporation contains a provision renouncing our interest and expectancy in certain corporate opportunities.

Under our certificate of incorporation, neither the Ares Funds nor any of their affiliates or
their respective portfolio companies or affiliated funds, nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, stockholders, members or partners will have any duty to refrain from engaging, directly or indirectly, in the same business
activities, similar business activities, or lines of business in which we operate. In addition, our certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no officer or director of ours who is also an officer, director,
employee, agent, stockholder, member, partner or affiliate of the Ares Funds or their affiliates will be liable to us or our stockholders for breach of any fiduciary duty by reason of the fact that any such individual directs, or communicates
information regarding, a corporate opportunity to the Ares Funds or their affiliates, instead of to us. For example, a director of our company who also serves as an officer, director, employee, agent, stockholder, member, partner or affiliate of the
Ares Funds or their affiliates, or any of their respective portfolio companies or affiliated or managed funds, investment vehicles or accounts, may pursue the acquisition of a business that our company would also have been interested in purchasing.
These potential conflicts of interest could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects if attractive corporate opportunities are allocated by an Ares Fund to itself or to the Ares
Funds’ affiliates or their respective portfolio companies or affiliated or managed funds, investment