Company: VRT
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-005905
Chunk: 271

Company: Vertiv Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 271
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 inflation, significant market disruptions, increased volatility in commodity prices, the imposition of additional tariffs by the U.S. on certain of its trading partners, which could trigger retaliatory tariffs by those trading partners, and the possibility of additional potential tariffs or other trade restrictions by the U.S. on other jurisdictions. Although the duration and extent of military and other conflict is highly unpredictable, and the magnitude of the potential economic impact may not readily be quantified military and other hostile actions and resulting sanctions could have a negative effect on our financial condition and operating results. Further, war and conflicts could lead to instability and volatility in global markets and industries that could negatively impact our operations. The U.S. government and other governments in jurisdictions in which we operate may impose severe sanctions and export controls. While it is difficult to anticipate the duration and extent of any conflict, or the impact of any prolonged conflict and commensurate sanctions and penalties may have on our operations, any sanctions imposed or actions taken by the U.S. or other countries, and any retaliatory measures could increase our costs, reduce our sales and earnings or otherwise have an adverse effect on our operations.

Legal and Regulatory Risks

Future legislation and regulation governing Internet-related services, other related communications services information technologies, and critical infrastructure could disrupt our customers’ markets resulting in declines in sales volume and prices of our products and otherwise have an adverse effect on our business operations and performance.

Various laws and governmental regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad, governing Internet-related services, related communications services, information technologies, and the construction and location of data centers and other critical infrastructure remain largely unsettled, even in areas where there has been some legislative action. There are anticipated regulations forthcoming in the U.S. and other countries where our customers operate in the areas of cybersecurity, data privacy and data security, artificial intelligence, and critical infrastructure construction, permitting and energy consumption any of which could impact us and our customers. Future legislation and regulation could impose additional costs on our business, disrupt our customers’ markets or require us to make changes in our operations which could adversely affect our operations and performance.

Any failure to comply with evolving data privacy and data protection laws and regulations or to otherwise protect personal data, may adversely impact our business and financial results.

To conduct our operations, we regularly move data across borders, and consequently we are subject to a number of continuously evolving and developing privacy and data protection laws and regulations around the world. These include, for example, the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") in Europe, the California Privacy Rights