Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-039401
Chunk: 211

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 211
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 | it is either (I) appropriately registered under applicable Canadian securities laws in each relevant                                                                                                                                                 
 province or territory to sell and deliver such securities, (II) such sale and delivery will be made through an affiliate of it that is so registered if the affiliate is registered in a category that permits such sale and delivery and has agreed 
 to make such sale and delivery in compliance with the representations, warranties and agreements set out herein, or (III) it is relying on an exemption from the dealer registration requirements under applicable Canadian securities laws and has  
 complied with the requirements of that exemption; and                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| (c) | it has not and will not distribute or deliver any offering memorandum (as such term is defined under applicable                                                                                                   
 Canadian securities laws) or any other offering material in connection with any offering or sale of such securities in or to a resident of Canada, except in compliance with applicable Canadian securities laws. |

Japan The securities which are the subject of the offering contemplated by this prospectus as completed by the prospectus supplement in relation thereto will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan (Act No. 25 of 1948, as amended, the “Financial Instruments and Exchange Act”). Accordingly, none of the securities, nor any interest thereon, may be, directly or indirectly, offered or sold in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used herein means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan) or to others for re-offeringor re-sale,directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and other relevant laws and regulations of Japan. Hong Kong In relation to an offering of securities contemplated by this prospectus as completed by the prospectus supplement in relation thereto, each underwriter, dealer or agent will represent and agree that:

| (a) | it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell in Hong Kong, by means of any document, any securities                                                                                                                    
 other than (i) to “professional investors” as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) (the “SFO”) and any rules made thereunder, or (ii) in other circumstances which do not result       
 in the document being a “prospectus” as defined in