Company: CNDT
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001677703-25-000029
Chunk: 34

Company: CONDUENT Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 34
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estitures require a significant investment of time and resources and involve significant risks and uncertainties, including:

•inability to find potential buyers on favorable terms;

•failure to effectively transfer liabilities, contracts, facilities and employees to buyers;

•requirements that we retain or indemnify buyers against certain liabilities and obligations;

•the possibility that we will become subject to third-party claims arising out of such divestiture;

•challenges in identifying and separating the intellectual property, systems and data to be divested from the intellectual property, systems and data that we wish to retain;

•inability to reduce fixed costs previously associated with the divested assets or business;

•challenges in collecting the proceeds from any divestiture;

•disruption of our ongoing business and distraction of management;

•loss of key employees who leave us as a result of a divestiture; and

•if customers or partners of the divested business do not receive the same level of service from the new owners, or the new owners do not handle the customer data with the same level of care, our other businesses may be adversely affected, to the extent that these customers or partners also purchase other products offered by us or otherwise conduct business with our retained business.

Divestitures may result in losses on disposal or continued financial involvement in the divested business, including through indemnification, guarantee or other financial arrangements, for a period of time following the transaction, which would adversely affect our financial results. Refer to Note 4 – Divestitures and Assets/Liabilities Held for Sale to our Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information about our divestitures.

Additionally, we may selectively pursue strategic acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our products or our ability to provide services. Acquisitions, investments and joint ventures similarly pose a number of risks and potential disruptions that could adversely affect our reputation, operations or financial results, including: expansion into new markets and business ventures; the diversion of management’s attention to the acquisition and integration of acquired operations and personnel; being bound by acquired customer or vendor contracts with unfavorable terms; and potential adverse effects on a company’s operating results for various reasons, including, but not limited to, the following items: the inability to achieve financial targets; the inability to achieve certain integration expectations, operating goals, and synergies; costs incurred to exit current or acquired contracts or restructuring activities; costs incurred to service acquisition debt, if any; and the amortization or impairment of acquired intangible assets. 

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