Company: UIS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000746838-25-000008
Chunk: 58

Company: UNISYS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 58
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 software, hardware or intellectual property for any reason, including because it is found to infringe the rights of others, we will need to obtain substitutes or seek alternative means of obtaining the technology necessary to continue to provide such services and solutions. Our inability to replace such software, hardware or intellectual property effectively or in a timely and cost-effective manner could materially adversely affect our results of operations.

We could face business and financial risk through the completion of acquisitions or dispositions.

As part of our business strategy, we have and may acquire complementary technologies, solutions, services and businesses, or dispose of existing technologies, solutions, services and businesses, including transactions of a material size. In the event we do not have cash sufficient to make such opportunistic acquisitions, any acquisitions may result in the incurrence of substantial additional indebtedness or contingent liabilities. Acquisitions could also result in potentially dilutive issuances of equity securities and an increase in amortization expenses related to intangible assets. Potential risks with respect to dispositions include difficulty finding buyers or alternative exit strategies on acceptable terms in a timely manner; potential loss of employees or clients; dispositions at unfavorable prices or on unfavorable terms, including relating to retained liabilities; and post-closing indemnity claims. The risks associated with acquisitions, including integration, and dispositions could have a material adverse effect upon our business, financial condition and results of operations. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in consummating future acquisitions or dispositions on favorable terms or at all. 

LEGAL AND REGULATORY

Our global operations expose us to numerous and sometimes conflicting legal and regulatory requirements, and violations of these legal and regulatory requirements could harm our business and cause reputational risk.

We are subject to numerous, changing, and sometimes conflicting, legal and regulatory regimes on matters as diverse as anti-corruption, import/export controls, content requirements, trade restrictions, tariffs, taxation, sanctions, immigration, internal and disclosure control obligations, securities regulation, including climate and other sustainability regulations and reporting requirements, anti-competition, anti-money-laundering, data privacy and protection such as those in the United States and the European Union with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), cybersecurity directives in the European Union such as the Network and Information Security Directive, government compliance, wage-and-hour standards, employment and labor relations, product liability, health and safety, environmental, human rights and AI regulations, including the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act. The sanctions environment has resulted in new sanctions and trade restrictions, which may impair trade with sanctioned individuals and countries,