Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
10 Maio 2017 - 5:44PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on May 10, 2017
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
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98-0215385
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
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Paradeplatz
8
CH 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
+41 44 212 1616
(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s
principal executive offices)
2017 Rights Offering
(Full Title of the Plan)
Lawrence Young
General Counsel
Credit Suisse (USA), Inc.
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(212) 325-2000
(Name, address, including zip code, and
telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Romeo Cerutti
General Counsel
Credit Suisse Group AG
Paradeplatz 8
CH 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
+41 44 212 1616
René Bösch
Homburger AG
Prime Tower
Hardstrasse 201
CH 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
+ 41 43 222 10 00
David I. Gottlieb
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
One Liberty Plaza
New York, New York 10006
(212) 225-2000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title Of Securities To Be Registered
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Amount To Be Registered
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Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share
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Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
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Amount Of Registration Fee
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Pre-emptive subscription rights (“Rights”)
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Up to 27,606,709 Rights
(1)
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$0.70
(2)
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$19,287,797.90
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$2,235.46
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Shares, CHF 0.04 nominal value per share (“Shares”)
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Up to 5,019,402 Shares
(3)
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$10.94
(4)
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$54,890,179.83
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$6,361.77
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Total
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N/A
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N/A
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$74,177,977.73
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$8,597.23
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(1)
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Represents Rights issuable pursuant to a rights offering (the “Rights Offering”), in which any Credit Suisse Group
AG (“CSG”) shareholder as of May 22, 2017 will receive Rights to subscribe for new Shares with a nominal value of CHF
0.04.
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(2)
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The registration fee for the Rights registered hereby has been calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and was computed on the basis of a share price of 0.69 Swiss Francs converted to U.S. dollars at the rate
of 0.9876 Swiss Francs per U.S. dollar, which was the buying rate for Swiss Francs reported for May 5, 2017 as certified by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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(3)
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Represents Shares underlying the Rights that will be issued pursuant to the Rights Offering. Eligible holders of Rights will
be entitled to subscribe for the Shares in the ratio of two (2) Offered Shares for every eleven (11) Rights held at the CHF 10.80
Offer Price.
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(4)
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The registration fee for the Shares registered hereby has been calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and was computed on the basis of a share price of 10.80 Swiss Francs converted to U.S. dollars at the
rate of 0.9876 Swiss Francs per U.S. dollar, which was the buying rate for Swiss Francs reported for May 5, 2017 as certified by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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PART
I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
All information required by Part I of
Form S-8 to be contained in the prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
PART
II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
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Item 3.
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Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
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The Registrant filed its annual report
on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, which CSG refers to as the “2016 Annual Report”
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 24, 2017. The Registrant further incorporates by
reference its current reports on Form 6-K dated:
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February 14, 2017 (containing the Credit Suisse Earnings Release 4Q16)
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March 24, 2017 (containing the Media Release entitled “Credit Suisse publishes its Annual Report 2016 and Agenda for
the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 28, 2017”)
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March 24, 2017, as amended (containing the Revised Earnings Release 4Q16)
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April 26, 2017 (containing the Credit Suisse Earnings Release 1Q17)
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April 26, 2017 (containing the Media Release entitled “The Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group AG propose a share
capital increase”)
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May 4, 2017 (containing the Credit Suisse Financial Report 1Q17)
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in each case, only to the extent that
such report expressly states that such report, or portions thereof, are incorporated by reference into the registration statement
of the Registrant filed on Form F-3 (file no. 333-202913).
All
documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (other than portions of those documents furnished or otherwise not deemed to
be filed), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold
or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part
hereof from the date of the filing of such documents. The Registrant’s reports on Form 6-K filed with the SEC after
the date of this registration statement are incorporated by reference in this registration statement only to the extent that the
reports expressly state such reports are filed (and not furnished) with the SEC.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Under
Swiss law, directors and senior officers acting in violation of their statutory duties—whether dealing with third parties
or performing any other acts on behalf of the corporation—may become liable to the corporation, its shareholders and (in
bankruptcy) its creditors for damages. The directors’ liability is joint and several but only to the extent the damage is
attributable to each director based on willful or negligent violation of duty. If the board of directors lawfully delegated the
power to carry out day-to-day management to a different corporate body, e.g., the executive board, the board of directors is not
vicariously liable for the acts of the members of the executive board. Instead, the directors can be held liable for their failure
to properly select, instruct or supervise the executive board members. If directors and officers enter into a transaction on behalf
of the corporation with third parties in violation of their statutory duties, the transaction is nevertheless valid as long as
it is not excluded by the corporation’s business purpose.
Because
CSG is a Swiss company headquartered in Switzerland, a number of the directors and officers of CSG are residents of Switzerland
and not the United States. As a result, U.S. investors may find it difficult in a lawsuit based on the civil liability provisions
of the U.S. federal securities laws to:
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serve legal process on CSG or its directors and executive officers or have any of them appear
in a U.S. court; and
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enforce against those persons in Switzerland, whether in original actions or in actions for
enforcement of judgments of U.S. courts, liabilities based solely on the federal securities laws of the United States.
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The
Articles of Association of CSG does not contain provisions regarding the indemnification of directors and officers.
According
to Swiss statutory law, an employee has a right to be indemnified by the employer against losses and expenses incurred by him or
her in the execution of his or her duties under an employment agreement, unless the losses and expenses arise from the employee’s
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
It
is CSG’s policy to indemnify its current or former directors and/or employees against certain losses and expenses in respect
of service as a director or employee of CSG, as the case may be, one of its affiliates or another entity, which CSG has approved,
subject to specific conditions or exclusions. CSG maintains directors’ and officers’ insurance for its directors and
officers.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
See Exhibit Index attached hereto.
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) to include any prospectus
required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) to reflect in the prospectus
any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation
of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;
(iii) to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change
to such information in the registration statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(l)(ii)
do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2)
that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
(3)
to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
the termination of the offering.
(b) The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable,
each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated
by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c)
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion
of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In
the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding)
is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement or amendment thereto to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 10, 2017.
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CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG
By
/s/ Tidjane Thiam
Name: Tidjane Thiam
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
By
/s/ David Mathers
Name: David Mathers
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
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POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that
each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints David Mathers, Romeo Cerutti, Peter Goerke and David
Wong jointly and severally, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of
them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the following capacities on May 10, 2017.
Signatures
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Title
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/s/ Tidjane Thiam
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Chief Executive Officer
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Tidjane Thiam
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(Principal Executive Officer)
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/s/ David Mathers
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Chief Financial Officer
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David Mathers
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(Principal Accounting Officer)
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/s/
Urs Rohner
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Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Urs Rohner
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/s/ Richard E. Thornburgh
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Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
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Richard E. Thornburgh
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/s/ Iris Bohnet
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Director
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Iris Bohnet
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/s/ Andreas Gottschling
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Director
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Andreas Gottschling
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/s/ Alexander
Gut
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Director
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Alexander Gut
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/s/ Andreas N. Koopmann
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Director
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Andreas N. Koopmann
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/s/ Seraina (Maag) Macia
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Director
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Seraina (Maag) Macia
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/s/ Kai S. Nargolwala
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Director
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Kai S. Nargolwala
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/s/ Joaquin J. Ribeiro
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Director
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Joaquin J. Ribeiro
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/s/ Severin
Schwan
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Director
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Severin Schwan
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/s/ John Tiner
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Director
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John Tiner
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/s/ Alexandre Zeller
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Director
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Alexandre Zeller
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Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following person in the following capacity
on May 10, 2017.
CREDIT SUISSE (USA), INC.
By
/s/ Lawrence Young
Authorized Representative in the
United States
Name: Lawrence Young
Title:
General Counsel
EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit Number
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Description of Document
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Method of filing
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4.1
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Invitation to the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
of Credit Suisse Group AG
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Filed herewith
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5.1
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Opinion of Homburger with respect to the legality of the securities
being registered
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Filed herewith
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15.1
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Letter of KPMG AG concerning unaudited interim financial statements of Credit Suisse Group AG
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Filed herewith
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23.1
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Consent of KPMG AG
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Filed herewith
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23.2
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Consent of Homburger
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Included in exhibit 5.1 filed herewith
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24.1
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Power of Attorney
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Included herein
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