SEC Form IRANNOTICE filed by Gates Industrial Corporation plc
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Industrial Machinery/Components
Industrials
Exhibit 99.1
Section 13(r) Disclosure
After Gates Industrial Corporation plc (“Gates”) filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 29, 2024 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), Blackstone Inc. (“Blackstone”) filed the disclosure reproduced below with respect to its quarter ended June 30, 2024, in accordance with Section 13(r) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in regard to Mundys S.p.A. (formerly, Atlantia S.p.A.). Mundys S.p.A. may be, or may have been at the time considered to be, an affiliate of Blackstone, and therefore an affiliate of Gates. As of the date Gates filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 28, 2024 with the SEC, Blackstone had not yet filed its Form 10-Q for its quarter ended September 30, 2024. Therefore, the disclosure reproduced below does not include any information for the quarter ended September 28, 2024. Gates did not independently verify or participate in the preparation of the disclosure reproduced below.
Blackstone included the following disclosure in its Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2024:
Mundys S.p.A. (formerly “Atlantia S.p.A.”) provided the disclosure reproduced below in connection with activities during the quarter ended June 30, 2024. We have not independently verified or participated in the preparation of this disclosure.
“Disclosure pursuant to Section 13(r) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Funds affiliated with Blackstone first invested in Mundys S.p.A. on November 18, 2022 in connection with the voluntary public tender offer by Schema Alfa S.p.A. for all of the shares of Mundys S.p.A., pursuant to which such funds obtained a minority non-controlling interest in Mundys S.p.A. Mundys S.p.A. owns and controls Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A. (“ADR”), an operator of airports in Italy including Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport. Iran Air has historically operated periodic flights to and from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport as authorized, from time to time, by an aviation-related bilateral agreement between Italy and Iran, scheduled in compliance with European Regulation 95/93, and approved by the Italian Civil Aviation Authority. ADR, as airport operator, is under a mandatory obligation to provide airport services to all air carriers (including Iran Air) authorized by the applicable Italian authority. The relevant turnover attributable to these activities (whose consideration is calculated on the basis of general tariffs determined by such independent Italian authority) in the quarter ended June 30, 2024 was less than €50,000. Mundys S.p.A. does not track profits specifically attributable to these activities.”