INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS - Banca di Legnano

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In respect of Dual Currency Notes, Index Linked Notes, Share Linked Notes, GDR/ADR Linked
Notes, FX Linked Notes, Commodity Linked Notes, Fund Linked Notes, Inflation Linked Notes, Hybrid
Notes, Notes Linked to other Underlying Asset(s), and Physical Delivery Notes (all as defined below), the
applicable Final Terms will specify the nature of the responsibility taken by the Issuer for the information
relating to any underlying equity security, index, debt security, credit, currency exchange rate, commodity,
commodity index, or other asset(s) (each, an “Underlying Asset”) (if applicable) to which the relevant
Notes relate and which is contained in such Final Terms. However, unless otherwise expressly stated in the
applicable Final Terms, any information contained therein relating to an Underlying Asset(s) will only
consist of extracts from, or summaries of, information contained in financial and other information
released publicly by the issuer, owner, or sponsor, as the case may be, of such Underlying Asset(s) or
which is otherwise publicly available. The Issuer will, unless otherwise expressly stated in the applicable
Final Terms, accept responsibility for accurately reproducing such extracts or summaries (insofar as it is
applicable) and will state in the applicable Final Terms that such information has been accurately
reproduced and that, so far as it is aware and is able to ascertain from information published by such
issuer, owner, or sponsor, as the case may be, no facts have been omitted which would render the
reproduced information relating to such Underlying Asset(s) inaccurate or misleading, but the Issuer will
not accept any further or other responsibility (express or implied) in respect of such information. Unless
otherwise stated in the applicable Final Terms, the Issuer does not intend to provide post-issuance
information in relation to the Underlying Asset(s).
In making an investment decision with respect to any Dual Currency Notes, Index Linked Notes,
Share Linked Notes, GDR/ADR Linked Notes, FX Linked Notes, Commodity Linked Notes, Fund Linked
Notes, Inflation Linked Notes, Hybrid Notes, Notes Linked to other Underlying Asset(s), and Physical
Delivery Notes, an investor should, where relevant, give consideration to the Underlying Asset(s) relating
to such Notes, and, accordingly, an investor should conduct an independent investigation of the relevant
Underlying Asset(s) and the risks related to an investment in such Notes. In such investigation, an investor
should (i) obtain copies of all the documents that are publicly available to the potential and actual investors
in such Underlying Asset(s) and review all such documents carefully, (ii) ask questions of the respective
managements of the issuers, owners, guarantors, or sponsors of such Underlying Asset(s) in respect of
such documentation and in respect of such other matters as such an investor deems necessary or
appropriate to making an informed investment decision with respect to such Underlying Asset(s), (iii)
request from the issuers, owners, guarantors, or sponsors of the Underlying Asset(s) all additional
information considered by such an investor to be necessary or appropriate to verify the accuracy of, or to
supplement the information contained in, the applicable Final Terms or in the documents otherwise
obtained by such an investor, (iv) consult such investor’s own legal counsel and business, investment,
financial, accounting, regulatory, tax, and other professional advisors to determine the consequences of the
investment in such Notes, and (v) not rely on the Issuer, any Dealer(s), or any of their Affiliates (as defined
herein) in connection with such investor’s investigation of the accuracy of such information or such
investor’s investment decision. Investors in Notes linked to Underlying Assets should be aware that, other
than in certain circumstances in relation to Physical Delivery Notes as specified in the relevant Final
Terms, the Underlying Asset will not be held by the Issuer for the benefit of investors, and as such,
investors will not obtain any rights of ownership, including without limitation, any voting rights, any rights
to receive dividends or other distributions or any other rights with respect to the Underlying Asset. For the
avoidance of doubt, other than in certain circumstances in relation to Physical Delivery Notes, no affiliate
of the Issuer is under any obligation whatsoever to acquire and hold any Underlying Asset.
An investment in Dual Currency Notes, Index Linked Notes, Share Linked Notes, GDR/ADR
Linked Notes, FX Linked Notes, Commodity Linked Notes, Fund Linked Notes, Inflation Linked Notes,
Hybrid Notes, Notes Linked to other Underlying Asset(s), and Physical Delivery Notes is subject to a very
high degree of complex risks that may arise without warning and may at times be volatile, and losses may
occur quickly and in unanticipated magnitudes. Such Notes may be extremely speculative and investors
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