General Terms and Conditions for the Use of the Issuance and Trading
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General Terms and Conditions for the use of the issuance and trading platform for the PREOS Token ("GTC") of publity AG publity AG, with its registered office in Frankfurt am Main, registered with the commercial register of the local court of Frankfurt am Main under HRB 113794, business address OpernTurm, Bockenheimer Land- straße 2-4, 60306 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (hereinafter also referred to as "Publity"), operates the issuance and trading platform 'www.preos-token.de' (hereinafter also referred to as the "Platform"), on which users can subscribe PREOS Tokens in the course of the initial issue ("Issue") and, subsequently, submit offers to buy and sell PREOS Tokens on an over-the-counter basis through a secondary market trading expected to be available from January 2021 ("OTC Trading Platform"). The user has no claim to the establishment or maintenance of the OTC Trading Platform against Publity or Bankhaus Scheich Wertpa- pierspezialist AG ("Bankhaus Scheich"), registered with the commercial register of the local court of Frank- furt am Main under HRB 103196, business address Rossmarkt 21, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, which will act as investment broker (Anlagevermittler) on the OTC Trading Platform. Publity is the sole shareholder of PREOS Blockchain GmbH, registered with the commercial register of the local court of Frankfurt am Main under HRB 119863 (hereinafter also referred to as "PREOS Blockchain") and is the majority shareholder of PREOS Global Office Real Estate & Technology AG ("PREOS Real Es- tate"), registered with the commercial register of the local court of Leipzig under HRB 34786. The shares in PREOS Real Estate are registered no-par value shares (the "PREOS Shares"). The shares are included in the open market of the Munich Stock Exchange in the m:access segment under ISIN DE000A2LQ850. The PREOS Share is also traded on the electronic trading platform (XETRA) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on other German stock exchanges. Bankhaus Scheich is a securities trading bank (Wertpapierhandelsbank) regulated under the German Banking Act (KWG) with German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority ("BaFin")-ID 111518 and was commissioned by Publity to act as an investment broker (Anlagevermittler) on the OTC Trading Platform operated by Publity. Upvest GmbH ("Upvest"), registered with the commercial register of the local court of Berlin (Charlotten- burg) under HRB 190785, business address Torstraße 177, 10115 Berlin, was commissioned by Publity as crypto custodian to offer the user the wallet with the corresponding Ethereum address that was assigned to the user in the course of the Issue of the PREOS Tokens. Upvest has applied for a license for the provision of crypto custody services according to § 1 para. 1a sentence 2 No. 6 KWG with BaFin and may provide crypto custody services according to the current legal situation as of the date of these GTC due to the transitional provision of § 64y para. 1 KWG. § 1 Scope 1.1. These GTC apply to all business relationships between Publity as operator of the Platform and the users, unless expressly agreed otherwise in individual cases. The contracting parties to this contract are exclusively Publity and the user. 1.2. The scope of application covers both the activities of Publity in relation to the Issue and the activities in relation to the OTC Trading Platform. 1.3. The user concludes a separate contract for the custody of the subscribed PREOS Tokens by Upvest. The contracting parties to this contract are exclusively Upvest and the user. Upvest decides on the conclusion of the contract with the User. Publity is involved in the conclusion of the contract only as a receiver for Upvest. The legal relationship between Upvest and the user is governed exclusively by the respective contractual terms in the form of the terms of use of Upvest. The user accepts them by registering on the Platform. 1.4. With regard to the contractual relationship with Bankhaus Scheich, special terms and conditions for the investment brokerage (Anlagevermittlung) of Bankhaus Scheich on the OTC Trading Platform, which are to be concluded separately upon activation of the OTC Trading Platform and the establish- ment of a separate client relationship between the user and Bankhaus Scheich, apply in addition. 1.5. Insofar as the following provisions regarding the activities of Upvest and Bankhaus Scheich conflict with the provisions of the terms of use or the special terms and conditions, respectively, of Upvest and Bankhaus Scheich, their terms of use or special terms and conditions, respectively, shall prevail over these GTC. 1.6. If the following provisions regarding the PREOS Tokens and their holders conflict with the provisions of the Trust and Token Terms and Conditions, the Trust and Token Terms and Conditions shall prevail over these GTC. 1.7. Publity is responsible for the operation of the Platform and website www.preos-token.de as well as all content provided thereon. Bankhaus Scheich has assumed the regulatory responsibility for the invest- ment brokerage (Anlagevermittlung) on the OTC Trading Platform. 1.8. The latest valid version of these GTC is available on the website www.preos-token.de. 1.9. Any registration on the Platform is carried out in accordance with these GTC, which are disclosed to the visitor of the Platform during registration. As part of the registration on the Platform, an email is sent to the visitor of the Platform to confirm the identity of the email address of the visitor. With verification from the email sent to the visitor, the user confirms the identity of the respective email address. Upon completion and confirmation of the registration, the user accepts these GTC. Upon receipt of the confirmation by Publity, a contract of use is concluded between Publity and the user, whereby use of the Platform is only permitted if the provisions contained in these GTC are observed and fulfilled. 1.10. Please note that the legal relationship between Publity and the user is governed exclusively by the provisions of these GTC. § 2 Business object 2.1. Publity is the operator of the Platform, which is available at www.preos-token.de. The Platform serves the handling of the public offer of PREOS Tokens, the subscription for PREOS Tokens, the presentation of information and the brokerage of PREOS tokens via the OTC Trading Platform (expected to be available from January 2021) with Bankhaus Scheich as investment broker (Anlagevermittler). 2.2. Publity is the issuer of the PREOS Tokens and offers the PREOS Tokens for subscription via the Platform as part of the Issue. Publity also reserves the right to specifically name further subscription channels. 2.3. In the course of the Issue, Publity presents the PREOS Tokens to the users and provides information about them. 2.4. Bankhaus Scheich will act as investment broker (Anlagevermittler) on the OTC Trading Platform, where users can place buy and sell offers for PREOS Tokens on an over-the-counter basis. Bankhaus Scheich is not permitted to obtain ownership or possession of the funds or the PREOS Tokens of the users while performing brokerage services. 2.5. The brokerage services of Bankhaus Scheich are subject to regulatory requirements, in particular to a legal obligation to record and retain records in accordance with § 83 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG). 2.6. In principle, Publity assumes the user administration for investments in PREOS Tokens, unless other- wise specified and announced in individual cases. 2.7. Publity and Bankhaus Scheich expressly do not provide any asset, investment or tax advice. The in- formation made available on the Platform or in any other way does not constitute the provision of personal recommendations to the user, which relate to transactions with PREOS Tokens and are not based on an examination of the personal circumstances of the user or are not presented as suitable for the user. Rather, it is legally non-binding information or risk warnings that Publity and Bankhaus Scheich are legally obliged to provide. Users are advised to seek advice from appropriately qualified experts before subscribing to a capital investment in PREOS Tokens. § 3 PREOS Tokens; legal status of holders of PREOS Tokens; custody 3.1. The PREOS Tokens are investment bearer tokens, which represent essential shareholder rights medi- ated by a trustee as well as a right to exchange PREOS Tokens at any time for existing PREOS Shares from the previous holdings of Publity with the same profit participation entitlement as all other existing PREOS Shares and a proportionate amount of the share capital of PREOS Real Estate of EUR 1.00 per underlying PREOS Share. One (1) PREOS Token represents shareholder rights and a right to exchange in relation to one (1) PREOS Share; the ratio is therefore 1:1. 3.2. The PREOS Tokens are issued and managed on the Ethereum blockchain. 3.3. The PREOS Tokens will be transferred by Publity to the subscribers in the course of the Issue, by transferring the trustor position represented by the PREOS Tokens including all rights and obligations foreseen in the underlying Trust and Token Terms and Conditions (the "Trust and Token Terms and Conditions"; the rights and obligations from the Trust and Token Terms and Conditions as a whole also the "Trust Relationship", the Trust Relationship with regard to a single trust share also the "Partial Trust Relationship") with regard to the PREOS Shares to the subscribers by means of transfer of contract. As a result, Publity will withdraw from the underlying Trust Relationship in the course of the Issue. 3.4. The holders of PREOS Tokens (the "Token Holders") assume the position of trustors with regard to the PREOS Shares by transfer of contract. Following the Issue, the claims of the Token Holders with regard to the PREOS Tokens are (exclusively) directed against the trustee appointed by Publity, the PREOS Blockchain (the "Trustee"), which as trustee exercises certain shareholder rights for the ac- count and on the instructions of the Token Holders and is obliged to exchange the PREOS Tokens for PREOS Shares at the request of the Token Holders.