Ventas Completes Acquisition of New Senior Investment Group Inc. - Seite 3

Certain factors that could affect Ventas’s future results and Ventas’s ability to achieve its stated goals include, but are not limited to: (a) the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including of the Delta or any other variant, on Ventas’s revenue, level of profitability, liquidity and overall risk exposure and the implementation and impact of regulations related to the CARES Act and other stimulus legislation and any future COVID-19 relief measures; (b) Ventas’s ability to achieve the anticipated benefits and synergies from the acquisition of, and the risk of greater than expected costs or other difficulties related to the integration of, New Senior; (c) Ventas’s exposure and the exposure of Ventas’s tenants, borrowers and managers to complex healthcare and other regulation and the challenges and expense associated with complying with such regulation; (d) the potential for significant general and commercial claims, legal actions, regulatory proceedings or enforcement actions that could subject Ventas or Ventas’s tenants, borrowers or managers to increased operating costs and uninsured liabilities; (e) the impact of market and general economic conditions, including economic and financial market events, or events that affect consumer confidence, Ventas’s occupancy rates and resident fee revenues, and the actual and perceived state of the real estate markets, labor markets and public capital markets; (f) Ventas’s ability, and the ability of Ventas’s tenants, borrowers and managers, to navigate the trends impacting Ventas’s or their businesses and the industries in which Ventas or they operate; (g) the risk of bankruptcy, insolvency or financial deterioration of Ventas’s tenants, borrowers, managers and other obligors and Ventas’s ability to foreclose successfully on the collateral securing Ventas’s loans and other investments in the event of a borrower default; (h) Ventas’s ability to identify and consummate future investments in or dispositions of healthcare assets and effectively manage Ventas’s portfolio opportunities and Ventas’s investments in co-investment vehicles; (i) Ventas’s ability to attract and retain talented employees; (j) the limitations and significant requirements imposed upon Ventas’s business as a result of Ventas’s status as a REIT and the adverse consequences (including the possible loss of Ventas’s status as a REIT) that would result if Ventas is not able to comply; (k) the risk of changes in healthcare law or regulation or in tax laws, guidance and interpretations, particularly as applied to REITs, that could adversely affect Ventas or Ventas’s tenants, borrowers or managers; (l) increases in Ventas’s borrowing costs as a result of becoming more leveraged or as a result of changes in interest rates and phasing out of LIBOR rates; (m) Ventas’s reliance on third parties to operate a majority of Ventas’s assets and Ventas’s limited control and influence over such operations and results; (n) Ventas’s dependency on a limited number of tenants and managers for a significant portion of Ventas’s revenues and operating income; (o) the adequacy of insurance coverage provided by Ventas’s policies and policies maintained by Ventas’s tenants, managers or other counterparties; (p) the occurrence of cyber incidents that could disrupt Ventas’s operations, result in the loss of confidential information or damage Ventas’s business relationships and reputation; (q) the impact of merger, acquisition and investment activity in the healthcare industry or otherwise affecting Ventas’s tenants, borrowers or managers; and (r) the risk of catastrophic or extreme weather and other natural events and the physical effects of climate change.