Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of aircraft and rail transportation equipment and systems. Exhibit 10.19 contains an excerpt from Note 38 of the company’s 2016 annual report detailing Bombardier’s contingencies.

EXHIBIT 10.19 Excerpt from Bombardier Inc.’s 2016 Annual Report

38. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (amounts in millions of US dollars).

Litigation

In the normal course of operations, the Corporation is a defendant in certain legal proceedings currently pending before various courts in relation to product liability and contract disputes with customers and other third parties. The Corporation intends to vigorously defend its position in these matters. While the Corporation cannot predict the final outcome of all legal proceedings pending as at December 31, 2016, based on information currently available, management believes that the resolution of these legal proceedings will not have a material adverse eff ect on its financial position.

Investigation in Brazil

On March 20, 2014, Bombardier Transportation Brasil Ltda (“BT Brazil”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation, received notice that it was among the 18 companies and over 100 individuals named in administrative proceedings initiated by governmental authorities in Brazil, including the Administrative Council for Economic Protection (“CADE”), and the Sao Paulo Public Prosecutor’s off ice, following previously disclosed investigations carried on by such governmental authorities with respect to allegations of cartel activity in the public procurement of railway equipment and the construction and maintenance of railway lines in Sao Paulo and other areas. Since the service of process in 2014 on BT Brazil, the competition authority has decided to detach the proceedings against 43 individuals whom it claims to have been difficult to serve process and has also issued additional technical notes dealing with various procedural objections raised by the defendant corporations and individuals. BT Brazil is currently contesting before the courts both the decision to detach the proceedings against 43 individuals and decisions by CADE restricting physical access to some of the forensic evidence. BT Brazil as a result of the administrative proceedings initiated by CADE in 2014 became a party as defendant to legal proceedings brought by the Sao Paulo State prosecution service against it and other companies for alleged ‘administrative improbity’ in relation to refurbishment contracts awarded in 2009 by the Sao Paulo metro operator CMSP and for ‘cartel’ in relation to a five year-maintenance contract with the Sao Paulo urban transit operator CPTM signed in 2002. In September 2015, the prosecution service of Sao Paulo announced a second public civil action for ‘cartel’ in relation to the follow-on five year maintenance contract covering the period 2007 to 2012. In addition, BT Brazil was served notice and joined in December 2014 a civil suit as co-defendant first commenced by the Sao Paulo state government against Siemens AG in the fall of 2013 and with which the State government seeks to recover loss for alleged cartel activities. Companies found to have engaged in unlawful cartel conduct are subject to administrative fines, state actions for repayment of overcharges and potentially disqualification for a certain period. The Corporation and BT Brazil continue to cooperate with investigations relating to the administrative proceedings and intend to defend themselves vigorously.

Required

Explain, in your own words, what Bombardier is saying in this note disclosure. Be sure to discuss the financial impacts this litigation could have on the company if a future judgement went against the company.