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APPLICATION OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANY

FOR REGISTRATION AND LICENSE TO ESTABLISH

A REGIONAL OPERATING HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

PDC GLOBAL PTY LTD (Applicant), hereby applies with the Securities and Exchange

Commission under Executive Order No. 226 otherwise known as the Omnibus InvestmentsCode of 1987, as amended by Republic Act No. 8756 and its implementing rules andregulations, for registration and license to establish a regional operating headquarters (ROHQ)in the Philippines, and submits the following statements, undertaking and accompanyingdocuments:

1. The Applicant is a foreign company organized and existing under the laws ofAustralia, engaged in engineering and information technology services, with affiliates,subsidiaries, or branch offices in the Asia-Pacific Region and other foreign markets.

2. The services which the Applicant intends to engage in are:

a. General administration and planning;b. Business planning and coordination;c. Corporate finance advisory services;d. Marketing control and sales promotion;e. Training and personnel management;f. Technical support and maintenance;g. Data processing and communication; andh. Business development.

3. The location of its principal office in the Philippines is at Level 20, Strata 2000, F.Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas, Pasig City, Philippines.

4. The Applicant has affiliates, subsidiaries or branch offices in the following places:

NAME ADDRESS

Perth, Australia Office: PDC Consultants 48 Kishorn Rd Applecross, WesternAustralia 6153, PO Box 1267 CanningBridge, Western Australia 6153, AustraliaTel: + 61 8 9315 6600Fax: + 61 8 9364 7860

Brisbane, Australia Office: PDC

Consultants

Level 1, Unit 1B 19 Lang Parade Milton,

Queensland 4064, AustraliaTel: + 61 7 3721 0400Fax: + 61 7 3721 0499

Manila, Philippines Office: 4D GlobalGroup Inc.

Level 16, Strata 2000, F. Ortigas Jr. Rd.(Emerald Ave.) Ortigas Center, Pasig CityMetro Manila, PhilippinesTel: + 63 2 634 8960Fax: + 63 2 634 8961

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Connecticut, USA Office: 4D Global GroupInc.

4D Global Group Inc. 39 Brooklawn AvenueNorwalk, CT, 06854-2147, USATel/Fax: + 1 203 286 6784

5. The ROHQ shall not directly or indirectly engage in the sale and distribution of

goods and services of the Applicant, its branches, affiliates, subsidiaries, or any other company.

6. The Applicant shall notify the Board of Investments and the Securities andExchange Commission, the Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, as the case maybe, of any decision toclose down or suspend operations of the ROHQ at least fifteen (15) days before the same iseffected.

7. The Applicant shall initially remit into the Philippines within thirty (30) days fromreceipt of the Certificate of Registration from the Securities and Exchange Commission, anamount of at least TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS ($200,000.00) or itsequivalent in other foreign currencies and converted into Philippine Pesos. The corresponding

Certificate of Inward Remittance from the local bank showing that it has remitted the requiredamount shall be submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Board ofInvestments.

8. RAUL TITO A. ESTRELLA, with office address at Suite 2402, Discovery Center,25 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, is its local agent in the Philippines, representing the

Applicant and/or the ROHQ before any and all government agencies or other offices, incorporate acts and transactions, and receive summons and other legal processes on behalf ofthe Applicant and/or the ROHQ.

9. The Applicant undertakes to change the name of the ROHQ immediately uponreceipt of notice or directive from the Securities and Exchange Commission that anothercorporation, partnership or person has acquired a prior right to the use of the name or that thename has been declared as misleading, deceptive, confusingly similar to a registered name, orcontrary to public morals, good customs or public policy.

10. Attached hereto are:

a. Name Verification Slipb. Indorsement from the Board of Investmentsc.

A certification from the Philippine Consulate/Embassy, or the PhilippineCommercial Office or from the equivalent office of the Philippine Department ofTrade and Industry in the applicants home country that said foreign firm is anentity engaged in international trade with affiliates, subsidiaries or branch officesin the Asia-Pacific Region and other foreign markets; and

d. A duly authenticated certification from the principal officer of the foreign companyto the effect that the said foreign company has been authorized by its Board ofDirectors or governing body to establish its Regional Operating Headquarters inthe Philippines.

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Done this 3rd day of September 2012 in Pasig City.

PDC GLOBAL PTY LTD

By:

RAUL TITO A. ESTRELLA

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, this __ September 2012 in Pasig City, affiantexhibiting to me his Community Tax Certificate No. 11120269 issued on 04 January 2012 aswell as a competent evidence of identity in the form of his Tax Identification Card with No. 150-130-441.

Doc. No. ______;

Page No.______;Book No. ______;Series of 2012.