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Change of Control Termination
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Change of Control.Change of Control” means # the acquisition of the Company by another entity by means of any transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, any merger, consolidation or other form of reorganization in which outstanding shares of the Company are exchanged for securities or other consideration issued, or caused to be issued, by the acquiring entity or its subsidiary, but excluding any transaction effected primarily for the purpose of changing the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation), unless the Company’s stockholders of record as constituted immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions will, immediately after such transaction or series of related transactions hold at least a majority of the voting power of the surviving or acquiring entity, except that any change in the ownership of the stock of the Company as a result of a private financing of the Company that is approved by the Board and in which the Board determines is not a Change of Control for the purposes of this Agreement will not be considered a Change of Control, or # a sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

Change in Control” means, with respect to # the Company, any transaction or series of related transactions (including mergers, consolidations and other forms of business consolidations) following which continuing shareholders of the Company hold less than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of either the Company, the entity surviving such transaction or any direct or indirect parent entity of such continuing or surviving entity or # the sale, lease, license, transfer or other disposal of all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company other than to a Person that is and for so long as it continues to be majority owned and controlled, directly or indirectly, subsidiary of the Company.

Change in Control. A “Change in Control” shall mean the following: # any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or other entity or person, or any other corporate reorganization, other than any such consolidation, merger or reorganization in which the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or reorganization, continue to hold a majority of the voting power of the surviving entity (or, if the surviving entity is a wholly owned subsidiary, its parent) immediately after such consolidation, merger or reorganization; # any transaction or series of related transactions to which the Company is a party in which in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the Company’s voting power is transferred; provided that the foregoing shall not include any transaction or series of transactions principally for bona fide equity financing purposes in which cash is received by the Company or indebtedness of the Company is cancelled or converted or a combination thereof; or # a sale, lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

Change in Control. For all purposes of this Agreement, “Change in Control” shall mean: # the completion of one or more transactions by which any person or entity (and his, her or its affiliates) becomes the beneficial owner 50.1% or more of the voting power of the Company’s securities; or # any merger, consolidation or liquidation of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving company or pursuant to which stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property, other than a merger of the Company in which the holders of the shares stock immediately before the merger have the same proportionate ownership of the Common Stock of the surviving company immediately after the merger; or # substantially all of the assets of the Company are sold or otherwise to parties that are not within a “controlled group of corporations” (as defined in Section 1563 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) in which the Company is a member at the time of such sale or transfer.

Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events: # any sale or exchange of the capital stock by the stockholders of the Company in one transaction or series of related transactions where more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting power of the Company is acquired by a person or entity or group of related persons or entities; or # any reorganization, consolidation or merger of the Company where the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately before the transaction represent or are converted into less than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting power of the surviving entity (or its parent corporation) immediately after the transaction; or # the consummation of any transaction or series of related transactions that results in the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or # any “person” or “group” (as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) becoming the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) directly or indirectly of securities representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the Company then outstanding. Except that any change in the beneficial ownership of the securities of the Company as a result of a private financing of the Company that is approved by the Board, shall not be deemed to be a Change in Control.

Change of Control” shall mean a transaction or a series of related transactions involving (i) a consolidation or merger of the Company which results in the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the transaction owning less than a majority of the equity or voting power of the surviving entity, (ii) the sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets taken as a whole together with any assets of the Company’s subsidiaries, whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise, and whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, (iii) the grant of an exclusive license to all or substantially all of the Company’s intellectual property that is used to generate all or substantially all of the Company’s revenues, or (iv) any sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s equity or any other transaction which results in the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the transaction owning less than a majority of the equity or voting power of the surviving entity but not including any transaction or series of transactions principally for bona fide equity financing purposes in which cash is received by the Company or indebtedness of the Company is cancelled or converted (or a combination thereof).

Change in Control” means # the consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or # the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company. The foregoing notwithstanding, a merger or consolidation of the Company does not constitute a “Change in Control” if immediately after the merger or consolidation a majority of the voting power of the capital stock of the continuing or surviving entity, or any direct or indirect parent corporation of the continuing or surviving entity, will be owned by the persons who were the Company’s stockholders immediately prior to the merger or consolidation insubstantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting power of the Company’s capital stock immediately prior to the merger or consolidation.

For purposes of the Plan, a “Change in Control” shall mean # a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all (as determined by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion) of the assets of the Company; or # a merger, consolidation or similar transaction in which the Company is not the surviving corporation (other than a transaction in which stockholders immediately before the transaction have, immediately after the transaction, at least a majority of the voting power of the surviving corporation); or # the consummation of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction in which the Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of the Company’s Common Stock outstanding immediately preceding the transaction are converted by virtue of the transaction into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise (other than a transaction in which stockholders immediately before the transaction have, immediately after the transaction, at least a majority of the voting power of the surviving corporation); or # any transaction or series of related transactions in which in excess of 50% of the Company’s voting power is transferred, other than the sale by the Company of stock in transactions the primary purpose of which is to raise capital for the Company’s operations and activities.

Change in Control.Change in Control” shall mean the consummation of any transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which one or more Persons or group of Persons acquires # capital stock of the Company possessing the voting power sufficient to elect a majority of the members of the Board or the board of directors of the successor to the Company (whether such transaction is effected by merger, consolidation, recapitalization, sale or transfer of the Company’s capital stock or otherwise) or # all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.

Change of Control” shall mean (i) a sale of all or substantially all the assets of the Company; (ii) a merger into or consolidation of the Company with any other corporation, except any such merger or consolidation involving the Company or a subsidiary of the Company in which the holders of capital stock of the Company immediately prior to such a merger or consolidation continue to hold immediately following such merger or consolidation at least fifty percent (50%) by voting power of the capital stock of (A) the surviving or resulting corporation or (B) if the surviving or resulting corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of another corporation immediately following such merger or consolidation, the parent corporation of such surviving or resulting corporation; or (iii) any transaction or series of related transactions to which the Company is a party in which in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the Company’s voting stock is transferred, other than such a transaction completed primarily for equity financing purposes.

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