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Definition of Change of Control
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Definition of Change of Control. For the purpose of this Agreement, a “Change of Control” shall be deemed to have taken place upon the first of the following to occur after the date of this Agreement: # a third person, including a “group” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, acquires shares of the Corporation having 30% or more of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of directors of the Corporation; or # as the result of any cash tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination, sale of assets or contested election, or any combination of the foregoing transactions (a “Transaction”), the persons who were directors of the Corporation before the Transaction shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or any successor to the Corporation.

Definition of Change of Control. For the purpose of this Agreement, a “Change of Control” shall be deemed to have taken place upon the first of the following to occur after the date of this Agreement: # a third person, including a “group” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, acquires shares of the Corporation having 30% or more of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of directors of the Corporation; or # as the result of any cash tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination, sale of assets or contested election, or any combination of the foregoing transactions (a “Transaction”), the persons who were directors of the Corporation before the Transaction shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or any successor to the Corporation.

Change of Control: A “Change of Control” shall be deemed to have taken place upon the first of the following to occur: # a third person, including a “group” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, acquires shares of the Corporation having 30% or more of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of directors of the Corporation; or # as the result of any cash tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination, sale of assets or contested election, or any combination of the foregoing transactions (a “Transaction”), the persons who were directors of the Corporation before the Transaction shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or any successor to the Corporation.

Change of Control” means an event deemed to have taken place if: # a third person, including a “group” as defined for purposes of Code Section 409A, acquires shares of the Corporation having 30 percent or more of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of Directors of the Corporation; or # as the result of any cash tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination, sale of assets or contested election, or any combination of the foregoing transactions (a “Transaction”), the persons who were Directors of the Corporation before the Transaction shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board or of the board of directors of any successor to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term Change of Control shall not include a sale of assets, merger or other transaction effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Corporation.

Change of Control” means an event deemed to have taken place if: (i) a third person, including a “group” as defined for purposes of Code Section 409A, acquires shares of the Corporation having 30 percent or more of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of Directors of the Corporation; or (ii) as the result of any cash tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination, sale of assets or contested election, or any combination of the foregoing transactions (a “Transaction”), the persons who were Directors of the Corporation before the Transaction shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or any successor to the Corporation.

Change in Control”: of any corporation, shall occur when # any Person or “group” (as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), other than , shall acquire more than 30% of the Voting Stock of such corporation or # the Continuing Directors shall not constitute a majority of the board of directors of such corporation.

Definition of Change of Control. As used in this Section 14.01 the term “Change of Control” shall mean # any merger, reorganization, consolidation or combination in which a Party to this Agreement is not the surviving corporation, or # any “person” (within the meaning of [Sections 13(d) and 14] (d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), excluding Licensee and its Affiliates, is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Party representing 50% or more of either # the then-outstanding shares of common stock of the Party or its parent corporation, or # the combined voting power of the Party’s then-outstanding voting securities; or # if individuals who as of the Effective Date constitute the Board of Directors of the Party or its parent corporation (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of such Board of Directors; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the Effective Date whose election, or nomination for election by the Party’s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a person other than the Incumbent Board; or # approval by the shareholders of a Party of a complete liquidation or the complete dissolution of such Party.

For the purpose of this Agreement, a Change in Control of the Company has occurred when: # any person (defined for the purposes of this [Section 4G] to mean any person within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)), other than a participant in a transaction approved by its Board of Directors for the principal purpose of raising additional capital, either directly or indirectly, acquires beneficial ownership (determined under Rule 13d-3 of the Regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of securities issued by the Company having forty five percent (45%) or more of the voting power of all the voting securities; # a majority of the Directors elected at any meeting of the holders of voting securities of the Company are persons who were not nominated for such election by the Board of Directors or a duly constituted committee of the Board of Directors having authority in such matters; # the stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of the Company with another person other than a merger or consolidation in which the holders of the Company’s voting securities issued and outstanding immediately before such merger or consolidation continue to hold voting securities in the surviving or resulting corporation (in the same relative proportions to each other as existed before such event) comprising fifty one percent (51%) or more of the voting power for all purposes of the surviving or resulting corporation; or # the stockholders of the Company approve a transfer of substantially all of the assets of the Company to another person other than a transfer to a transferee, fifty one percent (51%) or more of the voting power of which is owned or controlled by the Company or by the holders of the Company’s voting securities issued and outstanding immediately before such transfer in similar relative proportions to each other as existed before such event.

Definition. For purposes of this Agreement, “Change of Control” means the removal of Executive as Chief Executive Officer or Board Chair as the result of the occurrence of any of the following events: # the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any person, entity or group of persons acting in concert; # any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), other than any then currently existing shareholder as of the Change of Control date, becoming the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under said act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total voting power represented by the Company’s then outstanding voting securities but in no event shall the completion of an offering # of the Company’s Common Stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Company’s initial public offering or # a private offering of shares of the capital stock of the Company constitute a Change of Control; or # a merger or consolidation of the Company with any other corporation or entity not affiliated with any currently existing shareholder, other than a merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) at least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation. ; and # the engagement of a new Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

Change in Control” means # the acquisition by any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of 20% or more of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Parent entitled to vote for members of the board of directors of the Parent on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right) or # during any period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Parent cease to be composed of individuals # who were members of that board on the first day of such period, # whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in [clause (A) above] constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or # whose election or nomination to that board was approved by individuals referred to in [clauses (A) and (B) above] constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board.

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