No Material Adverse Effect. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, there has not been # any Material Adverse Effect, or any development that would result in a Material Adverse Effect, # any transaction which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, # any obligation or liability, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), incurred by the Company or the Subsidiaries, which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, # any material change in the capital stock (other than # the grant of additional options under the Company’s existing stock option plans, # changes in the number of outstanding Common Stock of the Company due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise or conversion of securities exercisable for, or convertible into, Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof, # as a result of the issuance of Placement Shares, # any repurchases of capital stock of the Company, # as described in a proxy statement filed on [Schedule 14A] or a Registration Statement on Form S-4, or # otherwise publicly announced) or outstanding long-term indebtedness of the Company or the Subsidiaries or # any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or any Subsidiary, other than in each case above in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement or Prospectus (including any document incorporated by reference therein).

No Material Adverse Effect. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by referenceChange. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been # any Material Adverse Effect,no material adverse change or effect, or any development that would be reasonably expected to result in a Materialmaterial adverse change or effect, in # the condition (financial or otherwise), business, properties, operations, results of operations or management, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity or # the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or perform its obligations hereunder (any such change being referred to herein as a “Material Adverse Effect,Change”). Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, # except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, neither the Company nor any transaction whichof its subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or obligation, whether indirect, direct or contingent, including without limitation any losses or interference with their business from fire, explosion, flood, earthquakes, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any strike, labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree (whether domestic or foreign), that is materialmaterial, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, or entered into any material transaction not in the Subsidiaries taken as a whole,ordinary course of business; # any obligation or liability, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), incurred byneither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has declared, paid or the Subsidiaries, which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, # any material change in the capital stock (other than # the grant of additional options under the Company’s existing stock option plans, # changes in the number of outstanding Common Stock of the Company due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise or conversion of securities exercisable for, or convertible into, Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof, # as a result of the issuance of Placement Shares, # any repurchases of capital stock of the Company, # as described in a proxy statement filed on [Schedule 14A] or a Registration Statement on Form S-4, or # otherwise publicly announced) or outstanding long-term indebtedness of the Company or the Subsidiaries or #made any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on any class of its capital stock; and # there has not been any material change in the capital stockstock, short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary, other than in each case above in the ordinary course of businessits subsidiaries, except as disclosed or as otherwise disclosedcontemplated in the Registration Statement or Prospectus (including any document incorporated by reference therein).and the Prospectus.