(o) other than with other Restricted Persons, enter into any negotiations, agreements (whether written or oral), arrangements or understandings with, or advise, finance, assist or encourage, any Third Party to take any action that the Restricted Persons are prohibited from taking pursuant to this Agreement;
(p) acquire, offer, agree or propose to acquire, whether by purchase, tender or exchange offer, through the acquisition of control of another Person or through swap or hedging transactions, any securities of Company or any rights decoupled from the underlying securities of Company that would, in any case, result in the Palogic Group in the aggregate owning, controlling or otherwise having any beneficial or other ownership interest of any additional Voting Securities (including, for purpose of this calculation, all Voting Securities that a member of the Palogic Group has the right to acquire pursuant to the exercise of any rights in connection with any securities or any agreement, regardless of when such rights may be exercised and whether they are conditional and including economic ownership pursuant to a cash settled call option or other derivative security, contract or instrument primarily related to the price of Voting Securities) in excess of 9.5% of the outstanding Voting Securities, it being understood that the following will not be deemed to cause a violation of this clause (p): (i) the receipt by the New Director from Company of any ordinary course compensation in the form of Voting Securities (or securities exercisable for Voting Securities); and (ii) the pro rata acquisition of securities of Company or any rights decoupled from the underlying securities of Company pursuant to any stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications, recapitalizations, combinations or rights issuances (including the pro rata acquisition of securities upon the exercise of such rights) in respect of securities of Company beneficially owned by the Palogic Group in compliance with this Agreement; or
(q) sell, offer or agree to sell, through swap or hedging transactions or otherwise, any securities of Company to any Third Party that would knowingly result in such Third Party, together with its Affiliates, owning, controlling or otherwise having any beneficial or other ownership interest of more than 4.99 percent of the then-outstanding Voting Securities (it being understood that the restrictions in this clause (q) will not apply to any Third Party that is a Schedule 13G filer and is a mutual fund, pension fund, index fund or investment fund manager with no known history of activism or known plans to engage in activism).
9. Mutual Non-Disparagement.
(a) With Respect to Palogic Group. During the Restricted Period, Company will not, and will cause its directors, officers and employees not to, make or cause to be made any public statement that disparages, calls into disrepute, slanders, impugns, casts in a negative light or otherwise damages the reputation of any member of the Palogic Group or any of its current or former officers, directors or employees, or any of its businesses, products or services.
(b) With Respect to Company. During the Restricted Period, the Palogic Signatories will not, and will cause the other Restricted Persons not to, make or cause to be made any public statement that disparages, calls into disrepute, slanders, impugns, casts in a negative light or otherwise damages the reputation of Company or any of its Affiliates or Associates or any of its or their current or former officers, directors or employees, or any of its or their respective businesses, products or services (in each case in their capacity as such).
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