respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and controlling persons, and any current or former officer, director, member or manager of any of the foregoing, and each of their respective heirs, trusts, trustees, executors, estates, administrators, beneficiaries, distributees, foundations, agents, employees, fiduciaries, partners, partnerships, general or limited partners or partnerships, joint ventures, member firms, limited liability companies, corporations, divisions, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, associated entities, stockholders, principals, officers, directors, managing directors, members, managers, managing members, managing agents, predecessors, predecessors-in-interest, successors, successors-in-interest, assigns, financial or investment advisors, attorneys (including all Defendants’ counsel in these Actions), personal or legal representatives, accountants, insurers, co-insurers, reinsurers, and associates.
“Plaintiffs’ Released Claims” means any and all manner of claims, demands, rights, liabilities, losses, obligations, duties, damages, costs, debts, expenses, interest, penalties, sanctions, fees, attorneys’ fees, actions, potential actions, causes of action, suits, agreements, judgments, decrees, matters, issues, and controversies of any kind, nature, or description whatsoever, whether known or unknown, disclosed or undisclosed, accrued or unaccrued, apparent or not apparent, foreseen or unforeseen, matured or not matured, suspected or unsuspected, liquidated or not liquidated, fixed or contingent, including, without limitation, Unknown Claims (as explained below), whether based on state, local, foreign, federal, statutory, regulatory, common or other law or rule, that are, have been, could have been, or could now be asserted in the Actions or in any other court, tribunal, forum, suit, action or proceeding, by any of the Plaintiffs’ Releasors or any member of the Class, derivatively on behalf of the Company, or individually or as a member of the Class directly (in their capacities as current or former Company stockholders), or by the Company directly against any of the Defendants’ Releasees that are based upon, relate in
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