[”Stock Options” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement;]4
“Takeover Proposal” shall mean any inquiry, proposal or offer from any Person (other than Bidder) relating to, or that could reasonably be expected to lead to any direct or indirect acquisition, in one transaction or a series of transactions, including, any merger, consolidation, tender offer, exchange offer, stock acquisition, asset acquisition, binding share exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, joint venture or similar transaction, of (A) assets or businesses that constitute or represent 15% or more of the total revenue, operating income, EBITDA or assets of the Company and its Affiliates, taken as a whole, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, or (B) 15% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, the Company or any class of capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, any of the Company’s Affiliates directly or indirectly holding, individually or taken together, the assets or businesses referred to in (A) above, in each case other than the Offer;
“Tender Offer Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals of this Agreement;
“Tendered Shares” shall mean (i) the [ ● ] Company Shares which Shareholder holds on the date hereof and (ii) any other Company Shares attributable to or derived from such Company Shares;
“Third Party” shall mean a Person who is not an Affiliate of Bidder;
“Third Party Offer” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3; and
“Transfer” shall mean, with respect to any Company Securities, (i) when used as a verb, to sell, hypothecate, give, bequeath, transfer, exchange, assign, pledge or in any other way whatsoever encumber or dispose of such Company Securities or any participation or interest therein (including by way of securities lending, equity swap or other derivative transactions), whether directly or indirectly (including by way of the Transfer of such Company Securities to any subsidiary of any Person that is subsequently transferred in whole or in part to any other Person), or to enter into any contract, option, or other arrangement, commitment or understanding to do any of the foregoing actions, and (ii) when used as a noun, any indirect or direct sale, hypothecation, gift, bequest, transfer, exchange, assignment, pledge or any other encumbrance or disposal whatsoever of such Company Securities or any participation or interest therein or any contract, option, or other arrangement, commitment or understanding to effect any of the foregoing.
1.2 Construction. For the purposes of this Agreement: (i) words (including capitalized terms defined herein) in the singular shall be held to include the plural and vice versa as the context requires; (ii) the terms “hereof,” “herein,” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise expressly stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole (including any Annex hereto) and not
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