regulations, whether federal, state, local or foreign; and (iii) rules of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Shares are listed, quoted or traded.
2.5 “Award” shall mean an Option, a Restricted Stock award, a Restricted Stock Unit award, a Performance Award, a Dividend Equivalents award, a Stock Payment award or a Stock Appreciation Right, which may be awarded or granted under the Plan (collectively, “Awards”).
2.6 “Award Agreement” shall mean any written notice, agreement, terms and conditions, contract or other instrument or document evidencing an Award, including through electronic medium, which shall contain such terms and conditions with respect to an Award as the Administrator shall determine consistent with the Plan.
2.7 “Beneficial Owner” (or any variant thereof) has the meaning defined inRule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.
2.8 “Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
2.9 “Cause” means, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined by the applicable Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Holder and a Participating Company applicable to an Award, any of the following: (i) the Holder’s theft, dishonesty, willful misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty for personal profit, or falsification of any Participating Company documents or records; (ii) the Holder’s material failure to abide by a Participating Company’s code of conduct or other policies (including, without limitation, policies relating to confidentiality and reasonable workplace conduct); (iii) the Holder’s unauthorized use, misappropriation, destruction or diversion of any tangible or intangible asset or corporate opportunity of a Participating Company (including, without limitation, the Holder’s improper use or disclosure of a Participating Company’s confidential or proprietary information); (iv) any intentional act by the Holder which has a material detrimental effect on a Participating Company’s reputation or business; (v) the Holder’s repeated failure or inability to perform any reasonable assigned duties after written notice from a Participating Company of, and a reasonable opportunity to cure, such failure or inability; (vi) any material breach by the Holder of any employment or service agreement between the Holder and a Participating Company, which breach is not cured pursuant to the terms of such agreement; or (vii) the Holder’s conviction (including any plea of guilty or nolo contendere) of any criminal act involving fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation or moral turpitude, or which impairs the Holder’s ability to perform his or her duties with a Participating Company.
2.10 “Change in Capitalization” means any (i) merger, consolidation, reclassification, recapitalization,spin-off,spin-out, repurchase or other reorganization or corporate transaction or event, (ii) special or extraordinary dividend or other extraordinary distribution (whether in the form of cash, Common Stock or other property), stock split, reverse stock split, share subdivision or consolidation, (iii) combination or exchange of shares or (iv) other change in corporate structure, which, in any such case, the Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, affects the Shares such that an adjustment pursuant toSection 12.2 is appropriate.
2.11 “Change in Control” means the first occurrence of an event set forth in any one of the following paragraphs following the Effective Date:
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