5. | Confidential Information. In connection with the Services, the Company may provide the Consultant with, and/or the Consultant may develop or have access, certain confidential and/or proprietary information developed by or regarding the Company, its clients, and its and its clients’ investments or portfolio companies, in written or unwritten format, in electronic form or otherwise, including, but not limited to, all or any portion of the following: (a) files, records, data, forms, manuals, reports, letters, memorandum documents and work papers; (b) strategic planning related matters; (c) information regarding the abilities and expertise of the Company, its clients, and its and its clients’ investments, portfolio companies, or advisors; (d) research, designs and development pertaining to services, operations, investments of the Company; (e) strategic data, development plans, business plans, future plans and potential strategies, including, tax and estate planning strategies; (f) trade secrets, recipes,know-how, computer software (including programs, applications, models and manuals); (g) tax returns and other filings with federal, state and local tax authorities; and (h) documents and filings relating to litigation and arbitration matters (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information shall not include information which is or becomes (i) generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by the Consultant or its representatives in violation of this Agreement, or (ii) available to the Consultant on anon-confidential basis from a third-party who is not known by the Consultant to be subject to an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such information. The Consultant agrees that Confidential Information will be used solely in connection with, and in the scope of, the Services to the Company, and will be kept strictly confidential. The Consultant shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity in any manner whatsoever, except (i) to the extent that disclosure of such information is required by law (and then, in accordance with the terms of this Section 5), (ii) as required in connection with the scope of the Consultant’s Services to the Company, (iii) to employees, representatives and advisors of the Company who need to know such information for the purposes of their employment with or representation of the Company, it being agreed that such persons receiving such information agree to be bound by covenants substantially similar to this Section 5. Subject to the foregoing, the Consultant will not disclose that (i) Confidential Information has been provided to the Consultant, or (ii) the terms of any engagement of the Consultant by the Company (including the terms of this Agreement). In the event that the Consultant is required by law to disclose any Confidential Information, the Consultant will provide the Company with prompt written notice of such requirement, to the extent not prohibited by law, and will cooperate with the Company, at the Company’s expense, to obtain an appropriate protective order, minimize the required disclosure and obtain reasonable assurance that the Confidential Information will be accorded confidential treatment. All Confidential Information is and shall remain the exclusive property of the Company. Consultant shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any Federal or State trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in confidence to a Federal, State, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law. Consultant shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any Federal or State trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made |