“Contract” means any agreement, contract, lease, indenture, instrument, note, debenture, bond, mortgage or deed of trust or other agreement, arrangement or understanding;
“Depositary” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., or any successor depositary of the Company’s ADS program;
“Encumbrance” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, title defect, preemptive or similar right or other encumbrance;
“Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
“Governmental Entity” means any supranational, national, provincial, state, municipal, local or other government, whether U.S., PRC or otherwise, any instrumentality, subdivision, administrative agency or commission thereof, court, other governmental authority or regulatory body or instrumentality, or any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, taxing, importing or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority or any self-regulatory agency (including any stock exchange);
“HKIAC” has the meaning set forth in Section 9(a);
“Material Adverse Effect” means any event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or development, individually or together with other events, occurrences, facts, conditions, changes or developments, that has or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the business or operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) as presently conducted, or the financial condition, assets or results of operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) or (b) the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred, there shall be excluded any effect on the business of the Company or any Subsidiary relating to or arising in connection with (i) any action required to be taken pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement or taken at the direction of the Purchaser, (ii) economic changes affecting the industry in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate generally or the economy of the PRC or any other market where the Company and its Subsidiaries have material operations or sales generally (provided in each case that such changes do not have a unique and materially disproportionate impact on the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries), (iii) the execution, announcement or disclosure of this Agreement or the pendency or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereunder or thereunder, (iv) changes in generally accepted accounting principles that are generally applicable to comparable companies, (v) changes in general legal, tax or regulatory conditions, (vi) changes in national or international political or social conditions, including any engagement in hostilities or the occurrence of any military or terrorist attack or civil unrest, or (vii) earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, epidemics or other public health crises or other disasters;
“NaaS Public Documents” means all registration statements, proxy statements and other statements, reports, schedules, forms and other documents required from time to time to be filed or furnished by the Company with or to the SEC on or after June 10, 2022, and all exhibits included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein;
“NASDAQ” means The NASDAQ Stock Market;
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