(l) “Continuing Employee” means any employee of the Company who remains employed with the Company after the Closing;
(m) “Contract” means any loan or credit agreement, bond, debenture, note, mortgage, indenture, guarantee, lease or other contract, commitment, agreement, instrument, arrangement, understanding, obligation, undertaking or license, whether oral or written;
(n) “COVID-19” means SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 (including any evolutions, mutations or variations thereof) or any related or associated epidemics, pandemics or disease outbreaks;
(o) “COVID-19 Measures” means any quarantine, “shelter in place,” “stay at home,” workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, sequester, safety or similar Law, directive, guideline, response or recommendation, in each case, of or promulgated by any Governmental Entity, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, or other reasonable actions taken, in each case, in connection with or in response to COVID-19 and including, in each case, any changes in any such Law, directive, guidance, response or recommendation;
(p) “Indebtedness” means any (A) indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) indebtedness evidenced by any bond, debenture, note, mortgage, indenture or other debt instrument or debt security, (C) amounts owing as deferred purchase price for the purchase of any property, (D) capital lease obligations, (E) liabilities arising out of interest rate and currency swap arrangements and any other arrangements designed to provide protection against fluctuations in interest or currency rates, (F) liabilities under sale-and-leaseback transactions, agreements to repurchase securities sold and other similar financing transactions, (G) liabilities arising from any breach of any of the foregoing or (H) guarantees with respect to any indebtedness or obligation of a type described in clauses (A) through (G) above of any other person;
(q) “knowledge” means, with respect to any matter in question, the actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry and investigation, of the persons identified in Section 8.03(q) of the Company Letter. With respect to matters involving the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company, knowledge does not require, or impute knowledge of information that would have been gained by, searches of public records that were not performed;
(r) “Material Adverse Effect” means any state of facts, change, development, event, effect, condition, occurrence, action or omission (each, an “Effect”) that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect on the business, assets, properties, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; provided, however, that in no event shall any of the following Effects, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, or be taken into account, in determining whether there has been, or would be, a Material Adverse Effect: (A) any change in general economic, market or political conditions affecting the United States economy, or any other national or regional economy or the global economy generally (except to the extent that such Effect disproportionately affects the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other participants of similar size in its industry, in which case, only the incremental disproportionate effect shall be taken into account); (B) any change in the conditions in the industry sectors in which the Company and its Subsidiaries conduct business or in any specific jurisdiction or geographical area in which the Company and its Subsidiaries conduct business (except to the extent that such Effect disproportionately affects the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other participants of similar size in its industry, in which case, only the incremental disproportionate effect shall be taken into account); (C) any change in GAAP or applicable Law or the enforcement or interpretation of any of the foregoing (except to the extent that such Effect disproportionately affects the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other participants of similar size in its industry, in which case, only the incremental disproportionate effect shall be taken into account); (D) any act of terrorism, hostilities, sabotage, war (whether or not declared), national disaster, national or international calamity, civil unrest, cyber-attack, cybercrime or military action (in each case including any escalation or worsening of the foregoing) affecting the United States or any other country or region of the world (except to the extent that such Effect disproportionately affects the
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