14. Binding Agreement; Assignment. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, be binding upon, and be enforceable by the Company and its successors and assigns. The Participant shall not assign (except in accordance with Section 6 hereof) any part of this Agreement without the prior express written consent of the Company.
15. Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation.
(a) In consideration of the Company’s grant of the RSUs hereunder, the Participant acknowledges that, during the course of the Participant’s employment with the Company and its Affiliates (the “Term”), the Participant shall become familiar with the trade secrets of the Company and its Affiliates and other Confidential Information (as defined below) concerning the Company and its Affiliates (and their respective predecessor companies) and that the Participant’s services have been and shall be of special, unique and extraordinary value to the Company and its Affiliates. Accordingly, the Participant agrees that during the Term and until end of the second anniversary of the Participant’s Termination, the Participant shall not directly or indirectly own any interest in, manage, control, participate in, consult with, render services for, or in any manner engage in any Competing Business (as defined below) in the United States; provided, that the foregoing shall not prohibit the Participant from owning stock as a passive investor in any publicly traded corporation so long as the Participant’s ownership in such corporation, directly or indirectly, is less than 2% of the voting stock of such corporation. For purposes of this paragraph, “Competing Business” means company or other entity or organization engaged in the business of renting medical equipment products and providing various services related to medical and veterinary equipment including, without limitation, asset recovery and equipment brokerage, biomedical services, asset management, equipment outsourcing and maintenance and repair of medical equipment in the United States of America.
(b) During the Term and thereafter until the end of the second anniversary of the Participant’s Termination, the Participant shall not directly or indirectly (i) induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Company or any Affiliate to leave the employ of the Company or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or any Affiliate and any employee thereof, (ii) hire any person who was an employee of the Company or any Affiliate at any time within the one (1) year period before the Participant’s Termination, or (iii) induce or attempt to induce any customer, supplier, licensee, licensor, franchisee or other business relation of the Company or any Affiliate to cease doing business with the Company or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such customer, supplier, licensee or business relation and the Company or any Affiliate, except with the prior written consent of the Board, which consent will be given at the sole discretion of the Board.
16. Non-Disclosure. The Participant agrees that during and at all times after the Term, the Participant will keep secret all confidential matters and materials of the Company (including its Subsidiaries and Affiliates), including, without limitation, know-how, trade secrets, real estate plans and practices, individual office results, customer lists, pricing policies, operational methods, any information relating to the Company (including any of its Subsidiaries and Affiliates) products, processes, customers and services and other business and financial affairs of the Company (collectively, “Confidential Information”), to which the Participant had or may have access and will not disclose such Confidential Information to any Person other than (i) the
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