(tt) “Key Employees” mean the key employees of each Group Company as listed inExhibit E attached hereto.
(uu) “Knowledge” including the phrase “to the Company’s knowledge” shall mean the actual knowledge of the following officers: the chief executive officer of the Company.
(vv) “Leased Real Property” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.13(b).
(ww) “Lien” means any lien, charge, pledge, security interest, claim or other encumbrance.
(xx) “Lingzhi” means Shanghai Lingzhi Management Center (Limited Partnership) (上海翎知企业管理中心(有限合伙)).
(yy) “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities, financial condition, property or results of operations of the Group Companies, taken as a whole;provided,however, that in no event shall any of the following exceptions, alone or in combination with the other enumerated exceptions below, be deemed to constitute a Material Adverse Effect: (i) any change resulting from the execution or delivery of this Agreement or the Investors Rights Agreement, the consummation of the Transaction or the announcement or other publicity with respect to the foregoing, (ii) any legal, regulatory or other change affecting any of the industries, industry sectors or geographic sectors (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the PRC) in which the Company operates, (iii) any change or prospective change in law or accounting standards or interpretations or the enforcement thereof applicable to the Company, (iv) any change in domestic or foreign economic, political, demographic or business conditions or financial, credit, debt or securities market conditions generally, (v) any change that results from (A) acts of war (whether or not declared), hostilities, sabotage, terrorism, military actions, cyberwarfare, other armed conflicts or the escalation of any of the foregoing, (B) any hurricane, super storm, flood, tornado, earthquake or other natural disaster, (C) any pandemic, (D) environmental change, or (E) any otherforce majeure event, or (vi) any failure by the Company to meet any internal or public projections, budgets, forecasts, plans or guidance.
(zz) “Memorandum and Articles” means the first amended and restated memorandum of association of the Company and the first amended and restated articles of association of the Company attached hereto as Exhibit F, to be adopted in accordance with applicable law on or before the Closing and which shall be in full force and effect as of the Closing.
(aaa) “Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares of the Company, including the Class A Ordinary Shares and the Class B Ordinary Shares.
(bbb) “Party”, and collectively, “Parties”, mean the signatories to this Agreement.
(ccc) “Permit” and collectively, “Permits”, has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(a).
(ddd) “Permitted Lien” means (i) Liens reflected or reserved against or otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule, (ii) Liens arising or incurred in the ordinary course of business, such as mechanics’, materialmen’s, warehousemen’s, carriers’, workers’, or repairmen’s Liens, which would not impair the operation of the business of the Company, (iii) liens for taxes, assessments and other governmental charges not yet due and payable or due but not delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (iv) with respect to real property, (A) easements, quasi-easements, licenses, covenants,rights-of-way, rights of reentry or other similar restrictions, including any other agreements, conditions or restrictions that would be shown by a current title report or other similar report or listing, (B) any conditions that may be shown by a current survey or physical inspection and (C) zoning, building, subdivision or other similar requirements or restrictions,(v) non-exclusive licenses to intellectual property rights entered into in the ordinary course of business, (vi) licenses, covenants not to sue or other similar rights to intellectual property rights granted by a third party prior to the acquisition of such intellectual property rights by any Group Company and (vii) Liens that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
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