redemption of any Equity Securities of any Group Company as permitted under these Articles or the other Transaction Documents, and in circumstances of (A) and (B) above, except for any of the foregoing matters solely between any Group Company and its wholly-owned Subsidiary, or (C) do any act which has the effect of diluting or reducing the effective shareholding of any series of the Preferred Shareholders in the Company (including increasing shares reserved under ESOP other than what has been agreed in the Transaction Documents);
(iii). pass any resolution approving dissolution of any Group Companies, any combination, reorganization or liquidation or application for appointment of receiver, bankruptcy trustee, manager, judicial administrator or likewise, including the commencement of or consent to any proceeding seeking (i) to adjudicate any Group Company as bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) liquidation, winding up, dissolution, reorganization, termination or arrangement of any of the Group Companies under any Law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or (iii) the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property;
(iv). take or permit any action that reclassifies any outstanding Shares into shares having rights, preferences, privileges or powers senior to or on a parity with any of the Preferred Shares, whether as to liquidation, conversion, dividend, voting, redemption or otherwise; or any amendment, change, restrict or cancel of the rights, preferences, privileges or powers of the Preferred Shares;
(v). any public offering of any Equity Securities of any Group Company (including appointment or change of underwriters, auditors or legal counsels, and the determination of the time, valuation, stock exchange, or venue therefor);
(vi). effect any merger or consolidation or any other Deemed Liquidation Event.
For the avoidance of doubt, for any matters aforementioned within the power of the Board, it shall be further approved by the Board.
(c) Matters Requiring Approval of Investor Directors. Regardless of anything else contained herein or in the Charter Documents of any Group Company, to the extent permissible under applicable Laws, no Group Company shall take, permit to occur, approve, authorize, or agree or commit to do any of the following, and each Party shall procure each Group Company not to, and the Shareholders shall procure the Company not to, take, permit to occur, approve, authorize, or agree or commit to do any of the following, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, whether directly or indirectly, and whether or not by amendment, merger, consolidation, scheme of arrangement, amalgamation, or otherwise, unless approved in advance in writing by a majority of the votes of the directors of the Company, including the affirmative votes of the Investor Directors:
(i). sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, pledge, lease or otherwise dispose any legal and/or beneficial interests in itself, or in any other entity, or all or substantially all goodwill or material assets (including any Intellectual Property rights) of any Group Company in excess of USD$1,000,000;
(ii). make loan directly or indirectly, or provide any guarantee or compensation for any director or senior manager of any Group Company in excess of RMB1,000,000, whether individually or through a series of transactions;
(iii). any loan from banks or other financial institutions in excess of USD$1,000,000, or issuance of indentures or bonds pledged by assets of the Company or any other Group Companies, except those in the ordinary course of business consistent with its past practice or within the approved annual budget;
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