5. Lock-up: Transfer Restrictions.
(a) The Sponsor and the Insiders agree that they shall not Transfer any Founder Shares (the “Founder Shares Lock-up”) until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of an initial Business Combination and (B) the date following the completion of an initial Business Combination on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property (the “Founder Shares Lock-up Period”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, subsequent to a Business Combination, the closing price of the Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share capitalizations, share consolidations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the Company’s initial Business Combination, the Founder Shares shall be released from the Founder Shares Lock-up.
(b) The Sponsor and Insiders agree that they shall not effectuate any Transfer of Private Placement Warrants or Ordinary Shares underlying such warrants until 30 days after the completion of an initial Business Combination.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in paragraphs 5(a) and (b), Transfers of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants are permitted (a) to the Company’s officers or directors, any affiliate or family member of any of the Company’s officers or directors, any members, partners, advisors or consultants of the Sponsor or their affiliates, any affiliates of the Sponsor, or any employees of such affiliates; (b) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of one of the individual’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization; (c) in the case of an individual, by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (d) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (e) by private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination at prices no greater than the price at which the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants or Ordinary Shares, as applicable, were originally purchased; (f) by virtue of the Sponsor’s organizational documents upon liquidation or dissolution of the Sponsor; (g) to the Company for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of an initial Business Combination, (h) in the event of the Company’s liquidation prior to the completion of a Business Combination; (i) in the event of completion of a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s Public Shareholders having the right to exchange their Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the completion of an initial Business Combination; or (j) on arms’ length terms under commercial arrangements for the sale of Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants in order exclusively to enable the transferor of such Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants (or any person or persons whose tax liability, in whole or in part, is determined by reference to the income, gains or assets of the Sponsor or an Insider, as applicable, together with the transferor such person being the “Dry Charge Taxpayer”) to discharge all applicable tax liabilities under jurisdictions relevant to the Dry Charge Taxpayer, as applicable, arising in connection with the holding of such Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants, other than as a result of a cash distribution in relation to those Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants, and further provided that the amount of Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants permitted to be transferred in such case be approved by the Company in its discretion, based on written professional advice from a reputable legal services provider in relation to the taxation of the Dry Charge Taxpayer and otherwise based on such reasonable assumptions as the Company determines in good faith to be appropriate; provided, however, that in the case of clauses (a) through (f) these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by these transfer restrictions.
(d) During the period commencing on the effective date of the Underwriting Agreement and ending 180 days after such date, the Sponsor and each Insider shall not, without the prior written consent of the Underwriters, Transfer any Units, Ordinary Shares, Warrants or
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