“Employee” means an individual who is employed by, or who directly or indirectly provides consultancy services to, the Company or any Group Company;
“Employee Shareholder” means the person in whose name any Employee Shares are registered;
“Employee Shares” means, in relation to a Relevant Employee: (a) any Ordinary Shares held by such Relevant Employee or any of his Permitted Transferees that have been issued pursuant to any Incentivisation Plan (other than Ordinary Shares that an Employee holds as a result of exercising option(s) granted under any Incentivisation Plan); or (b) any Ordinary Shares that are the subject of a Share Restriction Agreement;
“Encumbrance” means any mortgage, charge, security, interest, lien, pledge, assignment by way of security, equity, claim, right of pre-emption, option, covenant, restriction, reservation, lease, trust, order, decree, judgment, title defect (including without limitation any retention of title claim), conflicting claim of ownership or any other encumbrance of any nature whatsoever (whether or not perfected other than liens arising by operation of law);
“Equity Securities” has the meaning given in sections 560(1) to 560(3) inclusive of the Act;
“Equity Shares” means the Shares other than the Deferred Shares;
“Excess Securities” has the meaning set out in Article 14.2(b);
“Exercising Investor” has the meaning set out in Article 11.1;
“Exit” means a Share Sale, an Asset Sale or an IPO;
“Expert Valuer” has the meaning set out in Article 18.1;
“Fair Value” has the meaning set out in Article 18.3;
“Family Trust” means as regards any particular individual member or deceased or former individual member, trusts (whether arising under a settlement, declaration of trust or other instrument by whomsoever or wheresoever made or under a testamentary disposition or on an intestacy) under which no immediate beneficial interest in any of the shares in question is for the time being vested in any person other than the individual member and/or Privileged Relations of that individual; and so that for this purpose a person shall be considered to be beneficially interested in a share if such share or the income thereof is liable to be transferred or paid or applied or appointed to or for the benefit of such person or any voting or other rights attaching thereto are exercisable by or as directed by such person pursuant to the terms of the relevant trusts or in consequence of an exercise of a power or discretion conferred thereby on any person or persons;
“Financial Year” has the meaning given in section 390 of the Act;
“First Offer Notice” has the meaning set out in Article 20.3;
“Fractional Holders” has the meaning set out in Article 3.3;
“Fully Diluted Share Capital” means the aggregate at the time of (in each case on an As Converted Basis): (a) the issued share capital of the Company; and (b) all shares capable of being issued by the Company pursuant to any outstanding rights to subscribe for, or convert any security into, shares as if all those outstanding rights had been exercised in full (including all Shares capable of being issued by the Company in respect of unallocated and/or unvested options pursuant to its Incentivisation Plan(s));
“Fund Manager” means a person whose principal business is to make, manage or advise upon investments in securities;
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