(xviii) enter into or extend any collective bargaining agreement or similar labor agreement, other than as required by applicable Law, or recognize or certify any labor union, labor organization, or group of employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries as the bargaining representative for any employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
(xix) (i) limit the right of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business or in any geographic area, to develop, market or sell products or services, or to compete with any Person or (ii) grant any exclusive or similar rights to any Person, in each case, except where such limitation or grant does not, and would not be reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect, or materially disrupt, the ordinary course operation of the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xx) terminate without replacement or amend in a manner materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, any material insurance policy insuring the business of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(xxi) cease conducting, or enter into any new line of business outside of the business currently conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement;
(xxii) make any material change in financial accounting methods, principles or practices, except insofar as may have been required by a change in GAAP or applicable Law; or
(xxiii) enter into any agreement to do any action prohibited under this Section 7.1.
(b) During the Interim Period, except as set forth on Section 7.1(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter or as consented to by SPAC in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied) HoldCo and Merger Sub shall not, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements or as explicitly contemplated in connection with the Transactions or required by Law or in connection with COVID-19 Measures:
(i) engage in any business or activity other than the consummation of the Exchange;
(ii) amend or otherwise change the HoldCo Organizational Documents or organizational documents of Merger Sub except as otherwise required to implement the transactions contemplated hereby;
(iii) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or other distribution, payable in cash, stock, property or otherwise, with respect to any of its capital stock;
(iv) reclassify, combine, split, subdivide or redeem, or purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any of the HoldCo Ordinary Shares;
(v) issue, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant or encumber, or authorize, solicit, propose, or negotiate with respect to the issuance, sale, pledge, disposition, grant or encumbrance of, any shares of any class of capital stock or other securities of HoldCo or any options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights of any kind to acquire any shares of such capital stock, or any other ownership interest (including, without limitation, any phantom interest), of HoldCo or of Merger Sub;
(vi) liquidate, dissolve, reorganize or otherwise wind up the business and operations of HoldCo or of Merger Sub;
(vii) amend any agreement directly related to the Exchange;
(viii) permit any Company Shareholder who acquires HoldCo Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Exchange to transfer, sell, lease, license, mortgage, pledge, surrender, encumber, divest, cancel, abandon or otherwise dispose of any HoldCo Ordinary Shares, or recognize any such transfer, sale, lease, license, mortgage, pledge, surrender, encumbrances, divestment, cancellation, abandonment or other disposition of HoldCo Ordinary Shares;
(ix) transfer, sell, lease, license, mortgage, pledge, surrender, encumber, divest, cancel, abandon or allow to lapse or expire or otherwise dispose of any Company Shares acquired pursuant to the Exchange and
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