(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, unless the Plan Administrator determines otherwise with respect to a particular Award in the instrument evidencing the Award or in a written employment, services or other agreement between the Participant and the Company or a Related Company, in the event of a Change of Control, if and to the extent an outstanding Award is not converted, assumed, substituted for or replaced by the Successor Company, then effective immediately prior to the Change of Control such Award shall become fully vested and exercisable or payable, and all applicable restrictions or forfeiture provisions shall lapse, and then terminate upon effectiveness of the Change of Control. If and to the extent the Successor Company converts, assumes or replaces an outstanding Award, the vesting restrictions and/or forfeiture provisions applicable to such Award shall not be accelerated or lapse, and all such vesting restrictions and/or forfeiture provisions shall continue with respect to any shares of the Successor Company or other consideration that may be received with respect to such Award.
(b) For the purposes of Section 13.3(a), an Award shall be considered converted, assumed, substituted for or replaced by the Successor Company if following the Change of Control the Award confers the right to purchase or receive, for each Class A Ordinary Share subject to the Award immediately prior to the Change of Control, the consideration (whether Share, cash or other securities or property) received in the Change of Control by holders of Class A Ordinary Shares for each share held on the effective date of the transaction (and if holders were offered a choice of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares); provided, however, that if such consideration received in the Change of Control is not solely Class A Ordinary Shares of the Successor Company, the Plan Administrator may, with the consent of the Successor Company, provide for the consideration to be received pursuant to the Award, for each Class A Ordinary Share subject thereto, to be solely Class A Ordinary Shares of the Successor Company substantially equal in fair market value to the per share consideration received by holders of Class A Ordinary Shares in the Change of Control. The determination of such substantial equality of value of consideration shall be made by the Plan Administrator, and its determination shall be conclusive and binding.
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