attorney, representative, financing source, heir or assignee of, or any financial advisor or lender to, or successor to, any Contracting Party, or any current, former or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, member, partner, manager, stockholder, equityholder, Affiliate, agent, attorney, representative, financing source, heir or assignee of, or any financial advisor or lender to, or successor to, any of the foregoing (collectively, “Nonparty Affiliates”), shall have any liability, obligations, claims or causes of action based upon, in respect of, arising under, by reason of, in connection with, or relating in any manner to this Agreement, whether by or through attempted piercing of the corporate veil, by or through a claim by or on behalf of any party hereto or otherwise, and, to the maximum extent permitted by Law, each Contracting Party hereby waives and releases all such liabilities, claims, causes of action and obligations against any such Nonparty Affiliates. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted by Law, (a) each Contracting Party hereby waives and releases any and all rights, claims, demands or causes of action that may otherwise be available at Law or in equity, or granted by statute, to avoid or disregard the entity form of a Contracting Party or otherwise impose liability of a Contracting Party on any Nonparty Affiliate, whether granted by statute or based on theories of equity, agency, control, instrumentality, alter ego, domination, sham, single business enterprise, piercing the veil, unfairness, undercapitalization, or otherwise and (b) each Contracting Party disclaims any reliance upon any Nonparty Affiliates with respect to the performance of this Agreement or any representation or warranty made by a Nonparty Affiliate in, in connection with, or as an inducement to this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no party hereto hereby waives any right to enforce its rights granted hereunder or granted under the Closing Agreements, the Governance Agreements, the Employment Agreement, the Prior Agreement (as defined in the Employment Agreement and as specifically amended or superseded by the Employment Agreement), the Merger Agreement or any of the other agreements or documents to be entered into among the Investor, the Parent Entities, the Company Entities or their respective Affiliates in connection with the Transactions against any other party thereto (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, any Non-Party Affiliate), and any exhibits, schedules, or other attachment thereto and any documentation implementing any of the terms thereof, against any other party thereto.
4.13. Confidentiality. The Investor agrees that he will not, either directly or indirectly, disclose to any Person the terms of, or the negotiations and/or considerations leading to, this Agreement, the Closing Agreements and the Merger Agreement, or any other information related to the Transactions (the “Confidential Information”); provided that the term “Confidential Information” shall not include information that was, is now, or becomes generally available to the public, including in any public disclosure by the Parent Entities, their Affiliates or otherwise, other than as a result of a disclosure by the Investor in violation of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the Investor from disclosing the Confidential Information to (i) any of the Investor’s representatives with a need to know the Confidential Information for the purposes of entry into this Agreement and the Closing Agreements and as necessary in connection with tax filings, legal matters or other non-commercial purposes, provided, that the Investor shall be responsible for its representatives maintaining the confidentiality of the Confidential Information, and (ii) disclosures required by Law, provided that the Investor shall, to the extent reasonably practicable and legally permissible, give the Parent Entities prompt written notice of such requirement to enable any of the Parent Entities to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy (at the Parent Entities’ sole expense) and/or waive compliance with this Agreement provided that (A) with respect to public disclosure
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