“Group Company Material Adverse Effect” means any change, fact, circumstance, event, condition, development, effect or occurrence that, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, facts, circumstances, events, conditions, developments, effects or occurrences has had or would reasonably be expected to (i) have a material adverse effect on the condition (financing, trading or otherwise), assets, liabilities, revenue, profits, prospects, operations, results or business of the Group, taken as a whole; or (ii) prevent or materially impair the ability of the Buyer to consummate the transactions contemplated under this Agreement, but excluding any results, occurrences, facts, changes, conditions, circumstances, events or effects to the extent arising from:
(A) any change in financial markets, interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices or other general economic, business or political or geopolitical conditions;
(B) financial market fluctuations or conditions;
(C) any natural disaster, including any hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake or other natural disaster;
(D) any changes in the Applicable Law or applicable accounting standards and principles, including the IFRS, or the enforcement or interpretation in respect of any of the foregoing;
(E) any act of civil unrest, war, sabotage, cyberattack, terrorism or military action, or any outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or another sovereign political power, the declaration by the United States, the Taiwan Government Authority or another sovereign political power of a national emergency or war or the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis, including the war in Ukraine, Taiwan Strait, or the escalation or worsening of any of the foregoing;
(F) any epidemics or pandemics or other public health crisis (including the COVID-19 pandemic), including any worsening, deterioration or improvement of any of the foregoing;
(G) changes in conditions generally affecting the industry in which the Group operates; or
(H) any action or omission by any Group Company as required under Applicable Laws,
except in the case of items (A) to (H) above, to the extent that such change or event does not materially and disproportionately affect the Group taken as a whole when compared with other businesses operating in the same industry;
“HKIAC” has the meaning given in clause 20.1;
“Hong Kong” means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;
“IFRS” means the International Financial Reporting Standards and applicable accounting requirements set by the International Standards Board or any successor thereto, as in effect from time to time;
“Immediate Family Members” means:
| (a) | spouse, parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings and spouses of children, grandchildren and siblings (in each case, whether adoptive or biological); and |
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