property, environmental, escheat, unclaimed property, estimated or windfall profit tax, custom duty, national insurance tax, health tax or other tax or other charge in the nature of a tax, together with any interest or any penalty, addition to tax or additional amount imposed by any Governmental Authority responsible for the imposition of any such tax (domestic or foreign), whether disputed or not, (ii) any Liability for the payment of any amount of the type described in clause (i) as a result of being a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined, unitary or aggregate group for any Tax period, and (iii) any Liability for the payment of any of the type described in clause (i) or (ii) as a result of being a transferee of or successor to any Person or as a result of any express or implied obligation to indemnify any other Person, by Contract or otherwise by operation of Law.
“Tax Return” means any return, amended return, election declaration, report, voluntary disclosure, claim for refund, information return or statement filed or required to be filed in respect of Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof.
“Technology” means any: (i) technology, formulae, algorithm, procedure, process, method, technique, idea, know-how, creations, inventions, discoveries and improvement (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice); (ii) technical, engineering, manufacturing, product, marketing, servicing, business, financial, supplier, personnel or other information and materials; (iii) customer list, customer contact and registration information, customer correspondence and customer purchasing history; (iv) specification, design, industrial design, model, device, prototype, schematic, configuration and development tool; (v) Software, website, content, image, logo, graphic, text, photographs, artwork, audiovisual works, sound recording, graph, drawing, reports, analysis, writing, of any other work of authorship and copyrightable subject matter (“Work of Authorship”); (vi) database or other compilation or collection of data or information (“Database”); (vii) mask work, layout, topography or other design feature with respect to any integrated circuit; (viii) Mark; (ix) domain name, uniform resource locator, social media accounts or other name or locator associated with the Internet (“Domain Name”) or social media identifier; and (x) tangible embodiments of any of the foregoing, in any form or media whether or not specifically listed in this definition.
“Transaction Expenses” means any out-of-pocket cost or expense incurred by the Company in connection with the Merger and this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as well as any related sale or financing process, in each case arising out of any Contract or commitment entered into by the Company prior to the Effective Time, including, without duplication, (i) any fee or expense of any investment banker, financial advisor, legal counsel, accountant or other professional advisor, (ii) any premium or related cost for the Tail Policy, (iii) any Closing Employee Payment, (iv) any employer-level payroll or employment Tax associated with any Closing Employee Payments or other compensatory payments made pursuant to this Agreement, and (v) any payment, consideration, costs or fees associated with the termination of the Contracts set forth in Schedule 8.2(f) or in relation to obtaining any consent set forth on Schedule 8.2(e); provided that “Transaction Expenses” shall not include any fees or expenses incurred by the Company (x) at the direction of Parent and not required under the terms of this Agreement, (y) solely for the purposes of facilitating the QA (including for the avoidance of doubt, any additional fees incurred by the Company for the purposes of auditing and preparing the financial statements of the Company for the purposes of the QA) or (z) for any exchange agent engaged by Parent.
“Transfer” means, with respect to any security, to sell, offer, pledge, contract to sell, grant any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any right or warrant to purchase, lend or otherwise transfer (including by gift or operation of law), dispose of, hypothecate or encumber, directly or indirectly, such security, or to enter into any swap, hedging or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of such security.
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