engage, directly or indirectly, whether as principal or as agent, officer, director, employee, consultant, shareholder or otherwise, alone or in association with any other person, corporation or other entity, in any Competing Business.
Section 4.2 - Non-Solicitation of Employees
The Participant agrees that prior to the Participant’s Termination of Service and for three (3) years following the Participant’s Termination of Service for any reason, including, without limitation, a termination for Cause or without Cause or due to the Participant’s Retirement, the Participant shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or induce, or attempt to solicit or induce, any Employee of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary to leave the employment of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary for any reason whatsoever, or hire any Employee of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary except into the employment of the Company, a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary.
Section 4.3 - Equitable Relief
The Participant agrees that it is impossible to measure in money the damages that will accrue to the Company in the event that the Participant breaches any of the restrictive covenants provided in Sections 4.1 or 4.2 hereof. Accordingly, in the event that the Participant breaches any such restrictive covenant, the Company shall be entitled to an injunction restraining the Participant from further violating such restrictive covenant. If the Company shall institute any action or proceeding to enforce any such restrictive covenant, the Participant hereby waives the claim or defense that the Company has an adequate remedy at law and agrees not to assert such claim or defense. The foregoing shall not prejudice the Company’s right to require the Participant to account for and pay over to the Company, and the Participant hereby agrees to account for and pay over, any compensation, profits, monies, accruals or other benefits derived or received by the Participant as a result of any transaction constituting a breach of any of the restrictive covenants provided in Sections 4.1 or 4.2 hereof.
ARTICLE V.
OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 5.1 - PSUs and Dividend Equivalents Not Transferable
Neither the PSUs nor Dividend Equivalents, nor any interest or right therein or part thereof, shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of the Participant or his or her successors in interest or shall be subject to disposition by transfer, alienation, anticipation, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, assignment or any other means whether such disposition be voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law by judgment, levy, attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable proceedings (including bankruptcy), and any such attempted disposition thereof shall be null and void and of no effect; provided however, that this Section 5.1 shall not prevent transfers by will or by the applicable laws of descent and distribution.
Section 5.2 - No Right to Continued Employment
Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer upon the Participant any right to continue in the employ or service of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary or shall interfere with or restrict in any way the rights of the Company, any Parent Corporation or any Subsidiary, which are hereby expressly reserved, to discharge the Participant at any time for any reasons whatsoever, with or without Cause.
Section 5.3 - Conditions to Issuance of Stock Certificates
The Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificate or certificates for Shares pursuant to this Agreement prior to fulfillment of all of the following conditions: