agrees that service of process, summons, notice or document by U.S. registered mail to his respective address shall be effective service of process for any Litigation brought against him in any such court. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any Litigation in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of the United States of America, in each case located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any Litigation brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
8.[Restrictive Covenants.
(a) As a condition of receiving this Award, Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees that during the period in which Participant is employed by, or providing service to, the Company and for the twelve (12) month period following Participant’s termination of employment or service for any reason (the “Restrictions Period”), Participant shall comply with the restrictive covenants set forth herein applicable to the Company and its Affiliates (the “Company Group”). The restrictive covenants set forth herein shall supersede and replace all othernon-competition andnon-solicitation restrictive covenants Participant may be subject to with the Company Group.
(b) During the Restrictions Period, Participant shall not anywhere in the Territory for himself or herself, or through or on behalf of any other person or entity (other than the Company), whether as an officer, director, employee, equityholder, consultant or otherwise, as applicable:
(1) own any financial or beneficial interest in, operate, or provide services to any business, corporation, firm, person, or other entity that Competes with the Company anywhere in the Territory. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) Participant shall not be prohibited from owning or acquiring securities in any publicly traded company as long as his or her ownership does not exceed 1% of such publicly traded company’s outstanding securities and (ii) after his or her employment or service with the Company terminates, he or she shall not be prohibited from working for, advising or providing consulting services to, a company that contains multiple divisions or businesses as long as the revenue from the businesses or divisions that Compete with the Company (individually or in the aggregate) constitute less than 10% of such company’s overall revenue in the most recently completed fiscal year and Participant does not work for, consult with or advise, any division or business that Competes with the Company;
(2) encourage, induce, attempt to induce, solicit or attempt to solicit any employee to leave his or her employment with the Company Group, or hire or attempt to hire any employee; or
(3) encourage, induce, attempt to induce, solicit or attempt to solicit, any customer, distributor, vendor, marketer or sponsor of the Company Group to cease its customer, distributor, vendor, marketer or sponsor relationship with the Company Group, as the case may be, with respect to the Business. Nothing in this Award prohibits Participant from hiring an individual who responds to a job posting made available to the general public so long as Participant does not solicit or otherwise initiate such contact during the one year following termination of Participant’s employment or service.
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