Section 8.13 Transfer Taxes. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 2.2(b)(iv), all transfer, documentary, sales, use, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes imposed with respect to the transfer of Shares pursuant to the Offer or the Merger shall be borne by Parent and
expressly shall not be a liability of holders of Shares.
Section 8.14 Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms (as capitalized below) will have the following meanings when used in this Agreement:
Acquired
Companies means, collectively, the Company and the Companys Subsidiaries.
Affiliates means, with
respect to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. As used in this definition, control (including, with its correlative meanings,
controlled by and under common control with) shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership
of securities or partnership or other ownership interests, by contract or otherwise.
Antitrust Laws means the HSR Act,
the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the Clayton Act of 1914, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, and any other federal, state, foreign, and transnational statutes, rules, regulations, Orders, decrees, administrative and judicial doctrines and
other Laws that are designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or lessening of competition through merger or acquisition.
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which the banks in Irvine, California or New York, New
York are authorized by Law or executive order to be closed.
Company Balance Sheet means the consolidated balance sheet
of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of September 30, 2024 included in the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2024, as filed
with the SEC on October 28, 2024.
Company Benefit Plan means: (a) each employee benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), whether or not subject to ERISA; and (b) any other management, employment, consulting, salary, bonus, commission, other remuneration, stock option, restricted stock, restricted stock unit, stock
appreciation rights, stock purchase or other equity-based award (whether payable in cash, securities or otherwise), benefit, incentive compensation, profit sharing, savings, pension, retirement, disability, insurance, vacation, deferred
compensation, severance, termination, redundancy, retention, transaction bonus, change of control, death and disability benefits, hospitalization, medical, flexible benefits, supplemental unemployment benefits, relocation, repatriation or
expatriation and similar fringe, welfare or other employee benefit plan, program, agreement, contract, policy or binding arrangement (whether or not in writing) maintained, sponsored or contributed to or required to be contributed to by any of the
Acquired Companies for the benefit of or relating to any current or former employee of any Acquired Company.
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