(aaa) “Open Source License” means any license for open source, public source or freeware software that is considered an open source software license by the Open Source Initiative or a free software license by the Free Software Foundation, including any version of the GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser/Library General Public License, Affero General Public License, Apache Software License, Mozilla Public License, BSD License, MIT License and Common Public License.
(bbb) “Owned Company Shares” means the Cancelled Owned Company Shares and the Specified Owned Company Shares, collectively.
(ddd) “Parent Material Adverse Effect” means any Effect that would, or would reasonably be expected to, prevent or materially impede or materially delay, or prevents or materially impedes or materially delays, the consummation by Parent or Merger Sub of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(eee) “Parent Stock Plan” means Parent’s 2001 Stock Plan, as amended and restated.
(fff) “Parent Stock Price” means an amount equal to the volume weighted average price per share rounded to four decimal places (with amounts 0.00005 and above rounded up) of Parent Common Stock on NASDAQ (as reported by Bloomberg L.P. or another authoritative source mutually selected by Parent and the Company) for the five consecutive trading days ending with the last trading day ending immediately prior to the Closing Date.
(ggg) “Permitted Liens” means any of the following: (i) liens for Taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies either not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which appropriate reserves have been established to the extent required by GAAP; (ii) mechanics, carriers’, workmen’s, warehouseman’s, repairmen’s, materialmen’s or other similar liens or security interests that are not yet due or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings; (iii) third Person leases, subleases and licenses (other than capital leases and leases underlying sale and leaseback transactions) entered into in the ordinary course of business; (iv) pledges or deposits to secure obligations pursuant to workers’ compensation Laws or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations; (v) pledges and deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a similar nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business; (vi) defects, imperfections or irregularities in title, easements, covenants and rights of way (unrecorded and of record) and other similar liens (or other encumbrances of any type), in each case that do not, and are not reasonably likely to, adversely affect in any material respect the current use or occupancy of the applicable property owned, leased, used or held for use by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vii) zoning, building and other similar codes or restrictions which are not violated in any material respect by the current use or occupancy of the real property subject thereto; (viii) liens the existence of which are disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements of the Company included in the Company SEC Reports filed as of the date of this Agreement; (ix) licenses to Company Intellectual Property entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (x) any other liens that do not secure a liquidated amount, that have been incurred or suffered in the ordinary course of business, and that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect; and (xi) statutory, common law or contractual liens of landlords under Leases or liens against the fee interests of the landlord or owner of any Leased Real Property.
(hhh) “Person” means any individual, corporation (including any non-profit corporation), limited liability company, joint stock company, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, estate, trust, firm, Governmental Authority or other enterprise, association, organization or entity.
(iii) “Personal Data” means all information that identifies, is capable of identifying (directly or indirectly, either alone or in combination with other data) or otherwise relates to an individual person or household, personal or personally identifiable data or information, including personal data (or the equivalent) as defined in any applicable Law.
(jjj) “Privacy Laws” means all U.S., state and foreign Laws relating to Personal Data, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and ePrivacy Directive, the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000, the UK Data Protection Act of 2018, and any other Laws governing the privacy, security, integrity, accuracy, Processing or other protection of Personal Data.
(kkk) “Privacy Policies” means all (i) policies, representations, and statements relating to Personal Data and/or the Processing thereof, including those posted or made publicly available or provided to end users, employees or business partners in any media by the Company or its Subsidiaries and (ii) Industry Standards governing Personal Data or cybersecurity.
(lll) “Process” or “Processing” means, with respect to data (including Personal Data), the use, collection, creation, receipt, processing, aggregation, storage, maintenance, adaption, alteration, transfer, transmission, disclosure, dissemination, combination, erasure, destruction, de-identification, pseudonymizing or anonymizing of such data, any other operation or set of operations that is performed on data or on sets of data, in each case, whether or not by automated means, and any other form of processing, including as defined by or under any applicable Law.
(mmm) “Sarbanes-Oxley Act” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(nnn) “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto. (ooo) “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.
(ppp) “Senior Notes” means the (i) 3.400% senior notes due September 15, 2026 issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of September 19, 2016, by and among the Company, the Trustee, and the guarantors party thereto (the “Indenture”), (ii) 3.400% senior notes due June 15, 2027 issued pursuant to the Base Indenture, dated as of May 26, 2017, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 26, 2017, between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Base Indenture, the “First Supplemental Indenture”), (iii) 1.350% senior notes due September 15, 2030 issued pursuant to the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 10, 2020, between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Base Indenture, the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), (iv) 4.500% senior notes due June 15, 2047 issued pursuant to the First Supplemental Indenture and (v) 2.500% senior notes due September 15, 2050 issued pursuant to the Second Supplemental Indenture.
(qqq) “Significant Customer” means each of the 10 largest customers to the Company and its Subsidiaries (or groups of related customers) by accounts receivable, taken as a whole, at December 31, 2021, which customers are set forth on Section 1.1(qqq) of the Company Disclosure Letter.
(rrr) “Significant Vendor” means (i) each of the 10 largest suppliers, vendors, content partners or service providers to the Company and its Subsidiaries (or groups of related vendors or suppliers) by payments on invoices, taken as a whole, during the 12-month period ended on December 31, 2021, which vendors are set forth on Section 1.1(rrr) of the Company Disclosure Letter; and (ii) any other material vendors or suppliers of the Company with material agreements with the Company who are data center, data processing, cloud or hosting vendors.
(sss) “Specified Litigation” means any of the matters set forth on Section 1.1(sss) of the Company Disclosure Letter.
(ttt) “Specified OSS License” means an Open Source License that (i) requires that source code be licensed, distributed, released, conveyed or made available if such software (or any software incorporating, derived from, linking to or with the same) is licensed, distributed, modified, released, conveyed or otherwise made available or accessible to any third party (“Distributed”); (ii) requires that the right to make derivative works of such software be granted to any licensee of such software if any such software is Distributed to other Persons; (iii) requires that the software be Distributed to any licensee if it is Distributed to other Persons and that each licensee further Distribute such software on the same license terms if it is Distributed and/or (iv) expressly grants a patent license, covenant not to sue or non-assertion covenant of such license if any software governed by such license is Distributed to other Persons.
(uuu) “Specified Owned Company Shares” means all shares of Company Common stock held by the Specified Subsidiary as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
(vvv) “Specified Subsidiary” means Amber Holding Subsidiary Co., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company.
(www) “Subsidiary” of any Person means (i) a corporation more than 50% of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person; (ii) a partnership of which such Person or one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries thereof, directly or indirectly, is the general partner and has the power to direct the policies, management and affairs of such partnership; (iii) a limited liability company of which such Person or one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, is the managing member and has the power to direct the policies, management and affairs of such company; or (iv) any other Person (other than a corporation, partnership or limited liability company) in which such Person or one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority ownership or the power to direct the policies, management and affairs thereof (including by contract). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entities set forth on Section 1.1(www) of the Company Disclosure Letter (each, a “Specified JV Entity” and together, the “Specified JV Entities”) shall not be deemed to be Subsidiaries of the Company, except that with respect to the definition of Company Material Adverse Effect, representations and warranties set forth in 3.5(a), 3.5(c), 3.6, 3.8, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, and 3.23 and the covenants set forth in Section 5.2, the term “Subsidiary” in such definition, representations and warranties and covenants shall be deemed to include the Specified JV Entities; provided, that such representations and warranties shall be deemed to be made to the Knowledge of the Company insofar as they relate to any Specified JV Entity.
(xxx) “Superior Proposal” means any bona fide written Acquisition Proposal for an Acquisition Transaction that the Company Board has determined in good faith (after consultation with the Company’s financial advisor and outside legal counsel) is on terms that would be more favorable, from a financial point of view, to the Company Stockholders (in their capacity as such) than the Merger (taking into account any revisions to this Agreement made or proposed in writing by Parent prior to the time of such determination and after taking into account those factors and matters deemed relevant in good faith by the Company Board, including the identity of the Person making the proposal, the conditionality of such proposal, the likelihood of consummation in accordance with the terms of such proposal, and the legal, financial (including the financing terms), regulatory, timing and other aspects of such proposal). For purposes of the reference to an “Acquisition Proposal” in this definition, all references to “15%” in the definition of “Acquisition Transaction” will be deemed to be references to “50%.”
(yyy) “Tax Contest” means any inquiry, audit, examination, hearing, trial, appeal, or other administrative or judicial proceeding with respect to any Taxes or Tax Returns of Company.
(zzz) “Tax Group” means any “affiliated group” of corporations within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Code (or any similar affiliated, combined, consolidated, or unitary group or arrangement for group relief for state, local, or foreign Tax purposes).
(aaaa) “Taxes” means any United States federal, state, local and non-United States taxes, charges, fees, levies, imposts, duties, and other similar assessments or charges of any kind whatsoever, imposed by any Governmental Authority in the nature of a tax, including gross receipts, income, profits, sales, use, occupation, value added, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, payroll, employment, excise and property taxes, assessments and any similar government charges and impositions of any kind, together with all interest, penalties and additions imposed with respect to such amounts.
(bbbb) “Transaction Litigation” means any Legal Proceeding against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or directors or otherwise relating to, involving or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, in each case in connection with, arising from or otherwise relating to the Merger or any other transaction contemplated by this Agreement, including any Legal Proceeding alleging or asserting any misrepresentation or omission in the Proxy Statement.
(cccc) “Trustee” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee under the Indenture, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture or the Second Supplemental Indenture, as applicable.
(dddd) “WARN” means the United States Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and any similar U.S. state or U.S. local Law.
闫鹏和律师（Harvey YAN），中银律所总所高级合伙人（北京），毕业于北京大学法学院，获得法学硕士学位，并先后在伦敦政治经济学院和帝国理工大学读完并购和经济课程。担任中国并购公会并购专家委员会委员，中国国际商会专家委员会委员，全国工商联法律维权律师团成员，曾被中国并购公会授予“最佳并购律师”荣誉称号，荣膺“2022品牌影响力·十大领军人物”。
闫鹏和律师不仅精通国内外投资并购法律政策和实务技能，而且拥有杰出的商业智慧和经济头脑，兼有深厚资源和全球视野，服务过众多知名客户和有影响力的大型项目，擅长处理综合性疑难交易和重大复杂案件，拥有十分良好的口碑和信誉，是深受欢迎的法商融合专家型律师。
