Sansaboo/maud huggingface dataset:
(ll) “Material Adverse Effect” as used with respect to a party, means an event, circumstance, change, effect or occurrence which, individually or together with any other event, circumstance, change, effect or occurrence: (i) is materially adverse to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), assets, liabilities or results of operations of such party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (ii) materially impairs the ability of such party to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate the Merger and the other Contemplated Transactions on a timely basis; provided that, in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred, there shall be excluded any effect to the extent attributable to or resulting from: (A) changes in Legal Requirements and the interpretation of such Legal Requirements by courts or governmental authorities; (B) changes in GAAP or regulatory accounting requirements; (C) changes or events generally affecting banks, bank holding companies or financial holding companies, or the economy or the financial, securities or credit markets, including changes in prevailing interest rates, liquidity and quality, currency exchange rates, price levels or trading volumes in the U.S. or foreign securities markets; (D) changes in national or international political or social conditions including the engagement by the United States in hostilities, whether or not pursuant to the declaration of a national emergency or war, or the occurrence of any military or terrorist attack upon or within the United States; (E) the effects of any quarantine, “shelter in place”, “stay at home”, workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, safety or any other Law, order, directive, guideline, guidance or recommendation promulgated by any governmental entity, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, 

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in response to or relating in any way to the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19 virus (SARS-COV-2) (or any mutation or variation thereof or related health condition, or any related or associated epidemics, pandemics or disease outbreaks); and (F) the effects of the actions expressly permitted or required by this Agreement or that are taken with the prior written consent of the other party in contemplation of the Contemplated Transactions, including the costs and expenses associated therewith, including Transaction Costs, Severance Costs, and the response of customers, vendors, licensors, investors, or employees; except with respect to clauses (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E), to the extent that the effects of such change are materially disproportionately adverse to the financial condition, results of operations or business of such party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to other companies in the industry in which such party and its Subsidiaries operate. (Pages 61-62)

Question: Relational language (MAE) applies to
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: All MAE carveouts
“Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to OCSL, OCSI or OFA, as the case may be, any event, development, change, effect or occurrence (each, an “Effect”) that is, or would reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, materially adverse to (i) the business, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of such party and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than (A) any Effect resulting from or attributable to (1) changes in general economic, social or political conditions or the financial markets in general, including the commencement or escalation of a war, armed hostilities or other material international or national calamity or acts of terrorism or earthquakes, hurricanes, other natural disasters or acts of God, COVID-19 or any other pandemic (including the impact on economies generally and the results of any actions taken by Governmental Entities in response thereto), (2) general changes or developments in the industries in which such party and its Consolidated Subsidiaries operate, including general changes in Law after the date hereof across such industries, except, in the case of the foregoing clauses (1) and (2), to the extent such changes or developments referred to therein have a materially disproportionate adverse impact on such party and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other participants of similar sizes engaged in the industries in which such party conducts its businesses or (3) the announcement of this Agreement or the Transactions or the identities of the parties to this Agreement or (B) any failure to meet internal or published projections or forecasts for any period, as the case may be, or any decline in the price of shares of OCSI Common Stock or OCSL Common Stock on the Nasdaq or trading volume of OCSI Common Stock or OCSL Common Stock (provided that the underlying causes of such failure or decline shall be considered in determining whether there is a Material Adverse Effect) or (ii) the ability of such party to timely perform its material obligations under this Agreement or consummate the Merger and the other Transactions. (Page 70)

Question: Relational language (MAE) applies to
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Some MAE carveouts
“Knowledge” of a Person, with respect to any matter in question, means (i) with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge of the individuals set forth on Section 1.1(ddd) of the Company Disclosure Letter; and (ii) with respect to Parent, the actual knowledge of the individuals set forth on Section 1.1(ddd) of the Parent Disclosure Letter, in each case after reasonable inquiry of those employees who would reasonably be expected to have actual knowledge of the matter in question. With respect to matters involving Intellectual Property of the Company, Knowledge does not require the Company, or any of its directors, officers or employees, to have conducted or have obtained any freedom to operate opinions of any patent or any Mark or other Intellectual Property clearance searches, and if not conducted or obtained, no knowledge of any patents, Marks or other Intellectual Property of any third Person that would have been revealed by such opinions or searches will be imputed to the Company or any of its directors, officers or employees.  (Page 14)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Actual knowledge
“Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of (a) for Parent, the individuals listed in Section 9.14(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule under the heading “Knowledge” (the “Parent Knowledge Persons”) and (b) for the Company, the individuals listed in Section 9.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule under the heading “Knowledge” (the “Company Knowledge Persons”), in each case, after due inquiry; provided that none of the Parent Knowledge Persons or Company Knowledge Persons shall have any personal liability or obligations arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby regarding such knowledge.  (Page 102)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
(jj) “Knowledge” means, assuming due inquiry under the facts or circumstances, the actual knowledge of: (i) with respect to Nicolet, the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief credit officer or general counsel of Nicolet; or (ii) with respect to the Company, the president, chief financial officer or secretary of the Company or the chief banking officer of the Bank. (Page 61)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” means, as the case may be, the knowledge of (a) Stanley G. Bass or Denson N. Franklin III with respect to Parent or Merger Sub or (b) Ronnie Pruitt, John E. Kunz, Brian Mahavier or Paul M. Jolas with respect to the Company, in each case after reasonable inquiry. (Page 12)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” with respect to an Entity means with respect to any matter in question the actual knowledge of, in the case of the Company, Neil McFarlane, Christopher Prentiss, Vijay Shreedhar and Jason Christiansen, after reasonable inquiry, and in the case of any other Entity, such Entity’s executive officers after reasonable inquiry. With respect to matters involving Intellectual Property Rights, “reasonable inquiry” does not require that any of such Entity’s executive officers or their direct reports conduct or have conducted or obtain or have obtained any freedom-to-operate opinions or similar opinions of counsel or any Registered IP clearance searches, and no knowledge of any third party Registered IP that would have been revealed by such inquiries, opinions or searches will be imputed to such executive officers or their direct reports.   (Page 7)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” means <omitted> (ii) with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry, of any of the officers of the Company whose names are listed on Section 1.01(a)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, such reasonable inquiry shall not require such individuals to conduct (or have conducted) any Intellectual Property searches or analyses (including clearance or prior art searches) or opinions (including freedom-to-operate opinions), or scans or other investigations with respect to IT Assets.  (Page 12)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” of a Person, with respect to any matter in question, means, with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge as of the date of this Agreement of the individuals set forth on Section 1.1(ppp) of the Company Disclosure Letter, in each case after reasonable inquiry of their direct reports who would reasonably be expected to have actual knowledge of the matter in question. With respect to matters involving the Company Intellectual Property, Knowledge does not require the Company, or any of its directors, officers or employees, to have conducted or have obtained any freedom to operate opinions or any Patent, Mark or other Intellectual Property clearance searches. If not conducted or obtained, no knowledge of any Patents, Marks or other Intellectual Property of any third Person that would have been revealed by such opinions or searches will be imputed to the Company or any of its directors, officers or employees. (Page 16)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” will be deemed to be, as the case may be, the actual knowledge of (a) the individuals set forth on Section 1.1(a) of the Parent Disclosure Letter with respect to Parent, Merger Sub I or Merger Sub II or (b) the individuals set forth on Section 1.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter with respect to the Company, in each case after reasonable inquiry of those employees of such Party and its Subsidiaries who would reasonably be expected to have actual knowledge of the matter in question.  (Page 103)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” means, with respect to (a) the Company as it relates to any fact or other matter, the actual knowledge of the natural Persons set forth in Section 1.01B of the Company Disclosure Letter of such fact or matter as of the date hereof, in each case, after reasonable inquiry, and <omitted>  provided that, in the case of the foregoing (a) and (b), for clarity, with respect to Intellectual Property, such inquiry is not required to include freedom to operate analyses, clearance searches, validity or noninfringement analyses or opinions, or any other similar analyses or opinions of counsel.  (Page 13)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
provided, that <omitted> none of the following, and no effect arising out of, relating to or resulting from the following, shall constitute <omitted> a “Company Material Adverse Effect”: <omitted> (ii) any <omitted> effects to the extent arising out of, resulting from or attributable to <omitted> (F) any change resulting or arising from (Pages 35-36)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Actual knowledge
provided, however, that, with respect to this clause (i), Material Adverse Effect shall not be deemed to include the impact of (A) changes, after the date hereof, in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) or applicable regulatory accounting requirements, (B) changes, after the date hereof, in laws, rules or regulations of general applicability to companies in the industries in which such party and its Subsidiaries operate, or interpretations thereof by courts or Governmental Entities, (C) changes, after the date hereof, in global, national or regional political conditions (including the outbreak of war or acts of terrorism) or in economic or market (including equity, credit and debt markets, as well as changes in interest rates) conditions affecting the financial services industry generally and not specifically relating to such party or its Subsidiaries, (D) changes, after the date hereof, resulting from hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods or other natural disasters or from any outbreak of any disease or other public health event (including the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of the Pandemic Measures), (E) public disclosure or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or actions expressly required by this Agreement or that are taken with the prior written consent of the other party in contemplation of the transactions contemplated hereby (it being understood and agreed that this clause (E) shall not apply with respect to any representation or warranty that is intended to address the consequences of the execution, announcement or performance of this Agreement or consummation of the Merger) or (F) the failure, in and of itself, to meet earnings projections or financial forecasts, but not including the underlying causes thereof; except, with respect to subclause (A), (B), (C) or (D), to the extent that the effects of such change are disproportionately adverse to the business, properties, assets, liabilities, results of operations or financial condition of such party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to similar companies in the industry in which such party and its Subsidiaries operate (Page 20)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Actual knowledge
provided, however, that, with respect to this clause (i), Material Adverse Effect shall not be deemed to include the impact of (A) changes, after the date hereof, in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) or applicable regulatory accounting requirements, (B) changes, after the date hereof, in laws, rules or regulations (including the Pandemic Measures) of general applicability to companies in the industries in which such party and its Subsidiaries operate, or interpretations thereof by courts or Governmental Entities, (C) changes, after the date hereof, in global, 
 
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 national or regional political conditions (including the outbreak of war or acts of terrorism) or in economic or market (including equity, credit and debt markets, as well as changes in interest rates) conditions affecting the financial services industry generally and not specifically relating to such party or its Subsidiaries (including any such changes arising out of the Pandemic), (D) changes, after the date hereof, resulting from hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods or other natural disasters or from any outbreak of any disease or other public health event (including the Pandemic), (E) public disclosure of the transactions contemplated hereby or actions expressly required by this Agreement or that are taken with the prior written consent of the other party in contemplation of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (F) a decline in the trading price of a party’s common stock or the failure, in and of itself, to meet earnings projections or internal financial forecasts, but not, in either case, including any underlying causes thereof; except, with respect to subclause (A), (B), (C) or (D), to the extent that the effects of such change are materially disproportionately adverse to the business, results of operations or financial condition of such party and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as compared to similar companies in the banking industry (Pages 16-17)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Actual knowledge
provided, however, that in no event shall any of the following, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, nor be taken into account in determining whether there has been or will be, a Company Material Adverse Effect: <omitted> (e) change <omitted> arising out of <omitted> (m) any effect, change, event, occurrence or circumstance arising out of, resulting from or related to (Page 10)

Question: Knowledge Definition-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Constructive knowledge
“Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of (a) for Parent, the individuals listed in Section 9.14(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule under the heading “Knowledge” (the “Parent Knowledge Persons”) and (b) for the Company, the individuals listed in Section 9.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule under the heading “Knowledge” (the “Company Knowledge Persons”), in each case, after due inquiry; provided that none of the Parent Knowledge Persons or Company Knowledge Persons shall have any personal liability or obligations arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby regarding such knowledge.  (Page 102)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
“Knowledge” means: (a) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, the actual knowledge of each of the individuals listed in Section 9.01 of the Company’s Disclosure Letter; and (b) with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, the actual knowledge of each of the individuals listed in Section 9.01 of Parent’s Disclosure Letter; in each case, after due inquiry. (Page 83)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
“Knowledge” or any similar phrase means (a) with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge of the individuals set forth in Section 1.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, in case after reasonable inquiry and (b) with respect to Parent and/or Merger Sub, the actual knowledge of the individuals set forth in Section 1.1(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule in case after reasonable inquiry. (Page 15)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
“Knowledge” shall mean the actual knowledge of each of the following officers and employees of the Company or Parent, as applicable, after reasonable inquiry by each such person: (i) for the Company: William C. Johnson, Martin D. Agard, Joel H. Horn, Richard N. Caron, Jennifer Gudenkauf and Philip Dei Dolori; and (ii) for Parent: Filippo Berti and Bradford D. Willis.  (Page 43)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
“Knowledge” of any Person (including references to a Person being aware of a particular matter) as used with respect to Company and its Subsidiaries means those facts that are actually known, after reasonable inquiry, by the Executive Officers of Company and the directors of Company and Company Bank, and as used with respect to Buyer and its Subsidiaries means those facts that are actually known, after reasonable inquiry, by the Executive Officers of Buyer and the directors of Buyer. Without limiting the scope of the immediately preceding sentence, the term “Knowledge” includes any fact, matter, or circumstance set forth in any written notice received by Company or Buyer, respectively, from any Governmental Authority. (Page 96)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
provided, however, that with respect to clause (i) only, no Effect to the extent resulting or arising from any of the following, shall, to such extent, be deemed to constitute, or be taken into account in determining the occurrence of, a Company Material Adverse Effect: (A) general economic, political, business, financial or market conditions; (B) any outbreak, continuation or escalation of any military conflict, declared or undeclared war, armed hostilities, or acts of foreign or domestic terrorism; (C) any pandemic (including the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease), epidemic, plague, or other outbreak of illness or public health event, hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake or other natural disaster or act of God; (D) any failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to meet any internal or external projections or forecasts or any decline in the price or trading volume of Company Common Stock (but excluding, in each case, the underlying causes of such failure or decline, as applicable, which may themselves constitute or be taken into account in determining whether there has been, or would be, a Company Material Adverse Effect); (E) the public announcement or pendency of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby; (F) changes in applicable Legal Requirements; (G) changes in GAAP or any other applicable accounting standards; or (H) any action expressly required to be taken by the Company pursuant to the terms of the Agreement or at the express written direction or consent of


Parent; provided, further, that any Effect relating to or arising out of or resulting from any change or event referred to in clause (A), (B), (C), (F) or (G) above may constitute, and be taken into account in determining the occurrence of, a Company Material Adverse Effect to the extent that such change or event has a disproportionate impact (but solely to the extent of such disproportionate impact) on the Company and its Subsidiaries as compared to other participants that operate in the industry in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate. (Pages 87-88)

Question: Constructive Knowledge-Answer
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Based on investigation or inquiry
“Knowledge” of any Person (including references to a Person being aware of a particular matter) as used with respect to Company and its Subsidiaries means those facts that are actually known, after reasonable inquiry, by the Executive Officers of Company and the directors of Company and Company Bank, and as used with respect to Buyer and its Subsidiaries means those facts that are actually known, after reasonable inquiry, by the Executive Officers of Buyer and the directors of Buyer. Without limiting the scope of the immediately preceding sentence, the term “Knowledge” includes any fact, matter, or circumstance set forth in any written notice received by Company or Buyer, respectively, from any Governmental Authority. (Page 96)

Question: Knowledge Definition limited to one or more identified persons-Answer (Y/
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: No
“Knowledge” means <omitted> (ii) with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry, of any of the officers of the Company whose names are listed on Section 1.01(a)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, such reasonable inquiry shall not require such individuals to conduct (or have conducted) any Intellectual Property searches or analyses (including clearance or prior art searches) or opinions (including freedom-to-operate opinions), or scans or other investigations with respect to IT Assets.  (Page 12)

Question: Knowledge Definition limited to one or more identified persons-Answer (Y/
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes