“Company Material Adverse Effect” means any effect, event, development, circumstance or change that (x) has a material adverse effect on the assets, business, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (y) that would prevent or materially delay the consummation by the Company of the Merger; provided, however, that no effect, event, development, circumstances or change, individually or in the aggregate, directly or indirectly resulting from, arising out of or attributable to any of the following shall be deemed to be or constitute a “Company Material Adverse Effect,” and no effect, event, development, circumstance or change, individually or in the aggregate, directly or indirectly resulting from, arising out of or attributable to any of the following shall be taken into account when determining whether a “Company Material Adverse Effect” has occurred or may, would or could occur: (a) general economic conditions (or changes in such conditions) in the United States or any other country or region in the world, or conditions in the global economy generally; (b) conditions (or changes in such conditions) in the securities markets, credit markets, currency markets or other financial markets in the United States or any other country or region in the world, including (i) changes in interest rates in the United States or any other country or region in the world and changes in exchange rates for the currencies of any countries and (ii) any suspension of trading in securities (whether equity, debt, derivative or hybrid securities) generally on any securities exchange or over-the-counter market operating in the United States or any other country or region in the world; (c) conditions (or changes in such conditions) in the industries in which the Company and its Subsidiaries conduct business; (d) random acts of violence, political conditions (or changes 75


in such conditions) in the United States or any other country or region in the world or acts of war, sabotage or terrorism (including any escalation or general worsening of any such acts of war, sabotage or terrorism) in the United States or any other country or region in the world; (e) earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, mudslides, wild fires or other natural disasters, weather conditions, epidemics, pandemics, disease outbreaks (including the COVID-19 virus), other public health emergencies (as declared by the World Health Organization or the Health and Human Services Secretary of the United States) and other force majeure events in the United States or any other country or region in the world; (f) the announcement of this Agreement or the pendency or consummation of the Transactions, including (i) the identity of Parent, (ii) the loss or departure of officers or other employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries directly resulting from, arising out of or directly attributable to the Transactions and (iii) the termination of (or the failure to renew or enter into) any contracts with customers, suppliers, licensors, distributors or other business partners; provided that, in the case of subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the Company and its Subsidiaries have complied with their obligations under Section 5.1 (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing shall not apply with respect to the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.4(b) or with respect to the conditions to Closing contained in Section 7.3(a) to the extent such condition relates to such representations and warranties); (g) any actions taken or failure to take action, in each case, pursuant to the requirements of this Agreement, at Parent’s request or following Parent’s written approval or consent to such action; (h) changes in law or other legal or regulatory conditions (or the interpretation thereof) or changes in GAAP or other applicable accounting standards (or the interpretation thereof); (i) changes in the Company’s stock price or the trading volume of the Company’s stock, or any failure by the Company to meet any public estimates or expectations of the Company’s revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, or any failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to meet any internal budgets, plans or forecasts of its revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations; (j) any failure to obtain CFIUS Clearance or the occurrence of any CFIUS Turndown Event (including the issuance of any order by the President of the United States pursuant to the DPA prohibiting the consummation of the Merger); (k) reductions in revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations directly resulting from the Divestiture; or (l) any investigation of or challenge to the Transactions described herein brought by a Governmental Entity under the HSR Act or any Antitrust Laws (but not, in each case, the underlying cause of such changes or failures, unless such changes or failures would otherwise be excepted from this definition); provided that, in the case of clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (h), such effect, event, development, circumstance or change shall be taken into account when determining whether a “Company Material Adverse Effect” has occurred to the extent such effect, event, development, circumstance or change has had a disproportionate impact on the Company as compared to other similarly situated participants in the Company’s industry. (Pages 79-80)

Question: Pandemic or other public health event:  subject to "disproportionate impact" modifier
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes