“Company Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to the Acquired Companies, any Effect that, individually or when taken together with all other Effects, (i) does, or would reasonably be expected to, prevent or materially impair or materially delay the consummation of the Merger by the Company prior to the End Date or (ii) is, or would reasonably be expected to be, materially adverse to the business, operations, assets, liabilities, financial condition or results of operations of the Acquired Companies taken as a whole; provided that, for purposes of the foregoing clause (ii), in no event shall any of the following arising after the date of this Agreement, alone or in combination, or any Effect to the extent any of the foregoing results from any of the following arising after the date of this Agreement, be taken into account in determining whether there shall have occurred a Company Material Adverse Effect: (A) changes in the Company’s stock price or trading volume, in and of themselves (but not, in each case, the underlying cause of such change, unless such underlying cause would otherwise be excepted from this definition); (B) any failure by the Company to meet, or changes to, published revenue, earnings or other financial projections, or any failure by the Company to meet any internal budgets, plans or forecasts of revenue, earnings or other financial projections, in each case in and of itself (but not, in each case, the underlying cause of such failure, unless such underlying cause would otherwise be excepted from this definition); (C) general business, economic or political conditions in the United States or any other country or region in the world, or changes therein; (D) conditions in the financial, credit, banking, capital or currency markets in the United States or any other country or region in the world, or changes therein, including (1) changes in interest rates in the United States or any other country and changes in exchange rates for the currencies of any countries and (2) 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; (E) changes in general conditions in an industry in which the Acquired Companies operate; (F) acts of hostilities, war, sabotage or terrorism (including any outbreak, escalation or general worsening of any such acts of hostilities, war, sabotage or terrorism) in the United States or any other country or region in the world; (G) earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, mudslides, wild fires or other natural or man-made disasters or acts of God or weather conditions in the United States or any other country or region in the world, or any escalation of the foregoing; (H) any epidemic, pandemic or other similar outbreak (including continuation or escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic) in the United States or any country or region in the world where the Acquired Companies have material operations, or any escalation of the foregoing; (I) the execution or announcement of this Agreement or the pendency or consummation of the Transactions, including the impact thereof on the relationships, contractual or otherwise, of the Acquired Companies with employees, customers, contractors, lenders, suppliers, vendors or partners, or the identity of Parent or any of its Affiliates as the acquirer of the Company (it being understood and agreed that this clause (I) shall not apply with respect to any representation or warranty the purpose of which is to address the consequences of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, or the performance of obligations hereunder or thereunder); (J) (1) any action taken by the Company at the written request of Parent that is not expressly required to be taken by the terms of this Agreement or (2) any action expressly required to be taken by the Company by the terms of this Agreement and that are necessary for purposes of consummating the Merger; (K) changes in Law; (L) changes or proposed changes in GAAP or other accounting standards (or the enforcement or interpretation thereof); and (M) any Transaction Litigation; provided that, in each of the foregoing clauses (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (K) and (L), such Effects referred to therein may be taken into account to the extent that the Acquired Companies are disproportionally affected relative to other similarly situated companies in the industry in which the Acquired Companies operate, in each case only to the extent of any such incremental disproportionate impact or impacts. (Page 4)

Question: Relational language (MAE carveout)-Answer (Dropdown)
Subquestion: No
Answer: "Resulting from"