Company: MRCY
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001049521-25-000029
Chunk: 94

Company: MERCURY SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 94
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 the willful destruction or failure to preserve documents or other materials known to be relevant to such investigation or the willful inducement of others to fail to cooperate or to produce documents or other materials.

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j. "Change-in-Control" has the meaning set forth in Section 10(e).

k. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto, the Treasury Regulations thereunder and other relevant interpretive guidance issued by the Internal Revenue Service or the Treasury Department. Reference to any specific section of the Code shall be deemed to include such regulations and guidance, as well as any successor provision of the Code.

l. "Committee" means the Committee referred to in Section 2.

m. "Common Stock" means common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation.

n. "Corporate Transaction" has the meaning set forth in Section 10(e)(iii).

o. "Corporation" means Mercury Systems, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation, or its successor.

p. "Detrimental Activity" means, with respect to any Participant: (i) the Participant's disclosure or use of any confidential information or material relating to the business of the Corporation, which was acquired by the Participant in the course of an employment or service relationship with the Corporation or a Subsidiary, in violation of a legal duty or contractual obligation owed to the Corporation or Subsidiary; (ii) the Participant's failure or refusal to disclose promptly and to assign to the Corporation or a Subsidiary, whether pursuant to a legal duty or contractual obligation owed to the Corporation or a Subsidiary, or otherwise, all right, title and interest in any invention or idea, patentable or not, made or conceived by the Participant during an employment or service relationship with the Corporation or a Subsidiary, relating in any manner to the actual or anticipated business, research or development work of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries or the failure or refusal to do anything reasonably necessary to enable the Corporation or a Subsidiary to secure a patent in respect thereof where appropriate in the United States and in other countries; (iii) activity that results in termination of the Participant's employment or service relationship for cause, or would have resulted in termination if the Corporation or any Subsidiary had known about such activity at the time of the activity; (iv) the Participant's violation of any