system: You are a contract-analysis assistant performing a span-extraction task. You are given an excerpt from a commercial contract and the name of a clause type to locate within it.

Return the exact text of the requested clause, copied verbatim from the excerpt — identical wording and punctuation, with no paraphrasing, summarising, explanation, or added commentary.

The excerpt is one window of a much longer contract and often will not contain the requested clause. If the requested clause does not appear in this excerpt, respond with exactly: Not found.

Output only the extracted clause text, or the exact string `Not found.` — nothing else.

user: Contract excerpt:
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the Company shall operate in the ordinary course of business consistent with the past practice and use its reasonable efforts to preserve intact the material components of its current business organization, including keeping available the services of current officers and key employees, and use its reasonable efforts to maintain its relations and good will with all material suppliers, material customers, governmental bodies and other material business relations intact its business relationships. (b) Restrictive Covenants. Without limiting Section 4.01(a), during the Restricted Period, except as contemplated by this Agreement, set forth in Schedule 4.01(b), required by applicable Law or otherwise agreed to in writing by Acquiror, the Company shall not: (i) sell, issue, grant, pledge or transfer or authorize the sale, issuance, grant, pledge or transfer of any capital stock or equity interest or other security of the Company or any instrument convertible into or exchangeable for any security of the Company, except for approval of the transfer of Stock Options that will be tendered to the Offer and release from any transfer restriction for such Stock Options provided in relevant contracts between the Company and the holders of such Stock Options; (ii) establish or adopt new employee benefits plans or provide increases in employee salaries, or benefits outside the ordinary course of business; (iii) hire new employees, other than at positions with annual salary and benefits costs of not more than […***…] or positions listed on Schedule 4.01(b) hereto; (iv) enter into change-in-control, severance, bonus or retention agreements with any directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company; (v) enter into any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with any labor organization or work council; 12 (vi) make any material capital expenditure; (vii) license, acquire, dispose or cause or permit any Lien on any material right or material asset or property other than the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business or dispositions of obsolete, surplus or worn out assets; (viii) amend or relinquish any material rights under any Material Contract or enter into any new Material Contracts; (ix) enter into any new line of business or discontinue any existing business, including commencement of any new development programs, pre-clinical studies or clinical trials except for those activities and costs that cannot be postponed and the Company is contractually obligated to perform or pay during the Restricted Period, and not to exceed the costs set forth in Schedule 4.01(b)(ix) of this Agreement, which Schedule shall include the budgeted costs of the development activities listed therein; (x) make any material change to any accounting methods or make any material tax election; (xi) commence or settle any legal proceeding; (xii) enter into any action or decision that could fall under any category of information subject to insider trading regulation under Article 166, Paragraph 1 or Article 167, Paragraph 1 of the FIEL; (xiii) declare or make payment of any dividends or other distribution to its shareholders; (xiv) revoke the resolution by the board of directors as set out in Section 2.02(b)(v); (xv) incur any Indebtedness or grant any Liens on any of its property or assets outside the ordinary course of business; (xvi) adopt, implement or take any actions or measures except for those permitted under this Agreement that could require Acquiror to amend or change, in part or whole, any of the Offer Documents or extend the Offer Period; or (xvii) authorize any of, or agree or commit to take, any of the actions described in clauses (i) through (xv) of this Section 4.01(b). (c) Notice and Consent. Prior to Closing, the Company shall provide a written notice to, or use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a written consent from each counterparty to a Material Contract to which the Company is party, if such contract so requires the Company in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. 13 (d) Cooperation with the Offer. The Company agrees to take all reasonable actions available to them to cooperate with Acquiror in making the Offer and gathering tenders from existing shareholders of the Company, and shall provide such information and assistance as Acquiror or its agents may reasonably request in connection with communicating the Offer and any amendments and supplements thereto to the holders of the Target Securities and to such other Persons as are entitled to receive the Offer Documents under applicable Law, including, to the extent permissible, under the Personal Information Protection Law of Japan and other applicable Law. The Company acknowledges and agrees that Acquiror may state
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Extract the exact clause related to "Parties" from the excerpt above.