Synthetic Long Position

Synthetic Long Position. Any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right or other contractual right, whether or not presently exercisable, which has an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to the Common Stock or a value determined in whole or part with reference to, or derived in whole or in part from, the market price or value of the Common Stock, whether or not such right is subject to settlement in whole or in part in shares of Common Stock, and... which increases in value as the value of the Common Stock increases or which provides to the holder of such right an opportunity, directly or indirectly, to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase in the value of the Common Stock, but shall not include: (i) rights of a pledgee under a bona fide pledge of the Common Stock; (ii) rights of all holders of Common Stock to receive Common Stock pro rata, or obligations to dispose of shares of Common Stock, as a result of a merger, exchange offer, or consolidation involving the Company; (iii) rights or obligations to surrender Common Stock, or have Common Stock withheld, upon the receipt or exercise of a derivative security or the receipt or vesting of equity securities, in order to satisfy the exercise price or the tax withholding consequences of receipt, exercise or vesting; (iv) interests in broad-based index options, broad-based index futures, and broad-based publicly traded market baskets of stocks approved for trading by the appropriate federal governmental authority; (v) interests or rights to participate in employee benefit plans of the Company held by employees or former employees of the Company; or (vi) options granted to an underwriter in a registered public offering for the purpose of satisfying over-allotments in such offering. The number of shares of Common Stock in respect of which a Person has a Synthetic Long Position shall be the notional or other number of the shares of Common Stock specified in a filing by such Person or any of such Person's Affiliates or Associates with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 13D-G or Regulation 14D under the Exchange Act in respect of which shares of Common Stock are the 'subject security' (as such term is fined in such Regulations) or in the documentation evidencing the Synthetic Long Position as being subject to be acquired upon the exercise or settlement of the applicable right or as the basis upon which the value or settlement amount of such right, or the opportunity of the holder of such right to profit or share in any profit, is to be calculated in whole or in part or, if no such number of shares of Common Stock is specified in such filing or documentation, as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith to be the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Synthetic Long Position relates. View More

Synthetic Long Position. Shall mean any transaction involving any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or other security, contract right or derivative position or similar right (including any "swap" transaction with respect to any security, other than a broad based market basket or index), whether or not presently exercisable, that has an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to the value of the Voting Securities or a value determined in... whole or in part with reference to, or derived in whole or in part from, the value of the Voting Securities and that increases in value as the market price or value of the Voting Securities increases or that provides to the holder an opportunity, directly or indirectly, to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase in the value of the Voting Securities, in each case regardless of whether (i) such derivative conveys any voting rights in such Voting Securities to such person or any of such person's Affiliates, (ii) such derivative is required to be, or capable of being, settled through delivery of such securities or (iii) such person or any of such person's Affiliates may have entered into other transactions that hedge the economic effect of such derivative; View More