Company Business and Strategy and Business Opportunities. (a) Notwithstanding Section 7.1, so long as the Titanium Family Group (together with any Family Transferees) continues to own, collectively, at least fifty percent (50%) of the Membership Interests owned by the Titanium Family Group as of the Effective Date (subject to any adjustment necessary to account for any split, dividend, distribution, combination, reclassification or similar event, in each case, in respect of the Membership Interests), (i) Silver Parent and the Silver Member agree that any business opportunity or venture of any kind (including owning, financing, acquiring, leasing promoting, developing, improving, operating, managing and servicing real property) first identified by the Company, its Subsidiaries, the Chief Executive Officer or any other Officer and presented to the Board of Directors prior to Silver Parent or its Subsidiaries (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) identifying such opportunity or venture other than through the Board of Directors, the Company or its Subsidiaries, shall (subject to this Section 7.2(a)) belong solely to the Company and (ii) without the written consent of the Titanium Family Designee, Silver Parent and the Silver Member and their respective Affiliates (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) shall not pursue, agree to or implement any such opportunities or ventures. In the event that either (x) there is any disagreement between the Titanium Family Designee, on the one hand, and Silver Parent or the Silver Member, on the other hand, regarding whether such business opportunity or venture was first identified by the Company, its Subsidiaries, the Chief Executive Officer or any other Officer and presented to the Board of Directors prior to Silver Parent or its Subsidiaries (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) identifying such opportunity or venture other than through the Board of Directors, the Company or its Subsidiaries or (y) the Silver Directors reasonably believe that such opportunity or venture reasonably and logically should be pursued by Silver Parent and its Subsidiaries (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) (including due to there being a bona fide auction for such opportunity or venture), notwithstanding the prior sentence, the Silver Directors and the Titanium Directors shall negotiate in good faith in order to try to resolve such disagreement or determine whether such conditions have been satisfied and should prevail. If such Directors are unable to reach a mutually acceptable resolution within fifteen (15) Days of the occurrence of such disagreement or foregoing conditions being invoked, then the parties shall submit such dispute, and the Titanium Family Designee or Silver Parent or the Silver Member may cause such dispute to be submitted, to binding arbitration in accordance with the provisions of, and procedures set forth in, Section 6.22. (b) If Silver Parent implements changes to its own policies regarding human resources matters, internal controls over financial reporting, treasury matters and other compliance matters that are contrary to comparable policies of the Company, and if the failure to apply such policies to the Company would reasonably be expected to prejudice Silver Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (for instance, by making it more difficult for Silver Parent to comply with its own legal or other obligations as a public company) other than to a de minimis extent, the Company shall seek to implement such changes to its own comparable policies, taking into account the business and culture of the Company.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Taubman Centers Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Taubman Centers Inc), Merger Agreement (Taubman Centers Inc)