Confidentiality; Publicity (a) Except as may be required by Law, stock exchange rule or as otherwise expressly contemplated herein, no Party or their respective Affiliates, employees, agents or representatives shall disclose to any third party this Agreement, the subject matter or terms hereof or any such Confidential Information concerning the business or affairs of any other Party which it may have acquired from such Party in the course of pursuing the Transactions without the prior written consent of the Sellers or Buyer, as the case may be; provided, however, any Party may disclose any such Confidential Information as follows: (a) to such Party’s Affiliates and its or its Affiliates’ employees, lenders, counsel or accountants, who shall also be subject to the requirements of this Section 4.8; (b) to comply with any applicable Law or Order, (other than with respect to Taxes and Tax matters), provided that prior to making any such disclosure the Party making the disclosure notifies the other Party of any Action of which it is aware which may result in disclosure and uses its Best Efforts to limit or prevent such disclosure; (c) to the extent that the Confidential Information is or becomes generally available to the public through no fault of the Party or its Affiliates making such disclosure; (d) to the extent that the same information is already known by the Party making such disclosure prior to receipt of such Confidential Information; (e) to the extent that the Party that received the Confidential Information independently develops the same information without in any way relying on any Confidential Information; (f) to the extent that the same information becomes available to the Party making such disclosure on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a Party or its Affiliates, which source, to the Knowledge of the disclosing Party, is not prohibited from disclosing such information by a legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to the other Party; and (g) either Party may disclose the “tax treatment” or “tax structure” (as those terms are defined in Treas. Reg. §§ 1.6011-4(c)(8) and (9), respectively) of the Transactions and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to the Parties relating to such “tax treatment” or “tax structure” of the Transactions, except that “tax structure” or “tax treatment” shall not include the identity of any existing or future Party or its Affiliates. If the Transactions are not consummated, each Party will return or destroy as much of the Confidential Information concerning the other Parties as the Parties that have provided such information may reasonably request.
