Comparison Group means a sample group of organisations providing Comparable supply of Services which consists of organisations which are either of similar size to the Supplier or which are similarly structured in terms of their business and their service offering so as to be fair comparators with the Supplier or which, are best practice organisations;
Control Group means the Company and its Affiliates.
DBS Group means DBS Bank Ltd, its subsidiaries, affiliates, branches and related companies.
Corporate Group means the Corporation and its Subsidiaries treated as a single consolidated entity.
MNE Group means any Group that (i) includes two or more enterprises the tax residences of which are in different jurisdictions, or includes an enterprise that is resident for tax purposes in one jurisdiction and is subject to tax with respect to the business carried out through a permanent establishment in another jurisdiction, and (ii) is not an Excluded MNE Group;
Risk retention group means any corporation or other limited liability association:
Plan Affiliate means any other Person with whom the First Person constitutes or has constituted all or part of a controlled group, or which would be treated or have been treated with the First Person as under common control or whose employees would be or have been treated as employed by the First Person, under Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001(b) of ERISA and any regulations, administrative rulings and case law interpreting the foregoing.
Service Group means any one or more (as the context may require) of the service groups described in this Schedule;
Stockholder Group means the Stockholder and each Person (other than any member of the Company Group) that is an Affiliate of the Stockholder.
Family Group means, with respect to any individual, such individual’s spouse and descendants (whether natural or adopted) and any trust, partnership, limited liability company or similar vehicle established and maintained solely for the benefit of (or the sole members or partners of which are) such individual, such individual’s spouse and/or such individual’s descendants.
Shareholder Group means (i) Shareholder and (ii) any Affiliate or Shareholder Family Entity (as defined in the Shareholder's Agreement) of Shareholder (other than the Company).
Pooled fund group means an internally created fund of a district in which one or more institutional accounts of a district are in- vested.
Peer Group means the group of companies, as more particularly set forth on attached Exhibit A, against which the Relative Total Shareholder Return of the Company is measured over the Incentive Period.
Controlling Company shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(a) of this Agreement.
Participating Company Group means, at any point in time, all corporations collectively which are then Participating Companies.
Corporate Affiliate means any parent or subsidiary corporation of the Corporation (as determined in accordance with Code Section 424), whether now existing or subsequently established.
mixed financial holding company means a mixed financial holding company as defined in point (21) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;
Employing Company means the Company and any affiliate or subsidiary of The Southern Company which the Board of Directors may from time to time determine to bring under the Plan and which shall adopt the Plan, and any successor of them. The Employing Companies are set forth on Appendix A to the Plan as updated from time to time. No such entity shall be treated as an Employing Company prior to the date it adopts the Plan.
CVC means Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., a New York corporation.
Peer Group Companies means the following companies: .
Aggregation Group means either a Required Aggregation Group or a Permissive Aggregation Group as hereinafter determined.
Company Director means a member of the Board.
Sponsor Group means the Sponsors and the Sponsor Related Parties.
Group of Shareholders means the group of persons: (i) bound by contracts or agreements of any nature, including shareholders’ agreements, either directly or by means of controlled or controlling companies or companies under common control; or (ii) among which there is a controlling relationship; or (iii) that are under common control; or (iv) that act in the representation of a common interest. Examples of persons representing a common interest include: (a) a person holding, directly or indirectly, an equity interest equal to or greater than fifteen percent (15%) of the capital stock of another person; and (b) two persons having a third investor in common that holds, directly or indirectly, an equity interest equal to or greater than fifteen percent (15%) in the capital stock of each of the two persons. Any joint ventures, funds or investment clubs, foundations, associations, trusts, condominiums, cooperatives, securities portfolios, universality of rights, or any other forms of organization or enterprise, organized in Brazil or outside Brazil, shall be deemed members of one Group of Shareholders whenever two or more such entities: (y) are managed by one single legal entity or related parties of one single legal entity; or (z) have most of their directors and executive officers in common, but in the case of investment funds with a common manager, only such entities in which the determination of the vote to be held at a Shareholders’ Meetings, as determined by the respective statutes, is in the manager’s sole discretion, shall be deemed as part of the Group of Shareholders;
Controlled Affiliate means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other entity or enterprise, whether or not for profit, that is directly or indirectly controlled by the Company. For purposes of this definition, “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of an entity or enterprise, whether through the ownership of voting securities, through other voting rights, by contract or otherwise; provided that direct or indirect beneficial ownership of capital stock or other interests in an entity or enterprise entitling the holder to cast 15% or more of the total number of votes generally entitled to be cast in the election of directors (or persons performing comparable functions) of such entity or enterprise shall be deemed to constitute control for purposes of this definition.
Continuing Director means at any date a member of the Board (i) who was a member of the Board on the date of the execution of this Agreement or (ii) who was nominated or elected subsequent to such date by at least a majority of the directors who were Continuing Directors at the time of such nomination or election or whose election to the Board was recommended or endorsed by at least a majority of the directors who were Continuing Directors at the time of such nomination or election; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from this clause (ii) any individual whose initial assumption of office occurred as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents, by or on behalf of a person other than the Board; or