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pursuant to sections 1302 to 1305 by a person, or by an | | affiliate of a person, who: |
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| | | (1) Is, or at any time in the one-year period | | immediately preceding approval by the corporation's | | board of directors of the corporate action requiring | | appraisal rights was, the beneficial owner of 20% or | | more of the voting power of the corporation, excluding | | any shares acquired pursuant to an offer for all shares | | having voting power if such offer was made within one | | year prior to the corporate action requiring appraisal | | rights for consideration of the same kind and of a | | value equal to or less than that paid in connection | | with the corporate action; or |
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| | | (2) Directly or indirectly has, or at any time in the | | one-year period immediately preceding approval by the | | corporation's board of directors of the corporate | | action requiring appraisal rights had, the power, | | contractually or otherwise, to cause the appointment or | | election of 25% or more of the directors to the | | corporation's board of directors; or |
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| | | C. When any of the shares or assets of a corporation are | | being acquired or converted, whether by merger, share | | exchange or otherwise, pursuant to a corporate action by a | | person, or by an affiliate of a person, who is, or at any | | time in the one-year period immediately preceding approval | | by the corporation's board of directors of the corporate | | action requiring appraisal rights pursuant to section 1302 | | was, a senior executive or director of the corporation or a | | senior executive of any affiliate of the corporation, and | | that senior executive or director, as a result of the | | corporate action, receives a financial benefit not generally | | available to other shareholders as such, other than: |
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| | | (1) Employment, consulting, retirement or similar | | benefits established separately and not as part of or | | in contemplation of the corporate action; |
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| | | (2) Employment, consulting, retirement or similar | | benefits established in contemplation of, or as part | | of, the corporate action that are not more favorable | | than those existing before the corporate action or, if | | more favorable, that have been approved on behalf of | | the corporation in the same manner as is provided in | | section 873; or |
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| | | (3) In the case of a director of the corporation who will, in | | the corporate action, become a director of the |
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