premise: Each Recipient agrees that, for eighteen months from the date of this Agreement, no person in its organization who receives or has access to the Evaluation Material or has knowledge about the Possible Transaction will, directly or indirectly, solicit, or cause the soliciting of, or assist or encourage others in the soliciting of, the employment or consulting services of any of the officers of a Provider or any of its subsidiaries or employees engaged in research and development for Provider or any of its subsidiaries or any other employee of the Provider or any if its subsidiaries with whom the Recipient has had contact in connection with its evaluation of a Possible Transaction or of whom it has become aware as a result of its receipt of any Evaluation Material, so long as they are employed by the Provider or any of its subsidiaries and for two months thereafter (each, a “Covered Employee”). 