premise: Until the earlier of  (i) the consummation by you of a Transaction,  (ii) eighteen months after termination of discussions relating to a possible Transaction between you and the Company, and  (iii) two years from the date of this Agreement, you will not, without the Company’s prior written consent, directly or indirectly solicit for purposes of employment, offer to hire, entice away or offer to enter into any contract with, or hire any employee of the Company: provided, however, that this paragraph shall not prohibit you or any of your Representatives from engagement in any general advertising or general solicitation not targeted to the Company’s employees or hiring employees who respond to such a solicitation with no other action or by you or your Representatives in violation of this provision: and provided, further, that, following execution by you and the Company of a definitive agreement providing for a Transaction between you and the Company, this paragraph shall not prohibit you or any of your Representatives from offering employees employment in anticipation of and conditioned upon the consummation of such Transaction.