Where a Service Agreement and Share Purchase Agreement are commercially interdependent, defined terms in the Service Agreement that are literally capable of encompassing post-initial-term agreements may be construed as excluding such agreements where the commercial context demonstrates they were not associated with the same type of transaction. The case illustrates the application of the principle that ambiguous commercial contracts should be construed to avoid uncommercial or objectively unlikely consequences.
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