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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 2009.
Registration No. 333-161632
 
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Amendment No. 2
to
Form S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  6221
(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  20-4568600
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
(908) 731-0700

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Glenn H. Stevens
President and Chief Executive Officer
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
(Name, address including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:
     
Andrew P. Gilbert, Esq.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
502 Carnegie Center
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Tel: (609) 919-6600
Fax: (609) 919-6701
  Joseph A. Hall, Esq.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 450-4500
Fax: (212) 450-3500
      Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date hereof.
 
     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. o
     If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
     If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
     If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer o   Accelerated filer o   Non-accelerated filer þ   Smaller reporting company o
        (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    
      The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section  8(a) , may determine.
 
 

 


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EXPLANATORY NOTE
     This Amendment No. 2 to registration statement on Form S-1 is being filed by GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in order to file certain exhibits with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No change is made to the preliminary prospectus constituting Part I of the registration statement or Items 13, 14, 15, 16(b) or 17 of Part II of the registration statement. Accordingly, this Amendment No. 2 only consists of the facing page, this explanatory note, Part II, the signatures and the exhibits.

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PART II
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Item 16. Exhibits and financial statement schedules
Item 17. Undertakings
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EX-4.2
EX-10.10
EX-10.19
EX-10.20
EX-10.21
EX-10.22
EX-10.23
EX-10.24
EX-10.25
EX-10.26
EX-10.27
EX-10.28
EX-10.30
EX-10.31
EX-10.32
EX-10.33
EX-10.34
EX-10.35
EX-10.36
EX-10.37
EX-10.38
EX-10.39
EX-10.40
EX-10.41
EX-10.42
EX-10.43
EX-10.45
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.
     The following table indicates the expenses to be incurred in connection with the offering described in this Registration Statement, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, all of which will be paid by us. All amounts are estimated except the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registration fee and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) filing fee.
         
SEC registration fee
  $ 6,975  
FINRA filing fee
    *  
NASDAQ Global Market listing fee
    *  
Accountants’ fees and expenses
    *  
Legal fees and expenses
    *  
Blue Sky fees and expenses
    *  
Transfer Agent and Registrar’s fees and expenses
    *  
Printing and engraving expenses
    *  
Miscellaneous
    *  
 
     
Total
  $ *  
 
*   To be filed by amendment.
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
     Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware permits a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. Our certificate of incorporation provides that no director shall be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, notwithstanding any provision of law imposing such liability, except to the extent that the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware prohibits the elimination or limitation of liability of directors for breaches of fiduciary duty.
     Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlements actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with an action, suit or proceeding to which he or she is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful, except that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or other adjudicating court determines that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all of the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
     Our certificate of incorporation provides that we will indemnify each person who was or is a party or threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of us) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was, or has agreed to become, our director or officer, or is or was serving, or has agreed to serve, at our request as a director, officer, partner, employee or trustee of, or in a similar capacity with, another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (all such persons being referred to as an “Indemnitee”), or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therefrom, if such Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, he or she had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Our certificate of incorporation provides that we will indemnify any Indemnitee who was or is a party to an action or suit by or in the right of us to procure a judgment in our favor by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was, or has agreed to become, our director or officer, or is or was serving, or

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has agreed to serve, at our request as a director, officer, partner, employee or trustee of, or in a similar capacity with, another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and, to the extent permitted by law, amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, and any appeal therefrom, if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests, except that no indemnification shall be made with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to us, unless a court determines that, despite such adjudication but in view of all of the circumstances, he or she is entitled to indemnification of such expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that any Indemnitee has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, he or she will be indemnified by us against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection therewith. Expenses must be advanced to an Indemnitee under certain circumstances.
     In addition to the indemnification provided for in our certificate of incorporation, we expect to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers which may be broader than the specific indemnification provisions contained in the Delaware General Corporation Law prior to completion of this offering. These indemnification agreements may require us, among other things, to indemnify our directors and executive officers for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or executive officer in any action or proceeding arising out of his service as one of our directors or executive officers, or any of our subsidiaries or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at our request. We believe that these provisions and agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified individuals to serve as directors and executive officers.
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.
     During the three year period preceding the date of the filing of this registration statement, we have issued securities in the transactions described below without registration under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities were offered and sold by us in reliance upon exemptions from the registration requirements provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, Regulation D under the Securities Act as transactions by an issuer not involving a public offering or Rule 701 under the Securities Act of 1933 as transactions pursuant to written compensatory benefit plans and contracts relating to compensation with our employees.
      Issuances of capital stock
     On January 11, 2008, we issued and sold an aggregate of 2,611,606 shares of Series E preferred stock to certain investors at a purchase price per share of $44.80 for an aggregate purchase price of $116,999,948.80. The investors consisted of 3i U.S. Growth Partners L.P., 3i Technology Partners III L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV (Q), L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV Principals Fund, L.P. and VP New York Venture Partners L.P.
     All purchasers of shares of our common stock and our preferred stock described above represented to us in connection with their purchase that they were accredited investors and were acquiring the shares for investment and not distribution, that they could bear the risks of the investment and could hold the securities for an indefinite period of time. The purchasers received written disclosures that the securities had not been registered under the Securities Act and that any resale must be made pursuant to a registration or an available exemption from such registration.
Item 16. Exhibits and financial statement schedules.
     (a) Exhibits
         
Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  1.1 *  
Underwriting Agreement.
       
 
  3.1 **  
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be superseded by the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  3.2 *  
Amended and Restated By-laws to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  3.3 *  
Form of Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  4.1 *  
Specimen Certificate evidencing shares of common stock.

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Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  4.2  
Investor Rights Agreement, dated January 11, 2008, by and among the Company, the Investors and the Founding Stockholder, as defined therein.
       
 
  5.1 *  
Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
       
 
  10.1 **  
2006 Equity Compensation Plan (amended and restated, effective December 31, 2006).
       
 
  10.2 *  
2009 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan.
       
 
  10.3 *  
2009 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
       
 
  10.4 *  
Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement.
       
 
  10.5 *  
Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement.
       
 
  10.6 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Agreement.
       
 
  10.7 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Time Vesting).
       
 
  10.8 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Performance Vesting).
       
 
  10.9 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Immediate Vesting).
       
 
  10.10  
Form of Indemnification Agreement with the Company’s Non-Employee Directors.
       
 
  10.11 **  
Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.12 **  
Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.13 **  
Unconditional Guaranty, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Holdings, LLC, Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.14 **  
First Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.15 **  
Second Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2007, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JP Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.16 **  
Third Loan Modification Agreement, dated June 6, 2007, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.17 **  
Fourth Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of March 18, 2008, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.18 **  
Fifth Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2009 and effective as of March 17, 2009, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.19    
Employment Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2008, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Glenn Stevens.
       
 
  10.20    
Employment Letter, dated as of August 26, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Christopher Calhoun.
       
 
  10.21    
Employment Letter, dated as of March 23, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Henry Lyons.
       
 
  10.22    
Employment Letter, dated as of March 8, 2000, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Timothy O’Sullivan.
       
 
  10.23    
Separation Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2008, by and between Mark Galant and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
       
 
  10.24  
FX Prime Brokerage Master Agreement, dated as of December 6, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland, plc.
       
 
  10.25  
FX Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2005, by and between UBS AG and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.26  
Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agency Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland, plc.
       
 
  10.27  
Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated October 18, 2005, by and between Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and GCAM, LLC.

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Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  10.28    
Amendment to Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated January 26, 2006, by and between Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and GCAM, LLC.
       
 
  10.29 *  
Form of ISDA Master Agreement, 1992 edition.
       
 
  10.30    
Form of Introducing Broker Agreement.
       
 
  10.31    
Form of Agreement for White Label Services.
       
 
  10.32    
Sublease, dated March 31, 2005, by and between GAIN Capital, Inc. and NUI Corporation.
       
 
  10.33    
Agreement of Sublease, dated November 14, 2005, by and between Mellon Investor Services LLC and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.34    
First Amendment to Sublease, dated July 20, 2006, by and between Mellon Investor Services LLC and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.35    
Services Agreement, dated February 1, 2008, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Scivantage, Inc.
       
 
  10.36    
Schedule 1(b) to Services Agreement, dated February 15, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Scivantage, Inc.
       
 
  10.37    
Lease and Lease Agreement, dated August 18, 2009, by and between S/K Bed One Associates LLC and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
       
 
  10.38  
Access Agreement, dated December 1, 2004, by and between Questrade, Inc. and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.39    
Agreement for Lease, dated May 5, 2009, by and between Pontsarn Investments Limited and GAIN Capital — Forex.com U.K., Ltd.
       
 
  10.40  
Addendum to Access Agreement, dated July 23, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
       
 
  10.41  
Addendum to Access Agreement, dated October 12, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
       
 
  10.42  
Software Licensing and Services Agreement, dated December 1, 2004, by and between Questrade, Inc. and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.43  
License Agreement, dated August 9, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Metaquotes Software Corp.
       
 
  10.44 *  
Agreement, dated November 22, 2004, by and between esignal, a division of Interactive Data Corporation, and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.45  
Sales Lead Agreement, dated October 9, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Trading Central.
       
 
  10.46  
Forex Introducing Broker Agreement, dated April 20, 2005, by and between GAIN Capital Group, Inc. and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  10.47  
Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement, dated October 1, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  10.48  
Second Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement, dated April 1, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  21.1 **  
Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
       
 
  23.1 **  
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
       
 
  23.2 *  
Consent of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
       
 
  23.3 **  
Consent of Aite Group, LLC.
       
 
  24.1 **  
Power of Attorney.
 
*   To be filed by amendment.
 
**   Previously filed.
 
  Confidential treatment requested. Confidential materials omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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     (b) Financial Statement Schedules.
     None
Item 17. Undertakings.
     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.
     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:
     (1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
     (2) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this amendment no. 2 to registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township of Bedminster, State of New Jersey, on this 13 th day of November, 2009.
         
  GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Glenn H. Stevens    
    Glenn H. Stevens   
    President and Chief Executive Officer   
 

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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment no. 2 to registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
         
Signature   Title   Date
 
       
/s/ Glenn H. Stevens
 
Glenn H. Stevens
  President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)   November 13, 2009
 
       
/s/ Henry C. Lyons
 
Henry C. Lyons
  Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Mark E. Galant
  Chairman of the Board of Directors    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Ken Hanau
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Susanne D. Lyons
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Gerry McCrory
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
James C. Mills
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Peter Quick
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Joseph Schenk
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Christopher S. Sugden
  Director    November 13, 2009
 
       
*
 
Roger Tarika
  Director    November 13, 2009
     By signature set forth below, the undersigned, pursuant to the duly authorized powers of attorney filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has signed this amendment no. 2 to registration statement on behalf of the persons indicated.
         
* By:
  /s/ Glenn H. Stevens
 
Glenn H. Stevens
   
 
  Attorney-in-Fact    

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EXHIBIT INDEX
         
Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  1.1 *  
Underwriting Agreement.
       
 
  3.1 **  
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be superseded by the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  3.2 *  
Amended and Restated By-laws to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  3.3 *  
Form of Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be effective upon the closing of the offering.
       
 
  4.1 *  
Specimen Certificate evidencing shares of common stock.
       
 
  4.2  
Investor Rights Agreement, dated January 11, 2008, by and among the Company, the Investors and the Founding Stockholder, as defined therein.
       
 
  5.1 *  
Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
       
 
  10.1 **  
2006 Equity Compensation Plan (amended and restated, effective December 31, 2006).
       
 
  10.2 *  
2009 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan.
       
 
  10.3 *  
2009 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
       
 
  10.4 *  
Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement.
       
 
  10.5 *  
Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement.
       
 
  10.6 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Agreement.
       
 
  10.7 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Time Vesting).
       
 
  10.8 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Performance Vesting).
       
 
  10.9 *  
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Immediate Vesting).
       
 
  10.10  
Form of Indemnification Agreement with the Company’s Non-Employee Directors.
       
 
  10.11 **  
Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.12 **  
Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.13 **  
Unconditional Guaranty, dated as of March 29, 2006, by and among GAIN Holdings, LLC, Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.14 **  
First Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2006, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.15 **  
Second Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2007, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JP Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.16 **  
Third Loan Modification Agreement, dated June 6, 2007, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.17 **  
Fourth Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of March 18, 2008, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.18 **  
Fifth Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2009 and effective as of March 17, 2009, by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
       
 
  10.19    
Employment Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2008, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Glenn Stevens.
       
 
  10.20    
Employment Letter, dated as of August 26, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Christopher Calhoun.
       
 
  10.21    
Employment Letter, dated as of March 23, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Henry Lyons.
       
 
  10.22    
Employment Letter, dated as of March 8, 2000, by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. and Timothy O’Sullivan.

 


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Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  10.23    
Separation Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2008, by and between Mark Galant and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
       
 
  10.24  
FX Prime Brokerage Master Agreement, dated as of December 6, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland, plc.
       
 
  10.25  
FX Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2005, by and between UBS AG and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.26  
Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agency Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland, plc.
       
 
  10.27  
Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated October 18, 2005, by and between Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and GCAM, LLC.
       
 
  10.28    
Amendment to Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement, dated January 26, 2006, by and between Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and GCAM, LLC.
       
 
  10.29 *  
Form of ISDA Master Agreement, 1992 edition.
       
 
  10.30    
Form of Introducing Broker Agreement.
       
 
  10.31    
Form of Agreement for White Label Services.
       
 
  10.32    
Sublease, dated March 31, 2005, by and between GAIN Capital, Inc. and NUI Corporation.
       
 
  10.33    
Agreement of Sublease, dated November 14, 2005, by and between Mellon Investor Services LLC and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.34    
First Amendment to Sublease, dated July 20, 2006, by and between Mellon Investor Services LLC and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.35    
Services Agreement, dated February 1, 2008, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Scivantage, Inc.
       
 
  10.36    
Schedule 1(b) to Services Agreement, dated February 15, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Scivantage, Inc.
       
 
  10.37    
Lease and Lease Agreement, dated August 18, 2009, by and between S/K Bed One Associates LLC and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
       
 
  10.38  
Access Agreement, dated December 1, 2004, by and between Questrade, Inc. and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.39    
Agreement for Lease, dated May 5, 2009, by and between Pontsarn Investments Limited and GAIN Capital — Forex.com U.K., Ltd.
       
 
  10.40  
Addendum to Access Agreement, dated July 23, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
       
 
  10.41  
Addendum to Access Agreement, dated October 12, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
       
 
  10.42  
Software Licensing and Services Agreement, dated December 1, 2004, by and between Questrade, Inc. and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.43  
License Agreement, dated August 9, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Metaquotes Software Corp.
       
 
  10.44 *  
Agreement, dated November 22, 2004, by and between esignal, a division of Interactive Data Corporation, and GAIN Capital, Inc.
       
 
  10.45  
Sales Lead Agreement, dated October 9, 2006, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Trading Central.
       
 
  10.46  
Forex Introducing Broker Agreement, dated April 20, 2005, by and between GAIN Capital Group, Inc. and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  10.47  
Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement, dated October 1, 2007, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  10.48  
Second Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement, dated April 1, 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
       
 
  21.1* *  
Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
       
 
  23.1* *  
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

 


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Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  23.2*    
Consent of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
       
 
  23.3* *  
Consent of Aite Group, LLC.
       
 
  24.1* *  
Power of Attorney.
 
*   To be filed by amendment.
 
**   Previously filed.
 
  Confidential treatment requested. Confidential materials omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Exhibit 4.2
GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT
     This AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this Agreement ”) is entered into as of January 11, 2008, and amends and restates the original Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006 (the Original Agreement ”), by and among GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company ”), the persons identified on Schedule A hereto as an investor (each an Investor and collectively, the Investors ) and the person identified on Schedule A hereto as a founding stockholder (the Founding Stockholder ”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the Series A Purchase Agreement ”) dated as of December 2, 1999, by and among Gain Capital, Inc. (a predecessor to the Company, Gain Capital ”) and the several persons named therein as purchasers (collectively the Series A Investors ”), the Series A Investors purchased an aggregate of 4,545,455 shares of Gain Capital’s Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, which, pursuant to a prior reorganization transaction effected in connection with the purchase of shares of Series D Preferred Stock (the Reorganization Transaction ”), were converted into shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the Series A Preferred Stock”) ;
      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Series B Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, (the Series B Purchase Agreement ”) dated as of July 25, 2001, by and among Gain Capital and the several persons named therein as purchasers (collectively the Series B Investors ”), the Series B Investors purchased an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares of Gain Capital’s Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, which, pursuant to the Reorganization Transaction, were converted into shares of the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the Series B Preferred Stock” );
      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the Series C Purchase Agreement ”) dated as of August 1, 2003, by and among Gain Capital Group, Inc. and the several persons named therein as purchasers (collectively the Series C Investors ”), the Series C Investors purchased an aggregate of 2,496,879 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, which, pursuant to the Reorganization Transaction, were converted into shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the Series C Preferred Stock ”);
      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Series D Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the Series D Purchase Agreement ”) dated as of March 26, 2006, by and among the Company, VantagePoint Venture Partners IV (Q), L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“ VantagePoint ”) and the other purchasers named therein (together with VantagePoint, the Series D Investors ”), the Series D Investors purchased an aggregate of 3,254,678 shares of Series D Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the Series D Preferred Stock ”);

 


 

      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the Series E Purchase Agreement ”) dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company and 3i U.S. Growth Partners L.P., 3i Technology Partners III L.P. VantagePoint Venture Partners IV (Q), L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV Principals Fund, L.P. and VP New York Venture Partners, L.P. (collectively, the Series E Investors”), the Company has offered shares of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock (as defined below) and the Series E Investors have agreed to purchase an aggregate of 2,611,606 shares of Series E Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value (the Series E Preferred Stock ”) of the Company;
      WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Agreement, the Company granted certain registration rights and financial information rights to the Series A Investors, the Series B Investors, the Series C Investors and the Series D Investors;
      WHEREAS, the Company and the undersigned Series A Investors, Series B Investors, Series C Investors and Series D Investors constitute the requisite parties necessary to amend and restate the Original Agreement; and
      WHEREAS, the Company wishes to grant certain rights to the Series E Investors with respect to the Series E Preferred Stock being purchased in accordance with the Series E Purchase Agreement as set forth herein.
      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises, representations, warranties, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and for the good and valuable consideration, the parties, intending to be legally bound, mutually agree that the Original Agreement is hereby amended and restated as follows:
SECTION 1. GENERAL
      1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:
           Blue Rock Entities means Blue Rock Capital, L.P., Blue Rock Partners, L.P., and any hedge or mutual funds or other investment vehicles or entities of which any of the foregoing entities are affiliates.
           Common Stock means the common stock of the Company, par value of $0.00001 per share, and any stock into which such common stock of the Company may hereafter be converted upon a reclassification of such common stock in accordance with law.
           Cross Atlantic Entities means Cross Atlantic Technology Fund, L.P., XATF Management, LP, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, and any hedge or mutual funds or other investment vehicles or entities of which any of the foregoing entities are affiliates.
           Edison Entities means Edison Venture Fund IV SBIC, L.P., Edison Partners IV, SBIC, LLC, and any hedge or mutual funds or other investment vehicles or entities of which any of the foregoing entities are affiliates.

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           Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any similar successor federal statute and the rules and regulations thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect from time to time.
           Form S-3 means such form under the Securities Act as in effect on the date hereof or any successor registration form under the Securities Act subsequently adopted by the SEC which permits inclusion or incorporation of substantial information by reference to other documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
           Holder means (a) any person owning of record Registrable Securities that have not been sold to the public or (b) any assignee of record of such Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2.10 hereof.
           Initial Public Offering means the Company’s first firm commitment underwritten public offering of its Common Stock registered under the Securities Act covering the offer and sale by the Company of its Common Stock.
           Major Investor Entities means the Blue Rock Entities, the Cross Atlantic Entities, the Edison Entities, the Tudor Entities, the VantagePoint Entities and the 3i Entities.
           Preferred Stock means the Series A Preferred Stock, the Series B Preferred Stock, the Series C Preferred Stock, the Series D Preferred Stock and the Series E Preferred Stock.
           Qualified Public Offering means an underwritten, firm commitment public offering registered under the Securities Act (other than on Form S-4 or S-8 or any successor forms thereto) covering the offer and sale by the Company of its Common Stock in which the aggregate gross proceeds to the Company and/or its stockholders exceed $50,000,000 (calculated after deducting underwriters’ commissions and other offering expenses); provided that the gross proceeds for the account of the Corporation exceed $25,000,000 (calculated after deducting underwriters commissions and other offering expenses), and in which the public offering price per share of Common Stock (calculated before deducting underwriters’ discounts and commissions) equals or exceeds the sum of (x) $18.44 (appropriately adjusted for stock splits, reverse stock splits and similar type transactions or occurrences with respect to the Common Stock) and (y) accumulated but unpaid dividends on one share of Series D Preferred Stock, and in which the Corporation’s Common Stock is listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ National Market or the London Stock Exchange.
           Register, ” “ registered, and registration refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing with the SEC a registration statement in compliance with the Securities Act, and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such registration statement or document by the SEC.
           Registrable Securities means (a) any Shares; (b) any other shares of Common Stock now or hereafter held by the Investors or issuable to the Investors pursuant to options, warrants or convertible securities; and (c) any Common Stock of the Company issued as (or issuable upon the conversion or exercise of any warrant, right or other security which is issued as) a dividend or other distribution with respect to, or in exchange for, or in replacement of, such

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above-described securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Registrable Securities shall cease to include any securities that have been sold by a person to the public pursuant to a registration statement in compliance with the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 or sold in a private transaction in which the transferor’s rights under Section 2 of this Agreement are not assigned.
           “Registrable Securities then outstanding” shall be the number of shares determined by calculating the total number of shares of Common Stock that are Registrable Securities and either (a) are then issued and outstanding or (b) are issuable pursuant to then exercisable or convertible securities.
           “Registration Expenses” shall mean all expenses incurred by the Company in complying with Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.6 hereof, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, printing expenses, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, reasonable fees and disbursements of a single special counsel for the Holders, blue sky fees and expenses and fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants, including the expense of any special audits incident to or required by any such registration (but excluding the compensation of regular employees of the Company which shall be paid in any event by the Company) and excluding Selling Expenses.
           “Rule 144” shall mean Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar successor rule that may be promulgated under the Securities Act.
           “SEC” or “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency at the time administering the Securities Act.
           “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any similar successor federal statute and the rules and regulations thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect from time to time.
           “Selling Expenses” shall mean all underwriting discounts and selling commissions applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities.
           “Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of the Preferred Stock or other preferred equity securities of the Company now or hereafter owned by the Holders.
           “3i Affiliate” means any direct or indirect subsidiary, parent, general partner, limited partner or affiliate of the 3i Entities or of 3i Group plc or any entity or vehicle in which 3i Group plc and/or its affiliate has a majority economic interest and which is managed or advised by 3i Group plc or any of its affiliates.
           3i Entities” means 3i U.S. Growth Partners L.P. and 3i Technology Partners III L.P.
           “Tudor Entities” means each of the following: Tudor BVI Global Portfolio Ltd., Tudor Proprietary Trading, LLC, Raptor Global Portfolio, Ltd., Witches Rock Portfolio, Ltd., Tudor Investment Corporation, Tudor Global Trading Inc., Tudor Venture II, L.P., Tudor

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Ventures III, L.P., Tudor Private Equity Fund, L.P., Tudor Arbitrage Partners, L.P., Tudor BVI Futures, Ltd., Raptor Global Portfolio, L.P., Raptor Global Fund, L.P., Raptor Global Fund Ltd., ALTAR Rock Fund L.P., and their respective affiliates and any hedge or mutual funds other investment vehicles or entities of which any of the foregoing entities are affiliates, or any affiliate or affiliated group of Tudor Investment Corporation and/or Tudor Global Trading, Inc.
           “VantagePoint Entities” means VantagePoint, VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P., VantagePoint Venture Partners IV Principals Fund, L.P., VP New York Venture Partners, L.P. and any hedge or mutual funds other investment vehicles or entities of which any of the foregoing entities are affiliates.
           “Warrants” means the warrants exercisable for shares of Series B Preferred Stock and issuable to the Investors in connection with their purchase of Series B Preferred Stock.
SECTION 2. REGISTRATION; RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER
      2.1 Restrictions on Transfer.
          (a) Each Holder agrees not to make any disposition of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities, Preferred Stock or Warrants unless and until:
               (i) There is then in effect a registration statement under the Securities Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with such registration statement;
               (ii) Such disposition is made pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144 (it is agreed that the Company will not require opinions of counsel for transactions made pursuant to Rule 144 except in unusual circumstances); or
               (iii) The transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, (B) such Holder shall have notified the Company of the proposed disposition and shall have furnished the Company with a detailed statement of the circumstances surrounding the proposed disposition, and (C) if reasonably requested by the Company, such Holder shall have furnished the Company with an opinion of counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Company, that such disposition will not be required to be registered under the Securities Act.
          (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above, no such registration statement or opinion of counsel shall be necessary for a transfer by a Holder which is (A) a limited or general partnership to its partners, or former partners, (B) a corporation to its shareholders in accordance with their interest in the corporation or to its affiliate, (C) a limited liability company to its members or former members, (D) to the Holder’s immediate family members or a trust for the benefit of an individual Holder or such Holder’s immediate family members, (E) in the case of Tudor Ventures II, L.P. (“Tudor”), to any Tudor Entity, (F) in the case of any VantagePoint Entity, to any VantagePoint Entity or (G) in the case of the 3i Entities, to any 3i Affiliate; provided that in each case the transferee will be subject to the terms of this Agreement to the same extent as if he were an original Holder hereunder.
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permitted by the provisions of the Agreement) be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend substantially similar to the following (in addition to any legend required under applicable state securities laws):
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 (THE “ACT”) AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED UNLESS AND UNTIL REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT OR UNLESS THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY AND ITS COUNSEL THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
          (d) The Company shall be obligated to reissue promptly unlegended certificates at the request of any Holder thereof if the Holder shall have obtained an opinion of counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Company) reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that the securities proposed to be unlegended may lawfully be so disposed of without registration, qualification or legend.
          (e) Any legend endorsed on an instrument pursuant to applicable state securities laws and the stop-transfer instructions with respect to such securities shall be removed upon receipt by the Company of an order of the appropriate blue sky authority authorizing such removal.
      2.2 Demand Registration.
          (a) Subject to the conditions of this Section 2.2, if (x) at any time prior to the Initial Public Offering the Company receives a written request from the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding or (y) at any time subsequent to the Initial Public Offering the Company receives a written request from the Holders of 30% of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (as applicable, the “Initiating Holders”) that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the registration of all or a part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holders, then the Company shall:
          (A) within 15 days of the receipt thereof, give notice of such request to all Holders, and use its best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, the registration of all Registrable Securities that the Holders have requested to be registered; and
          (B) as soon as practicable, use its best efforts to effect such registration, qualification or compliance (including, without limitation, the execution of an undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualification under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws, and appropriate compliance with applicable regulations issued under the Securities Act and any other governmental requirements or regulations) as may be so requested and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of such

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Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request received by the Company within 15 days after the date the Company mails such written notice. The Company may include in such registration any securities, for its own account or for the account of a security holder or holders, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.2(b) below.
          (b) If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a part of their demand pursuant to this Section 2.2 or Section 2.4 and the Company shall include such information in the notice referred to in Section 2.2(a) or Section 2.4(a), as applicable. In such event, the right of any Holder to include its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon participation in such underwriting. The underwriter or underwriters for such offering shall be one of the Company’s historical underwriters or another underwriter selected by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and reasonably acceptable to the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.2 or Section 2.4, if the underwriter advises the Company that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of securities to be underwritten (including Registrable Securities) then the Company shall so advise all participating Holders, and the number of shares that may be included in the underwriting and registration shall be allocated pro rata to the participating Holders based on the number of Registrable Securities held; provided, however , the percentage of securities assigned to the VantagePoint Entities shall in no case be lower than thirty percent (30%) of the total number of securities underwritten; provided, further, that the number of shares of Registrable Securities to be included in such underwriting and registration shall not be reduced unless all other securities of the Company and all securities that are not Registrable Securities are first entirely excluded from the underwriting and registration; and provided, further , that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Founding Stockholder shall have, with respect to an underwritten Initial Public Offering, the priority right to include his shares in any “green shoe” up to his pro rata share of securities sold by the stockholders in such underwritten Initial Public Offering to the extent not included in the underwritten Initial Public Offering.
          (c) The Company shall not be required to effect a registration pursuant to this Section 2.2:
               (i) prior to the earlier of (A) the third anniversary of the date of the Original Agreement or (B) six months following the effective date of the registration statement pertaining to a Qualified Public Offering;
               (ii) after the Company has effected two (2) registrations pursuant to this Section 2.2 and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective by the SEC and pursuant to which securities have been sold;
               (iii) during the period starting with the date of filing of, and ending on the date six months following the effective date of, a registration statement pertaining to any underwritten public offering made pursuant to this Section 2.2;
               (iv) if within thirty (30) days of receipt of a written request from

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Initiating Holders pursuant to Section 2.2(a), the Company gives notice to the Holders of the Company’s intention to make its Initial Public Offering within ninety (90) days;
               (v) if the Company shall furnish to the Initiating Holders a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such registration to be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer the filing of the applicable registration statement for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt of the request of the Initiating Holders; provided that such right to delay a request shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any twelve (12) month period;
               (vi) if the Initiating Holders propose to dispose of Registrable Securities that may be immediately registered on Form S-3 and disposed of in the intended manner pursuant to a request made pursuant to Section 2.4 below and if the Company files the requisite Form S-3; or
               (vii) if the Initiating Holders, together with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in such registration statement, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other securities (if any) at an anticipated aggregate price to the public (after deduction for underwriter’s discounts and expenses related to the issuance) of less than $20,000,000.
      2.3 Piggyback Registrations. The Company shall notify all Holders at least thirty (30) days prior to the filing of any registration statement under the Securities Act for a public offering of securities of the Company (including, but not limited to, registration statements relating to secondary offerings of securities of the Company, but excluding registration statements relating to employee benefit plans or corporate reorganizations or other transactions under Rule 145 of the Securities Act) and will afford each such Holder an opportunity to include in such registration statement all or part of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder. Each Holder desiring to include Registrable Securities in any such registration statement shall notify the Company within fifteen (15) days after the notice from the Company. Such notice shall state the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities by such Holder. If a Holder decides not to include all of its Registrable Securities in any registration statement filed by the Company, such Holder shall nevertheless continue to have the right to include any Registrable Securities in any subsequent registration statement or registration statements as may be filed by the Company, all upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.
          (a) Underwriting. If the registration statement under which the Company gives notice under this Section 2.3 is for an underwritten offering, the Company shall so advise the Holders. In such event, the right of any Holder to include Registrable Securities in the registration statement pursuant to this Section 2.3 shall be conditioned upon the Holder’s participation in the underwriting. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, if the underwriter determines in good faith that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be underwritten, the number of shares that may be included in the underwriting shall be allocated, first, to the Company; second, to the Holders pro rata based on the total number of Registrable Securities held by the Holders (provided, however , notwithstanding anything to the

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contrary in the paragraph, the percentage of securities assigned to the VantagePoint Entities shall in no case be lower than thirty percent (30%) of the total number of securities underwritten); and third (to the extent of availability), to any other stockholder of the Company (other than a Holder) on a pro rata basis based on the total number of shares of Common Stock then held by such other stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Founding Stockholder shall have, with respect to an underwritten Initial Public Offering, the priority right to include his shares in any “green shoe” up to his pro rata share of securities sold by the stockholders in such underwritten Initial Public Offering to the extent not included in the underwritten Initial Public Offering.
          (b) Right to Terminate Registration. The Company shall have the right to terminate or withdraw any registration initiated by it under this Section 2.3 prior to the effectiveness of such registration whether or not any Holder has elected to include securities in such registration. The Registration Expenses of such withdrawn registration shall be borne by the Company in accordance with Section 2.5 hereof.
      2.4 Form S-3 Registration.
          (a) If the Company shall receive from any Holder or Holders a request that the Company effect a registration on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration statement and any related qualification or compliance with respect to all or a part of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder or Holders, the Company will:
               (i) promptly give notice of the proposed registration, and any related qualification or compliance, to all other Holders of Registrable Securities; and
               (ii) as soon as practicable, effect such registration and all such qualifications and compliances as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of the Registrable Securities specified in such request, together with the Registrable Securities of any other Holder or Holders joining in such request by notice to the Company given within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice from the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to this Section 2.4:
                    (1) if Form S-3 is not available for such offering by the Holders, or
                    (2) if the Holders, together with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other securities (if any) at an anticipated aggregate price to the public of less than $1,000,000, or
                    (3) if the Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors, it would be seriously detrimental to the Company and its stockholders for such Form S-3 registration to be effected at such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer the filing of the Form S-3 registration statement for a period of not more than ninety (90) days after receipt of the request of the Holder or Holders under this Section 2.4; provided , that

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such right to delay a request shall be exercised by the Company not more than once in any twelve (12) month period, or
                    (4) if the Company has, within the twelve (12) month period preceding the date of such request, already effected two (2) registrations on Form S-3 for the Holders pursuant to this Section 2.4.
          (b) Subject to the foregoing, the Company shall file a Form S-3 registration statement covering the Registrable Securities and other securities so requested to be registered as soon as practicable after receipt of the request or requests of the Holders. Registrations effected pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall not be counted as demands for registration or registrations effected pursuant to Section 2.2. If the initiating Holders intend to distribute Registrable Securities pursuant to an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company in the demand pursuant to Section 2.2(b).
          (c) After the Company’s Initial Public Offering, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to qualify for the registration of its shares of Common Stock on Form S-3.
      2.5 Expenses of Registration. Except as specifically provided below in this Section 2.5, all Registration Expenses incurred in connection with any registration, qualification or compliance pursuant to Sections 2.2, 2.3 or 2.4 herein shall be borne by the Company. All Selling Expenses incurred in connection with any registrations hereunder, shall be borne by the selling party, either the Company or the Holders selling the securities, as applicable. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay for Registration Expenses regarding any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 2.2, the request of which has been subsequently withdrawn by the Initiating Holders (and such Initiating Holders hereby indemnify the Company (on a several basis in proportion to the number of shares for which registration was requested) against all such expenses) unless (a) the withdrawal is based upon material adverse information concerning the Company (including a material drop in the market price of the Company’s common stock) of which the Initiating Holders were not aware at the time of such request or (b) the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities agree to forfeit their right to one requested registration pursuant to Section 2.2, in which event such right shall be forfeited by all Holders). If the Holders are required to pay the Registration Expenses, as provided above, such expenses shall be borne by the Holders requesting such registration in proportion to the number of shares for which registration was requested.
      2.6 Obligations of the Company. Whenever required to register any Registrable Securities, the Company shall, as expeditiously as reasonably possible:
          (a) Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use all reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective, and, upon the request of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder, keep such registration statement effective for up to three months for a registration pursuant to Section 2.2 and for up to two years for a registration pursuant to Section 2.4 or, if earlier, until the Holder or Holders have completed the distribution related thereto.

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          (b) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such registration statement as may be necessary to keep such registration effective and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement for the period set forth in paragraph (a) above.
          (c) Furnish to the Holders such number of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them.
          (d) Use its reasonable best efforts to register and qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders; provided, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of process in any such states or jurisdictions.
          (e) In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing underwriter(s) of such offering.
          (f) Notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing.
          (g) Use its reasonable best efforts to furnish, on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the underwriters for sale, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, (i) an opinion, dated as of such date, of the counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and (ii) a letter dated as of such date, from the independent certified public accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering addressed to the underwriters.
          (h) Otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve months, but not more than eighteen months, beginning with the first month after the effective date of such registration statement, which earnings statement shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.
      2.7 Furnishing Information. It shall be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to Section 2.2, 2.3 or 2.4 that the selling Holders shall furnish to the Company such information regarding themselves, the Registrable Securities held

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by them and the intended method of disposition of such securities as shall be required under rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act to effect the registration of their Registrable Securities.
      2.8 Indemnification. In the event any Registrable Securities are included in a registration statement under Sections 2.2, 2.3 or 2.4:
          (a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Holder and the partners, officers, directors and stockholders of each Holder, any underwriter (as defined in the Securities Act) for such Holder and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which they may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any of the following statements, omissions or violations (collectively a “Violation”) by the Company: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any state securities law or any rule or regulation promulgated under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any state securities law in connection with the offering covered by such registration statement; and the Company will pay as incurred to each such Holder, partner, officer, director, stockholder, underwriter or controlling person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 2.8(a) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, nor shall the Company be liable in any such case for any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action to the extent that it arises out of or is based upon a Violation which occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished expressly for use in connection with such registration by such Holder, partner, officer, director, stockholder, underwriter or controlling person of such Holder.
          (b) To the extent permitted by law, each Holder will, if Registrable Securities held by such Holder are included in the securities as to which such registration, qualification or compliance is being effected, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, its officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, any underwriter and any other Holder selling securities under such registration statement or any of such other Holder’s partners, directors, officers or stockholders or any person who controls such Holder, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or any such person may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arise out of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent (and only to the extent) that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished by such Holder under an instrument duly executed by such Holder and stated to be specifically for use in connection with such registration; and

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each such Holder will pay as incurred any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if it is judicially determined that there was such a Violation; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 2.8(b) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided further, that in no event shall any indemnity and payment obligation under this Section 2.8 exceed the net proceeds (after deducting commissions, taxes and other expenses) from the offering received by such Holder.
          (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 2.8 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 2.8, deliver to the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, with the fees and expenses to be paid by the indemnifying party, if representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action, if materially prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section 2.8, but the omission so to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party will not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 2.8.
          (d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 2.8 is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an indemnified party with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to herein, the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall to the extent permitted by applicable law contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party on the one hand and of the indemnified party on the other in connection with the Violation(s) that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and of the indemnified party shall be determined by a court of law by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the indemnifying party or by the indemnified party and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission; provided, that in no event shall any contribution by a Holder hereunder exceed the net proceeds (after deducting commissions, taxes and other expenses) from the offering received by such Holder.
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termination of this Agreement. No indemnifying party, in the defense of any such claim or litigation, shall, except with the consent of each indemnified party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.
      2.9 Termination of Registration Rights. All registration rights granted under this Section 2 shall terminate and be of no further force and effect once all Registrable Securities held by and issuable to Holders (and their affiliates, partners, former partners, members and former members) may be sold under Rule 144 during any ninety (90) day period.
      2.10 Assignment of Registration Rights. The rights to cause the Company to register Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2 may be assigned by a Holder to a transferee or assignee of Registrable Securities which (a) is a subsidiary, parent, general partner, limited partner, former partner, member, shareholder, former member or affiliate of a Holder, (b) is a Holder’s immediate family member or trust for the benefit of an individual Holder or immediate family members, (c) acquires at least fifty percent (50%) of the shares of Registrable Securities then held by the transferring Holder, (d) acquires at least twenty percent (20%) of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (as adjusted for stock splits and combinations), (e) in the case of Tudor, to any Tudor Entity, or (f) in the case of the 3i Entities, to any 3i Affiliate; provided, however, (i) the transferor shall, within ten (10) business days after such transfer or assignment, furnish to the Company written notice of the name and address of such transferee or assignee and the securities with respect to which such registration rights are being assigned and (ii) such transferee or assignee shall agree to be subject to all restrictions set forth in this Agreement.
      2.11 Amendment of Registration Rights. Any provision of this Section 2 may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities; provided that no such amendment or waiver shall affect any Holder in a more adverse or disproportionate manner than the other Holders without obtaining the consent of such adversely and disproportionately affected Holder (excluding for this purpose any adverse or disproportional effects resulting solely from differences in the numerical per share dividend rate, ranking, original issue price, redemption price or conversion price of a series of Preferred Stock). Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this Section 2.11 shall be binding upon each Holder and the Company. By acceptance of any benefits under this Section 2, Holders of Registrable Securities hereby agree to be bound by the provisions hereunder.
      2.12 Limitation on Subsequent Registration Rights. After the date of this Agreement, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding, enter into any agreement with any holder or prospective holder of any securities of the Company that would grant such holder registration rights senior to, or on a parity with, those granted to the Holders hereunder.
      2.13 “Market Stand-Off” Agreement; Agreement to Furnish Information. Each Holder hereby agrees that such Holder shall not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Common Stock (or other securities) of the Company held by such Holder (other than those

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included in the registration) for a period specified by the representative of the underwriters of Common Stock (or other securities) of the Company not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of a registration statement of the Company filed under the Securities Act; provided that:
               (i) such agreement shall apply only to, and in connection with, the Company’s Initial Public Offering; and
               (ii) all officers and directors of the Company and holders of at least one percent (1%) of the Company’s voting securities enter into similar agreements.
     Each Holder agrees to execute and deliver such other agreements as may be reasonably requested by the Company or the underwriter which are consistent with the foregoing or which are necessary to give further effect thereto. In addition, if requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters of Common Stock (or other securities) of the Company, each Holder shall provide, within ten (10) days of such request, such information as may be required by the Company or such representative to comply with rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act in connection with the completion of any public offering of the Company’s securities pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act. The obligations described in this Section 2.13 shall not apply to a registration relating solely to employee benefit plans on Form S-1 or Form S-8 or similar forms that may be promulgated in the future, or a registration relating solely to a Rule 145 transaction on Form S-4 or similar forms that may be promulgated in the future. The Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to the shares of Common Stock (or other securities) subject to the foregoing restriction until the end of said one hundred eighty (180) day period.
      2.14 Rule 144 Reporting. With a view to making available to the Holders the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the SEC which may permit the resale of the Registrable Securities to the public without registration, the Company agrees to use its best efforts to:
          (a) Make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144 or any similar or analogous rule promulgated under the Securities Act, at all times after the effective date of the first registration filed by the Company for an offering of its securities to the general public;
          (b) File with the SEC, in a timely manner, all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act; and
          (c) So long as a Holder owns any Registrable Securities, furnish to such Holder forthwith upon request: a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of Rule 144 and of the Exchange Act (at any time after it has become subject to such reporting requirements); a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company; and such other reports and documents as a Holder may reasonably request in availing itself of any rule or regulation of the SEC allowing it to sell any such securities without registration.

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SECTION 3. COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
      3.1 Basic Financial Information and Reporting.
          (a) The Company will maintain true books and records of account in which full and correct entries will be made of all its business transactions pursuant to a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, and will set aside on its books all such proper accruals and reserves as shall be required under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied.
          (b) Within one hundred fifty (150) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company and so long as an Investor (with its affiliates) owns (or holds securities convertible into or exercisable for) at least 500,000 Shares (as may be adjusted from time to time for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, subdivision, recapitalizations and the like) (a “Major Investor”), the Company will furnish each Major Investor a consolidated balance sheet of the Company, as at the end of such fiscal year, and a consolidated statement of income and a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Company, for such year, all prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied and setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year and the figures from the most recent budget approved by the Board of Directors, all in reasonable detail. Such financial statements shall be accompanied by a report and opinion thereon by independent public accountants of national standing whose selection has been approved by the Board of Directors.
          (c) The Company will furnish each such Major Investor (i) at least thirty (30) days prior to the beginning of each fiscal year a consolidated annual budget and operating plans, for such fiscal year approved by the Board of Directors (and as soon as available, any subsequent revisions thereto); and (ii) within thirty (30) days after the end of each month and fiscal quarter, a consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of the end of each such month or fiscal quarter, and a consolidated statement of income and a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Company for such month or fiscal quarter and for the current fiscal year to date, including a comparison to plan figures for such period, prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, excluding footnotes and year-end adjustments, and a narrative discussion and analysis of the results of operations and financial condition of the Company.
          (d) The Company will furnish to each Major Investor:
               (i) promptly following receipt by the Company, each audit response letter, accountant’s management letter and other written report submitted to the Company by its independent public accountants in connection with an annual or interim audit of the books of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and
               (ii) promptly after the commencement thereof, written notice of all actions, suits, claims, proceedings, investigations and inquiries by, against or affecting the Company that could materially adversely affect the Company or any of its subsidiaries, if any; and

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               (iii) within ten (10) days after receipt thereof, copies of any notifications received by it regarding any defaults or alleged defaults or any loans or leases to which the Company is a party; and
               (iv) promptly, from time to time, such other information regarding the business, prospects, financial condition, operations, property or affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries as such Major Investor reasonably may request, including, but not limited to, advertising, sales, and promotion costs and all marketing and sales personnel salaries and board approved compensation plans.
      3.2 Inspection Rights. Each Major Investor shall have the right, at its expense (but without any responsibility to defray expenses incurred by the Company in complying with its obligations under this Section 3.2), to visit and inspect any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company or any of its subsidiaries with its officers, and to review such information as is reasonably requested all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated under this Section 3.2 with respect to a Major Investor that is itself a competitor of the Company.
      3.3 Confidentiality of Records. Except with respect to such Investors as are parties to separate confidentiality agreements with the Company (the terms of which separate confidentiality agreements shall control), each Investor, on behalf of itself and its managers, directors, officers, employees, representatives and other advisors (collectively, the “Investor Parties”) agrees for a period of four years after receipt from the Company and its agents of any information concerning the business and affairs of the Company (the “Confidential Material”), to hold such information in strict confidence and to use such Confidential Information solely for the purpose of evaluating and managing the Investor’s investment in the Company and only to make available such Confidential Information to such manager, directors, officers, employees, representatives (including legal and accounting representatives) and other advisors as is reasonably necessary for the Investor to evaluate and manage the investment or as may be required by law or regulation or to comply with the requirements of (or to receive approvals from) any applicable governmental agency. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Confidential Information” shall not include any information which: (i) is or becomes available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by such Investor; (ii) was known to the Investor on a nonconfidential basis prior to its disclosure to the Investor by the Company; or (iii) becomes available to the Investor on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company or its agents, provided that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with the Company. In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Investor may disclose Confidential Information to any affiliate of the Investor and its managers, directors, officers, employees, representatives and other advisors as is reasonably necessary for the sole purpose of evaluating and managing the Investor’s investment in the Company as long as such affiliate, manager, director, officer, employee, representative or advisor agrees to keep such information confidential and provided such affiliate is not a competitor of the Company. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, each party hereto (and each employee, representative, or other agent of any party) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the Federal income tax treatment and Federal income tax structure of any and all transaction(s) contemplated herein and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are or have

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been provided to any party (or to any employee, representative, or other agent of any party) relating to such tax treatment or tax structure, provided, however, that this authorization of disclosure shall not apply to restrictions reasonably necessary to comply with securities laws.
     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.3, the Company understands and agrees that the Major Investor Entities are in the business of evaluating technologies and the potential development plans of a large number of companies. In the course of their businesses, the Major Investor Entities are provided access to a variety of, and a steady stream of information regarding, many companies’ business plans, ideas and projections. Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the Major Investor Entities may have in the past or may in the future hold discussions with, evaluate an investment in or develop an investment relationship with one or more companies who could be deemed to be competitive with the Company. The Company agrees that the Major Investor Entities may use, but not disclose, Residual Knowledge in evaluating, making or managing investments or investment relationships. For purposes of this Section 3.3, “Residual Knowledge” is knowledge of ideas, concepts and know-how contained in confidential information that is retained in the memories of persons who have had access to the confidential information. “Residual Knowledge” shall not include confidential information that has been intentionally memorized so as to reduce it to an intangible form for the purpose of creating Residual Knowledge.
      3.4 Reservation of Common Stock. The Company will at all times reserve and keep available, solely for issuance and delivery upon the conversion of the Preferred Stock and upon exercise of the Warrants, all shares of Preferred Stock and Common Stock issuable from time to time upon such conversion or exercise.
      3.5 Directors’ Expenses. The Company shall reimburse each member of the Board of Directors for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred in connection with the performance of such member’s duties as a Director and other reasonable expenses incurred that are
pre-approved by the Company.
      3.6 Directors’ Liability and Indemnification. The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation shall provide (a) for elimination of the liability of director to the maximum extent permitted by law and (b) for indemnification of directors for acts on behalf of the Company to the maximum extent permitted by law. In addition, the Company shall enter into and use its best efforts to at all times maintain indemnification contracts with each of its directors to indemnify such directors to the maximum extent permissible under Delaware law.
      3.7 Indemnification. The Company will indemnify members of the Board of Directors to the broadest extent permitted by applicable law and will indemnify each Investor for any claims brought against the Investors by any third party (including any other shareholder of the Company) as a result of this financing and will enter into indemnification agreements with each representative of the Major Investor Entities on the Company’s Board of Directors in a form satisfactory to the applicable Major Investor Entity.
      3.8 Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company covenants that it will operate in a manner such that it will not become a “United States real property holding corporation” as that term is defined in Section 897(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,

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as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“FIRPTA”). The Company agrees to make determinations as to its status as a USRPHC, and will file statements concerning those determinations with the Internal Revenue Service, in the manner and at the times required under
Reg. 1.897-2(h), or any supplementary or successor provision thereto. Within thirty (30) days of a request from an Investor or any of its partners, the Company will inform the requesting party, in the manner set forth in Reg. 1.897- 2(h)(1)(iv) or any supplementary or successor provision thereto, whether that party’s interest in the Company constitutes a United States real property interest (within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code Section 897(c)(1) and the regulations thereunder) and whether the Company has provided to the Internal Revenue Service all required notices as to its USRPHC status.
      3.9 Termination of Covenants. All covenants of the Company contained in Section 3 of this Agreement (with the exception of Sections 3.4, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13, which shall continue for so long as any shares of Preferred Stock or Warrants remain outstanding, and Sections 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7, which shall continue for so long as any Investor has a representative on the Company’s Board of Directors) shall expire and terminate as to each Investor upon the earlier of (i) the effective date of the registration statement pertaining to the Qualified Public Offering or (ii) upon an acquisition of the Company by another corporation or entity by consolidation, merger or other reorganization in which the holders of the Company’s outstanding voting stock immediately prior to such transaction, together with their affiliates, own immediately after such transaction securities representing less than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the corporation or other entity surviving such transaction (a “Change in Control”).
      3.10 Key Man Insurance. The Company will use its best efforts to maintain in full force and effect term life insurance in the amount of $2,000,000 on the life of Glenn Stevens, naming the Company as beneficiary.
      3.11 Directors and Officers Insurance. The Company has purchased and shall maintain directors and officers liability insurance covering the directors and officers of the Company in an amount of at least $5,000,000. Immediately prior to the consummation of an Initial Public Offering the level of coverage shall be increased to at least $10,000,000.
      3.12 Employee Agreements. The Company will cause each person now or hereafter employed by it or any subsidiary (or engaged by the Company or any subsidiary as a consultant/independent contractor) with access to confidential information and/or trade secrets to enter into a non-disclosure and proprietary rights assignment agreement, substantially in the form approved by the Board of Directors.
      3.13 Equal Board Treatment. If any of the Major Investor Entities have representatives on the Board of Directors of the Company, any such representatives shall be accorded no less favorable treatment than the treatment which any other member of such Board of Directors receives in his or her capacity as a member of such Board of Directors with respect to all matters, including, without limitation, expense reimbursement and access to Company information and management; it being understood that only Independent Directors are expected to receive equity compensation for their Board of Director service. In addition, all observers to the Board of Directors appointed by the Major Investor Entities shall receive equal treatment to each other with respect to all matters, including, without limitation, expense reimbursement.

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SECTION 4. RIGHT OF PURCHASE
      4.1 Subsequent Offerings. The Investors, along with Founding Stockholder and holders of more than 40,000 shares of Common Stock (each, a “Participant”, and collectively, the “Participants”), shall have Pro Rata a right to purchase all Equity Securities, as defined below, that the Company may, from time to time, propose to sell and issue after the date of this Agreement, other than the Equity Securities excluded by Section 4.6 hereof. The term “Equity Securities” shall mean (i) any Common Stock or Preferred Stock (including, for this purpose, any new series of Preferred Stock that is hereafter created) of the Company, (ii) any security convertible or exchangeable, with or without consideration, into or for any Common Stock or Preferred Stock (including any option to purchase such a convertible or exchangeable security), (iii) any security carrying any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any Common Stock or Preferred Stock or (iv) any such warrant or right. The term “Pro Rata” means the quotient determined by dividing the number of shares of Common Stock held by each Participant, assuming conversion of all Preferred Stock and exercise of all Warrants, by the total number of shares of Common Stock held by all Participants, assuming conversion of all Preferred Stock and exercise of all Warrants.
      4.2 Exercise of Rights. If the Company proposes to issue any Equity Securities, it shall give the Participants notice of its intention, describing the Equity Securities, the identity of the person(s) to whom such Equity Securities would be issued, and the price and other terms and conditions upon which the Company proposes to issue the same. Each Participant shall have twenty (20) days from the receipt of such notice to agree to purchase up to its Pro Rata share of the Equity Securities proposed to be issued, for the price and upon the terms and conditions specified in the notice by giving notice to the Company and stating therein the quantity of Equity Securities it agrees to purchase.
      4.3 Issuance of Equity Securities to Other Persons. If any Participant fails to exercise the right of first refusal for the full amount of its Pro Rata portion of Equity Securities proposed to be offered by the Company, then the Company shall have one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter to sell such of the Equity Securities not covered by a purchase election to the person(s) (and only the person(s)) identified by the Company in its Notice provided pursuant to Section 4.2, at a price no lower than, and upon other terms and conditions materially no more favorable to the purchasers thereof than were offered to the Investors pursuant to Section 4.2 hereof.
      4.4 Termination and Waiver of Right of First Refusal. The right of first refusal established by this Section 4 shall not apply to, and shall terminate upon the effective date of the registration statement pertaining to the Company’s first Qualified Public Offering; provided, that if such registration does not become effective, the right of first refusal established by this Section 4 shall be deemed to have been reinstated notwithstanding such previous termination. The provisions of this Section 4 may be amended or waived only by the agreement of the Company and of the Investors (or any assignee) holding a majority of the outstanding shares of voting capital stock of the Company held by the Investors at any time; provided that no such amendment or waiver shall affect an Investor in a more adverse or disproportionate manner than

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the other Investors without obtaining the consent of such adversely and disproportionately affected Investor (excluding for this purpose any adverse or disproportional effects resulting solely from differences in the numerical per share dividend rate, ranking, original issue price, redemption price or conversion price of a series of Preferred Stock, but including the circumstance where an Investor’s rights under this Section 4 are waived in respect of a financing transaction in which one or more other Investors are allowed to participate), and further provided that no right may be taken away from the Founding Stockholder without the consent of holders of a majority of the shares of voting capital stock held by the Founding Stockholder.
      4.5 Transfer of Rights of First Refusal. Each Investor may assign its right of first refusal under this Section 4 in whole or in part to one or more of the following: any subsidiary, parent, general partner, limited partner, former partner, member, former member, general partner of a general partner, or affiliate of such Investor or in the case of Tudor, to any Tudor Entity, or in the case of VantagePoint Entities, to any VantagePoint Entity, or in the case of the 3i Entities, any 3i Affiliate, who shall agree to be bound by this Agreement in connection with and following such purchase.
      4.6 Excluded Securities. The right of first refusal established by this Section 4 shall have no application to any of the following Equity Securities:
          (a) shares of Common Stock (and/or options, warrants or other Common Stock purchase rights issued pursuant to such options, warrants or other rights) issued or to be issued to employees, officers or directors of, or consultants or advisors to the Company or any subsidiary, pursuant to compensation plans, compensation agreements, or other compensation arrangements that are approved by the Board of Directors.
          (b) shares of Series E Preferred Stock issuable pursuant to the Series E Purchase Agreement;
          (c) stock issued pursuant to the conversion or exercise of outstanding options, outstanding warrants, or any other outstanding convertible or exercisable securities as of the date of this Agreement;
          (d) stock issued pursuant to rights or agreements granted after the date of this Agreement, provided that the rights of first refusal established by this Section 4 applied with respect to the initial sale or grant by the Company of such rights or agreements;
          (e) any Equity Securities issued for consideration other than cash pursuant to a merger, consolidation, acquisition or similar business combination that is approved by the Board of Directors;
          (f) shares of Common Stock issued in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or recapitalization by the Company;
          (g) shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Shares;
          (h) any Equity Securities issued pursuant to any equipment leasing arrangement, or debt financing from a bank or similar financial institution; provided, such

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equipment leasing arrangement, or debt financing is approved by the Board of Directors and, if such issuances exceed in the aggregate 1,000,000 shares, the consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Preferred Stock voting as a single class;
          (i) any Equity Securities issued in connection with strategic transactions involving the Company and other entities, including (i) joint ventures, manufacturing, marketing or distribution arrangements or (ii) technology transfer or development arrangements or (iii) strategic customer relationships; provided that such strategic transactions and the issuance of shares therein has been approved by the Board of Directors and, (x) if such issuances exceed in the aggregate 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock (on an as-converted or exercised basis), the consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Preferred Stock, voting as a single class and (y) if such issuance is at a valuation below $12.29 per share, the consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Series D Preferred Stock, voting as a separate class; or
          (j) any Equity Securities issued in connection with the Company’s Initial Public Offering.
SECTION 5. MISCELLANEOUS
      5.1 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the conflicts of laws principles thereof. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to that state’s conflicts of laws principles. Any unresolved controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, except (i) as otherwise provided in this Agreement or (ii) with respect to which a party seeks injunctive or other equitable relief, shall be submitted to arbitration by one arbitrator. In connection with any arbitration conducted pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall nominate not less than five potential arbitrators who shall be independent of the Company and who shall have reasonable experience in the type of transactions provided for in this Agreement or in the area of disputes involving complex commercial transactions. The holders of a majority of the Preferred Stock (on an as-converted basis), voting together as a single class, shall select a single arbitrator from among the persons nominated by the Company. The arbitration shall take place in New York City, in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”) then in effect, and judgment upon any award rendered in such arbitration will be binding and may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. There shall be limited discovery prior to the arbitration hearing as follows: (a) exchange of witness lists and copies of documentary evidence and documents relating to or arising out of the issues to be arbitrated, (b) depositions of all party witnesses and (c) such other discovery as may be allowed by the arbitrators. Depositions shall be conducted in accordance with the New York Code of Civil Procedure. The arbitrator shall be required to provide in writing to the parties the basis for the award or order of such arbitrator. A court reporter shall record all hearings, with such record constituting the official transcript of such proceedings. Each party will bear its own costs in respect of any disputes arising under this Agreement. The parties knowingly and voluntarily agree to this arbitration provision and acknowledge that, except with respect to proceedings involving a request for injunctive or other equitable relief, arbitration shall be instead of any civil litigation, meaning that the parties each are waiving any rights to a jury trial. Each of the parties to this Agreement consents to personal jurisdiction and venue for any equitable action sought in the

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United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and any state court in the State of New York that is located in New York County (and in the appropriate appellate courts from any of the foregoing).
      5.2 Survival. The representations, warranties, covenants, and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by any Investor and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to be representations and warranties by the Company hereunder solely as of the date of such certificate or instrument.
      5.3 Successors and Assigns.
          (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators of the parties hereto and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by each person who shall be a holder of Registrable Securities from time to time; provided, however, that prior to the receipt by the Company of adequate written notice of the transfer of any Registrable Securities specifying the full name and address of the transferee, the Company may deem and treat the person listed as the holder of such shares in its records as the absolute owner and holder of such shares for all purposes, including the payment of dividends or any redemption price.
          (b) In addition to the provisions of Section 2.10 and notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary or any provision of the Series E Purchase Agreement or any related agreement or the Series D Purchase Agreement or any related agreement or the Series C Purchase Agreement or any related agreement or the Series B Purchase Agreement or any related agreement, or the Series A Purchase Agreement or any related agreement, (a) each of Blue Rock Capital, L.P. (“ BRC ”), Cross Atlantic Technology Fund, L.P. (“ XATF ”), Edison Venture Fund IV, LP (“Edison”), Tudor, The Raptor Global Portfolio, Ltd. (“Raptor”) and ALTAR Rock Fund L.P. (“Altar”) shall each have the right to assign all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a transferee or assignee which is a subsidiary, parent, general partner, limited partner or affiliate of BRC, XATF, Edison, Tudor, Raptor or Altar, as the case may be; provided, however, that each of BRC, XATF, Edison, Tudor, Raptor or Altar, as the case may be, shall, within ten (10) days after such transfer or assignment, furnish to the Company written notice of the name and address of such transferee or assignee and such transferee or assignee shall agree in writing to be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Agreement, (b) each of each of VantagePoint, VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P. (“Venture Partners”) and VantagePoint Venture Partners IV Principals Fund, L.P. (“Principals Fund”) shall each have the right to assign all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a transferee or assignee which is which is a subsidiary, parent, general partner, limited partner, affiliate of VantagePoint, Vantage Partners or Principals Fund, as the case may be, or a VantagePoint Entity; provided, however, that each of VantagePoint, Venture Partners or Principals Fund, as the case may be, shall, within ten (10) days after such transfer or assignment, furnish to the Company written notice of the name and address of such transferee or assignee and such transferee or assignee shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Agreement, and (c) the 3i Entities shall have the right to assign all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any 3i Affiliate; provided, however, that the 3i Entities shall, within ten (10) days after such transfer or assignment, furnish to the

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Company written notice of the name and address of such transferee or assignee and such transferee or assignee shall agree in writing to be subject to the restrictions set forth in this Agreement applicable to the 3i Entities.
      5.4 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the Schedule hereto, constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties with regard to the subject matter hereof.
      5.5 Severability. In case any provision of the Agreement shall be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
      5.6 Amendment and Waiver.
          (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein (including but not limited to Section 4.4), this Agreement may be amended or modified only upon the consent of the Company and the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities; provided that no such amendment shall affect a Major Investor Entity in a more adverse or disproportionate manner than the other holders of Registrable Securities or any particular series of Preferred Stock in a more adverse and disproportionate manner than the other series of Preferred Stock (including by affecting specific rights or obligations provided only to such Major Investor Entity or series of Preferred Stock) without obtaining the consent of such adversely and disproportionately affected Major Investor Entities or series of Preferred Stock (excluding for this purpose any adverse or disproportional effects resulting solely from differences in the numerical per share dividend rate, ranking, original issue price, redemption price or conversion price of a series of Preferred Stock).
          (b) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders under this Agreement may be waived only with the consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities; provided that no such waiver shall affect a Major Investor Entity in a more adverse or disproportionate manner than the other series of Preferred Stock (including by affecting specific rights or obligations provided only to such Major Investor Entity or series of Preferred Stock) than the other holders of Registrable Securities or any particular series of Preferred Stock in a more adverse or disproportionate manner without obtaining the consent of such adversely and disproportionately affected Major Investor Entities or series of Preferred Stock (excluding for this purpose any adverse or disproportional effects resulting solely from differences in the numerical per share dividend rate, ranking, original issue price, redemption price or conversion price of a series of Preferred Stock).
      5.7 Delays or Omissions. It is agreed that no delay or omission to exercise any right, power, or remedy accruing to any Holder, upon any breach, default or noncompliance of the Company under this Agreement shall impair any such right, power, or remedy, nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of any such breach, default or noncompliance, or any acquiescence therein, or of any similar breach, default or noncompliance thereafter occurring. It is further agreed that any waiver, permit, consent, or approval of any kind or character on any Holder’s part of any breach, default or noncompliance under the Agreement or any waiver on such

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Holder’s part of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement must be in writing and shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing. All remedies, either under this Agreement, by law, or otherwise afforded to Holders, shall be cumulative and not alternative.
      5.8 Notices and Consents. All notices and consents required or permitted hereunder must be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given: (a) upon personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent by confirmed telex or facsimile if sent during normal business hours of the recipient; if not, then on the next business day, (c) three business days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one business day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, specifying next day delivery, with written verification of receipt. All communications shall be sent to the party to be notified at the address as set forth on the signature pages hereof or Exhibit A hereto or at such other address as such party may designate by ten (10) days advance written notice to the other parties hereto.
      5.9 Titles and Subtitles. The titles of the sections and subsections of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in construing this Agreement.
      5.10 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one instrument.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT as of the date set forth in the first paragraph hereof.
         
  COMPANY:

GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.

 
 
  By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens    
    Glenn Stevens   
    Chief Executive Officer   
 
  FOUNDING STOCKHOLDER:
 
 
  By:   /s/ Mark E. Galant   
    Mark Galant   
       
  The Mark E. Galant 2007 GRAT
 
 
  By:   /s/ Mark E. Galant  
    Name:   Mark E. Galant  
    Title:   Trustee   
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES D INVESTORS:

VANTAGEPOINT VENTURES PARTNERS IV (Q), L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L. L.C., its General Partner   
 
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VANTAGEPOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IV, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L.L.C., its General Partner   
       
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman   
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VANTAGEPOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IV PRINCIPALS FUND, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L.L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VP NEW YORK VENTURE PARTNERS, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L.L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman   
  Title: Managing Member   
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES C INVESTORS:

TUDOR VENTURES II, L.P.
 
 
  By:   Tudor Ventures Group, L.P.    
    its General Partner   
       
  By:   /s/ Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.    
    TUDOR VENTURES II L.P.   
  By:   Tudor Ventures Group L.P., general partner    
  By:   Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.    
    Managing Director, Tudor Ventures Group LLC   
       
  THE RAPTOR GLOBAL PORTFOLIO, LTD.    
  By:   Tudor Investment Corporation,    
    as Investment Advisor   
     
  By:   /s/ Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.    
    Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.   
    Managing Director
Tudor Investment Corporation as Investment Advisor
The Raptor Global Portfolio Ltd. 
 
 
  ALTAR ROCK FUND L.P.    
  By:   Tudor Investment Corporation,    
    its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.    
    Carmen J. Scarpa, Jr.   
    Managing Director
Tudor Investment Corporation as General Partner
Altar Rock Fund L.P. 
 
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES B INVESTORS:

EDISON VENTURE FUND IV SBIC, L.P.
 
 
  By:   Edison Partners IV, SBIC, LLC,    
    its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Chris Sugden    
    Name:   Chris Sugden    
    Title:   General Partner   
 
  CROSS ATLANTIC TECHNOLOGY FUND, L.P.    
  By:   XATF Management, LP, its General Partner,    
    by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, its General   
    Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Gerry McCrory     
    Gerry McCrory   
    Partner   
 
  BLUE ROCK CAPITAL, L.P.    
  By:   Blue Rock Partners, L.P., its General Partner,    
    by Blue Rock, Inc., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Virginia Breen      
    Virginia Breen    
    President   
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES A INVESTORS:

CROSS ATLANTIC TECHNOLOGY FUND, L.P.
 
 
  By:   XATF Management, LP, its General Partner,    
    by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Gerry McCrory    
    Gerry McCrory   
    Partner   
 
  BLUE ROCK CAPITAL, L.P.    
  By:   Blue Rock Partners, L.P., its General Partner,    
    by Blue Rock, Inc., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Virginia Breen    
    Virginia Breen   
    President   
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES E INVESTORS:

3I U.S. GROWTH PARTNERS L.P.
 
 
  By:   3i U.S. Growth Corporation, its general partner    
     
  By:   /s/ Whitney Bower    
  Name: Whitney Bower   
  Title:   Partner   
 
  3I TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS III L.P.    
  By:   3i Technology Corporation, its general partner    
     
  By:   /s/ David Silverman    
  Name:  David Silverman  
  Title:    Senior Vice President  
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

         
  SERIES E INVESTORS:

VANTAGEPOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IV (Q), L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L. L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VANTAGEPOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IV, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L. L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VANTAGEPOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IV PRINCIPALS FUND, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L. L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
  VP NEW YORK VENTURE PARTNERS, L.P.
 
 
  By:   VantagePoint Venture Associates IV,    
    L. L.C., its General Partner   
     
  By:   /s/ Alan E. Salzman    
  Name: Alan E. Salzman    
  Title: Managing Member   
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
COUNTERPART SIGNATURE PAGE TO AMENDED AND RESTATED INVESTOR
RIGHTS AGREEMENT
January         , 2008
The undersigned desiring to become an Investor as of the date set forth above of GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby adopts and agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provision of, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits and privileges of, the Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated as of January 11, 2008, among the Company and the Investors named therein (the “Investor Rights Agreement”) and further authorizes the Company to attach this signature page to the Investor Rights Agreement in order to make the undersigned a party to the Investor Rights Agreement.
         
     
     
  Name:      
  Title:      
 
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT]

 


 

SCHEDULE A
Schedule of Investors
Name and Address
Founding Stockholder
Mark Galant together with The Mark E. Galant 2007 GRAT
Series A Investors
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc.
5 Radnor Corporate Center, #555
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA19087
Blue Rock Capital, L.P.
230 Lackawanna Drive
Andover, NJ 07821
Series B Investors
Edison Venture Fund IV, L.P.
5 Radnor Corporate Center, #555
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA19087
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc.
5 Radnor Corporate Center, #555
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA19087
Blue Rock Capital, L.P.
230 Lackawanna Drive
Andover, NJ 07821
Series C Investors
Tudor Ventures II, L.P.
50 Rowes Wharf
6 th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
The Raptor Global Portfolio, Ltd.
50 Rowes Wharf

 


 

6 th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
ALTAR Rock Fund L.P.
50 Rowes Wharf
6 th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Series D Investors
VantagePoint Venture Partners IV (Q), L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VantagePoint Venture Partners Principals Fund, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VP New York Venture Partners, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
Series E Investors
3i U.S. Growth Partners L.P.
880 Winter Street, Suite 330,
Waltham, MA 02451
3i Technology Partners III L.P.
880 Winter Street, Suite 330,
Waltham, MA 02451
VantagePoint Venture Partners IV (Q), L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VantagePoint Venture Partners IV, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VantagePoint Venture Partners Principals Fund, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
VP New York Venture Partners, L.P.
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066

 

Exhibit 10.10
DIRECTOR INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
     This Agreement made and entered into [___], 2009 (“Agreement”), by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and [___] (the “Indemnitee”).
     WHEREAS, it is essential to the Company that it be able to retain and attract as directors the most capable persons available;
     WHEREAS, increased corporate litigation has subjected directors to litigation risks and expenses, and the limitations on the availability of directors and officers liability insurance have made it increasingly difficult for the Company to attract and retain such persons;
     WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide Indemnitee with specific contractual assurance of Indemnitee’s rights to full indemnification against litigation risks and expenses (regardless, among other things, of any amendment to or revocation of any such by-laws or any change in the ownership of the Company or the composition of its Board of Directors); and
     WHEREAS, the Company and Indemnitee desire to enter into this Agreement in order for Indemnitee to rely upon the rights afforded under this Agreement in accepting and continuing in Indemnitee’s position as a director of the Company.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:
1. Definitions.
     (a) “Corporate Status” describes the status of a person who is serving or has served (i) as a director of the Company, including as a member of any committee thereof, (ii) in any capacity with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Company, or (iii) as a director, manager, partner, trustee, officer, employee, or agent of any other Entity at the request of the Company. For purposes of subsection (iii) of this Section 1(a), an officer or director of the Company who is serving or has served as a director, manager, partner, trustee, officer, employee or agent of a Subsidiary (as defined below) shall be deemed to be serving at the request of the Company.
     (b) “Entity” shall mean any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, foundation, association, organization or other legal entity.
     (c) “Expenses” shall mean all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with any Proceeding (as defined below) and any taxes arising in connection therewith, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, disbursements and retainers (including, without limitation, any such fees, disbursements and retainers incurred by Indemnitee pursuant to Sections 9 and 11(c) of this Agreement), reasonable fees and disbursements of expert witnesses, private investigators and professional advisors (including, without limitation, accountants and

 


 

investment bankers), court costs, transcript costs, reasonable fees of experts, reasonable travel expenses, duplicating, printing and binding costs, telephone and fax transmission charges, postage, delivery services, secretarial services and other disbursements and expenses.
     (d) “Indemnifiable Expenses,” “Indemnifiable Liabilities” and “Indemnifiable Amounts” shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms in Section 3(a) below.
     (e) “Liabilities” shall mean judgments, damages, liabilities, losses, penalties, excise taxes, fines and amounts paid in settlement.
     (f) “Proceeding” shall mean any threatened, pending or completed claim, action, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution process, investigation, administrative hearing, appeal, or any other proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative, whether formal or informal, including a proceeding initiated by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 11 of this Agreement to enforce Indemnitee’s rights hereunder.
     (g) “Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other Entity of which the Company owns (either directly or through or together with another Subsidiary of the Company) either (i) a general partner, managing member or other similar interest or (ii) (A) 50% or more of the voting power of the voting capital equity interest of such Entity, or (B) 50% or more of the outstanding voting capital stock or other voting equity interest of such Entity.
2. Services of Indemnitee. This Agreement shall not be deemed to constitute an agreement of employment nor shall it impose any obligation on Indemnitee or the Company to continue Indemnitee’s service to the Company beyond any period otherwise required by law or by other agreements or commitments of the parties, if any.
3. Agreement to Indemnify. The Company agrees to indemnify Indemnitee as follows:
     (a) Subject to the exceptions contained in Section 4(a) below, if Indemnitee was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the Company) by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, Indemnitee shall be indemnified by the Company against all Expenses and Liabilities incurred or paid by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding (referred to herein as “Indemnifiable Expenses” and “Indemnifiable Liabilities,” respectively, and collectively as “Indemnifiable Amounts”).
     (b) To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the exceptions contained in Section 4(b) below, if Indemnitee was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, Indemnitee shall be indemnified by the Company against all Indemnifiable Expenses.
     (c) To the extent permitted by applicable law, if Indemnitee was or is called as an expert witness to any Proceeding in which the Company is a party or which is otherwise related to the Company’s business to which the Indemnitee is not a party, Indemnitee shall be

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indemnified by the Company against all Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding.
4. Exceptions to Indemnification. Indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification under Sections 3(a) and 3(b) above in all circumstances other than the following:
     (a) If indemnification is requested under Section 3(a) and it has been adjudicated finally by a court of competent jurisdiction that, in connection with the subject of the Proceeding out of which the claim for indemnification has arisen, Indemnitee failed to act (i) in good faith and (ii) in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful, Indemnitee shall not be entitled to payment of Indemnifiable Amounts hereunder.
     (b) If indemnification is requested under Section 3(b) and
     (i) it has been adjudicated finally by a court of competent jurisdiction that, in connection with the subject of the Proceeding out of which the claim for indemnification has arisen, Indemnitee failed to act (A) in good faith and (B) in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, Indemnitee shall not be entitled to payment of Indemnifiable Expenses hereunder; or
     (ii) it has been adjudicated finally by a court of competent jurisdiction that Indemnitee is liable to the Company with respect to any claim, issue or matter involved in the Proceeding out of which the claim for indemnification has arisen, including, without limitation, a claim that Indemnitee received an improper personal benefit, no Indemnifiable Expenses shall be paid with respect to such claim, issue or matter unless the court of law or another court in which such Proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such Indemnifiable Expenses which such court shall deem proper.
5. Procedure for Payment of Indemnifiable Amounts. Indemnitee shall submit to the Company a written request specifying the Indemnifiable Amounts for which Indemnitee seeks payment under Section 3 of this Agreement and the basis for the claim. The Company shall pay such Indemnifiable Amounts to Indemnitee within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the request. At the request of the Company, Indemnitee shall furnish such documentation and information as are reasonably available to Indemnitee and necessary to establish that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder.
6. Notification and Defense of Proceedings. If any Proceeding is brought against Indemnitee in respect of which indemnity may be sought under this Agreement:
     (a) Indemnitee will promptly notify the Company in writing of the commencement thereof, and the Company and any other indemnifying party similarly notified will be entitled to participate therein at its own expense or to assume the defense thereof and to engage counsel

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reasonably satisfactory to Indemnitee; provided , however , that the failure to give any such notice shall not disqualify Indemnitee from indemnification hereunder unless the Company’s ability to defend against such Proceeding is materially and adversely prejudiced thereby. Notice to the Company shall be directed to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company at the address shown in Section 21 of this Agreement (or such other address as the Company shall designate in writing to Indemnitee pursuant to Section 21). Notice shall be deemed received three (3) business days after the date postmarked if sent by domestic certified or registered mail, properly addressed; otherwise notice shall be deemed received when such notice shall actually be received by the Company. Indemnitee shall have the right to engage his or her own counsel in connection with any such Proceeding and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of Indemnitee unless (i) the Company shall not have assumed the defense of the Proceeding and employed counsel for such defense, or (ii) the named parties to any such action (including any impleaded parties) include both Indemnitee and the Company, and Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that joint representation is inappropriate under applicable standards of professional conduct due to a material conflict of interest between Indemnitee and the Company, in either of which events the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel to Indemnitee shall be borne by the Company, subject to Section 9.
     (b) The Company shall not be liable to indemnify Indemnitee for any amounts paid in settlement of any Proceeding effected without the Company’s written consent, and the Company shall not settle any Proceeding in a manner which would impose any penalty or limitation on Indemnitee without Indemnitee’s written consent; provided , however , that neither the Company nor Indemnitee will unreasonably withhold its consent to any proposed settlement; and provided further , that if a Proceeding is settled by Indemnitee with the Company’s written consent, or if there be a final judgment or decree for the plaintiff in connection with the Proceeding by a court of competent jurisdiction, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Indemnitee from and against any and all Indemnifiable Losses incurred by reason of such settlement or judgment. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of Indemnitee, consent to the entry of any judgment against Indemnitee or enter into any settlement or compromise which (i) includes an admission of fault of Indemnitee or (ii) does not include, as an unconditional term thereof, the full release of Indemnitee from all liability in respect of the Proceeding, which release shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Indemnitee.
7. Indemnification for Expenses of a Party Who is Wholly or Partly Successful. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, and without limiting any such provision, to the extent that Indemnitee is, by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, a party to and is successful, on the merits or otherwise, in any Proceeding, Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection therewith. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding but is successful, on the merits or otherwise, as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in such Proceeding, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with each successfully resolved claim, issue or matter. For purposes of this Agreement, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in such a Proceeding by dismissal, with or without prejudice, shall be deemed to be a successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.

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8. Effect of Certain Resolutions. Neither the settlement nor termination of any Proceeding nor the failure of the Company to award indemnification or to determine that indemnification is payable shall create an adverse presumption that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification hereunder. In addition, the termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent shall not create a presumption that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s action was unlawful.
9. Agreement to Advance Expenses; Conditions. The Company shall pay to Indemnitee all Indemnifiable Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding, including a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company, in advance of the final disposition of such Proceeding, as the same are incurred. To the extent required by Delaware law, Indemnitee hereby undertakes to repay the amount of Indemnifiable Expenses paid to Indemnitee if it is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that Indemnitee is not entitled under this Agreement to indemnification with respect to such Indemnifiable Expenses. This undertaking is an unlimited general obligation of Indemnitee.
10. Procedure for Advance Payment of Expenses. Indemnitee shall submit to the Company a written request specifying the Indemnifiable Expenses for which Indemnitee seeks an advancement under Section 9 of this Agreement, together with documentation evidencing that Indemnitee has incurred such Indemnifiable Expenses. Payment of Indemnifiable Expenses under Section 9 shall be made no later than ten (10) calendar days after the Company’s receipt of such request and receipt of the documentation described above.
11. Remedies of Indemnitee.
     (a)  Right to Petition Court . In the event that Indemnitee makes a request for payment of Indemnifiable Amounts under Sections 3 and 5 above or a request for an advancement of Indemnifiable Expenses under Sections 9 and 10 above and the Company fails to make such payment or advancement in a timely manner pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, Indemnitee may petition a court of law to enforce the Company’s obligations under this Agreement.
     (b)  Burden of Proof . In any judicial proceeding brought under Section 11(a) above, the Company shall have the burden of proving that Indemnitee is not entitled to payment of Indemnifiable Amounts hereunder.
     (c)  Expenses . The Company agrees to reimburse Indemnitee in full for any Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with investigating, preparing for, litigating, defending or settling any action brought by Indemnitee under Section 11(a) above, or in connection with any claim or counterclaim brought by the Company in connection therewith.
     (d)  Validity of Agreement . The Company shall be precluded from asserting in any Proceeding, including, without limitation, an action under Section 11(a) above, that the provisions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable or that there is insufficient

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consideration for this Agreement and shall stipulate in court that the Company is bound by all the provisions of this Agreement.
     (e)  Failure to Act Not a Defense . The failure of the Company (including its Board of Directors or any committee thereof, independent legal counsel or stockholders) to make a determination concerning the permissibility of the payment of Indemnifiable Amounts or the advancement of Indemnifiable Expenses under this Agreement shall not be a defense in any action brought under Section 11(a) above, and shall not create a presumption that such payment or advancement is not permissible.
12. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby represents and warrants to Indemnitee as follows:
     (a)  Authority . The Company has all necessary power and authority to enter into, and be bound by the terms of, this Agreement, and the execution, delivery and performance of the undertakings contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized by the Company.
     (b)  Enforceability . This Agreement, when executed and delivered by the Company in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally.
13. Insurance.
     (a) The Company shall, as promptly as practicable following the date hereof, obtain and maintain directors and officers’ liability insurance coverage on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee of at least $5,000,000, covering, among other things, violations of federal or state securities laws (and immediately prior to the consummation of an Initial Public Offering the level of coverage shall be increased to at least $10,000,000). In all policies of director and officer liability insurance, Indemnitee shall be named as an insured in such a manner as to provide Indemnitee the same rights and benefits as are accorded to the most favorably insured of the Company’s officers and directors. As used herein, the term “Initial Public Offering” shall mean the Company’s first firm commitment underwritten public offering of its Common Stock registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (or any similar successor federal statute and the rules and regulations thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect from time to time) covering the offer and sale by the Company of its common stock.
     (b) If, at the time of the receipt of a notice of a Proceeding pursuant to Section 6(a) of this Agreement, the Company has director and officers’ liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the commencement of such proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.

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14. Contract Rights Not Exclusive. The rights to payment of Indemnifiable Amounts and advancement of Indemnifiable Expenses provided by this Agreement shall be in addition to, but not exclusive of, any other rights which Indemnitee may have at any time under applicable law, the Company’s by-laws or certificate of incorporation, any insurance policy purchased or maintained by the Indemnitee or the Fund Indemnitors (as defined below) or any other agreement, vote of stockholders or directors (or a committee of directors), or otherwise, both as to action in Indemnitee’s official capacity and as to action in any other capacity as a result of Indemnitee’s serving as a director of the Company.
15. Successors. This Agreement shall be (a) binding upon all successors and assigns of the Company (including any transferee of all or a substantial portion of the business, stock and/or assets of the Company and any direct or indirect successor by merger or consolidation or otherwise by operation of law) and (b) binding on and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, personal representatives, executors and administrators of Indemnitee. This Agreement shall continue for the benefit of Indemnitee and such heirs, personal representatives, executors and administrators after Indemnitee has ceased to have Corporate Status.
16. Subrogation. In the event of any payment of Indemnifiable Amounts under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of contribution or recovery of Indemnitee against other persons, and Indemnitee shall take, at the request of the Company, all reasonable action necessary to secure such rights, including the execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Company to bring suit to enforce such rights. In no event, however, shall the Company or any other person have any right of recovery, through subrogation or otherwise, against (i) Indemnitee, (ii) the Fund Indemnitors, or (iii) any insurance policy purchased or maintained by Indemnitee or the Fund Indemnitors.
17. Change in Law. To the extent that a change in Delaware law (whether by statute or judicial decision) shall permit broader indemnification or advancement of expenses than is provided under the terms of the by-laws of the Company and this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to such broader indemnification and advancements, and this Agreement shall be deemed to be amended to such extent. In the event of any change in Delaware law (whether by statute or judicial decision) which narrows the right of a Delaware corporation to indemnify a member of its Board of Directors, an officer, or other corporate agent, such changes, to the extent not otherwise required by applicable law to be applied to this Agreement, shall have no effect on this Agreement or the parties’ rights and obligations hereunder.
18. Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement, or any clause thereof, shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such provision or clause shall be limited or modified in its application to the minimum extent necessary to make such provision or clause valid, legal and enforceable, and the remaining provisions and clauses of this Agreement shall remain fully enforceable and binding on the parties.
19. Indemnitee as Plaintiff. Except as provided in Section 11(c) of this Agreement and in the next sentence, Indemnitee shall not be entitled to payment of Indemnifiable Amounts or advancement of Indemnifiable Expenses with respect to any Proceeding brought by Indemnitee

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against the Company, any Entity which it controls, any director or officer thereof, or any third party, unless such Company has consented to the initiation of such Proceeding. This Section shall not apply to counterclaims or affirmative defenses asserted by Indemnitee in an action brought against Indemnitee.
20. Modifications and Waiver. Except as provided in Section 17 above with respect to changes in Delaware law that broaden the right of Indemnitee to be indemnified by the Company, no supplement, modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by each of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions of this Agreement (whether or not similar), nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver.
21. General Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) when delivered by hand, (b) when transmitted by facsimile and receipt is acknowledged, or (c) if mailed by certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, on the third business day after the date on which it is so mailed:
If to Indemnitee, to:
[________]
[________]
[________]
[________]
If to the Company, to:
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
550 Hills Drive, Suite 210
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
or to such other address as may have been furnished in the same manner by any party to the others.
21. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced under the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the provisions thereof relating to conflicts of law.
22. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but both of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
23. Primacy of Indemnification. The Company hereby acknowledges that Indemnitee has certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by investment funds managed by entities referred to as “[___]” and their affiliates (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees that it is the indemnitor of

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first resort (i.e., its obligations to Indemnitee are primary and any obligation of the Fund Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by Indemnitee are secondary), and that the Company will not assert that the Indemnitee must seek expense advancement or reimbursement, or indemnification, from any Fund Indemnitor before the Company must perform its expense advancement and reimbursement, and indemnification obligations, under this Agreement. No advancement or payment by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of Indemnitee with respect to any claim for which Indemnitee has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing. The Fund Indemnitors shall be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery which Indemnitee would have had against the Company if the Fund Indemnitors had not advanced or paid any amount to or on behalf of Indemnitee. If for any reason the a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the Fund Indemnitors are not entitled to the subrogation rights described in the preceding sentence, the Fund Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution by the Company to the Fund Indemnitors with respect to any advance or payment by the Fund Indemnitors to or on behalf of the Indemnitee. The Company and Indemnitee agree that each Fund Indemnitor is a third party beneficiary of this Agreement.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
         
  GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
 
 
  By:      
    Name:   Glenn Stevens   
    Title:   Chief Executive Officer   
 
  INDEMNITEE
 
 
     
  [________]   
       
 
[Signature Page to Director Indemnification Agreement]

 

Exhibit 10.19
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is dated as of January 1, 2008 and is by and between GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, including its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Company”) and Glenn Stevens.
Recitals
WHEREAS, the Company desires to promote and secure for itself the services of Executive, and the Executive wishes to furnish such services to the Company, pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth;
WHEREAS, Executive has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since June 7, 2007 and prior thereto served in various officer positions at the Company and its subsidiaries;
WHEREAS, the parties wish to amend and restate Executives terms of employment as set forth in this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the mutual covenants and obligations set forth herein, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
     1.  Employment Term . The Company hereby agrees to employ the Executive directly or though a subsidiary, and the Executive hereby agrees to enter into such employment, as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, through December 31, 2009, unless terminated sooner pursuant to Section 8 hereof (the “Initial Term”). The Term of this Agreement shall renew for an additional one-year period after the scheduled expiration of the Initial Term unless the Company or the Executive, at its or his sole and exclusive option and for any reason whatsoever, provides written notice to the other party not later than ninety (90) days prior to the scheduled expiration of the Initial Term that this Agreement shall not be renewed beyond the Initial Term (as used in this Agreement, “Term” shall apply to the Initial Term and any renewal term).
     2.  Representations and Warranties . The Executive represents that Executive is entering into this Agreement voluntarily and that Executive’s employment hereunder and his compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement will not conflict with or result in the breach of any agreement to which Executive is a party or by which Executive may be bound, or any legal duty that Executive owes or may owe to another.
     3.  Duties and Extent of Services .
     (a) During the Term, the Executive shall serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its primary domestic operating subsidiaries, with such duties, responsibilities and authority as are consistent with such position, subject to the oversight of the Company (the “Board”), and shall so serve faithfully and to the best of Executive’s ability under the direction and supervision of the Board. As an executive officer of the Company, the Executive shall be entitled to all of the benefits and protections to which all officers of the Company are entitled pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which shall

 


 

include, but not be limited to, the rights of indemnification set forth in such Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and coverage under the Company’s directors’ and officers’ liability insurance as in effect from time to time.
     (b) During the Term, the Executive agrees to devote substantially his full time, attention, and energies to the Company’s business and shall not be engaged in any other business activity, whether or not such business activity is pursued for gain, profit, or other pecuniary advantage. Subject, however, to Section 11, 12 and 13 herein, the Executive may serve in charitable and civic positions and as a director of other companies with the prior consent of the Board, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Executive covenants, warrants, and represents that, subject to the activity he shall devote his full and best efforts to the fulfillment of his employment obligations, and he shall exercise the highest degree to loyalty and the highest standards of conduct in the performance of his duties.
     4.  Compensation .
     (a)  Base Salary . The Company shall pay the Executive a base salary (the “Base Salary”) of not less than $650,000 per year, payable in monthly installments. The Base Salary shall be reviewed by the Board annually and may be increased in the Board’s sole discretion. The Executive shall not receive any additional compensation from any subsidiary of the Company following the date hereof.
     (b)  Bonus . The Executive will be eligible for payment of a bonus on an annual basis (the “Annual Bonus”) and a quarterly basis (the “Quarterly Bonuses”), as determined by the Company’s Compensation Committee in its sole discretion. The right to the Annual Bonus shall accrue on December 31 st of each year, and Executive must be employed on that date to be eligible for the Annual Bonus, except as is expressly provided in Section 9 . To the extent the Executive is entitled to receive an Annual Bonus and/or a fourth-quarter Quarterly Bonus for any calendar year, the Annual Bonus and/or such Quarterly Bonus shall be paid to the Executive after the end of the calendar year to which such Bonuses relate, at the same time as the Company pays bonuses to other executives generally; provided that in no event shall the Bonuses be paid later than the 15th day of the third month following the year in which the Bonuses are earned. To the extent the Executive is entitled to receive a Quarterly Bonus for one or more of the first three quarters of any calendar year, if any, the Bonuses shall be paid to the Executive, at the same time as the Company pays bonuses to other executives generally; provided that such payments are made prior to December 31 of the calendar year in which such Quarterly Bonuses are earned.
     5.  Benefits . During the Term, tile Executive shall be entitled to participate in any and all benefit programs and arrangements generally made available by the Company to executive officers, including, but not limited to, pension plans, contributory and noncontributory welfare and benefit plans, disability plans and medical, death benefit and life insurance plans for which the Executive may be eligible during the Term. Furthermore, the Executive shall be permitted four (4) weeks of paid time off (“PTO”) during each calendar year. Accrued paid leave may be used for vacation, professional enrichment and education, sickness and disability. Unused leave shall not accrue from one calendar year to another.
     6.  Expenses . During the Executive’s employment, the Executive will be reimbursed for travel, entertainment and other out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred by Executive on behalf of the Company in the performance of Executive’s duties hereunder, so long as (a) such

 


 

expenses are consistent with the type and amount of expenses that customarily would be incurred by similarly situated corporate executives in the United States; and (b) the Executive timely provides copies of receipts for expenses in accordance with Company policy.
     7.  Adherence to Company Policy . The Executive acknowledges that he is subject to insider information policies designed to preclude its employees from violating the federal securities laws by trading on material, non-public information or passing such information on to others in breach of any duty owed to the Company or any third party. The Executive shall promptly execute any agreements generally distributed by the Company or to its employees requiring such employees to abide by its inside information policies.
     8.  Termination .
     (a)  Disability . In accordance with applicable law, the Company may terminate the Executive’s employment at any time after the Executive becomes Disabled. As used herein, “Disabled” means the incapacity of the Executive, due to injury, illness, disease, or bodily or mental infirmity, to engage in the performance of substantially all of the usual duties of employment with the Company.
     (b)  Death . The Executive’s employment with the Company will terminate upon the death of the Executive.
     (c)  Termination with Cause . The Company may terminate the Executive’s employment at any time for “ Cause ” by providing written notice of such termination to the Executive. As used herein, “ Cause ” means any of the following, as determined by the Board:
          (i) the Executive’s material breach of this Agreement;
          (ii) the Executive’s gross negligence (other than as a result of this ability or occurring after the Executive’s provision of notice in connection with a resignation for Good Reason) or willful misconduct in carrying out his duties hereunder, resulting in harm to the Company;
          (iii) the Executive’s material breach of any of his fiduciary obligations as an officer of the Company;
          (iv) any conviction by a court of law of, or entry of a pleading of guilty or not contendere by the Executive with respect to, a felony or any other crime for which fraud or dishonesty is a material element, excluding traffic violations;
          (v) the Executive willfully or recklessly engages in conduct which either is materially or demonstrably injurious to the Company, monetarily or otherwise.
     For purposes of determining Cause, no act or omission by the Executive shall be considered “willful” unless it is done or omitted in bad faith or without reasonable belief that the Executive’s action or omission was in the best interests of the Company. Any act or failure to act based upon: (a) authority given pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the Board, or (b) advice of counsel for the Company, shall be conclusively presumed to be done or omitted to be done by the Executive in good faith and in the best interests of the Company. In addition, as to subsections (i)-(iii) above, if the action or inaction in question is susceptible of a cure, then no

 


 

finding of Cause shall occur prior to written notice to the Executive setting forth in reasonable detail the action or inaction at issue, and the Executive’s failure to cure such condition following a cure period of no less than sixty (60) days.
     (d)  Termination Without Cause . The Company, at the direction of the Board, may terminate the Executive’s employment without Cause at any time upon no less than ninety (90) days prior written notice, or ninety (90) days’ pay in lieu of notice.
     (e)  Resignation for Good Reason . The Executive may resign from his employment with the Company for Good Reason by providing written notice to the Board that an event constituting Good Reason has occurred and the Executive desires to resign from his employment with the Company as a result. Such notice must be provided to the Board by the Executive within sixty (60) days following the initial occurrence of the event constituting Good Reason. After receipt of such written notice, the Board shall have a period of sixty (60) days to cure such event; provided, however, the Board, may, at its sole option, determine not to cure such event and accept the Executive’s resignation effective thirty (30) days following the Board’s receipt of the Executive’s notice that an event constituting Good Reason has occurred. If the Board does not cure the event constituting Good Reason within the requisite sixty (60) day period, the Executive’s employment with the Company shall terminate on account of Good Reason thirty (30) days following the expiration of the Board’s cure period, unless the Board determines to terminate the Executive’s employment prior to such date. As used herein, “Good Reason” means that, without the Executive’s consent, any of the following has occurred:
          (i) a material diminution in the Executive’s authority, duties or responsibilities;
          (ii) a material diminution in the Executive’s Base Salary; or
          (iii) any action or inaction by the Company that constitutes a material breach by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement.
     (f)  Resignation Without Good Reason . The Executive may resign from his employment with the Company without Good Reason (as that term is defined in Section 8(c) ) at any time upon no less than ninety (90) days prior written notice to the Board. Upon such notice of resignation, the Company may, at its sole option, accept the Executive’s resignation effective as of a date prior to the resignation date specified in the notice, and in such event, the earlier date will be the effective date of termination of the Executive’s employment for all purposes hereunder.
     9.  Compensation Upon Termination .
     (a)  Disability . Upon termination of employment pursuant to Section 8(a), the Executive will receive any Base Salary accrued and unpaid as of such date as well as any accrued but unused PTO and appropriate expense reimbursements. If the Executive becomes disabled before the end of the fiscal year, the Executive will also receive an Annual Bonus for such fiscal year on a pro rata basis (1/12th of the Annual Bonus for each month in which he was employed on the last day of that month), but only to the extent that all prerequisites for receiving the Annual Bonus have otherwise been satisfied. Such pro rata bonus will be paid at the time that the annual bonus is paid to other executives. The Executive shall also be entitled to any

 


 

Quarterly Bonus for all quarters ending prior to and including the quarter in which there was an onset of Disability. The Company shall have no further obligations under this Agreement to the Executive.
     (b)  Death . In the event of the Executive’s death, the Executive’s estate will receive his Base Salary accrued and unpaid as of the date of his death as well as any accrued but unused PTO and appropriate expense reimbursements. If the Executive dies before the end of the fiscal year, the Executive’s estate will receive an Annual Bonus for such fiscal year on a pro rata basis (1/12th of the Annual Bonus for each month in which he was employed on the last day of that month), but only to the extent that all prerequisites for receiving the Annual Bonus have otherwise been satisfied. Such pro rata bonus will be paid at the time that the annual bonus is paid to other executives. The Executive shall also be entitled to any Quarterly Bonus for all quarters ending prior to and including the quarter in which the Death occurs. The Company shall have no further obligations under this Agreement to the Executive.
     (c)  Termination Without Cause, Resignation With Good Reason or Non-Renewal of Contract . If the Company terminates the Executive’s employment without Cause pursuant to Section 8(d), or if the Executive resigns for Good Reason pursuant to Section 8(e) , or if the Company declines to renew the Executive’s contract pursuant to Section 1 and the Executive’s employment with the Company terminates on the last day of such term, the Company will pay the Executive his Base Salary accrued and unpaid as of the date of termination of employment as well as any accrued but unused PTO and appropriate expense reimbursements. In addition, subject to the Executive’s execution and nonrevocation of the general release of claims described in Section 9(e) below and compliance with the requirements of Section 22 below, the Company will also pay and/or provide to the Executive (i) severance in an amount equal to eighteen (18) months of the Executive’s monthly Base Salary (the “Severance Amount”), minus applicable deductions and withholdings, which shall be paid to the Executive in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices in equal installments over the eighteen (18) month period following Executive’s last day of employment and which shall commence as soon as administratively practicable following the expiration of the revocation period for the general release, but not later than sixty (60) days following the date of Executive’s last day of employment with the Company; (ii) in accordance with Section 4(b), the Executive will receive any accrued and unpaid Annual Bonus and Quarterly Bonus, minus applicable deductions and withholdings, for which he is eligible; (iii) notwithstanding the eligibility requirement that the Executive must be employed by the Company as of the date on which the Annual Bonus or Quarterly Bonus is paid, if the Executive’s employment is terminated before such date in accordance with Section 8(d) or 8(e), he will be eligible to receive a Quarterly Bonus and Annual Bonus on a pro rata basis (1112th of the Annual Bonus for each month in which he was employed on the last day of that month, and the Quarterly Bonus for all quarters ending prior to and including the quarter in which the termination occurs), minus applicable deductions and withholdings, but only to the extent that all prerequisites for receiving the Annual Bonus and Quarterly Bonus have otherwise been satisfied, with such pro rata bonus being paid at the time that the Annual Bonus or Quarterly Bonus, as applicable, is paid to other executives; (iv) notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any applicable grant agreement or the Company’s 2006 Equity Compensation Plan (or a successor plan), all shares subject to Company equity grants (including without limitation stock options, stock units and stock awards) held by the Executive at the time of his termination date that would have vested within the twenty-four (24) month period following the Executive’s termination date if the vesting schedule for such

 


 

grants were based on a monthly vesting schedule, as opposed to the vesting schedule set forth in his grant agreement, shall become vested on the Executive’s termination date; and (v) the Company will provide continued health benefits to the Executive at the same premium rates charged to other then current employees of the Company for the eighteen (18) month period following his termination of employment, unless the Executive is otherwise covered by health insurance provided by a future employer. The Company has no further obligation under this Agreement to the Executive upon his termination without Cause, resignation for Good Reason, or the Company’s decision not to renew the contract. The obligations of the Company set forth in this Section 9(c) will be suspended and no longer enforceable if the Executive materially breaches the terms and conditions of Sections 9(e), 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 , which material breach is not cured (if capable of cure) within ten (10) days written notice of such breach.
     (d)  Termination With Cause or Resignation Without Good Reason . If the Company terminates the Executive’s employment with Cause pursuant to Section 8(c), if the Executive resigns without Good Reason pursuant to Section 8(f) , if the Executive resigns following his notice of nonrenewal of this Agreement or if the Executive is entitled to the severance benefits pursuant to Section 9(c) and either does not execute or revokes the general release of claims required pursuant to Section 9(e), the Company will pay the Executive his Base Salary accrued and unpaid as of the date of termination of employment as well as any accrued but unused PTO and appropriate expense reimbursements. The Company shall have no further obligations under this Agreement to the Executive.
     (e)  Release of Claims . As a condition for the payments of the Severance Amount and pro-rata Quarterly and Annual Bonuses provided in Section 9(c) , the Executive must execute a general release of all claims (including claims under local, state and federal laws, but excluding claims for payment due under Section 9(c) that the Executive has or may have against the Company or any related individuals or entities. The release shall be in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company, and shall include confidentiality, cooperation, and non-disparagement provisions, as well as other terms requested by the Company that are typical of an executive severance agreement. The Severance Amount, pro-rata Quarterly and Annual Bonuses, acceleration of vesting and continued health benefits provided for in Section 9(c) are conditioned upon and will not be paid (or be provided) until the execution of the release and the expiration of any revocation period.
          10. Confidentiality; Return of Company Property .
     (a) The Executive acknowledges that, by reason of Executive’s employment by the Company, Executive will have access to confidential information of the Company, including, without limitation, information and knowledge pertaining to products, inventions, discoveries, improvements, innovations, designs, ideas, trade secrets, proprietary information, business strategies, packaging, advertising, marketing, distribution and sales methods, sales and profit figures, employees, customers and clients, and relationships between the Company and its business partners, including dealers, traders, distributors, sales representatives, wholesalers, customers, clients, suppliers and others who have business dealings with them (“Confidential Information”). The Executive acknowledges that such Confidential Information is a valuable and unique asset of the Company and covenants that, both during and after the Term, Executive will not disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity, except as Executive’s duties as an employee of the Company may require, without the prior written authorization of the Board. The obligation of confidentiality imposed by this Section 10 shall not apply to

 


 

Confidential Information that otherwise becomes generally known to the public through no act of the Executive in breach of this Agreement or any other party in violation of an existing confidentiality agreement with the Company, or which is required to be disclosed by court order or applicable law.
     (b) All records, designs, patents, business plans, financial statements, manuals, memoranda, lists, research and development plans and products, and other property delivered to or compiled by the Executive by or on behalf of the Company or its vendors or customers that pertain to the business of the Company shall be and remain the property of the Company, and be subject at all times to its discretion and control. Likewise, all correspondence, reports, records, charts, advertising materials and other similar data pertaining to the business, activities or future plans of the Company (and all copies thereof) that are collected by the Executive shall be delivered promptly to the Company without request by it upon termination of the Executive’s employment.
     11.  Non-Competition . While the Executive is employed at the Company and for a period of eighteen (18) months after the termination of his employment with the Company for any reason (the “Non-Compete Term”), the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, own, maintain, finance, operate, engage in, assist, be employed by, contract with, license, or have any interest in, or association with a business or enterprise engaged in or planning to be engaged in, the Internet retail trading of foreign exchange, or any business engaged in by the Company, or approved for the Company or its affiliates to be engaged in by the Board of Directors of the Company, during his employment with the Company.
     12.  Solicitation of Clients . During the periods in which the provisions of Section 11 shall be in effect, the Executive, directly or indirectly, including through any other person or entity, shall not seek business from any Client on behalf of any enterprise or business other than the Company, refer business generated from any Client to any enterprise or business other than the Company, or receive commissions based on sales or otherwise relating to the business from lily Client, enterprise or business other than the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Client” means any person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity (i) to which the Company sold or provided services during the 12-month period prior to the time at which any determination is required to be made as to whether any such person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity is a Client, or (ii) who or which has been approached by an employee of the Company for the purpose of soliciting business for the Company and which business was reasonably expected to generate revenue in excess of $100,000 per annum.
     13.  Solicitation of Employees . During the periods in which the provisions of Section 11 shall be in effect, the Executive, directly or indirectly, shall not contact or solicit any employee of the Company for the purpose of hiring them or causing them to terminate their employment relationship with the Company.
     14.  Inventions, Ideas, Processes, and Designs . All inventions, ideas, processes, programs, software, and designs (including all improvements) conceived or made by the Executive during his employment with the Company (whether or not actually conceived during regular business hours) and related to the business of the Company, or the business approved by the Board of Directors to be engaged in by the Company, shall be disclosed in writing promptly to the Company and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company. An invention, idea,

 


 

process, program, software, or design (including an improvement) shall be deemed related to the actual or approved business of the Company if (x) it was made with the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or Confidential Information, (y) results from work performed by the Executive for the Company, or (z) pertains to the current business or demonstrably anticipated research or development work of the Company, The Executive shall cooperate with the Company and its attorneys in the preparation of patent and copyright applications for such developments and, upon request, shall promptly assign all such inventions, ideas, processes, and designs to the Company. The decision to file for patent or copyright protection or to maintain such development as a trade secret shall be in the sole discretion of the Company, and the Executive shall be bound by such decision.
     15.  Specific Performance . The Executive acknowledges that the services to be rendered by the Executive are of a special, unique and extraordinary character and, in connection with such services, the Executive will have access to Confidential Information vital to the Company’s business, By reason of this, the Executive consents and agrees that if the Executive violates any of the provisions of Section 11, 12, 13, and 14 hereof, the Company would sustain irreparable injury and that monetary damages would not provide adequate remedy to the Company. The Executive hereby agrees that the Company shall be entitled to have Section 11, 12, 13, or 14 hereof specifically enforced (including, without limitation, by injunctions and restraining orders) by any court in the State of New Jersey having equity jurisdiction and agrees to be subject to the jurisdiction of said court. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the Company from pursuing any other remedies available to it for such breach or threatened breach, including the recovery of damages from the Executive.
     16.  Executive’s Option To Purchase GCAM . Executive hereby agrees and acknowledges that the Stevens Purchase Option (as defined in that certain Letter Agreement between Glenn Stevens and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., dated as of January 1, 2007) is hereby terminated in its entirety and all rights of Executive in connection with the Stevens Purchase Option are of no further force and effect.
     17.  Company’s Call Option . The Company hereby agrees and acknowledges that that Call Option (as defined in that certain Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, dated as of January1, 2007, by the Company to Glenn Stevens (the “RSU Agreement"» of the Company under the RSU Agreement is hereby terminated, and from and after the date hereof, all 48,820 restricted stock units granted to Glenn Stevens pursuant to the RSU Agreement shall no longer be subject to such Call Option.
     18.  Complete Agreement . This Agreement embodies the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the Executive’s employment, compensation, benefits and related items and supersede any other prior oral or written agreements, arrangements or understandings between the Executive and the Company. This Agreement may not be changed or terminated orally but only by an agreement in writing signed by the parties hereto.
     19.  Waiver . The waiver by either party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other party shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by such party.

 


 

     20.  Governing Law; Assignability .
     (a) This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New Jersey without reference to the choice of law provisions thereof.
     (b) The Executive may not, without the Company’s prior written consent, delegate, assign, transfer, convey, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of this Agreement or any interest herein. Any such attempt shall be null and void and without effect. The Company and the Executive agree that this Agreement and all of the Company’s rights and obligations hereunder may be assigned or transferred by the Company and shall be assumed by and be binding upon any successor to the Company.
     21.  Severability . If any provision of this Agreement or any part thereof, including, without limitation, Sections 11. 12, 13, or 14 , as applied to either party or to any circumstances shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable, the same shall in no way affect any other provision of this Agreement or remaining parts thereof, which shall be given full effect without regard to the invalid or unenforceable part thereof, or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement.
     22.  Notices . All notices to the Company or the Executive, permitted or required hereunder, shall be in writing and shall be delivered personally, by telecopier or by courier service providing for next-day delivery or sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the following addresses:
     If to the Company:
GAIN Capital Holding, Inc.
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, New Jersey 079221
Attention: Chairman of the Board
If to the Executive, to the address set forth on the first page hereof.
Either party may change the address to which notices shall be sent by sending written notice of such change of address to the other party. Any such notice shall be deemed given, if delivered personally, upon receipt; if telecopied, when telecopied; if sent by courier service providing for next-day delivery, the next business day following deposit with such courier service; and if sent by certified or registered mail, three days after deposit (postage prepaid) with the U.S. mail service.
     23.  Section 409A .
     (a) This Agreement shall be interpreted to avoid any penalty sanctions under section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“section 409A”). If any payment or benefit cannot be provided or made at the time specified herein without incurring sanctions under section 409 A, then such benefit or payment shall be provided in full at the earliest time thereafter when such sanctions will not be imposed. For purposes of section 409A, each payment under this Agreement shall be treated as a separate payment and the right to a series of installment payments under this Agreement shall be treated as a right to a series of separate payments. In no event may the Executive, directly or indirectly, designate the calendar year of payment.

 


 

     (b) To the maximum extent permitted under section 409A, the cash severance payments payable under this Agreement are intended to comply with the ‘short-term deferral exception’ under Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(b)(4), and any remaining amount is intended to comply with the ‘separation pay exception’ under Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii); provided, however, any amount payable to the Executive during the six-month period following the Executive’s termination date that does not qualify within either of the foregoing exceptions and is deemed as deferred compensation subject to the requirements of section 409A, then such amount shall hereinafter be referred to as the ‘Excess Amount.’ If the Executive is a “key employee” of a publicly traded corporation under section 409 A at the time of his separation from service and if payment of the Excess Amount under this Agreement is required to be delayed for a period of six (6) months after separation from service pursuant to section 409A, payment of such amount shall be delayed as required by section 409A, and the accumulated postponed amount shall be paid in a lump sum payment within ten (10) days after the end of the six (6) month period. If the Executive dies during the postponement period prior to the payment of postponed amount, the amounts withheld on account of section 409 A shall be paid to the personal representative of the Executive’s estate within sixty (60) days after the date of the Executive’s death. A “key employee” shall mean an employee who, at any time during the 12-month period ending on the identification date, is a “specified employee” under section 409A, as determined by the Board, in its sole discretion. The determination of key employees, including the number and identity of persons considered key employees and the identification date, shall be made by the Board in accordance with the provisions of Sections 416(i) and 409A and the regulations issued thereunder.
     (c) To the extent the Executive is, at the time of his termination of employment under this Agreement, participating in one or more deferred compensation arrangements subject to section 409A, the payments and benefits provided under those arrangements shall continue to be governed by, and to become due and payable in accordance with, the specific terms and conditions of those arrangements, and nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to modify or alter those terms and conditions.
     (d) All reimbursements provided under this Agreement shall be made or provided in accordance with the requirements of section 409A, including, where applicable, the requirement that (i) any reimbursement is for expenses incuned during the Executive’s lifetime (or during a shorter period of time specified in this Agreement), (ii) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement during a calendar year may not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement in any other calendar year, (iii) the reimbursement of an eligible expense will be made on or before the last day of the calendar year following the year in which the expense is incurred, and (iv) the right to reimbursement is not subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.
     24.  Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
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14 hereof , shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Employment Agreement as of the date first above written.
         
GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Mark E. Galant      
 
 
 
   
Name: Mark Galant    
Title: Chairman of the Board    
 
 
/s/ Glenn Stevens
   
     
GLENN STEVENS    

 

Exhibit 10.20
August 24, 2009
Christopher Calhoun
Dear Chris:
     The purpose of this letter (the “ Agreement ”) is to amend and restate your existing Offer Letter with GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (the “Company ”), dated February 1, 2009 (your “ Existing Offer Letter” ), to reflect the terms and conditions of your continued employment with the Company in a new role. Effective as of April 1, 2009 (the “ Effective Date ”), the key elements of your new role and continued employment with the Company are as follows:
     1.  Title and Duties . You will continue to be employed by the Company in the position of Senior Advisor and Corporate Secretary of the Company with the duties, responsibilities and authority commensurate therewith. You will report to and accept direction from the Chief Executive Officer of the Company regarding projects and activities to be completed by you for the Company during the Employment Period (as defined below).
     2.  Term . The term of this Agreement and your new position commenced on the Effective Date and will continue until terminated in accordance with Section 7 below (the “ Employment Period” ).
     3.  Salary and Benefits . During the Employment Period, the Company will pay you an annual base salary of $50,000, which will be paid in accordance with the general payroll practices of the Company. Your base salary will be subject to review and increase by the Company during the Employment Period in accordance with the Company’s normal compensation and performance review policies for employees generally. During the Employment Period, you will continue to participate in the Company’s health, dental, 401 (k), and other benefit plans generally available to Company employees from time to time. Nothing in this Agreement or otherwise shall prevent the Company from amending or terminating any bonus, incentive, equity compensation, retirement, welfare or other employee benefit plans, programs, policies or perquisites from time to time on or after the Effective Time as the Company deems appropriate. The Company will provide you with a cellular telephone at the Company’s sole expense.
     4.  Bonus . Effective as of the Effective Date, you are no longer eligible to participate in the management bonus program. However, you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s annual discretionary bonus program for employees generally. Any annual bonus earned and payable to you will be paid on or after January 1 but not later than March 15 of the calendar year following the calendar year for which the annual bonus is earned.

 


 

     5.  Equity Compensation . During the Employment Period, you will continue to be eligible to participate in certain long-term equity incentive programs established by the Company for its employees, including the 2006 Equity Compensation Plan (or a successor thereto), at levels determined by the Compensation Committee in its sole discretion, commensurate with your position.
     6.  Vacation . During the Employment Period, you will continue to be entitled to vacation, holiday and sick leave at levels commensurate with those provided to other employees of the Company, in accordance with the Company’s vacation, holiday and other pay-for-time-not worked policies; provided, however, that you will be entitled to not less than four (4) weeks paid vacation each calendar year, prorated in respect of any period of employment of less than twelve (12) months in a calendar year.
     7.  Termination . Your employment with the Company continues to be at-will and subject to the arrangements described in the Company’s employee handbook, as modified from time to time. This means that you may resign from the Company at any time for any reason upon thirty (30) days advance written notice, and the Company may terminate your employment at any time for any reason upon thirty (30) days advance written notice. Upon any such termination or resignation, you will be entitled only to any amounts earned and payable but not yet paid.
     8.  Restrictive Covenant Agreement . You hereby acknowledge and confirm that the Employee Non-Disclosure, Assignment of Developments, Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement executed by you in favor of the Company on November 12, 2000 (the “Restrictive Covenants Agreement ”), the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference, remains in full force and effect and binding upon you. The Restrictive Covenants shall survive the termination of this Agreement and your employment by the Company for the applicable period(s) set forth therein.
     9.  Entire Agreement . This Agreement together with the Restrictive Covenants Agreement, sets forth the entire understanding between you and the Company and supersedes any and all prior agreements and understandings with respect to the subject matter hereof, including, without limitation, your Existing Offer Letter. This Agreement cannot be changed, modified, extended or terminated except by a written amendment executed by you and by the President of the Company.
     10.  Successors . The terms and provisions of this Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors and assigns of you and the Company, except that your duties and responsibilities under this Agreement are of a personal nature and may not be assigned or delegated.
     11.  Tax Withholding . All payments under this Agreement will be made subject to applicable tax withholding, and the Company will withhold from any payments under this Agreement all federal, state and local taxes as the Company is required to withhold.

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     12.  Governing Law. This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted under the laws of the State of New Jersey without giving effect to any conflict of laws provisions,
     If these terms are agreeable, please signify your acceptance below and return one copy to me.
         
Sincerely,

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
 
   
/s/ Glen Stevens      
Glen Stevens     
President and Chief Executive Officer     
 
Agreed and accepted:
 
   
/s/ Christopher Calhoun      
Christopher Calhoun     
     
8-26-09    
Date     
     
 

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Exhibit 10.21
February 1, 2009
Henry Lyons
Dear Henry:
     The purpose of this letter (the “ Agreement ”) is to amend and restate your existing Offer Letter with GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (the “ Company ”), dated February 11, 2008 (your “ Existing Offer Letter ”), to (i) clarify certain terms of your Existing Officer Letter, (ii) reflect certain changes necessary to comply with the requirements of section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”) and the final regulations issued thereunder, and (iii) provide for your continued employment as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.
     1.  Title and Duties . You will continue to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and will report to and accept direction from the Chief Executive Officer of the Company regarding projects and activities to be completed by you for the Company during the Employment Period (as defined below). You will (a) serve the Company diligently, competently and to the best of your abilities, (b) devote substantially all of your time and attention to the business of the Company and its affiliates, (c) maintain a satisfactory level of performance of your duties, and (d) not undertake any other duties that conflict with these responsibilities. You will render such services as may reasonably be required of you to accomplish the business purposes of the Company, and such duties as may be assigned to you from time to time and which are appropriate for your position at the Company. Your principal place of employment shall be at the Company’s corporate headquarters in Bedminister, New Jersey.
     2.  Term . Your employment with the Company will continue from the date of this Agreement until terminated in accordance with Section 7 below (the “ Employment Period ”).
     3.  Salary and Benefits . While you are employed with the Company, your annual base salary will be $325,000. Your base salary will be payable in accordance with the general payroll practices of the Company. During the Employment Period, you will be eligible to receive an annual performance review, and thereafter, you will be entitled to such base salary as the Company may from time to time establish in its sole discretion. During the Employment Period, you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s health, dental, 401(k), and other benefit plans generally available to Company employees from time to time. Nothing in this Agreement or otherwise shall prevent the Company from amending or terminating any bonus, incentive, equity compensation, retirement, welfare or other employee benefit plans, programs, policies or perquisites from time to time as the Company deems appropriate. You will be provided with such other executive perquisites as may be provided to other senior executive officers of the Company, if any.

 


 

     4.  Bonus . In addition to your base salary, you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus program for each calendar year during the Employment Period on such terms and conditions as are in effect for such program in any given calendar year during the Employment Period. Your target annual bonus for any calendar year during the Employment Period will be established by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “ Compensation Committee ”) at 50% to 75% of your annual base salary. Any actual bonus paid to you will be based on the level of achievement of the applicable performance goals relative to the pre-established targets, as determined by the Compensation Committee in its sole discretion. Any annual bonus earned and payable to you will be paid on or after January 1 but not later than March 15 of the calendar year following the calendar year for which the annual bonus is earned.
     5.  Equity Compensation . During the Employment Period, you will be eligible to participate in certain long-term equity incentive programs established by the Company for its employees, including the 2006 Equity Compensation Plan (or a successor thereto) (the “ Equity Plan ”), at levels determined by the Compensation Committee in its sole discretion, commensurate with your position.
     6.  Vacation . During the Employment Period, you will be entitled to vacation, holiday and sick leave at levels commensurate with those provided to other employees of the Company, in accordance with the Company’s vacation, holiday and other pay-for-time-not worked policies; provided, however, that you will be entitled to not less than four (4) weeks paid vacation each calendar year, prorated in respect of any period of employment of less than twelve (12) months in a calendar year; provided, however, that no such pro-ration shall occur with respect to the 2008 calendar year.
     7.  Termination .
          (a) The Company may terminate your employment at any time. The Company will provide you with 30 days advance written notice of such termination, except in the event of termination for Cause. You may terminate employment at any time upon 30 days prior written notice to the Company.
          (b) For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Cause” means: (i) conviction or plea of no contest to a felony, (ii) continuing neglect, refusal or failure to perform your material duties to the Company (other than a failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness), (iii) misconduct in the performance of your duties to the Company, (iv) breach of any written non-competition, non-disclosure or non-solicitation agreement in effect with the Company, or (v) refusal or failure to carry out directives or instructions of the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer of the Company that are consistent with the scope and nature of your duties and responsibilities set forth herein.
     8.  Severance Benefits . If, within one (1) year after a Change of Control (as defined in the Equity Plan), the Company involuntarily terminates your employment during the Employment Period other than (i) for Cause, (ii) on account of your death or (iii) on account of

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your disability (and disability for this purpose will mean your total and permanent disability under the terms of the Company’s long-term disability plan, whether or not you participate in such plan), subject to your continued compliance with the Restrictive Covenants Agreement (as defined in Section 9) and your execution (and non-revocation) of a release of all claims against the Company and its affiliates, in a form provided by the Company (the “Release ”), you will receive a lump sum cash payment equal to one (1) year of your base salary in effect at the time of your termination of employment. This lump sum payment will be paid to you within 30 days after the effective date of your termination of employment, subject to your delivery to the Company of an effective Release. In addition, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any applicable plan, program or agreement, if the Company involuntarily terminates your employment as set forth in this Section 8, then all outstanding restricted stock units held by you as of the date of such termination of employment, to the extent not otherwise vested, will become fully vested on the effective date of your termination of employment.
     9.  Restrictive Covenant Agreement . You hereby acknowledge and confirm that the Employee Non-Disclosure, Assignment of Developments, Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement executed by you in favor of the Company on February 21, 2008 (the “ Restrictive Covenants Agreement ”), the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference, remains in full force and effect and binding upon you. The Restrictive Covenants shall survive the termination of this Agreement and your employment by the Company for the applicable period(s) set forth therein.
     10.  Application of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code . This Agreement is intended to comply with the “short-term deferral” exception to section 409A of the Code. Payments may only be made under this Agreement upon an event and in a manner permitted by section 409A or an exemption, to the extent applicable. All payments to be made upon termination of employment under this Agreement may only be made upon a “separation from service” under section 409A and if you are a “specified employee” (as defined in section 409A of the Code) at the time of your termination of employment, payments will be postponed as necessary to avoid any penalty sanction under section 409A of the Code. For purposes of section 409A, each payment made under this Agreement will be treated as a separate payment. In no event will you, directly or indirectly, designate the calendar year of a payment.
     11.  Terms of Employment . You are an employee-at-will of the Company, and your employment is subject to the arrangements described in the Company’s employee handbook as modified from time to time; provided that severance benefits under this Agreement will be provided in lieu of any benefits under a severance plan of the Company.
     12.  Entire Agreement . This Agreement together with the Restrictive Covenants Agreement, sets forth the entire understanding between you and the Company and supersedes any and all prior agreements and understandings with respect to the subject matter hereof, including, without limitation, your Existing Offer Letter. This Agreement cannot be changed, modified, extended or terminated except by a written amendment executed by you and by the President of the Company.

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     13.  Successors . The terms and provisions of this Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors and assigns of you and the Company, except that your duties and responsibilities under this Agreement are of a personal nature and may not be assigned or delegated.
     14.  Tax Withholding . All payments under this Agreement will be made subject to applicable tax withholding, and the Company will withhold from any payments under this Agreement all federal, state and local taxes as the Company is required to withhold.
     15.  Governing Law . This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted under the laws of the State of New Jersey without giving effect to any conflict of laws provisions.
     If these terms are agreeable, please signify your acceptance below and return one copy to me.
Sincerely,
         
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
 
   
/s/ Glen Stevens      
Glen Stevens     
President and Chief Executive Officer     
 
         
Agreed and accepted:
 
   
/s/ Henry Lyons      
Henry Lyons      
     
3/23/09      
Date     
     
 

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Exhibit 10.22
Employment Outline
For
Tim O’Sullivan
Senior FX Dealer
         
1.
  Salary   $130,000 
 
       
2.
  Bonus   Part of the trading bonus pool, if company generates sufficient profit. Amount available for year 2000 is 10% of all trading revenues less all expenses except advertising. Actual dollar amount given to an individual trader will be at management’s discretion. Factors in determining specific trader’s amount will be: trader’s P&L, amount of risk taken, teamwork and other value added given to the firm.
 
       
3.
  Options   80,000 out of a current 10,000,000 shares outstanding following GAIN’s first completed venture round. Strike price to be set between $.80 - $1.10 per share. Three year vest — straight line (ie. You get 1/3 of your options on your first anniversary date). After closing, you will receive a detailed option agreement. Your options are part of an employee options pool that covers yourself and all other GAIN employees. The grant of options will be subject to approval by the Company’s Board of Directors. On top of the 15% employee pool dilution, GAIN will actively be looking for a strategic partner(s) to invest in GAIN and give us additional credibility. This amount is likely to be at least 10% of existing shares.
 
       
4.
  Right to Purchase Preferred Stock   Before the second closing of GAIN’s first venture round, you also have the ability to purchase 40,000 shares of participating preferred stock at a price of $1.10 each. In connection with the purchase of preferred stock, you will be required to execute documents customary for transactions of this nature, together with a voting agreement.
 
       
5.
  Benefits   At this time we are anticipating health insurance 75% funded by GAIN, long- term disability insurance (60% of salary after 180 days), short-term disability insurance, life insurance (equal to salary), workman’s compensation, and a 401k package.
 
       
6.
  Legal   All GAIN employees must sign a confidentiality, non-compete and non-hire agreement. All GAIN employees are employees at will.
 
       
7.
  Vacation   Three weeks per year. All vacations during the first 6 months of the year 2000 must be approved in advance by the CEO.
     This offer shall terminate if not signed by both parties.
             
/s/ Mark E. Galant       /s/ Tim O’Sullivan    
 
Mark E. Galant
     
 
Tim O’Sullivan
   
CEO
           
 
           
March 8, 2000       March 8, 2000    
Date       Date    

 

Exhibit 10.23
January 11, 2008
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
550 Hills Drive, Suite 210
Bedminster, NJ 07921
Attn: Glenn Stevens, Chief Executive Officer
Re: Change of Employment Status
Glenn:
     This letter is to confirm certain agreements with respect to my ongoing relationship with GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”). Although I stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on June 7, 2007 and am no longer an employee of the Company, I remain the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Change of Status”). I am currently a party to (i) that certain Severance Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2006 (the “Severance Agreement”), between me and the Company and (ii) that certain Employee Non-Disclosure, Assignment of Developments Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2000, as amended by Amendment #1 thereto on March 29, 2006 (as so amended, the “Non-Compete Agreement”), between me and the Company (as successor to GAIN Capital, LLC).
I hereby agree and acknowledge to the following:
a) I am not, and will not be, owed any severance or other payments in connection with the Severance Agreement as a result of my Change of Status or any future termination of my relationship with the Company for any reason. The Severance Agreement is hereby terminated and of no further force or effect.
b) In connection with my duties as Chief Executive Officer of the Company through June 7, 2007, I will be entitled to a bonus equal to $807,000, which I agree equals the aggregate of all prior unpaid quarterly and annual bonus amounts owed to me. The Company will not owe me any other cash bonus or other cash compensation in connection with my prior employment duties or my Change of Status. Except as set forth herein, I will cease to participate in all other employee benefits of the Company after December 31, 2007.
c) So long as I am a director, the Company will cover my health insurance benefits in a manner comparable to senior Company executives and I will be reimbursed for all Company business related expenses. I will receive the same annual compensation for serving as a director of the Company as received by independent directors; provided, however, that so long as I am Chairman, I shall receive between 1.35x and 1.5x the annual compensation received by independent directors, as determined by the compensation committee of the Company.

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d) I agree that I will not sell or attempt to sell any shares of capital stock of the Company to a third party until the earlier to occur of (the “Restriction Release Date”) (i) an initial public offering of the Company’s capital stock (an “IPO”) or (ii) March 7, 2008. If the Company launches a voluntary tender offer to current stockholders prior to March 7, 2008, I may participate for $8.5 million (and will not participate in any employee tender offer). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company has engaged an investment bank to pursue an IPO, such investment bank has either already filed a Form S-l relating thereto or is aggressively working on filing a Form S-l relating thereto, and such investment bank is actively working towards an IPO, the Restriction Release Date will be extended until the date of the IPO or such time that the Board of Directors of the Company determines that such potential IPO is no longer imminent; provided, however, that in no event will the Restriction Release Date extend beyond June 7, 2008. I further agree that if I am Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company on the date of an IPO, I will be subject to normal and customary investment banker seller restrictions following such IPO.
e) To the extent that any shares of the Company’s capital stock that I request to be included in an IPO are excluded from such IPO, I shall have the priority right to include such excluded shares in any “green shoe” up to my pro rata amount (determined based upon the total shares requested to be included in such underwriting by all shareholders).
f) So long as I remain Chairman, I will maintain an executive-sized office at the Company designated by the Chief Executive Officer and access to an administrative assistant. So long as I am a director of the Company, I will have access to information typical and customary of a board member and to the extent that I have any information requests such requests shall be made to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or such other person or through such process as may be designated by the Chief Executive Officer from time to.
g) Section 3(a) of the Non-Compete Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
     “While I am employed at the Company and during the period after my voluntary termination of my employment with the Company until and through June 6, 2008 (the “Non-Compete Term”), other than in connection with my service as Chairman of the Company, I will not engage (for my own account or for the benefit of any other person or entity), directly or indirectly, as a principal, proprietor, partner, officer, employee, independent contractor, broker, consultant, agent, investor, solely or jointly with others, or as a stockholder, member or other owner in or of any business, person or entity then engaged in or planning to be engaged in, (x) the internet retail trading of foreign exchange or (y) any business approved for the Company or its affiliates to be engaged in by the Board of Directors of the Company during the time at which I was either employed by the Company or a member of the Board of Directors of the Company (clauses (x) and (y) collectively, the “Business”); provided, however, that this shall not prohibit me from making investments in any person or entity that engages, directly or through a subsidiary or an affiliate, with the Business or any part thereof, and whose securities are

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publicly listed on a stock exchange, such investments not to exceed more than one percent (1 %) of the total voting power of such person or entity, subject to such investment being a passive investment where I do not either (a) intend to or have the right to influence (other than through the voting of shares) or direct the operations or management of any such person or entity or (b) participate with any other person or entity in any group with such intention or right.”
h) The Non-Compete Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new sections thereto:
“7. I agree that during the Non-Compete Term, I shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit, divert, take away or attempt to solicit, divert or take away any person or entity that is then or was at any time previously a customer, significant vendor or supplier, or potential strategic investor or partner to the Company or any of its affiliates for any purpose with respect to any matter, activity or service within the scope of the Business, or contact or communicate with any such person or entity for any such purpose.
8. I agree that during the Non-Compete Term, I shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or attempt to employ any person who is then or was an employee of the Company or any of its affiliates at any time during my employment with the Company or any of its affiliates or my serving on the Board of Directors of the Company (or contact or communicate with any such Person for any such purpose); provided, however, that such restrictions shall not apply to individuals who are terminated by the Company or its affiliates without my having taken any action otherwise prohibited by this Agreement. In addition, I agree that I shall not engage in any activity that would cause any present or former employee of the Company or any of its affiliates to violate any agreement between such person and the Company or its affiliates.
9. I further acknowledge and agree that any breach of any of the obligations set forth in this Agreement could result in irreparable damage to the Company, its affiliates and their business which could not be compensated by monetary damages alone. Therefore, in addition to all other legal or equitable remedies that may be available to the Company for any breach of this Agreement, I agree that the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief, including an injunction enjoining any breach or threatened breach (including preliminary, temporary and pem1anent injunctions and restraining orders) and specific performance of this Agreement, as a remedy for any such breach or threatened breach, and I further waive any requirements for the securing or posting of any bond in connection with any such remedy. No failure or delay by the Company in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any

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other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by applicable law.
i) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any applicable grant agreement or the Company’s 2006 Equity Compensation Plan (or a successor plan), the vesting schedule for the unvested RSUs granted on or after December 31, 2006 which are unvested as of January 1, 2008, are hereby amended so that 50% of such unvested amount shall vest monthly during 2008 (on the last day of the applicable month) and the remaining 50% of such unvested amount shall vest monthly during 2009 (on the last day of the applicable month). However, if I am removed as a director of the Company for any reason, other than Cause (as defined in that certain Severance Agreement, dated as of March 27,2006, between me and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.), any unvested options or units will automatically accelerate in full and be deemed to be fully vested at that time. The Call Option set forth in that certain Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2007, is hereby terminated.
j) If any provision contained in this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. It is the intention of the parties that if any of the restrictions or covenants contained herein is held to cover a geographic area or to be for a length of time which is not permitted by applicable law, or in any way construed to be too broad or to any extent invalid, such provision shall not be construed to be null, void and of no effect, but to the extent such provision would be valid or enforceable under applicable law, a court of competent jurisdiction shall construe and interpret or reform this Agreement to provide for a covenant having the maximum enforceable geographic area, time period and other provisions (not greater than those contained herein) as shall be valid and enforceable under such applicable law.”
k) except as amended by this letter agreement, the Non-Compete Agreement shall remain unchanged and continue in full force and effect.
This letter agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of New Jersey in all respects as such laws are applied to agreements among New Jersey residents entered into and performed entirely within such state.
         
      Very truly yours,
 
       
 
    Mark Galant  
 
    /s/ Mark E. Galant
 
   
 
   
AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED :
         
GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Glenn Stevens      
 
 
 
   
Name: Glenn Stevens    
Title: Chief Executive Officer    

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Exhibit 10.24
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
RBS          
The Royal Bank of Scotland
FX PRIME BROKERAGE MASTER AGREEMENT
IN RESPECT OF THIRD PARTY TRADING PLATFORM
SERVICES

 


 

CONTENTS
         
Clause   Page
1. Interpretation
    3  
2. Appointment of Customer as Agent of Prime Broker
    5  
3. Prime Broker Counterparty Transactions
    6  
4. Customer Transactions
    7  
5. Unauthorised Transactions
    7  
6. Representations and Undertakings
    8  
7. Indemnity and Exclusions of Liability
    8  
8. Commission
    9  
9. Material Interests
    10  
10. Confidentiality
    10  
11. Instructions
    10  
12. Notices
    11  
13. Termination
    11  
14. Conflict of Agreements and Inconsistency
    11  
15. Amendments
    12  
16. General
    12  
17. Governing Law
    13  
 
       
Schedule
       
 
       
1. Platform Provider
    14  
2. Eligibilty Criteria, Spread and Commission
    15  

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THIS AGREEMENT is made on the 6 th day of December 2006
BETWEEN
(1)   The Royal Bank of Scotland pIc, a company incorporated under the laws of Scotland, whose registered office is 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB acting through its Global Banking & Markets division situated at 135 Bishopsgate, London EC3M 3UR (the “ Prime Broker ”); and
 
(2)   Gain Capital Group, LLC incorporated under the laws of Delaware whose registered office/principal place of business is at 550 Hills Drive Bedminster, NJ 07921 (the “ Customer ”).
WHEREAS
(A)   The Customer may utilise the Platform Trading Service (as defined below) subject to compliance with the terms of the User Agreement, including having in place an FX Prime Brokerage Master Agreement with the Prime Broker.
 
(B)   This Agreement is an FX Prime Brokerage Master Agreement.
 
(C)   The Prime Broker may establish dealing relationships with various Counterparties (as defined below) setting out the basis upon which the Prime Broker may appoint an agent to engage in Transactions on behalf of the Primer Broker with each Counterparty on the Platform Trading Service.
 
(D)   The Prime Broker hereby wishes to appoint the Customer as its agent in respect of certain Counterparties for the purposes set out in (C) above, and to trade with the Customer as principal, strictly on the terms, conditions and limits expressly stated below.
IT IS AGREED THAT:
1. INTERPRETATION
In this Agreement:
Affiliate ” means, in relation to a party, any other entity which directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by, or is under direct or indirect common Control with, that party from time to time.
Agreement ” means this FX Prime Brokerage Master Agreement.
Authorised Counterparty Transaction ” means a Counterparty Transaction:
(i)   entered into by the Customer within its authority under clause 2; or
 
(ii)   in the case of a Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction, entered into in accordance with the Customer’s undertakings under clause 3.3.
Authorised Customer Transaction ” means a Customer Transaction entered into under clause 4 pursuant to an Authorised Counterparty Transaction.

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“Business Day” means any day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks in London are open for business.
“Commission” means such commission as may be specified in Schedule 2, as amended from time to time.
“Confidential Information” has the meaning set out in clause 1 0.1.
“Control” means that a person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the other person, whether through the ownership of voting shares, by contract or otherwise, and “Controls” and
“Controlled” shall be interpreted accordingly;
“Counterparty” means any person with whom the Customer may enter, enters or has entered into a Counterparty Transaction (which may include the Prime Broker).
“Counterparty Master Agreement” means any master agreement governing Transactions between the Prime Broker and a Counterparty, as amended and supplemented from time to time.
“Counterparty Transaction” means a Transaction entered into by the Customer as agent for the Prime Broker pursuant to clause 2.
“Customer Master Agreement” means the International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, ISDA Master Agreement, Foreign Exchange and Options Master Agreement, any other master agreement, or any other agreement entered into between the Prime Broker and the Customer for the purposes of governing Transactions, as amended and supplemented from time to time and subject to the terms of this Agreement
“Customer Transaction” means a Transaction between the Prime Broker and the Customer pursuant to clause 4.1.
“Eligibility Criteria” means the criteria set out in Schedule 2, as amended by notice from the Prime Broker to the Customer from time to time.
“Eligible Transaction” means a Transaction whose terms comply with the Eligibility Criteria.
“Offsetting Transaction” has the meaning set out in clause 5.1 (a).
“Platform Provider” means each third party specified in Schedule 1, as amended by notice from the Prime Broker to the Customer from time to time.
“Platform Trading Service” means the electronic platform operated by or on behalf of the relevant Platform Provider which facilitates the execution of Transactions on a prime brokerage basis.
“Settlement Transaction” has the meaning set out in clause 5.1 (b).
“Spread” means such spread payable in respect of a Customer Transaction as may be specified in Schedule 2, as amended by notice from the Prime Broker to the Customer from time to time.

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Transaction ” means a foreign exchange transaction and/or such other transaction type which may be executed through the Platform Trading Service as the Prime Broker may notify to the Customer from time to time.
Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction ” means a Counterparty Transaction other than an Authorised Counterparty Transaction.
Unauthorised Customer Transaction ” means a Customer Transaction arising in accordance with clause 5.1 pursuant to an Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction.
User Agreement ” means all and any agreements between the Customer and Platform Provider relating to the Platform Trading Service from time to time, each as amended from time to time and including any rules, codes, or other requirements of the Platform Provider relating to the Platform Trading Service, as may be applicable to the Customer’s participation on the Platform Trading Service from time to time.
References to the plural shall include the singular and vice versa, and references to schedules and clauses shall be references to schedules to, and to clauses of this Agreement
2. APPOINTMENT OF CUSTOMER AS AGENT OF PRIME BROKER
2.1   Subject to its compliance with the terms of this Agreement, the Customer may from time to time enter into Counterparty Transactions as agent of the Prime Broker.
 
2.2   The authorisation of the Customer under clause 2.1 is expressly limited as follows:
  (a)   the Customer shall only have authority to enter into Counterparty Transactions fulfilling the following criteria:
  (i)   each Counterparty Transaction shall be with a Counterparty;
 
  (ii)   each Counterparty Transaction shall be made utilising the Platform Trading Service;
 
  (iii)   each Counterparty Transaction shall be entered into in accordance with such terms as may be agreed between the Platform Provider and the Customer, if any; and
 
  (iv)   each Counterparty Transaction shall be an Eligible Transaction and for the avoidance of doubt, the Customer shall have no authority under this Agreement to enter into any transaction as agent for or in any way bind the Prime Broker, or to hold itself out as having authority to enter into any transaction as agent for the Prime Broker or in any way bind the Prime Broker other than in accordance with this sub-clause (a).
  (b)   the Customer shall not have authority (and shall not hold itself out as having authority):
  (i)   to vary the terms of, terminate, novate, assign or otherwise amend a Counterparty Master Agreement; or
 
  (ii)   to vary the terms of a pre-existing Counterparty Transaction.
  (c)   the Customer’s authority shall be suspended if and for so long as the Customer is in breach of the User Agreement or the Customer Master

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  Agreement; and
  (d)   the Prime Broker may suspend, limit or terminate, the Customer’s authority under this clause at any time by notice to any of the Customer, the Platform Provider, or a Counterparty (in respect of the Customer’s authority in respect of that Counterparty) provided that the Prime Broker may dispense with the giving of such notice in case of emergency.
2.3   The Customer shall not make any representation or warranty relating to the Prime Broker or the Customer’s authorisation under this Agreement, or hold itself out as agent of the Prime Broker:
  (a)   to any Counterparty (except to the extent such representation, warranty or holding out accurately reflects the authority of the Customer under this Agreement in relation to such Counterparty); or
 
  (b)   to any other person
without the prior written consent of the Prime Broker.
2.4   The Prime Broker may amend the Eligibility Criteria at any time. Any such amendment shall take effect immediately irrespective of whether the Customer is aware of such amendment. If it is reasonably practicable to do so, the Prime Broker shall use reasonable commercial endeavours to notify the Customer in advance of any amendment to the Eligibility Criteria. If it is not practicable to provide advance notification of an amendment, the Prime Broker shall notify the Customer of the amendment as soon as reasonably practicable after the change is made.
 
3.   PRIME BROKER COUNTERPARTY TRANSACTIONS
 
3.1   In the course of dealing on certain Platform Trading Services, as advised to the Customer by Prime Broker, the Customer may enter into Counterparty Transactions to which the Prime Broker is Counterparty (a “ Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction ”).
 
3.2   Where the Customer enters into a Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction, the parties agree that:
  (a)   the Customer acts as principal and not as agent for the Prime Broker in relation to the negotiation and agreement of the Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction; and
 
  (b)   the resultant Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction shall be deemed to be a Transaction between the Prime Broker acting in its capacity as Prime Broker under this Agreement and the Prime Broker acting in the capacity of Counterparty, and such Transaction shall constitute a Counterparty Transaction for all purposes of this Agreement (including without limitation for the purpose of forming the terms of a Customer Transaction pursuant to clause 4).
3.3   The Customer undertakes that:
  (a)   each Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction shall be entered into in accordance with the terms of the User Agreement; and

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  (b)   each Prime Broker Counterparty Transaction shall be an Eligible Transaction.
4.   CUSTOMER TRANSACTIONS
4.1   On entry by the Customer into a Counterparty Transaction, a Customer Transaction shall arise.
 
4.2   The terms of a Customer Transaction shall be as follows:
  (a)   the Prime Broker shall undertake obligations to and rights against the Customer such that the Prime Broker has rights and obligations equivalent to those of the Counterparty under the Counterparty Transaction, subject to paragraphs (c) and (d);
 
  (b)   the Customer shall undertake obligations to and rights against the Prime Broker such that the Customer has rights and obligations equivalent to those of the Prime Broker under the Counterparty Transaction, subject to paragraphs (c) and (d);
 
  (c)   if any Spread is set out in Schedule 2, the Spread shall be added to the payment obligation of the Customer under paragraph (a), and the right to payment of the Prime Broker under paragraph (b); and
 
  (d)   the Customer Trans,action shall be subject to and governed by the terms of the Customer Master Agreement.
4.3   Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 4.2, if the Customer enters into an Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction, the Unauthorised Customer Transaction which arises pursuant to such Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction shall be subject to the terms of clause 5 (Unauthorised Transactions), and the Prime Broker shall have all rights and remedies relating to the Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction and the Unauthorised Customer Transaction set out in this Agreement or otherwise arising at law or in equity.
 
5.   UNAUTHORISED TRANSACTIONS
 
5.1   If the Customer enters into an Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction, the Prime Broker may (but shall not be obliged to) take such steps as it considers desirable or necessary acting in its sale discretion to discharge, offset, cancel or hedge its rights and obligations under the Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction. Such steps may include (without limitation):
  (a)   entering into one or more Transactions or other transactions with a third party to reduce or offset its obligations under the Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction (an “ Offsetting Transaction ”);
 
  (b)   entering into an agreement with the Counterparty to compromise, settle or cancel (in whole or in part) the Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction (a “ Settlement Transaction ”);
 
  (c)   amending the terms of or cancelling the Unauthorised Customer Transaction to which the Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction relates; or
 
  (d)   amending the terms of or cancelling any unsettled Authorised Customer Transaction.

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5.2   The Customer hereby gives its consent to the amendment or cancellation of any Customer Transaction under clause 5.1.
 
5.3   This Clause 5 shall survive termination of this Agreement
 
6.   REPRESENTATIONS AND UNDERTAKINGS
 
6.1   Each party represents and warrants to the other that:
  (a)   it is duly authorised and empowered to enter into and perform its obligations under or in connection with this Agreement, the Transactions contemplated hereby;
 
  (b)   this Agreement is a legally binding obligation binding on it and enforceable in accordance with its terms;
 
  (c)   all necessary authorities and authorisations (including without limitation any regulatory or governmental consents or approvals) to enable or entitle it enter into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder are in full force and effect and will remain in full force and effect at all times during the term hereof;
 
  (d)   all information supplied to the other party is true, complete and accurate in all material respects and it will advise the other party forthwith of any material change to any information previously provided; and
 
  (e)   it will comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements in each jurisdiction in which it carries on business.
6.2   The representations and warranties set out in clause 6.1 shall be deemed to be repeated on each occasion on which the Customer acts as agent of the Prime Broker under this Agreement.
 
6.3   The Customer undertakes that it will act as principal and not as agent for any other person in performing its duties and obligations under this Agreement (including without limitation the entry into and performance of Customer Transactions), except as provided in clause 2.
 
7.   INDEMNITY AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY
 
7.1   Neither the Prime Broker nor any of its directors, officers, employees, nominees, delegates or agents will be liable for any loss suffered or for any action taken or not taken pursuant to or in the course of this Agreement, any Transaction or in connection with the Platform Trading Service unless the Prime Broker or such other person is negligent or guilty of willful misconduct or fraud.
 
7.2   The Customer shall fully and promptly indemnify the Prime Broker and any of its directors, officers, employees, nominees, delegates or agents and will keep the Prime Broker and each of them indemnified from and against any claims, proceedings, expenses, costs, losses, damages and liabilities of every description (including legal fees, accountant’s fees, fines and penalties), direct or consequential in nature, which may be sustained or incurred by, or asserted against them directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of:
  (a)   any act or omission of the Prime Broker in accordance with a request from the Customer under or in connection with this Agreement (including without

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      limitation any act or omission relating to the Prime Broker’s participation on the Platform Trading Service) unless the Prime Broker is negligent or guilty of willful misconduct or fraud;
 
  (b)   the negligence, willful default, intentional misconduct, or fraud of the Customer;
 
  (c)   any breach of this Agreement (including the entry by the Customer into an Unauthorised Counterparty Transaction or Unauthorised Customer Transaction) (including any use of the Platform Trading Service in breach of applicable law) by the Customer; or
 
  (d)   any liability or obligation of the Prime Broker to the Platform Provider arising by virtue of or in connection with any of paragraphs (b) or (c).
7.3   The Prime Broker shall not incur any liability for any loss, cost, expense or liability suffered by the Customer resulting from any act or omission (including a default or misconduct) of the Platform Provider or any participant on the Platform Trading Service (including any Counterparty). In particular (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the Prime Broker is not responsible for the operation of the Platform Trading Service, or the form, accuracy or content of any data, notice, report, communication or material generated or communicated by the Platform Trading Service.
 
7.4   The Prime Broker shall not incur any liability for failure to perform its obligations under this Agreement or for any loss, cost, expense or liability suffered by the Customer as a result of any act of God, war, riot, natural or other disaster, fire, industrial dispute, breakdown or failure of transmission, communication or computer facilities, change in any law or regulation, or any other cause beyond the reasonable control or anticipation of the Prime Broker.
 
7.5   For the avoidance of any doubt, it is agreed that the Prime Broker shall in no circumstances be liable to the Customer for special, indirect and consequential damages arising as a result of any breach by the Prime Broker of any proviSion of this Agreement
 
7.6   Nothing in this Agreement shall limit or exclude the liability of the Prime Broker for fraud, death or personal injury or otherwise to the extent prohibited under applicable law or regulation.
 
8.   COMMISSION
 
8.1   This clause 8 shall apply if Schedule 2 specifies that Commission shall be payable.
 
8.2   The Customer shall pay the Commission in accordance with the terms of Schedule 2 as amended from time to time.
 
8.3   The Customer shall pay the Commission to the Prime Broker within thirty (30) days after it has received the relevant invoice from the Prime Broker in the place of the account specified by the Prime Broker in freely transferable funds and in the manner customary for payments in the required currency. If the Customer fails to make, when due, any payment under this Agreement the Prime Broker shall be entitled to take any action necessary in its sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to deducting from any collateral or margin that Customer has pledged or given to Prime Broker or debiting any account maintained with the Prime Broker, in the amount of fees owed.

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8.4   All payments under this clause shall be exclusive of any applicable value added, sales, use, withholding or other tax or duty (which tax or duty shall be paid by the Customer).
 
9.   MATERIAL INTERESTS
The Prime Broker may enter into Transactions with or for the Customer or otherwise provide services to the Customer under this Agreement notwithstanding that it and/or an Affiliate may have an interest, relationship or arrangement that is material in relation to the Transaction or service concerned. In particular, the Prime Broker or its Affiliates may enter into Transactions as prime broker to other participants on the Platform Trading Service and otherwise, provide advice, discretionary investment management or any other service involving foreign exchange to other customers, and participate in or operate other electronic trading systems relating to foreign exchange.
10.   CONFIDENTIALITY
 
10.1   Each party undertakes that it shall use all reasonable endeavours to keep private and confidential (and to ensure that its officers, employees, professional and other advisers or persons under its supervision keep private and confidential) during the continuance of this Agreement and after its termination, any information relating to the contents of this Agreement, information of a confidential nature supplied by the other party at any time (including prior to the execution of the Agreement) and relating to the business, assets, finances or other affairs of a confidential nature, and information relating to Transactions (“Confidential Information”),
 
10.2   Neither party shall use or disclose Confidential Information without the prior consent of the other party, unless
  (a)   required to do so by any court, market or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the party or any applicable law or regulation;
 
  (b)   such disclosure is necessary to carry out its obligations under this Agreement;
 
  (c)   the Confidential Information so disclosed is already in the public domain; or
 
  (d)   such disclosure is to, or use is by, the Platform Provider in accordance with the User Agreement or any agreement between the Prime Broker and the Platform Provider.
10.3   Notwithstanding clauses 10.1 and 10.2, the Prime Broker may disclose Confidential Information to Affiliates. The Customer hereby consents to and authorises such disclosure of Confidential Information and acknowledges that any duty of confidentiality owed by the Prime Broker, howsoever arising, will not be regarded as being breached by any such disclosure.
 
11.   INSTRUCTIONS
 
11.1   The Prime Broker may rely conclusively on, and the Customer shall be bound by, any communication received through the Platform Trading Service which purports to originate from the Customer. For the purposes of this Agreement all such communications shall be deemed to be at the Customer’s request for all purposes of this Agreement. The Prime Broker is not obliged to do anything to establish the authority or identify of the person sending a communication through the Platform Trading Service.

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11.2   The Prime Broker is not responsible for errors or omissions made by the Customer or the Platform Provider in communicating instructions under this Agreement or resulting from fraud or the duplication of any communication by the Customer.
 
12.   NOTICES
 
12.1   All written notices under this Agreement shall be delivered to the address of the recipient set out below (or such other address as it may specify in writing from time to time) unless otherwise specified by hand, courier, mail, facsimile or electronic means including where available through the Platform Trading Service and subject to clause 12.2 shall be effective upon receipt.
 
12.2   Any notice sent by first class post (air mail in the case of international communications) shall be deemed to be received on the second day following the date of posting in the case of communications within the United Kingdom and the seventh day following the date of posting in the case of international communications.
 
12.3   The addresses for the sending of notices under this Agreement shall be as follows:
To the Prime Broker:
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
135 Bishopsgate, 4th Floor
London EC2M 3UR
Attention: FOREIGN EXCHANGE Prime Brokerage Desk
Telephone No: +44 (0)20 7085 5441
Facsimile No: +44 (0)20 7085 5734
To the Customer:
Gain Capital Group LLC
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, NL 07921
United States
Attention: Annette Baltgian, Esq.
Telephone No. (908) 212-3954
Facsimile No. (866) 646-3813
13.   TERMINATION
 
13.1   This Agreement shall remain in effect until terminated in accordance with this clause 13.
 
13.2   Either party shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement at any time by written notice to the other party.
 
13.3   Termination of this Agreement shall not affect any contractual provision intended to survive termination and any Transaction or any obligation (including that of indemnity) which is then outstanding, and the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply to each such Transaction and each obligation until all the obligations and each such Transaction have been fully performed.
 
14 .   CONFLICT OF AGREEMENTS AND INCONSISTENCY
 
14.1   Subject to clause 14.2, this Agreement supersedes all previous terms and conditions

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    issued by the Prime Broker and relating to the matters covered by this Agreement, and in the event of any conflict between this Agreement and the Prime Broker’s standard terms of business, this Agreement shall prevail.
14.2   This Agreement shall not be deemed to vary or amend the Customer Master Agreement and, in the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the provisions of the Customer Master Agreement, the provision of the Customer Master Agreement shall prevail.
 
15.   AMENDMENTS
 
15.1   The Prime Broker may amend this Agreement with immediate effect or such later date as it determines if it is, or reasonably believes it is, obliged to do so under applicable law or regulation.
 
15.2   In any other circumstance including where such amendments are required as a result of amendments made by the Platform Provider to the terms upon which the Platform Trading Service is provided to the Prime Broker or the Customer, the Prime Broker may amend this Agreement by sending the Customer a written notice describing the relevant changes: such changes will become effective on a date to be specified in the notice, which must be at least ten (10) Business Days after the notice is sent to the Customer.
 
16.   GENERAL
 
16.1   Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership between the parties, nor constitute either party the agent of the other party, for any purpose except as set out in clause 2.
 
16.2   This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts. This has the same effect as if the Signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.
 
16.3   The rights of each party under this Agreement:
  (a)   may be exercised as often as necessary;
 
  (b)   are cumulative and not exclusive of rights or remedies provided by law; and
 
  (c)   may be waived only in writing and specifically.
 
      Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any such right is not a waiver of that right. The rights and remedies provided under this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of those provided by law. The Prime Broker shall be under no obligation to exercise any right or remedy either at all or in a manner or at a time beneficial to the Customer.
16.4   If any term of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that shall not affect:
  (a)   the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other term of this Agreement; or
 
  (b)   the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other provision of this Agreement.
16.5   Each party shall pay the costs and expenses incurred by it in connection with the entering into of this Agreement.

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16.6   Any notice or other communication given in connection with this Agreement must be in English.
 
16.7   A person who is not a party to this Agreement may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
 
16.8   This Agreement and the documents referred to in it contain the whole agreement between the parties relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and supersede all previous agreements between the parties relating to those transactions.
 
16.9   Subject to clause 16.10, each party acknowledges that in entering into this Agreement it has not relied on any representation, warranty, collateral contract or other assurance (except those set out in this Agreement and the documents referred to in it) made by or on behalf of the other party before the date of this Agreement. Each party waives all rights and remedies which, but for this clause 16.9, might otherwise be available to it in respect of any such representation, warranty, collateral contract or other assurance.
 
16.10   Nothing in clause 16.9 limits or excludes any liability for fraud.
 
16.11   Neither party may assign this Agreement or any right or obligation under it without the prior written consent of the other.
 
16.12   Each Customer Transaction shall be subject to a written confirmation which shall be delivered by the Prime Broker (and the Customer at its option) in accordance with the Prime Broker’s standard confirmation procedure which shall include the use of electronic means, including but not limited to SWIFT. All settlements in respect of Customer Transactions shall be made to each party’s nostro account as specified in their respective standard settlement Instructions.
 
17.   GOVERNING LAW
 
    This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law, and the Customer hereby irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in respect of any dispute arising out of this Agreement and each Transaction effected pursuant to the Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Agreement has been signed by duly authorised representatives of each party on the day and date first above written.
SIGNED for and on behalf of
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
By:
Name:
Title:
         
SIGNED for and on behalf of
GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
   
 
       
/s/ Glenn H. Stevens
       
 
 
     
Glenn H. Stevens    
Managing Director    

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SCHEDULE 1
PLATFORM PROVIDER
The Platform Provider(s) for the purposes of this Agreement shall be:
EBS Service Company Limited of Lavaterstrasse 40, PO Box 375, CH/S027’

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SCHEDULE 2
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, SPREAD AND COMMISSION
PART 1: ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Each Transaction must fulfill the following Eligibility Criteria in order to qualify as an Eligible Transaction:
Settlement limits
The gross amount of all currency due to be settled by the Customer to the Prime Broker on any day shall not exceed the amount advised by the Prime Broker to the Platform Trading Service.
Transactions Types
Spot FX
Spot Silver
Spot Gold
PART 2: SPREAD
The Spread that will be applied to each Customer Transaction shall be as follows:
N/A
PART 3: COMMISSION
The Commission shall be as follows:
For Spot FX: The Commission shall be *** of Counterparty Transactions.
For Spot Silver: The Commission shall be *** of Counterparty Transactions.
For Spot Gold: The Commission shall be *** of Counterparty Transactions.
Where the Customer has maintained an account with the Prime Broker, and sufficient funds exist for such purpose, the commission will be deducted from such account 30 days after the date of the invoice.

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Exhibit 10.25
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
FX PRIME BROKERAGE AGREEMENT
     This FX PRIME BROKERAGE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), dated as of July 8, 2005, by and between UBS AG (HUBS”) and Gain Capital, Inc. (“Customer”) sets forth certain terms and conditions relating to the establishment of a facility (the “Facility”) through which Customer may trade foreign exchange transactions with various Dealers.
      Scope of Agreement. The parties explicitly acknowledge and agree that whilst this Agreement contains provisions governing a wide range of foreign exchange transactions, Transactions and Authorized transactions (subject to any further limitations specified in any Dealer notice/authorization) shall be limited to the following types of transactions only:
  (i)   FX Transactions;
 
  (ii)   Currency Option Transactions
 
  (iii)   Exotic Options.
UBS may, at its absolute discretion, give notice to the Customer of any change, deletion or addition to this provision.
1.   Definitions Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the CP ISDA Master Agreement.
 
    Authorized Transactions means foreign exchange transactions of a type that UBS has authorized the Customer to enter into with Dealer.
 
    CP ISDA Master Agreement means the ISDA Master Agreement dated October 19, 2000 by and between Customer and UBS and the Credit Support Annex to the CP ISDA Master Agreement.
 
    Currency Option Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the 1998 FX and Currency Option Definitions, as amended from time to time (as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., the Emerging Markets Traders Association (“EMTA”) and The Foreign Exchange Committee) ( “FX Definitions” ) and for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include an option that would otherwise be deemed to be an Exotic Option.
 
    Dealer means those banks and dealers authorized by UBS, pursuant to a Master FX Give-Up Agreement, with whom Customer can enter into Authorized Transactions. Customer shall be notified of such Dealers by UBS in writing from time to time, specifying the type of Authorized Transactions and limits therefor.
 
    “Deliverable Currency Option Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the FX Definitions.
 
    Deliverable FX Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the FX Definitions.
 
    Delta means, in respect of each Currency Option Transaction, the amount calculated by UBS to be the change in option price for a change in the underlying price (as determined by UBS) for such Currency Option Transaction.
 
    Delta Equivalent Position means, for each Currency Option Transaction, the Delta multiplied by the U.S. dollar equivalent (as calculated by UBS in a commercially reasonable manner) of each currency to be received by UBS if such Currency Option Transaction were exercised, as calculated by UBS.

 


 

    Exotics Net Open Position shall be calculated in the manner specified in Attachment 1.
 
    Exotic Notional Limit means the maximum notional quantity (calculated in the manner specified in Attachment 1) of Exotic Options that Customer can trade with each Dealer on a trade date, such limit to be advised to Customer by UBS from time to time.
 
    Exotic Options means barrier options (and such other non-vanilla options as approved by UBS from time to time).
 
    FX Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the FX Definitions.
 
    Master FX Give-Up Agreement means an agreement by and between UBS and each of the various Dealers.
 
    Net Currency Position means, for any value date, with respect to each currency of a FX Transaction, the net U.S. dollar equivalent (as calculated by UBS in a commercially reasonable manner) of the amount of such currency owed to UBS by the Customer as calculated by UBS in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.
 
    Net Open Position means for the aggregate amount owed to UBS by Customer, as calculated by UBS in the manner specified in Attachment 1 hereto (which may be modified from time to time by UBS in its reasonable discretion).
 
    Net Open Position Limit means, the maximum Net Open Position and Exotic Net Open Position, as an aggregate across all Tiers, that a Customer is authorized to have outstanding at any time with UBS, as determined by UBS and advised to the Customer (such amount may be amended from time to time by UBS upon reasonable notice to the Customer).
 
    Netted Option means, a Currency Option Transaction sold by Prime Broker and owned by the Customer which may be discharged and terminated together with a Currency Option Transaction sold by the Customer and owned by Prime Broker upon satisfying the following criteria:
(i) each Currency Option Transaction being with respect to the same Put Currency and Call Currency;
(ii) each having the same Expiration Date and Expiration Time;
(iii) each being of the same style, i.e. either both being American Style Options or both being European Style Options;
(iv) each having the same Strike Price; and
(v) neither of which shall have been exercised by delivery of a Notice of Exercise (as defined below); and
(vi) the case of a partial discharge and termination (Le., where the relevant Currency Option Transactions are for different amounts of the Currency Pair), only the portion discharged and terminated shall be considered a Netted Option.
Non-Deliverable Currency Option Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the FX Definitions.

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Non-Deliverable FX Transaction shall have the meaning ascribed in the FX Definitions.
Notice of Exercise means telex, telephonic or other electronic notification (excluding facsimile transmission), given by the owner of an Option prior to or at the Expiration Time on the Expiration Date as agreed to at the time the Option is entered into, as evidenced by the Confirmation.
Notice of Barrier Event means telex, telephone or other electronic notification (excluding facsimile transmission) given by the Dealer as the determination agent of an Exotic Option immediately following a barrier event as agreed to at the time the Exotic Option is entered into, as evidenced in a Confirmation.
Options includes Currency Option Transactions (Deliverable and Non-Deliverable) and Exotic Options.
Risk Add-On means, for Exotic Options, such amount as determined by UBS in a commercially reasonable manner taking each Currency Pair and determining the close-out risk on such trade, in accordance with UBS’s internal model (based on the underlying volatility of Currency Pairs as determined by UBS, having aggregated offsetting transactions on a value date basis and across value dates where possible, in UBS’s sole and absolute discretion).
Tier I Currencies means those currencies determined by UBS, in its sole discretion, to be of low volatility (such currencies to be advised to Customer by UBS from time to time and subject to change by UBS at any time).
Tier II Currencies means those currencies determined by UBS, in its sole discretion, to be of medium volatility (such currencies to be advised to Customer by UBS from time to time and subject to change by UBS at any time).
Tier III Currencies means those currencies determined by UBS, in its sole discretion, to be of high volatility (such currencies to be advised to Customer by UBS from time to time and subject to change by UBS at any time).
Tiers means Tier I Currencies, Tier II Currencies and Tier III Currencies collectively.
Transactions means Deliverable and Non-Deliverable FX Transactions, Deliverable and Non-Deliverable Currency Options Transactions and Exotic Options.
2.   The Facility
 
(a)   UBS may {in its sole discretion} establish and maintain dealing lines for use by Customer in trading Transactions in the name of UBS with one or more Dealers. UBS will provide each Dealer with such authorization and other agreements and instruments as it deems appropriate in order to permit Customer to execute Authorized Transactions with the Dealers in the name of UBS in accordance with the terms hereof.
 
(b)   Customer acknowledges and agrees that the establishment and maintenance of dealing lines by UBS under the Facility is subject to UBS’s sole discretion, including but not limited to, discretion regarding credit, documentation, available currencies, size or tenor of lines (which may vary according to currency) and UBS’s line usage for business outside of the Facility. Customer

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    further acknowledges and agrees that such dealing lines may be changed by UBS in its sole discretion at any time without prior notice. UBS is not and shall not be responsible for and does not warrant the sufficiency or availability of the dealing lines for any purpose. In the event that UBS does not establish or maintain adequate dealing lines for the Facility, Customer’s only remedy shall be to terminate this Agreement. In this respect, Customer waives all other claims and remedies against UBS.
 
(c)   UBS will establish trading limits for each Dealer, and advise Customer of those limits. Customer agrees to limit the Authorized Transactions with each Dealer in such a manner as UBS may from time to time specify. Customer acknowledges and agrees that Transactions exceeding such limits shall not be binding on UBS unless and until UBS accepts such Transactions. UBS maintains the right to refuse to accept any Transactions which exceed the Net Open Position Limit, Notional Exotic Limit or for which Customer has not satisfied all of the requirements of the Credit Support Annex (including any obligation to deliver the Independent Amount relating to any Transaction) and Customer will indemnify UBS for any claims by Dealer as a result of UBS’s exercise of its rights under this clause 2(c), except to the extent that such claim results from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud of UBS. In the event that UBS accepts a Transaction which exceeded the Net Open Position Limit or the Exotic Notional Limit, Customer agrees that UBS may, in its sole and absolute discretion and without notice, liquidate all or part of the corresponding Customer Contract (as defined below) for the account of the Customer, in order to reduce Customer’s Net Open Position to below the agreed Net Open Position Limit or reduce Customer’s utilization of Exotic Notional Limit.
 
(d)   Customer agrees to promptly pay UBS such commissions and other fees set forth in the attached Fee Schedule (as such Schedule may be amended from time to time by UBS and Customer).
 
3.   Transaction Confirmations
 
(a)   When Customer enters into an Authorized Transaction with a Dealer in the name of UBS under the Master FX Give-up Agreement, Customer and UBS will be deemed to have automatically entered into a Transaction (the “Customer Contract”) on identical terms, except that UBS’s position as buyer or seller of the Transaction will be the reverse of its position with Dealer. The foregoing is subject to UBS’s right to refuse to accept a trade under the terms of this Agreement and any Master FX Give-Up Agreement.
 
(b)   The Authorized Transactions made between Dealer(s) and UBS shall be subject to and be governed by the ISDA Master Agreements entered into between the respective Dealers and UBS or if any Dealers have not entered into an ISDA Master Agreement with UBS, such other master agreements as such Dealers and UBS may agree from time to time.
 
    The Customer Contracts shall be governed by the CP ISDA Master Agreement.
 
(c)   Customer agrees to promptly respond to trade notices provided by Dealer via UBS’s online automated system. In the event that such system is not available for any reason, Customer will notify UBS by Reuters Direct Dealing or telephone, immediately after entering into a Transaction in UBS’s name with a Dealer. Such notice shall be made in accordance with the procedures to be set forth in Schedule 2. By 5pm (New York time) each New York business day, Customer will give electronic, telephone or other acceptable notice to UBS of all Authorized

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    Transactions entered into that day in the name of UBS or that no Authorized Transactions occurred on that day.
(d)   Except as otherwise provided in clause 3(f), once an Authorized Transaction with a Dealer is entered into in the name of UBS and accepted by UBS, Customer shall have no right to amend, cancel or otherwise affect or interfere with any such transactions, which shall be the sole responsibility of UBS.
 
(e)   Customer acknowledges and agrees that Dealer will be the calculation agent/determination agent for Exotic Options and any dispute that Customer may have as to the occurrence of a barrier event (e.g. knock-out, kick-in, binary, however described,) shall be solely between Customer and Dealer and Customer acknowledges and agrees that Prime Broker shall have no role therein and shall be entitled to act, and Customer shall not prevent in any way Prime Broker from taking any action, upon the Notice of Barrier Event as if no dispute existed. Solely for the purpose of calculation agent/determination agent as defined in a Confirmation for an Exotic Option transacted between Customer and Dealer and given-up in accordance with this Agreement and notwithstanding anything to the contrary stated in such Confirmation, the calculation agent/determination agent shall be Dealer.
 
(f)   Notwithstanding any terms of a Confirmation or Master Agreement that may be to the contrary, if Customer has entered into a transaction on behalf of UBS in which UBS is the buyer of an Option, such Option may be exercised by delivery of a Notice of Exercise by Customer to Dealer which executed such Option which shall constitute exercise by UBS. If Customer has entered into a transaction on behalf of UBS in which UBS is the seller of an Option, such Option will only be exercised by the simultaneous delivery of a Notice of Exercise by Dealer which executed such Option to each of Customer and UBS.
 
(g)   For the purposes of Non-Deliverable FX Transactions and Non-Deliverable Currency Options Transactions, the calculation agent for the transaction between UBS and Customer shall be as detailed on the relevant Confirmation.
4.   Representations
 
    Each party represents to the other party (which representations will be deemed to be repeated by each party on each date on which a transaction is entered into) that:
  (a)   It is duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation and, if relevant under such laws, in good standing;
 
  (b)   It has the power to execute this Agreement and any other documentation relating to this Agreement to which it is a party, to deliver this Agreement and any other documentation relating to this Agreement that is required by this Agreement to deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize such execution, delivery and performance;
 
  (c)   Such execution, delivery and performance do not violate or conflict with any law applicable to it, any provision of its constitutional documents, any order or judgment of any court or other agency of government applicable to it or any of its assets or any contractual restriction binding on or affecting it or any of its assets;

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  (d)   All governmental and other consents that are required to have been obtained by it with respect to this Agreement have been obtained and are in full force and effect and all conditions of any such consents have been complied with; and
 
  (e)   Its obligations under this Agreement constitute its legal, valid and binding obligations, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to equitable principles of general application (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law)).
5.   Indemnification
 
    Customer agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend UBS, its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns, from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, losses and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), which may at any time be asserted against or incurred by UBS based upon, arising from or in connection with this Agreement, the Facility and any action or inaction on the part of Customer under this Agreement, including but not limited to, (i) any material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of Customer contained in this Agreement; (ii) any failure of Customer to comply with applicable law; (iii) Customer’s negligence or willful misconduct; (iv) any claim by a Dealer in respect of an Authorized Transaction; and (v) any indemnification which UBS has given to a Dealer; except to the extent that the claim, damages, costs, losses and liabilities are due to the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud by UBS.
 
6.   General Provisions
 
(a)   This Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment or performance of any liabilities is rescinded or must otherwise be returned or unwound by UBS upon insolvency, bankruptcy, or reorganization of Customer, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
 
(b)   This Agreement may be terminated by either party without cause, upon prior written notice. Termination will not affect any outstanding rights and obligations under this Agreement or any Transactions and such rights and obligations shall continue to be governed by this Agreement and the particular terms agreed between UBS and Customer in relation to such Transactions until all obligations have been fully performed.
 
(c)   No indulgence or concession granted by either party and no omission or delay on the part of a party in exercising any right. power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
 
(d)   The provisions of the FX Definitions are hereby incorporated in their entirety and shall apply to all Transactions entered into or deemed to be entered into between (i) UBS and Dealers and (ii) UBS and Customer, whether or not so stated in a confirmation of any such Transaction. Authorized Transactions and Customer Contracts are Transactions under the relevant ISDA Master Agreements and any trade confirmation is a Confirmation under such ISDA Master Agreements.

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(e)   Customer hereby consents to UBS effecting such disclosure as UBS may deem appropriate, to enable UBS to transfer Customer’s records and information, to process and execute Customer’s instructions.
 
(f)   In the event Customer is trading Non-Deliverable FX Transactions, Non-Deliverable Currency Option Transactions and/or Exotic Options, Customer consents to the use of confirms substantially in the form of the confirmation template for each such transaction as published by The Foreign Exchange Committee (“FXC”), the Financial Markets Lawyers Group or EMTA, as appropriate. Customer also agrees, hereby, to abide by such best practices as may be published by the FXC from time to time, and such recommended market practice as may be published by EMTA from time to time.
 
(g)   In the event anyone or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions under the law of such jurisdiction, and the validity, legality, and enforceability of such and any other provisions under the law of any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
 
(h)   No amendment, modification, or waiver of this Agreement will be effective unless in writing executed by each of the parties.
 
(i)   The parties agree that each party may electronically record all telephonic conversations between them relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and that any such tape recordings may be submitted in evidence in any suit, action, or other proceeding relating to this Agreement ( “Proceedings” ).
 
7.   Notices
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all notices, requests and other communications hereunder shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions in the CP ISDA Master Agreement.
8.   Governing Law and Jurisdiction
 
(a)   This Agreement and the rights and obligations of UBS and of Customer hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
 
(b)   With respect to any suit, action or proceedings relating to this Agreement, each party irrevocably 0) submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the State and Federal courts located in New York City, Borough of Manhattan and (ii) waives any objection which it may have at any time to the laying of venue of any Proceedings brought in any such court, waives any claim that such Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum and further waives the right to object, with respect to such Proceedings, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party. Nothing in this Agreement precludes either party from bringing Proceedings in any other jurisdiction nor will the bringing of Proceedings in anyone or more jurisdictions preclude the bringing of Proceedings in any other jurisdiction.
 
(c)   Waiver of Jury Trial- Each party hereby irrevocably waives any and all right to trial by jury in any suit, action or Proceeding arising our of or relating to this Agreement or any transaction and acknowledges that this waiver is a material inducement to

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    the other party’s entering into this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the UBS and Customer have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the date first written above.
           
UBS AG
GAIN CAPITAL, INC.
 
       
By:
/s/ Sandra M. Gutierrez   By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens
Name: Sandra M. Gutierrez
  Name: Glenn Stevens
Title: Director and Counsel
  Title: Managing Director
Region Americas Legal
  Date: 7/26/05
Fixed Income Section
       
 
       
By:  
/s/ Sam Hooker      
Name: Sam Hooker
       
Title: Director
       
Region Americas Legal
       
Fixed Income Section
       

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SCHEDULE 1
FEE SCHEDULE
From the Effective Date *** equivalent transacted with each Dealer will be charged. Invoices will be sent to the Client on a monthly basis. Payment is due *** after the end of the relevant month.
Payment to be made as agreed between Customer and UBS.
No commission will be charged if Customer trades direct with UBS AG.
Effective Date: July 8, 2005.

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SCHEDULE 2
PROCEDURES FOR NOTIFYING TRADES
1.   Upon receipt of trade details from Dealer, Customer will accept or reject trade on UBS’s Webpage. URL and password to be advised in separate mailing.
 
2.   If procedure 1 is unavailable, trade details to be communicated via Reuters;
 
    UBPB — New York time-zone, 7:30am-7pm

UBPB — Singapore time-zone, 7am-6pm

UBPB — Zurich time-zone, 8am-6pm
 
3.   If Both 1 and 2 are unavailable, trade details to be communicated via telephone;
 
    + 203 719 4066 — New York time-zone, 7:30am-7pm

+ 01 6568365216 — Singapore time-zone, 7am-6pm

+ 41 1 239 5040 — Zurich time-zone, 8am-6pm

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Attachment 1
1) The Net Open Position shall be calculated by UBS in a commercially reasonable manner by determining the sum of the following:
(i) For Transactions involving Tier 1 Currencies, the aggregate of the Net Currency Position for each Tier 1 Currency, after making the following adjustments, to the extent applicable and to the extent feasible at any time for UBS:
  (A)   for each Tier 1 Currency, UBS shall identify Transactions that have the same value date, and:
(I) ***;
(II) ***; and
(III) ***.
  (B)   for Transactions involving Tier 1 Currencies that do not have the same value date,:
(I) ***;
(II) ***; and
(III) ***.
  (ii)   for Transactions involving Tier 2 Currencies, UBS shall:
 
  (A)   ***;
 
      and
 
  (B)   UBS shall aggregate the amounts calculated in clause (ii)(A).
(iii)   for Transactions involving Tier 3 Currencies, UBS shall:
  (A)   ***;
 
      and
 
  (B)   ***.
2) Exotics Net Open Position shall be calculated by summing (i) and (ii) below:
(i)   ***.
 
(ii)   ***.
3) Maximum notional quantity for Exotic Notional Limit purposes shall be calculated as below, for each trade date:

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(i)   ***;
 
(ii)   ***; and
 
(iii)   aggregate such notional quantities.

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Exhibit 10.26
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE PRIME BROKERAGE
AGENCY AGREEMENT
This Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agency Agreement is made this 12th of July 2006
BETWEEN:
1.   The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, acting through its Financial Markets division (the “Bank”); and
 
2.   Gain Capital Group, LLC whose address is at 550 Hills Drive Bedminster, NJ 07921 (the “Agent”)
WHEREAS
A. The Bank may enter into a number of Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage, Master Counterparty Agreements with various counterparties (the “Counterparties”) setting out the basis upon which the Bank may appoint an agent to engage in Foreign Exchange and Currency Options transactions on behalf of the Bank with each Counterparty;
B. The Bank hereby wishes to appoint the Agent as its agent in respect of certain specified Counterparties for the purposes set out in A above strictly on the terms, conditions and limits expressly stated below;
C. The Bank and the Agent have entered into an ISDA Master Agreement (the “Master Agreement”) dated as of 22 January 2003.
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION OF THE PROMISES CONTAINED HEREIN AND FOR OTHER GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, THE RECEIPT AND SUFFICIENCY OF WHICH ARE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED, THE PARTIES HERETO AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Agency. The Bank hereby authorizes the Agent to execute the Foreign Exchange and Currency Options transactions with the Counterparties specified by the Bank from time to time in the Notice attached hereto as Exhibit J (the “Specified Counterparty Transactions”). This authority is expressly limited to a Net Daily Settlement Amount (as defined in the applicable Master Counterparty Agreement) not exceeding the Settlement Limit specified in the applicable Notice (or its equivalent in any other currency) (the “Settlement Limit”) and a Counterparty Net Open Position (as defined in the applicable Master Counterparty Agreement) not exceeding the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position specified in the applicable Notice (or its equivalent in any other currency). Specified Counterparty Transactions may only be entered into between the Bank, acting through a Specified Office, and the Counterparty acting through its branches specified in the Notice. The Bank may at any time and from time to time in its sole discretion modify the Settlement Limit or the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position by written notice to the applicable Counterparty and Agent, which such notice shall be effective upon receipt. In addition, no Specified Counterparty Transaction shall be entered into where the rate of exchange or premium payable under such Specified Counterparty Transaction reflects a historic rate or is otherwise materially different to the market rate at such time in either case as determined in the discretion of the Bank. Unless otherwise agreed by the Bank in its absolute discretion beforehand in each case, and without prejudice to the foregoing provision, the Agent shall not enter into any Specified Counterparty Transaction which is a foreign exchange transaction pursuant to the exercise of a Currency Option transaction which itself is not an Accepted Transaction. In addition to any other agreement the Bank may have with the Agent, the Bank may require the Agent to deposit or pay additional collateral to the Bank prior to the Bank agreeing to accept such Specified Counterparty Transaction.
“Specified Office” means the Bank’s London Branch located at 135 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3UR, or such other office of the Bank as may be specified in writing by the Bank from time to time:

 


 

2. Accepted Transactions. The Agent acknowledges and agrees that its appointment is expressly as set out herein and that the Bank shall not be responsible for or be bound as principal or otherwise by any Specified Counterparty Transaction unless (i) giving effect to such Specified Counterparty Transaction does not cause the Settlement Limit or the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position applicable thereto to be exceeded; (ii) the Counterparty and Agent shall have committed to the material terms (Le. settlement date and amounts of each currency to be delivered by each party) of such Specified Counterparty Transaction; (iii) such Specified Counterparty Transaction has been entered into by the Bank, acting through a Specified Office, and the Counterparty acting through its branches specified in the relevant Notice, and (iv) the Specified Counterparty Transaction complies with such additional terms and conditions set forth in the applicable Notice.
A Counterparty Transaction which complies with the conditions specified in Ci) to (iv) above shall be an “Accepted Transaction.” An Accepted Transaction shall be valid and binding upon the Bank, enforceable against the Bank by the relevant Counterparty in accordance with its terms. The Agent shall promptly, in accordance with customary market practice, communicate trade details of each Specified Counterparty Transaction by notifying the Bank via a mutually acceptable electronic messaging system, e.g. Reuters. Any Specified Counterparty Transaction which does not constitute an Accepted Transaction shall be null and void as against the Bank and in respect of which the Agent unconditionally and irrevocably indemnifies the Bank in respect of all losses, costs, expenses and damages suffered by the Bank in respect thereof.
3. Offsetting Transaction. Immediately after entering into a Specified Counterparty Transaction with a Counterparty, the Agent and the Bank shall be deemed to have automatically entered into an offsetting transaction being either an FX Transaction or Option Transaction corresponding to the Accepted Transaction (each, an “Offsetting Transaction”) whereby the Bank’s currency exposure under each Accepted Transaction is completely eliminated by the Offsetting Transaction. The Bank will promptly confirm the terms of each Offsetting Transaction which shall be subject to the terms of the Master Agreement provided, however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Master Agreement, the Agent hereby unconditionally consents and agrees to its obligations under each Offsetting Transaction.
4. Exercise of Options . Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if the Agent has entered into an Accepted Transaction in which the Counterparty is the grantor of an Option, the Bank may at the request of the Agent, authorize the Agent to exercise such Option on its behalf where required by delivery of a Notice of Exercise (as defined below) which shall constitute exercise by the Bank. In the event that the Agent fails to exercise such Option on behalf of the Bank, the Agent shall not deliver a Notice of Exercise to the Bank in respect of the corresponding Offsetting Transaction and notwithstanding the terms of such Offsetting Transaction, including any such terms relating to automatic exercise, such rights under the Offsetting Transaction shall be deemed to have expired unexercised.
“Notice of Exercise” means telex, telephonic or other electronic notification (excluding facsimile transmission), given by the owner of an Option to the grantor prior to or at the expiration time on the expiration date as agreed to at the time the Option is entered into, as evidenced in a Confirmation.
5. Termination. This Agreement shall remain in effect unless and until terminated by the Bank or by the Agent. Such termination may be communicated to the Agent (in the case of a termination by the Bank) or to the Bank (in the case of a termination by the Agent) by telephonic notice, which shall be followed promptly by written notification of such termination; provided that the termination shall be effective as of the time of the telephonic notice. Termination of this Agreement shall have no effect upon any Accepted Transaction executed in accordance with the provisions hereof prior to the effectiveness of such termination.
6. Notices. Telephonic and written notices under this Agreement shall be made as follows:
To the Bank:
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
135 Bishopsgate, 3rd Floor

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London EC2M 3UR
Attention: FOREIGN EXCHANGE Prime Brokerage Desk
Telephone No: 00 44 (0) 207 085 5441
Facsimile No: 0044 (0) 207 085 5734
To the Agent:
Gain Capital Group, LLC
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, NJ 07921
United States
Each party may change its notice address and details by notice given to the other party.
7. Miscellaneous. This Agreement shall constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersedes all oral communication and prior writings and may not be modified except as in writing and signed by all parties. In the event any provision of this Agreement is held to be illegal or in conflict with any law, rule or regulation, such provision shall be stricken and the remaining provisions shall be in full force and effect.
     This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to choice of law doctrine. Each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal courts located in New York City, Borough of Manhattan, for any action or proceeding relating to, or arising out of, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby and expressly waives any objection it may have to such jurisdiction or the convenience of such forum. Further, each party hereby irrevocably waives any right it may have to a trial by jury in connection with any action, dispute or proceeding arising out of, or relating to, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
     No party shall assign this Agreement (except as expressly provided in this Agreement) without the prior written consent of the other party hereto and any attempted “assignment in violation of this Section shall be void;
     Each party may record the telephone conversations of any other party hereto and such recording may be used in evidence in any dispute arising in connection with any Offsetting Transaction and/or this Agreement.
     A person who is not a party to this Agreement may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
     Each party hereto represents and warrants to the other party that (i) it is duly organized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (ii) it has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement and all Offsetting Transactions contemplated hereunder, (iii) this Agreement constitutes, and the transactions contemplated hereby will constitute, its legal valid and binding obligations, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws and general equitable principles), (iv) it is acting for its own account, and it has made its own independent decisions to enter into this Agreement and all Offsetting Transactions, and as to whether any Offsetting Transaction is appropriate for it based upon its own judgment and upon advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary, (v) it is not relying on any communication (written or oral) of any other party as investment advice or as a recommendation to enter into any Offsetting Transaction; it being understood that information and explanation related to the terms and conditions of a Offsetting Transaction shall not be considered investment advice or as a recommendation to enter into that Offsetting Transaction and (vi) the other parties are not acting as a fiduciary or an advisor for it in respect of this Agreement, Offsetting Transactions.
8. Fees. Payments of fees by the Agent under this Agreement as set out in Schedule I (“FX Prime Brokerage Fees”) and agreed from time to time by the parties shall be made on the due date in the place of the account specified by the Bank in freely transferable funds and in the manner customary for payments in the required currency. If the Agent fails to make, when due, any payment under this Agreement the Bank shall be entitled to take any action necessary in its sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to deducting from any collateral or margin

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that Agent has pledged or given to Bank or debiting any account maintained with the Bank, in the amount of fees owed.
“Business Day” means a day on which commercial banks are open for business in the place where the relevant account specified by the Bank is located.
Confirmed and agreed to as of July 12, 2006.
           
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
  GAIN CAPITAL, INC
 
 
By:  
/s/ Clan McHugh   By:   /s/ Mark E. Galant
Clan McHugh
  Title: CEO
Title: Global Head of Prime Brokerage Sales
       

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SCHEDULE 1
FX Prime Brokerage Fees
All fees are quoted per ***
***
No fee shall be payable in respect of principal-to-principal transactions with the Bank.

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EXHIBIT 1 TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE PRIME BROKERAGE
AGENCY AGREEMENT
Notice
     The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and [name of Agent] are parties to a Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agency Agreement dated as of [                                           ,] 2005 (the “Agreement”). All capitalized terms used in this Notice without definition shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Agreement.
     The Royal Bank of Scotland plc designates-the following as a Counterparty under the Agreement:
[Specify Counterparty and branches]
     The Royal Bank of Scotland plc specifies the following types of transactions as Specified Counterparty Transactions with respect to the Counterparty, with the respective maximum tenors identified below:
spot, tom next and forward foreign exchange transactions with a maximum tenor of [___] months (“FX Transactions”) and currency options (which shall consist of puts and calls that do not have special features), with a maximum tenor of [___] months (“Options”) (collectively, “Specified Counterparty Transactions”)
     The following Settlement Limit and Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position shall apply with respect to such Agent:
     
Settlement Limit   Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position
USD [                      ]
  USD [                      ]
Confirmed and agreed to as of [                      ], 2005.
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC [AGENT]
                     
                 
 
                   
By
 
 
      By  
 
   
 
 
 
         
 
   
 
                   
Title:
          Title:        

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Exhibit 10.27
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
October 18, 2005
GCAM LLC
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, NJ 07921
      FOREIGN EXCHANGE PRIME BROKERAGE AGREEMENT
Gentlemen:
     This Agreement describes the arrangement pursuant to which Deutsche Bank AG London (“DBAG”) authorizes GCAM, LLC (“Agent”) acting for and on behalf of the Funds specified on Annex D hereto, to act as its agent in executing spot, tom next, forward foreign exchange transactions with a maximum tenor of *** (“FX Transactions”) and currency options (which shall consist of puts and calls that do not have special features, including, but not limited to, single barriers) with a maximum tenor of *** (“Options”) (collectively, the “Counterparty Transactions”) with the Counterparties listed in Annex A hereto (each, a “Counterparty”) and on the terms set forth in Annex B hereto, Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the 1998 FX and Currency Option Definitions (as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc” the Emerging Markets Traders Association and The Foreign Exchange Committee). Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
     1. This authority is expressly limited for each Counterparty in that (a) for any Settlement Date the Net Daily Settlement Amount for such Counterparty may not exceed the Settlement Limit as specified in Annex A hereto and (b) the Counterparty Net Open Position may not exceed at any time the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position as specified in Annex A hereto. The Settlement Limit and the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position shall apply to all Counterparty Transactions entered into between DBAG and the Counterparty branch specified in Annex B.
     “Net Daily Settlement Amount” means for any Settlement Date, the sum of the Dollar Countervalue for each currency for which the aggregate Dollar Countervalue results in a net amount owed to DBAG by Counterparty, as calculated after giving effect to any applicable novation or settlement netting provisions in any applicable master agreement between DBAG and the Counterparty (the “Counterparty Master Agreements”).
     “Counterparty Net Open Position” or “Give Up Net Open Position” means, with respect to a Counterparty or a Give Up Party, as the case may be, the aggregate amount owed by such Counterparty or Give Up Party to DBAG, calculated as follows:
  (A)   for each FX Transaction, determine the Dollar Countervalue for each currency (including U.S. Dollars) owed by such Counterparty or Give Up Party to DBAG or such Counterparty or Give Up Party owed by DBAG to Counterparty under such FX Transaction;

 


 

  (B)   for each currency (including U.S. Dollars), determine the net Dollar Countervalue amount owed by such Counterparty or Give Up Party to DBAG or owed by DBAG to such Counterparty or Give Up Party by sUl1ll1ing the Dollar Countervalue of all long and short positions in such currency as determined in clause (A) above;
 
  (C)   for each Option purchased or sold by the Counterparty, determine the Dollar Countervalue of the foreign exchange delta equivalent of such Option;
 
  (D)   determine the difference of (i) the sum of the Dollar Countervalue amounts determined pursuant to clause (C), minus (ii) the sum of the Dollar Countervalues of the foreign exchange delta equivalents of the Netted Options; and
 
  (E)   aggregate (i) the Dollar Countervalue amounts determined pursuant to clause (B) above for each currency with respect to which such Counterparty or Give Up Party owes a net aggregate amount to DBAG and (ii) the Dollar Countervalue amount determined pursuant to clause (D) above.
 
      “Dollar Countervalue” means, with respect to an amount of currency at any time (i) if such currency is U.S. Dollars, such amount and (ii) in all other cases, the amount of U.S. dollars which could be purchased at the market rate prevailing at such time against delivery of such amount of currency on a specified settlement date. Such rate shall be determined by DBAG (in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) to be the market rate available to DBAG at such time in the New York foreign exchange market (or, at the sole option of DBAG, in the foreign exchange market of any other financial center which is then open for business) for the purchase or, as the case may be, sale of one currency against another currency for delivery on a specified date.
 
      “Netted Option” means an Option sold by DBAG and owned by the Counterparty which may be discharged and terminated together with all Option sold by the Counterparty and owned by DBAG pursuant to the applicable master agreement upon satisfying the following criteria:
  (i)   each Option being with respect to the same Put Currency and Call Currency
 
  (ii)   each having the same Expiration Date and Expiration Time;
 
  (iii)   each being of the same style, i.e. either both being American Style Options or both being European Style Options;
 
  (iv)   each having the same Strike Price;
 
  (v)   each being transacted by the same pair of Offices of Buyer

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      and Seller; and
 
  (vi)   neither of which shall have been exercised by delivery of a Notice of Exercise.
      In the case of a partial discharge and termination (i.e., where the relevant Currency Option Transactions are for different amounts of the Currency Pair), only the portion discharged and terminated shall be considered a Netted Option.
     2. Agent acknowledges and agrees that it shall monitor the Net Daily Settlement Amount and the Counterparty Net Open Position for each Counterparty and that DBAG shall not be responsible for any Counterparty Transaction executed by Agent on behalf of DBAG unless (i) giving effect to such Counterparty Transaction does not cause the Settlement Limit or the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position to be exceeded (without DBAG’s prior written consent or recorded verbal consent (confirmed by fax immediately thereafter)); and (ii) such Counterparty Transaction meets the criteria set forth in Annex B (an “Accepted Transaction”). DBAG agrees to provide Agent with a summary of the outstanding trades and the net exposure with respect to each Counterparty, up to two times on each Business Day during which there are Counterparty Transactions outstanding. Each Accepted Transaction shall be valid and binding upon DBAG, enforceable against DBAG in accordance with its terms. The dealing arrangement with respect to each Counterparty shall be set forth in a Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Counterparty Agreement substantially in the fom1 of Annex C hereto (a “Counterparty Agreement”).
     3. Prior to entering into any Counterparty Transactions, DBAG shall have executed a Counterparty Agreement with such Counterparty. Agent shall promptly communicate trade details of each Counterparty Transaction by notifying via facsimile or other electronic means an area of DBAG separate from trading and marketing personnel. Each Counterparty Transaction between DBAG and a Counterparty shall be confirmed and settled in accordance with the telTl1S of the relevant Counterparty Master Agreement.
     4. In connection with entering into each Counterparty Transaction, DBAG shall contemporaneously therewith enter into an equal and offsetting Transaction with, at the discretion of Agent (i) one or more of the Funds identified on Annex D hereto (each a “Fund”), as specified by the Agent (each, a “Fund Transaction”) and/or (ii) one of the give up parties listed in Annex D hereto (each a “Give Up Party” and each such Transaction a “Give Up Transaction”), each such Give Up Transaction to be given up pursuant to the terms of a give up agreement between DBAG and such Give Up Party (each such agreement, the “Give Up Agreement”), provided, however, that Give Up Net Open Position for such Give Up Party does not, after giving effect to such Give Up Transactions, exceed the Maximum Give Up Net Open Position for such Give Up Party specified in Annex A.
     Each Fund Transaction shall be an FX transaction or option under, and subject to and governed by, the ISDA Master Agreement or other master agreement between Deutsche Bank AG and the applicable Fund specified on Annex D hereto, including the

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Credit Support Annex which is a part thereof (each, a “Fund Master Agreement”). Each Fund shall be required to post collateral with respect to its obligations under the Fund Master Agreement (including the Fund Transactions) in accordance with terms and provisions of the Credit Support All11ex. DBAG and Agent on behalf of each Fund agree that any breach of this Agreement by Agent shall constitute an Event of Default under the Fund Master Agreement with such Fund.
     Each Give Up Party shall have executed an agreement with DBAG in which such Give Up Party shall have authorized Agent to act as its agent in giving such directions to DBAG. Each Give Up Transaction shall be an FX transaction or option under, and subject to and governed by, any applicable ISDA Master Agreement or other master agreement between DBAG and the relevant Give Up Party (each such master agreement, the “Give Up Master Agreement”) and shall be further subject to the terms of the Give Up Agreement.
     Each Fund Transaction and each Give Up Transaction shall be subject to and settled in accordance with any market practice applicable to, or adopted by, DBAG and the Counterparty in collection with the Counterparty Transaction for which it is offsetting notwithstanding any provision in a confirmation for a Fund Transaction or Give Up Transaction that may be to the contrary.
     5. (a) Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if a Fund has entered into a Fund Transaction in which it is the owner of an Option, Agent on behalf of such Fund may exercise such Option only by delivery to Counterparty of a Notice of Exercise with respect to the corresponding Counterparty Transaction. Agent shall simultaneously deliver to DBAG a copy of such Notice of Exercise. If such Notice of Exercise constitutes effective exercise of the Option which is the subject of the corresponding Counterparty Transaction, it shall be deemed effective as to DBAG and the Option which is the subject of the Fund Transaction shall also be deemed exercised. In the event that the notice delivered by Agent to Counterparty is ineffective as exercise with respect to the Counterparty Transaction, Agent shall indell111if’y DBAG against ally losses sustained by it in connection therewith and DBAG may, at its discretion, treat such notice as effective with respect to the Funded Transaction.
     (b) Notwithstanding ally terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if Agent has instructed DBAG to enter into an offsetting transaction with a Give Up Party in which such Give Up Party is the owner of all Option, Agent shall cause such Give Up Transaction to be automatically exercised by delivery to Counterparty of a Notice of Exercise with respect to the corresponding Counterparty Transaction. Agent shall simultaneously deliver to DBAG a copy of such Notice of Exercise and shall promptly copy such Notice of Exercise to Give Up Party together with details of the corresponding Give Up Transaction. In the event that the notice delivered by Agent to Counterparty is ineffective as exercise with respect to the Counterparty Transaction, Agent shall indemnify DBAG against any losses sustained by it in connection therewith and DBAG may, at its discretion, treat such notice as effective with respect to the Give Up Transaction.

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     (c) Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if a Fund has entered into a Fund Transaction in which it is the grantor of an Option, such Option may be exercised by the Counterparty exercising the Option which is the subject of the corresponding Counterparty Transaction by giving notice to Agent and DBAG pursuant to the terms thereof.
     (d) Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if Agent has instructed DBAG to enter into an offsetting transaction with a Give Up Party in which such Give Up Party is the grantor of an Option, such Option shall be exercised by the Agent delivering on DBAG’s behalf a Notice of Exercise to the Give Up Party following exercise by Counterparty of the corresponding Counterparty Transaction (which in the case of the latter shall be exercise by Counterparty giving notice to Agent and DBAG pursuant to the terms of the corresponding Counterparty Transaction). In the event that Agent fails to give such Notice of Exercise or the notice delivered by Agent to Give Up Party is ineffective as exercise with respect to the Give Up Transaction, Agent shall indemnify DBAG against any losses sustained by it in connection therewith. “Notice of Exercise” means telex, telephonic or other electronic notification (excluding facsimile transmission), given by the owner of an Option prior to or at the expiration time on the expiration date as agreed to at the time the Option is entered into, as evidenced in a Confirmation.
     (e) As calculation agent under each Fund Transaction, or transaction with a Give Up Party, which is an Option, DBAG shall follow the determinations of the Counterparty to the applicable offsetting Counterparty Transaction with respect to knock in and knock out events and other similar events and shall not be liable to Agent or any Give Up Party in connection therewith.
     6. In consideration for DBAG agreeing to enter into this Agreement, the Agent shall pay to DBAG fees calculated and payable in accordance with following provisions.
With respect to each Counterparty Transaction which, pursuant to Section 4, has resulted in, at the direction of Agent, an equal and opposite Fund Transaction between DBAG and one of the Funds listed in Annex D indicated by the words “Spread Basis”, a fee shall be paid as follows:
     (a) with respect to such Counterparty Transactions which are FX Transactions, by adding or subtracting the Spread to or from the Exchange Rate agreed for such Transaction and executing the equal and opposite Fund Transaction with such increased or decreased Exchange Rate. The Spread shall be added or subtracted in accordance with the following:
          (i) where DBAG is buying the Foreign Currency, the Spread shall be added to the Exchange Rate applicable to the Counterparty Transaction (and such increased Exchange Rate shall be the rate applicable to the equal and opposite Fund Transaction).

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          (ii) where DBAG is selling the Foreign Currency, the Spread shall be subtracted from the Exchange Rate applicable to the Counterparty Transaction (and such reduced exchange rate shall be the rate applicable to the equal and opposite Fund Transaction)
     (b) with respect to such Counterparty Transactions which are Options, an amount equal to *** of the Notional Amount of such Transaction shall be (A) added to the premium to be paid to DBAG or (B) deducted from the premium to be paid by DBAG, as the case may be, with respect to the equal and opposite Fund Transaction.
Where:
“Spread” is an amount rounded up to six decimal places and calculated in accordance with the following:
Spread = ***
Where:
“Spot Rate” is the Exchange Rate applicable to the related Counterparty Transaction.
“USDFee” is an amount in ***
“Currency Pair” is expressed as [Base Currency] [Foreign Currency].
“Base Currency” shall mean the currency which is represented by one unit in the currency exchange rate quoted for the Transaction. Where JPY is the Base Currency, one unit of JPY Base Currency means ***.
“Exchange Rate” means, with respect to an FX Transaction and in relation to a Currency Pair, the currency exchange rate used to determine the relevant currency amounts due for such Transaction and expressed as the amount of Foreign Currency per one unit of Base Currency.
“Foreign Currency” shall mean the Currency of a Transaction that is not the Base Currency for such Transaction.
“Notional Amount” of a Counterparty Transaction means the USD amount payable wider the terms of the Counterparty Transaction (or, in the case of an Option, which would be payable if the Option were exercised), or if the Counterparty Transaction does not have any such USD amount, a USD amount equal to the USD equivalent of the amount of Currency payable by DBAG to the Counterparty under the terms of the Counterparty Transaction (or, in the case of an Option, which would be payable if the Option were exercised), calculated based on the spot exchange rate for the sale of the other Currency for USD as determined by DBAG in its discretion on the trade date of such Transaction.

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With respect to the foregoing provisions, Agent hereby represents (which representations will be deemed to be repeated by Agent at all times until the termination of this agreement) that (a) it has been granted authority to bind each Fund listed in Annex D indicated by the words “Spread Basis” to the fees arrangements contemplated by these provisions and (b) such authority has not been revoked.
     7. Agent shall indemnify DBAG against loss, fees or expenses resulting from any error or discrepancy in any information provided by Agent or a Fund.
     8. Upon 20 Business Days written notice, DBAG may at any time and from time to time in its sole discretion (a) an1end the list of Counterparties set forth on Annex A, (b) modify the Settlement Limit and Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position with respect to each Counterparty set forth on Annex A, as in effect at such time ar1d (c) modify the Maximum Give Up Net Open Position with respect to each Give Up Party set forth on Am1ex A, as in effect at such time and (d) maximum tenor of FX Transactions ar1d Options; provided that, DBAG may immediately amend Annex A with respect to a Counterparty in the event DBAG has reasonable grounds to believe that such Counterparty shall be unable to perform any of its obligations under the Counterparty Master Agreements. Furthermore, DBAG may immediately amend Annex D with respect to a Give Up Party in the event DBAG has reasonable grounds to believe that such Give Up Party shall be unable to perform any of its obligations under the Give Up Master Agreements. Each such amendment and/or modification shall not affect any outstanding Accepted Transactions, and the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply until all the obligations of each party to the other under this Agreement have been fully performed with respect to Cow1telllarty Transactions, Fund Transactions and Give Up Transactions.
     9. The parties to this Agreement agree that DBAG may tape record any and all telephone conversations between them concerning Counterparty Transactions, Fund Transactions and Give Up Transactions.
     10. Unless otherwise agreed and subject to section 3, all notices, instructions and other communications to be given to a party under this Agreement shall be given to the address, facsimile (confirmed if requested) or telephone number or otherwise electronically and to the individual or department specified below. Unless otherwise specified, any notice, instruction or other communication given in accordance with this section shall be effective upon receipt. Each party may change its notice address and details by notice given to the other party.
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Bank AG
FX Prime Brokerage
1251 Avenue of the Americas, 26th Floor
Mail Stop: NYC07-261O
New York, NY 10020
Attention: Jolm Alesia
Telephone: 212 474 7011

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Telecopier: 646 324 7399
Singapore Branch
(for telephonic communications from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., New York time,
(which may act on behalf of New York branch during such hours)):
Deutsche Bank AG
FX Prime Brokerage
5 Temasek Boulevard, #11-03
Suntec City Tower 5, 11th Floor
Singapore, 038985
Attention Chee-Seng Low
Telephone: 65 423 6736
Telecopier: 65 883 0721
GCAM, LLC
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, NJ 07921
Tel: 908-731-0713
FAX: 866-607-8820
Attn: Tom Quinn
     11. Subject to the following sentence, each of the parties hereto may terminate this Agreement at any time by twenty (20) business days’ prior written notice to the other party delivered as prescribed above, and such termination shall be effective at the end of such twentieth day (the “Termination Date”); provided that, DBAG may immediately terminate this Agreement if (i) an Event of Default or Additional Termination Event occurs under a Fund Master Agreement or (ii) Agent exceeds a Settlement Limit or a Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position without DBAG’s prior consent as set forth in section 2. Any such termination shall not affect any outstanding Accepted Transactions (and, with respect to any termination caused as a result of the events set forth in clause (ii) above, such termination shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement), and tile provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply until all the obligations of each party to the other under this Agreement have been fully performed with respect to Counterparty Transactions, Fund Transactions and Give Up Transactions; and provided further that any fee payment received by DBAG from Agent in advance shall be pro rated and any amount allocable to a time period after the Termination Date shall be returned promptly to Agent.
     12. No amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement will be effective unless in writing executed by each of the parties, provided, however, that tile parties may agree to an increase in Settlement Limit or Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position for a Counterparty without a written agreement.

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     13. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England and Wales.
     14. Any action or proceeding relating in any way to this Agreement may be brought and enforced in the courts of England and Wales.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date and year first above written.
                 
DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON   GCAM, LLC
 
               
By:
          By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens
 
               
Name:
  [illegible]       Name:   Mr. Glenn Stevens
Title:
  [illegible]       Title:   Managing Director
 
               
By:
  /s/ Gayor Wood            
Name:
 
 
Gayor Wood
           
Title:
  Legal Counsel            

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ANNEX A
         
        Counterparty Maximum
    Settlement Limit   Net Open Position
Counterparties   (in millions)   (in millions)
***
***
***
***
***
***
***
***
***
  ***
***
***
***
***
***
***
***
***
  n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
         
        Give Up Counterparty
    Give Up Settlement Limit   Maximum Net Open Position
Give Up Counterparties   (in millions)   (in millions)
 
       

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ANNEX B
CRITERIA FOR COUNTERPARTY TRANSACTIONS
1. All Counterparty Transactions entered into by Agent on behalf of DBAG shall be booked in the respective nan1es of Deutsche Bank AG London and the Counterparty, acting through a branch pern1itted under any applicable Counterparty Agreement.
2. Each Counterparty shall have executed an ISDA Master Agreement or similar agreement governing foreign exchange and options trading between DBAG 3l1d such Counterparty.
3. All Give Up Transactions entered into at the instruction of Agent between DBAG and a Give Up Party shall be booked in the respective names of Deutsche Bank AG London and such Give Up Party, acting through a breach permitted under any applicable Give Up Master Agreement.
4. Each Give Up Party shall have executed an ISDA Master Agreement or similar agreement governing foreign exchange and options trading between DBAG and such Give Up Party.
5. Any Ceiling Limit (as defined in each Fund Master Agreement) or similar position limit specified in a Fund Master Agreement shall not be exceeded after giving effect to the Fund Transaction required in collection with any Counterparty Transaction.
6. With respect to Give Up Transactions, any position or trading limit as set out in a Relevant Give Up Master Agreement and/or the relevant Give Up Agreement would not be exceeded by giving effect to Agent’s instruction to give up the Give Up Transaction required in connection with a Counterparty Transaction.

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ANNEX C
Master Counterparty Agreement
[A Counterparty listed on Annex A to the Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement]
Master Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Counterparty Agreement
dated as of                                          
Gentlemen:
      1. Authorization. Deutsche Bank AG London (“DBAG”) has authorized each party designated as an Agent (an “Agent”) in a Counterparty Agreement Notice (a “Notice”) to engage in such of the following types of transactions as may be specified in such Notice on behalf of DBAG with [  ] (“Counterparty”), acting through its [ ] branch (the “Counterparty Branch”):
spot, tom next and forward foreign exchange transactions with the maximum tenor specified in such Notice (“FX Transactions”), and
Currency options (which shall consist of puts and calls that do not have special features, including, but not limited to, barriers) with the maximum tenor specified in such Notice (“Options Transactions”).
All transactions of the type specified in a Notice with respect to an Agent shall be collectively referred to herein as “Counterparty Transactions”. Notices shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1 hereto. Each Notice shall supplement, be governed by and form a part of this Master Counterparty Agreement. Any Counterparty Transactions entered into under this Agreement shall be subject to the [   ] Master Agreement between Deutsche Bank AG shall Counterparty dated as of                      , as amended from time to time (as so amended, the “Master Agreement”).
      2. Limits. DBAG hereby confirms its authorization of each Agent to execute the Counterparty Transactions specified in the Notice with respect to such Agent (the “Specified Counterparty Transactions”). With respect to the Specified Counterparty Transactions for each Agent, this authority is expressly limited to a Net Daily Settlement Amount equal to the Settlement Limit specified in the applicable Notice (or its equivalent in any other currency) (the “Settlement Limit”) and a Counterparty Net Open Position equal to the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position specified in the applicable Notice (or its equivalent in any other currency) (the “Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position”). The Settlement Limit and the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position shall apply only to Specified Counterparty Transactions entered into between DBAG and the Counterparty, acting through the Counterparty Branch. DBAG may at any time and from time to time in its sole discretion modify the Settlement Limit or the Maximum

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Counterparty Net Open Position by written notice to the Counterparty and Agent, which such notice shall be effective upon receipt.
     “Net Daily Settlement Amount” means with respect to Specified Counterparty Transactions executed by an Agent for any Settlement Date, the sum of the Dollar’ Countervalue for each Currency for which the aggregate Dollar Countervalue results in a net amount owed to DBAG by Counterparty with respect to such Transactions, as calculated after giving effect to lli1y applicable novation or settlement netting provisions in any applicable master agreement between DBAG and the Counterparty.
     “Counterparty Net Open Position” melli1S the aggregate amount owed by Counterparty to DBAG with respect to Specified Counterparty Transactions executed by an Agent, calculated as follows:
(A) for each FX Transaction executed by such Agent, determine the Dollar Countervalue for each currency (including U.S. Dollars) owed by Counterparty to DBAG or owed by DBAG to Counterparty under such FX Transaction;
(B) for each currency (including U.S. Dollars), determine the net Dollar Countervalue amount owed by Counterparty to DBAG or owed by DBAG to Counterparty by summing the Dollar Countervalue of all long and short positions in such currency as determined in clause (A) above;
(C) for each Option purchased or sold by the Counterparty in a Transaction executed by such Agent, determine the Dollar’ Countervalue of the foreign exchange delta equivalent of such Option;
(D) determine the difference of (i) the sum of the Dollar Countervalue amounts determined pursuant to clause (C), minus (ii) the sum of the Dollar Countervalues of the foreign exchange delta equivalents of Netted Options; and
(E) aggregate (i) the Dollar Counttervalue amounts determined pursuant to clause (B) above for each currency with respect to which Counterparty owes a net aggregate amount to DBAG and (ii) the Dollar Countervalue amount determined pursuant to clause (D) above.
“Dollar Countervalue” melli1S, with respect to an amount of currency at any time (i) if such currency is U.S. Dollars, such amount and (ii) in all other cases, the lli1l0Wlt of U.S. dollars which could be purchased at the market rate prevailing at such time against delivery of such amount of currency on a specified Settlement Date. Such rate shall be determined by DBAG (in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) to be the market rate available to

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DBAG at such time in the New York foreign exchange market (or, at the sole option of DBAG, in the foreign exchange market of any other financial center which is then open for business) for the purchase or, as the case may be, sale of one Currency against another Currency for delivery on a specified date.
“Netted Option” means all Option sold by DBAG and owned by the Counterparty which may be discharged and terminated together with an Option sold by the Counterparty and owned by DBAG pursuant to the applicable master agreement upon satisfying the following criteria:
  (i)   each Option being with respect to the Same Put Currency and Call Currency
 
  (ii)   each having the same Expiration Date and Expiration Time;
 
  (iii)   each being of the same style, i.e. either both being American Style Options or both being European Style Options;
 
  (iv)   each having the same Strike Price;
 
  (v)   each being transacted by the same pair of Offices of Buyer and Seller; and
 
  (vi)   neither of which shall have been exercised by delivery of a Notice of Exercise.
    In the case of a partial discharge and termination (i.e., where the relevant Option Transactions me for different amounts of the Currency Pair), only the portion discharged and terminated shall be considered a Netted Option.
      3. Accepted Transactions. The Counterparty acknowledges and agrees that DBAG shall not be responsible for any Counterparty Transaction unless (i) such Counterparty Transaction is a Specified Counterparty Transaction with respect to the Agent executing such Transaction, (ii) giving effect to such Counterparty Transaction does not cause the Settlement Limit or the Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position applicable to such Agent to be exceeded (without the prior written consent of DBAG); (iii) the Counterparty and Agent shall have committed to the material terms (i.e. settlement date and amounts of each currency to be delivered by each party) of such Counterparty Transaction; and (iv) such Counterparty Transaction has been entered into by DBAG and Counterparty, acting through the Counterparty Branch (all “Accepted Transaction”). To the extent that any Counterparty Transaction complies and qualifies as an Accepted Transaction, it shall be valid and binding upon DBAG, enforceable against DBAG in accordance with its terms. The Counterparty shall promptly communicate trade details of each Counterparty Transaction by notifying DBAG via Reuters. All Accepted Transactions shall be FX Transactions and Options under the Master Agreement and shall be performed in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof.

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      4. Exercise of Options. Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if Counterparty has entered into an Accepted Transaction in which it is the grantor of an Option, such Option may be exercised by delivery of a Notice of Exercise by Agent which executed such Transaction to Counterparty which shall constitute exercise by DBAG.
     Notwithstanding any terms of a confirmation that may be to the contrary, if Counterparty has entered into an Accepted Transaction in which it is the owner of an Option, such Option may only be exercised by simultaneous delivery of a Notice of Exercise by Counterparty to each of the Agent which executed such Transaction and DBAG.
     “Notice of Exercise” means telex, telephonic or other electronic notification (excluding facsimile transmission), given by the owner of an Option prior to or at the expiration time on the expiration date as agreed to at the time the Option is entered into, as evidenced in a Confirmation.
      5. Termination. This Agreement shall remain in effect unless and until terminated by DBAG. Such termination may be communicated in writing and shall be effective upon receipt by the Counterparty. Termination of this Agreement shall have no effect upon any Accepted Transaction executed in accordance with the provisions hereof prior to the effectiveness of such termination.
      6. Notices. Telephonic notice to DBAG shall be effected by contacting John Alesia at 212-469-3011 or (for telephonic communications from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. New York time), Chee-Seng Low, Singapore branch (which may act on behalf of DBAG branch during such hours), at (65) 423-6736, and to Counterparty by contacting                      at                      or at                      Written notices shall be given in accordance with the [Master Agreement(s)] to the following individuals:
Deutsche Bank AG, New York
FX Prime Brokerage
1251 Avenue of the Americas, 26th Floor
Mail Stop: NYC07-2610
New York, NY 10020
Attention: John Alesia
Telephone: 212 469 3011
Telecopier: 646 324 7399
Deutsche Bank AG. Singapore
FX Prime Brokerage
5 Temasek Boulevard, # 11-03
Suntec City Tower 5, 11th Floor
Singapore, 038985
Attention: Chee-Seng Low

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Telephone: 65423 6736
Telecopier: 65 883 0721
[Counterparty]
Attention:
Each party may change its notice address and details by notice given to the other party.
      7. Miscellaneous. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, without reference to choice of law doctrine. The headings used in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to affect the construction of or to be taken into consideration in interpreting this Agreement.
     Any action or proceeding relating in any way to this Agreement may be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York and the United States District Court, in each case located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York.
     Kindly confirm your agreement to the foregoing by signing the enclosed copy of this letter and returning it to [NAME OF NEGOTIATOR], Legal Department, Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005.
Very truly yours,
DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON
         
By
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Title:
 
 
   
Confirmed and agreed to as of
the date first above written:
[COUNTERPARTY]
         
By
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Title:
 
 
   

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EXHIBIT 1 TO COUNTERPARTY AGREEMENT
Counterparty Agreement Notice
[Name and address of Counterparty]
Dear Sir:
     Deutsche Bank AG London and [Name of Counterparty] are parties to a Master Counterparty Agreement dated as of                      (the “Master Counterparty Agreement”). All capitalized terms used in this Notice without definition shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Master Counterparty Agreement.
DBAG designates the following as an Agent under the Master Counterparty Agreement:
[Name of Agent]
     DBAG specifies the following types of transactions as Specified Counterparty Transactions with respect to such Agent, with the respective maximum tenors identified below:
     
Transactions   Maximum Tenor
     The following Settlement Limit and Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position shall apply with respect to such Agent:
     
Settlement Limit   Maximum Counterparty Net Open Position
Please acknowledge your agreement to these terms by signing a copy of this Notice and returning it to                      , Legal Department, Deutsche Bank AG, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005.
                     
            Very truly yours,
 
                   
            DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON
 
                   
 
          By        
 
          Title:  
 
   
 
             
 
   
 
          By        
 
          Title:  
 
   
 
             
 
   
Acknowledged and agreed:            
 
                   
[Counterparty]            
 
                   
By
                   
Title:
 
 
               
 
 
 
               

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ANNEX D
     
FUNDS:   FEES BASIS:
 
   
Atlas Portfolio Select SPC for its Segregated Portfolio 106
  Spread Basis
 
   
Atlas Portfolio Select SPC for its Segregated Portfolio 110
  Spread Basis

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Exhibit 10.28
AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this “Amendment Agreement”), dated as of January 26, 2006 between Deutsche Bank AG London (“DBAG”) and GCAM LLC (“Agent”). All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings provided in the Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement referred to below.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, DBAG and Agent are parties to a Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Agreement dated as of October 18, 2005 (as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “FXPB Agreement”);
WHEREAS, DBAG and Agent wish to amend the FXPB Agreement as herein provided;
NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed that:
  1.   Annex D of the FXPB Agreement shall be amended to include the following as a Fund thereunder:
 
      “Frontier Trading Company, LLC (Spread Basis”)
 
  2.   This Amendment Agreement is limited as specified and shall not constitute a modification, acceptance or waiver of any other provision of the FXPB Agreement.
 
  3.   This Amendment Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. A complete set of executed counterparts shall be lodged with DBAG and Agent.
 
  4.   This Amendment Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of England and Wales.
 
  5.   This Amendment Agreement shall become effective on the date when DBAG and Agent shall have signed a copy hereof (whether the same or different copies) and delivered (including by way of facsimile transmission) the same to each other.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a counterpart of this Amendment Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
           
DEUTSCHE BANK AG LONDON
  GCAM, LLC
 
   
By:
/s/ John Moody   By:  /s/ Thomas Quinn
Name: John Moody
  Name: Thomas Quinn
Title: Legal Counsel
  Title: Chief Operation Officer
 
   
 
   
By: 
[illegible]      
Name: [illegible]
   
Title: [illegible]
   

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Exhibit 10.30
(GAIN CAPITAL LOGO)
INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT
Between GAIN Capital Group, LLC And [YOUR COMPANY]
This Agreement is between Your Company (“ Your Company ”) whose office is located at                                           and GAIN Capital Group, LLC, ( “GAIN Capital ”), a Limited Liability Company formed under the laws of Delaware with an office located at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921.
1. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. GAIN Capital and Your Company each represent and warrant that:
  a.   Each is duly organized and validly exists under the applicable laws of the jurisdiction of their organization;
 
  b.   Execution and delivery of this Agreement and all contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder and performance of all obligations contemplated under this Agreement and all contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder have been duly authorized by their respective organizations;
 
  c.   All persons executing and delivering this Agreement and all contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder for or on behalf of GAIN Capital and Your Company have been duly authorized by their respective organizations to do so;
 
  d.   All persons performing the obligations contemplated under this Agreement have been duly authorized by their respective organizations to do so;
 
  e.   Execution and delivery by Your Company and GAIN Capital of this Agreement and all contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder, performance of all of Your Company’s and GAIN Capital’s obligations contemplated under this Agreement, and any contract or other transaction contemplated hereunder, will not violate any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance, charter, by-law or policy applicable to said organizations.
2. AGREEMENT DATE [Date]
3. YOUR COMPANY ORIGINATED CUSTOMER. For purposes of this Agreement, Your Company Originated Customers will include all clients identified as Your Company clients as determined from the GAIN Capital Customer Application. Your Company Originated Customer does not include any GAIN Capital Customer accessed through any other sourcing method.
4. SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED .
Payment for Order Flow
GAIN Capital will pay Your Company USD _____ per million round trip base currency unit transaction executed by Your Company Originated Customers through GAIN Capital. All volume calculations will begin the first trading day of each calendar month and end the last trading day of each calendar month. GAIN Capital will make these payments for trade order flow during the initial term of the Agreement between GAIN Capital and Your Company, provided that both Your Company and GAIN Capital honor all terms and conditions of the Agreement.
Control Account
Upon receipt of a completed and executed GAIN Capital Customer Application in the name of YOUR COMPANY , GAIN Capital will establish a Control Account in Your Company’s name to hold payments made to Your Company by GAIN Capital according to the payment for order flow instructions set forth above. GAIN Capital will post all such payments to Your Company’s Control Account no later than the fifteenth of each month representing payment for order flow earned in the preceding calendar month.
Monthly Reporting
GAIN Capital will provide Your Company a monthly report, electronically or otherwise, detailing the total number of Your Company Originated Customers, total transaction volume per customer, and total, if any, earned payments for the reporting period.

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Withdrawal Requests
Funds are held in Your Company’s Control Account until GAIN Capital receives a withdrawal request. All withdrawal requests must be in writing and submitted to GAIN Capital by fax to +1.908.842.0274. Withdrawal requests are normally processed within two (2) business days of receipt. Customer and bank account information MUST match the information provided on Appendix A of this Agreement. GAIN will not make or receive payment via third party. At this time, there is no fee for withdrawal requests via check. Withdrawal requests via wire transfer will be charged GAIN Capital’s normal wiring fee, which will be deducted directly from the withdrawal amount.
Partner Service Levels
  A.   Service Level Qualifications
  1.   Premier
  a.   Entry Service Level
  2.   Gold
  a.   Volume of 25M to 300M per month or
 
  b.   100 Active Accounts per quarter
  3.   Platinum
  a.   Volume of 301M to 750M per month or
 
  b.   250 Active Accounts per quarter
  4.   Black
  a.   Volume of over 751M per month or
 
  b.   500 Active Accounts per quarter
  B.   General Parameters
  1.   A all figures are based on sustained quarterly performance averages (90-Days)
 
  2.   A client may opt into a higher services level but most meet the service level qualifications after a 90-Day evaluation period.
 
  3.   If a client opts into a higher service level and after 90-days does not meet selected service level requirements the clients control account will be debited by the amount of IB paid on volume equal to 1 / 2 the amount of the shortfall.
  C.   Services Included & IB shortfall example
  1.   Please see Appendix B below
5. CHANGE IN QUOTING CONVENTIONS. GAIN Capital reserves the right to alter these payments in the event of a substantial change in market levels or quoting conventions from those currently in place on the date both parties have duly executed this Agreement. GAIN Capital will immediately notify Your Company in writing of such a change and if such change remains in effect one month after such notification, GAIN Capital may alter these payments. In the event GAIN Capital alters Agreement, payment amounts or terms, it will notify Your Company in writing and Your Company will have thirty (30) days to respond. If Your Company declines to accept GAIN Capital’s altered payments, this Agreement will terminate immediately.
6. MINIMUM ACCOUNTS. GAIN Capital will pay for order flow as long as GAIN Capital has at least five funded Your Company Originated Customers.
7. TERM OF AGREEMENT. The initial term of this Agreement shall be for a period of one (1) year commencing on the date both parties have duly executed this Agreement. This Agreement shall automatically renew at the end of each term, unless terminated in writing by either party with reasonable notification following the decision to terminate.
GAIN Capital may, in its sole discretion, cancel this Agreement at any time during the course of this Agreement by providing reasonable notice following the decision to terminate. In the event of termination for any reason, Your Company shall promptly destroy all of the information and materials supplied by GAIN Capital gathered since the negotiation and commencement of this Agreement, or any parts thereof, that may then be in his possession in any form and in any medium.
8. TAXES AND OTHER COSTS. GAIN Capital shall not be responsible for taxes of any kind, nature or description (such as income, sales, use and personal property taxes) levied by any federal, state, county, or city governments that are assessed against Your Company resulting from this Agreement; provided, however, GAIN Capital shall be solely responsible for any and all income, franchise, gross receipts, and like taxes and occupancy, real estate and like taxes levied by any such governments that are assessed or imposed on GAIN Capital for its activities or facilities under this Agreement.

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9. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. This Agreement is a non-exclusive arrangement with respect to GAIN Services. Your Company is not authorized to make any representations concerning GAIN Capital or the services to be provided by GAIN Capital hereunder. Your Company agrees to comply with all Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations and National Futures Association (NFA) compliance rules including, but not limited to, solicitation and sales practices, trading performance statements, risk disclosure, communications with the public, and the use of promotional materials. If and where applicable, GAIN Capital has the right to conduct an audit of Your Company’s website, sales practices and promotional materials to ensure compliance with NFA and CFTC regulations, and YOUR COMPANY agrees to fulfill all requests from GAIN Capital regarding such compliance matters.
Your Company has the right to propose additional parties who are willing to put GAIN Capital’s icons on their site. GAIN Capital agrees to negotiate transaction fees on a case-by-case basis.
If Your Company is an NFA member introducing Customers to Gain Capital and/or Forex.com on a fully disclosed basis, you acknowledge and affirm that Your Company, its principals, employees and/or agents do not and will not utilize and/or compensate any third party unregulated solicitor(s) now or in the future.
All copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property rights in the GAIN Capital Online Trading System (“Trading System”) shall remain at all times the sole and exclusive property of GAIN Capital and Your Company shall have no right or interest in the Trading System. Your Company acknowledges that the Trading System is confidential to GAIN and has been developed through the expenditure of substantial skill, time, effort and money. Your Company will not publish, distribute, or otherwise make information available to third parties any information derived from or relating to the Trading System without the prior written approval of GAIN Capital. Your Company will not copy, modify, de-compile, reverse engineer, or make derivative works of the Trading System or in the manner in which it operates.
10. ARBITRATION. This Agreement is governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, United States of America without giving effect to any conflict of laws doctrine that would interfere with or prevent the application of this provision. With respect to any suit, action or proceeding (“Proceeding”) relating to this Agreement, Your Company irrevocably (i) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the State and federal courts located in the Borough of Manhattan, State of New York; (ii) agrees to service of process in any legal proceeding by sending copies thereof by registered or certified mail, if practicable (postage prepaid) to the other party at the address set forth in this Agreement; (iii) waives any objection which it may have at any time to the laying of venue of any Proceeding brought in any such court, waives any claim that such Proceeding have been brought in an inconvenient forum; and (iv) further waives the right to object, with respect to such Proceeding, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party. Alternatively, at the option of either GAIN Capital or Your Company, any proceeding hereunder may be submitted for arbitration before the American Arbitration Association at either their New York or New Jersey Office. Voiding of any clause of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction shall not void the entire agreement and shall apply only to the specific clause.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. GAIN Capital will not held liable for any special, indirect, consequential, punitive or incidental damages arising from a breach or alleged breach of this Agreement, however caused and under any theory of liability (including negligence), even if such party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
12. NOTICES. Any notice to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be deemed to have been given, made or sent when mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. Any such notice shall be addressed to the parties at their addresses set forth above.
13. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. The parties acknowledge that no representations or statements not contained herein have been made by any of them regarding any present intention or concerning any term or provision of this Agreement or the Service. The provisions hereof constitute the entire Agreement between the parties and supersede all prior Agreements, oral or written and all other considerations between them relating to the subject matter hereof.
14. NO ORAL MODIFICATION. This Agreement shall not be modified, altered, terminated, or canceled, except by an instrument in writing signed by all of the parties hereto.
15. CHOICE OF LAW. This Agreement shall be construed, and the legal relations between the parties hereto shall be determined, in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, applicable to agreements

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(GAIN CAPITAL LOGO)
signed and to be wholly performed within the said State. The remedies available to the parties to enforce this Agreement shall be cumulative and shall include equitable remedies. The failure to act upon any breach or default hereunder shall not be deemed a waiver or approval thereof, nor shall the taking of any remedy be deemed a waiver of any other remedy available.
16. TERMINATION. If either party is in default of its obligations under this Agreement and such default continues for thirty (30) days after written notice is given by the party not in default, such non-defaulting party may (in additional to all other rights and remedies provided in this Agreement or by law) terminate this Agreement.
17. MISCELLANEOUS. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the parties hereto. Your Company will not assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of GAIN Capital. Your Company expressly consents to the assignment of this Agreement by GAIN Capital to any successors or purchasers of the whole or any part of its business and expressly consents to be bound by all terms herein to any such successors or purchasers.
In the event any part of this Agreement should be held to be invalid by any Court or Tribunal of competent jurisdiction, or such court or tribunal should restrain the compliance with or the enforcement of any part, the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby, and shall continue in full force and effect.
18. CONFIDENTIALITY. The terms and conditions of this Agreement are considered confidential and as such, the details should only be discussed between the two parties involved.
                 
Your Company       GAIN Capital Group, LLC
 
               
By:
          By:    
 
               
Print Name:         Print Name:  
 
               
Title:
          Title:    
 
               
Date:
          Date:    
 
               
Appendices:
Appendix A: Payment Instructions

Appendix B: Partner Services Provided

Appendix C: Promotional Material

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APPENDIX A

Payment Instructions
Please provide the following information.
For payments by check:
     
Name:
   
 
   
 
   
Address:
   
 
   
 
   
City, State, Country:
   
 
   
 
   
Telephone Number:
   
 
   
 
   
For payments by wire:
   
 
   
Bank Name
   
 
   
 
   
US Intermediary Bank
(required for int’l transfers)
   
 
   
 
   
ABA # or Swift Code
   
 
   
 
   
Bank Account #
   
 
   
 
   
Bank Address
   
 
   
 
   
City, State, Country
   
 
   
Undersigned hereby agrees that all requests to withdrawal funds must be submitted in writing, and will be processed and remitted by GAIN Capital as instructed herein.
         
Date:
       
 
 
 
   
Signature:
       
 
 
 
   
Print Name:
       
 
 
 
   

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Contact Information      
 
 
 
   
 
Primary Contact:    
 
 
 
   
Title:
       
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:    
 
 
 
   
Email Address:    
 
 
 
   
 
       
 
Technology Contact:      
Title:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:    
 
 
 
   
Email Address:    
 
 
 
   
 
       
 
Additional Contact:    
Title:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:    
 
 
 
   
Email Address:    
 
 
 
   
 
       
 
Additional Contact:    
 
 
 
   
Title:
       
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:    
 
 
 
   
Email Address:    
 
 
 
   
 
       
 
Additional Contact:    
Title:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:    
 
 
 
   
Email Address:    
 
 
 
   

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APPENDIX B

Partner Services Provided
I.  IB Shortfall Example
     A. Referenced from Partner Services Levels — Section B.3 above
  1.   If Service level calls for 25M per month and client does 19M in said month the control account will be debited 3M (1/2 of the 6M shortfall) worth of IB paid per their partner agreement
 
  2.   $75 per million x 3 (as per example) = $225 for shortfall
II.   IB Services Rendered by Service Level

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APPENDIX C
Promotional Material
In accordance with Section 9 of this Agreement, all promotional material content used by your company is subject to NFA Compliance Guidelines. GAIN Capital requests you currently inform us of all the promotional material used to solicit customers by completing this Appendix. Kindly continue to update GAIN on an on-going basis of any changes to your present promotional material or the adoption of any new promotional material prior to usage and dissemination to the public.
1.   (a) Do you solicit Forex customers, directly or indirectly by way of a website? If yes, kindly provide the URL to your website:
 
   
 
 
    (b) If you maintain more than one website utilized to solicit Forex customers, directly or indirectly, please disclose additional websites:
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
2.   Provide contact information for the appropriate individual to be contacted by GAIN for any potential comments and/or changes concerning promotional material.
         
 
  Contact name:    
 
       
         
 
  Phone Number:    
 
       
         
 
  E-mail address:    
 
       
3.   Do you employ other forms of advertising other than website(s)? (i.e. print ads, radio spots, tv commercials, seminars, cold calling, etc.)
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
4.   Do you plan to solicit US clients or only Non-US? Please disclose target markets by geographical region.

o US o NON US o BOTH
         
 
       If NON US, Please disclose geographical region    
 
       
5.   Are you currently registered with any regulatory agency, including but not limited to: CFTC, NFA, SEC, NASD? If yes, specify the agency and provide identification number(s).
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
6.   Do you have any 3 rd party solicitors not directly employed by your company soliciting customers on your company’s behalf for forex services and products? If yes, please disclose each individual 3rd party solicitor/entity.
 
   
 
 
   
 

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7.   If you have answered “No” to Item #1 and #3 above, please indicate the manner or method you plan to use in soliciting accounts:
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
8.   Did you at any point hold an Introducing Broker and/or Authorized Trader relationship with another Forex Dealer Member? If yes, please indicate the firm and whether the relationship is still active. If the relationship is no longer active, indicate the reasons for leaving and the dates reflecting when the relationship first commenced and when it effectively ended.
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
9.   Please affirm by initialing below you are not currently holding a Guaranteed Introducing Broker relationship with another Futures Commission Merchant (“FCM”) or have any intention of pursuing such a relationship. Please be advised this type of relationship with another FCM would service as immediate grounds for termination of this Agreement.
 
    Initials:                     
By signing below, you formally acknowledge you have read and understood this Appendix to the Agreement and all its content.
         
Signature:      
 
 
 
   
Name:
       
 
 
 
   
Title:
       
 
 
 
   

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Exhibit 10.31
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AGREEMENT FOR WHITE LABEL SERVICES BETWEEN
GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC AND Your Company
This Agreement is between YOUR COMPANY, whose office is located at [ADDRESS] and GAIN Capital Group, LLC, [“GAIN Capital”], a Limited Liability Company formed under the laws of Delaware with an office located at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921.
1. REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES
GAIN Capital and YOUR COMPANY each represent and warrant that:
(i) they are duly organized and validly existing under the applicable laws of the jurisdiction of their organization; (ii) execution and delivery of this Agreement and all Contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder and performance of all obligations contemplated under this Agreement and all Contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder have been duly authorized by their respective organizations; and (iii) each person executing and delivering this Agreement and all Contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder for or on behalf of GAIN Capital and YOUR COMPANY and performing the obligations contemplated under this Agreement have been duly authorized by their respective organizations to do so; (iv) execution and delivery by YOUR COMPANY and GAIN Capital of this Agreement and all Contracts and other transactions contemplated hereunder, and performance of all of Your Company’s and GAIN Capital’s obligations contemplated under this Agreement and any Contract and other transaction contemplated hereunder, will not violate any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance, charter, by-law or policy applicable to said organizations.
2. SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED
  Additional Pip Spread : a pip spreading mechanism that allows YOUR COMPANY to add pips onto GAIN’s normal bid/ask spread. YOUR COMPANY will earn revenue generated from the additional pip capture according to the following schedule:
         
CURRENCY   ADD’L PIPS ON   ADD’L PIPS ON
PAIR   BID   ASK
AUD/JPY
       
AUD/USD
       
CAD/JPY
       
CHF/JPY
       
EUR/AUD
       
EUR/CAD
       
EUR/CHF
       
EUR/GBP
       
EUR/JPY
       
EUR/USD
       
GBP/CHF
       
GBP/JPY
       
GBP/USD
       
NZD/JPY
       

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CURRENCY   ADD’L PIPS ON   ADD’L PIPS ON
PAIR   BID   ASK
NZD/USD
       
USD/CAD
       
USD/CHF
       
USD/JPY
       
  Control Account for Earned Fees and Other Payments — Upon receipt of a completed and executed GAIN Capital Customer Application in the name of YOUR COMPANY, a Control Account in YOUR COMPANY’s name will be established to hold funds, if any, resulting from a sweep of pips, commissions, fees or other applicable credits owed to you. Funds are held in YOUR COMPANY L’s Control Account until GAIN Capital receives a withdrawal request. All withdrawal requests must be in writing and submitted to GAIN Capital. Withdrawal requests are normally processed within two (2) business days of receipt.
 
  Customer and bank account information MUST match the information provided on Appendix A of this Agreement. GAIN will not make or receive payment via third party. At this time, there is no fee for withdrawal requests via check. Withdrawal requests via wire transfer will be charged GAIN Capital’s normal wiring fee, which will be deducted directly from the withdrawal amount.
 
  Partner Service Levels
  A.   Service Level Qualifications
  1.   Premier
  a.   Entry Service Level
  2.   Gold
  a.   Volume of 25M to 300M per month or
 
  b.   100 Active Accounts per quarter
  3.   Platinum
  a.   Volume of 301M to 750M per month or
 
  b.   250 Active Accounts per quarter
  4.   Black
  a.   Volume of over 751M per month or
 
  b.   500 Active Accounts per quarter
  B.   General Parameters
  1.   A all figures are based on sustained quarterly performance averages (90-Days)
 
  2.   A client may opt into a higher services level but most meet the service level qualifications after a 90-Day evaluation period.
 
  3.   If a client opts into a higher service level and after 90-days does not meet selected service level requirements the clients control account will be debited by the amount of IB paid on volume equal to 1 / 2 the amount of the shortfall.
  C.   Services Included & IB shortfall example
  1.   Please see Appendix B below
3. PAYMENT FOR ORDER FLOW
GAIN Capital will pay YOUR COMPANY USD ___pips per million round trip base currency unit transaction executed by YOUR COMPANY Originated Customers through GAIN Capital. All volume calculations will begin the first trading day of each calendar month and end the last trading day of each calendar month. GAIN Capital will make these payments for trade order flow during the initial term of the Agreement between GAIN Capital and Your Company, provided that both Your Company and GAIN Capital honor all terms and conditions of the Agreement.
In addition, GAIN Capital will, on a best efforts basis, help YOUR COMPANY in the negotiation of existing and future IB relationships YOUR COMPANY may present.
4. TERM OF AGREEMENT
The initial term of this Agreement shall be for a period of three (3) years commencing on the date both parties have duly executed this Agreement. During this time period YOUR COMPANY agrees to an exclusive arrangement with GAIN Capital whereby they will not use, endorse, or otherwise market any other FX trading platform.
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Agreement by providing reasonable notice following the decision to terminate. In the event of termination for any reason, Your Company shall promptly destroy all of the information and materials supplied by GAIN Capital gathered since the negotiation and commencement of this Agreement, or any parts thereof, that may then be in his possession in any form and in any medium.
5. TAXES AND OTHER COSTS
GAIN Capital shall not be responsible for taxes of any kind, nature or description (such as income, sales, use and personal property taxes) levied by any federal, state, county, or city governments that are assessed against YOUR COMPANY resulting from this Agreement; provided, however, GAIN Capital shall be solely responsible for any and all income, franchise, gross receipts, and like taxes and occupancy, real estate and like taxes levied by any such governments that are assessed or imposed on GAIN Capital for its activities or facilities under this Agreement.
6. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This Agreement is a non-exclusive arrangement with respect to GAIN Services. YOUR COMPANY is not authorized to make any representations concerning GAIN Capital or the services to be provided by GAIN Capital hereunder.
YOUR COMPANY agrees to comply with all Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations and National Futures Association (NFA) compliance rules including, but not limited to, solicitation and sales practices, trading performance statements, risk disclosure, communications with the public, and the use of promotional materials. GAIN Capital has the right to conduct an audit of YOUR COMPANY’s website, sales practices and promotional materials to ensure compliance with NFA and CFTC regulations, and YOUR COMPANY agrees to fulfill all requests from GAIN Capital regarding such compliance matters.
YOUR COMPANY agrees to display risk and other required disclosures on your website, and agrees to only use verbiage approved by GAIN Capital in any and all descriptions of your relationship and agreements with GAIN Capital.
If Your Company is an NFA member introducing Customers to Gain Capital and/or Forex.com on a fully disclosed basis, you acknowledge and affirm that Your Company, its principals, employees and/or agents do not and will not utilize and/or compensate any third party unregulated solicitor(s) now or in the future.
All copyright, trademark, trade secret, software and all associated software components, media, user guides and training or education material, whether electronic or paper form and other intellectual property rights in the GAIN Capital Online Trading System (“Trading System”) shall remain at all times the sole and exclusive property of GAIN Capital and YOUR COMPANY shall have no right or interest in the Trading System. YOUR COMPANY acknowledges that the Trading System is confidential to GAIN and has been developed through the expenditure of substantial skill, time, effort and money. YOUR COMPANY will not publish, distribute, or otherwise make information available to third parties any information derived from or relating to the Trading System without the prior written approval of GAIN Capital. YOUR COMPANY acknowledges the License Agreement provided herein as Appendix C includes the entire understanding of the license granted to YOUR COMPANY in reference to the Trading System. You agree to provide each individual customer a user-end license agreement written for the benefit of YOUR COMPANY referencing the user-end license agreement is subject to the License Agreement between GAIN and YOUR COMPANY and GAIN is the third party licensor of the Trading System. Both Appendix C as between GAIN Capital and YOUR COMPANY and the end-user license agreement between YOUR COMPANY and individual customers is in no way to be understood as GAIN assigning any right, title or interest to any of such Software Product except as provided in this Agreement. YOUR COMPANY will not copy, modify, de-compile, reverse engineer, or make derivative works of the Trading System or in the manner in which it operates.
7. ARBITRATION
This Agreement is governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, United States of America without giving effect to any conflict of laws doctrine that would interfere with or prevent the application of this provision. With respect to any suit, action or proceeding (“Proceeding”) relating to this Agreement, YOUR COMPANY irrevocably (i) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the State and federal courts located in the Borough of Manhattan, State of New York; (ii) agrees to service of process in any legal proceeding by sending copies thereof by registered or certified mail, if practicable (postage prepaid) to the other party at the address set forth in this Agreement; (iii) waives any objection which it may have at any time to the laying of venue of any Proceeding brought in any such court, waives any claim that such Proceeding have been brought in an inconvenient forum; and (iv) further waives the right to object, with respect to such Proceeding, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party. Alternatively, at the option of either GAIN Capital or Your Company, any proceeding hereunder may be submitted for arbitration before the American Arbitration Association at either their New York or New

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Jersey Office. Voiding of any clause of this Agreement by a court of competent jurisdiction shall not void the entire agreement and shall apply only to the specific clause.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
General
GAIN Capital will not be liable for any special, indirect, consequential, punitive or incidental damages arising from a breach or alleged breach of this Agreement, however caused and under any theory of liability (including negligence), even if such party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
With Respect To Services Rendered By GAIN Capital
GAIN Capital will not be liable to YOUR COMPANY for any errors, omissions, or interruptions associated with services rendered by GAIN Capital. This includes website functionality and content, trading application content and performance, trade execution, trade processing, customer service, account registration, as well as all other services provided by GAIN Capital under this agreement. In addition, Each party shall indemnify and hold harmless the other Party and its affiliates, subsidiaries and successors and their directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, suits, actions, loss, costs, damages, liability, or other expense related to services rendered by GAIN Capital in connection with YOUR COMPANY’s business activities.
9. NOTICES
Any notice to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be deemed to have been given, made or sent when mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. Any such notice shall be addressed to the parties at their addresses set forth above.
10. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
The parties acknowledge that no representations or statements not contained herein have been made by any of them regarding any present intention or concerning any term or provision of this Agreement or the Service. The provisions hereof constitute the entire Agreement between the parties and supersede all prior Agreements, oral or written and all other considerations between them relating to the subject matter hereof.
11. NO ORAL MODIFICATION.
This Agreement shall not be modified, altered, terminated, or canceled, except by an instrument in writing signed by all of the parties hereto.
12. CHOICE OF LAW
This Agreement shall be construed, and the legal relations between the parties hereto shall be determined, in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, applicable to agreements signed and to be wholly performed within the said State. The remedies available to the parties to enforce this Agreement shall be cumulative and shall include equitable remedies. The failure to act upon any breach or default hereunder shall not be deemed a waiver or approval thereof, nor shall the taking of any remedy be deemed a waiver of any other remedy available.
13. TERMINATION
If either party is in material default of its obligations under this Agreement and such default continues for thirty (30) days after written notice is given by the party not in default, such non-defaulting party may (in additional to all other rights and remedies provided in this Agreement or by law) terminate this Agreement.
14. MISCELLANEOUS
This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the parties hereto. YOUR COMPANY will not assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of GAIN Capital. YOUR COMPANY expressly consents to the assignment of this Agreement by GAIN Capital to any successors or purchasers of the whole or any part of its business and expressly consents to be bound by all terms herein to any such successors or purchasers.
In the event any part of this Agreement should be held to be invalid by any Court or Tribunal of competent jurisdiction, or such court or tribunal should restrain the compliance with or the enforcement of any part, the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby, and shall continue in full force and effect.
15. CONFIDENTIALITY
The terms and conditions of this Agreement are considered confidential and as such, the details should only

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be discussed between the two parties involved.
                     
YOUR COMPANY       GAIN Capital Group, LLC.    
 
                   
Signature:
          Signature:        
Print Name:
 
 
      Print Name:  
 
   
Title:
 
 
      Title:  
 
   
Date:
 
 
      Date:  
 
   
 
 
 
         
 
   
Appendixes:
Appendix A: Payment Instructions
Appendix B: Partner Services Provided
Appendix C: License Agreement for ForexTrader for Windows © SOFTWARE
Appendix D: Promotional Material

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APPENDIX A
Payment Instructions
Please provide the following information.
         
For payments by check:
       
 
       
Name:
       
 
 
 
   
Address:
       
 
 
 
   
City, State, Country:
       
 
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
       
 
 
 
   
For payments by wire:
       
 
       
Bank Name
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
US Intermediary Bank
(required for int’l transfers)
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
ABA # or Swift Code
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Bank Account #
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Bank Address
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
City, State, Country
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
Undersigned hereby agrees that all requests to withdrawal funds must be submitted in writing, and will be processed and remitted by GAIN Capital as instructed herein.
         
Date:
       
 
 
 
   
Signature:
       
 
 
 
   
Print Name:
       
 
 
 
   

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Contact Information
         
Primary Contact:
       
Title:
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
 
 
   
Email Address:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
       
Technology Contact:
       
Title:
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
 
 
   
Email Address:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
       
Additional Contact:
       
Title:
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
 
 
   
Email Address:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
       
Additional Contact:
       
Title:
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
 
 
   
Email Address:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
       
Additional Contact:
       
Title:
 
 
   
Telephone Number:
 
 
   
Email Address:
 
 
   
 
 
 
   

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APPENDIX B
Partner Services Provided
(TO BE MODIFIED BY INSTITUTIONAL SALES AS PER AGREEMENT)
I. IB Shortfall Example
  A.   Referenced from Partner Services Levels — Section B.3 above
  1.   If Service level calls for 25M per month and client does 19M in said month the control account will be debited 3M (1/2 of the 6M shortfall) worth of IB paid per their partner agreement
 
  2.   $75 per million x 3 (as per example) = $225 for shortfall
II. White Label Services Rendered by Service Level
Please consult document — GAIN SLA Overview to insert details.

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Appendix C
LICENSE AGREEMENT
FOR ForexTrader for Windows © SOFTWARE
1. SCOPE OF THIS AGREEMENT. This License Agreement is made between GAIN Capital Group, LLC (“Licensor”) and YOUR COMPANY (“Licensee”) governing your installation, use and distribution of the ForexTrader (“Software”) as a White Label with GAIN Capital. This License Agreement protects the installation, usage and distribution of the Software and any and all associated software components, media, user guides, and training or education materials, whether in electronic or paper form (collectively the “Software Product”) entered into when you execute the White Label Agreement.
2. RELATIONSHIP TO GAIN CAPITAL AND GAIN CAPITAL SERVICES. Upon executing the White Label Agreement, you are a White Label with GAIN Capital and ForexTrader is an “electronic service” within the meaning of this Agreement. Your use of ForexTrader is subject to the provisions of the Agreement in order to become a White Label. You acknowledge and attest ForexTrader, as an electronic advice, is not intended to provide investment, tax or legal advice. ForexTrader is proprietary to GAIN Capital and is protected by intellectual property laws and international intellectual property treaties. YOUR COMPANY’s access to ForexTrader is licensed and not sold. You acknowledge and agree the purpose of this License Agreement is to provide a license to you as a White Label in order to provide access and usage to YOUR COMPANY’s customers who have executed a customer agreement with YOUR COMPANY and hold a foreign currency trading account with YOUR COMPANY.
You also acknowledge and agree to the following terms and conditions:
    By making ForexTrader available to you, Company is not providing you with any investment, tax or other form of advice, and ForexTrader’s sole purpose.
 
    Your use of ForexTrader will be in a manner not inconsistent with applicable laws and regulations.
 
    ForexTrader incorporates market data and other information (collectively “Market Data”) that GAIN Capital receives from our agents, vendors or partners (“Third Party Providers”). GAIN Capital does not endorse or approve the Market Information and makes it available to you only as a service and convenience. GAIN Capital and our Third Party Providers do not (1) guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness or correct sequencing of the Market Information, or (2) warrant any results from your use or reliance on the Market Information. Market Information may quickly become unreliable for various reasons including, for example, changes in market conditions or economic circumstances. Neither GAIN Capital nor the Third Party Providers are obligated to update any information or opinions contained in any Market Information, and we may discontinue offering Market Information at any time without notice. You agree that neither GAIN Capital nor the Third Party Providers will be liable in any way for the termination, interruption, delay or inaccuracy of any Market Information. You will not redistribute or facilitate the redistribution of Market Information, nor will you provide access to Market Information to anyone who is not authorized by GAIN Capital to receive Market Information.
 
    Licensee agrees that from time to time, ForexTrader may be inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including, without limitation: (a) equipment (hardware) malfunctions, (b) software malfunctions, (c) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs which Company may undertake from time to time, or (d) causes beyond the reasonable control of Company or which causes are not reasonably foreseeable by Company. Company is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for the performance and/or reliability of the Third Party Providers or User’s Internet Service Provider (“ISP”).
 
    Licensee and each individual customer shall be solely responsible for providing, maintaining and ensuring compatibility with the Software, all hardware, electrical and other physical requirements for User’s use of the Software including, without limitation, telecommunications and Internet connection(s), ISP, web browsers and/or other equipment, programs and services required to access and use the Software.
3. GRANT OF LICENSE. GAIN Capital grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install, use and provide to your customers a copy of ForexTrader in multiple computers running a validly licensed copy of Windows © for which GAIN developed and designed ForexTrader.

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You acknowledge that GAIN Capital has granted this license to you for mutual consideration. This license is restricted to your personal use or if user is a corporate entity for the use of its employees and customers the meaning of customer to mean having executed a customer agreement with YOUR COMPANY and holding a foreign currency trading account with YOUR COMPANY in the course of your normal course of business for the limited purposes described in the user’s guide and any training materials. This license permits you to make one copy of ForexTrader for backup or archival purposes only. Any copying and/or redistribution or alternatively facilitating in redistribution of ForexTrader outside of the meaning of customer is strictly prohibited without the prior express written consent by Company. You are acquiring no right to use, and shall not use, without GAIN Capital’s prior written consent, the terms or existence of this Agreement, the names, characters, artwork, designs, trade names, copyrighted materials, trademarks or service markets of GAIN Capital, its affiliates, agents, vendors and licensors. ForexTrader is provided in object code form only.
4. RESTRICTIONS ON USE. You shall not (a) use, copy, merge, make derivative works of or transfer copies of the Software Product, except as specifically authorized in this Agreement; (b) use the backup or archival copy of the Software Product (or permit any third party to use such copy) for any purpose other than to replace the original copy in the event that it is destroyed or becomes defective; (c) rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, transfer, copy, modify or timeshare the Software Product or any of your rights under this Agreement, except as expressly authorized in this Agreement; (d) provide unauthorized third parties with access to or use of the Software Product; (e) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise attempt to access the source code of the Software Product, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law; or (f) use the Software Product after any expiration, termination or cancellation of this Agreement or the license granted in Grant of License Section set herein.
5. OWNERSHIP. The Software Product is licensed, not sold, to you for use only upon the terms of this Agreement, and GAIN Capital and its vendors, licensors or suppliers reserve all rights not expressly granted to you. GAIN Capital retains ownership of all copies of the Software Product. The Software Product is protected by U.S. copyright laws and international treaties, and the unauthorized reproduction or distribution thereof is subject to civil and criminal penalties. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the content which may be accessed through use of the Software Product is the property of the respective content owner(s) and may be subject to their terms and conditions.
6. SUPPORT SERVICES. GAIN Capital or its agents may provide you with support services related to the Software Product (“Support Services”). Any supplemental software code or other materials provided to you as part of the Support Services shall be considered part of the Software Product and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. With respect to technical information you provide to GAIN Capital as part of the Support Services, you agree and acknowledge GAIN Capital may use such information for its business purposes, including for product support and development for which you will make no claim. GAIN Capital will not utilize such technical information in a form that personally identifies you.
7. TERM AND TERMINATION. The term of this Agreement and the license granted to you will continue until it is terminated as provided in this Section. Without prejudice to any other rights GAIN Capital may have, the license granted under this Agreement will terminate automatically in the event you violate any provision of this Agreement or if YOUR COMPANY terminates your White Label relationship with GAIN Capital. You may terminate or cancel the license granted by discontinuing use of the Software Product and providing GAIN Capital with written notice. In the event of termination, for any reason, you shall delete the Software Product from your computer(s) and discontinue providing the Software Product as a service to your customers. You understand GAIN Capital may discontinue technical and customer support for this Software Product at any time without any recourse by you.
8. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. ALL WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT’S FUNCTIONS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT ITS OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS WITH YOU. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES TO AND IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF GAIN CAPITAL, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, VENDORS AND LICENSORS.
9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall GAIN Capital, its affiliates, agents, vendors or licensors be liable to you or any third party for any damages of any kind, including but not limited to punitive, exemplary, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages (for example, loss of personal or business profits, business interruption, loss of business information or any other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Software Product or the provision of or failure to provide Support Services. This limitation applies even if GAIN Capital has been advised of the

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possibility of such damages and regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise.
10. GENERAL. You acknowledge and agree that each provision of this Agreement that provides for a disclaimer of warranties or an exclusion or limitation of damages represents an express allocation of risk, and is part of the consideration of this Agreement.
a. Amendment. GAIN Capital shall have the right, at any time and without prior written notice to or consent from YOUR COMPANY, to add to or modify the terms of this Agreement, simply by delivering such amended terms to YOUR COMPANY by e-mail at the address provided to GAIN by YOUR COMPANY or by requiring YOUR COMPANY to accept an updated Agreement upon accessing the Software/Service. YOUR COMPANY’s access to or use of the Software/Service after the date such amended terms are delivered to YOUR COMPANY shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such amended terms.
b. Waiver. No waiver of any term, provision or condition of this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances, shall be deemed to be, or shall constitute, a waiver of any other term, provision or condition hereof, whether or not similar, nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver of any such term, provision or condition hereof. No waiver shall be binding unless executed in writing by the party making the waiver.
c. Severability. If any provision of this License Agreement is determined to be illegal or unenforceable, then such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent possible and the other provisions shall remain fully effective and enforceable.
d. Notice. All notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed to be delivered when sent by first-class mail or when sent by facsimile or e-mail to either parties’ last known post office, facsimile or e-mail address, respectively. User hereby consents to notice by e-mail. All notices shall be directed to the parties at the respective addresses given above or to such other address as either party may, from time to time, provide to the other party.
e. Governing Law. This Agreement is made in and shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without reference to any conflicts of laws. You agree that all actions or proceedings arising in connection with this Agreement shall be tried and litigated exclusively in the state and federal courts located in New York, New York. GAIN Capital’s affiliates, agents, vendors and licensors are intended third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.
f. Dispute Resolution. Any and all disputes relating to or arising out of this License Agreement including, but not limited to, the arbitrability and the validity of this License Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration in New York, New York.
g. Force Majeure. If the performance of any part of this License Agreement by either party is prevented, hindered, delayed or otherwise made impracticable by causes beyond the reasonable control of either party, that party shall be excused from such performance to the extent that it is prevented, hindered or delayed by such causes.
h. Entire Agreement. This License Agreement constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between the parties with respect to the Software/Service and supersedes any and all prior or contemporaneous communications, representations, statements and understandings, whether oral or written, between the parties concerning the Software/Service.
                     
YOUR COMPANY       GAIN Capital Group, LLC    
 
                   
Signature:
          Signature:        
Print Name:
 
 
      Print Name:  
 
   
Title:
 
 
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APPENDIX D
Promotional Material
In accordance with Section 9 of this Agreement, all promotional material content used by your company is subject to NFA Compliance Guidelines. GAIN Capital requests you currently inform us of all the promotional material used to solicit customers by completing this Appendix. Kindly continue to update GAIN on an on-going basis of any changes to your present promotional material or the adoption of any new promotional material prior to usage and dissemination to the public.
  1.   (a) Do you solicit Forex customers, directly or indirectly by way of a website? If yes, kindly provide the URL to your website:
 
     
 
 
      (b) If you maintain more than one website utilized to solicit Forex customers, directly or indirectly, please disclose additional websites:
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  2.   Provide contact information for the appropriate individual to be contacted by GAIN for any potential comments and/or changes concerning promotional material.
 
      Contact name:                                                                                                                                                                                 
 
      Phone Number:                                                                                                                                                                                
 
      E-mail address:                                                                                                                                                                                
 
  3.   Do you employ other forms of advertising other than website(s)? (i.e. print ads, radio spots, tv commercials, seminars, cold calling, etc.)
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  4.   Do you plan to solicit US clients or only Non-US? Please disclose target markets by geographical region.
 
      o US o NON US o BOTH
 
      If NON US, Please disclose geographical region                                                                                                          
 
  5.   Are you currently registered with any regulatory agency, including but not limited to: CFTC, NFA, SEC, NASD? If yes, specify the agency and provide identification number(s).
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  6.   Do you have any 3 rd party solicitors not directly employed by your company soliciting customers on your company’s behalf for forex services and products? If yes, please disclose each individual 3 rd party solicitor/entity.
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  7.   If you have answered “No” to Item #1 and #3 above, please indicate the manner or method you plan to use in soliciting accounts:
 
     
 
 
     
 

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  8.   Did you at any point hold an Introducing Broker and/or Authorized Trader relationship with another Forex Dealer Member? If yes, please indicate the firm and whether the relationship is still active. If the relationship is no longer active, indicate the reasons for leaving and the dates reflecting when the relationship first commenced and when it effectively ended.
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  9.   Please affirm by initialing below you are not currently holding a Guaranteed Introducing Broker relationship with another Futures Commission Merchant (“FCM”) or have any intention of pursuing such a relationship. Please be advised this type of relationship with another FCM would service as immediate grounds for termination of this Agreement.
 
      Initials:                     
By signing below, you formally acknowledge you have read and understood this Appendix to the Agreement and all its content.
         
Signature:
       
 
 
 
   
Name:
       
 
 
 
   
Title:
       
 
 
 
   

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Exhibit 10.32
SUBLEASE
THIS SUBLEASE AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as this “Sublease”), is made as of the 31 st day of March, 2005, between NUl Corporation, a corporation of the State of New Jersey, having an office located at 1085 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083(hereinafter referred to as “Sublandlord”), and GAIN CAPITAL, INC., a corporation of the State of                      , having an office located at 35 Technology Drive, Warren, NJ 07059 (hereinafter referred to as “Subtenant”).
All capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Prime Leases (as defined below).
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, by that certain Agreement of Lease dated August 16, 1988 (the “ Original 1988 Prime Lease ”), as amended by the First Amendment to Lease dated April 15, 1994 (“1988 Lease First Amendment”), Second Amendment to Lease dated August 5, 1999 (“1988 Lease Second Amendment ”), Third Amendment to Sublease dated December 14, 2000 (“ 1988 Lease Third Amendment ”) and the Fourth Amendment to Lease dated November 14, 2001 (“ 1988 Lease Fourth Amendment ”) (the Original 1988 Prime Lease, as so amended and as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ 1988 Prime Lease ”), and that certain Agreement of Lease dated July 18, 1996 (the “ Original 1996 Prime Lease ”), as amended by the First Amendment to Lease dated September 31, 1996 (the “1996 Lease First Amendment”), Second Amendment to Lease dated February 19, 1997 (the “1996 Lease Second Amendment”) and Third Amendment to Lease dated August 5, 1999 (the “1996 Lease Third Amendment”) (the Original 1996 Prime Lease, as so amended and as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ 1996 Prime Lease ”; the 1988 Prime Lease and the 1996 Prime Lease, together as the “ Prime Leases ”), copies of the Prime Leases as they are in effect on the date hereof are attached hereto as “Exhibit A”, Sublandlord leases from THE OFFICE AT BEDMINSTER, LLC (as successor to Sammis Pluckemin Associates) (the “Prime Landlord”), a portion of the building (the “ Building ”) located at 550 Route 206 North, Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey (such portion leased to the Sub landlord under the Prime Leases is sometimes referred to herein as the “ Demised Premises ”); and
     WHEREAS, Subtenant and Sublandlord have agreed to enter into this Sublease pursuant to which Sub landlord shall sublease to Subtenant a portion of the Demised Premises consisting of 15,180 rentable square feet located on the 2nd floor of the Building and 7,591 rentable square feet located on the 1st floor of the Building for a total of 22,771, as described on the floor plan attached hereto as “ Exhibit B ,” together with the use of eighty-one (81) outdoor, non-designated, non-exclusive parking spaces, and fifteen (15) reserved parking spaces under the Building, and together with all fixtures, equipment, improvements and installations attached thereto (the “ Leased Premises ”), and together with the nonexclusive right to use the Common Areas (as defmed in the Prime Leases) of the Building, in common with other occupants of the Building, as and to the same extent as Sublandlord is entitled to use such areas pursuant to the Prime Leases.
     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, Sublandlord and Subtenant agree as follows:

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1. Sublease . Sublandlord hereby subleases to Subtenant, and Subtenant hereby subleases from Sublandlord, upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Leased Premises.
2. Rent.
     (a)  Fixed Rent; Additional Rent . Subtenant hereby covenants and agrees to pay to Sublandlord, without demand, counterclaim, deduction or setoff of any kind,
          (i) monthly fixed rent at the rate of $19.75 per rentable square foot per annum, or Thirty-Seven Thousand Four Hundred Seventy Seven Dollars and Twenty Seven Cents ($37,477.27) per month (“ Fixed Rent ”), payable and due in advance commencing on the Rent Commencement Date (as defined below) and thereafter on the first day of each calendar month during the tenn of this Sublease, provided that monthly rent for any partial calendar month during the term shall be prorated; and
          (ii) Additional Rent as follows:
               (A) Subtenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses in excess of Base Expenses pursuant to Section 2(b) below;
               (B) annual electricity charges for the Demised Premises, for which estimated payments at the rate of $1.50 per rentable square foot per annum ($2,846.38 per month) shall be payable from Subtenant to Sub landlord monthly, subject to quarterly true-up based on usage information as received by Sublandlord from the Prime Landlord with respect to the Leased Premises, payable by Subtenant within ten (10) business days following Sublandlord’s delivery of an invoice therefore (accompanied by back-up documentation as provided to Sublandlord by Prime Landlord) to Subtenant; provided however, that, so long as Subtenant’s use of the Demised Premises is consistent with normal office usage (as determined by Sublandlord in its reasonable, good faith discretion), in no event shall Subtenant’s annual electricity charges exceed $2.00 per square foot; and
                (C)  any other amounts payable by Subtenant to Sublandlord hereunder, including, but not limited to, Subtenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses. The amounts payable pursuant to subclause (ii) hereof shall be deemed “Additional Rem” hereunder.
     (b)  Expenses .
          (i) Definitions . For purposes of this Sublease and in addition to the tenns defined elsewhere in this Sublease, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
               (A) “ Base Expenses ” shall mean Expenses payable by Sublandlord to Prime Landlord, calculated on a rentable square foot basis during the Base Year.
               (B) “ Base Year ” shall mean the calendar year 2005.

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          (C) “ Expenses ” shall mean Expenses (as defined in the Prime Leases) charged by Prime Landlord to Sublandlord.
          (D) “ Subtenant’s Proportionate Share ” shall equal the Proportionate Share described, and corresponding amount of Expenses payable to the Prime Landlord by Sublandlord, with respect to the ''New Premises” as set forth in Paragraph 6 of the Fourth Amendment and as contained in the Statement of Actual Operating Expenses provided to Sublandlord by the Prime Landlord with respect to the Leased Premises. In the event Subtenant’s Proportionate Share is changed during a calendar year by reason of a change in the rentable square footage of the Leased Premises or the Demised Premises, Subtenant’s Proportionate Share shall thereupon be adjusted to correspond with any changes made by the Prime Landlord with respect to Sublandlord’s Proportionate Share described, and corresponding amount of Expenses payable to the Prime Landlord by Sublandord, with respect to the Leased Premises.
          (ii)  Generally . From and after the expiration of the Base Year, for each calendar year of the Term, Subtenant, as Additional Rent, shall pay Subtenant’s Proportionate Share of the amount by which Expenses payable by Sublandlord for the then current calendar year exceed Base Expenses. Sublandlord shall give Subtenant written notice of Sublandlord’s estimate of the amount of Additional Rent per month payable pursuant to this Subsection 2(b) for each calendar year after the Base Year promptly following the Sublandlord’s receipt of Landlord’s estimate of the Expenses payable under the Prime Leases. Thereafter, the Additional Rent payable pursuant to this Subsection 2(b) shall be determined and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 2(b)(iii) below.
          (iii) The determination and adjustment of Expenses payable hereunder shall be made in accordance with the following procedures:
               (A) Upon receipt of a statement from Prime Landlord specifying the estimated Expenses to be charged to Sublandlord under the Prime Leases with respect to each calendar year, or as soon after receipt of such statement as practicable, Sublandlord shall give Subtenant written notice of its estimate of Expenses payable under Section 2(b )(ii) for the ensuing calendar year, which estimate shall be prepared in the reasonable, good faith discretion of Sublandlord and shall be based on the estimate received from Prime Landlord (as Prime Landlord’s estimate may change from time to time), together with a copy of the statement received from Prime Landlord. On or before the first day of each month during each calendar year, Subtenant shall pay to Sublandlord as Additional Rent one-twelfth (l/12th) of such estimated amount together with the Base Rent.
               (B) In the event Sub landlord’s notice is not given in December of the calendar year preceding the calendar year for which Sublandlord’s notice is applicable, as the case may be, then until the calendar month after such notice is delivered by Sublandlord, Subtenant shall continue to pay to Sublandlord monthly, during the ensuing calendar year, estimated payments equal to the amounts payable hereunder during the calendar year just ended. Upon receipt of any such post-December notice Subtenant shall (i) commence as of the immediately following calendar month, and continue for the remainder of the calendar year, to pay to Sublandlord monthly such new estimated payments and (ii) if the monthly installment of

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the new estimate of Expenses payable is greater than the monthly installment of the estimate for the previous calendar year, pay to Sublandlord within ten (10) business days of the receipt of such notice an amount equal to the difference of such monthly installment mUltiplied by the number of full and partial calendar months of such year preceding the deli very of such notice.
               (iv) Within thirty (30) days after the receipt by Sub landlord of a final statement of Expenses from Prime Landlord with respect to each calendar year, Sublandlord shall deliver to Subtenant a statement of the adjustment to be made for the calendar year just ended, together with a copy of the Statement received by Sublandlord from Landlord. If on the basis of such statement Subtenant owes an amount that is less than the estimated payments for the calendar year just ended, previously paid by Subtenant, Sublandlord shall credit such excess to the next payments of Rent coming due or, if the term of this Sublease is about to expire, promptly refund such excess to Subtenant. If on the basis of such statement Subtenant owes an amount that is more than the estimated payments for the calendar year just ended previously made by Subtenant, Subtenant shall pay the deficiency to Sublandlord within ten (10) business days after delivery of the statement from Sublandlord to Subtenant.
               (v) Sublandlord shall refund to Subtenant Subtenant’s Proportionate Share of any sums actually refunded or reimbursed to Sublandlord pursuant to the terms of the Prime Leases, reduced by Subtenant’s Proportionate Share of any amounts, including attorney’s fees, expended by Sublandlord to obtain such refund, reimbursement or payment.
          (c) Security Deposit . Subtenant shall deposit a security deposit (“Security Deposit”) in an amount equal to two (2) months Fixed Rent with Sublandlord upon the execution of this Sublease. Said sum shall be held by Sublandlord as security for the faithful performance by Subtenant of all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Sublease to be kept and performed by Subtenant and not as an advance rental deposit or as a measure of Sublandlord’s damage in case of the Subtenant’s default. If Subtenant defaults with respect to any provision of this Sublease, Sublandlord may use any part of the Security Deposit for the payment of any rent or any other sum in default, or for the payment of any amount which Sublandlord may spend or become obligated to spend by reason of Subtenant’s default, or to compensate Sublandlord for any other loss or damage which Sub landlord may suffer by reason or Subtenant’s default. If any portion is so used, Subtenant shall, within five (5) days after written demand therefor, deposit with Sublandlord an amount sufficient to restore the Security Deposit to its original amount and Subtenant’s failure to do so shall be a material breach of this Sublease. Except to such extent, if any, as shall be required by law, Sublandlord shall not be required to keep the Security Deposit separate from its general funds, and Subtenant shall not be entitled to interest on such deposit. If Subtenant shall fully and faithfully perform every provision of this Sublease to be performed by it, the Security Deposit, or any balance thereof (along with an itemization of any amounts withheld from such Security Deposit), shall be returned to Subtenant within sixty (60) days after termination of this Sublease when Sublandlord shall have determined that all of Subtenant’s obligations under this Sublease have been fulfilled; provided that Sub landlord shall make a commercially reasonable effort to return such Deposit or the balance thereof within forty-five days of the termination of this Sublease.
          (d) Rent Commencement Date . The “Rent Commencement Date” shall mean the date 90 days from the full execution of the Sublease Agreement.

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     3.  Payment Terms .
          (a)  Generally . All amounts payable by Subtenant hereunder shall be paid to Sublandlord at its office specified above, or such other place or places as Sublandlord shall designate in writing to Subtenant, in lawful money of the United States of America.
          (b)  Initial Payment . Subtenant shall pay to Sublandlord, on the Rent Commencement Date, an amount equal to $40,491.67 (or a prorated portion thereof in the event the Rent Commencement Date occurs on a date other than the first day of a calendar month), which amount represents (x) the Fixed Rent to be credited to payment of the first full month’s Fixed Rent (i.e., $37,666.67) and (y) Sublandlord’s estimate of the monthly additional rent payable hereunder applicable to the first full month (i.e., $2,825.00). Subtenant’s and Sublandlord’s payment obligations hereunder shall survive the expiration or early termination of this Sublease.
     4.  Term .
          (a)  Term . The term of this Sublease (the “ Term ”) shall commence on the Commencement Date (the “Commencement Date”) which shall be the date on which the Prime Landlord shall execute and deliver its consent to this Sublease, and shall terminate on December 31, 2009 (the " Termination Date ”), unless sooner terminated as provided herein. In the event either of the Prime Leases are terminated with respect to the Leased Premises or any part thereof, unless Prime Landlord elects to recognize Subtenant on a “direct” basis on terms acceptable to Subtenant in its sole discretion, this Sublease shall automatically so terminate at the same time. (b) Early Access to Premises. Upon execution of this Sublease by both parties hereto and issuance of a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy for the Leased Premises. Subtenant shall be entitled to enter into the Lease Premises for installation of Subtenant’s furniture, tenant improvements and equipment.
     5.  No Waste . Subtenant shall not use or permit the use of the Leased Premises in any manner that will create waste or a nuisance, disturb other tenants of the Building, or constitute a violation of any provision of, or a default under, the Prime Leases or this Sublease. The Leased Premises is to be used and occupied only by Subtenant (or Subtenant’s subtenants or assignees) and for no purpose other than conducting Subtenant’s current business in the ordinary course consistent with past practice, subject in all respects to the Prime Leases.
     6.  Assignment and Subletting . Subtenant covenants that it will not by reason of any act or omission of Subtenant, assign, mortgage, pledge or encumber (by operation of law or otherwise) this Sublease, nor let, sublet, license or otherwise permit the use or occupancy of the whole or any part of the Leased Premises by anyone other than Subtenant without the prior written consent of (i) Sublandlord, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and (ii) the Prime Landlord to the extent the consent of the Prime Landlord is required under the Prime Leases. If Subtenant requests Sublandlord’s consent to a proposed assignment or subletting, Sublandlord agrees to promptly forward Subtenant’s request to Prime Landlord for Prime Landlord’s review. A change in control of the Subtenant (whether directly or indirectly) shall constitute an assignment of this Sublease; provided, that, for the purposes of this sentence, (i) the

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exchange of shares of Subtenant’s stock on any nationally recognized securities exchange in the nonnal course of business, or the transfer or assignment of Subtenant’s stock/membership interests/etc. (whether directly or indirectly) to outside investors shall not be deemed a “change in control.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, if in Sublandlord’s reasonable, good faith discretion, Subtenant is, following any of the transactions described in the preceding sentence, less credit worthy, then Subtenant shall post an additional two (2) months Fixed Rent as an additional Security Deposit hereunder. Such additional security shall be treated as part of the Security Deposit hereunder, pursuant to the provisions of Section 2( c) and elsewhere herein. In the event Landlord and Sublandlord consent to the assignment of this Sublease or the subletting of all or any portion of the Leased Premises, such consent shall in no way relieve Subtenant of its obligations hereunder and in such event Subtenant and such assignee or sublessee, as applicable, shall be jointly and severally liable hereunder. In the event that Subtenant either subleases the Leased Premises or assigns this Sublease Agreement at a rental rate greater than that paid by Subtenant pursuant to this Sublease, fifty percent (50%) of the difference between the rent received by Subtenant and that rent paid shall be paid to Sub landlord after deduction for reasonable broker and attorneys fees.
     7. Default . In the event Subtenant shall default in the full performance of any of the terms, covenants and conditions on its part to be performed under this Sublease (including any obligations incorporated herein by reference to the Prime Leases, then Sublandlord shall have the same rights and remedies with respect to such default as are given to Landlord under the Prime Leases with respect to defaults by Sublandlord, as tenant, under the Prime Leases. In addition, if Subtenant shall have defaulted under this Sublease, then Sublandlord, or its representative, may re-enter the Leased Premises either by force or otherwise, without being liable to any prosecution therefor, and re-Iet the Leased Premises as the agent of Subtenant, and receive the rent thereof, applying the same first to the payment of all expenses incurred by re-entering and reletting the Leased Premises (including without limitation, reasonable brokerage and attorneys’ fees and expenses); second to the payment of the rent due by Subtenant; and the balance, if any, to be paid over to Subtenant. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Subtenant shall remain liable for all of its obligations hereunder, less such amounts as Sublandlord recovers by way of re-subletting the Leased Premises and Sublandlord’s costs in connection with same, including without limitation, for any deficiency in the payment of rent.
     8.  Subordination . This Sublease and the term and estate hereby granted is (i) subject and subordinate to all of the terms, provisions, covenants, stipulations, conditions and agreements of (i) the Prime Leases and (ii) any mortgages, superior sublease or other instruments or matter to which the Prime Leases is subject or subordinate. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Prime Leases, Sublandlord shall not be obligated to obtain a non-disturbance agreement for the benefit of the Subtenant.
     9.  Prime Leases :
          (a)  Incorporation of Prime Leases . The provisions of the Prime Lease are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if they were fully set forth herein, except to the extent they are modified by the provisions of this Sublease and except that:
               (i) references in the Prime Lease to (a) “Landlord” or “Tenant” shall mean the Sublandlord or Subtenant (as the case may be) as defined in this Sublease, (b) the

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“Premises”, “premises”, Demised Premises and “demised premises” shall mean the Leased Premises as defined in this Sublease, (c) “Fixed Rent” shall mean the Fixed Rent to be paid by Subtenant as provided in this Sublease and (d) “Term” shall mean the Term as defined in this Sublease;
               (ii) the following provisions are hereby deleted and shall have no effect as between Sublandlord and Subtenant (except that any terms defined therein which are used in provisions of the Prime Lease which are incorporated herein by reference, are not deleted):
                    (A)  1988 Prime Lease :
                         (1)  Preamble : Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16;
                         (2)  Body of Lease : Paragraphs l(a), l(b), 2(a), 2(d), 4, 9, IO(a), 15,18,19,20,22,23,24,25,26 and 29(c).
                    (B)  1988 Lease First Amendment; Assignment : All.
                    (C)  1988 Lease Second Amendment : All but paragraphs 13, 14, 15, 16, 21.
                    (D)  1988 Lease Third Amendment : All.
                    (E)  1988 Lease Fourth Amendment : All, but 6
                    (F)  1996 Prime Lease :
                         (1)  Preamble : Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8-15
                         (2)  Body of Lease : Paragraphs l(a), 2(a), 4, 10(a), 15, 18, 19, 20, 22-26 and 29(c).
                    (G)  1996 First Amendment : All
                    (H)  1996 Lease Second Amendment : All
                    (I)  1996 Lease Third Amendment : All, but 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17.
                    (J) Such other terms, covenants, and conditions which may be inconsistent with the express terms hereof are hereby modified to be consistent with the express terms hereof.
               (iii) In no event shall the foregoing provisions, when considered in conjunction with the terms of the Prime Leases, be deemed to obligate Subtenant in any way to Sublandlord or Prime Landlord with respect to premises leased by Sublandlord from Prime Landlord but not included in the Leased Premises under this Sublease.

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          (b)  Subtenant’s Covenant . Subtenant agrees not to do or cause to be done, or suffer or permit, any act or thing to be done which (i) would cause the Prime Leases or the rights of Sublandlord as tenant thereunder to be cancelled, terminated, forfeited or otherwise materially adversely affected or (ii) would make Sublandlord liable for an increase in the sums payable by Sublandlord thereunder, or (iii) would cause Sublandlord to be liable for any damages, claims or penalties thereunder.
          (c)  Incorporation of Rights/Remedies . Except as may be otherwise expressly provided herein, in any case where Prime Landlord reserves a right or disclaims any liability under the Prime Leases, then as respects Subtenant, the right or disclaimer shall inure to the benefit of Sub landlord as well as to Prime Landlord, and any right or disclaimer inuring to Sublandlord as tenant under the Prime Leases shall likewise inure to the benefit of Subtenant.
          (d)  Provision of Services . Subtenant shall make its own arrangements with Prime Landlord to receive any additional services which Prime Landlord is obligated to or may provide upon request of Sublandlord under the terms of the Prime Leases; provided, however , if Prime Landlord refuses to deal directly with Subtenant pursuant to its rights under the Prime Leases (Sublandlord shall exercise all reasonable efforts to cause Prime Landlord to deal directly with Subtenant with regard thereto), then in addition to any other rights provided to Subtenant elsewhere herein, Subtenant shall have the right to request that Sublandlord make such arrangements with Prime Landlord on Subtenant’s behalf; Sublandlord shall not be required to incur any out of pocket expense (and if Sublandlord does, Subtenant shall, promptly upon demand, reimburse Sublandlord for same) in connection with the foregoing. As between Sublandlord and Subtenant, Subtenant shall have the sole obligation to pay for such additional services.
          (e)  Interpretation . To the extent possible, the provisions of the Prime Leases incorporated by reference into this Sublease shall be constmed as consistent with and complementary to the other provisions of this Sublease. In the event of any inconsistency between this Sublease and the Prime Leases, such inconsistency shall be resolved in favor ofthat obligation which is more onerous to Subtenant or that restriction which is more restrictive of Subtenant, as the case may be.
          (f)  Notices from Prime Landlord . Sublandlord shall, no later than five (5) business days after receipt thereof, deliver to Subtenant copies of all notices, requests or demands or other communications which relate to the Leased Premises or the use or occupancy thereof, or any matter that could give rise under the terms of the Prime Leases to a right of Prime Landlord to terminate the Prime Leases, promptly after receipt of same from Prime Landlord. Subtenant shall, no later than five (5) business days after receipt thereof, deliver to Sublandlord copies of all notices, requests or demands received by Subtenant from Prime Landlord. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7 of this Sublease, as incorporated by reference herein, the time periods set forth in the Prime Leases, for the giving of notices or the performance of any act by Subtenant are changed for the purpose of this Sublease, by shortening the same in each instance by three (3) business days, so that notices may be given or any act performed by Subtenant

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within the time limit relating thereto contained in the Prime Leases, provided, however, that Subtenant shall have at least one (1) business day to comply or perform unless Sublandlord has less than one (1) business day to comply or perform.
          (g)  Compliance with Prime Leases . Subtenant covenants and agrees to perform and observe on behalf of and for the benefit of Sublandlord, and to be bound by, all terms, covenants, obligations and conditions of the Prime Leases which relate to the Leased Premises, except, however, that Subtenant shall not be obligated to pay any fixed rent or additional rent under the Prime Leases, as Subtenant’s obligations with respect to such payments are as described herein. Notwithstanding anything in this Sublease to the contrary, Subtenant covenants and agrees not to do or commit or suffer to be done or committed or fail to do any acts or things, or create or suffer to be done or committed or fail to do any acts or things, which might create or result in a default or breach on the part of Sublandlord under any terms, covenant or conditions of the Prime Leases or render Sublandlord liable for any charge, cost or expense thereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, Subtenant represents to Sublandlord that Subtenant has read and is familiar with the Prime Leases and its terms and agrees that Subtenant shall not take any action or do or permit to be done anything which (i) is or may be prohibited to Sublandlord, as tenant under the Prime Leases, or (ii) might result in a violation of or default under any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of the Prime Leases or any other instrument to which this Sublease is subordinate.
          (h)  Quiet Enjoyment . Sublandlord covenants that Subtenant upon keeping and performing each and every covenant, term, agreement, provision and condition herein contained on the part and on behalf of Subtenant to be kept and performed, shall quietly enjoy the Leased Premises without hindrance or molestation by Sublandlord or by any other person lawfully claiming by, through or under the same subject to the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions and conditions of this Sublease and the Prime Leases.
          (i)  Insurance . Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14 of the Second Amendment to the Prime Leases as it has been incorporated herein, Subtenant shall only be required to carry commercial general liability insurance coverage with a limit of not less than Two Million and 00/100 Dollars per each occurrence, rather than Five Million and 00/100 Dollars per each occurrence as described in Section 14 of the Second Amendment to the Prime Leases. All other provisions of Section 14 of the Second Amendment to the Prime Leases remain unaltered and incorporated herein without modification.
     10.  Subtenant Improvements .
          (a)  Generally . Except as otherwise permitted under the Prime Leases, and subject to the provisions therein respecting Tenant Improvements, Subtenant shall not make any alterations, improvements, installations, or additions (“Subtenant Improvements”) to the Leased Premises, after making the Initial Improvements (defined below), without the prior written consent of Landlord and Sublandlord, and Sub landlord agrees to not unreasonably withhold its consent to nonstructural alterations, improvements, installations or additions that do not materially affect the value of the property of which the Leased Premises are a part. Upon written notification by Subtenant to Sublandlord of the nature and scope of any alterations or

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improvements to the Leased Premises proposed by Subtenant, Sublandlord shall make a good faith effort to promptly obtain written assurances from Prime Landlord as to whether Prime Landlord will require removal of such alterations or improvements.
          (b)  Initial Improvements; Construction Allowance . Subtenant shall be provided with a $20.00IRSF Tenant Improvement Allowance on approximately 4,1001RSF (82,000) to improve the specified 4,100 square feet of first floor space.
          (c)  Furniture . Subtenant may utilize furniture and other fixtures already on the Leased Premises. The attached “ Exhibit E ” is a list of the furniture that is included, as determined by the parties upon joint inspection of the Leased Premises prior to the mutual execution of this Sublease.
     11.  Surrender . On the last day or sooner termination of the Term, Subtenant shall peaceably quit and surrender the Leased Premises (x) in vacant, broom clean condition, and otherwise in as good state and condition as it was on the Commencement Date, reasonable use and wear thereof and alterations constructed by Subtenant which Prime Landlord or Sublandlord does not require removal of excepted and (y) free of all tenancies, liens, encumbrances, chattel mortgages, conditional bills of sale and any security agreements created by Subtenant. If the Leased Premises are not surrendered as and when and in the condition pursuant to this Sublease, Subtenant shall indemnify, defend and save Sublandlord harmless from and against all loss, liability, cost and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from Subtenant’s failure to comply with the provisions of this Paragraph including, without limitation, any claims made by any succeeding occupant founded on such delay. Sublandlord and Subtenant recognize that the damage to Sublandlord resulting from any failure by Subtenant to timely surrender possession of the Leased Premises may be substantial, may exceed the amount of rent theretofore payable hereunder and will be impossible to accurately measure. Subtenant therefore agrees that if possession of the Leased Premises is not surrendered to Sublandlord on or before the Tennination Date or sooner termination of the Term, in addition to any other rights or remedies Sublandlord may have hereunder or at law, Subtenant shall pay to Sublandlord for each month (or any portion thereof) during which Subtenant holds over in the Leased Premises after the Termination Date or sooner termination of the Term, a sum equal to one and one half (11/2) times the rent payable under this Sublease during the last month of the Term. No holding-over by Subtenant, nor the payment to Sublandlord of the amounts specified above, shall operate to extend the Term hereof. Subtenant’s obligations under this Paragraph shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of the Term.
     12.  Condition of Leased Premises . Subtenant has fully examined and inspected the Leased Premises and accepts same in its “as-is” condition, subject to any and all defects, except for latent defects known to Sub landlord and not disclosed in writing to Subtenant, and has entered into this Sublease without any representation or warranty (expressed or implied) of any kind on the part of Sublandlord (or any of its agents, employees or representatives) as to the condition or suitability of the Leased Premises or any adjacent property. The taking of occupancy of the whole part or any part of the Leased Premises by Subtenant shall be conclusive evidence, as against Subtenant, that Subtenant has accepted possession of the Leased Premises in their then condition and that at the time such possession was taken, the Leased Premises and the

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Building were in the condition required by this Sublease. Sublandlord shall not now or at any time in the future be required to perform any work, supply any materials, incur any expense or make any alterations or improvements to the Leased Premises to prepare the Leased Premises for Subtenant’s occupancy.
     13.  Casualty and Condemnation . Under certain circumstances described in the Prime Leases, either Landlord or Sublandlord may terminate the Prime Lease if there is a fire or other casualty damaging the Building, or if there is a condemnation affecting the Building. Any such termination will automatically terminate this Sublease. If there is a fire or other casualty in the Premises, Sub landlord shall forward to Subtenant copies of all notices to Sublandlord from Prime Landlord regarding Landlord’s intentions with respect to restoration of the damage to the Building or termination of the Prime Leases, as applicable. If Prime Landlord elects to restore the Building and the repairs take longer than six (6) months from the date of the casualty, then assuming Sublandlord has not elected to terminate the Prime Leases, Subtenant may elect to terminate this Sublease within ten (10) days following the expiration of such six (6) month period. Sublandlord’s obligation to repair any damage to the Leased Premises is limited to its obligation, if any, to do so under the Prime Leases.
Rent will abate in proportion to the loss of use of the Leased Premises caused by fire or other casualty or condemnation, whether in the Leased Premises or elsewhere in the Building.
     14.  Insurance . Subtenant, at its sole cost and expense, shall obtain and keep in full force for the benefit of Sublandlord, the Prime Landlord and any other parties required to be named as an additional insured under the Prime Leases during the term hereof (including any extensions hereof), the insurance coverage required to be maintained by Sublandlord pursuant to the Prime Leases, to the extent applicable to the Leased Premises, evidenced by Subtenant’s Certificate of Insurance attached hereto and made a part hereof as “ Exhibit D ”. The policy or policies of insurance shall be with a company or companies authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey and certificates evidencing such policies shall be delivered to Sublandlord, together with evidence of the payment of the premiums therefor, not later than the Commencement Date. Each of such insurance policies shall provide that same shall not be materially modified or terminated unless Sublandlord has received not less than thirty (30) days’ prior notice thereof. At least ten (10) days prior to the expiration or termination date of any insurance policy, Subtenant shall deliver to Sublandlord a renewal or replacement of such policy with proof of payment of the premium therefor.
     15.  Notices Regarding Violation of Laws . Subtenant shall promptly notify Sublandlord of any communication between Subtenant or its agents, employees or attorneys and any federal, state or local officials concerning compliance with or any alleged violation of any laws, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, requirements and directives (“Laws”) affecting the Leased Premises. In the event of a spill, discharge or release to the environment of any hazardous or toxic substance or waste regulated pursuant to any applicable Laws, related to or arising from the use or occupation of the Leased Premises by Subtenant, Subtenant shall initiate and complete any actions required by any applicable Laws pertaining to such spill, discharge or release including, but not limited to, reporting obligations required by and in accordance with such Laws. In addition to the actions required by any applicable Laws, Subtenant shall immediately

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initiate control and clean-up measures and shall, within one (1) hour notify Sublandlord of such spill, discharge or release. This Paragraph shall survive the expiration or early termination of this Sublease.
     16.  Prime Landlord/Sublandlord’s Entry . Prime Landlord, Sublandlord and their respective agents, employees and other representatives, shall have the right to enter into and upon the Leased Premises or any part thereof, at any time upon reasonable prior notice to Subtenant (except in the case of emergency), for the purpose of examining the same or making such repairs or alterations therein as may be necessary for the safety and preservation thereof. This Paragraph shall not be deemed to be a covenant by Sublandlord nor be construed to create an obligation on the part of Sublandlord to make such inspection or repairs and Sublandlord’s performance thereof shall not constitute a waiver of Subtenant’s obligations hereunder.
     17.  Signage . Subtenant shall not place or allow to be placed, any signs or advertisements of any kind whatsoever, upon, in or about the Leased Premises or any part thereof, except to the extent allowed under the Prime Leases or otherwise approved by the Prime Landlord in writing. Sublandlord will use reasonable efforts, at Sublandlord’s cost, to ensure that Subtenant is permitted to install suite entry signage identifying Subtenant as well as Building lobby directory signage.
     18.  Condemnation . If the Leased Premises, or any portion thereof, shall be taken under eminent domain or condemnation proceedings, or if suit or other action shall be instituted for the taking or condemnation thereof, then this Sublease, at the option of Sublandlord, shall terminate, and the term hereof shall end as of the date Sublandlord shall specify by notice to Subtenant. Subtenant shall have no claim or right to claim or be entitled to any portion of any amount which may be awarded as damages or paid to Sublandlord as a result of such condemnation proceedings or otherwise. All rights of Subtenant to such damages or payments, if any, are hereby assigned to Sublandlord. Subtenant shall execute and deliver any instruments, as may be deemed necessary or required to expedite any condemnation proceedings or to effectuate a proper transfer of title to such governmental or other public authority, agency, body or public utility seeking to take or acquire the Leased Premises or any portion thereof. In the event the Sublease is terminated pursuant to this Paragraph 18, Subtenant covenants and agrees to vacate the Leased Premises, remove all Subtenant’s personal property therefrom and deliver (in broom clean condition) peaceable possession thereof to Sublandlord or to such other appropriate party. Failure by Subtenant to comply with any provision in this Paragraph 18 shall subject Subtenant to such costs, expenses, damages and losses as Sublandlord may incur by reason thereof, which shall be payable upon demand and bear interest at the Default Rate thereafter. This Paragraph shall survive the expiration or early termination of this Sublease.
     19.  Indemnification by Subtenant . If Subtenant shall fail or refuse to comply with or perform any term, condition or covenant of this Sublease, Sublandlord may, if Sublandlord so elects, carry out and perform any such term, condition or covenant at the cost and expense of Subtenant, which cost and expense (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) shall be payable by Subtenant on demand, together with interest accruing from and after the date of such demand (subject to any applicable notice and grace period specified herein) at the Default Rate. If as a result of any act or omission on the part of Subtenant or any of its agents,

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employees or invitees, any claim, action or suit is made or brought against Sub landlord, Subtenant does hereby agree to indemnify Sublandlord and to defend (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) and to hold Sublandlord harmless of and free from any claim, liability, damage or loss resulting from any such act or omission on the part of Subtenant.
     20.  Interruption in Services . This Sublease and the obligations of Subtenant hereunder (including the payment of Fixed Rent and Additional Rent), shall not be affected, impaired or excused because of Sublandlord’s, Prime Landlord’s or any third party’s inability to supply any service or material, by reason of any rule, order, regulation or preemption by any governmental entity, authority, department, agency or subdivision or for any delay which may arise by reason of negotiations for the adjustment of any fire or other casualty loss or because of strikes or other labor trouble or for any cause beyond the control of Sublandlord; provided, however, that if and to the extent that any of the foregoing events would entitle Sublandlord to an abatement of rent or relief from any other obligations under the Prime Leases, Subtenant will similarly be entitled to an abatement of rent or relief from obligations under this Sublease.
     21.  Limitation on Sublandlord’s Obligations . Nothing contained in this Sublease shall in any way obligate Sub landlord to perform any act required to be performed by the Prime Landlord under the Prime Leases, nor shall Sub landlord incur any liability to Subtenant by virtue of the Prime Landlord’s failure (i) to perform any act required of it under the Lease or (ii) to give any consent under the Prime Leases. Sublandlord shall make a commercially reasonable effort to enforce the Prime Leases and to cause Prime Landlord to comply with all terms thereof, but shall have no obligation to bring any action or proceeding or to take any action or incur any expense to enforce Sublandlord’s rights against Prime Landlord. If Prime Landlord fails to keep, observe or perform any of Prime Landlord’s obligations under the Prime Leases, to the extent Sublandlord is entitled to a reduction or abatement in rent and/or additional rent from Prime Landlord under the Prime Leases, Subtenant shall be entitled to a reduction or abatement of rent equal to Subtenant’s proportionate share of the actual abatement of rent and/or additional rent under the Prime Leases received by or credited to Sublandlord with respect to the Leased Premises.
     22.  Rights Cumulative . The various rights, remedies, options and elections of Sublandlord, expressed herein and in the Prime Leases or otherwise available at law or in equity are cumulative, and the failure of Sublandlord to enforce strict performance by Subtenant of the conditions and covenants of this Sublease or to exercise any election or option or to resort or have recourse to any remedy herein conferred or the acceptance by Sub landlord of any installment of rent after any breach by Subtenant, in anyone or more instances, shall not be construed or deemed to be a waiver or a relinquishment by Sublandlord of any such conditions and covenants, options, elections or remedies, but the same shall continue in full force and effect.
     23.  Notices . All notices required under the terms of this Sublease shall be given by mailing such notices by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by any express mail service which requires the signature of addressee, or addressee’s agent, at delivery, to the address of the parties as set out herein or to such other address as may be designated in writing, which notice of change of address shall be given in the same manner:

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Sublandlord:
  NUI Corporation
 
  c/o AGL Resources, Inc.
 
  Ten Peachtree Place
 
  Atlanta, GA 30309
 
  Attention: Kim Morris
 
   
With a copy to:
   
 
   
 
  NUI Corporation
 
  c/o AGL Resources, Inc.
 
  Ten Peachtree Place
 
  Atlanta, GA 30309
 
  Attention: General Counsel
 
   
Subtenant:
  Gain Capital
 
  35 Technology Drive
 
  Warren, NJ 07059
 
  Attn: Mark Galant
 
   
With a copy to:
   
 
   
 
  Attn:
 
   
All payments shall be directed to:
 
   
 
  NUI Corporation
 
  Ten Peachtree Place
 
  Atlanta, GA 30309
 
  Attention: Kim Morris, Manager, Facilities
     24.  Prime Landlord’s Consent . This Sublease is expressly conditioned upon Sublandlord’s obtaining the necessary consent of Prime Landlord to this subletting, in writing, within thirty (30) days after the execution and delivery of this Sublease by the parties hereto; Sublandlord acknowledges Subtenant’s need to procure the Prime Landlord’s consent to this Sublease as soon as reasonably feasible in order to commence its proposed improvements to the Leased Premises,and accordingly agrees to use good faith efforts to procure such consent in less . than thirty (30) days. Subtenant shall not occupy the Leased Premises for any purpose until Prime Landlord’s consent is obtained. Subtenant agrees to cooperate with Sublandlord in responding to any reasonable request by Prime Landlord for further information or documents. If Prime Landlord does not so consent within sixty (60) days, this Sublease shall be deemed canceled, whereupon Sublandlord shall return to Subtenant all monies theretofore delivered hereunder by Subtenant to Sublandlord and this Sublease shall be deemed null and void and of no force and effect and neither Sublandlord nor Subtenant shall have any rights or obligations hereunder. Sublandlord each shall pay any fee charged by Prime Landlord in connection with its review ofthis Sublease for purposes of obtaining such consent.
     25.  New Jersey Business Incentive Program . Sublandlord acknowledges that Subtenant has applied for grant funds from the New Jersey Business Employment Incentive

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Program (“BEIP”). This Sublease shall be void and of no force or effect (except as otherwise provided herein), upon the one time written election of Subtenant if the BEIP fails to give Subtenant a written commitment for grant funds pursuant to Subtenant’s application by December 17, 2004. Subtenant acknowledges and agrees that time is of the essence with respect to this Sublease and that Subtenant shall not be entitled to any extension of this election except in Sublandlord’s sole and unfettered discretion. In the event this Sublease is void pursuant to this paragraph 25, Subtenant shall not be entitled to recover the Security Deposit under Section 2(c) hereof, and such Deposit shall be forfeited to Sublandlord.
In addition, notwithstanding paragraph 10(b) above, in the event Subtenant elects to terminate this Sublease pursuant to this paragraph 25, Subtenant shall not be entitled to any construction allowance or other reimbursement of costs to perform the Initial Improvements, and shall forfeit any Initial Improvements that may have been performed prior to such election.
     26.  Entire Agreement . This Sublease (including the Prime Leases, to the extent incorporated herein) contains the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. No representative, agent or employee of Sub landlord has been authorized to make any representations or promises with reference to the Leased Premises or to vary, alter or modify the terms hereof. No additions, changes, waivers modifications, renewals or extensions hereof, shall be binding unless reduced to writing and signed by Sublandlord and Subtenant.
     27.  Alterations . Any work performed by or on behalf of Subtenant with respect to the Leased Premises shall be done in a good and workmanlike manner and on a lien free basis. Subtenant shall remove any lien or other encumbrance affecting the Leased Premises as a result of from such work within thirty (30) days of notice thereof.
     28.  Environmental Indemnification . Subtenant on behalf of itself and its agents, employees and invitees, hereby waives and agrees to indemnify and hold Sublandlord harmless from and against any and all claims losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any claim of Subtenant or its agents, employees and invitees arising out of the environmental condition of the Leased Premises.
     29.  Waiver of Redemption . Subtenant waives and surrenders all right and privilege which it’ might have under or by reason of any present or future law to redeem the Leased Premises or to have a continuance of this Sublease for the term hereof after Subtenant is dispossessed or ejected by process of law or under the terms of this Sublease. Subtenant also waives the provisions of any law relating to notice and/or delay in levy of execution in case of any eviction or dispossession for nonpayment of rent and of any successor or other law of like import. Sublandlord and Subtenant hereby waive trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim brought by either party against the other on any matters whatsoever arising out of or in any way connected with this Sublease.
     30.  Brokers . Subtenant represents that it has dealt directly with and only with CB Richard Ellis, as a broker in connection with this Sublease. Sub landlord represents that it has dealt directly with and only with CRESA Partners (“CRESA”), as a broker in connection with this Sublease. Sublandlord and Subtenant shall indemnify and hold each other harmless from all

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claims of any brokers other than CB Richard Ellis and CRESA claiming to have represented Sublandlord or Subtenant in connection with this Sublease. Subtenant and Sublandlord agree that CRESA shall be paid commissions in connection with this Sublease by Sublandlord pursuant to a separate agreement.
     31.  Transfer by Sublandlord . The covenants and agreements on the part of Sublandlord to be performed under this Sublease shall not be binding upon Sublandlord herein named to the extent arising during any period subsequent to the transfer of its interest hereunder, provided that Sublandlord’s transferee expressly assmnes and agrees in writing to be bound by the terms hereof, and in the event of such transfer said covenants and agreements shall thereafter be binding upon each transferee of such interest, but only with respect to the period beginning with the date of such transfer and ending with the date of a subsequent transfer of such interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Sublease to the contrary, Subtenant shall look solely to Sublandlord’s interest in the Leased Premises and property in which it is located for the recovery of any judgment against Sublandlord and in no circumstances shall Sublandlord be personally liable nor shall Subtenant have recourse to any other assets of Sub landlord for satisfaction of any claim Subtenant may have against Sublandlord.
     32.  Attorneys’ Fees . In any action or proceeding that Sublandlord or Subtenant may prosecute to enforce its rights hereunder, the unsuccessful party shall pay all costs incurred by the prevailing party, including reason-able attorneys’ fees to be fixed by the court, and such costs and attorneys’ fees shall be made a part of the judgment in such action.
     33.  Parking . During the Telm, Subtenant shall be entitled to the use of a total of ninety six (96) spaces, eighty one (81) outdoor, non-designated, non-exclusive parking spaces and fifteen (15) reserved spaces under the Building. There should be no charge to Subtenant for the use of any such spaces.
     34.  No Release . No surrender of possession of any part of the Leased Premises shall release Subtenant from any of its obligations hereunder. The receipt and retention by Sublandlord, and the payment by Subtenant, of Fixed Rent or additional rent with knowledge of the breach of any covenant or agreement contained in this Sublease shall not be deemed a waiver of such breach by Sublandlord.
     35.  Miscellaneous . In all references herein to any parties, persons or entities, the use of any particular gender or the plural or singular number is intended to include the appropriate gender or number as the text of the written instrument may require. All the terms, covenants and conditions herein contained shall be for and shall inure to the benefit of and shall bind the respective parties hereto, and their heirs, executors, administrators, personal or legal representatives, permitted successors and assigns, respectively.
     36.  Terms Severable . The terms, conditions, covenants and provisions of this Sublease shall be deemed to be severable. If any clause or provision herein contained shall be adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or by operation of any applicable law, it shall not affect the validity of any other clause or provision herein, but

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such other clauses or provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
     37.  Sublandlord’s Equipment . Subtenant acknowledges that Sublandlord’s equipment used to provide an uninterrupted power source to Sub landlord (“UPS Equipment”) is located within the Leased Premises. Subtenant agrees to provide Sublandlord with unfettered access at all times to the UPS Equipment for purposes of servicing and maintenance. To the extent possible, Sublandlord will provide reasonable notice of its intent to access the UPS Equipment, and will conduct its activities so as not to cause disruption to Subtenant’s business activities.
     38.  Counterparts . This Sublease is expected to be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The facsimile signature of a party to this Sublease is and shall be deemed to be an original execution and is binding.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and seals, or caused these presents to be signed by their proper corporate officers, the day and year first written above.
         
ATTEST: [illegible]
  SUBTENANT:
 
  GAIN CAPITAL
 
   
 
  By: /s/ Mark E. Galant
 
  Name: Mark Galant
 
  Title: CEO
 
   
ATTEST: [illegible]
  SUBLANDLORD:
 
  NUI Corp
 
 
  By:  /s/ Paul R. Shlanta
 
  Name: Paul R. Shlanta
 
  Title: Sr. Vice President, General Counsel
          and Chief Corporate Compliance Officer

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EXHIBIT A
Prime Leases

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FOURTH AMENDMENT TO LEASE
THIS AGREEMENT (this “Fourth Amendment”) made as of the 4 day of November 2001, between THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company having an office c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC, 200 Campus Drive, Florham Park New Jersey 07932, (“Landlord”); and NUI CORPORATION, a New Jersey corporation having an address of 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760 (“Tenant”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Landlord’s predecessor-in-title Sammis Pluckemin Asspciates and Tenant entered an Agreement of Lease dated August 16, 1988 (the “ Original Lease’’ ); as amended by First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated April 15, 1994 (the “ First Amendment ”); as amended by Second Amendment to Lease dated August 5,1999 (the “ Second Amendment’ ); and as amended by Third Amendment to Lease dated December 14, 2000 (the “ Third Amendment ”) (the Original Lease, as amended by the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and the Third Amendment, collectively referred to as the “ Lease ”); whereby Tenant is presently in possession of premises containing approximately forty-two thousand three hunred twenty-six (42,326) square feet of net rentable area (the “Present Premises”), consisting of twenty-two thousand six hundred sixty-five (22,665) square feet of net rentable are on the second (2 nd ) floor and nineteen thousand six hundred sixty-one (19,661) square feet of net rentable area on the first (lst) floor of the building located at 550 Route 206 North (the “ Building ”); and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Lease to expand the Present Premises on the second (2 nd ) floor of the Building and to amend the Lease only in the respects and on the conditions hereinafter stated .
NOW, THEREFORE, Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:
1. For purposes of this Fourth Amendment, capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Lease unless otherwise defined herein.
2. The parties hereby confirm that the Expiration Date of the Term of the Lease is 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2009.
3. From, after September 1, 2001 (the “ Effective Date ”), Landlord and Tenant agree that the Present Premises shall be expanded to include approximately six thousand one hundred fifty-three (6,153) square feet of net rentable area on the second (2 nd ) floor of the Building, as more particularly depicted on Exhibit A attached hereto (the “ New Premises ”). Therefore, from and after the Effective Date, the Present Premises and the New Premises shall comprise the Demised Premises, which shall include a total of approximately forty-eight thousand four hundred seventy-nine (48,479) square feet of net rentable area in the Building, and Paragraph 1 of the Preamble shall be deemed modified accordingly.
4. Tenant hereby acknowledges that Tenant shall continue to lease the Present Premises in its “AS IS” condition and shall lease the New Premises in its “AS IS” condition. However, subject to the terms and conditions of this Paragraph 4, Landlord agrees to provide Tenant with a construction allowance to be applied to Tenant’s cost of Leasehold Improvements, as hereinafter defined, within the · Demised Premises (and therefore not limited to the New Promises, and Paragraph 16 of the Preamle is hereby amended to reflect that Tenant’s Construction Allowance in connection with this Fourth Amendment shall be Fifteen and 00/100 Dollars ($15.00) per square foot of net rentable area, being a total of Ninety-two Thousand Two Hundred Ninety-five and 00/100 Dollars ($92,295.00). As used herein, the term “ Leasehold Improvements ” shall refer to improvements to the walls; floor coverings; wall coverings; ceilings; electrical, mechanical, and plumbing distributions; doors and frames; partitions; door locks; and painting of the Demised Premises. Tenant acknowledges and agrees that: (i) the performance of the Leasehold Improvements shall be governed by the terms and conditions of Paragraph 6 of the Lease regarding Alterations (as such Paragraph 6 is amended herein); (ii) Landlord shall make disbursements to Tenant from the Construction Allowance, provided Tenant gives Landlord reasonably detailed, paid invoices showing the performance of the Leasehold Improvements; and (iii) Tenant shall have no right to an offset, deduction, or other claim to any portion of the Construction Allowance that remains unused upon the expiration or sooner termination of the Lease.
5. Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Preamble of the Lease are hereby amended to reflect that the Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease shall be calculated as follows: From and after Effective Date, the Fixed Rent with respect to the New Premises shall be Twenty-eight and 75/100 Dollars ($28.75) until August 31, 2006, and Thirty-one and 50/100 Dollars ($31.50) from September 1,2006, until December 31, 2009. As calculated in accordance with the foregoing, the total Fixed Rent and Monthly Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease with respect to the Present Premises and the New Premises, collectively, shall b as follows from and after the Effective Date:

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PERIOD   FIXED RENT   MONTHLY FIXED RENT
From the Effective Date through August 31, 2006
  One Million Three Hundred Seventy-six Thousand Three Hundred Fifty and 75/100 Dollars ($1,376,350.75)   One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-five and 89/100 Dollars ($114,695.89)
 
       
From September 1, 2006 through the Expiration Date
  One Million Five Hundred Nine Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-six and 00/100 Dollars ($1,509,666.00)   One Hundred Twenty-five Thousand Eight Hundred Five and 68/100 Dollars ($125,805.68)
6. As of the Effective Date, Paragraph 8 of the Preamble shall be amended to reflect that Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses based on the square footage of the New Premises shall be three and twenty-eight hundredths percent (3.28%), in addition to the twenty-two and fifty-four hundredths percent (22.54%) based on the square footage of the Present Premises. For purposes of calculating Tenant’s relevant share of Expenses due to the different Initial Years applied to different portions of the Demised Premises, as of the Effective Date, Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses for the New Premises and the Expansion Premises (as defined in the Third Amendment) shall collectively be seven and twenty- even hundredths percent (7.27%), Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses for the Existing Premises (as defined in the Second Amendment) shall continue to be eight and eight hundredths percent (8.08%), and Tenant’s Proportionate Share of the Additional Premises (as defined in the Second Amendment) shall continue to be ten and forty-seven hundredths percent 10.47%).
7. Paragraph 14 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, Tenant shall have an additional twenty-four (24) Non-Exclusive Spaces for a total of one hundred ninety-three (193) parking spaces, twenty-three (23) of which shall be Exclusive Spaces (as depicted on Exhibit C attached to the Third Amendment) and one hundred seventy (170) of which shall be Non-Exclusive Spaces.
8. Paragraph 3(a) of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, with both the Expansion Premises and the New Premises: (i) the term “Initial Year” shall be the same as set forth in the Third Amendment and shall therefore be the twelve (12) month period from March 1, 2001, through February 28, 2002, and (ii) the term “Lease Year” shall mean the Initial Year and each twelve (12) month period occurring after the Initial Year. Landlord and Tenant acknowledge and agree that the term “Initial Year” for the Addition Premises is calendar year 2000 and that the term “Initial Year” for the Existing Premises shall, from and after September 1, 2001, be the twelve (12) month period from September 1, 2001, through August 31, 2002.
9. Paragraph 6 of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and shall be replaced with the following language:
     (a) All fixtures, equipment, improvements, alterations, installations that are attached to the Demised Premises; any additions and appurtenances made by Tenant to the Demised Premises which are attached thereto; and any tenant improvements in connection with its initial premises and any expansions thereof (said tenant improvements being referred to in Lease as the '' Tenant Improvements’’ ) (excluding Tenant’s trade fixtures, business equipment, movable partitions, and personal property) shall become the property of Landlord upon installation. Not later than the last day of the Term, Tenant shall, at its expense, remove from the Demised Premises all of Tenant’s trade fixtures, business equipment, movable partitions, personal property, and any Alterations (as defined hereinafter) Landlord elects to have removed pursuant to this Paragraph 6. Tenant, at its sole cost and expense, shall repair injury done by or in connection with the installation or removal of the Alterations required to be removed. Any equipment, fixtures, goods, or other property of Tenant not removed by Tenant upon the termination of this Lease or upon any quitting, vacating, or abandonment of the Demised Premises by Tenant shall be considered as abandoned, and Landlord shall have the right, without any notice to Tenant, to sell or otherwise dispose of the same, at the expense of Tenant, and shall not be accountable to Tenant for any part of the proceeds of such sale, if any. Landlord may have any such property stored at Tenant’s risk and expense.
     (b) Tenant, without Landlord’s prior consent, shall have the right to make non-structural al Alterations in or to the Demised Premises that (i) involve a total cost of not more than Twenty-five Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($25,000.00); (ii) do not require a building permit to be issued by any governmental authority to make same legally; (iii) do not affect any existing building systems outside the Demised Premises and do not impair or adversely affect any existing building systems

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within the Demised Premises; and (iv) do not result in a violation of the Permitted Use of the Demised Premises. No other Alterations (structural or non-structural) shall be made by Tenant without Landlord’s express prior written approval. Landlord agrees that approval of Alterations of a non-structural nature that do not affect any building systems shall not be unreasonably withheld. Tenant shall give Landlord prior written notice of any proposed alterations, installations, additions, or improvements ( “Alterations” ) with copies of proposed plans and as-built plans, upon completion of the Alterations. Tenant acknowledges that the proposed plans and the as-built plans, both of which shall be complete, detailed, and accurate, shall be provided to Landlord on AutoCAD disks. Landlord shall have the right to elect that Tenant remove any Alteration made to the Demised Premises prior to the expiration of the Lease and to restore the Demised Premises to the condition existing prior to said Alteration. All such Alterations shall be done at Tenant’s sole expense and the making thereof shall not interfere with the use of the Building by other tenants. Tenant agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Landlord and any mortgagee of Landlord, if any, from any and all costs, expenses, claims, causes of action, damages, and liabilities of any type or nature whatsoever (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation) arising out of or relating to the making of the Alterations by Tenant. The foregoing indemnity shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this Lease. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as constituting the permission of Landlord for a mechanic or subcontractor to file a construction lien claim against the Demised Premises, and Tenant agrees to secure the removal of any such construction lien that a contractor purports to file against the Demised Premises by payment or otherwise pursuant to law. All Alterations shall be effected in compliance with all applicable Laws.
10. Paragraph 22 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that Landlord and Tenant represent and warrant to each other that the Designated Broker is the sole broker with whom each party has negotiated in bringing about this Fourth Amendment. Landlord and Tenant agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to this Fourth Amendment.
11. Paragraph 24 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that, in the event that Tenant exercises its renewal option under either the Lease or the Former Natural Gas Lease, as defined in the Third Amendment, then Tenant shall automatically, and, without additional notice, be deemed to have exercised the renewal option under the other lease so that the renewal options for the terms of the spaces leased under the Lease and the Former Natural Gas Lease shall be exercised collectively.
12. Landlord and Tenant agree that the following terms and conditions relating to ERISA, as hereinafter defined, shall be added to the Lease as Paragraph 31:
(a) Tenant acknowledges that it has been advised that an affiliate of Landlord is a collective investment fund (the “ Fund ”) which holds the assets of one or more employee benefit plans or retirement arrangements which are subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ ERISA ”) and/or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”) (each a “Plan”), and with respect to which Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (“MGT”) is the Trustee and that, as a result, Landlord may be prohibited by law from engaging in certain transactions.
     (b) Landlord hereby represents and warrants to Tenant that, as of the date hereof, the only Plans whose assets are invested in the Fund which, together with the interests of any other Plans maintained by the same employer or employee organization, represent a collective interest in the Fund in excess of ten percent (10%) of the total interests in the Fund (each, a “10% Plan”) are referenced on Exhibit B (collectively, the “ Existing 10% Plan ”),
     (c) Tenant represents and warrants that as of the date hereof, and at all times while it is a tenant under this Lease, one of the following statements is, and will continue to be, true: (1) Tenant is not a “party in interest” (as defined in Section 3(14) of ERISA) or “disqualified person” (as defined in Section 4975 of the Code) (each a “ Party in Interest ”) with respect to the Existing 10% Plan or, (2) if Tenant is a Party in Interest, that:
     (A) neither Tenant nor its “affiliate” (as defined in Section V(c) of PTCE 84-14, “ Affiliate ”) has, or during the immediately preceding one (1) year has, exercised the authority to either: (i) appoint or terminate MGT as the qualified professional asset manager (as defined in Section V(a) of PTCE 84-14, “ QPAM ”) of any of the assets of the Existing 10% Plan with respect to which Tenant or its Affiliate is a Party in Interest; or (ii) negotiate the terms of the management agreement with MGT, including renewals or modifications thereof, on behalf of the Existing 10% Plan;
and
          (B) neither Tenant nor any entity controlling, or controlled by, Tenant owns a five percent (5%) or more interest (within the meaning of PTCE 84-14, “ 5% Interest ”) in MGT or JP Morgan & Co. Incorporated.
     (d) In the event that Landlord or the Fund notifies Tenant in writing that a Plan other than the Existing 10%

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Plan may become a 10% Plan, Tenant will, within ten (10) days of such notification, inform the Fund in writing as to whether it can make the same representations which it made in subparagraph (c) of this Paragraph with respect to such prospective 10% Plan. Thereafter, if based on such representations made by Tenant such Plan becomes a 10% Plan, Tenant represents and warrants that, at all times during the period Tenant is a tenant under, the Lease, one of the statements set forth in subparagraph (c) will be true with respect to such 10% Plan.
13. Tenant represents, warrants, and covenants that, to the best of Tenant’s knowledge, (i) Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease, (ii) Tenant is not in default of any of its obligations under the Lease, and (iii) no event has occurred which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default by either Landlord or Tenant thereunder.
14. Except modified by this Fourth Amendment, the Lease and all the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions thereof shall remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and affirmed. The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions contained in this Fourth Amendment shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and, except as otherwise provided in the Lease as modified by this Fourth Amendment, their respective assigns. In the event of any conflict between the terms contained in this Fourth Amendment and the Lease, the terms herein contained shall supersede and control the obligations and liabilities of the parties.
15. Tenant acknowledges and agrees that the cross-default provision described in the Third Amendment in connection with Tenant’s obligations shall apply to the Lease, as the same may be further amended, and the Former Natural Gas Lease.
16. Tenant acknowledges and agrees that Landlord’s obligations under this Fourth Amendment are expressly contingent upon Landlord’s receipt, prior to the date of full execution and delivery of this Fourth Amendment by and to the parties hereto, of a surrender and acceptance agreement from EDS Information Services, L.L.C. with respect to the New Premises, which agreement shall be in a form acceptable to Landlord.
17. Tenant represents, warrants, and. covenants that, to the best of Tenant’s knowledge, (i) Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease, (ii) Tenant is not in default of any of its obligations under the Lease, and (iii) no event has occurred which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default by either Landlord or Tenant thereunder.
18. Except as modified by this Fourth Amendment, the Lease and all the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions thereof shall remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and affirmed. The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions contained in this Fourth Amendment shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and, except as otherwise provided in the Lease as modified by this Fourth Amendment, their respective assigns. In the event of any conflict between the terms contained in this fourth Amendment and the Lease, the terms herein contained shall supersede and control the obligations and liabilities of the parties.
19. This Fourth Amendment shall become effective only upon execution and delivery thereof by Landlord and Tenant.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have hereunto set their hands and seals as of the date and year first above written, and acknowledge the one to the other that they possess the requisite authority to enter into this transaction and to sign this Fourth Amendment.
           
WITNESS:
    THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC
[illegible]
    By: Gale & Wentworth, LLC,
 
Vice President
    Authorized Management Agent
 
       
 
    By:
/s/ Mark Yeaser
 
    Name: Mark Yeaser
 
    Title: President
 
    Dated: November 14, 2001
 
       
ATTEST:
    NUI CORPORATION
/s/ Carol A. Sliker
    By:
/s/ James r. Van Horn
 
Carol A. Sliker
Assistant Secretary
    Name: James r. Van Horn
Title: Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary
    Dated:

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EXHIBIT A
New Premises
See attached.

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EXHIBIT B
Existing 10% Plans
None.

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THIRD AMENDMENT TO LEASE
     THIS AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) made as of the 14 th day of December 2000, between THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company having an office c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC, 200 Campus Drive; Florham Park, New Jersey 07932. ('' Landlord ’’); and NUI CORPORATION , a New Jersey corporation having an address of 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760 (“Tenant”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, Landlord’s predecessor-in-title Sammis Pluckemin Associates and Tenant entered into an Agreement of Lease dated August 16, 1988 (the “ Original Lease ”); as amended by First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated April 15, 1994 (the '' First Amendment ”); and as further amended by Second Amendment to Lease dated August 5, 1999 (the “ Second Amendment ”) (the Original Lease, the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment collectively referred to as the “ Lease ’’); whereby Tenant is presently in possession of premises containing approximately thirty-four thousand eight hundred forty-one (34,841) square feet of net rentable area (the “ Current Premises ”), consisting of fifteen thousand one hundred eighty (15,180) square feet of net rentable area the second (2 nd ) floor and nineteen thousand six hundred sixty-one (19,661) square feet of net rentable area on the first (1 st ) floor of the building located at 550 Route 206 North (the “Building”); and
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Lease to expand the Current Premises on the second (2 nd ) floor of the Building and to amend the Lease only in the respects and on the conditions hereinafter stated.
     NOW, THEREFORE, Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:
1. For purposes of this Amendment, capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Lease unless otherwise defined herein.
2. The parties hereby confirm that the Expiration Date of the Term of the Lease is 11:59 p.m. on December 31,2009.
3. From and after the Effective Date, as defined hereinafter, Landlord and Tenant agree that the Current Premises shall be expanded to include approximately seven thousand four hundred eighty-five (7,485) square feet of net rentable area on the second (2nd) floor of the Building, as more particularly depicted on Exhibit A attached hereto (the “ Expansion Premises ”). Therefore, from and after the Effective Date, the Current Premises and the Expansion Premises shall comprise the Demised Premises, which shall include a total of approximately forty-two thousand three hundred twenty-six (42,326) square feet of net rentable area in the Building, and Paragraph 1 of the Preamble shall be deemed modified accordingly.
4. Tenant hereby acknowledges that Tenant shall continue to lease the Current Premises in its “AS IS” condition; however, Landlord agrees to construct the improvements and other work in and to the Expansion Premises (“ Expansion Premises Improvements ”) in accordance with the terms, conditions, and provision of Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof. The term for the Expansion Premises shall commence on the date the following conditions precedent have been satisfied (the “ Effective Date ”), which date is anticipated to be on or about February 1, 2001: (i) the Expansion Premises shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and

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regulations governing the Expansion Premises and its use, all of which shall be established by issuance of a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Expansion Premises for the purposes set forth in the Lease; and (ii) Landlord has Substantially Completed, as hereinafter defined, the Expansion Premises Improvements. If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Expansion Premises ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to Tenant Delay, as defined in Exhibit B; then Effective Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of delay so caused by Tenant. As used herein, Landlord shall be deemed to have Substantially Completed the Expansion Premises Improvements notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment, or decoration remain to be performed in the Expansion Premises or any part thereof, the noncompletion of which does not unreasonably interfere with Tenant’s use of the Expansion Premises. Tenant shall occupy the Expansion Premises as soon as the same is ready for its occupancy and the Effective Date shall have occurred; provided, however, upon notice from Landlord, Tenant may enter the Expansion Premises prior thereto for the purposes of installing its telephone, computer, and/or data systems; its modular office equipment; and/or its furniture so long as; (a) Tenant coordinates such installations with Landlord’s performance of the Expansion Premises Improvements and does not disrupt the performance of the Expansion Premises Improvements, (b) Tenant’s performance of the same does not cause or create any labor dispute for Landlord in connection with the construction of the Expansion Premises Improvements and (c) Tenant otherwise complies with all terms and provisions of the Lease, including, but not limited to, the insurance requirements set forth in Paragraph 10 of the Lease. When Tenant takes actual possession of the Expansion Premises, it shall be conclusively presumed that the same is in satisfactory condition, except as to (x) those items of work remaining to be performed by Landlord pursuant to this Paragraph 4 of this Amendment, and (y) any items of work set forth in a “ Punch List ” to be submitted to and acknowledged by Landlord in writing within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date. Landlord shall proceed diligently to complete any Punch List items within a reasonable period of time after the Effective Date.
5. Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Preamble of the Lease are hereby amended to reflect that the Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease shall be calculated as follows: From and after the Effective Date, the Fixed Rent with respect to the Expansion Premises shall be Twenty-eight and 75/100 Dollars ($28.75) until August 31, 2006, and Thirty-one and 50/100 Dollars ($31.50) from September 1, 2006, until December 31, 2009. As calculated in accordance with the foregoing, the total Fixed Rent and Monthly Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease with respect to the Current Premises and the Expansion Premises shall be as follows from and after the Effective Date:
         
Period   Fixed Rent   Monthly Fixed Rent
From the effective Date through August 31, 2001
  One Million One Hundred Sixty-one Thousand Five Hundred Two and 00/100 Dollars ($1,161,502.00)   Ninety-six Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-one and 83/100 Dollars ($96,791.83)
 
       
From September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2006
  One Million One Hundred Ninety-nine Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-two and 00/100 Dollars ($1,199,452.00)   Ninety-six Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-four and 33/100 Dollars ($99,954.33)
 
       
From September 1, 2006 through the Expiration Date
  One Million Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-six and 50/100 Dollars ($1,315,846.50)   One Hundred Nine Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-four and 05/100 Dollars ($109,654.05)

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6. As of the Effective Date, Paragraph 8 of the Preamble shall be amended to reflect that Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses based on the square footage of the Expansion Premises shall be three and ninety-nine hundredths percent (3.99%), in addition to the eighteen and fifty-six hundredths percent (1.56%) based on the square footage of the Current Premises. For purposes of calculating Tenant’s relevant share of Expenses due to the different Initial Years applied to different portions of the Demised Premises, as of the Effective Date, Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses for the Expansion Premises and the Additional Premises (as defined in the Second Amendment) shall collectively be fourteen and forty-six hundredths percent (14.46%), and Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses for the Existing Premises (as defined in the Second Amendment) is eight and eight hundredths percent (8.08%).
7. Paragraph 12 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that the Designated Broker is collectively Alexander Summer, LLC and Gale & Wentworth Real Estate Advisors, LLC.
8. Paragraph 14 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, Tenant shall have a total of one hundred sixty-nine (169) parking spaces, twenty-three (23) of which shall be Exclusive Spaces, as more particularly depicted on Exhibit C, and one hundred forty-six (146) of which shall be Non-Exclusive Spaces.
9. Paragraph 16 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that Tenant’s Construction Allowance in connection with the Expansion Premises Improvements shall be Fifteen and 00/100 Dollars ($15.00) per square foot of net rentable area, being a total of One Hundred Twelve Thousand Two Hundred Seventy-five and 00/100 Dollars ($112,275.00).
10. Paragraph 3(a) of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, with respect to the Expansion Premises only: (i) the term “Initial Year” shall mean the first twelve (12) month period commencing on the first (1 st ) full calendar month after the Effective Date (or on the Effective Date, if the Effective Date is the first (1 st ) day of a calendar month), and (ii) the term ''Lease Year” shall mean the Initial Year and each twelve (12) month period occurring after the Initial Year. Landlord and Tenant acknowledge and agree that the term “Initial Year” for the Additional Premises (as defined in the Second Amendment) is calendar year 2000.
11. Paragraph 17 of the Second Amendment is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the date hereof, the amount to be used as an estimate for Tenant’s monthly charge for electrical consumption shall be revised from One and 40/100 Dollars ($1.40) per square foot of net rentable area contained in the Demised Premises to One and 50/100 Dollars ($1.50) per square foot of net rentable area contained in the Demised Premises. Said charge shall be subject to adjustment and reconciliations, as more particularly set forth in Paragraph 17 of the Second Amendment.
12. Paragraph 22 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that Landlord and Tenant represent and warrant to each other that the Designated Broker noted in Paragraph 7 of this Amendment is the sole broker with whom each party has negotiated in bringing about this Amendment. Landlord and Tenant agree to he responsible for and to indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to this Amendment.

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13. Tenant acknowledges and agrees that, from and after the date hereof, there shall be a cross- default provision with respect to the Lease and the Former Natural Gas Lease, as defined Hereinafter. Accordingly, any default under the Lease shall, automatically and without additional notice, constitute a default under the Former Natural Gas Lease. Similarly, any default under the Former Natural Gas Lease shall, automatically and without additional notice, constitute a default under the Lease. As used herein, the term “ Former Natural Gas Lease ” shall be defined as that certain lease agreement dated July 18, 1996, between Landlord’s predecessor-in-title Sammis Pluckemin Associates, as landlord, and Natural Gas Services, Inc., as tenant; as amended by First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated September 31, 1996, as amended by Second Amendment to Lease Agreement dated February 19, 1997; as amended by Third Amendment to Lease dated August 5, 1999, between Landlord and NUI Corporation, as successor-to Natural Gas Services, Inc.; and as the same may be further amended.
14. Tenant acknowledges and agrees that Landlord’s obligations under this Amendment are expressly contingent upon Landlord’s receipt, prior to the date of full execution and delivery of this Amendment by and to the parties hereto, of a surrender and acceptance agreement from Electronic Data Systems Corporation with respect to the Expansion Premises, which agreement shall be in a form acceptable to Landlord.
15. Tenant represents, warrants, and covenants that, to the best of Tenant’s knowledge, (i) Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease, (ii) Tenant is not in default of any of its obligations under the Lease, and (iii) no event has occurred which, with any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish Cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall as soon thereafter as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) Business Days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and submitting to Landlord signed and sealed revised final plans sufficient for Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and revised final plans. Upon the submission of such revised final plans, such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant delay.
     Section 3.3. If (a) a delay shall occur in the completion of the Expasion Premises in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) Tenant’s failure to provide, on or before November 30, 2000, sufficient information for Landlord’s architect to prepare proposed Final Plans; (ii) the Final Plans not being approved by Tenant on at before December 18,2000; (iii) any time periods or deadlines set forth herein not being adhered to by Tenant, its agents, employees, or contractors; (iv) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (v) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, (vi) any delay caused by the Construction Cost exceeding (or estimated by Construction Manager to exceed) the Construction Allowance, as more particularly described in Section 3.4 below, or (vii) any other act or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees, or contractors (any of such events being a “ Tenant Delay ”); then (b) the Effective Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Expansion

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Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraph 4 of this Amendment for each day of such Tenant Delay.
     The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon as practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landor’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Effective Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant’s Delay.
     Section 3.4. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Tenant acknowledges that the dates set forth above with respect to the submission of preliminary information to prepare the Final Plans and the approval of the proposed Final Plans are based upon the Construction Cost being no greater than the Construction Allowance. Therefore, if (i) Construction Manager’s reasonable estimate for the Construction Cost is (or shall be) in excess of the Construction Allowance and (ii) Construction Manager reasonably believes that Construction Manager shall be unable to Substantially Complete the Tenant Improvements on or before February 1, 2001, due to the same; Tenant acknowledges that a Tenant Delay shall then exist, the extent of which shall be determined in accordance with Section 3.3 hereof.
     Section 4.1. For the services provided in connection with this Exhibit B,

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EXHIBIT C
Parking Plans
See attached.

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SECOND AMENDMENT TO LEASE
     THIS AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment ’’) made as of the 5 th day of August 1999, between THE OFFICES AT BEDMISTER, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company having an office c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC, 200 Campus Drive, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932, (“ Landlord ’’); and NUI CORPORATION , a New Jersey corporation having an address of 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760 (“ Tenant ”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, Landlord’s predecessor-in-title Sammis Pluckemin Associates and Tenant entered into an Agreement of Lease dated August 16, 1988 (the “ Original Lease ”); as amended by First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated April 15, 1994 (the “ First Amendment ”), (the Original Lease and the First Amendment collectively referred to as the “ Lease ”) whereby Tenant is presently in possession of premises containing approximately fifteen thousand one hundred eighty (15,180) square feet of net rentable area (the “ Existing Premises ”) on the second (2 nd ) floor of the building located at 550 Route 206 North (the “Building”); and
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Lease to expand the Existing Premises onto the first (1 st ) floor of the Building and to extend the Term with respect to the Demised Premises, as defined hereinafter, only in the respects and on the conditions hereinafter stated.
NOW, THEREFORE, Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:
1. For purposes of this Amendment, capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Lease unless otherwise defined herein.
2. The parties hereby confirm that the Term of the Lease is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2001. The Term of the Lease is hereby extended for an additional eight (8) years and four (4) months so that the Term shall now terminate at 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2009 (the “Expiration Date”). The period from September 1, 2001 through the Expiration Date is hereinafter referred to as the “Extended Term,” and Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Preamble of . the Lease shall be deemed modified accordingly.
3. From and after the Effective Date, as defined hereinafter, Landlord and Tenant agree that the Existing Premises shall be expanded to include approximately nineteen thousand six hundred sixty-one (19,661) square feet of net rentable area on the first (lst) floor of the Building, as more particularly depicted on Exhibit A attached hereto (the “ Additional Premises ”). Therefore, from and after the Effective Date, the Existing Premises and the Additional Premises shall comprise the Demised Premises, which shall include a total of approximately thirty-four thousand eight hundred forty-one (34,841) square feet of net rentable area in the Building, and Paragraph 1 of the Preamble shall be deemed modified accordingly.
4. Tenant hereby acknowledges that Tenant shall continue to lease the Existing Premises in its “AS IS” condition; however, Landlord agrees to construct the improvements and other work in and to the Additional Premises (“ Additional Premises Improvements ”) in accordance with the terms, conditions, and provisions of Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof. The term for the Additional Premises shall commence on the date the following conditions precedent have been satisfied (the “ Effective Date ”), which date is anticipated to be on or about January 1, 2000; (i) the Additional Premises shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Additional Premises and its use, all of which shall be established by issuance of a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Additional Premises for the purposes set forth in the Lease; and (ii) Landlord has Substantially Completed, as hereinafter defined, the Additional Premises Improvements. If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Additional Premises ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to Tenant Delay, as defined in Exhibit B; then the Effective Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of delay so caused by Tenant. As used herein, Landlord shall be deemed to have Substantially Completed the Additional Premises

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Improvements notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment, or decoration remain to be performed in the Additional Premises or any part thereof, the noncompletion of which does not unreasonably interfere with Tenant’s use of the Additional Premises. Tenant shall occupy the Additional Premises as soon as the same is ready for its occupancy and the Effective Date shall have occurred; provided, however, upon’ notice from Landlord, Tenant may enter the Additional Premises prior thereto for the purposes of installing its telephone, computer, and/or data systems; its modular office equipment; and/or its furniture so long as: (a) Tenant coordinates such installations with Landlord’s performance of the Additional Premises Improvements and does not disrupt the performance of the Additional Premises Improvements, (b) Tenant’s performance of the same does not cause or create any labor dispute for Landlord in connection with the construction of the Additional Premises Improvements, and (c) Tenant otherwise · complies with all terms and provisions of the Lease, including, but not limited to, the insurance requirements set forth in Paragraph 10 of the Lease. When Tenant takes actual possession of . the Additional Premises, it shall be conclusively presumed that the same is in satisfactory condition, except as to (x) those items of work remaining to be performed by Landlord pursuant to this Paragraph 4 of this Amendment, and (y) any items of work set forth in a “ Punch List ” to be submitted to and acknowledged by Landlord in writing within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date. Landlord shall proceed diligently to complete any Punch List items within a reasonable period of time after the Effective Date.
5. Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Preamble of the Lease are hereby amended to reflect that the Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease shall be calculated as follows: The Fixed Rent with respect to the Existing Premises shall be Twenty-five and 75/100 Dollars ($25.75) S.F. until August 31, 2001, Twenty-eight and 25/100 Dollars ($28.25) S.F. from September 1, 2001 until August 31, 2006, and Thirty-one and 00/100 Dollars ($31.00) S.F. from September 1, 2006 until December 31, 2009. The Fixed Rent with respect to the Additional Premises shall be Twenty-eight and 25/100 ($28.25) S.F. from the Effective Date until August 31, 2006 and Thirty-one and 00/100 Dollars ($31.00) S.F . from September 1, 2006 to December 31, 2009. As calculated in accordance with the foregoing, the total Fixed Rent and Monthly Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease with respect to the Existing Premises and the Additional Premises shall be as follows from and after the Effective Date:
         
Period   Firex Rent   Monthly Fixed Rent
From the Effective Date through September 1, 2001
  Nine Hundred Forty-six Thousand Three Hundred Eight and 25/100 ($946,308.25)   Seventy-eight Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-nine and 02/100 ($78,859.02)
 
       
From September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2006
  Nine Hundred Eighty-four Thousand Two Hundred Fifty-eight and 25/100 Dollars ($984,258.25)   Eighty-two Thousand Twenty-one and 52/100 Dollars ($82,021.52)
 
       
From August 31, 2006 through the Expiration Date
  One Million Eighty Thousand Seventy-one and 00/100 Dollars ($1,080,071.00)   Ninety Thousand Five and 92/100 Dollars ($90,005.92)
 
       
6. As of the Effective Date, Paragraph 8 of the Preamble shall be amended to reflect that Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses based on the square footage of the Additional Premises shall be ten and forty-seven hundredths (10.47%) percent, in addition to the eight and eight hundredths (8.08%) percent based on the square footage of the Existing Premises.
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effect, since it is no longer applicable.
8. Paragraph 11 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that Tenant’s S.LC. Code is 4924.
9. Paragraph 12 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that the Designated Broker is collectively Alexander Summer, LLC and Gale & Wentworth Real Estate Advisors, LLC.
10. Paragraph 14 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, Tenant shall have a total of one hundred thirty-nine (139) parking spaces, twenty (20) of which shall be Exclusive Spaces, as more particularly depicted on Exhibit C, and one hundred nineteen (119) of which shall be Non-Exclusive Spaces.
11. Paragraph 16 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that Tenant’s Construction Allowance in connection with the additional Improvements shall be Twenty and 00/100 Dollars ($20.00) per square foot of net rentable area, being a total of Three Hundred Ninety-three Thousand Two Hundred Twenty and 00/100 Dollars ($393,220.00). Tenant shall also have a refurbishment allowance of Five and 00/100 Dollars ($5.00) per square foot of net rentable area of the Existing Premises, being a total of Seventy-five Thousand Nine Hundred and 00/100 Dollars, ($75,900.00) (the “ Refurbishment Allowance ”). Landlord and Tenant agree that Tenant shall have the right to apply all or a portion of the Refurbishment Allowance for the sole purposes of either: (i) completing the Additional Premises Improvements (in which event Tenant shall provide Landlord with at least thirty (30) days’ notice, and the Refurbishment Allowance shall be disbursed pursuant to the same terms and conditions as the Construction Allowance, as more particularly described in Exhibit B; (ii) improving the Existing Premises by refurbishing the wall coverings, floor coverings, ceilings, or any other part of the initial build-out performed by Landlord pursuant to Exhibit B of the Original Lease or pursuant to Schedule C of the First Amendment; or (iii) contributing to the cost of refurbishing the demised premises containing approximately ten thousand five hundred forty-three (10,543) square feet of net rentable area leased by Natural Gas Services, Inc., which contribution shall be subject to the terms of Paragraph 6 of the Third Amendment dated                      , 1999 between Landlord and Natural Gas Services, Inc. Tenant acknowledges that, in the event that Tenant does not use all of the Refurbishment Allowance, Tenant shall have no right to a claim, deduction or offset with respect to any unused portion.
12. Paragraph 3(a) of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that, as of the Effective Date, with respect to the Additional Premises only: (i) the Initial Year shall be the twelve month period commencing on the first full calendar month after the Effective Date, and (ii) the term “Lease Year” shall mean the Initial Year and each twelve month period occurring after the Initial Year. In addition, as of the commencement of the Extended Term on September 1,2001, the Initial Year with respect to the Existing Premises shall be changed to mean the twelve month period commencing on the first full calendar month after the Extension Commencement’ Date, and (ii) the term “Lease Year” shall mean the Initial Year and each twelve month’ period occurring after the Initial Year. Paragraph 3(a)(2) is also amended to delete the reference to “capital improvement to the Project.”
13. Paragraph 8(a) of the Lease is amended to reflect that the time period within which Tenant shall deliver such estoppel certificates is ten (10) days following Tenant’s receipt of request therefore.
14. Paragraphs 10(b), 10(e), and 10(d) of the Lease are hereby deleted in its entirety and are replaced with the following provisions:
(b) Tenant shall, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, except to the extent prohibited by law with respect to worker’s compensation insurance, for the benefit of Tenant, Landlord, and any Additional Insured (as hereinafter defined) and/or any other additional insured as Landlord shall from time to time reasonably determine, maintain or cause to be maintained (i) commercial general liability insurance coverage with a limit of not less than Five Million and 00/100 Dollars ($5,000,000.00) per each occurrence (“ CGL ”), to include commercial umbrella liability coverage, if necessary [If the CGL contains a general aggregate, it shall apply separately to the Demised Premises. The CGL shall be written on ISO occurrence form CGOOO11093 or a substitute providing equivalent coverage and shall cover liability arising from the Demised Premises, operations, independent contractors, products-completed operations, personal injury, advertising liability, and liability under an insured contract. The

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commercial umbrella liability coverage shall be consistent with the primary coverage.); (ii) worker’s compensation insurance covering all persons employed in connection with the construction of any improvements by Tenant and the operation of its business upon the Demised Premises; and (iii) “all risk” coverage on all of Tenant’s personal property, including, but not limited to, standard fire and extended coverage insurance with vandalism’ and malicious mischief endorsements on all of the Tenant Improvements and Alterations in or about the Demised Premises, to the extent of their full replacement value. If, in the opinion of any mortgagees or ground lessors of the Land and/or the Building, the foregoing coverages and/or limits shall become inadequate or less than that commonly maintained by prudent tenants in similar buildings in the area by tenants making similar uses, Landlord shall have the right to require Tenant to increase its insurance coverage and/or limits. AU such insurance shall, to the extent permitted by law, name any mortgagees and ground lessors of the Land and the Building and any owners, mortgagees, and ground lessors of other portions of the Complex, and their successors and assigns (“ Additional Insureds ”) and Landlord, as additional insureds and shall be written by an insurance carrier authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey and that is rated at least A+ XII by A.M. Best Company, Oldwick, New Jersey.
(c) Prior to the Commencement Date, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord a certificate of each policy required under this Lease, which certificate shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory to Landlord and shall, at a minimum: (i) specify the additional insured status of Landlord and of the Additional Insureds, (ii) evidence the waiver of subrogation required pursuant to Paragraph \O(d), and (iii) provide that said policy shall not be reduced in amount (or otherwise materially changed) or canceled or lapse without providing to Landlord at the address specified in Paragraph 18 of the Lease at least thirty (30) days’ written notice of such reduction (or other material change), cancellation, or lapse. Tenant agrees to provide to Landlord timely renewal certificates as the coverage renews. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, all policies required to be effected by Tenant under this Lease shall be maintained in force throughout the Term or any Renewal Term.
(d) Landlord and Tenant waive all rights of recovery against each other and the Additional Insureds for any loss, damages, or injury of any nature whatsoever to property for which the waiving party is required to be insured. In addition, during the Term, Landlord and Tenant shall each maintain in effect in each insurance policy required under this Lease that relates to property damage a waiver of subrogation in favor of the other party and the Additional Insureds from its then-current insurance earners and shall, upon written request of the other party, furnish evidence of such currently effective waiver which shall be in customary form.
15. Paragraph 11 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that this provisions shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of the Lease.
16. Based on the modification to Paragraph 10 of the Lease, as set forth in Paragraph 14 of this Amendment, Paragraph 12(b) of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and shall be of no further force or effect.
17. As of the Effective Date, Paragraphs 15(b), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of the Lease shall be deleted in their entirety and shall be of no further force of effect. As of the Effective Date, Tenant’s electrical consumption for the Demised Premises shall be paid by Tenant on a quarterly annual basis (due on or before January 1, April, July 1, and October 1 of each calendar year during the Term without demand therefore and without any set-off, recoupment, or deduction whatsoever) based upon a monthly charge of One and 40/100 Dollars ($1.40) per square foot of net rentable area contained in the Demised Premises, which charge represents the cost of the estimated monthly usage in the Demised Premises. Said monthly charge may be adjusted from time to time on the basis of changes in electric rates or usage of power within the Demised Premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Landlord and Tenant acknowledge that Tenant’s actual electrical consumption in the Demised Premises shall be measured by submeter. Therefore, while Tenant will continue to pay the foregoing monthly charge on a quarterly annual basis, Landlord shall read the submeter on a quarterly annual basis and, within a reasonable time following such reading, shall send to Tenant a reconciliation statement based upon the same. Within thirty (30) days following Tenant’s receipt of any such quarterly annual reconciliation statement, Tenant shall pay to Landlord the amount of any underpayment due for the relevant quarter. If Tenant has overpaid for such quarter,

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Landlord shall reimburse Tenant for the amount of the overpayment.
18. Paragraph 18 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that notices to Landlord and Tenant shall be addressed as follows:
The Offices at Bedminster
c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC
200 Campus Drive
Florham Park, New Jersey 01932
Attn: Asset Management
and
The Offices at Bedminster
c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC
200 Campus Drive
Florham Park, New Jersey 01932
Attn: Marc Leonard Ripp, Esq.
19. Paragraph 22 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that Landlord and Tenant represent and warrant to each other that the Designated Broker noted in Paragraph 9 of this Amendment is the sole broker with whom each party has negotiated in bringing about this Amendment. Landlord and Tenant agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to this Amendment.
20. Paragraph 24 of the Lease and Paragraph 4 of the First Amendment are hereby deleted in their entirety and are replaced with the following provision:
(a) Tenant is hereby granted two (2) successive option(s) to renew this Lease for a Renewal Term of five (5) years each, subject to the terms of this Paragraph 24. In the event that Tenant desires to renew this Lease, it shall give notice in writing to Landlord of its intention to renew the Lease at least twelve (12) months prior to the Expiration Date (as amended herein) and at least twelve (12) months prior to the expiration of the first Renewal Term, as the case may be. During each of the Renewal Terms, Tenant shall lease the Demised Premises in its “AS IS” condition and all of the terms and conditions of this Lease shall otherwise remain in effect during each of the Renewal Terms, except that the annual Fixed Rent payable during each of the Renewal Terms shall be ninety-five (95%) percent of the annual fair market renewal rental value of the Demised Premises based on a comparison of the rents and accrued escalations then being paid by tenants renewing leases for comparable space in the competitive market area of the Demised Premises, excluding from consideration rent concessions, such as free rent and work letter allowances, made to tenants leasing space initially, but taking into consideration rent concessions, such as refitting allowance, made to tenants renewing leases (“ Fair Market Renewal Rent ”); provided, however, that in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent be less than the annual Fixed Rent payable during the year preceding the 1 st year of each such Renewal Term. In the event the Fixed Rent to be paid during either Renewal Term increases over the amount paid during the year preceding the first year of each such Renewal Term, Landlord may, at its sole option, require Tenant to pay, on or before the commencement of the applicable Renewal Term, a proportionate increase in the Security Deposit.
(b) The Fair Market Renewal Rent of the Demised Premises for purposes of subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 24 shall take into account the provisions of this Lease and shall be determined pursuant to the provisions of this subparagraph 24(b). The Fair Market Renewal Rent shall be set forth by Landlord in a notice to Tenant at least sixty (60) days prior to the commencement of each of the applicable Renewal Terms. The Fair Market Renewal Rent set forth in such notice shall be binding upon both parties, unless Tenant shall notify Landlord of its objection within twenty (20) days after receipt of such notice. In the event of such an objection, which is not resolved within twenty (20) days thereafter, Tenant, at its own expense, shall designate an MAI or SREA appraiser in the Somerset County area. Tenant’s designated appraiser shall then determine and promptly report to both parties in

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writing the Fair Market Renewal Rent of the Demised Premises, which report shall be binding upon both parties, unless Landlord shall object to same within twenty (20) days after receipt of said report. If Landlord shall so object, both parties shall jointly appoint a separate. MAI or SREA appraiser who shall determine the Fair Market Renewal Rent by selecting either Landlord’s Fair Market Renewal Rent determination or Tenant’s designated appraiser’s Fair Market Renewal Rent determination according to whichever of the two valuations is closer to the actual Fair Market Renewal Rent in the opinion of such separate appraiser. The costs of such separate appraiser shall be shared equally by Landlord and Tenant.
(c) It shall be a condition of the exercise of the option set forth in this Paragraph 24, that at the time of the exercise of said option, Tenant shall not be in default under this Lease beyond applicable grace periods.
(d) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that the option(s) set forth in this Paragraph 24 shall be personal to Tenant and shall not be exercisable by any party (including any assignees) other than Tenant named herein. Furthermore, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Tenant shall not have the right to exercise the renewal options) set forth herein if the amount of square feet of net rentable area of the Demised Premises leased by Tenant during the applicable Renewal Term is fifty (50%) percent or less than the amount of square feet of net rentable area leased by Tenant as of the Effective Date.
21. Paragraph 28 of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the following provisions:
(a) Tenant agrees to comply with all present or future federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations dealing with environmental protection (“ Environmental Laws ”), including, but not limited to, the Industrial Site Recovery Act (N.J.S.A. 13:1K-6, el seq.) (“ISRA”) having jurisdiction over the Demised Premises. Tenant agrees that such compliance shall be at Tenant’s sole cost and expense. Tenant shall immediately provide Landlord, as they are issued or received by Tenant, with copies of all correspondence, reports, notices, orders, findings, declarations, and other materials that are pertinent to Tenant’s compliance with Environmental Laws.
(b) Tenant represents to Landlord that Tenant’s Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Number as used on Tenant’s Federal Tax Return is as set forth in the Preamble of the Lease. Tenant shall not conduct any operations at the Demised Premises that shall cause the Building or the Demised Premises to be deemed an “industrial establishment” as currently defined in ISRA or otherwise trigger ISRA. If, due to an amendment to ISRA or otherwise Tenant’s operations become subject to ISRA during the Term of the Lease, Tenant shall comply with all ISRA requirements at Tenant’s sole cost and expense. Such expenses shall include, but not limited to, any applicable state agency fees, engineering fees, clean-up costs, filing fees, and suretyship expenses. In addition, in the event any other Building tenant or Landlord triggers ISRA, Tenant agrees to cooperate with Landlord and provide any information relating to Tenant and its operations at the Demised Premises that is needed by Landlord to comply with ISRA. The foregoing undertakings shall survive the termination or sooner expiration of the Lease and surrender of the Demised Premises and shall also survive the sale, lease, or assignment of the Demised Premises by Landlord for a period of one (1) year.
(c) Tenant shall not generate, store, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, dispose of, or otherwise permit to be present on or about the Demised Premises any Hazardous Substances with the exception of de minimis quantities of Hazardous Substances commonly used in the cleaning and maintenance of general business offices in quantities appropriate to such use. As used herein, “ Hazardous Substance ” shall be! defined as any “hazardous chemical,” “hazardous substance,” “hazardous waste,” or similar term as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. §§9601, et seq.). ISRA, the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, as amended, (NJ.S.A. 58:10-23.llb, et seq.). any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, or in any other present or future Environmental Laws.
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the Demised Premises from and against any and all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, judgments, causes of action, costs, and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by Landlord or any such mortgagee or threatened against Landlord or such mortgagee, relating to or arising out of any breach by Tenant of this Paragraph 28, which indemnification shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this Lease.
22. Paragraph 29(b) of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the following provision:
(b) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that neither Landlord, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as trustee of the Commingled Pension Trust Fund (Special Situation Investments — Real Estate) of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, nor any · shareholder, officer, director, partner (general or limited), limited liability company member, tenant-in-common, venturer, trustee, trust beneficiary, grantor, trustee-grantor, or other individual or entity having an interest in Landlord shall have any personal liability for the performance of any of the terms, covenants, or conditions to be performed by Landlord under this Lease; rather, Tenant agrees to look solely to Landlord’s interest and estate in the Land and the Building for the satisfaction of Tenant’s remedies arising all of or related to this Lease.
23. The First Amendment is hereby amended to clarify that Tenant did not exercise the option set forth in Paragraph 15 of the’ First Amendment and is therefore not in possession of the Interim Expansion Space, which is currently leased and occupied by NUI Corporation, Successor to Natural Gas Services, Inc.
24. Tenant represents, warrants, and covenants that, to the best of Tenant’s knowledge, (i) Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease, (ii) Tenant is not in default of any of its obligations under the Lease, and (iii) no event has occurred which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default by either Landlord or Tenant thereunder.
25. Except as modified by this Amendment, the Lease and all the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions thereof shall remain in full force and effect imd are hereby ratified and affirmed. The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions contained in this Amendment shall bind und inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and, except as otherwise provided in the Lease as modified by this Amendment, their respective assigns. In the event of any conflict between the terms contained in this Amendment and the Lease, the terms herein contained shall supersede and control the obligations and liabilities of the parties.
26. This Amendment shall become effective only upon execution and delivery thereof by Landlord and Tenant.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have hereunto set their hands and seals as of the date and year first above written, and acknowledge the one to the other that they possess the requisite authority to enter into this transaction and to sign this Amendment.
             
WITNESS:   THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC    
 
           
    By: Gale & Wentworth, LLC Authorized Management Agent    
[illegible]
  By:   [illegible]     
Vice President 
  Name:  
[illegible] 
   
 
  Title:  
 
   
 
     
 
   
 
  Dated:   8/5/99    
 
           
ATTEST   NUI CORPORATION    
 
  By:   [illegible]     
[illegible] 
  Name:  
 
   
 
  Title:  
 
COO & CFO
   
 
  Dated:   8/4/99    

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EXHIBIT A
Additional Premises

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EXHIBIT B
Work Letter
     Section 1.1. The provisions of this Exhibit shall have the same force and effect as if this Exhibit were a numbered Article of the Lease.
     Section 2.1.
     (a) Landlord agrees that Gale & Wentworth Construction Services, LLC (“Construction Manager”) shall oversee the construction of the Additional Premises in accordance with the Final Plans, as hereinafter defined, (the “Tenant Improvements”) finalized from the Preliminary Plans, which construction shall be completed in a good and workmanlike manner and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (“Tenant Improvement Work”). Tenant shall pay to Landlord, in accordance with the terms hereof, the Construction Cost (as hereinafter defined), against which Tenant shall be entitled to a credit of (i) tenant improvement allowance of Twenty and 00/100 Dollars ($20.00) per square from of net rentable area of the Additional Premises, plus (ii) an architectural allowance of One and 50/100 Dollars ($1.50) per square foot of net rentable area of the Additional Premises (collectively, the “ Construction Allowance ”). The difference between the Construction Cost and the Construction Allowance is referred to herein as “ Tenant’s Finish Cost .” In the event that any portion of the Construction Allowance is remaining after the completion of the Tenant improvements, Tenant acknowledges that Tenant shall not have any right to a credit, offset, or deduction with respect to said portion.
     (b) No later than October 1, 1999, Tenant shall submit to Landlord and Landlord’s architect sufficient information to allow Landlord to prepare final plans setting forth the construction of the Additional Premises as provided in this Section 2.1, and such plans shall be prepared by Landlord’s architect at Landlord’s expense. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any proposed final plans from Landlord, Tenant shall approve (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed) or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. In the event of a rejection by Tenant of any proposed final plans, Landlord may make changes to the proposed final plans and resubmit them pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Tenant’s approval to any proposed final plans, such plans shall become the Final Plans (the “Final Plans”) hereunder. Provided that Tenant has received proposed Final Plans at least fifteen (15) days prior thereto, Tenant’s failure to approval Final Plans by December 31,1999 shall constitute a Tenant Delay, as defined in Section 3.3 hereof.
     Section 3.1. Subject to Section 2.1,Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenant’s Finish Cost in the following manner: Landlord shall submit to Tenant monthly invoices for Tenant Improvement Work that has been completed and for which Tenant’s Finish Cost is due, which invoices shall be submitted on or before the fifth (5th) day of the calendar month immediately following the month in which such work has been completed, together with copies of all subcontractor invoices and material invoices verifying the Tenant Improvements completed to date. Each invoice, will include a ten percent (10%) retainage to be withheld on all subcontractor costs until Substantial Completion. There will be no retain age on general condition items and fees. Tenant shall pay to Landlord the costs for the same on or before the twentieth (20th) day of the calendar month in which such invoice was received. Said payments of Tenant’s Finish Cost shall be made as Additional Rent, and Tenant shall pay the same in full and without setoff or deduction the amounts set forth in any invoices received.
     Section 3.2, In the event that Tenant desires any change in the Final Plans, Tenant shall submit to Landlord revised final plans setting forth the proposed change and instructing Landlord whether to cease work or cease any segment of work while the change is approved (in which case the delay shall be a Tenant Delay as hereinafter defined) or whether Landlord should continue constructing the Additional Premises in accordance with the Final Plans notwithstanding the proposed change thereto. In the event that no such instructions are given, Landlord shall continue constructing the Additional Premises in accordance with the Final Plans without regard to the proposed changes thereto. Within five (5) Business Days after receipt of any proposed changes in the Final Plans from Tenant, Landlord shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. If Landlord has stopped work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s request. Landlord shall resume work, or some

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segment thereof at Tenant’s written · instructions from Tenant authorizing the recommencement of such ‘work. Upon the granting of any approval, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish Cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall as soon thereafter as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) Business Days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and submitting to Landlord signed and sealed revised final plans sufficient for Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and revised final plans. Upon the submission of such revised final plans, such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay.
     Section 33. If (a) a delay shall occur in the completion of the Additional Premises in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) Tenant’s failure to provide, on or before October 1, 1999, sufficient information for Landlord’s architect to prepare proposed Final Plans; (ii) the Final Plans not being approved by Tenant on or before December 31, 1999; (iii) any time periods or deadlines set forth herein not being adhered to by Tenant, its agents, employees, or contractors; (iv) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (v) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, (vi) any delay caused by the Construction Cost’s exceeding (or estimated by Construction Manager to exceed) the Construction Allowance, as more particularly described in Section 3.4 below, or (vii) any other act · or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees, or contractors (any of such events being a “ Tenant Delay ”); then (b) the Effective Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Additional Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraph 4 of this Amendment for each day of such Tenant Delay.
The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon as practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length. of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Effective Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.
     Section 3.4. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Tenant acknowledges that the dates set forth above with respect to the submission of preliminary information to prepare the Final Plans and the approval of the proposed Final Plans are based upon the Construction Cost’s being no greater than the Construction Allowance. Therefore, if (i) Construction Manager’s reasonable estimate for the Construction Cost is (or shall be) in excess of the Construction Allowance and (ii) Construction Manager reasonably believes that Construction Manager shall be unable to Substantially Complete the Tenant Improvements on or before April 1, 2000 due to the same; Tenant acknowledges that a Tenant Delay shall then exist, the extent of which shall be determined in accordance with Section 3.3 hereof.
     Section 4.1. For he services provided in connection with this Exhibit B, Construction Manager will be compensated by receiving a fee (“ Construction Manager’s Fee ”) equal to ten percent (10%) percent of the actual cost incurred by Construction Manager to construct the Additional Premises Improvements (the total actual cost referred to as the “ Construction Cost ”). The Construction Cost will include all construction-related costs, such as subcontract trade costs; materials; equipment; labor; permits; and typical out-of-pocket general condition costs, such as blueprint reproduction, overnight deliveries, insurance, security, temporary protection, field office expenses (including, but not limited to, temporary phone and beepers, and fax machine use), clean up, dumpsters, etc. Tenant expressly acknowledges that the cost of the preparation of all architectural documents, including the Final Plans, shall be a component of the Construction Cost. Time spent by Construction Manager’s personnel relative to project executive, project management, estimating, site supervision, the project manager’s secretary, and accounting will also be a part of .the Construction Cost and reimbursed to

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Construction Manager at 1.35 times the direct salary expense.
     Section 5.1. The liability of Construction Manager to Tenant for any failure by Construction Manager to perform the construction management services specified herein or any other obligations of Construction Manager under this Work Letter, or otherwise under this Amendment, shall in all events be limited to the amount of the Construction Manager’s Fee; otherwise, Construction Manager (and the shareholders, officers, and directors of the Construction Manager) shall have no liability to Tenant under this Work Letter, this Amendment, or the Lease. The parties acknowledge that Construction Manager is acting as agent of Landlord, and Tenant shall look solely to Landlord’s subject to the limitations of liability of Landlord set forth in the Lease, for the performance of the terms, covenants, and conditions of the Lease and this Work Letter to be performed by Landlord and/or Construction Manager:

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EXHIBIT C
Parking Plans

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FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT
THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated of April 15, 1994, by and between SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES, a California partnership (“Landlord”), having an office c/o Gale & Wentworth, Inc., Park Avenue at Morris County, 1.00 Campus Drive, suite 300, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932 and NUI CORPORATION, a New Jersey corporation (“Tenant”) having an address at 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760.
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, Landlord and Tenant are parties to an Agreement of Lease dated August 16, 1988 (the “Lease”) for eight thousand one hundred twelve (8,112) square feet of net rentable area of office space (the “Initial Demised Premises”) located on the second floor of a building located at 550 Route 206, Bedminster, New Jersey (the “Building”); and
     WHEREAS, the Lease provided for’ an Expiration Date of August 31, 1994 and the parties have agreed to renew and amend the Lease as set forth in this Amendment.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and One Dollar and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
     1. The parties hereby agree to modify and amend the, Lease as provided in this Amendment. The effective date of this Amendment shall be August 1, 1994. Prior to said date, the Lease shall remain in effect as it exists on the d.ate hereof. Upon the effective date, the provisions of this Amendment shall modify, supersede and govern any provisions of the Lease which are inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto.
     2. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals to this Amendment and this Paragraph 2, or elsewhere in this Amendment, and in the absence of a specific definition set forth herein shall have the meaning given to such defined term in the Lease. The following terms, whenever used in this Amendment, shall have the meaning set forth below:
          (a) Demised Premises: as provided in Paragraph 5 of this Amendment.
          (b) Interim Expansion Space; five thousand and seventy-five (5,075) square feet of net rentable area of office space on the first floor of the Building, which space is presently occupied by Chubb Insurance company and Coca-Cola Company and which space is depicted in the floor plan attached to this Amendment and made part hereof as Schedule “All.
          (c) Final Expansion Space: seven thousand and sixty-eight (7,068) square feet of net rentable area of office space. on the second floor of the Building, which space is presently occupied by Purcell, Ries, Shannon, Mulcahy & O’Neill and which space is depicted on the floor plan attached to this Amendment and made part hereof as Schedule “B”.

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          (d) Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date: August 1, 1994 or, if the Interim Expansion Space is not yet available and/or the Interim Space Modifications have not been completed by that date, the actual date on which the tenants presently occupying the Interim Expansion Space have vacated the same and Landlord has completed the Interim Space Modifications, which date Shall be confirmed by the parties through the execution of a commencement date memorandum specifying the same;
          (e) Interim Space Modifications: the construction of a framed opening in the Interim Expansion space demising wall and the patching and repairing of the carpet and ceiling as required to provide a reasonably matching appearance in the areas affected by such construction.
          (f) Final Expansion Space Commencement Date: the actual date on which .the tenant presently occupying the Final Expan- sion Space has vacated the same and the Expansion Space Improve- ments have been completed, as provided in Paragraph :10 of this Amendment, which date shall be confirmed by the parties through their execution of a commencement date memorandum specifying the same and which date is estimated to be sometime between April and October 1995 but shall not be later than January 1, 1996.
          (g) Expansion Space Improvements: the improvements depicted on the Final Plans (as such term is defined in the’ work letter attached to this Amendment and made part hereof as Schedule “C”) for the Final Expansion Space.
          (h) Expansion Space construction Allowance: as set forth in the work letter attached to this Amendment and made part hereof as Schedule “C”.
          (i) New Term: seven (7) years and one month commencing on August 1, 1994, and expiring on the New Expiration Date.
          (j) New Expiration Date: midnight on August 31, 2001
     3 . Landlord hereby agrees to lease to Tenant and Tenant does hereby lease from Landlord the Demised Premises for the New Term.
     4. Tenant shall have the option to extend the New Term for two five year Renewal Terms, the first Renewal Term commencing on the day following the New Expiration Date and expiring on the fifth anniversary of the New Expiration Date and the second Renewal Term commencing on the day following the fifth anniversary of the New Expiration Date and expiring on the tenth anniversary of the New Expiration Date. Said Renewal Terms are in lieu of any other Renewal Term and Tenant shall have no further renewal rights under the Lease after the expiration of the two five-year Renewal Terms provided in this Amendment. Except as modified herein, the Tenant’s exercise of such renewal rights shall be governed by Paragraph 24 of the Lease; provided, however, that the required notice in writing to Landlord of Tenant’s intention to renew the Lease shall be given nine (9) months prior to the fifth anniversary of the New Expiration Date with respect to the second Renewal Term.
     5. As used in this Amendment, the “Demised Premises” shall refer to and include the following:

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          (a) from the date hereof until the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date, the Demised Premises shall refer to and include the Interim Demised Premises only;
          (b) from the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date until the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date, the Demised Premises shall ref r to and include both the Initial Demised Premises and the Interim Expansion Space; and
          (c) from the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date until the New Expiration Date (or until the expiration of the last Renewal Term for which Tenant exercises its option to renew this Lease as provided herein), the Demised Premises shall refer to and include the Initial Demised Premises and the Final Expansion Space provided, however, that if Tenant exercises the option to lease the Interim Expansion Space beyond the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date pursuant to paragraph 15 of this Amendment, the Demised Premises shall then refer to the Initial Demised Premises, the Interim Expansion Space and the Final Expansion Space. ;
     6. If the Interim Expansion Space commencement Date does not occur on July 1, 1994, then from and after July 1, 1994 and until the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date, Tenant shall pay as Fixed Rent hereunder the sum of Twenty-five Dollars and seventy-five cents ($25.75) per square foot of net rentable area of office space in the Demised Premises per annum or a total of Two Hundred Eight Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-four Dollars ($208,884.00) per annum. From and after the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date until the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date Tenant shall pay as Fixed Rent hereunder the sum of Twenty-five Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($25.75) per square foot of net rentable areal of office space in the Demised Premises per annum or a total of Three Hundred Thirty-nine Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-five Dollars and Twenty-five cents ($339,565.25) per annum (subject to adjustment based on any reduction in the net rentable area of the Interim Expansion Space as provided in Paragraph 2(b) of this Amendment). From the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date until the New Expiration Date, Tenant shall pay as Fixed Rent hereunder the sum of Twenty-five Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($25.75) per square foot of net rentable area of office space in the Demised Premises (being the Initial Demised Premises and the Final Expansion Space per annum or a total of Three Hundred Ninety Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-five Dollars ($390,885.00) per annum; provided, however, that if Tenant exercises the option to lease the Interim Expansion Space beyond the Final Expansion Space commencement Date pursuant to paragraph 15 of the Amendment, from the Final Expansion space Commencement Date until the New Expiration Date Tenant shall pay, in addition to the Fixed Rent specified in the preceding clause, the Fair Market Value for the Interim Expansion Space defined in and determined in accordance with Paragraph 24 of the Lease. During the Renewal Terms, Tenant shall pay as Fixed Rent hereunder the Fair Market Value as defined in and determined in—accordance with Paragraph 24 of the Lease, but in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the first Renewal Term be less than the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the year preceding the first Renewal Term and in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the Second Renewal Term be less than the annual Fixed Rent payable during the first Renewal Term. The Monthly Fixed Rent shall be an amount equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual Fixed Rent specified in this Paragraph 6 of this Amendment.

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     7. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, Tenant shall be entitled to an abatement of Monthly Fixed Rent in the amount of Seventy-five Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty-three Dollars ‘and Seventy-five cents ($75,833.75), which amount shall be credited to or applied against Tenant’s Monthly Fixed Rent obligation by a monthly reduction of Fifteen Thousand One Hundred Sixty-six Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($15,166.75) per month for the first five (5) months occurring after the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date. Tenant shall continue to pay Additional Rent during said rent abatement period. The rent abatement period specified in Paragraph 2 (d) of the Lease has expired and is no longer applicable.
     8. Tenant’s Proportionate Share shall remain at Four and thirty-two hundredths percent (4.32%) until the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date on which date Tenant’s Proportionate Share shall be increased to Seven and two hundredths percent (7.02%). On the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date, Tenant’s Proportionate Share shall be increased to Eight and eight hundredths percent (8. 08%) provided, however, that if Tenant exercises the option to lease the Interim Expansion Space beyond the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date pursuant to paragraph 15 of this Amendment, on the Final Expansion Space commencement Date Tenant’s Proportionate Share shall be increased to Ten and seventy-nine hundredths percent (10.79%). Said percentages were determined by dividing the net rentable area of the Demised Premises by the net rentable area of the Project (as such term is defined in the Lease).
     9. Effective on August 1, 1994, the Initial Year, as defined in Paragraph 3 of the Lease, shall be changed to the calendar year 1995. The limitation on Additional Rent contained in Paragraph 3(c) (1) is no longer in effect.
     10. The Final Expansion Space shall be deemed ready for occupancy and the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date shall occur on such later date that (a) the Final Expansion space shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Final Expansion Space and its use, all of which shall be established by the issuance of a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Final Expansion Space for general office use; and (b) Landlord has substantially completed the Expansion Space Improvements (and Landlord shall be deemed to have substantially completed such work notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment or decoration remain to be performed in the Final Expansion Space or any part thereof, the non-completion of which does not materially interfere with Tenant’s use of the Final Expansion Space). If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Final Expansion Space ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to a Tenant Delay (as defined in Section 3.3 of the Work Letter attached hereto and made part of this Amendment as Exhibit “C”, then the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of Tenant Delay so caused by Tenant.
     11. Landlord agrees to construct the Expansion Space Improvements in accordance with the terms, conditions and provisions set forth on the work letter attached to this Amendment and

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made part hereof as Schedule “C”.
     12. Upon the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date, Tenant shall vacate the Interim Expansion Space delivering possess ion of the same to Landlord in the same good order and condition I wear and tear from reasonable use thereof excepted, as required under the Lease with respect to Tenant’s obligation to vacate the Demised Premises upon the Expiration Date.
     13. Upon the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date , Tenant shall be allocated six (6) additional parking spaces in the ) Building’s covered garage, which spaces shall be located as depicted on the parking plan attached to this Amendment and made part hereof as Schedule “D”.
     14. Landlord shall provide Tenant with a Ten Thousand Dollar ($10,000.00) allowance for refurbishing the Initial Demised Premises, which sum shall be credited against Tenant’s Monthly Fixed Rent Obligation due on August 1, 1994.
     15. Tenant is hereby granted the option to lease the Interim Expansion Space for a term commencing on the Expansion Space Commencement Date and expiring on the New Expiration Date. In the event that Tenant desires to exercise this option, it shall give notice in writing to Landlord of its intention to lease the Interim Expansion Space beyond the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date on or before the date which is the earlier of (i) the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date or (ii) July 1, 1995. All the terms and conditions of the Lease, as modified by this Amendment, shall remain in effect and apply to the continued leasing of the Interim Expansion Space except that the annual Fixed Rent payable with respect to the Interim Expansion space shall be the Fair Market Value as defined in and determined in accordance with Paragraph 24 of the Lease, but in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent for the Interim Expansion Space be less than Twenty-five Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($25.75) per square foot of net rentable area of office space in the Interim Expansion Space per annum.
     16. Paragraph 15 of the Lease is hereby deleted and the following is hereby inserted in its place:
          15.  Services; Electric Energy
          (a) Landlord will: (i) supply heat and air conditioning to the Demised Premises and the interior public portions of the Project during Business Hours in accordance with the New Jersey state Energy Code standards; i.e. when the outside temperature is 13 degrees F the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 70 · degrees F, when the outside temperature is 91 degrees dry bulb or 74 degrees wet bulb, the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 75 degrees F (ii) provide snow and ice removal for the parking area, sidewalks and driveways in a reasonably expeditious manner; and (iii) provide refuse removal from a dumpster to be provided on site to be used for normal waste attendant to an office building. “Business Hours’” as used in this Agreement, means the generally customary daytime business hours of Tenant but not before 8:00 A.M. or after 6:00 P. M. of days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and those legal holidays listed

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in Exhibit “0” annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Tenant agrees at all times to cooperate fully with Landlord and to abide by all the regulations and requirements which Landlord may prescribe for the proper functioning and protection of such air conditioning system. Landlord will clean the Demised premises in accordance with the cleaning schedule annexed hereto as Exhibit “D-1”. The cost of the services and utilities provided pursuant to this Paragraph 15 (a) is included in Expenses as defined in Paragraph 3(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Landlord agrees to maintain the Project, including but not limited to, the building, all common areas, the HVAC systems, plumbing and electrical systems and all other building systems and to operate the project as a first class office project.
          (b) Provided Tenant is not then in default of this Agreement, Landlord will provide to Tenant overtime services and utilities when and to the extent reasonably requested by Tenant or when activated by Tenant’s use of an overtime thermostat and time clock and in accordance with such reasonable conditions as shall be determined by Landlord. Tenant shall pay to Landlord, as Additional Rent, a standard charge determined by Landlord applicable to all Tenants for such additional service and utilities which charge shall cover all costs and expenses of Landlord in providing such overtime services, including, without limitation, the cost of the utility usage, the cost of maintenance, repairs and inspections of such building systems and employee and administrative costs related to such services. Such charges shall constitute a direct charge to Tenant and not to an Expense pursuant to Paragraph 3.
          (c) Landlord reserves the right, without liability to Tenant and without constituting any claim of constructive eviction, to stop or interrupt any heating, lighting, Ventilating, air conditioning, gas, steam, power, electricity, water or other service and to stop or interrupt the use of any building or Project facilities at such times as may be necessary and for as long as may reasonably be required by reason of accidents, strikes, or the making of repairs, alterations or improvements, or inability to secure a proper supply of fuel, gas, steam, water, electricity, labor or supplies, or by reason of any other similar or dissimilar cause beyond the reasonable control of Landlord. No such stoppage or interruption shall entitle Tenant to any diminution or abatement of rent or other compensation nor shall this Agreement or any of the obligations of Tenant be affected or . reduced by reason of any such stoppage or interruption.
          (d) As an incident to this Lease and as a part of the rental consideration hereunder, Landlord shall install transmission facilities in the Demised Premises, so that electric energy may be used by Tenant in the Demised Premises in such reasonable quantity as shall be sufficient to meet Tenant’s needs for 9 an the operation of its business machines,

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including photocopy equipment and computer and data processing equipment.
          (e) Within ninety (90) days after the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date, a survey (the “Survey”) shall be made by a licensed independent electrical engineer selected by Landlord (“Surveyor”) to determine the amounts to be charged Tenant for usage of the electrical energy provided pursuant to Paragraph J.5(d) above. The amounts determined by said Survey shall be based upon certain theoretical assumptions incorporating approximate estimates of the’ probable consumption of electric energy by the lighting fixtures and other “equipment and business machines installed in the Demised Premises, the anticipated periods of operation of such lighting fixtures, equipment and machines and the cost of furnishing such electric energy. The determination of the electricity charges by the Surveyor shall be expressed as an annual dollar amount per square foot of the Demised Premises and shall be binding and conclusive on Landlord and on Tenant unless within fifteen (15) ,days after the delivery of a copy of such determination to Tenant, Tenant dispute such determination by written notice to the Landlord. Pending, the resolution of any such dispute, however, Tenant shall. pay to Landlord in accordance with the provisions of this,’ Paragraph 15(e), the amount as determined by the Surveyor; provided, however, that if the electricity charge as finally determined is different from that determined by the Surveyor, then Landlord and Tenant shall make adjustment for any deficiency owed by Tenant or overage paid by Tenant pursuant to the determination of the Surveyor. Any dispute by Tenant over the determination of electricity charges by the Surveyor shall be resolved by Tenant and Landlord selecting a different licensed electrical engineer acceptable to both Landlord and Tenant, to prepare a new survey, which new survey shall be binding on Landlord and Tenant. The cost of such new survey shall be borne by Tenant unless the amount determined by the Surveyor shall be more than ten percent (10%) less than that determined in the disputed survey, in which latter event Landlord shall bear such cost.
          (f) Throughout the term of this Lease, Landlord, at Landlord’s expense, may cause a new Survey to be made by the Surveyor to determine if a further adjustment in the electricity charges is warranted. When any such Survey (the “Subsequent survey”) is so completed and delivered to Tenant, the cost of electricity as set forth in the Subsequent Survey shall become binding upon both parties as of the first day of the month next succeeding the month in which Landlord receives a copy of the Subsequent Survey, unless fifteen (15) days after the delivery of such Subsequent Survey, Tenant notifies Landlord, in writing that it disputes the amount set forth in said subsequent Survey. Settlement of the dispute shall be made in the same manner as provided in Paragraph 15(e) of this Lease.
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accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs (e) and (f) of this Paragraph 15 shall be paid by Tenant to Landlord as Additional Rent hereunder in the following. manner:
(i) commencing on the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date and on the first day of each month thereafter until the provisions of Paragraph 15(e) become effective, an amount equal to the sum of $1.00 per square foot per annum, or $.0833 per square foot per month multiplied by the net rentable area of the Demised Premises which sum shall represent the estimated electricity charge applicable to the Demised Premises;
(ii) commencing on the first day of the month next succeeding the month in which Landlord and Tenant receive a copy of the Survey, an amount equal to one-twelfth ( 1/12) of the annual electricity charge allocable to the Demised Premises as determined by the Survey; And
(iii) on the first day of each month thereafter, throughout the term of this Lease one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual electricity charge allocable to the Demised Premises as determined by the Surveyor any Subsequent Survey.
Within thirty (30) days after determination of the electricity charge in accordance with the Survey, Landlord or Tenant, as the case may be, shall reimburse the other party for any overpayment or underpayment of such charge calculated by comparison of the total amount of estimated electricity charges paid with the amount which would have been payable since the Interim Expansion Space Commencement Date in accordance with the Survey.
     (h) If the cost to Landlord of electricity shall be increased or decreased subsequently, by change in Landlord’s electric rates, charges, fuel adjustment, or by taxes of any kind imposed thereon, or for any other reason, then the aforesaid electricity charge as determined by the Surveyor Subsequent Survey shall be increased or decreased proportionately.
          (i) If Landlord discontinues furnishing electric energy to Tenant, Tenant shall arrange to obtain electric energy directly from the public utility company furnishing electric service to the Building. Such electric energy may be furnished to Tenant by means of the then existing Building System feeders, risers and wiring to the extent that the same are available, suitable and safe for such purposes. All meters and additional panel boards, feeds, risers, wiring and other conductors and equipment which may be required to obtain electric energy directly from such public utility company shall be installed by

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Landlord at Landlord’s expense. There shall be no discontinuance of the furnishing of electric current to the Demised Premises by Landlord until Tenant has completed its arrangements to obtain electric current directly from the public utility company furnishing electric current to the Building so that there is no interruption in the continuity of electric service.
     (j) In the event that Tenant shall require electric energy for use in the Demised Premises in excess of the quantity to be initially furnished as herein provided and if, in Landlord f s judgment, such excess requirements cannot be furnished unless additional risers, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurtenances are installed in the Project, Landlord, upon written request of Tenant, shall proceed with reasonable diligence to install such additional. risers, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurtenances, provided the same and the use thereof shall not cause permanent damage or injury to the Project or the Premises, or cause or create a dangerous or hazardous condition, or entail excessive or unreasonable alterations or repairs, or interfere with or disturb other tenants or occupants of the Project, and Tenant agrees to pay all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in connection with such installation.
     (k) Landlord, at Tenant’s expense, shall purchase and install all lamps (including, but not limited to, incandescent and fluorescent), starters and ballasts used in the Demised Premises.
     (1) In order that Landlord may at all times have all necessary information which it requires in order to maintain and protect its equipment, Tenant agrees that Tenant will not make any’ material alteration or material addition to the electrical equipment and/or appliances in the Demised Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord in each instance, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and will promptly advise Landlord of any other alteration or addition to such electrical equipment and/ or appliances. Tenant agrees to advise Landlord in writing as to any material change in the periods of use of the lighting fixtures. and Tenant’ s business machines and equipment.
     (m) Landlord shall in no way be liable or responsible to Tenant for any loss or damage or expense which Tenant may sustain or incur by reason of any failure, inadequacy or defect in the character, quantity or supply of electrical energy furnished to the Demised Premises except for actual damage other than property damage suffered by Tenant by reason of any negligence of Landlord.
17. Paragraph 18 of the Lease is hereby amended to indicate that notices to Landlord shall be addressed as follows:
To Landlord:
Sammis Pluckemin Associates
c/o Gale & Wentworth, Inc.

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Park Avenue at Morris County
100 Campus Drive, Suite 300
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
Attn: Mr. Jonathan G. Thorpe
To Tenant:
NUI Corporation
550 Route 206 North
P. O. Box 760
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760
Attn; Corporate Secretary
18. Except as expressly amended herein, the Lease is hereby reaffirmed and confirmed in all respects.
19. This Amendment shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and permitted assigns.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this First Amendment to Lease Agreement has been executed by the parties on the date and year first written above.
                 
WITNESS:       LANDLORD:    
        SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
a California partnership
   
 
               
[illegible] 
      By:   [illegible]     
 
         
[illegible] 
   
 
               
ATTEST:   TENANT:        
        NUI ASSOCIATES
a New Jersey Corporation
   
[illegible] 
      By:   [illegible]     
 
         
 
   

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SCHEDULE A
Interim Expansion Space

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SCHEDULE B
Interim Expansion Space

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SCHEDULE “C”
WORK LETTER TO FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE
Between
SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
and
NUICORPORATION
Section 1.1. The provisions of this Schedule shall have the same force and effect as if this Schedule were a numbered Article of the Amendment.
Section 2.1. Landlord agrees to construct the Final Expansion Space in accordance with Final Plans (as hereinafter defined) which construction shall be completed in a good and workmanlike manner and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Tenant shall pay to Landlord, in accordance with the terms hereof, the Construction Cost (as defined in section 4.1 hereof), against which Tenant shall be entitled to a credit of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per rentable square foot of the Final Expansion Space, being One Hundred Forty-one Thousand Three Hundred sixty Dollars ($141,360.00). The difference between the construction Cost and Tenant’s credit toward the cost of the construction is referred to herein as “Tenant’s Finish Cost.”
Section 3.1. Subject to Section 2.1, Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenant’s Finish cost within ten (10) days of Landlord’s submission of a requisition for payment of same, which requisition shall not be submitted prior to the issuance of a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy for the Final Expansion Space. Tenant’s Finish Cost. shall be Additional Rent and Tenant shall pay such amount in full, without set-off or deduction.
Section 3.2. (a) Tenant shall submit to Landlord and Landlord’s architect sufficient information to allow Landlord to prepare proposed final plans setting forth the final construction plans for the construction of the Final Expansion Space as provided in this section 3.2(a). Such plans shall be prepared by Landlord’s architect at Landlord’s expense. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any proposed final plans from Landlord, Tenant shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. In the event of a rejection by Tenant of any proposed final plans, Landlord may make changes to the proposed final plans and resubmit them pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Tenant’s approval to any proposed final plans, such plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder (the “Final Plans”) Provided that Tenant has received proposed Final Plans at least fifteen (15) days prior thereto, Tenant’s failure to approve Final Plans by the later of (i) January 1, 1995 or (ii) the date which .is forty-five (45) days after the date on which Landlord gives Tenant. notice that the Final Expansion Space has · been ·vacated by its current-tenant shall-constitute a Tenant Delay, as defined in section 3.3 hereof.
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change in the Final Plans, Tenant shall submit to Landlord revised final plans setting forth the proposed change and instructing Landlord whether to cease work or cease any segment of work while the change is approved (in which case the delay shall be a Tenant Delay as hereinafter defined) or whether Landlord should continue constructing the Final Expansion Space in accordance with the Final Plans notwithstanding the proposed change thereto. In the event that no such instructions are given, Landlord shall continue constructing the, Final Expansion space in accordance with the Final Plans without regard o the proposed changes thereto. Within three (3) business days after receipt of any proposed change in the Final Plans from Tenant, Landlord shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. If Landlord has stopped work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s request, Landlord shall resume work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s written instructions from Tenant authorizing the recommencement of such work. Upon the granting of any approval, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish cost) and Landlord’s good faith estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall, as soon there-after as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) business days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and executing revised final plans to enable Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and approvals to construct the Final Expansion Space in accordance with such revised final plans. Upon the approval of such revised final plans, such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay (as hereinafter defined).
Section 3.3. If, (a) a delay actually occurs in the completion of the Final Expansion Space in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) any delay in approving and executing the Final Plans to Landlord by the time and in the form required by section 3.2(a) hereof, (ii) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (iii) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, or (iv) any other act or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees or contractors (any of such events being a “Tenant Delay”), then (b) the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date shall (even though no certificate of occupancy has been issued or the Final Expansion Space has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraphs 2 (f) and 10 of the First Amendment To Lease for each day of such Tenant Delay.
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length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon a practicable after the - information. necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the ‘information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Final Expansion Space Commencement Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.
Section 4.1. The 1 “Construction Cost” as defined herein shall be the actual costs to Landlord (such actual costs to be limited to hard costs and the following general condition soft costs only: permits, blue-prints, ,clean-up, dumpsters, job site supervision, overnight deli very charges, architect’s fees and temporary protection) of the construction of the Final Expansion Space in accordance with the Final Plans, plus four percent (4%) of such actual cost as profit to Landlord and six percent (6%) of such actual cost as a payment to Landlord to compensate Landlord for its overhead costs.
Section 4.2. Prior to accepting and awarding any bid for work ‘on the Final Expansion Space. Landlord shall submit to Tenant for Tenant’s review and recommendation copies of all bids received by Landlord for such work. Tenant shall provide Landlord with Tenant’s recommendation regarding the approval of same within three business days. of’ Tenant’s receipt of said bid copies .. Landlord shall consider Tenant’s recommendation and either accept such recommendation or, in those instances where Landlord declines to accept Tenant’s recommendation, provide Tenant with a written explanation of its reasons for ,rejecting the same.

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SCHEDULE D
Parking Plan
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AGREEMENT OF LEASE
between
SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES,
Landlord
and
N.U.I. CORPORATION,
Tenant
THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER
350 Route 206
Bedminster, New Jersey

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     LEASE AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 16, 1988
     BETWEEN SAMMIS PLUCKEMIK ASSOCIATES, (“landlord”), having an office at c/o SAMMIS COMPANY. 17922 Fitch Avenue. Irvine, California 92714. AND K.U.I. CORPORATION, a New Jersey corporation (“Tenant”). having an address at 1011 Route 22, P.O. Box 6060. Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807.
PREAMBLE
BASIC LEASE PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
     In addition to other terms elsewhere defined in this lease, the following terms whenever used in this lease should have only the meanings set forth in this Preamble. unless such meanings are expressly modified. limited or expanded elsewhere herein.
     1.  Premises or Demised Premises : Outlined in red on the floor plan annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit A consisting of approximately 8.112 square feet of Net Rentable Area, together with all fixtures, equipment, improvements and installations attached thereto and designated Suite No. 202 in the building located at 350 Route 206 said building being part of an office building project known as The Offices at Bedminster. consisting of two office buildings having a total Net Rentab1e Area of 187,765 square feet (hereinafter referred to as the “Project”) in the Township of Bedminster, County of Somerset, New Jersey. as described in Exhibit A-1 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
     2.  Term : Five (5) years and six (6) months.
     3.  Expiration Date : Midnight on the last day of the calendar month occurring five 5 years and six (6) months after the Commencement Date.
     4.  Permitted Use : General office use.
     5.  Fixed Rent : One Hundred Fifty-Six Thousand One Hundred Fifty-Six Dollars ($156,156) per annum from the Commencement Date until the day immediately prior to the sixth month following the fifth anniversary of the Commencement Date subject however to the rent concession provided for in Paragraph 6 below.
     6.  Monthly Fixed Rent : One-Twelfth of Fixed Rent being Thirteen Thousand Thirteen and 00/100 Dollars ($13,013.00) per month it being understood that Tenant shall not be obligated to pay Monthly Fixed Rent for the second through and including the seventh month of the first year of the Lease.
     7.  Late Charge : Three percent (3%) of the amount of the payment due.
     8.  Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses : Four and Thirty- Two hundredths percent (4.32%) arrived at by dividing the Net Rentable Area of the Demised Premises (which for the purposes of this Lease agreed to be 8,112 square feet) by (i) the Net Rentable Area of the Project (which for the purposes of this Lease is agreed to be 187 to 765 square feet).
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Established by Landlord is Five and 25/100 Dollars($5.25) per rentable square foot of Area of the Demised Premises per annum which computes to be Forty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Eighty-Eight Dollars ($42.588) per annum or Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty-Nine and 00/100 Dollars ($3.549.00) per month.
10. Security Deposit : None.
11. Tenant’s S.I.C. Code and Address for Environment Information (as per most recent S.I.C. Manual as published by the United States Office of Management & Budget):
12. Designated Broker : Alexander Summer and Company.
13. Party Responsible to the Designated Broker : Landlord.
14. Number of Tenant Allocated Parking Spaces : Thirty-four (34) consisting of six 6) exclusive spaces “Exclusive Spaces”) as shown on the Parking Plan attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit E and twenty-eight (28) non-exclusive spaces (“Non-Exclusive Spaces”):
15. Renewal Term : Two Five (5) year terms.
16. Tenant’s Construction Allowance : One Hundred Sixty-Three Thousand Two Hundred Forty Dollars ($163,240) per Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof.
The parties hereby agree to the following terms and conditions:
1. Premises, Term and Purpose .
     (a) Landlord does hereby lease to Tenant, and Tenant does hereby lease from Landlord, the Demised Premises located in the Project for the Term commencing on the “Commencement Date” as defined in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 1, and ending on the Expiration Date, or such earlier date upon which the term may expire or be terminated pursuant to the provisions of this Lease or pursuant to Law. The parcel of land on which the Project is located is hereinafter called the “Land” and is more particularly described on Exhibit A-I annexed hereto and made a part hereof.
     (b) For purposes of this Lease the Commencement Date shall be November 30, 1988 subject to the provisions of Paragraph 4(b).
     In the event that the Commencement Date hereunder is delayed beyond November 30. 1988 due to causes’ hereinafter referred to as “landlord’s Delays”, which are any delays including but not limited to, delays of the nature set forth in Paragraph 25 herein. other than delays caused by Tenant of the nature specified in the second sentence of Paragraph 4(b) hereof Landlord agrees to ‘pay as liquidated damages the amount of the penalty portion of any holdover rent paid by Tenant pursuant to Paragraph 26 of Tenant’s lease with Holcroft Associates, as landlord, for the premises located at 1011 Route 22. Bridgewater, New Jersey, which 1 ease is dated July 12, 1984 (the “Former Lease”) with respect to the period of continued occupancy of said premises by Tenant from and after December 1,1988 attributable to Landlord’s Delays. In addition, Landlord shall pay to Tenant the entire holdover rent, if any, payable by Tenant pursuant to the Former Lease from the Commencement Date herein until such date as the holdover period under the Former Lease has expired. It shall be a condition of Tenant’s right to payment pursuant to the preceding

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sentence that Tenant shall give written, notice of its intended date of termination to the landlord under the Former Lease not less than sixty (60) days prior to such date, provided that Landlord shall have notified Tenant of the expected Commencement Date prior to such sixty (60) day period.
     (c) The Demised Premises shall be used by Tenant for the Permitted Use and for no other use or purpose. Tenant shall not use or occupy the Demised Premises or any part thereof, for any purpose deemed unlawful, disreputable, or extra-hazardous on account of fire or other casualty, or for any purposes which shall impair the character of the Project. Tenant. at its sole cost and expense shall obtain any consents, licenses, permits or approvals required to conduct its business at the Demised Premises with the exception of a Certificate of Occupancy which shall be obtained by Landlord at its sole cost and expense.
     (d) The “Common Areas” of the Project shall be those parts of the Project and other improvements designated by Landlord from time to time’ for the common use of all tenants, including among other ‘facilities, halls, lobbies, delivery passages, drinking fountains, public toilets, and the like, and“all garages, parking lots; service buildings or similar improvements operated, owned or maintained, in whole or in part, by Landlord, and, all parkways, drives, greenspaces, parks, fountains or other facilities owned, operated or maintained, in whole or in part, by Landlord or otherwise made available by landlord for use by all tenants of the Project, whether used in conjunction with the use of such space by the occupants of other buildings or used exclusively by Tenants of the Project, all of which facilities shall be subject to Landlord’s reasonable management and control and shall be operated and maintained for the benefit of all tenants in a first class manner. Tenant, and its employees and invitees, shall have the nonexclusive right to use the Common Areas, such use to be in common with landlord, other tenants of the Project and other persons entitled to use the same.
     2.  Rent .
     The rent payable by Tenant pursuant to this Lease is intended to be absolutely net to landlord, and all other charges and expenses imposed upon the Demised Premises incurred “in connection with its use, occupancy, care, maintenance, operation and control shall be paid by Tenant, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.
     (a) The rent reserved under this Lease for the Term hereof shall be and consist of (a) the Fixed Rent payable in equal monthly installments in advance, on the first day of each and every calendar month during the term (except that Tenant shall pay the first monthly installment upon signing this Lease); plus (b) such additional rent (“Additional Rent”) in an amount equal to Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses (as such terms are defined in Paragraph 3 of this Lease) and all charges for services and utilities pursuant to Paragraph 15 hereof, and any other charges as shall become due and payable hereunder, which Additional Rent shall be payable as hereinafter provided, all to be paid to Landlord at its office stated above, or such other place as Landlord may designate, in lawful money of the United States of America; provided, however, that if the Commencement Date shall occur on a date other than the first calendar day of a month, the rent for the partial month commencing on the Commencement Date shall be appropriately pro-rated on the basis of the monthly rent payable during the first year of the Term.
     (b) Tenant does hereby covenant and agree promptly to pay the Fixed Rent, Additional Rent and any other charges herein reserved as and when the same shall become due and payable, without demand therefor,

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and without any set-off or deduction whatsoever. All Additional Rent and other charges payable hereunder, which are not due and payable on a monthly basis during the term, unless otherwise specified herein, shall be due and payable within twenty (20) days of delivery by Landlord to Tenant of notice ‘to pay the same.
     (c) In the event that any payment of Fixed Rent, Additional Rent any other charges shall be paid more than fifteen (15) days after the ‘due date for same provided herein, Tenant shall pay, together with such payment, the Late Charge and a like additional Late Charge shall be payable for each thirty (30) days beyond the fifteenth (15 th ) day after the ,due date that such payment shall remain unpaid.
     (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Paragraph 2, Tenant shall not be required to pay to Landlord (i) any fixed Rent attributable to the second through seventh months of the Term, such abatement of Fixed. Rent -being in the total amount of Seventy Eight Thousand Seventy Eight Dollars ($78.078.00), and (ii) any Additional Rent on account of Expenses attributable to the second through seventh months of the Term. This subparagraph shall be implemented as follows: Tenant shall not pay to Landlord any amount on account of Fixed Rent attributable to the second through seventh months of the Term. At the end of the Initial Year, the notice submitted by Landlord to Tenant pursuant to Paragraph 3(c)(1) hereof shall be calculated by reducing any increase in Expenses not attributable to such Real Property Taxes payable by Tenant thereunder by the proportion of such other Expenses equal to a fraction the numerator of which is six (6) and the denominator of which is the number of months in the Initial Year.
     3.  Operating Expenses .
          (a) For purposes of this Paragraph, the following definitions shall apply:
          “Initial Year” shall mean the period of the time from the Commencement Date until the end of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Commencement Date occurred.
          “Lease Year” shall mean each calendar year subsequent to the Initial Year.
          (1) “Expenses Defined” The term “Expenses shall mean all costs and expenses of the ownership, operation, maintenance and insurance of the Project included in the following costs:
  (aa)   All supplies, materials, salary, wages and equipment used in or directly related to the operation, maintenance, repair and management of the Project; including, but not limited to, uniforms for employees that are required and the cleaning thereof; expenses imposed on Landlord pursuant to any collective bargaining agreement with respect to such employees; workmen’s compensation insurance, payroll, social security and unemployment insurance, reasonable legal. bookkeeping and accounting costs;
 
  (bb)   All utilities, including without limitation, water, electricity, gas, heating, lighting, sewer waste disposal, security, air conditioning and ventilating costs and all charges directly relating to the use, ownership or operation of the Project;

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  (cc)   All maintenance, management, janitorial and service agreements related to the Project including, but .not limited to, wages, salaries, disability benefits, pensions, hospitalization. retirement plans, group insurance and other employee benefits, respective employees of Landlord, up to and including the building manager, providing that any management or supervisory costs shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the total gross rent for any given year;
 
  (dd)   All insurance premiums and costs, including but not limited to the premiums and costs of fire, casualty and other extended coverage risks related to the Project, plate glass insurance, any insurance required” by a mortgagee and rent insurance up to one (1) year’s coverage.
  (ee)   Amortization of capital improvements made to the Project which will improve the operating efficiency of the Project (provided. however, that the amount of such amortization for improvements shall not exceed in any year the amount of costs saved by the expenditure either through the reduction or minimization of increases which would have otherwise occurred); and
 
  (ff)   Real Property Taxes including all taxes, assessments (general and special) and other impositions or charges which may be taxed, charged, levied, assessed or imposed upon all or any portion of the Project and expenses in connection with tax appeals. Landlord represents that it has no knowledge of any pending special assessments as of the date of this “Lease. All special assessments shall be amortized over a ten (10) year period.
 
  (gg)   landlord agrees that with respect to all maintenance and repair expenses listed above involving contracts or individual expenditures exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), other than emergency repairs, Landlord shall obtain at least two (2) competitive bids and shall utilize the 101-lest responsible bidder for such work.
 
  (2)   Expense Exclusions. The term “Expenses” does not include any capital improvement to the Project, nor shall it include repairs, restoration or other work occasioned by fire, windstorm or other casualty, income and franchise taxes of landlord, expenses incurred in leasing to or procuring of tenants, leasing commissions, salaries for executives above the grade of building manager, building start-up or opening expenses, advertising expenses, expenses for the renovating of space for new tenants, interest or principal payments on any mortgage or other indebtedness of landlord (other than Subparagraph 1 (ee) of this Article 3) nor depreciation allowance or expense. The term “Expenses” also does not” include any type of repairs to the Premises or other tenant repairs; the costs of such repairs shall be borne as described in Article 5 of this Lease Agreement.

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          (3) If during all or part of any calendar year, Landlord shall not furnish any particular item(s) of work or service (which would constitute an expense hereunder) to portions of the Project, due to the fact that construction of the Project is not completed, or such portions are not occupied or leased or because such item of work or service is not required or desired by the tenant of such portion, or such tenant is itself obtaining and providing such item of work or service, or for other reasons, for the purposes of computing the Additional Rent payable hereunder. the amount of the Expenses for such item for such period shall be increased by an amount equal to the additional operating and maintenance expenses which would reasonably have been incurred during such period by Landlord if it had at its own expense furnished such item of work or service to such portion of the Project. It is understood that this Paragraph 3(a) (3) shall not be applicable to any Expenses which are not substantially affected by the level of tenancy, including, but not limited to, elevator maintenance and repair, landscaping, snow removal, and the like.
          (b) In the event (i) that the Commencement Date shall occur during a calendar year, (ii) that the date of the expiration or other termination of this Lease shall be a day other than the last day of a calendar year, (iii) of any abatement of the Fixed Rent payable hereunder pursuant to any provision of this Lease (other than pursuant to Paragraph 2(d) hereof) or (iv) of any increase of decrease (as herein provided) in the Area of the Demised Premises or in the Net Rentable Area of the Project. then in each such event in applying the provisions of this Article 3 with respect to any calendar year in which such event shall have occurred, appropriate adjustments shall be made to reflect the occurrence of such event on a basis consistent with the principles underlying the provisions of this Article 3, taking into consideration (x) the portion of such calendar year which shall have elapsed prior to the Commencement Date, the date of such expiration or other termination or the date of such increase or decrease, or (y) the period of such rent abatement or such increase or decrease, as the case may be and (z) in the case of such rent abatement or such increase or decrease, the portion of the Demised Premises to which the same relates.
          (c) Tenant shall be responsible for Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses during the Term as herein provided.
          (1) During the Initial Year Tenant shall pay to Landlord monthly, on the first day of each calendar month, as Additional Rent, the Estimate of Expenses set forth in the Preamble to this Lease. If at the end of the Initial Year the Expenses for the Project are higher for that period than the Estimated Expenses, Landlord shall submit a notice reasonably detailing the increase. Tenant shall pay within twenty (20) days of receipt Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses of such increase apportioned for the preceding months of the Initial Year. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses, exclusive of Real Property Taxes, shall not exceed Twenty-Eight Thousand Three Hundred Ninety-Two Dollars ($28,392) with respect to the first twelve (12) calendar months of the Term.
          (2) Prior to the end of the Initial Year and thereafter for each successive Lease Year, or part thereof, Landlord shall send to Tenant a statement of projected Expenses for the applicable Lease Year, if any, (an “Escalation Projection”), and shall indicate what the estimated amount of Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses of said increase shall be, said amount to be paid in equal monthly installments (rounded to the nearest whole dollar) in advance on the first day of each month by Tenant as Additional Rent commencing January 1st of the applicable Lease Year.
          (3) If during the course of any Lease Year. Landlord shall have reason to believe that the Expenses shall be higher than that upon which the aforesaid Escalation Projections were originally based as set forth in subparagraph (2) above. then Landlord shall be entitled to adjust the Escalation Projection by a lump sum invoice for the months of the Lease Year which precede the revised projections, and to advise Tenant of an adjustment in future monthly escalation amounts to the end result that Landlord’s escalated Expenses shall be on a reasonably current basis each Lease Year. Such adjusted Escalation Projections shall not be made more frequently than semi-annually.
          (4) Within 90 days following the end of each Lease Year, Landlord shall send to Tenant a statement of actual Expenses incurred for the prior Lease Year showing Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses due from Tenant. In the event the amount prepaid by Tenant exceeds the amount that was actually due based upon actual year end cost, then Landlord shall issue a credit to Tenant in an amount equal to the overcharge which credit may apply to future, rental payments until Tenant has been fully credited with the overcharge. If the credit due to Tenant is more than the aggregate total of future rental payments, landlord shall pay to Tenant the difference between the credit in such aggregate total. In the event landlord has undercharged Tenant than landlord shall send Tenant an invoice with the additional amount due which

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amount shall be paid in full by Tenant within twenty (20) days of receipt.
     (d) Each and every of the aforesaid Projected Escalation amounts, whether requiring lump sum payment or constituting projected monthly amounts added to the set rent, shall for all purposes be treated and considered as Additional Rent and the failure of Tenant to pay the same as and when due in advance and without demand shall have the same effect as failure to pay any installment of the Fixed Rent and shall afford Landlord all the remedies provided in this lease therefor, including, without limitation, the late Charge as provided in Paragraph 2(c) of this lease.
     (e) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that landlord shall have the right to change the period of the lease Year” either before or during the Term, to any other fiscal year or twelve month period. In the event Landlord makes such change, then the same shall be effective upon written notice to Tenant and, in such event, Tenant shall pay Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses for the period from the end of the initially designated Lease Year, as last billed, to the beginning of the newly designated lease Year, prorated for .such period, within twenty (20) days of the rendering by landlord of the bill for such interim period. (5) within six (6) months following Tenant’s receipt of landlord’s statement of actual Expenses pursuant to Paragraph 3(c) (4) hereunder, Landlord shall make available for inspection by Tenant, within thirty (30) days of receipt of written request for such inspection’ from Tenant at a location in Morris County during business hours, all bills and invoices or any other appropriate back-up information supporting such landlord’s statement, provided, however, that landlord shall only be obligated to retain such back-up information for two (2) years following the submission of Landlord’s statement of Expenses to Tenant.
     4.  Completion of Improvements and Commencement of Rent
          (a) Landlord agrees to provide the Building Standard work (as such term is defined in Exhibit B annexed hereto and made a part hereof) and other work in and to the Demised Premises in accordance with the terms, conditions and provisions of Exhibit B.
          (b) The Demised Premises shall be deemed ready for occupancy and the Commencement Date hereunder shall occur on November 30, 1988 or such later date that (a) the Demised Premises shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Demised Premises and its use, all of which shall be established by issuance of a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Demised Premises for the purposes set forth herein; and (b) landlord has substantially completed the initial installations and other work in and to the Demised Premises agreed to be performed by it pursuant to Paragraph 4(a) (and Landlord shall be deemed to have substantially completed said installations and other work notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment or decoration remain to be performed in the Demised Premises or any part thereof, the non-completion of which does not materially interfere with Tenant’s use of the Demised Premises). If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Demised Premises ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to: (i) any act by Tenant or any of its employees, agents or contractors, which materially interferes with the completion of Tenant’s improvements; (ii) any additional time required for the completion by landlord of its work because of the inclusion therein at Tenant’s request, of any item of work not included in Exhibit B; (iii) Tenant’s failure to provide Landlord with architecturally designed and sealed working plans of Tenant’s improvements by August 1, 1988; then the Commencement Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of delay so caused by Tenant. In the event any such delay days shall be asserted by Landlord, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the same, which notice shall include the number of delay days. In the event the Commencement Date has not occurred by June 1, 1989, for any reason whatsoever, including, but not limited to delays of the nature set forth in Paragraph 25 herein, provided , however , that such date shall be extended by the number of days of delay caused by Tenant as determined in accordance with this Paragraph 4(b), Tenant may cancel this Lease by providing written notice to Landlord within 30 days of such date, whereupon neither party shall have any further rights or obligations to the other.
          (c) Tenant shall occupy the Demised Premises as soon as the same are ready for its occupancy and the Commencement Date shall have occurred (but not prior to said date except for installation of Tenant’s personal property, telephone system and similar items for which Tenant shall be given reasonable access provided such access does not interfere with Landlord’s ability to obtain a certificate of occupancy). If and when Tenant shall take actual possession of the Demised Premises, it shall be conclusively presumed that the same are in satisfactory condition, except as to those items of work remaining to be performed by Landlord pursuant to this Paragraph 4, or any items of work set forth on a “Punch List” to be submitted to and acknowledged by Landlord in writing within thirty (30) days after the Commencement Date.

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     5.  Tenant Covenants As To Condition of Premises, and Compliance with Laws.
          (a) In the event that the Project or any of the equipment affixed thereto or stored therein should be damaged as a result of any act of Tenant, its agents, servants, employees, invitees or contractors, Tenant shall, upon demand, pay to Landlord the cost of all required repairs, including structural repairs. Tenant shall commit no act of waste and shall take good care of the Demised Premises and the equipment affixed thereto and stored therein, shall maintain the Demised Premises in good condition and state of repair, and at the end or certain expiration of the term hereof, shall deliver up the Demised Premises in good order and condition, wear and tear from a reasonable use thereof excepted. Landlord shall perform, or cause to be performed, a 11 such maintenance and repairs and Tenant shall pay to Landlord the costs incurred therefor immediately upon demand as Additional Rent.
          (b) Tenant, at Tenant’s expense, shall promptly comply with all laws, rules, regulations and ordinances of all governmental authorities or agencies having jurisdiction over the Demised Premises, and of all insurance bodies (including, without limitation, the Board of Fire Underwriters), at an time duly issued or in force, applicable to the Demised Premises or any part thereof or to Tenant I s use thereof provided, however, that the provisions of this Paragraph shall not create any such compliance obligations upon Tenant arising out of ·the maintenance and repair obligations of Landlord or work performed by Landlord under the Lease.
     6.  Tenant Improvements . All fixtures, equipment, improvements, alterations, installations which are attached to the Demised Premises, additions and appurtenances made by Tenant to the Demised Premises shall become the property of Landlord upon installation. Not later than the last day of the Term, Tenant shall, at its expense, remove from the Demised Premises all of its personal property and such improvements as Landlord elects to have removed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Tenant notifies Landlord of its intention to install any improvement in the Demised Premises prior to installing same, and Landlord failed to notify Tenant at such time that such improvement shall be removed at the expiration of the Term, Tenant shall not be obligated to remove such improvement. Tenant, at its · sole cost and expense, shall repair injury done by or in connection with the installation or removal of such improvements. Any equipment, fixtures, goods or other property of Tenant, not removed by Tenant upon the termination of this lease or upon any quitting, vacating or abandonment of the Demised Premises by Tenant, or upon Tenant’s eviction, shall be considered as abandoned and Landlord shall have the right, with reasonable notice to Tenant, to sell or otherwise dispose of the same, at the expense of Tenant, and shall not be accountable to Tenant for any part of the proceeds of such sale, if any. Landlord may have any such property stored at Tenant’s risk and expense.
     7.  Various Negative Covenants by Tenant . Tenant agrees that it shall not without Landlord’s prior written consent:
     (a) Do anything in or near the Demised Premises which will increase the rate of fire insurance on the Project;
     (b) Permit the accumulation of waste or refuse matter in or near the Demised Premises except in containers provided therefor;
     (c) Mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or encumber this Lease in whole or in part; or

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     (d) Permit any Signs, lettering or advertising matter to be erected or attached to the Demised Premises that is not in compliance with Landlord’s sign criteria, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit F.
     (e) Encumber or obstruct the Common Areas surrounding the Demised Premises nor cause same to be encumbered or obstructed, nor encumber or obstruct any access ways to the Demised Premises, nor cause same to be encumbered or obstructed.
     8.  Various Affirmative Covenants of Tenant . Tenant covenants and agrees that Tenant will:
     (a) At any time and from time to time, execute, acknowledge and deliver to Landlord, or to anyone Landlord shall designate, a tenant estoppel certificate in form reasonably acceptable to Landlord or financial institutions requesting the same relating to matters customarily included i n tenant estoppel certificates.
     (b) Faithfully observe and comply with the rules and regulations annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit “C” and such additional rules and regulations as Landlord hereafter at any time or from time to time may communicate in writing to Tenant, and which, in the reasonable judgment of Landlord, shall be necessary or desirable for the reputation, safety, care or appearance of the Project, or the preservation of good order therein, or the operation or maintenance of the Project, or the equipment thereof, or the comfort of tenants or others in the Project; provided, however, that such rules and regulations shall be Uniformly applied and shall not adversely affect the rights of Tenant under this Lease and that in the case of any conflict between the provisions of this Lease and any such rule or regulation, the provisions of this Lease shall control. Nothing contained in this Lease shall be construed to impose upon Landlord any duty or obligation to enforce the rules and regulations or the terms, covenants or conditions in any other lease as against any other tenant, and Landlord shall not be liable to Tenant for violation of any rule or regulation by any other tenant, its employees, agents, visitors, invitees, Subtenants or licensees.
     9.  Project Directory . Landlord will, at the request of Tenant, maintain listings on the directory located on the Project site of the names of Tenant and any other firm, association or corporation in occupancy of the Demised Premises or any part thereof as permitted hereunder. Landlord shall not be required to list the names of any individuals on said Project directory.
     10.  Casualty and Insurance .
          (a) In the event of partial or total destruction of the Demised Premises by reason of fire or any other cause Tenant shall immediately notify Landlord of same and Landlord shall promptly · restore and rebuild the Demised Premises at Landlord’s expense (but only to the extent of the insurance proceeds covering such damage) unless landlord elects by notice to Tenant within sixty (60) days of said destruction not to restore and rebuild the Demised Premises, and; in such case, upon a date specified in said notice by landlord, this Lease shall terminate. If Landlord elects to restore and rebuild the Demised Premises, then during the period of restoration of any such area, and, if any portion of Demised Premise are rendered untenantable by said damage, Tenant shall be relieved of the obligation to pay that portion of the rent herein reserved which relates to said untenantable area. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event landlord · fails to complete such restoration and rebuilding within six (6)

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months from the date of such fire or rebuilding, whether due to delays of the nature set forth in Paragraph 25 herein or otherwise, Tenant may terminate this Lease by notice to Landlord given within 10 days after the expiration of such six (6) month period.
     (b) Tenant shall, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, but, except to the, extent prohibited by law with respect to workmen’s compensation insurance, for the mutual benefit of Landlord and Tenant and any Additional Insured (as hereinafter defined) or any other additional insured as Landlord may from time to time determine including the lessors under any ground leases or underlying leases and any mortgagees, maintain or cause to be maintained (a) comprehensive general liability insurance, including but not limited to, premises, bodily injury, personal injury and contractual liability, coverages for any and all or injury resulted from any act or omission on the part of Tenant or Tenant’s contractor’s, licensees, agents, visitors or employees, on or about the Demised Premises including such claims arising out of the construction of improvements on the Demised Premises, such insurance to afford protection to the limit of not less than Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) in respect to injury or death to anyone person or to any number of persons or property damage arising out of a single occurrence; (b) workmen’s compensation insurance covering all persons employed in connect; on with the construction of any improvements by Tenant and the operation of its business upon the Demised Premises and (c) “all risk” coverage on all of Tenant’s personal property, including but not limited to, standard fire and extended coverage insurance with vandalism and malicious mischief endorsements on all Tenants improvements and alterations in or about the Demised Premises, to the extent of their full replacement value. In event Landlord, at any time during the term of the Lease, reasonably determines that Tenant’s insurance coverage is inadequate, based upon the coverages being required by landlords of comparable buildings in the general geographic area of the Project, Landlord shall have the right to require Tenant to increase its insurance coverage. All such insurance shall, to the extent permitted by la\~, name Landlord, its partners, limited partners, employees, agents, other represent at their successors and assigns as additional insureds (the “Additional Insureds”) and shall be written by a good and solvent insurance carrier authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey.
     (c) Prior to the Commencement Date, and at least thirty (30) days prior to/the expiration date of any policy, Tenant shall furnish evidence of such insurance and payment of premiums thereon to Landlord. Such insurance shall be in form reasonably satisfactory to Landlord and without limitation, shall provide that no cancellation or lapse thereof or change therein shall be effective until after thirty (30) days written notice to Landlord at the address specified in Paragraph 18 of this Lease. Tenant. waives all rights of recovery against the Additional Insureds for any loss, damages, or injury of any nature whatsoever to property or persons for which the Tenant is insured.
     (d) During the term of this Lease, Landlord and Tenant shall maintain in effect in each insurance policy that relates to property damage a waiver of subrogation in favor of the Additional Insureds or the Tenant, as the case may be from its then-current insurance carriers, and shall at all times furnish evidence of such currently effective waiver to each other. Each such waiver shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the other party and without limitation, shall provide that no cancellation or lapse thereof or change therein shall be effective until after thirty (30) days’ written notice to such other party at its address as specified in Paragraph 18 of this Lease.

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     (e) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall state that with respect to the interest of the Additional Insureds the insurance maintained pursuant to each such policy shall not be invalidated by any action or inaction of Tenant and shall insure the Additional Insureds regardless of any breach or violation of any warranties, declarations, conditions or exclusions by Tenant.
     (f) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under shall state that all provisions of each such insurance policy, the limits of liability, shall operate in the same manner as if policy had been issued to each person or entity insured there-under.
     (g) if Each insurance policy required to be maintained under’ this Lease shall state that the insurance provided thereunder is primary insurance without any Tight of contribution from any other insurance which may be carried by or for the benefit of the Additional Insureds.
     (h) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall recognize the indemnification set forth in Paragraph 11 of this Lease.
     11.  Indemnification . Tenant shall indemnify and hold harmless Landlord, any mortgagee, and any lessor under any underlying leases or ground leases, from and against any expense (including. without limitation, legal and collection fees). loss or liability, excluding consequential damages, suffered or incurred as a result of or in connection with (i) any breach by Tenant of its obligations contained in this Agreement or (ii) its acts or the acts of its servants, invitees, contractors or employees
     12.  Non-liability of Landlord .
     (a) Landlord shall not be liable for (and Tenant shall make no claim for) any property damage which may be sustained by Tenant or any other person, as a consequence of the failure, breakage, leakage, inadequacy, defect or obstruction of the water, plumbing, steam, sewer, waste or soil pipes, roof, drains, 1eaders, gutters , valleys, downspouts. or the like or of the electrical, gas, power, conveyor, refrigeration, sprinkler, air conditioning or heating systems, elevators or hoisting equipment or by reason of the elements; or resulting from the carelessness, negligence or improper conduct on the part of any other tenant of Landlord or of the Landlord or landlord’s or this or any other tenant’s agents, employees, guests, licensees, invitees, subtenants, assignees or successors; or attributable to any interference with, interruption of or failure, except resulting from Landlord’s negligence, of any services or utilities to be furnished or supplied by Landlord. Tenant shall give Landlord prompt written notice of the occurrence of any events set forth in this Paragraph 12.
     (b) Landlord shall provide in its fire insurance policy insuring the Project a waiver of the insurer’s right of subrogation against Tenant. Each party hereby releases the other party with respect to any claim (including a claim for negligence) which it might otherwise have against the other party for loss, damage or destruction with respect to its property occurring during the term of this Lease to the extent to which it is insured under a policy or policies containing an enforceable waiver of subrogation or permission to release liability.
     13.  Remedies and Termination Upon Tenant Default.
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     (1) Tenant shall default in the payment of (i) any Fixed Rent or (ii) any Additional Rent or other charge payable monthly hereunder by Tenant to Landlord, on any date upon which, the same becomes: due, and such default shall continue for five (5) days after Tenant’s receipt of written notice of such default.
     (2) Tenant shall default in the payment of any Additional Rent or any other charge payable hereunder which are not due and payable hereunder or a monthly basis, on any date upon which the same becomes due, and such default shall continue for five (5) days after Tenant’s receipt of written notice specifying such default; or
     (3) Tenant shall default in the due keeping, observing or performing of any covenant, agreement, term, provision or condition of Paragraph l(c) of this lease on the part of Tenant to be kept, observed or performed, and if such default shall continue and shall not be remedied by Tenant within 24 hours after landlord shall have given to Tenant a written notice specifying the same; or
     (4) if during the term hereof the Demised Premises or any part thereof shall be or become abandoned, which for purposes of this provision shall be defined as Tenant vacating the Premises without notice to Landlord and without adequately securing the Premises; or
     (5) Tenant shall default in the due keeping, observing or performing of any covenant, agreement, term, provision or condition of this lease on the part of Tenant to be kept, observed or performed (other than a default of the character referred to in clauses (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this Paragraph 13(a), and if such default shall continue and shall not be remedied by Tenant within thirty (30) days after Landlord shall have given to Tenant a written notice specifying the same provided however that if the default is of such a nature that it cannot reasonably be cured within such thirty (30) day period, Tenant shall be granted such additional time as is reasonably required so long as Tenant promptly commences to cure and diligently continues to cure same; then, Landlord may, in addition to any other remedies herein contained, as may be permitted by law, without being liable for prosecution therefor, or for damages, re-enter the Demised Premises and the same have and again possess and enjoy; and as agent for Tenant or otherwise, re-let the Demised Premises and receive the rents therefor and apply the same, first to the payment of such expenses, reasonable attorney fees and costs, as Landlord may have been put to in re-entering and repossessing the same and in making such repairs and alterations as may be necessary; and second to the payment of the rents due hereunder. Tenant shall remain liable for such rents as may be in arrears and also the rents as may accrue subsequent to the reentry by Landlord, to the extent of the difference between the rents reserved hereunder and the rents, if any, received by Landlord during the remainder of the unexpired term hereof, after deducting the aforementioned expenses, fees and costs; the same to be paid as such deficiencies arise and are ascertained each month.
     (b) Upon the occurrence of any of the contingencies set forth in the preceding clause, or: should Tenant be adjudicated a bankrupt, insolvent or placed in receivership or should proceedings be instituted by or against Tenant for bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, agreement of composition or assignment for the benefit of creditors which shall not be discharged within ninety (90) days of the commencement of such proceedings or if this Lease or the estate of Tenant hereunder shall pass to another by Virtue of any court proceedings, writ of execution, levy, sale, or by operation of law, other than through such an assignment of Lease as is permitted hereunder, Landlord may. if Landlord so elects, at any time thereafter, terminate this Lease and the term hereof, upon giving to Tenant or to any trustee, receiver, assignee or other person in charge of or acting as custodian of the assets or property of Tenant, five days notice in writing, of Landlord’s intention so to do. Upon the giving of such notice, this Lease and the term hereof shall end on the date fixed in such notice as if the said date was the date originally fixed in this Lease for the expiration hereof; and Landlord shall have the right to remove all person, goods, fixture and chattels therefrom, by force or otherwise without liability for damages.

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     14.  Remedies Cumulative; Non-Waiver by Landlord . The various rights, remedies, options and elections of Landlord, expressed herein, are cumulative, and the failure of Landlord to enforce strict performance by Tenant of the conditions and covenants of this Agreement to exercise any election or option or to resort or have recourse to any remedy herein conferred or the acceptance by Landlord of any installment of rent after any breach by Tenant, in anyone or more instances, shall not be construed or deemed to be a waiver or a relinquishment for the future by Landlord of any such conditions and covenants, options, elections or remedies, but the same shall continue in full force and effect.
     15.  Services; Electric Energy
     (a) Landlord will: (i) supply heat and air conditioning to the Demised Premises and the interior public portions of the Project during Business Hours in accordance with the New Jersey State Energy Code standards; i.e. when the outside temperature is 13 degrees F the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 70 degrees F, when the outside temperature is 91 degrees dry bulb or 74 degrees wet bulb, the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 75 degrees F (ii) provide snow and ice removal for the parking area, sidewalks and driveways in a reasonably expeditious manner; and (iii) provide refuse removal from a dumpster to be provided on site to be used for normal waste attendant to an office building. “Business Hours” as used in this Lease. means the generally customary daytime business hours of Tenant but not before 8:00 A.M or after 6:00 P.M. of days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and those legal holidays listed in Exhibit “0” annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Tenant agrees at all times to cooperate fully with Landlord and to abide by all the regulations and requirements which Landlord may prescribe for the proper functioning and protection of such air conditioning system. landlord will clean the Demised Premises in accordance with the cleaning schedule annexed hereto as Exhibit “0-1”. The cost of the services · and utilities provided pursuant to this Paragraph 15(a) is included in Expenses as defined in Paragraph 3(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing. Landlord agrees to maintain the Project, including but not limited to, the building, all common areas, the HVAC systems, plumbing and electrical systems and all other building systems and to operate the Project as a first class office Project.
     (b) Provided Tenant is not then in default of this Lease, Landlord will provide to Tenant overtime services and utilities when and to the extent reasonably requested by Tenant or when activated by Tenant’s use of an overtime thermostat and time clock and in accordance with such reasonable conditions as shall be determined by Landlord. Tenant shall pay to landlord, as Additional Rent, a standard charge determined by Landlord, applicable to all Tenants for such additional service and utilities which charge shall cover all costs and expenses of landlord in providing such overtime services, including, without limitation, the cost of the utility usage, the cost of maintenance, repairs and inspections of such building systems and employee and administrative costs related to such services. Such charge shall constitute a direct charge to Tenant and not to an Expense pursuant to Paragraph 3.
     (c) Landlord reserves the right, without liability to Tenant and without constituting any claim of constructive eviction, to stop or interrupt any heating, lighting, ventilating, air conditioning, gas, steam, power, electricity, water or other service and to stop or interrupt the use of any building or Project facilities at such times as may be necessary and for as long as may reasonably be required by reason of accidents, strikes, or the making of repairs, alterations or improvements, or inability to secure a proper supply of fuel, gas, steam, water

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electricity, labor or supplies, or by reason of another similar or dissimilar cause beyond the reasonable control of landlord. No such stoppage or interruption shall entitle Tenant to any diminution or abatement of rent or other compensation nor shall this lease or any of the obligations of Tenant be affected or reduced by reason of any such stoppage or interruption.
     (d) As an incident to this lease and as a part of the rental consideration hereunder, landlord shall install transmission facilities in the Demised Premises, so that electric energy may be used by Tenant in the Demised Premises in such reasonable quantity as shall be sufficient to meet Tenant’s ordinary business needs for lighting and the operation of its business machines, including photocopy equipment and computer and data processing equipment.
     (e) Tenant” shall pay, as Additional Rent, directly to the utility company furnishing electricity to the Project, the total electricity charges for the Premises as determined by a separate electricity meter for the Premises, which meter shall be installed by Landlord at Tenant’s sole cost and expense.
     (f) In the event that Tenant shall require electric energy for use in the Demised Premises in excess of the quantity to be initially furnished as herein provided and if, in Landlord’s judgment such excess requirements cannot be furnished unless additional risers, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurtenances are installed in the Project, Landlord, upon written request of Tenant, will proceed with reasonable diligence to install such additional riser, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurtenances provided the same and the use thereof shall be permitted by applicable laws and insurance regulations and shall not cause permanent damage or injury to the Project or the Premises or cause or create a dangerous or hazardous condition or entail excessive or unreasonable alterations or repairs or interfere with or disturb other tenants or occupants of the Project, and Tenant agrees to pay all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in connection with such installation.
     (g) Landlord, at Tenant’s reasonable expense, shall purchase and install all lamps (including, but not limited to, incandescent and fluorescent), starters and ballasts used in the Premises.
     (h) In order that Landlord may at all times have all necessary information which it requires in order to maintain and protect its equipment, Tenant agrees that Tenant will not make any material alteration or material addition to the electrical equipment and/or appliances in the Demised Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord in each instance, which consent shall not be unreasonably Withheld, and will promptly advise Landlord of any other alteration or addition to such electrical equipment and/or appliances. Tenant agrees to advise Landlord in writing as to any material change in the periods of use of the lighting fixtures and Tenant’s business machines and equipment.
     (i) Landlord shall in no way be liable or responsible to Tenant for any loss or damage or expense which Tenant may sustain or incur by reason of any failure, inadequacy or defect in the character, quantity or supply of electric energy ,furnished to the Demised Premises except for actual damage other that property damage suffered by Tenant by reason of any negligence of landlord.
     16.  Subordination . This Lease is subject and subordinate in all respect to any underlying leases, ground leases, licenses or agreements, and to mortgages which may now or hereafter be placed on or affect such

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leases, licenses or agreements or the Land or the Demised Premises and also to all renewals, modifications, consolidations and extensions of such underlying leases, ground lease, licenses, agreements, and mortgages. Although no instrument or act on the part of Tenant shall be necessary to effectuate such subordination. Tenant shall, nevertheless, execute and deliver such further instruments confirming such subordination as may be desired by any holder of any such mortgage or by a lessor, licensor or .. party to an agreement under any such underlying lease, ground lease, license or agreement, respectively. landlord shall make best efforts to obtain a non-disturbance agreement for the benefit ‘of Tenant from the current mortgagee of the Project and shall obtain non-disturbance agreements from any such future mortagees. If any Underlying lease, ground lease. license or agreement to which this agreement is subject and subordinate terminates, or if any Mortgage to which this lease is subordinate is foreclosed, Tenant shall, on timely request, attorn to the holder of the reversionary interest or to the Mortgagee in possession, as the case may be.
     17.  Curing Default by Landlord . If Tenant shall fail or refuse to comply with and perform any conditions and covenants of this Lease, Landlord may, after thirty (30) days prior notice to Tenant except in the case of emergencies, if Landlord so elects, carry out and perform such conditions and covenants, at the cost and expense of Tenant, and the said cost and expense shall be payable on demand, or at the option of Landlord shall be added to the installment of rent due immediately thereafter but in no case later than one month after such demand, whichever occurs sooner, and shall be due and payable as such. This remedy shall be in addition to such other remedies as Landlord may have hereunder by reason of the breach of Tenant of any of the covenants and conditions in this Lease contained.
     18.  Notices . Any notice, demand, statement or other communication which under the terms of this Lease or under any statute or law must or may be given shall be given by hand delivery to the respective parties as follows or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by reputable private overnight delivery service addressed to the respective parties as follow:
         
To Landlord:
      Sammis Pluckemin Associates
 
      c/o Sammis Company
 
      17922 Fitch Avenue
 
      Irvine, California 92714
 
      Attn: William Thormaline
 
       
 
      Peter L. Berkley, Esq.
 
      Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti
 
      One Speedwell Avenue
 
      Headquarters Plaza
 
      Morristown; New Jersey 07960
 
       
To Tenant:   at its address stated above until and including the Commencement Date and at the following address thereafter:
 
       
 
      NUI Corporation
 
      350 Route-206
 
      Bedminster, New Jersey 0797B
Any such notice, demand, statement or other communication shall be deemed to have been given or made upon hand delivery or when deposited, postage paid, in the U.S. Mail, or delivered, charges prepaid or charged to sender to a reputable private overnight del!;very service, as the case may be. Any

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of the above addresses may be changed at any time notice is given as above provided.
     19.  Quiet Enjoyment . Landlord covenants that Tenant upon keeping and performing each and every covenant, agreement,’ term. provision and condition herein contained on the part and on behalf of Tenant to be kept and performed, shall quietly enjoy the Demised Premises without hindrance or molestation by Landlord or by any other person lawfully claiming by, through or under the same subject to the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions and conditions of this Lease.
     20.  Security Deposit . INTENTIONALLY OMITTED.
     21.  Inspection and Entry by Landlord .
     (a) Tenant agrees to permit Landlord and Landlord I 5 agents, employees or other representatives to show the Premises to any lessor under any underlying 1 ease of ground 1 ease or any mortgage or any persons wishing to rent or purchase the same upon 72 hours prior notice to Tenant, provided such showing does not unreasonably interfere with Tenant’s use of the Premises and provided Landlord complies with any reasonable security requirements imposed by Tenant.
     (b) Tenant agrees that Landlord and Landlord’s agents, employees or other representatives. shall have the right to enter into and upon the said premises or any part thereof, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of examining the same or reading meters, or performing maintenance or making such repairs or alterations therein as may be necessary for the safety and preservation thereof. This clause shall not be deemed to be a covenant by Landlord nor be construed to create an obligation on the part of Landlord to make such inspection or repairs.
     22.  Brokerage . “Tenant and Landlord warrant and represent to each other that neither has dealt with any broker or brokers regarding the negotiation of the within Lease other than the Designated Broker. if a Designated Broker is indicated in the Preamble hereto. The Party Responsible to the Designated Broker, if any. shall pay the Designated Broker a commission pursuant to a separate agreement. Tenant and Landlord agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and save the other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any other broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to the Demised Premises or to have called the said Demised Premises to Tenant’s attention or to have called Tenant to Landlord’s attention.
     23.  Parking . Tenant shall have the right under this Lease to the exclusive use of the Exclusive Spaces and the non-exclusive use of the Non-Exclusive Spaces in the parking lot of the Project in compliance with such reasonable Rules and Regulations as Landlord may promulgate from time to time.
     24.  Renewal Option .
     (a) Tenant is hereby granted two successive options to renew this Lease for the Renewal Term subject, to the terms of this Paragraph 24. In the event that Tenant desires to renew the Lease it shall give notice in writing to Landlord of its intention to renew the Lease at least nine (9) months prior to the Expiration Date in the case of the first Renewal Term and twelve (12) ·months prior to the Expiration Date of the first Renewal Term in the case of . the Second Renewal Term. All of the terms and conditions of this Lease shall remain in effect during the Renewal Term, except that the annual Fixed Rent payable during the Renewal Term shall be the annual fair market rental value of the Demised Premises

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based on comparable space in the vicinity of the Demised Premises (the “Fair Market Value”) as of the date which is sixty (60) days prior to the commencement date of such Renewal Term. but in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent be less than the annual Fixed Rent payable during the year preceding the first year of the Renewal Term.
     (b) The Fair Market Value of the Demised Premises for purposes of Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 24 shall take into account the provisions of this Lease, shall include any market concessions in existence at such time and shall be set forth by Landlord in a notice to Tenant at least twelve (12) months prior to the commencement of the First Renewal Term, and fifteen (15) months prior to the Second Renewal Term. The Fair Market Value set forth in such notice shall be binding upon both parties unless Tenant shall notify Landlord of its objection at such time as Tenant exercises the applicable renewal option. In the event of such an objection, which is not resolved within ten (10) days thereafter, Tenant. at its own expense, shall designate an MAI appraiser who shall maintain his or her principal office in New Jersey. Tenant’s designated appraiser shall then determine and prompt 1 y report to both parties in writing the Fair Market Value of the Demised Premises, which report shall be binding upon both parties unless Landlord shall object to same within ten (10) days after receipt of said report. If Landlord shall so object, both parties shall jointly appoint a separate MAL appraiser who shall determine the Fair Market Value, and the latter appraiser’s determination shall be binding upon both parties. The costs of such appraisal shall be shared equally by Landlord and Tenant.
     (c) It shall be a condition of the exercise of the option set forth in this Paragraph 24, that at the time of the exercise of said option, Tenant shall not be in default under this Lease.
     25.  Landlord’s Inability to Perform . Except as otherwise provided herein, this Lease and the obligation of Tenant to pay the rent hereunder and to comply with the covenants and conditions hereof, shall not be affected, curtailed, impaired or excused because of the Landlord’s inability to supply any service or material called for herein, by reason of any rule, order, regulation or preemption by any governmental entity, authority, department, agency or subdivision or for any delay which may arise by reason of negotiations for the adjustment of any fire or other casualty loss or because of strikes or other labor trouble or for any cause beyond the control of the Landlord.
     26.  Condemnation . If the Land and Demised Premises leased herein, or of which the Demised Premises is a part, or any portion thereof, shall be taken under eminent domain or condemnation proceedings, or if suit or other action shall be instituted for the taking or condemnation thereof, or if in lieu of any formal condemnation proceedings or actions, Landlord shall grant an option to purchase and or shall sell and convey the Demised Premises or any portion thereof. then this Lease, at the option of Landlord, shall terminate, and the term hereof shall end as of such date as Landlord shall fix by notice in writing; and Tenant shall have no claim or right to claim or be entitled to any portion of any amount which may be awarded as damages or paid as the result of such condemnation proceedings or paid as the purchase price for such option, sale or conveyance in lieu of formal condemnation proceedings; and all rights of Tenant to damages; if any are hereby assigned to Landlord. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Tenant shall be entitled to make a claim for the unamortized portion of any improvements made by Tenant to the extent such claim does not diminish landlord’s award hereunder. In the event of any partial condemnation which materially interferes with Tenant’s occupancy or its parking rights hereunder, unless replacement parking shall be provided for Tenant within, reasonable proximity to the Demised Premises, Tenant shall have the right to terminate this Lease as of the effective date of

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such taking by providing written notice to Landlord not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of such taking. Tenant agrees to execute and delivery any instruments, at the expense of Landlord, as may be deemed necessary or required to expedite any condemnation proceedings or to effectuate a proper transfers of title to such governmental or other public authority, agency, body or public utility seeking to take or acquire the Lands and Demised Premises or any portion thereof. Tenant covenants and agrees to vacate the Demised Premises, remove all Tenant’s personal property therefrom and deliver up peaceable possession thereof to Landlord or to such other party designated by landlord in the aforementioned notice. Failure by Tenant to comply with any provision in this clause shall subject Tenant to such costs, expenses, damages and losses as Landlord may incur by reason of Tenant’s breach hereof.
27. Assignment and Subletting .
     (1) In the event that Tenant desires to assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof to any other party during the first five (5) years of this Lease, then such desire shall be communicated to Landlord in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to the proposed date of such assignment or sublease, and, within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice, Landlord shall have the option to recapture said space in which event the Tenant shall be fully released from any and all obligations hereunder with respect to such space. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Landlord does not exercise said option to recapture and Tenant fails to enter into such assignment or sublease within six (6) months of the date Tenant provided such notice to Landlord, Tenant may not assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof without once again notifying the Landlord pursuant to this Paragraph, at which time landlord shall once again have the option to recapture such space as set forth herein.
     (2) In the event that Tenant desires to assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof to any other party during any Renewal Term, the terms and conditions of such assignment or sublease shall be communicated to Landlord in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of any such assignment or sublease, and, within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice, Landlord shall have the option, exercisable in writing to Tenant, to recapture this Lease so that such prospective assignee or sublessee shall then become the sole Tenant of Landlord hereunder or alternatively to recapture said space and the Tenant shall be fully released from any and all obligations hereunder with respect to such space.
     (3) In the event that the Landlord elects not to recapture such space as hereinabove provided, Tenant may nevertheless assign or sublet the’ whole of the Demised Premises, subject to the Landlord’s prior written consent. which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and subject to the consent of any mortgagee, or ground lessor, on the basis of the following terms and conditions:
     (a) Tenant shall provide to Landlord the name and address of the assignee or sublessee.
     (b) instrument, all of assumption agreement its execution. The assignee or sublessee shall assume, by written the obligations of this Lease, and a copy- of such shall be furnished to landlord within ten (10) days of
     (c) Tenant and each assignee or sublessee shall be and remain liable for the observance of all the covenants and provisions of this Lease, including, but not limited to, the payment of Fixed Rent, Additional Rent and other charges due hereunder through the entire term of this Lease, as the same may be renewed, extended or otherwise modified.
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from any of the subtenants or the failure of Landlord to insist upon a strict performance of any of the terms, conditions and covenants herein from any assignee or subtenant shall not release Tenant herein, from any and all of the obligations herein during and for the entire terms ,of this Lease.
     (e) Tenant shall only assign or sublet the Demised Premises to an assignee or sublessee (1) whose financial status is acceptable to Landlord, ‘at Landlord’s reasonable discretion, whether or not equal to or greater than that of Tenant. and (2) whose use is the same use as Tenant’s use, the quality of Tenant’s operations in the performance of said use to be acceptable to Landlord. at Landlord’s reasonable discretion.
     (f) Tenant acknowledges that its sole remedy with respect to any assertion that Landlord’s failure to consent to any assignment or sublet is unreasonable shall be the remedy of specific performance and Tenant shall have no other claim or cause of action against Landlord as a result of Landlord’s actions in refusing to consent thereto, provided however if Tenant shall prevail in any such action Landlord shall be liable for Tenant’s reasonable attorneys fees in bringing such action.
     (g) The assignment or sublease shall provide that there shall be no further assignments and/or subletting without complying with the terms of this Article 27.
          (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article 27 to the contrary, Tenant shall have the right to assign this Lease in connection with a bona fide sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one (1) or more related transactions, without obtaining any prior consent. Any assignment or sublet to an affiliated company or any assignment in connection with a transaction of the nature permitted pursuant to the preceding sentence, shall not be subject to the provisions of subsections (1), (2) or (3)(e) (1) hereof, but all other provisions of this Paragraph shall apply.
     28.  Environmental Laws
     (a) Tenant agrees to comply with all applicable environmental laws, rules and regulations. including but not limited to the Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act of 1983 (N.J.S.A. 13:1K-6 et seq.) (“ECRA”). Tenant represents to Landlord that Tenant I s Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Number as used on Tenant’s Federal Tax Return is Tenant shall not conduct any operations that shall cause the Project or the Demised Premises to be deemed an “industrial establishment” as defined in ECRA.
     (b) Tenant hereby agrees to execute such documents Landlord reasonably deems necessary and to make such applications as Landlord reasonably requires to assure compliance with ECRA. Tenant shall bear all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord associated with any required ECRA compliance resulting from Tenant’s use of the Demised Premises including but not limited to state agency fees, engineering fees, clean-up costs, filing fees and suretyship expenses. The foregoing undertaking shall survive the termination or sooner expiration of the lease and surrender of the Demised Premises and shall also survive sale, or lease or assignment of the Demised’ Premises by Landlord. Tenant shall immediately provide Landlord with copies of all correspondence, reports, notices, orders, findings, declarations and other materials pertinent to Tenant’s compliance and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (“NJOEP”) requirements under ECRA as they are issued or

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received by the Tenant.
     (c) Tenant shall not generate, store. manufacture, refine, transport, treat, dispose of, or otherwise permit to be present on or about the Demised Premises, any Hazardous Substances other than minimal quantities of normal office supplies and cleaning materials typically found in office buildings. As used herein, Hazardous Substances shall be defined as any “hazardous chemical.” “hazardous substance” or similar term as defined ;n the Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq .), the New Jersey Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act, as amended, (N.J.S.A. 13:1K-6 et seq .), the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, as amended, N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.1lb, et seq .), any rules or regulations promulgated Thereunder or in any other present or future applicable federal, state or local law, rule or regulation dealing with environmental protection. Tenant shall not be responsible for any Hazardous Substances that are on or about the Premises through the act of Landlord. its agents. representatives or employees.
     (d) Tenant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Landlord and each mortgagee of the Demised Premises from and against any and all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, judgments, causes of action, costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) which may be incurred by the landlord or any such mortgagee or threatened against the Landlord or such mortgagee, relating to or arising out of any breach by Tenant of this paragraph, which indemnification shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this lease.
     29.  Parties Bound
     ( a) The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions and conditions of th5s/Lease shall bind and benefit the respective successors, assigns and legal representatives of the parties hereto with the same effect as if mentioned in each instance where a party hereto is named or referred to except that no violation of the provisions of Paragraph 7(c) hereof shall operate to vest any rights in any successor. assignee or legal representative of Tenant and that the provisions of this Paragraph 29 shall not be construed as modifying the conditions contained in Paragraph 13 hereof.
     (b) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that if Landlord shall be an individual, joint venture, tenancy in common, firm, or partnership, general or limited, there shall be no personal liability On such individual or on the members of such joint venture, tenancy in common, firm or partnership in respect of any of the covenants or conditions of this Lease; rather, Tenant agrees to look solely to landlord’s estate and property in the Demised Premises (or the proceeds thereof) for the satisfaction of Tenant’s remedies arising out of or related to this Lease.
     (c) The term “Landlord” as used in this Lease means only the owner, or the mortgagee in possession, for the time being of the Demised Premises (or the owner of a lease of the Demised Premises) so that in the event of any sale or sales of the Land, Project, or the Demised Premises or of said lease, or in the event of a lease of the Land, Project or of the Demised Premises, the said Landlord shall be and hereby is entirely freed and relieved of all covenants and obligations of Landlord hereunder., and it shall be deemed and construed without further agreement between the parties or their successors in interest, or between the parties and the purchaser, at any such sale, or the said lessee of the Land, Project or of the Demised Premises, that the purchaser or the lessee of the same has assumed and agreed to carry out any and all covenants and obligations of Landlord hereunder.

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     30.  Miscellaneous .
     (a) This Lease contains the entire contract between the parties. No representative, agent or employee of Landlord has been authorized to make any representations or promises with reference to the leasing of the Demised Premises or to vary. alter or modify the terms hereof. No additional changes or modifications, renewals, or extensions hereof, shall be binding unless reduced to writing and Signed by landlord and Tenant.
     (b) The terms, conditions, covenants and provisions of this lease shall be deemed to be severable. If any clause or provision herein contained be adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or by operation of any applicable law, it shall not affect the validity of any other clause or provision herein, but such other clauses or provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
     (c) Tenant shall not be entitled to exercise any right of termination or other option granted to it by this lease at any time when Tenant is in default in the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreement terms, provisions or conditions on its part to be performed or Observed under this lease.
     (d) The paragraph headings in this lease are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing the same.
     (e) This lease shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey.
     (f) Paragraphs 32-34 of Exhibit C are expressly made subject to any inconsistent provisions of this lease.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have duly executed this lease as of the day and year first above written.
         
WITNESS:
      LANDLORD:
 
       
 
      SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
 
       
[illegible] 
     
[illegible] 
 
      General Partner
 
       
ATTEST:   TENANT:
 
       
 
      N.U.I. CORPORATION
 
       
[illegible] 
     
[illegible] 
 
      Senior Vice President

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EXHIBIT A
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
     The property is known as Block 59, lot 11-3, 11-2, and consists of 15.99 Acres of land. It Is located in the Northeast quardrant of the Route 202 ·206 and Hills Drive intersection in the Township of Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey.
The property improvements consists of (2) office buildings totaling 187,000 square feet of office space and (748) parking spaces.

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EXHIBIT B
WORK LETTER TO LEASE
Between
Sammis Pluckemin Associates
and
NUI Corporation, a New Jersey corporation
     Section 1.1. The provisions of this Exhibit shall have the same force and effect as if this Exhibit were a numbered Article of the Lease.
     Section 2.1. Landlord and Tenant have attached to this Exhibit final plans for the construction of the Demised Premises that have been approved by Landlord and Tenant (the “Final Plans”). Landlord agrees to construct the Demised Premises in. accordance with the Final Plans, in a good and workmanlike manner and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The total cost to Tenant for such construction shall be $25,105.00, against which Tenant shall be entitled to a credit of $163,240.00. The difference between the total. cost of the construction (as such cost may be adjusted pursuant to the terms hereof) and Tenant’s credit toward the cost of the construction is referred to herein as “Tenant’s Finish Cost”. Tenant’s Finish Cost, assuming that no revisions are made to the Final. Plans and that no Tenant Delays (as hereinafter defined) occur, shall be $91,865.00. Final Plans dated 7/21/88 (Architectural) and 7/22/88 (Plumbing and Electrical).
     Section 3.1. Tenant shall pay’ to Landlord Tenant’s Finish Cost within thirty (30) days of the issuance of a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy for the Demised Premises. Tenant’s Finish Cost shall be Additional Rent, and Tenant shall pay such amount in full., without setoff or deduction.
     Section 3.2. In .the event that Tenant desires any change in the Final. Plans, Tenant shall submit to Landlord revised final plans setting forth the proposed change and instructing Landlord whether to cease work or cease any segment of work while the change is approved (in which case the delay shall be a Tenant Delay as hereinafter defined) or whether Landlord should continue constructing the Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans notwithstanding the proposed change’ thereto. In the event that no such instructions are given, Landlord shall continue constructing the Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans without regard to the proposed changes thereto. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any proposed change in the Final Plans from Tenant, Landlord shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. If Landlord has stopped work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s request, Landlord shall not recommence same until Landlord receives written instructions from Tenant authorizing the recommencement of such work. Upon the

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granting of any approval, Landl.ord shall notify Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional. Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final. Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall, as soon thereafter as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) business days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord,. authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and submitting to Landlord signed and sealed revised final plans sufficient for Landlord to obtain all necessary permit and approvals to construct the Demised Premises in accordance with such revised ,final plans. upon the submission of such revised final plans, such revised final plans shall ‘become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay (as hereinafter defined).
     Section 3.3. If (a) a delay shall occur in the completion of the Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (ii) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, or (iii) any other act or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees or contractors (any of such events being a “Tenant Delay”) , then (b) the Commencement Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Demised’ Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Article 2 of the Lease for each day of such Tenant Delay.
     The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon a practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (Which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall ,be used and the Commencement Date shall occur in accordance’ therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.

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EXHIBIT C
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1.   No sign, placard, picture, advertisement, name or notice shall be installed or displayed on any part of the outside or inside of this Building without the prior written consent of Landlord. Landlord shall have the right to remove, at Tenant’s expense and without notice, any sign installed or displayed in violation of this rule. All approved signs or lettering on doors and walls shall be printed, painted, affixed or inscribed at the expense of Tenant by a person chosen by Landlord.
 
2.   In Landlord objects in writing to any curtains, blinds, shades, screens or hanging plants or other similar objects attached to or used in connection with any window or door of the Premises, Tenant shall immediately discontinue such use. No [illegible] shall be permitted on any part of the Premises. Tenant shall not place anything against or near glass partitions or doors or windows which may appear unsightly from outside the Premises.
 
3.   Tenant shall not obstruct any sidewalks, halls, passages, exits, entrances, elevators, escalators or stairways of the Building. The halls, passages, exits, entrances, shopping malls, elevators, escalators and stairways are not for the general public, and Landlord shall in all cases retain the right to control and prevent access thereto of all persons whose presence in the judgment of Landlord would be prejudicial to the safety, character, reputation and interest of the Building and its tenants; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent such access to persons with whom any tenant normally deals in the ordinary course of its business, unless such persons are engaged in illegal activities. No tenant and no employee or invitee of any tenant shall go upon the roof of the Building.
 
4.   The directory of the Building will be provided exclusively for the display of the name and location of Tenants only, and Landlord reserves the right to exclude any other names therefrom.
 
5.   All cleaning and janitorial services for the Building and the Premises shall be provided exclusively through Landlord, and except with the written consent of Landlord, no person or persons other than those approved by Landlord shall be employed by Tenant or permitted to enter the Building for the purpose of cleaning the same. Tenant shall not cause any unnecessary labor by carelessness or indifference to the good order and cleanliness of the Premises.
 
6.   Landlord will furnish Tenant, free of charge, with two keys to each door lock in the Premises. Landlord may make a reasonable charge for any additional keys. Tenant shall not make or have made additional keys, and Tenant shall not alter any lock or install a new additional lock or bolt on any door of its Premises. Tenant, upon the termination of its tenancy, shall deliver to Landlord the keys of all doors which have been furnished to Tenant, and in the event of loss of any keys so furnished, shall pay Landlord therefor.
 
7.   If Tenant requires telegraphic, telephonic, burglar alarm or similar services, it shall first obtain, and comply with, Landlord’s instructions in their installation.
 
8.   Tenant shall not place a load upon any floor of the Premises which exceeds the load per square foot which such floor was designed to carry and which is allowed by law. Landlord shall have the right to prescribe the weight, size and position of all equipment, materials, furniture or other property brought into the Building.

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    Heavy objects shall, if considered necessary by Tenant, stand on such platforms as determined by Landlord to be necessary to property distribute the weight. Business machines and mechanical equipment belonging to Tenant, which cause noise or vibration that may be transmitted to the structure of the Building or to any space herein to such a degree as to be objectionable to Landlord or to any tenants in the Building, shall be placed and maintained by Tenant, at Tenant’s expense, on vibration eliminators or other devices sufficient to eliminate noise or vibration. The persons employed to move such equipment in or out of the Building must be acceptable to Landlord. Landlord will not be responsible for loss of, or damage to, any such equipment or other property from any cause, and all damage done to the Building by maintaining or moving such equipment or other property shall be repaired at the expense of Tenant.
 
9.   Tenant shall not use or keep in the Premises any kerosene, gasoline or inflammable or combustible fluid or material other than those limited quantities necessary for the operation or maintenance of office equipment. Tenant shall not use or permit to be used in the Premises any foul or noxious gas or substance, or permit or allow the Premises to be occupied or used in a manner offensive or objectionable to Landlord or other occupants of the Building by reason of noise, odors or vibrations, nor shall Tenant bring into or keep in or about the Premises any birds or animals.
 
10.   Tenant shall not use any method of heating or air-conditioning other than that supplied by Landlord.
 
11.   Tenant shall not waste electricity, water or air-conditioning and agrees to cooperate fully with Landlord to assure the most effective operation of the Building’s heating and air-conditioning and to comply with any governmental energy-saving rules, laws or regulations of which Tenant has actual notice, and shall refrain from attempting to adjust controls other than room thermostats installed for Tenant’s use. Tenant shall keep corridor doors closed, and shall close window coverings at the end of each business day.
 
12.   Landlord reserves the right, and without liability to Tenant, to change the name and street address of the Building.
 
13.   Landlord reserves the right to exclude from the Building between the hours of 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. the following day, or such other hours as may be established from time to time by Landlord, and on Sundays and legal holidays, any person unless that person is known to the person or employee in charge of the Building and has a pass or is properly identified. Tenant shall be responsible for all persons for whom it requests passes and shall be liable to Landlord for all acts of such persons. Landlord shall not be liable for damages for any error with regard to the admission to or exclusion from the Building of any person. Landlord reserves the right to prevent access to the Building in case of invasion, mob, riot, public excitement or other commotion by closing the doors or other appropriate action.
 
14.   Tenant shall close and lock the doors of its Premises and entirely shut off all water faucets or other water apparatus and electricity, gas or air outlets before tenant and its employees leave the Premises. Tenant shall be responsible for any damage or injuries sustained by other tenants or occupants of the Building or by Landlord for noncompliance with this rule.
 
15.   Tenant shall not obtain for use on the Premises ice, drinking water, food, beverage, towel or other similar services or accept barbering or bootblacking services upon the Premises, except at such hours and under such regulations as may be fixed by Landlord.
 
16.   The toilet rooms, toilets, urinals, wash bowls and other apparatus shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which they were constructed and no foreign substance of any kind whatsoever shall be thrown therein. The expense of any breakage, stoppage or damage resulting from he violation of this rule shall be borne by the tenant who, or whose employees or invitees, shall have caused it.
 
17.   Tenant shall not sell, or permit the sale at retail, of newspapers, magazines, periodicals, theater tickets or any other goods or merchandise to the general public in or on the Premises. Tenants shall not make any room-to-room solicitation of business from other tenants in the Building. Tenant shall not use the Premises for any business or activity other than that specifically provided for in Tenant’s Lease.

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18.   Tenant shall not interfere with radio or television broadcasting or reception from or in the Building or elsewhere.
 
19.   Tenant shall not mark, drive nails, screws or drill into the partitions, woodwork or plaster or in any way deface the Premises or any part thereof. Landlord reserves the right to direct electricians as to where and how [illegible] introduced to the Premise. Tenant shall not cut [illegible] of the Premises in any manner except as approved by Landlord. Tenant shall repair any damage resulting from noncompliance with this rule.
 
20.   Tenant shall not install, maintain or operate upon the Premises any vending machine without the written consent of Landlord.
 
21.   Canvassing, soliciting and distribution of handbills or any other written material, and peddling in the Building are prohibited, and each tenant shall cooperate to prevent same.
 
22.   Landlord reserves the right to exclude or expel from the Building any person who, in Landlord’s judgment, is intoxicated or under the influence of liquor or drugs or who is in violation of any of the Rules and Regulations of the Building.
 
23.   Tenant shall store all its trash and garbage within its Premises. Tenant shall not place in any trash box or receptacle any material which cannot be disposed of in the ordinary and customary manner of trash and garbage disposal. All garbage and refuse disposal shall be made in accordance with directions issued from time to time by Landlord.
 
24.   The Premises shall not be used for the storage of merchandise held for sale to the general public, or for lodging or for manufacturing of any kind, nor shall the Premises be used for an y improper, immoral or objectional purpose. No cooking shall be done, except microwave cooking, or permitted by any tenant on the Premises, except that use by Tenant of Underwriters’ Laboratory approved equipment for brewing coffee, tea, hot chocolate and similar beverages shall be permitted, provided that such equipment and use is in accordance with all applicable federal, state, county and city laws, codes, ordinances, rules and regulations.
 
25.   Tenant shall not use in any space or in the public halls of the building any hand trucks except those equipped with rubber tires and side guards or such other material-handling equipment as Landlord may approve. Tenant shall not bring any other vehicles of any kind in to the Building.
 
26.   Without the written consent of Landlord, Tenant shall not use the name of the Building in connection with or in promoting or advertising the business of Tenant except as Tenant’s address.
 
27.   Tenant shall comply with all safety, fire protection and evacuation procedures and regulations established by Landlord or any governmental agency.
 
28.   Tenant assumes any and all responsibility for protecting its Premises from theft, robber and pilferage, which includes keeping doors locked and other means of entry to the Premises closed.?
 
29.   The requirements of Tenant will be attended to only upon appropriate application to the office of the Building by and authorized individual. Employees of Landlord shall not perform any work or do anything outside of their regular duties unless under special instructions from landlord, and no employee of Landlord will admit any person (Tenant or otherwise) to any office without specific instructions from Landlord.
 
30.   Tenant shall not park its vehicles in any parking areas designated by Landlord as areas of parking by visitors to the Building. Tenant shall not leave vehicles in the Building parking areas overnight nor park any vehicles in the Building parking areas other than automobiles, motorcycles, motor driven or non-motor driven bicycles or four-wheeled trucks.

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31.   Landlord may waive any one or more of these Rules and Regulations for the benefit of Tenant or any other tenant, but no such waiver by Landlord shall be construed as a waiver of such Rules and Regulations in favor of Tenant or any other tenant, nor prevent Landlord from thereafter enforcing any such Rules and Regulations against any or all of the tenants of the Building.
 
32.   These Rules and Regulations are in addition to, and shall not be construed to in any way modify or amend, in whole or in part, the terms, covenants, agreements and conditions of any lease of premises in the Building.
 
33.   Landlord reserves the right to make such other and reasonable Rules and Regulations as, in its judgment, may from time to time be needed for safety and security, for care and cleanliness of the Building and for the preservation of good order therein. Tenant agrees to abide by all such Rules and Regulations herein above stated and any additional rules and regulations which are adopted.
 
34.   Tenant shall be responsible for the observance of all of the foregoing rules by Tenant’s employees, agents, clients, customers, invitees and guests.

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Exhibit “E”
Parking Plan

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EXHIBIT 0-1
CLEANING SERVICES
1. GENERAL CLEANING
     Nightly
a.   Empty and clean all waste receptacles removing waste to a designated central location for disposal. Landlord is to provide for disposal of waste.
 
b.   Empty and clean all ash trays and receptacles.
 
c.   Remove all fingerprints, smudges and other marks from metal. partitions, doors and other surfaces.
      Weekly
d.   Hand dust and clean all office furniture that has been cleared of papers, boxes, and/or personal items. ledges, chair rails, baseboards, and window sills.
2. FLOORS
Group A — Granite, ceramic tile, marble, terrazzo
Group B — Linotile, asphalt, koroseal, plastic vinyl, wood, rubber, or other [illegible] floors and base.
Nightly
a.   All floors in Group A to be swept, wet mopped and rinsed.
 
b.   All floors in Group B to be dry mopped
Weekly
c.   All floors in Group B to be damp mopped.
Every six (6) months
d.   All floors to be scrubbed and buffed.
3. VACUUMING
Nightly
a Vacuum or carpet sweep all rugs and carpeted areas.

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Monthly
b.   Brush or dust by hand carpet edges inaccessible to high pressure vacuum attachments.
4. HIGH DUSTING
Every six (6) months
a.   Dust all clothes closet shelving. pictures, charts, graphs, etc.
 
b.   Dust clean all vertical surfaces such as walls, partitions, door bucks and other surfaces.
c.   Dust all venetian blinds.
5. SOCIAL SERVICE
Records and General Storage Area
Floors are to be broom cleaned weekly. Files and exposed open shelves dusted once every three (3) months.
6. OTHER SERVICES
a.   Landlord shall supply all soap, towels and toilet tissue. In both men’s and women’s rooms and sanitary napkins In coin dispensers in the women’s rooms.
 
b.   Landlord will supply all coin operated dispensers and will be responsible (or the servicing of same and for the collection of money from the machine.
 
c.   During the term of this lease the dispenser price for sanitary napkins will not exceed a price equal to 150% of the wholesale price paid by the landlord.
7. CARPETING
In addition to the aforementioned nightly and weekly vacuuming. landlord will do the following:
Weekly
All carpeting is to be spot cleaned removing all stains. smudges, and unsightly appearances.
8. GLASS
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a.   Clean all partitions and furniture glass.
Annually
b.   Clean all parameter windows, both inside and out.
9. GENERAL
a.   All lights are to be extinguished and the doors as specified by Tenant are to be locked after cleaning is completed.
b.   All personnel are to be uniformed and clean in appearance during business hours.
 
c.   Cleaning of all private bathrooms and/or kitchen areas will be subject to additional charges which will be determined on a case-by-case basis applying uniform rates to all tenants.

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EXHIBIT F
SIGN CRITERIA

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THIRD AMENDMENT TO LEASE
     THIS AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) made as of the 5 th day of August 1999, between THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company having an office c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC, 200 Campus Drive, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932, (“ Landlord ”); and NUI Corporation, Successor of NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC. , a New Jersey corporation having an address of 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760 (“ Tenant ”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, Landlord’s’ predecessor-in-title Sammis Pluckemin Associates and Tenant entered into an Agreement of Lease dated July 18, 1996 (the “ Original Lease ”) as amended by First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated September 31, 1996 (the “ First Amendment ’’); and as amended by Second Amendment to Lease Agreement dated February 19, 1997 (the “ Second Amendment ’’); (the Original Lease, the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment collectively referred to as the “ Lease ”) whereby Tenant is presently in possession of premises containing approximately ten thousand five hundred forty-three (10,543) square feet of net rentable area (the “ Demised Premises ”) in the building located at 550 Route 206 North (the “ Building ”); and
     WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Lease to extend the Term of the Lease and to otherwise amend the Lease only in the respects and on the conditions hereinafter stated. NOW, THEREFORE, Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:
1. For purposes of this Amendment, capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Lease unless otherwise defined herein.
2. The parties hereby confirm that the Term of the Lease is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2001. The Term of the Lease is hereby extended for an additional eight (8) years and four (4) months so that the Term shall now terminate at 11:59 p.m. on December 31,2009 (the “ Expiration Date ”). The period from September 1,2001 (the “ Extension Commencement Date ”) through he Expiration Date is hereinafter referred to as the “ Extended Term ”, and Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Preamble of the Lease shall be deemed modified accordingly.
3. Tenant hereby acknowledges that, from the date hereof through the Expiration Date, Tenant shall continue to lease the Demised Premises in its “AS IS” condition (subject to the Refurbishment Allowance, as defined hereinafter, described herein).
4. Paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Preamble of the Lease are hereby amended to reflect that the Fixed Rent and Monthly Fixed Rent due and payable by Tenant under the Lease shall be as follows during the Extended Term:
         
Period   Fixed Rent   Monthly Fixed Rent
From the extension Commencement Date (September 1, 2001) through August 31, 2006
  Two Hundred Ninety-seven Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty-nine and 75/100 Dollars ($297,839.75)   Twenty-four Thousand Eight Hundred Nineteen and 98/100 Dollars ($24,819.98)
 
       
From September 1, 2006 through the Expiration Date of December 31, 2009
  Three Hundred Twenty-six Thousand Eight Hundred thirty-three and 00/100 Dollars ($326,833.00)   Twenty-seven Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-six and 08/100 ($27,236.08)

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5. Paragraph 12 of the Preamble is hereby amended to reflect that the Designated Broker is collectively Alexander Summer, LLC and Gale & Wentworth Real Estate Advisors, LLC.
6. Paragraph 15 of the Preamble is hereby’ deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the term 7 “ Tenant’s Refurbishment Allowance ”. Tenant’s Refurbishment Allowance shall be defined as an amount equal to Five and 00/100 Dollars ($5.00) per square foot of net rentable area of the Demised Premises, being a total of Fifty-two Thousand Seven Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($52,715.00). Tenant shall have the right to use all or a portion of the Refurbishment Allowance for only the following purposes: (i) improving the Demised Premises by refurbishing the wall coverings, floor coverings, ceilings, or any other part o(the initial build-out performed by Landlord pursuant to Exhibit B of the Original Lease,’ to Attachment B of the First Amendment, or to Attachment B to the Second Amendment; or (ii) contributing to the cost of completing. the improvements to the additional space containing approximately nineteen thousand six-hundred sixty-one (19,661) square feet of net rentable area to be leased by NUI Corporation pursuant to the Second Amendment to Lease between Landlord and NUI Corporation (the “NUI Amendment’), which contribution shall be disbursed subject to the terms of Paragraph 11 of the NUI Amendment Tenant acknowledges that, in the event that Tenant does not use all of the Refurbishment Allowance, Tenant shall have no right to a claim, deduction, or offset with respect to any unused portion.
7. Paragraph 3(a) of the Lease is hereby ‘amended to reflect that, as of the Extension Commencement Date, (i) the term “Initial Year” shall mean the twelve month period commencing on the first full calendar month after the Extension Commencement Date, and (ii) the term “Lease Year” shall mean the Initial’ Year and each twelve month period occurring after the Initial Year. In addition, Paragraph 3(a)(2) is amended to delete the reference to “capital improvement to the Project.”
8. Paragraph 8(a) of the Lease is amended to reflect that the time period within which Tenant shall deliver such estoppel certificates is ten (10) days following Tenant’s receipt of request therefor.
9. Paragraphs 10 (b), 10 (c), and 10 (d) of the Lease are hereby deleted in its entirety and are replaced with the following provisions:
(b) Tenant shall, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, except to the extent prohibited by law with respect to worker’s compensation insurance, for the benefit of Tenant, Landlord, and any Additional Insured (as hereinafter defined) and/or any other additional insured as Landlord shall from time to time reasonably determine, maintain or cause to be maintained (i) commercial general liability insurance coverage with a limit of not less than Five Million and 00/100 Dollars ($5,000,000.00) per each occurrence (“ CGL ”), to include commercial umbrella liability coverage, if necessary [If the CGL contains a general aggregate, it shall apply separately to the Demised Premises. The CGL shall be written on ISO occurrence form CG00011093 or a substitute providing equivalent coverage and shall cover liability arising from the Demised Premises, operations, independent contractors, products-completed operations, personal injury, advertising liability, and liability under an insured contract. The commercial umbrella liability coverage shall be consistent with the primary coverage.]; (ii) worker’s compensation insurance covering all persons employed in connection with the construction of any improvements by Tenant and the operation of its business upon the Demised Premises; and (iii) “all risk” coverage on all of Tenant’s personal property, including, but not limited to, standard fire and extended coverage insurance with vandalism and malicious mischief endorsements on all of the Tenant Improvements and Alterations in or about the Demised Premises, to the extent of their full replacement value. If, in the opinion of any mortgagees or ground lessors of the Land and/or the Building, the foregoing coverages and/or limits shall become inadequate or less than that commonly maintained by prudent tenants in similar buildings in the area by tenants making similar uses, Landlord shall have the right to require Tenant to increase its insurance coverage and/or limits. All such insurance shall, to the extent permitted by law, name any mortgagees and ground lessors of the Land and the Building and any owners, mortgagees, and ground lessors of other portions

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of the Complex, and their successors and assigns (“ Additional Insureds ”) and Landlord, as additional insureds and shall be written by an insurance carrier authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey and that is rated at least A+ XII by A.M. Best Company, Oldwick, New Jersey.
(c) Prior to the Commencement Date, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord a certificate of each policy required under this Lease, which certificate shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory . to Landlord and shall, at a minimum: (i) specify the additional insured status of Landlord and of the Additional Insureds, (ii) evidence the waiver of subrogation required pursuant to Paragraph 10 (d), and (iii) provide that said policy shall not be reduced in amount (or otherWise materially changed) or canceled or lapse without providing to Landlord at the address specified in Paragraph 18 of the Lease at least thirty (30) days’ written notice of such reduction (or other material change), cancellation, or lapse. Tenant agrees to provide to Landlord timely renewal certificates as the coverage renews. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, all policies required to be effected by Tenant under this Lease shall be maintained in force throughout the Term or any Renewal Term.
(d) Landlord and Tenant waive all rights of recovery against each other and the Additional Insureds for any loss, damages, or injury of any nature whatsoever to property for which the waiving party is required to be insured. In addition, during the Term, Landlord and Tenant shall each maintain in effect in each insurance policy required under this Lease that relates to property damage a waiver of subrogation in favor of the other party and the Additional Insureds from its then-current insurance carriers and shall, upon written request of the other party, furnish evidence of such currently effective waiver which shall be in customary form.
10. Paragraph 11 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that this provisions shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of the Lease.
11. Based on the modification to Paragraph 10 of the Lease, as set forth in Paragraph 9 of this Amendment, Paragraph l2(b) of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and shall be of no further force or effect.
12. As of the date hereof, Paragraphs 15(b), (e), (£), (g), and (h) of the Lease shall be deleted in their entirety and shall e of no further force of effect. Tenant’s electrical consumption for the Demised Premises shall be paid by Tenant on a quarterly annual basis (due on or before January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each calendar year during the Term without demand therefor and without any set-off, recoupment, or deduction whatsoever) based upon a monthly charge of One and 40/100 ($1.40) per square foot of net rentable area contained in the Demised Premises, which charge represents the cost of the estimated monthly usage in the Demised Premises. Said monthly charge may be adjusted from time to time on the basis of changes in electric rates or usage of power within the Demised Premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Landlord and Tenant acknowledge that Tenant’s actual electrical consumption in the Demised Premises shall be measured by sub meter. Therefore, while Tenant will continue to pay the foregoing monthly charge on a quarterly armua1 basis, Landlord shall read the submeter on a quarterly annual basis and, within a reasonable time following such reading, shall send to Tenant a reconciliation statement based upon the same. within thirty (30) days following Tenant’s receipt of any such quarterly annual reconciliation statement, Tenant shall pay to Landlord the amount of any underpayment due for the relevant quarter. If Tenant has overpaid for such quarter, Landlord shall reimburse Tenant for the amount of the overpayment.
13. Paragraph 18 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that notices to Landlord and Tenant shall be addressed as follows:
The Offices at Bedminster
c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC
200 Campus Drive
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
Attn: Asset Management
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The Offices at Bedminster
c/o Gale & Wentworth, LLC
200 Campus Drive
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
Attn: Marc Leonard Ripp, Esq.
14. Paragraph 22 of the Lease is hereby amended to reflect that Landlord and Tenant represent and warrant to each other that the Designated Broker noted m Paragraph 5 of this Amendment is the sale broker with whom each party has negotiated in bringing about this Amendment. Landlord and Tenant agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to this Amendment.
15. Paragraph 24 of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the following Provision:
a) Tenant is hereby granted two (2) successive option{s) to renew this Lease for a Renewal Term of five (5) years each, subject to the terms of this Paragraph 24. In the event that Tenant desires to renew this Lease, it shall give notice in writing to Landlord of its intention to renew the Lease at least twelve (12) months prior to the Expiration Date (as amended herein) and at least twelve (12) months prior to the expiration of the first Renewal Term, as the case may be. During each of the Renewal Terms, Tenant shall lease the Demised Premises in its “AS IS” condition and all of the terms and conditions of this Lease shall otherwise remain in effect during each of the Renewal Terms, except that ‘the annual Fixed Rent payable during each of the Renewal Terms shall be ninety-five (95%) percent of the annual fair market renewal rental value of the Demised Premises based on a comparison of the rents and accrued escalations then being paid by tenants renewing leases for comparable space in the competitive market area of the Demised Premises, excluding from consideration rent concessions, such as free rent and work letter allowances, made to tenants leasing space initially, but taking into consideration rent concessions, such as refitting allowance, made to tenants renewing leases (“ Fair Market Renewal Rent ”); provided, however, that in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent be less than the annual Fixed Rent payable during the year preceding the first year of each such Renewal Term, In the event the Fixed Rent to be paid during either Renewal Term increases over the amount paid during the year preceding the first year of each such Renewal Term, Landlord may, at its sole option, require Tenant to pay, on or before the commencement of the applicable Renewal Term, a proportionate increase in the Security Deposit.
(b) The Fair Market Renewal Rent of the Demised Premises for purposes of subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 24 shall take into account the provisions of this Lease and shall be determined pursuant to the provisions of this subparagraph 24(b). The Fair Market Renewal Rent shall be set forth by Landlord in a notice to Tenant at least sixty (60) days prior to the commencement of each of the applicable Renewal Terms. The Fair Market Renewal Rent set forth in such notice shall be binding upon both parties, unless Tenant shall notify Landlord of its objection within twenty (20) days after receipt of such notice. In the event of such an objection, which is not resolved within twenty (20) days thereafter, Tenant, at its own expense, shall designate an MAI or SREA appraiser in the Somerset County area. Tenant’s designated appraiser shall then determine and promptly report to both parties in writing the Fair Market Renewal Rent of the Demised Premises, which report shall be binding upon both parties, unless Landlord shall object to same within twenty (20) days after receipt of said report. If Landlord shall so object, both parties shall jointly appoint a separate MAI or SREA appraiser who shall determine the Fair Market Renewal Rent by selecting either Landlord’s Fair Market Renewal Rent determination or Tenant’s designated appraiser’s Fair Market Renewal Rent determination according to whichever of the two valuations is closer to the actual Fair Market Renewal Rent in the opinion of such separate appraiser. The costs of such separate appraiser shall be shared equally by Landlord and Tenant.
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applicable grace periods.
(d) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that the option(s) set forth in this Paragraph 24 shall be personal to Tenant and shall not be exercisable by any party (including any assignees) other than Tenant named herein. Furthermore, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Tenant shall not have the right to exercise the renewal option(s) set forth herein if the amount of square feet of net rentable area of the Demised Premises leased by Tenant during the applicable Renewal Term is fifty (50%) percent or less than the amount of square feet of net rentable area leased by Tenant as of the date hereof
16. Paragraph 28 of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the following provisions:
(a) Tenant agrees to comply with all present or future federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations dealing with environmental protection (“ Environmental Laws ”), including, but not limited to, the Industrial Site Recovery Act (N.J.S.A. 13:IK-6, et seq.) (“ISRA”) having jurisdiction over the Demised Premises. Tenant agrees that such compliance shall be at Tenant’s sole cost and expense. Tenant shall immediately provide Landlord, as they are issued or received by Tenant, with copies of all correspondence, reports, notices, orders, findings, declarations, and other materials that are pertinent to Tenant’s compliance with Environmental Laws.
(b) Tenant represents to Landlord that Tenant’s Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Number as used on Tenant’s Federal Tax Return is as set forth in the Preamble of the Lease. Tenant shall not conduct any operations at the Demised Premises that shall cause the Building or the Demised Premises to be deemed an “industrial establishment” as currently defined in ISRA or otherwise trigger ISRA. If, due to an amendment to ISRA or otherwise Tenant’s operations become subject to ISRA during the Term of the Lease, Tenant shall comply with all ISRA requirements at Tenant’s. sole cost and expense. Such expenses shall include, but not limited to, any applicable state agency fees, engineering fees, dean-up costs, filing fees, and suretyship expenses. In addition, in the event any other Building tenant or Landlord triggers ISRA, Tenant agrees to cooperate with Landlord and provide any information relating to Tenant and its operations at the Demised Premises that is needed by Landlord to comply with ISRA. The foregoing undertakings shall survive the termination or sooner expiration of the Lease and surrender of the Demised Premises and shall also survive the sale, lease, or assignment of the Demised Premises by Landlord for a period of one (I) year.
(c) Tenant shall not generate, store, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, dispose of; or otherwise permit to be present on or about the Demised Premises any Hazardous Substances with the exception of de minimis quantities of Hazardous Substances commonly used in the cleaning and maintenance of general business offices in quantities appropriate to such use. As used herein, “ Hazardous Substance ” shall be defined as any “hazardous chemical,” “hazardous substance,” “hazardous waste,” or similar term as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. §§9601, el seq.). ISRA, the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, as amended, (N.J.S.A. 58: IO-23.11b, et seq.), any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, or in any other present or future Environmental Laws.
(d) Tenant agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Landlord and each mortgagee of the Demised Premises from and against any and all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, judgments, causes of action, costs, and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by Landlord or any such mortgagee or threatened against Landlord or such mortgagee, relating to or arising out of any breach by Tenant of this Paragraph 28, which indemnification shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this Lease.
17. Paragraph 29 (b) of the Lease is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the following provision
(b) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that neither Landlord, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as trustee of the Commingled Pension Trust Fund (Special Situation Investments — Real Estate) of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, nor any

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shareholder, officer, director; partner (general or limited), limited liability company member, tenant-in-common, venturer, trustee, trust beneficiary, grantor, trustee-grantor, or other individual or entity having an interest in Landlord shall have any personal liability for the performance of any of the terms, covenants, or conditions to be performed by Landlord under this Lease; rather, Tenant agrees to look solely to Landlord’s interest and estate in the Land and the Building for the satisfaction of Tenant’s remedies arising out of or related to this Lease.
18. Tenant represents, warrants, and covenants that, to the best of Tenant’s knowledge,
(i) Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease, (ii) Tenant is not in default of any or its obligations under the Lease, and (iii) no event has occurred which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default by either Landlord or Tenant thereunder.
19. Except as modified by this Amendment, the Lease and all the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions thereof shall remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and affirmed. The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions, and conditions contained in this Amendment shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and -their respective successors and, except as otherwise provided in the Lease as modified by this Amendment, their respective assigns. In the event of any conflict between the terms contained in this Amendment and the Lease, the terms herein contained shall supersede and control the obligations and liabilities of the parties.
20. This Amendment shall become effective only upon execution and delivery thereof by Landlord and Tenant.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord-and Tenant have hereunto set their hands and seals as of the date and year first above written, and acknowledge the one to the other that they possess the requisite authority to enter into this transaction and to sign this Amendment.
         
WITNESS:
  THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER, LLC
 
   
 
  By: Gale & Wentworth, LLC,
 
  Authorized Management Agent
 
   
[illegible] 
  By: 
[illegible] 
Vice President
  Name: [illegible]
 
  Title:
 
  Dated: 8/5/99
 
   
ATTEST:
  NUI CORPORATION, SUCCESSOR to
 
  NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.
[illegible] 
  By: 
[illegible] 
 
  Name:
 
  Title: COO & CFO
 
  Date: 8/4/99

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SECOND AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDME.NT TO LEASE AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) made This 19 th day of 1997 by and between SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES , a California partnership (“ Landlord”), having an address c/o Gale & Wentworth, 200 Campus Drive, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932 and NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC ., a corporation (“Tenant”), having its principal address at 550 Route 206 North, P.O. Box 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760.
W I T N E S S E T H:
      WHEREAS, by lease agreement dated July 18, 1996, as amended by First Amendment to Lease dated Sept. 3, 1996 (collectively the “Lease”), Landlord and Te ant agreed to lease approximately seven thousand fifty-seven (7,057) square feet of gross rentable area located on the first floor of the Building, as defined in the Lease (the “Demised Premises”); and
      WHEREAS, Landlord and Tenant desire to amend the Lease to increase the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises by three thousand four hundred eighty-six (3,486) square feet, which area is depicted on the floor plan attached hereto as Attachment “A” (the “Additional Space”), on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual promises contained herein, Landlord and Tenant hereby agree as follows:
     1. Landlord agrees to provide the improvements and other work in and to. the Additional Space in accordance with the plans provided by Tenant to Landlord pursuant to the provisions of Attachment “B” attached hereto. Tenant covenants that the Final Plans (as such term is defined in Attachment B) will completely and accurately represent and depict the work to be performed by Landlord in order to make the Additional Space ready for occupancy by Tenant. The Additional Space shall be deemed ready for occupancy, and the obligations of Tenant to pay increased Fixed Rent and Additional Rent as provided herein shall commence, on the Additional Space Commencement Date, as defined herein. The Additional Space Commencement Date shall be the date on which Landlord substantially completes the Additional Space (as determined below) in accordance with the Final Plans (minus such days attributable to Tenant Delay, as defined in Section 3.3 of Attachment B), whichever is later. The date on which Landlord has substantially completed the Additional Space shall be the date that: (i) the required work on the Additional Space has been substantially completed (and Landlord shall be deemed to have substantially completed said work notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment or decoration remain to be performed within the Additional Space or any part thereof, the non-completion of which does not materially interfere with Tenant’s use of the Additional Space) and (ii) the Additional Space shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition,

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free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Additional Space and its use, together with a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Additional Space for the purposes set forth herein. If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Additional Space ready for occupancy 1 shall be delayed due to a Tenant Delay, then the Additional Space Commencement Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of Tenant Delay so caused by Tenant. In the event any such Tenant Delay days shall be asserted by Landlord, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the same, which notice shall include the number of Tenant Delay days. Landlord shall proceed diligently to complete any “punchlist” items of work within thirty (30) days after the Additional Space Commencement Date or such later time period as may be required to complete any items which Landlord, proceeding diligently, cannot complete within such thirty (30) day time period.
     2. In the event that Tenant desires to make any change in the Final Plans, such changes must be requested in writing on behalf of Tenant and submitted to Landlord in accordance with the procedure specified in section 3.2(b) of Attachment B of the Lease.
     3. Landlord and Tenant agree that any references to the Demised Premises in this Amendment shall be deemed to include (i) the Additional Demised Premises, as such terms defined in the First Amendment to Lease, and (ii) the Additional Space; unless the term used is “Original Demised Premises,” which shall refer to the Demised Premises exclusive of the Additional Demised Premises and the Additional Space. References to the Effective Date shall be as defined in the First Amendment to Lease., Landlord and Tenant further acknowledge that Paragraphs 4 through 8 of this Amendment reflect calculations that shall be accurate in the event the Effective Date occurs prior to the Additional Space Commencement Date. Therefore, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the event the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises occurs later than the Additional Space Commencement Date, the calculations set forth in Paragraphs 4 through 8 of this Amendment shall be amended so that the Demised Premises shall include only the Original Demised Premises and the Additional Space, but not the Additional Demised Premises.
     4. Paragraph 1 of the Preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide that, as of the Additional Space Commencement Date, the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises shall increase by the gross rentable area of the Additional Space. Thereafter, provided the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises, has occurred, the Demised Premises shall be ten thousand five hundred forty-three (10,543) square feet of gross rentable area of office space, and all references to the Demised Premises in the Lease, including, without limitation, the references to the Demised Premises contained in Paragraph 24 of the Lease setting forth Tenant’s renewal option, shall include the Additional Space.

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     5. Provided the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises has occurred, Paragraph 5 of the Preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide ‘-that the Fixed Rent (i) shall increase from One Hundred Eight-one Thousand Seven Hundred Seventeen and 75/100 Dollars ($181,717.75) per annum to Two Hundred Seventy-four Thousand Ninety-six and 75/100 Dollars ($274,096.75) per annum from the Additional Space Commencement Date until the Expiration Date and (ii) shall be the Fair Market Value at the beginning of each Renewal Term, as defined in Paragraph 24(b) of the Lease, during both the first Renewal Term and the second Renewal Term.
     6. Provided the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises has occurred, Paragraph 6 of the Preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide that the Monthly Fixed Rent (i) shall increase from Fifteen Thousand One Hundred Forty-three and 15/100 Dollars ($15,143.15) to Twenty-two Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-one and 40/100 Dollars ($22,841.40) per month from the Additional Space Commencement Date until the Expiration Date and (ii) shall be One-twelfth (1/12th) of the Fair Market Value during the two (2) Renewal Terms.
     7. Provided the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises has occurred, Paragraph 8 of the Preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to increase the Tenant I s Proportionate Share to five and sixty-one hundredths percent (5.61%) as of the Additional Space Commencement Date, arrived at by dividing the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises (which for the purpose of the Lease is agreed to be 1.0,543 square feet} by the gross rentable area of the Building (which for the purpose of the Lease is agreed to be 187,765 square feet).
     8. Provided the Effective Date of the Additional Demised Premises has occurred, Paragraph 13 of the Preamble of the Lease is hereby amended to increase the number of Tenant’s Non-Exclusive Spaces from twenty-five (25) to thirty-eight (38) as of the Additional Space Commencement Date.
     9. In the event that the Additional Space Commencement Date shall occur on a date other than the first calendar day of a month, the charge for the Monthly Fixed Rent for the month in which such date occurs shall be appropriately pro-rated. (Such pro ration shall similarly result in a pro ration of the annual Fixed Rent unless the Additional Space Commencement Date occurs on the first day of the Lease Year.)
     10. Tenant and Landlord warrant and represent to each other that neither has dealt with any broker or brokers regarding the negotiation of this Amendment other than Alexander Summer, L.L.C. and Gale & Wentworth Real Estate Advisors, Inc. (the “Designated Broker”). Tenant and Landlord agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and hold each other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker based upon such broker’s dealings

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with the indemnifying party. Landlord shall pay any commission due to the Designated Broker as a result of the execution of this Amendment in accordance with a separate written agreement.
     11. Tenant represents, warrants and covenants that Landlord is not in default under any of its obligations under the Lease and that to the best of Tenant’s knowledge, Tenant is not in default of any of its obligations under the Lease and no event has occurred which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default by either Landlord or Tenant thereunder.
     12. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Lease.
     13. Except as modified herein, the Lease remains unmodified and in full force and effect.
     14. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective legal representatives, successors and assigns.
       
 
  By:
 
  Name:
 
  Title:
 
   
ATTEST:
  NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.,
 
  a                      corporation
 
   
/s/ Carol A. Sliker
 
[illegible]
Name: Carol A. Sliker
  Name: Richard L. [Illegible]
Title: Assistant Secretary – NUI CORP.
  Title: President

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ATTACHMENT A
SECOND AMENDMENT SPACE

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ATTACHMENT “B”
WORK LETTER TO FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE
Between
SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
and
NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.
     Section 1.1. The provisions of this Attachment shall have the same force and effect as if this Attachment were a numbered Article of the Lease.
     Section 2 .1. Landlord agrees to construct the Additional Space in accordance with Fina1 Plans (as hereinafter defined) which construction shall be completed in a good and workmanlike manner and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Tenant shall pay to Landlord, in accordance with .the terms hereof, the Construction Cost (as defined in Section 4.1 hereof), against which Tenant shall be entitled to a credit of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per rentable square foot of the Additional Space, being Sixty-nine Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Dollars ($69,720.00) (the “Construction Allowance”). The difference between the Construction Cost and the Construction Allowance is referred to herein as “Tenant’s Finish Cost.”
     Section 3.1. Subject to Section 2.1, Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenant’s Finish Cost within ten (10) days of the issuance of a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy for the Demised Premises. Tenant’s Finish Cost shall be Additional Rent, and Tenant shall pay such amount in full, without set-off or deduction.
     Section 3.2. (a) Tenant shall submit to Landlord and Landlord’s architect sufficient information to allow Landlord to prepare final plans setting forth the construction plans for the construction of the Additional Space as provided in this Section 3.2(a) and such plans shall’ be prepared by Landlord’s architect. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any proposed final plans from Landlord, Tenant shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall ,state the reasons for such rejection. In the event of a rejection by Tenant’ of any proposed final plans, Landlord may make changes to the proposed final plans and resubmit them pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Tenant’s approval to any proposed final plans, such plans shall become the Final Plans (the II Final Plans” ) hereunder. Provided that Tenant has received proposed Final Plans at least fifteen (15) days prior thereto, Tenant’s failure to approve Final Plans by                      , 1997 shall constitute a Tenant Delay, as defined in Section 3.3 hereof.
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plans setting forth the proposed change and instructing Landlord whether to cease work or cease any segment of work while the change is approved (in which case the delay shall be a Tenant Delay as hereinafter defined) or whether Landlord should continue constructing the Additional Space in accordance with the Final Plans notwithstanding the proposed change thereto. In the event that no such instructions are given, Landlord shall continue constructing the Additional Space in accordance with the Final Plans without regard to the proposed changes thereto. Within three (3) business days after receipt of any proposed change in the Final Plans from Tenant, Landlord shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. If Landlord has stopped work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s request, Landlord shall resume work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s .written instructions from Tenant authorizing the recommencement of such work. Upon the granting of any approval, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish Cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall, as soon thereafter as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) business days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and submitting to Landlord signed and sealed revised final plans sufficient for Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and approvals to construct the Additional Space ·in accordance with such revised final plans. Upon the submission of such revised final plans,. such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay (as hereinafter defined).
     Section 3.3. If (a) a delay actually occurs in the completion of the Additional Space in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) any delay in approving and executing the Final Plans to Landlord in the form required by Section 3.2(a) hereof, (ii) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (iii) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, or (iv) any other act or omission “of Tenant I its agents I employees or contractors (any of such events being a “Tenant Delay”), then (b) the Additional Space Commencement Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Demised Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraph 1 of this Second Amendment to Lease for each day of such Tenant Delay.

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The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon a practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Additional Space Commencement Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.
     Section 4.1. The “Construction Cost” as defined herein shall be the actual cost, including out-of-pocket soft costs, to Landlord of the construction of the Additional Space in accordance with the Final Plans, plus four percent (4%) of such actual cost as profit to Landlord and six percent (6%) of such actual cost as a payment to Landlord to compensate Landlord for its overhead costs.
     Section 4.2. Prior to accepting any bid for work on the Additional Space, Landlord shall submit to Tenant for Tenant’ s review and recommendation copies of all bids received by Landlord for such work. Tenant shall provide Landlord with Tenant’s. recommendation regarding the approval of same within three (3) business days of Tenant’s receipt of said bid copies. Landlord shall consider Tenant’s recommendation and either accept such recommendation or, in those instances where Landlord declines to accept Tenant’s recommendation, provide Tenant with a written explanation of its reasons for rejecting the same.
     Section 4.3. In the event the full amount of the construction Allowance has not been credited towards the cost to complete the work called for in the Final Plans, .the difference shall not be credited towards Tenant’s Monthly Fixed Rent obligations nor towards any other monetary obligations of Tenant. The construction to be performed by Landlord and its contractors shall not include the purchase or installation of any items not shown as being completed by Landlord on the Final Plans, including, but not limited to, furnishings, equipment and telephones or the special wiring required for the installation or operation of computer, data processing or telephone equipment. All of the foregoing work (“Tenant’ s Installations”) shall be performed by Tenant and its contractors, who shall be union contractors, at such times and in such manner as shall not interfere with or delay Landlord or Landlord’s contractors in the performance of the construction work contemplated to be performed by Landlord and its contractors hereunder. The cost for preparation of all architectural documents, including the Final Plans, prepared by Landlord’s architect for the Additional Space shall be applied against the Construction Allowance.

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FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) made this 31 st day of September, 1996 by and between SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIA ES, a California partnership (“Landlord”), having an address c/o Gale & Wentworth, 200 Campus Drive, Florham Park, New Jersey 07921 and NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC., a Corporation (“Tenant”) having its principal address at 550 Route 206 North, P.O. 760, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760.
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, by Lease Agreement dated July 18, 1996 (the “Lease”), Landlord and Tenant agreed to lease approximately five thousand seventy-five (5,075) square feet of gross rentable area located on the first floor of the Building, as defined in the Lease (the “Demised Premises”); and
     WHEREAS, Landlord and Tenant desire to amend the Lease to increase the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises by one thousand nine hundred eighty-two (1,982) square feet, which area is depicted on the floor plan attached hereto as Attachment “A” (the “Additional Demised Premises”), on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual promises contained herein, Landlord and Tenant hereby agree as follows:
1. Landlord agrees to provide the improvements and other work in and to the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with the plans provided by Tenant to Landlord pursuant to the provisions of Attachment “B” attached hereto. Tenant covenants that the Final Plans (as such term is defined in Attachment B) will completely and accurately represent and depict the work to be performed by Landlord in order to make the Additional Demised Premises ready for occupancy by Tenant. The Additional Demised Premises shall be deemed ready for occupancy, and the obligations of Tenant to pay increased Fixed Rent and Additional Rent as provided herein shall commence, on the Effective Date, as defined herein. The Effective Date shall be the date on which Landlord substantially completes the Additional Demised Premises (as determined below) in accordance with the Final Plans (minus such days attributable to Tenant Delay, as defined in Section 3.3 of Attachment B), whichever is later. The date on which Landlord has Substantially completed the Additional Demised Premises shall be the date that: (i) the required work on the Additional Demised Premises has been substantially completed (and Landlord shall be deemed to have substantially completed said work notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment or decoration remain to be performed within the Additional Demised Premises or any part thereof, the non-completion of which does not materially interfere with Tenant’s use of the Additional Demised Premises) and (ii) the Additional Demised Premises shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of

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any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Additional Demised Premises and its use, together with a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Additional Demised Premises for the purposes set forth herein. If the occurrence of any of the, conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Additional Demised Premises ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to a Tenant Delay, then the Effective Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of Tenant Delay so caused by Tenant. In the event any such Tenant Delay days shall be asserted by Landlord, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the same, which notice shall include the number of Tenant Delay days. Landlord shall proceed diligently to complete any “punchlist” items of work within thirty (30) days after the Effec tive Date or such later time period as may be required to complete any items which Landlord, proceeding diligently, cannot complete within such 30-day time period.
2. In the event that Tenant desires to make any change in the Final Plans, such changes must be requested in writing on behalf of Tenant and submitted to Landlord in accordance with the procedure specified in section 3.2(b) of Exhibit B of the Lease.
3. Paragraph 1 of the preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide that, as of the Effective Date, the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises shall increase by the gross rentable area of the Additional Demised Premises. Thereafter, the Demised Premises shall be seven thousand fifty-seven (7,057) square feet of gross rentable area of office space, and all references to the Demised Premises in the Lease, including, without limitation, the references to the Demised Premises contained in Paragraph 24 of the Lease setting forth Tenant’s renewal option, shall include the Additional Demised Premises. References to the Demised Premises in this Amendment to Lease Agreement shall be deemed to include the Additional Demised Premises unless the term used is “Original Demised Premises”, which shall refer to the Demised Premises exclusive of the Additional Demised Premises.
4. Paragraph 5 of the preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide that the Fixed Rent (i) shall increase from One Hundred Thirty Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-one and 25/100 Dollars ($130,681.25) per annum to One Hundred Eighty-one Thousand Seven Hundred Seventeen and 75/100 Dollars ($181,717.75) per annum from the Effective Date until the Expiration Date and (ii) shall be the Fair Market Value at the beginning of each Renewal Term, as defined in Paragraph 24(b) of the Lease, during both the first Renewal Term and the second Renewal Term.
5. Paragraph 6 of the preamble to the Lease is hereby amended to provide that the Monthly Fixed Rent (i) shall increase to Fifteen Thousand One Hundred Forty-three and 15/100 Dollars ($15,143.15) per month from the Effective Date until the Expiration Date and (ii) shall be One-twelfth (1/12th) of the Fixed Rent during the two (2) Renewal Terms.
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amended to increase the Tenant’s Proportionate Share to three and seventy-six hundredths percent (3.76%) as of the Effective Date, arrived at by dividing the gross rentable area of the Demised Premises (which for the purpose of this Lease is agreed to be 7,057 square feet) by the gross rentable area of the Building (which for the purpose of this Lease is agreed to be 187,765 square feet).
7. In the event that the Effective Date shall occur on a date other than the first calendar day of a month, the charge for the Monthly Fixed Rent for the month in which such date occurs shall be appropriately pro-rated. (Such pro ration shall similarly result in a pro ration of the annual Fixed Rent unless the Effective Date occurs on the first day of the Lease Year.)
8. Tenant and Landlord warrant and represent to each other that neither has dealt with any broker or brokers regarding the negotiation of this Amendment to Lease Agreement other than Alexander Summer, L.L.C. and Gale & Wentworth Real Estate Advisors, Inc. (the “Designated Broker”). Tenant and -Landlord agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and hold each other harmless from and against any claim for a commission or other compensation by any broker other than the Designated Broker based upon such broker’s dealings with the indemnifying party. Landlord shall pay any commission due to the Designated Broker as a result of the execution of this Amendment to Lease Agreement in accordance with a separate written agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF f the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the date first above written.
         
WITNESS:
  SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
 
  a California partnership
 
  By: Gale & Wentworth, Inc.
 
  authorized management agent
 
   
 
 
[illegible]
 
  Name:
 
  Title:
 
   
ATTEST:
  NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.,
 
  a                      corporation
 
   
/s/ Carol A. Sliker
  By: 
[illegible]
Name: Carol A. Sliker
  Name: Richard L. [Illegible]
Title: Assistance Secretary – NUI CORP
  Title: President

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ATTACHMENT A
FIRST AMENDMENT SPACE

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ATTACHMENT “B”
WORK LETTER TO FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE
Between
SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
and
NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.
     Section 1.1. The provisions of this Attachment shall have the same force and effect as if this Exhibit were a numbered Article of the Lease.
     Section 2.1. Landlord agrees to construct the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with Final Plans (as hereinafter defined) which construction shall be completed in a good and workmanlike manner and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Tenant shall pay to Landlord, in accordance with the terms hereof, the Construction cost (as defined in section 4.1 hereof), against which Tenant shall be entitled to a credit of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per rentable square foot of the Additional Demised Premises, being Thirty-nine Thousand Six Hundred Forty Dollars. ($39,640) (the “Construction Allowance”). The difference between the construction Cost and the Construction Allowance is referred to herein as “Tenant’s Finish Cost.1I section 3.1. Subject to Section 2.1, Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenant’s Finish Cost within ten (10) days of the issuance of a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy for the Demised Premises. Tenant’s Finish Cost shall be Additional Rent, and Tenant shall pay such amount in full,’ without set-off or deduction.
     Section 3.2. (a) Tenant shall submit to Landlord and Landlord’s architect sufficient information to allow Landlord to prepare final plans setting forth the construction plans for the construction of the Additional Demised Premises as provided in this Section 3.2 (a) and such plans shall be prepared by Landlord IS architect. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any proposed final plans from Landlord, Tenant shall approve or reject same and if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. In the event of a rejection by Tenant of any proposed final plans, Landlord may make changes to the proposed final plans and resubmit them pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Tenant’s approval to any proposed final plans, such plans shall become the’ Final Plans (the “Final Plans”) hereunder. Provided that Tenant has received proposed Final Plans at least fifteen (15) days prior thereto, Tenant’s failure to approve Final Plans by                      , 199___shall constitute a Tenant Delay, as defined in Section 3.3 hereof.
(b) In the event that Tenant desires any change in the Final Plans, Tenant shall submit to Landlord revised final plans setting forth the proposed change and instructing Landlord whether to cease work or cease any segment of work while the change is approved (in which case the delay shall be a Tenant Delay as hereinafter defined) or whether Landlord should continue constructing the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans notwithstanding the proposed change thereto. In the event that no such instructions are given, Landlord shall continue constructing the Final Expansion Premises in accordance with the Final plans without regard to the proposed changes thereto. Within three (3) business days after receipt of any proposed change in the Final Plans from Tenant, Landlord shall approve or reject same and

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if rejecting same shall state the reasons for such rejection. If Landlord has stopped work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s request, Landlord shall resume work, or some segment thereof at Tenant’s written instructions from Tenant authorizing the recommencement of such work. Upon the granting of any approval, Landlord shall notify Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish Cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Pinal Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall, as soon there-after as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) business days, and understanding that a,ny delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and submitting to Landlord signed and sealed revised final plans sufficient for Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and approvals to construct the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with such revised final plans. Upon the submission of such revised final plans, such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay . (as hereinafter defined) .
     Section 3.3. If (a) a delay actually occurs in the completion of the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) any delay in approving and executing the Pinal Plans to Landlord in the form required by Section 3.2 (a) hereof, (ii) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work. in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (iii) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, or (iv) any other act or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees or contractors (any of such events being a “Tenant Delay”), then (b) the Effective Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Demised Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraph 3 of the First Amendment To Lease for each day of such Tenant Delay. The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon a practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Effective Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.
     Section 4.1. The “Construction Cost” as defined herein shall be the actual cost, including out-of-pocket soft costs, to Landlord of the construction of the Additional Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans, plus four percent (4%) of such actual cost as profit to Landlord and six percent (6%) of such

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actual cost as a payment to Landlord to compensate Landlord for its overhead costs.
     Section 4.2. Prior to accepting any bid for word on the Additional Demised Premises, Landlord shall submit to Tenant for Tenant’s review and recommendation copies of all bids received by Landlord for such work. Tenant shall provide Landlord with Tenant’s recommendation regarding the approval of same within three (3) business days of Tenant’s receipt of said bid copies. Landlord shall consider Tenant’s recommendation and either accept such recommendation or, in those instances where Landlord declines to accept Tenant’s recommendation, provide Tenant with a written explanation of its reasons for rejecting the same.
Section 4.3. In the event the full amount of the Construction Allowance has not been credited towards the cost to complete the work called for in the Final Plans, the difference shall not be credited towards Tenant’s Monthly Fixed Rent obligations nor towards any other monetary obligations of Tenant. The construction to be performed by Landlord and its contractors shall not include the purchase or installation of any items not shown as being completed by Landlord on the Final Plans, including, but not limited to, furnishings, equipment and telephones or the special wiring required for the installation or operation of computer, data processing or telephone equipment. All of the foregoing work (“Tenant’s Installations”) shall be performed by Tenant and its contractors, who shall be union contractors, at such times and in such manner” as shall not interfere with or delay Landlord or Landlord’s contractors in the performance of the ” construction work contemplated to be performed by Landlord and its contractors hereunder. The cost for preparation of all architectural documents, including’ the Final Plans, prepared by Landlord’s architect for the Additional Demised Premises shall be applied against the Construction Allowance.

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AGREEMENT OF LEASE
between
SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES,
Landlord
and
NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC.
Tenant
THE OFFICES AT BEDMINSTER
550 Route 206
Bedminster, New Jersey

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     LEASE AGREEMENT DATED JULY ___, 1996
     BETWEEN SAMM.IS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES, (“Landlord”), having an office at c/o GALE & WENTWORTH, INC., Park Avenue at Morris County, 100 Campus Drive, suite 300, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932 and NATURAL GAS SERVICES, INC., a ___corporation (“Tenant”), having an address at 550 Route 2Q6 North, P.O. Box ___, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0760.
PREAMBLE
BASIC LEASE PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
     In addition to other terms elsewhere defined in this Lease, the following terms whenever used in this Lease should have only the meanings set forth in this Preamble, unless such meanings are expressly modified, limited or expanded elsewhere herein.
     1.  Premises or Demised Premises : Outlined in red on the floor plan annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit A consisting of approximately 5,075 square feet of Net Rentable Area, together with all fixtures, equipment, improvements and installations attached thereto in the building located at 550 Route 206 said building being part of an office building project known as The Offices at Bedminster. consisting of two office buildings having a total Net Rentable Area of 187,765 square feet (hereinafter referred to as the “Project”) in the Township of Bedminster, County of Somerset, New Jersey, as described in Exhibit A-1 attached hereto and made a part hereof.
     2.  Term : Five (5) years and four (4) months.
     3.  Expiration Date : Midnight on August 31, 2001.
     4.  Permitted Use : General office use.
     5.  Fixed Rent : One Hundred Thirty Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-One and 25/100 Dollars ($130, 681.25) per annum from the Commencement Date until the Expiration Date. During the Renewal Terms, Tenant shall pay as Fixed Rent hereunder, the Fair Market Value as defined in and determined in accordance with Paragraph 24 below, but in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the first Renewal Term be less than the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the year preceding the first Renewal Term and in no event shall the annual Fixed Rent per square foot payable during the Second Renewal Term be less than the annual Fixed Rent payable during the First Renewal Term.
     6.  Monthly Fixed Rent : One-Twelfth of Fixed Rent being Ten Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety and 10/100 Dollars ($10,890.10) per month during the Initial Term; one-twelfth of the Fixed Rent per month during each of the Renewal Terms.
     7. Late Charge:. Three percent (3%) of the amount of the payment due.
     8. Tenant’s Proportionate Share of Expenses: Two and Seventy hundredths percent (2.70%), arrived at by dividing the Net Rentable Area of the Demised Premises (which for the purposes of

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this Lease is agreed to be 5,075 square feet) by (ii) the Nee Rentable Area of the Project (which for the purposes of this Lease is agreed to be 187,765 square feet).
     9.  Security Deposit : None.
     10.  Tenant’s S.I.C. Code and Address for Environmental Information (as per S.I.C. Manual as published by the United States Office .of Management & Budget): 4924
     11.  Designated Broker : The Galbreath Company, Alexander Summer Division, L.L.C.
     12.  Party Responsible to the Designated Broker : Landlord.
     13.  Number of Tenant Allocated Parking Spaces : Twenty (20) consisting of two (2) exclusive spaces (“Exclusive Spaces”) as shown on the Parking Plan attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit E and eighteen {la} non-exclusive spaces (“Non-Exclusive Spaces”) .
     14.  Renewal Term : Two Five (5) year terms.
     15.  Tenant’s Construction Allowance : One Hundred One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($101,500) per Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof.
The parties hereby agree to the following terms and conditions:
     1.  Premises. Term and Purpose .
     (a). Landlord does hereby lease to Tenant, and Tenant does hereby lease from Landlord, the Demised Premises located in the Project for the Term commencing on the “Commencement Date” as defined in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 1, and ending on the Expiration Date, or such earlier date upon which the term may expire or be terminated pursuant to the provisions of this Lease or pursuant to Law. The parcel of land on which the Project is located is hereinafter called the “Land” and is more particularly described on Exhibit A-l annexed hereto and made a part hereof.
     (b) For purposes of this Lease the Commencement Date shall be May 1, 1996 subject to the provisions of Paragraph 4 (b) .
     (c) The Demised Premises shall be used by Tenant for the Permitted Use and for no other use or purpose. Tenant shall not use or occupy the Demised Premises or any part thereof, for any purpose deemed unlawful, disreputable, or extra-hazardous on account of fire or other casualty, or for any purposes which shall impair the character of the Project. Tenant, at its sole cost and expense shall obtain any consents, licenses, permits or approvals required to conduct its business at the Demised Premises with the exception of a Certificate of Occupancy which shall be obtained by Landlord at its sole cost and expense. (d) The “Common Areas” of the Project shall be

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those parts of the Project and other improvements designated by Landlord from time to time for the common use of all tenants, including among other facilities, halls, lobbies, delivery passages, drinking fountains, public toilets, and the like, and all garages, parking lots, service buildings or similar improvements operated, owned or maintained, in whole or in part, by Landlord. and all parkways, drives, greenspaces, parks, fountains or other facilities owned, operated or maintained, in whole or in part, by Landlord, or otherwise made available by Landlord for use by all tenants of the Project, whether used in conjunction with the use of such space by the occupants of other buildings or used exclusively by Tenants of the project, all of which facilities shall be subject to Landlord’s reasonable management and control and shall be operated and maintained for the benefit of all tenants in a first class manner. Tenant, and its employees and invitees, shall have the nonexclusive right to use the Common Areas, such use to be in common with Landlord, other tenants of the Project and other persons entitled to use the same.
     2.  Rent .
The rent payable by Tenant pursuant to · this Lease is Intended to be absolutely net to Landlord, and all other charges and expenses imposed upon the Demised Premises incurred in connection with its use, occupancy, care, maintenance, operation and control shall be paid by Tenant, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.
     (a) The rent reserved under this Lease for the Term hereof shall be and consist of (a) the Fixed Rent payable in equal monthly installments in advance, on the first day of each and every calendar month during the term (except that Tenant shall pay the first monthly installment upon signing this Lease); plus (b) such additional rent (“Additional Rent”) in an amount equal to Tenant’s Proportionate Share of the increase in Expenses as outlined in Paragraph 3 (c) of this Lease (as such terms are defined in Paragraph 3 of this Lease) and all charges for services and utilities pursuant to Paragraph 15 hereof, and any other charges as shall become due and payable hereunder, which Additional Rent shall be payable as hereinafter provided, all to be paid to Landlord at its office stated above, or such other place as Landlord may designate, in lawful money of the United States of America; provided, however, that if the Commencement Date shall occur on a date other than the first calendar day of a month, the rent for the · partial month commencing on the Commencement’ Date shall be appropriately pro-rated on the basis of the monthly rent payable during the first year of the Term.
     (b) Tenant does hereby covenant and agree promptly to pay the Fixed Rent, Additional Rent and any other charges herein reserved as and when the same shall become due and payable, without demand therefor, and without any set-off or deduction whatsoever. All Additional Rent and other charges payable hereunder, which are not due and payable on a monthly basis during the term, unless otherwise specified herein, shall be due and payable within twenty (20) days of delivery by Landlord to Tenant of notice to pay the same.

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     (c) In the event that any payment of Fixed Rent, Additional Rent or any other charges shall be paid more than fifteen (15) days after the due date for same provided herein, Tenant shall pay, together with such payment, the Late Charge and a like additional Late Charge shall be payable for each thirty (30) days beyond the fifteenth (15th) day after the due date that such payment shall remain unpaid.
     3.  Operating Expenses .
     (a) For purposes of this Paragraph, the following definitions shall apply:
     “ Initial Year ” shall mean the calendar year 1996.
     “ Lease Year ” shall mean each calendar year subsequent to the Initial Year.
     (1) “ Expenses Defined ” The term “Expenses” shall mean all costs and expenses of the ownership, operation, maintenance and insurance of the Project included in the following costs:
(aa) All supplies, materials, salary, wages and equipment used in or directly related to the operation, maintenance, repair and management of the Project; including, but not limited to, uniforms for employees that are required and the cleaning thereof; expenses imposed on Landlord pursuant to any collective bargaining agreement with respect to such employees; workmen’s compensation insurance, payroll, social security and unemployment insurance, reasonable legal, bookkeeping and accounting costs;
(bb) All utilities, including without limitation, water, electricity, gas, heating, lighting, sewer, waste disposal, security, air conditioning and ventilating costs and all charges directly relating to the use, ownership or operation of the Project;
(cc) All maintenance, management, janitorial and service agreements related to the Project including, but not limited to, wages,. salaries, disability benefits, pensions, hospitalization, retirement plans, group insurance and other employee benefits, respective employees of Landlord, up to and including the building manager, providing that any management or supervisory costs shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the total gross rent for any given year;
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fire, casualty and other extended coverage risks related to the Project, plate glass insurance, any insurance required by a mortgagee and rent insurance up to one year’s coverage.
(ee) Amortization of capital improvements made to the Project which will improve the operating efficiency of the Project (provided, however, that the amount of such amortization for improvements shall not exceed in any year the amount of costs saved’ by the expenditure either through the reduction or minimization of increases which would have otherwise occurred); and
(ff) Real Property Taxes including all taxes, assessments (general and special) and other impositions or charges which may be taxed, charged, levied, assessed or imposed upon all or any portion of the Project and expenses in connection with tax appeals. Landlord represents that it has no knowledge of any pending special assessments as of the date of this Lease. All special assessments shall be amortized over a ten (10) year period.
(gg) Landlord agrees that with respect to all maintenance and repair expenses listed above involving contracts or individual expenditures exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), other than emergency repairs, Landlord shall obtain at least two (2) competitive bids and shall utilize the lowest responsible bidder, for such work.
(2) Expense Exclusions. The term “Expenses” does not include any capital improvement to the Project, nor shall it include repairs, restoration or other work occasioned by fire, windstorm or other casualty, income and franchise taxes of Landlord, expenses incurred in leasing to or procuring of tenants, leasing commissions, salaries for executives above the grade of building manager, building start-up or opening expenses, advertising expenses, expenses for the renovating of space for new tenants, interest or principal payments on any mortgage or other indebtedness of Landlord (other than Subparagraph 1 (ee) of this Article 3) nor depreciation allowance or expense. The term “Expenses” also does not include any type of repairs to the Premises or other tenant repairs; the costs of such repairs shall be borne as described in Article 5 of this Lease Agreement.
(3) If during all or part of any calendar year, Landlord shall not. furnish -any particular item Is} of work or service (which would constitute an expense hereunder) to portions of the Project, due to the fact that construction of the Project is not completed,

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or such portions are not occupied or leased or because such item of work or service is not required or desired by the tenant of such portion, or such tenant is itself obtaining and providing such item of work or service, or for other reasons, for the purposes of computing the Additional Rent payable hereunder, the amount of the Expenses___ for such item for such period shall be increased by an amount equal to the additional operating and maintenance expenses which would reasonably have been incurred during such period by Landlord if it had at its own expense furnished such item of work or service to such portion of the Project. It is understood that this Paragraph 31a) (3) shall not be applicable to any Expenses which are not substantially affected by the level of tenancy, including, but not limited to, elevator maintenance and repair, landscaping, snow removal, and the like.
     (b) In the event (i) that the Commencement Date shall occur during a calendar year, (ii) that the date of the expiration or other termination of this Lease shall be a day other than the last day of a calendar year, (iii) of any abatement of the Fixed Rent payable hereunder pursuant to any provision of this Lease (other than pursuant to Paragraph 2{d) hereof) or (iv) of any increase of decrease (as herein provided) in the Area of the Demised Premises or in the Net Rentable Area of the Project, then in each such event in applying the provisions of this Article 3 with respect to any calendar year in which such event shall have occurred, appropriate adjustments shall be made to reflect the occurrence of such event on a basis consistent with the principles underlying the provisions of ‘ this Article 3, taking into consideration (x) the portion of such calendar year which shall have elapsed prior to the Commencement Date, the date of such expiration or other termination or the date of such increase or decrease, or (y) the period of such rent abatement or such increase or decrease, as the case may be and (z) in the case of such rent abatement or such increase or decrease, the portion of the Demised Premises to which the same relates.
     (c) Tenant shall be responsible for and shall pay to Landlord in accordance with this Paragraph 3 (c) Tenant’s Proportionate Share of any increase in Expenses paid or incurred by Landlord in each Lease Year during the Term over the Expenses paid or incurred by Landlord during the Initial Year, as hereinafter provided. Following the end of the Initial Year, Landlord shall send to Tenant a verified statement of Expenses paid or incurred by Landlord during the Initial Year.
     (1) During each Lease Year Tenant shall pay to Landlord monthly, on the first day of each calendar month, as Additional Rent, Landlord’s estimate of Tenant I s Proportionate Share of any increase in Expenses paid or incurred by Landlord in each Lease Year over the Expenses paid or incurred by Landlord during the Initial Year.
     (2) Prior to the end of the Initial Year and thereafter for each successive Lease Year, or part thereof, ‘Landlord shall send to Tenant a statement of the projected increase in Expenses “Projected Expense Increase” for the applicable Lease Year, if any, (an “Expense Projection”), and shall indicate what the estimated amount of Tenant’s Proportionate Share of said increase in Expenses shall be, said amount to be paid in equal.

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monthly installments (rounded to the nearest whole dollar) in advance on the first day of each month by Tenant as Additional Rent. commencing January 1st of the applicable Lease Year.
     (3) If during the course of any Lease Year, Landlord shall have reason to believe that the increase in Expenses shall be higher than that upon which the aforesaid Expense Projection was originally based, as set forth in subparagraph (c) (2) above, then, Landlord shall be entitled to adjust the Expense projection by a lump sum invoice for the months of the Lease Year, which precede the revised Expense Projection, and to advise Tenant of an adjustment in future monthly projection amounts to the end result that Landlord’s Projected Expense Increase shall be on a reasonably current basis each Lease Year. Such adjusted Escalation Projections shall not be made more frequently than semi-annually.
     (4) Within 90 days following the end of each Lease Year, Landlord shall send to Tenant a statement of the actual increase in Expenses incurred for the prior Lease Year showing Tenant’s Proportionate Share of the increase in Expenses due from Tenant. In the event the amount prepaid by Tenant exceeds the amount that was actually due based upon actual year end cost, then Landlord shall apply a credit to Tenant in an amount equal to the overcharge which credit shall apply to future rental payments until Tenant has been fully credited with the overcharge. If the credit due to Tenant is more than the aggregate total of future rental payments, Landlord shall pay to Tenant the difference between the credit in such aggregate total. In the event Landlord has undercharged Tenant, then Landlord shall send Tenant an invoice stating the additional amount due, which amount shall be paid in full by Tenant within twenty (20) days of receipt.
     (d) Each and every of the aforesaid Expense Projection amounts, whether requiring lump sum payment or constituting projected monthly amounts added to the Fixed Rent, shall for all purposes be treated and considered as Additional Rent and the failure of Tenant to pay the same as and when due in advance and without demand shall have the same effect as failure to pay any installment of the Fixed Rent and shall afford Landlord all the remedies provided in this Lease therefor, including, without. limitation, the Late Charge as provided in Paragraph 2(c) of this Lease.
     (e) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that Landlord shall have the right to change the period of the Lease Year, either before or during the Term, to any other fiscal year or twelve month period. In the event Landlord makes such change, then the same shall be effective upon written notice to Tenant and, in such event, Tenant shall pay Tenant’s Proportionate Share of any increase in Expenses for the period from the end of the initially designated Lease Year, as last billed, to the beginning of the newly designated Lease Year, prorated for such period, within twenty (20) days of the rendering by Landlord of the bill for such interim period.
     (f) Within six (6) months following Tenant’s receipt of Landlord’s statement of actual Expenses pursuant to Paragraph 3 (c) (4) hereunder, Landlord shall make available for

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inspection by Tenant, within thirty (30) days of receipt of written request for such inspection from Tenant, at a location in Morris County, during business hours, all bills and invoices or any other appropriate back-up information supporting such Landlord’s statement, provided, however, that Landlord shall only be obligated to retain such back-up Information for two (2) years following the submission of Landlord’s statement of Expenses to Tenant. After any such audit, Landlord shall promptly refund to Tenant any amount which the parties agree was charged to Tenant in excess of the amounts properly chargeable to Tenant hereunder.
4. Completion of Improvements and Commencement of Rent
     (a) Landlord agrees to provide the tenant improvements depicted on the Final Plans (as such term is defined in the work letter annexed hereto and made part hereof as Exhibit B) and other work in and to the Demised Premises in accordance with the terms, conditions and provisions of Exhibit B.
     (b) The Demised Premises shall be deemed ready for occupancy and the Commencement Date hereunder shall occur on May 1 , 1996 or such later date that (a) the Demised Premises shall be delivered to Tenant in tenantable condition, free of violations of any health, safety, fire and other statutes and regulations governing the Demised Premises and its use, all of which shall be established by issuance of a certificate (temporary or final) by appropriate governmental authority, permitting occupancy of the Demised Premises for the purposes set forth herein; and (b) Landlord has substantially completed the initial installations and other work in and to the Demised Premises agreed to be performed by it pursuant to Paragraph 4 (a) (and Landlord shall be deemed to have · substantially completed said installations and other-work notwithstanding that minor or insubstantial details of construction, mechanical adjustment or decoration remain to be performed in the Demised Premises or any part thereof, the non-completion of which does not materially interfere with Tenant’s use of the Demised Premises). If the occurrence of any of the conditions listed in the preceding sentence, and thereby the making of the Demised Premises ready for occupancy, shall be delayed due to: (1) any act by Tenant or any of its employees, agents or contractors, which materially interferes with the completion of Tenant’s improvements; (ii) any additional time required for the completion by Landlord of its work because of the inclusion therein at Tenant’s request, of any item of work not included in Exhibit B; (iii) any Tenant Delay, as defined in Exhibit B; then the Commencement Date shall be accelerated by a time period equal to the number of days of delay so caused by Tenant.
     (c) Tenant shall occupy the Demised Premises as soon as the same are ready for its occupancy and the Commencement Date shall have occurred (but not prior to said date except for installation of Tenant’s personal property, telephone system and similar items for which Tenant shall be given reasonable access provided such access does not interfere with Landlord’s ability to obtain a certificate of occupancy). If and when Tenant shall take actual possession of the Demised Premises, it shall be conclusively presumed that the same are in satisfactory condition, except as to those items of work remaining to be performed by Landlord pursuant

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to this Paragraph 4, or any items of work set forth on a “Punch List” to be submitted to and acknowledged by Landlord in writing within thirty (30) days after the Commencement Date.
     5.  Tenant Covenants As To Condition of Premises. and Compliance with Laws.
     (a) In the event that the Project or any of the equipment affixed thereto or stored therein should be damaged as a result of any act of Tenant, its agents, servants, employees, invitees or contractors, Tenant shall, upon demand, pay to Landlord the cost of all required repairs, including structural repairs. Tenant shall commit no act of waste and shall take good care of the Demised Premises and the equipment affixed thereto and stored therein, shall maintain the Demised Premises in good condition and state of repair, and at the end or certain expiration of the term hereof, shall deliver up the Demised Premises in good order and condition, wear and tear from a reasonable use thereof excepted. Landlord shall perform, or cause to be performed, all such maintenance and repairs and Tenant shall pay to Landlord the costs incurred therefor immediately upon demand as Additional Rent.
     (b) Tenant, at Tenant’s expense, shall promptly comply with all laws, rules, regulations and ordinances, of all governmental authorities or agencies having jurisdiction over the Demised Premises, and of all insurance bodies (including, without limitation, the Board of Fire Underwriters), at any time duly issued or in force, applicable to the Demised Premises or any part thereof or to Tenant’s use thereat provided, however, th t the provisions of this Paragraph shall not create any such compliance obligations upon Tenant arising out of the maintenance and repair obligations of Landlord or work performed by Landlord under the Lease.
     6.  Tenant Improvements . All fixtures, equipment, improvements, alterations, installations which are attached to the Demised Premises, additions and appurtenances made by Tenant to the Demised Premises shall become the property of Landlord upon installation. Not later than the last day of the Term,’ Tenant shall, at its expense, remove from the Demised Premises all of its personal property and such improvements as Landlord elects to have removed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Tenant notifies Landlord of its intention to install any improvement in the Demised Premises prior to installing same, and Landlord failed to notify Tenant at such time that such improvement shall be removed at the expiration of the Term, Tenant shall not be obligated to remove such improvement. Tenant, at its sole cost and expense, shall repair injury done by or in connection with the installation or removal of such improvements. Any equipment, fixtures r goods or other property of Tenant which Tenant is required to remove and is not removed by Tenant upon the termination of this lease, or upon any quitting, vacating or abandonment of the Demised Premises by Tenant, or upon Tenant’s eviction, shall be considered as abandoned and Landlord shall have the right, with reasonable notice to Tenant, to sell or otherwise dispose of the same, at the expense of Tenant, and shall not be accountable to Tenant for any part of the proceeds of such sale, if any. Landlord may have any such property stored at Tenant’s risk and expense.

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     7.  Various Negative Covenants by Tenant . Tenant agrees that it shall not without Landlord’s prior written consent:
     (a) Do anything in or near the Demised Premises which will increase the rate of fire insurance on the Project;
     (b) Permit the accumulation of waste or refuse matter in or near provided therefor;
     (c) Mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or encumber this Lease in whole or in part; or
     (d) Permit any signs. lettering or advertising matter to be erected or attached to the Demised Premises that is not in compliance with Landlord’s sign criteria, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit F.
     (e) Encumber or obstruct the Common Areas surrounding the Demised Premises nor cause same to be encumbered or obstructed, nor encumber or obstruct any access ways to the Demised Premises, nor cause same to be encumbered or obstructed.
     8.  Various Affirmative Covenants of Tenant. Tenant covenants and agrees that Tenant will:
     (a) At any time and from time to time, execute, acknowledge and deliver to Landlord, or to anyone Landlord shall designate, a tenant, estoppels certificate in form reasonable acceptable to same relating to matters customarily included in tenant estoppels certificates.
     (b) Faithfully observe and comply with ~he rules and regulations annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit “C” and such additional rules and regulations as Landlord hereafter at any time or from time to time may communicate in writing to Tenant, and which, in the reasonable’ judgment of Landlord, shall be necessary or desirable for the reputation, safety, care or appearance of the Project, or the preservation of good order therein, or the operation or maintenance of the Project, or the equipment thereof, or the comfort. of tenants or others in the Project; provided, however, that such rules and regulations shall be uniformly applied and shall not adversely affect the rights of Tenant under this Lease and that in the case of any conflict between the provisions of this Lease and any such rule or regulation, the provisions of this Lease shall control. Nothing contained in this Lease shall be construed to impose upon Landlord any duty or obligation to enforce the rules and regulations or the terms, covenants or conditions in any other lease as against any other tenant, and Landlord shall not be liable to Tenant for violation of any rule or regulation by any other tenant, its employees, agents, visitors, invitees, subtenants or licensees.
     9.  Project Directory . Landlord will, at the request of Tenant, maintain listings on the directory located on the Project site of the names of Tenant and any other firm, association or corporation in occupancy of the Demised Premises or any part thereof as permitted hereunder. Landlord shall not be required to list the names of any individuals on said Project directory.

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     10.  Casualty and Insurance .
     (a) In the event of partial or total destruction of the Demised Premises by reason of fire or any other cause Tenant shall immediately notify Landlord of same and Landlord shall promptly restore and rebuild .the Demised Premises at Landlord’s expense (but only to the extent of the insurance proceeds covering such damage) unless Landlord elects by notice to Tenant within sixty (60) days of said destruction not to restore and rebuild the Demised Premises, and, in such case, upon a date specified in said notice by Landlord, this Lease shall terminate. If Landlord elects to restore and rebuild the Demised Premises, then during the period of restoration of any such area, and, if any portion of Demised Premises are rendered untenantable by said damage, Tenant shall be relieved of the obligation to pay that portion of the rent herein reserved which relates to said untenantable area. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Landlord fails to complete such restoration and rebuilding within six {6} months from the date of such fire or rebuilding, whether due to delays of the nature set for the in Paragraph 25 here in or otherwise, Tenant may terminate this Lease by notice to Landlord given within 10 days after the expiration of such six (6) month- period.
     (b) Tenant shall, at Tenant’s sale cost and expense, but, except to the extent prohibited by law with respect to workmen’s compensation insurance, for the mutual benefit of Landlord and Tenant and any Additional Insured (as hereinafter defined) or any other additional insured as Landlord may from time to time determine including the lessors under any ground leases or underlying leases and any mortgagees, maintain or cause to be maintained (i) comprehensive general liability insurance, including but not limited to premises, bodily injury, personal injury and contractual liability, coverages for any and all or injury resulted from any act or omission on the part of Tenant or Tenant’s contractors, licensees, agents, visitors or employees, on or about the Demised Premises including such claims arising out of the construction of improvements on the Demised Premises, such insurance to afford protection to the limit of not less than Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) in respect to injury or death to anyone person or to any number of persons or property damage arising out of a single occurrence; (ii) worker’s compensation insurance covering all persons employed in connection .with the construction of any improvements by Tenant and the operation of its business upon the Demised Premises and (iii) 11 all risk” coverage on all of Tenant’s personal property, including, but not limited to, standard fire and extended coverage insurance with vandalism and malicious mischief endorsements on all Tenants improvements and alterations in or about the Demised Premises, to the extent of their full replacement value. In the event Landlord, at anytime during the term of the Lease, reasonably determines that Tenant’s insurance coverage is inadequate, based upon the coverages being required by landlords of comparable buildings in the general geographic area of the Project, Landlord shall have the right to require Tenant to increase its insurance coverage. All such insurance shall, to the extent permitted by law, name Landlord, its partners, limited partners, employees, agents, other representatives, successors and assigns as additional insureds (the “Additional Insureds”) and shall be written by a good and solvent insurance carrier authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey.

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     (c) ‘Prior to the Commencement Date, and at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date of any policy, Tenant shall furnish evidence of such insurance and payment of premiums thereon to Landlord. such insurance shall be in form reasonably satisfactory to Landlord and without limitation, shall provide that no cancellation or lapse thereof or change therein shall be effective until after thirty (30) days’ written notice to Landlord at the address specified in Paragraph 18 of this Lease. Tenant waives all rights of recovery against the Additional Insureds for any loss, damages, or injury of any nature whatsoever to property or persons for which the Tenant is insured.
     (d) During the term of this Lease, Landlord and Tenant shall maintain in effect in each insurance policy that relates to property damage a waiver of subrogation in favor of the Additional Insureds or the Tenant, as the case may be from its then-current insurance carriers, and shall at all times furnish evidence of such currently effective waiver to each other. Each such waiver shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the other party and without limitation, shall provide that no cancellation or lapse thereof or change therein shall be effective until after thirty (30) days’ written notice to such other party at its address as specified in Paragraph 18 of this Lease.
     (e) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall state that with respect to the interest of the Additional Insureds the insurance maintained pursuant to each such policy shall not be invalidated by any action or inaction of Tenant and shall insure the Additional Insureds regardless of any breach or violation of any warranties, declarations, conditions or exclusions by Tenant.
     (f) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall state that all provisions of each such insurance policy, except for the limits of liability, shall operate in the same manner as if a separate policy had been issued to each person or entity insured thereunder.
     (g) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall state that the insurance provided thereunder is primary insurance without any right of contribution from any other insurance which may be carried by or for the benefit of the Additional Insureds.
     (h) Each insurance policy required to be maintained under this Lease shall recognize the indemnification set forth in Paragraph 11 of this Lease.
     11.  Indemnification . Tenant shall indemnify and hold harmless Landlord, any mortgagee, and any lessor under any underlying leases or ground leases, from and against any expense (including, without limitation, legal and collection fees), 10s8 or liability, excluding consequential, incidental or special damages, suffered or incurred as a result of or in connection with (i) any breach by Tenant of its obligati.ons contained in this Agreement or (ii) its acts or the acts of its agents, servants, invitees, contractors or employees.

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     12.  Non-Liability of Landlord .
     (a) Landlord shall not be liable for (and Tenant shall make no claim for) any property damage which may be sustained by Tenant or any other person, as a consequence of the failure, breakage, leakage, inadequacy, defect or obstruction of the water, plumbing, steam, sewer, waste or soil pipes, roof, drains, leaders, gutters, valleys, downspouts, or the like or of the electrical, gas, power, conveyor, refrigeration, sprinkler, air conditioning or heating systems, elevators or hoisting equipment; or by reason of the elements; or resulting from the carelessness, negligence or · improper conduct on the part of any other tenant of Landlord or of the Landlord or Landlord’s or this or any other tenant’s agents, employees, guests, licensees, invitees, subtenants, assignees or successors; or attributable to any interference with, interruption of or failure, except resulting from Landlord’s negligence, of any services or utilities to be furnished or supplied by Landlord. Tenant shall give Landlord prompt written notice of the occurrence of any events set forth in this Paragraph 12.
     (b) Landlord shall provide in its fire insurance policy insuring the Project a waiver of the insurer’s right of subrogation against Tenant. Each party hereby releases the other party with respect to any claim (including a claim for negligence) which it might otherwise have against the other party for loss, damage or destruction with respect to its property occurring during the term of this Lease to the extent to which it is insured under a policy or policies containing an enforceable waiver of subrogation or permission to release liability.
     13.  Remedies and Termination Upon Tenant Default .
     (a) In the event that:
          (1) Tenant shall default in the payment of (i) any Fixed Rent or (ii) any Additional Rent or other charge payable monthly hereunder by Tenant to Landlord, on any date upon which the same becomes due, and such default shall continue for five (5) days after Tenant’s receipt of written notice of such default.
          (2) Tenant shall default in the payment of any Additional Rent or any other charge payable hereunder which are not due and payable hereunder or a monthly basis, on any date upon which the same becomes due, and such default shall continue for five (5) days after Tenant’s receipt of written notice specifying such default; or
          (3) Tenant shall default in the due keeping, observing or performing of any covenant,· agreement, term, provision or condition of Paragraph l(c) of this Lease on the part of Tenant to be kept, observed or performed, and if such default shall continue and shall not be remedied by Tenant within 24 hours after Landlord shall have given to Tenant a written notice specifying the Same; or
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the Premises without notice to Landlord and without. adequately securing the Premises; or
     (5) Tenant shall default. in the due keeping, observing or performing of any covenant, agreement, term, provision or condition of this Lease on the part of Tenant to be kept, observed or performed (other than a default of the character referred to in clauses (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this Paragraph 13 (a), and if such default shall continue and shall not be remedied by Tenant within thirty (30) days after Landlord shall have given to Tenant a written notice specifying the same provided however that if the default is of such a nature that it cannot reasonably be cured within such thirty (30) day period, Tenant shall be granted such additional time as is reasonably required so long as Tenant promptly commences to cure and diligently continues to cure same; then, Landlord may, in addition to any other remedies herein contained, as may be permitted by law, without being liable for prosecution therefor, or for damages, re-enter the Demised Premises and the same have and again possess and enjoy; and as agent for Tenant or otherwise, re-let the Demised Premises and receive the rents therefor and apply the same, first to the payment of such expenses, reasonable attorney fees and costs, as Landlord may have been put to in re-entering and repossessing the same and in making such repairs and alterations as may be necessary; and second to the payment of the rents due hereunder. Tenant shall remain liable for such rents as may be in arrears and also the rents as may accrue subsequent to the reentry by Landlord, to the extent of the difference between the rents reserved hereunder and the rents, if any, received by Landlord during the remainder of the unexpired term hereof, after deducting the aforementioned expenses, fees and costs; the same to be paid as such deficiencies arise and are ascertained each month.
     (b) Upon the occurrence of any of the contingencies set forth in the preceding clause, or should Tenant. be adjudicated a bankrupt, insolvent. or placed in receivership, or should proceedings be instituted by or against. Tenant for bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, agreement of composition or assignment for the benefit of creditors which shall not be discharged within ninety (90) days of the commencement of such proceedings, or if this Lease or the estate of Tenant hereunder shall pass to another by virtue of any court proceedings, writ of execution, levy, sale, or by operation’ of law, other than through such an assignment of Lease as is permitted hereunder, Landlord may, if Landlord so elects, at any time thereafter, terminate this Lease and the term hereof, upon giving to Tenant or to any trustee, receiver, assignee or other person in charge of or acting as custodian of the assets or property of Tenant, five days notice in writing, of Landlord’s intention so to do. Upon the giving of such notice, this Lease and the term hereof shall end on the date fixed in such notice as if the said date was the date originally fixed in this Lease for the expiration hereof; and Landlord shall have the right to remove all person, goods, fixture and chattels therefrom, by force or otherwise without liability for damages.
     14.  Remedies Cumulative; Non-Waiver Bv Landlord . The various rights, remedies, options and elections of Landlord, expressed herein, are cumulative, and the failure of Landlord to enforce strict performance by Tenant of the conditions and

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covenants of this Agreement to exercise any election or option or to resort or have recourse to any remedy herein conferred or the acceptance by Landlord of any installment of rent after any breach by Tenant, in anyone. or more instances, shall not be construed or deemed to be a waiver or a relinquishment for the future by Landlord of any such conditions and covenants, options, elections or remedies, but the same shall continue in full force and effect.
     15.  Services Electric Energy .
     (a) Landlord will: (i) supply heat and air conditioning to the Demised Premises and the interior public portions of the Project during Business Hours in accordance with the New Jersey State Energy Code standards; i.e. when the outside temperature is 13 degrees F the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 70 degrees F, when the outside temperature is 91 degrees dry bulb or 14 degrees wet bulb, the HVAC shall be sufficient to provide an inside temperature of 75 degrees F (ii) provide snow and ice removal for the parking area, sidewalks and driveways in a reasonably expeditious manner; and (iii) provide refuse removal from a dumpster to be provided on site to be used for normal waste attendant to an office building. “Business Hours” as used in this Agreement, means the generally customary daytime business hours of Tenant but not before 8:00 A.M. or after 6:00 P.M. of days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and those legal holidays listed in Exhibit “0” annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Tenant agrees at all times to cooperate fully with Landlord and to abide by all the regulations and requirements which Landlord may prescribe for the proper functioning and protection of such air conditioning system. Landlord will clean the Demised Premises in accordance with the cleaning schedule annexed hereto as Exhibit “D-I”. The cost of the services and utilities provided pursuant to this Paragraph 15(a) is included in Expenses as defined in Paragraph 3 (a). Notwithstanding the foregoing’, Landlord agrees to maintain the Project, including but not limited to, the building, all common areas, the HVAC systems, plumbing and electrical systems and all other building systems and to operate the Project as a first class office project.
     (b) Provided Tenant is not then in default of this Agreement, Landlord will provide to Tenant overtime services and utilities when and to the extent reasonably requested by Tenant or when activated by Tenant’s use o~ an overtime thermostat and time clock and in accordance with such reasonable conditions as shall be determined by Landlord. Tenant shall pay to Landlord, as Additional Rent, a standard charge determined by Landlord applicable to all Tenants for such additional service and utilities which charge shall cover all costs and expenses of Landlord in providing such overtime services, including, without limitation, the cost of the utility usage, the cost of maintenance, repairs and inspections of such building systems and employee and administrative costs related to such services, Such charges shall constitute a direct charge to Tenant and not to an Expense pursuant to Paragraph 3.
     (c) Landlord reserves the right, without liability to Tenant and without constituting any claim of constructive eviction, to stop or interrupt any heating, lighting, ventilating, air conditioning, gas, steam, power, electricity, water or other service and to stop or interrupt the use of any building or Project facilities at such times as may be necessary and for as long as may

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reasonably be required by reason of accidents, strikes, or the making of repairs, alterations or improvements, or inability to secure a proper supply of fuel gas, steam, water, electricity, labor or supplies, or by reason of another similar or dissimilar cause beyond the reasonable control of Landlord. No such stoppage or interruption shall entitle Tenant to any diminution or abatement of rent or other compensation nor shall this Agreement or any of the obligations of Tenant be affected or reduced by reason of any such stoppage or interruption.
     (d) As an incident to this Lease and as a part of the rental consideration hereunder, Landlord shall install transmission facilities in the Demised Premises, so that electric energy ‘may be used by Tenant in the Demised Premises in such reasonable quantity as shall be sufficient to meet Tenant’s ordinary business needs for lighting and the operation of its business machines, including photocopy equipment and computer and data processing equipment.
     (e) Within ninety (90) days after the Commencement Date, a survey (the “Survey”) shall be made by a licensed independent electrical engineer selected by Landlord (“Surveyor”) to determine the amounts to be charged Tenant for usage of the electrical energy provided pursuant to Paragraph 15(d) above. The amounts determined by said Survey shall be based upon certain theoretical assumptions incorporating approximate estimates of the probable consumption of electric- energy by the lighting fixtures and other equipment and business machines installed in the Demised premises, the anticipated periods of operation of such lighting fixtures, equipment and machines and the cost of furnishing such electric energy. The determination of the electricity charges by the Surveyor shall be expressed as an annual dollar amount per square foot of the Demised Premises and shall be binding and conclusive on Landlord and on Tenant unless within fifteen (15) days after the delivery of a copy of such determination to Tenant, Tenant disputes such determination by written notice to the Landlord. Pending the resolution of any such dispute, however, Tenant shall pay to Landlord in accordance with the provisions of this Paragraph 15(e), the amount as determined by the Surveyor provided, however, that if the electricity charge as finally determined is different from that determined by the Surveyor, then Landlord and Tenant shall make adjustment for any deficiency owed by Tenant or overage paid by Tenant pursuant to the determination of the Surveyor’. Any dispute by Tenant over the determination of electricity charges by the Surveyor shall be resolved by Tenant and Landlord selecting a different licensed electrical engineer acceptable to both Landlord and Tenant, to prepare a new survey, which new survey shall be binding on Landlord and Tenant. The cost of such new survey shall be borne by Tenant unless the amount determined by the Surveyor shall be more than ten percent (10%) less than that determined in the disputed survey, in which latter event Landlord shall bear such cost.
     (f) Throughout the term of this Lease, Landlord, at Landlord’s expense, may cause a new Survey to be made by the Surveyor to determine if a further adjustment in the electricity charges is warranted. When any such Survey (the “Subsequent survey”) is so completed and delivered to Tenant, the cost of electricity as set forth in the Subsequent Survey shall become

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binding upon both parties as of the first day of the month next succeeding the month in which Landlord receives a copy of the Subsequent Survey, unless fifteen (15) days after the delivery of such Subsequent Survey, Tenant notifies Landlord, in writing that it disputes the amount set forth in said Subsequent Survey. Settlement of the dispute shall be made in the same manner as provided in Paragraph 15(e) of this Lease.
     (g) The charge for electricity accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs (e) Paragraph 15 shall be paid by Tenant to Landlord as hereunder in the following manner:
(i) commencing on the Commencement Date and on the first day of each month thereafter until the provisions of Paragraph 15(e) become effective, an amount equal to the sum of $1.25 per square foot per annum, or $ .1042 per square foot per month multiplied by the net rentable area of the Demised Premises which sum shall represent the estimated electricity charge applicable to the Demised Premises;
(ii) commencing on the first day of the month next succeeding the month in which Landlord and Tenant receive a copy of the Survey, an amount equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual electricity charge allocable to the Demised Premises as determined by the Survey; and
(iii) on the first day of each month thereafter, throughout the term of this Lease one twelfth (1/12) of the annual electricity charge allocable to the Demised Premises as determined by the Surveyor any Subsequent. Survey.
Within thirty (30) days after determination of the electricity charge in accordance with the Survey, Landlord or Tenant, as the case may be, shall reimburse the other party for any overpayment or underpayment of such charge calculated by comparison of the total amount. of estimated electricity charges paid with the amount which would have been payable since the Commencement Date in accordance with the Survey.
     (h) If the cost to Landlord of electricity shall be increased or decreased subsequently, by change in Landlord’s electric rates, charges, fuel adjustment, or by taxes of any kind imposed thereon, or for any other reason, then the aforesaid electricity charge as determined by the Surveyor Subsequent Survey shall be increased or decreased proportionately.
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service to the Building. Such electric energy may be furnished to Tenant by means of the then existing Building System feeders, risers and wiring to the extent that the same are available, suitable and safe for such purposes. All meters and additional panel boards, feeds, risers, wiring and other conductors and:’ equipment which may be required to obtain electric energy directly from such public utility company shall be installed by Landlord at Landlord’s expense. There shall be no discontinuance of the furnishing of electric current to the Demised Premises by Landlord until Tenant has completed its arrangements to obtain electric current directly from the public utility company furnishing electric current to the Building so that there is no interruption in the continuity of electric service.
     (j) In the event that Tenant shall require electric energy for use in the Demised Premises in excess of the quantity to be initially furnished as herein provided and if, in Landlord’s judgment, such excess requirements cannot be furnished unless additional risers, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurte- nances are installed in the Project, Landlord, upon written request of Tenant, shall proceed with reasonable diligence to install such additional risers, conduits, feeders, switchboards and/or appurtenances, provided the same and the use thereof shall not cause permanent damage or injury to the Project or the Premises, or cause or create a dangerous or hazardous condition, or entail excessive or unreasonable alterations or repairs, or interfere with or disturb other tenants or occupants of the Project, and Tenant agrees to pay all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in connection with such installation.
     (k) Landlord, at Tenant’s expense, shall purchase and install all lamps (including, but not limited to. incandescent and fluorescent) , starters and ballasts used in the Demised Premises.
     (1) In order that Landlord may at all times have all necessary information which it requires in order to maintain and protect its equipment, Tenant agrees that Tenant will not make any material alteration or material addition to the electrical equipment and/or appliances in the Demised Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord in each instance, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and will promptly advise Landlord of any other alteration or addition to such electrical equipment and/or appliances. Tenant agrees to advise Landlord in writing as to any material change in the periods of use of the lighting fixtures and Tenant’s business machines and equipment.
(m) Landlord shall in no way be liable or responsible to Tenant for any loss or damage or expense which Tenant may sustain or incur by reason of any failure, inadequacy or defect in the character I quantity or supply of electrical energy furnished to the Demised Premises except for actual damage other than property damage suffered by Tenant by reason of any negligence of Landlord.
     16.  Subordination . This Lease is subject and subordinate in all respects to any underlying leases, ground leases, licenses or agreements, and to all mortgages which may now or hereafter be placed on or affect such leases, licenses or agreements or the Land or the Demised Premises and also to all renewals,

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modifications, consolidations and extensions of such underlying leases, ground lease, licenses, agreements, and mortgages. Although no instrument or act on the part of Tenant shall be necessary to effectuate such subordination, Tenant shall, nevertheless, execute and deliver such further instruments confirming such subordination as may be desired by any holder of any such mortgage or by a lessor, licensor or party to an agreement under any such underlying lease, ground lease, license or agreement, respectively.· Landlord shall make best efforts to obtain a non-disturbance agreement for the benefit of Tenant from the current mortgagee of the Project and shall obtain non-disturbance agreements from any such future mortgagees. If any underlying lease, ground lease, license or agreement to which this agreement is subject and subordinate terminates, or if any Mortgage to which this lease is subordinate is foreclosed, Tenant shall, on timely request, attorn, to the holder of the reversionary interest or to the Mortgagee in possession, as the case may be.
     17.  Curing Default by Landlord . If Tenant shall fail or refuse to comply with and perform any conditions and covenants of this Lease, Landlord may, after thirty (30) days prior notice to Tenant except in the Case of emergencies, if Landlord so elects, carry out and perform such conditions and covenants, at the cost and expense of Tenant, and the said cost and expense shall be payable on demand,. or at the option of Landlord shall be added to the installment of rent due immediately thereafter but in no case later than one month after such demand, whichever occurs sooner, and shall be due and payable as such. This remedy shall be in addition to such other remedies as Landlord may have hereunder by reason of the breach of Tenant of any of the covenants and conditions in this Lease contained.
     18.  Notices . Any notice, demand, statement or other communication which under the terms of this Lease or under any statute or law must or may be given shall be given by hand delivery to the respective parties as follows or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by reputable private overnight delivery service addressed to the respective parties as follow:
     
To Landlord:
  Sammis Pluckemin Associates
 
  c/o Gale & Wentworth
 
  Park Avenue at Morris County
 
  100 Campus Drive, Suite 300
 
  Attn: Mr. Jonathan Thorpe
 
   
 
  Glenn C. Geiger, Esq.
 
  Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch
 
  Park Avenue at Morris County
 
  200 Campus Drive
 
  Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
 
   
To Tenant:
  General Counsel
 
  N.U.I. Corporation
 
  550 Route 206
 
  Bedminster, New Jersey 07978
Any such notice, demand, statement or other communication’ shall be deemed to have been given or made upon -hand deli very or when deposited, postage paid, in the U.S. Mail, or delivered, charges

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prepaid or charged to sender to a reputable private overnight delivery service, as the case may be. Any of the above addresses may be changed at any time notice is given as above provided.
     19.  Quiet Enjoyment . Landlord covenants that Tenant upon keeping and performing each and every covenant, agreement, term, provision and condition herein contained on the part and on behalf of Tenant to be kept and performed, shall quietly enjoy the Demised Premises without hindrance or molestation by Landlord or by any other person lawfully claiming by, through or under the same subject to the covenants, agreements, terms, provisions and conditions of this Lease.
     20.  Security Deposit . INTENTIONALLY OMITTED.
     21.  Inspection and Entry by Landlord .
     (a) Tenant agrees to permit Landlord and Landlord’s agents, employees or other representatives to show the Premises to any lessor under any underlying lease of ground lease or any mortgage or any persons wishing to rent or purchase the, same upon 72 hours prior notice to Tenant, provided such showing does not unreasonably interfere with Tenant’s use of the Premises and provided Landlord complies with any reasonable security requirements imposed by Tenant.
     (b) Tenant agrees that Landlord and Landlord’s agents, employees or other representatives, shall have the right to enter into and upon the said premises or any part thereof, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of examining the same or reading meters, or performing maintenance or making such repairs or alterations therein as may be necessary for the safety and preservation thereof. This clause shall not be deemed to be a covenant by Landlord nor be construed to create an obligation on the part of Landlord to make such inspection or repairs.
     22.  Brokerage . Tenant and Landlord warrant and represent to each other that neither has dealt with any broker or brokers regarding the negotiation of the within Lease other than the Designated Broker, if a Designated Broker is indicated in the Preamble hereto. The Party Responsible to the Designated Broker, if any, shall pay the Designated Broker a commission pursuant to a separate agreement. Tenant and Landlord agree to be responsible for and to indemnify and save the other harmless from and against any -claim for a commission or other compensation by any other broker claiming to have negotiated with the indemnifying party with respect to the Demised Premises or to have called the said Demised Premises to Tenant’s attention or to have called Tenant to Landlord’s attention.
     23.  Parking . Tenant shall have the right under this Lease to the exclusive use of the Exclusive Spaces and the non-exclusive use of the Non-Exclusive Spaces in the parking lot of the Project in compliance with such reasonable Rules and Regulations as Landlord may promulgate from time to time.
     24.  Renewal Option .
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to renew this Lease for the Renewal Term subject to the terms of this Paragraph 24. In the event that Tenant desires to renew the Lease it-shall give notice in writing to Landlord of its intention ‘be entitled to make a claim for the unamortized portion of any improvements made by Tenant to the extent such claim does not diminish Landlord’s award hereunder. In the event of any partial condemnation which materially interferes with Tenant’s occupancy orits parking rights hereunder, unless replacement-parking shall be provided for Tenant within reasonable proximity to the Demised Premises, Tenant shall have the right to terminate this Lease as of the effective date of such taking by providing written notice to Landlord not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of such taking. Tenant agrees to execute and delivery any instruments, at the expense of Landlord,· as may be deemed necessary or required to expedite any condemnation proceedings or to effectuate a proper transfers of title to such governmental or other public authority, agency; body or public utility seeking to take or acquire the Lands and Demised Premises or any portion thereof. Tenant covenants and agrees to vacate the Demised Premises, remove all Tenant’s personal property therefrom and deliver up peaceable possession thereof to Landlord or to such other party designated by Landlord in the aforementioned notice. Failure by Tenant to comply with any provision in this clause shall subject Tenant to such costs, expenses, damages and losses as Landlord may incur by reason of Tenant’s breach hereof.
     27.  Assignment and Subletting .
          (1) In the event that Tenant desires to assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof to any other party during the first five (5) years of this Lease then such desire shall be communicated to Landlord in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to the proposed date of such assignment or sublease, and, within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice, Landlord shall have the option to recapture said space in which event the Tenant shall be fully released from any and all obligations hereunder, with respect to such space. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event Landlord does not exercise said option to recapture and Tenant fails to enter. into such assignment or sublease within six (6) months of the date Tenant provided such notice to Landlord, Tenant may not assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof without once again notifying the Landlord pursuant to this Paragraph, at which time Landlord shall once again have the option to recapture such space as set forth herein.
          (2) In the event that Tenant desires to assign this Lease or sublease the Demised Premises or any portion thereof to any other party during any Renewal Term, the terms and conditions of such assignment or sublease shall be communicated to Landlord in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of any such assignment or sublease, and, within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice, Landlord shall have the option, exercisable in writing to Tenant, to recapture this Lease so that such prospective assignee or sublessee shall then become the sole Tenant of Landlord hereunder or alternatively to recapture said space and the Tenant shall be fully released from any and all obligations hereunder with respect to such space.

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          (3) In the event that the Landlord elects not to recapture such space as hereinabove provided, Tenant may nevertheless assign or sublet the whole of the Demised Premises, subject to the Landlord’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and subject to the consent of any mortgagee, or ground lessor, on the basis of the following terms and conditions:
(a) Tenant shall provide to Landlord the name and address of the assignee or sublessee.
(b) The assignee or sublessee shall assume, by written instrument, all of the obligations of this Lease, and a copy of such assumption agreement shall be furnished to Landlord within ten (ID) days of its execution.
(c) Tenant and each assignee or sublessee shall be and remain liable for the observance of all the covenants and provisions of this Lease, including, but not limited to, the payment of Fixed Rent, Additional Rent and other charges due hereunder through the entire term of this Lease, as the same may be renewed, extended or otherwise modified.
(d) In any event, the acceptance by Landlord of any rent from any of the subtenants or the failure of Landlord to insist upon a strict performance of any of the terms, conditions and covenants herein from any assignee or subtenant: shall not release Tenant herein. from any and all of the obligations herein during and for the entire terms of this Lease.
(e) Tenant shall only assign or sublet the Demised Premises to an assignee or sublessee (1) whose financial status is acceptable to Landlord, at Landlord’s reasonable discretion, whether or not equal to or greater than that of Tenant, and (2) whose use is the same use as Tenant’s use, the quality of Tenant’s operations in the performance of said use to be acceptable to Landlord, at Landlord’s reasonable discretion.
(f) Tenant acknowledges that its sole remedy with respect to any assertion that Landlord’s failure to consent to any assignment or sublet is unreasonable shall be the remedy of specific performance and Tenant shall have no other claim or cause of action against Landlord as a result of Landlord’s actions in refusing to consent thereto, provided however if Tenant shall prevail in any such action Landlord shall be liable for Tenant’s reasonable attorneys fees in bringing such action.
(g) The assignment or sublease shall provide that there shall be no further assignments and/or subletting without complying with the terms of this Article 27.
     (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article 27 to the contrary, Tenant shall have the right to assign this Lease in connection with a bona fide sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one (I) or more related transactions, without obtaining any prior consent. Any assignment or sublet to an affiliated company or any assignment in connection with a transaction of the nature permitted pursuant to the preceding sentence, shall not be subject to the provisions of subsections (1) (2) or (3) (e) (1) hereof, but all other provisions of this

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Paragraph shall apply.
     28.  Environmental Laws .
          (a) Tenant agrees to comply with all applicable environmental laws, rules and regulations, including but not limited to the Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act as amended by the Industrial Site Recovery Act (N.J.S.A. 13:1K-9 et seq.) (“ISRA”) . Tenant represents to Landlord that Tenant’s Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Number as used on Tenant’s Federal Tax Return is 4924. Tenant shall not conduct any operations that shall cause the Project or the Demised Premises to be deemed an “industrial establishment” as defined in ISRA.
          (b) Tenant hereby agrees to execute such documents Landlord reasonably deems necessary and to make such applications as Landlord reasonably requires to assure compliance with ISRA. Tenant shall bear all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord associated with any required ISRA compliance resulting from Tenant’s use of the Demised Premises including but not limited to state agency fees, engineering fees, clean-up costs, filing fees and suretyship expenses. The foregoing undertaking shall survive the termination or sooner expiration of the lease and surrender of the Demised Premises and shall also survive Sale, or lease or assignment of the Demised Premises by Landlord. Tenant shall immediately provide Landlord with copies of all correspondence, reports, notices, orders, findings, declarations and other materials pertinent to Tenant’s compliance and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (“NJDEP”) requirements under ISRA as they are issued or received by the Tenant.,
          (c) Tenant shall not generate, store, manufacture, refine, transport, treat, dispose of, or otherwise permit to be present on or about the Demised Premises, any Hazardous Substances other than minimal quantities of normal office supplies and cleaning materials typically found in office buildings. As used herein, Hazardous Substances shall be defined as any “hazardous chemical,1I “hazardous substance” or similar term as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.), ISRA, as the same may be amended, the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, as amended, (N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11b, et seq.), any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, or in any other present or future applicable federal, state or local law, rule or regulation dealing with environmental protection. Tenant shall not be responsible for any Hazardous Substances that are on or about the Premises through the act of Landlord, its agents, representatives or employees.
          (d) Tenant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Landlord and each mortgagee of the Demised Premises from and against any and all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, judgments, causes of action, costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) which may be incurred by the Landlord or any such mortgagee or threatened against the Landlord or such mortgagee, relating to or arising out of any breach by Tenant of this paragraph, which indemnification shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this Lease.

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     29.  Parties Bound .
     (a) The covenants, agreements, terms, provisions and conditions of this Lease shall bind and benefit the respective successors, assigns and legal representatives of the parties hereto with the same effect as if mentioned in each instance where a party hereto is named or referred to except that no violation of the provisions of Paragraph 7 (c) hereof shall operate to vest any rights in any successor, assignee or legal representative of Tenant. and that the provisions of this Paragraph 29 shall not be construed as modifying the conditions contained in Paragraph 13 hereof.
     (b) Tenant acknowledges and agrees that. if Landlord shall be an individual, joint venture, tenancy in common, firm, or partnership, general or limited, there shall be no personal liability on such individual or on the members of such joint venture, tenancy in common, firm or partnership in respect of any of the covenants or conditions of this Lease; rather, Tenant agrees to look solely to Landlord’s estate and property in the Demised Premises (or the proceeds thereof) for the satisfaction of Tenant’s remedies arising out of or related to this Lease.
     (c) The term “Landlord” as used in this Lease means only the owner, or the mortgagee In possession, for the time being of the Demised Premises (or the owner of a lease of the Demised Premises) so that in the event of any sale or sales of the Land, Project, or the Demised Premises or of said lease, or in the event of a lease of the Land, Project or of the Demised Premises, the said Landlord shall be and hereby is entirely freed and relieved of all covenants and obligations of Landlord hereunder, and it shall be deemed and construed without further agreement between the parties or their successors in Interest, or between the parties and the purchaser, at any such sale, or the said lessee of the Land, Project or of the Demised Premises, that the purchaser or the lessee of the same has assumed and agreed to carry out any and all Covenants and obligations of Landlord hereunder.
     30.  Miscellaneous .
     (a) This Lease contains the entire contract between the parties. No representative, agent or employee of Landlord has been authorized to make any representations or promises with reference to the leasing of the Demised Premises or to vary, alter or modify the terms hereof. No additions, changes or modifications, renewals, or extensions hereof, shall be binding unless reduced to writing and signed by Landlord and Tenant.
     (b) The terms, conditions t covenants and provisions of this Lease shall be deemed to be severable. If any clause or provision herein contained be adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or by operation of any applicable law, it shall not affect the validity of any other clause or provision herein, but such other clauses or provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
     (c) Tenant shall not be entitled to exercise any right of termination or other option granted to it by this Lease at any time when Tenant is in default in the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreement terms, provisions or conditions

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on its part to be performed or observed under this Lease.
     (d) The paragraph headings in this Lease are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing the same.
     (e) This lease shall be governed in accordance with’ the laws of the State of New Jersey.
     (f) Paragraphs 32-34 of Exhibit C are expressly made subject to any inconsistent provisions of this Lease.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have duly executed this Lease as of the day and year first above written.
         
WITNESS:
  LANDLORD:
 
       
 
  SAMMIS PLUCKEMIN ASSOCIATES
 
       
Name:
  By:   [illegible]
 
      General Partner 
 
ATTEST:
  TENANT:
 
       
 
  NATURAL GAS SERVICES INC.
         
/s/ James R. Van Horn
 
Name: James R. Van Horn
  By:   [illegible]
 
Name: Richard [illegible]
Title: Secretary
      Title: President

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EXHIBIT A-1
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
     The property is known as Block 59, Lot 11-3, 11-2, and consists of 15.99 Acres of land. It is located in the Northeast quadrant of the Route 202-206 and Hills Drive intersection in the Township of Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey.
The property improvements consists of (2) office buildings totaling 187,765 square feet of office space and (748) parking spaces.

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Tenant of the amount, if any, of additional Tenant’s Finish Cost arising therefrom (which shall be calculated in the same manner as the original Tenant’s Finish Cost) and Landlord’s estimate of the delay in completion that will be caused by such proposed revision to the Final Plans. In the event of a rejection by Landlord of a proposed revision, Tenant may make changes to the proposed revision and resubmit it pursuant hereto. Upon receiving Landlord’s approval to any revision, Tenant shall, as soon there-after as practicable, but in no event in excess of five (5) business days, and understanding that any delay in responding may cause delays in completion substantially greater than the estimate given by Landlord, authorize the work that Tenant desires by approving in writing the work and the cost thereof, and executing revised final plans to enable Landlord to obtain all necessary permits and approvals to construct the Demised Premises in accordance with such revised final plans. Upon the approval of such revised final . plans, such revised final plans shall become the Final Plans hereunder. Any delay in completion caused by the revision ·to the Final Plans, whether greater or less than Landlord’s estimate, shall be a Tenant Delay (as hereinafter defined).
     Section 3.3. If (a) a delay actually occurs in the completion of the Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans or any revised Final Plans by the Landlord as the result of (i) any delay in approving and executing the Pinal Plans to Landlord by the time and in the form required by Section 3.2(a) hereof, (ii) any direction by Tenant that the Landlord delay proceeding with the work or any segment of the work in anticipation of a possible revision to the Final Plans by Tenant or for any other reason, (iii) any revision to the Final Plans authorized by Tenant, or (iv) any other act or omission of Tenant, its agents, employees or contractors (any of such events being a -Tenant Delay”), then (b) the Commencement Date shall (even though no Certificate of Occupancy has been issued or the Demised Premises has not been completed) be deemed to be one day earlier than provided for in Paragraph 7 of the Agreement for each day of such Tenant Delay.
     The extent of any Tenant Delay shall be determined in the following manner: Landlord shall notify Tenant of the estimated length of the Tenant Delay involved as soon a practicable after the information necessary to estimate such Tenant Delay is available (which notice shall include the basis for the Landlord’s estimate) and, as Landlord obtains the information to calculate the actual Tenant Delay, Landlord shall so notify Tenant, providing it with the basis used in calculating such Tenant Delay. In the event of a dispute concerning the length of any Tenant Delay, Landlord’s calculation shall be used and the Commencement Date shall occur in accordance therewith, provided, however, that Tenant shall retain its right to challenge Landlord’s calculation of the length of the Tenant Delay.
     Section 4.1. The “Construction Cost” as defined herein shall be the actual cost to Landlord (such actual costs to be limited to hard costs and the following general condition soft costs only: permits, blue-prints, clean-up, dumpsters, job site supervision, overnight delivery charges. and temporary protection of the construction of the Demised Premises in accordance with the Final Plans, plus four percent (4%) of such actual cost as profit to Landlord and six percent (6%) of such actual cost as a payment

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to Landlord to compensate Landlord for its overhead costs.
     Section 4.2. Prior to accepting and awarding any bid for work on the Demised Premises, Landlord shall submit to Tenant for Tenant’s review and recommendation copies of all bids received by Landlord for such work. Tenant shall provide Landlord with Tenant’s recommendation regarding the approval of same within three (3) business days of Tenant’s receipt of said bid copies. Landlord shall consider Tenant’s recommendation and either accept such recommendation or, in those instances where Landlord declines to

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EXHIBIT C
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1.   No sign, placard, picture, advertisement, name or notice shall be installed or displayed on any part ·of the outside or inside of the Building without the prior written consent of Landlord which shall not be withheld unreasonably. Landlord shall have the right to remove, at Tenant’s expense and upon prior notice, any sign installed or displayed in violation of this rule. All approved signs or lettering on doors and walls shall be printed, painted, affixed or inscribed at the expense of Tenant by a person chosen by Landlord.
 
2.   If Landlord objects in writing to any curtains, blinds, shades, screens or hanging plants or other similar objects attached to or used in connection with any window or door of the Premises, Tenant shall immediately discontinue such use. No awning shall be permitted on any part of the Premises. Tenant shall not place anything against or near glass partitions or doors or windows which may appear unsightly from outside the Premises.
 
3.   Tenant shall not obstruct any sidewalks, halls, passages, exits, entrances, elevators, escalators or stairways of the Building. The halls, passages, exits, entrances, shopping malls, elevators, escalators and stairways are not for the general public, and Landlord shall in all cases retain the right to control and prevent access thereto of all persons whose presence in the judgment of Landlord would be prejudicial to the safety, character, reputation and interests of the Building and its tenants; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent such access to persons with whom any tenants normally deals in the ordinary course of its business, unless such persons are engaged in illegal activities. No tenant and no employee or invitee of any tenant shall go upon the roof of the Building.
 
4.   The directory of the Building will be provided exclusively for the display of the name and location of Tenants only, and Landlord reserves the right to exclude any other names therefrom.
 
5.   All cleaning and janitorial services for the Building and the Premises shall be provided exclusively through Landlord, and except with the written consent of Landlord, no person or persons other than those approved by Landlord shall be employed by Tenant or permitted to enter the Building for the purpose of cleaning the same. Tenant shall not cause any unnecessary labor by any carelessness or indifference to the good order and cleanliness of the Premises.
 
6.   Landlord will furnish Tenant, free of charge, with two keys to each door lock in the Premises. Landlord may make a reasonable charge for any additional keys. Tenant shall not make or have made additional keys, and Tenant shall not alter any lock or install a new additional lock or bolt on any door of its Premises. Tenant, upon the termination of its tenancy, shall deliver to Landlord the keys of all doors which have been furnished to Tenant, in the event of loss of any keys so furnished, shall pay Landlord therefor.

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7.   If Tenant requires telegraphic, telephonic, burglar alarm or similar services, it shall first obtain, and comply with, Landlord’s instructions in their installation.
 
8.   Tenant shall not place a load upon any floor of the Premises which such floor was designed to carry and which is allotted by law. Landlord shall have the right to prescribe the weight, size and position of all equipment, materials, furniture or other property brought into the Building. Heavy objects shall, if considered necessary by Tenant, stand on such platforms as determined by Landlord to be necessary to properly distribute the weight. Business machines and mechanical equipment belonging to Tenant, which cause noise or vibration that may be transmitted to the structure of the Building or to any space therein to such a degree as to be objectionable to Landlord or to any tenants in the Building, shall be placed and maintained by Tenant, at Tenant’s expense, on vibration eliminators or other devices sufficient to eliminate noise or vibration. The persons employed to move such equipment in or out of the Building must be acceptable to Landlord. Landlord will not be responsible for loss of, or damage to, any such equipment or other property from any cause, and all damage done to the Building by maintaining or moving such equipment or other property shall be repaired at the expense of Tenant except when such damage to equipment or other property is caused by the directions or instructions issued by Landlord.
 
9.   Tenant shall not use or keep in the Premises any kerosene, gasoline or inflammable or combustible fluid or material other than those limited quantities necessary for the operation or maintenance of office equipment ___ Tenant shall not use or permit to be used ,in the Premises any foul or noxious gas or substance, or permit or allow the Premises to be occupied or used in a manner offensive or objectionable to Landlord or other occupants of the Building by reason of noise, odors or vibrations, nor shall Tenant bring into or keep in or about the Premises any birds or animals.
 
10.   Tenant shall not use any method of heating or air-conditioning other than that supplied by Landlord.
 
11.   Tenant shall not waste electricity, water or air-conditioning and agrees to cooperate fully with Landlord to assure the most effective operation of the Building’s heating and air-conditioning and to comply with any governmental energy-saving rules, laws or regulations of which Tenant has actual notice, and shall refrain from attempting to adjust controls other than room thermostats installed for Tenant’s use. Tenant shall keep corridor doors closed, and shall close window coverings at the end of each business day.
 
12.   Following written notice to Tenant, Landlord reserves the right, and without liability to Tenant, to change the name and street address of the Building.
 
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    Landlord, and on Sundays and legal holidays, any person unless that person is known to the person or, employee In charge of the Building and has a pass or is properly identified. Tenant shall be responsible for all persons for whom it requests passes and shall be liable to Landlord for all acts of such persons. Landlord shall not be liable for damages for any error with regard to the admission to or exclusion from the Building of any person. Landlord reserves the right to prevent access to the Building in case of invasion, mob, riot, public, excitement or other commotion by closing the doors or by other appropriate action.
 
14.   Tenant shall close and lock the doors of its Premises and entirely shut off all water faucets or other water apparatus, and electricity, gas or air outlets before tenant and its employees leave the Premises, Tenant shall be responsible for any damage or injuries sustained by other tenants or occupants of the Building or by Landlord for noncompliance with this rule.
 
15.   Tenant shall not obtain for use on the Premises, ice, drinking water, food, beverage, towel or other similar services or accept barbering or bootblacking services upon the Premises, except at such hours and under such regulations as may be fixed by Landlord.
 
16.   The toilet rooms, toilets, urinals, wash bowls and other apparatus shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which they were constructed and no foreign substance of any kind whatever shall be thrown therein. The expense of any breakage, stoppage or damage resulting from the violation of this rule shall be borne by the tenant who, or whose employees or invitees, shall have caused it.
 
17.   Tenant shall not sell, or permit the sale at retail, of newspapers, magazines. periodicals. theater tickets or any other goods or merchandise to the general public in or on the Premises. Tenant shall not make any room-to-room solicitations of business from other tenants in the Building. Tenant shall not use the Premises for any business or activity other than that specifically provided for in Tenant’s Lease.
 
18.   Tenant shall not interfere with radio or television broadcast- ing or reception from or in the Building or elsewhere.
 
19.   Tenant shall not mark, drive nails, screw or drill into the partitions, woodwork or plaster or in any way deface the Premises or any part thereof. Landlord reserves the right to direct electricians as to where and how telephone and telegraph wires are to be introduced to the Premises. Tenant shall not cut or bore holes for wires. Tenant shall not affix any floor covering to the floor of the Premises in any manner except as approved by Landlord. Tenant shall repair any damage resulting from noncompliance with this rule.
 
20.   Tenant shall not install. maintain or operate upon. the Premises any vending machine without the written consent of Landlord which consent shall not be withheld unreasonably.

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21.   Canvassing, soliciting and distribution of handbills or any other written material, and peddling in the Building are prohibited, and each tenant shall cooperate to prevent same.
 
22.   Landlord reserves the right to exclude or expel from the Building any person who, in Landlord’s judgment. is intoxicated or under the influence of liquor or drugs or who is in violation of any of the Rules and Regulations of the Building.
 
23.   Tenant shall store all its trash and garbage within its Premises. Tenant shall not place in any trash box or receptacle any material which cannot be disposed of in the ordinary and customary manner of t-rash and garbage disposal. All garbage and refuse disposal shall be made in accordance with direction issued from time to time by Landlord.
 
24.   The Premises shall not be used for the storage of merchandise held for sale to the general public, or for lodging or for manufacturing of any kind, nor shall the Premises be used for any improper, immoral or objectional purpose. No cooking shall be done except microwave cooking or permitted by any tenant on the Premises, except that use by Tenant of Underwriters’ Laboratory-approved equipment for brewing coffee. tea. hot chocolate and similar beverages shall be permitted, provided that such equipment and use is in accordance with all applicable federal, state, county and city laws, codes, ordinances, rules and regulations.
 
25.   Tenant shall not use in any space or in the public halls of the Building any hand trucks except those equipped with rubber tires and side guards or such other material-handling equipment as Landlord may approve. Tenant shall not bring any other vehicle of any kind into the Building.
 
26.   Without the written consent of Landlord, Tenant shall not use the name of the Building in connection with or in promoting or advertising the business of Tenant except as Tenant’s address.
 
27.   Tenant shall comply with all safety, fire protection and evacuation procedures and regulations established by Landlord or any governmental agency.
 
28.   Tenant assumes any and all responsibility for protecting its Premises from theft, robbery and pilferage, which includes keeping doors locked and other means of entry to the Premises closed.
 
29.   The requirements of Landlord will be attended to only upon appropriate application to the office of the Building by an authorized individual. Employees of Landlord shall not perform any work or do anything outside of their regular duties unless under special instructions from Landlord, and no employee of Landlord will admit any person (Tenant or other-” wise) to any office without specific instructions from Landlord.
 
30.   Tenant shall not park its vehicles in any parking 8.reas designated by Landlord as areas for parking by visitors to the Building. Tenant shall not leave vehicles in the Building parking areas overnight nor park any vehicles in the Building

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    parking areas other than automobiles, motorcycles, motor driven or non-motor driven bicycles or four-wheeled trucks.
 
31.   Landlord may waive anyone or more of these Rules and Regulations for the benefit of Tenant or any other tenant, but no such waiver by Landlord shall be construed as a waiver of such Rules and Regulations in favor of Tenant or any other tenant nor prevent Landlord from thereafter enforcing any such Rules and Regulations against any or all of the tenants of the Building.
 
32.   These Rules and Regulations are in addition to, and shall not be construed to in any way modify or amend, in whole or in part, the terms, covenants, agreements and conditions of any lease of premises in the Building.
 
33.   Landlord reserves the right to make such other and reasonable Rules and Regulations as, in its judgment, may from time to time be needed for safety and security, for care and cleanliness of the Building and for the preservation of good order therein. Tenant agrees to abide by all such Rules and Regulations hereinabove stated and any additional rules and regulations which are adopted.
 
34.   Tenant shall be responsible for the observance of all of the foregoing rules by Tenant’s employees, agents, clients, customers, invitees and guests.

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EXHIBIT “D”
PROJECT HOLIDAYS
Project Holidays shall be Washington’s Birthday, Good Friday; Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day and day after; Christmas Day; New Years Day; Monday before or Friday after if Christmas Day, New Years Day or Independence Day fall on Tuesday or Thursday; and Monday after or Friday before if Christmas Day, New Years Day or Independence Day fall on Saturday or Sunday.

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EXHIBIT D-1
CLEANING SERVICES
1.   GENERAL CLEANING
 
    Nightly
 
a.   Empty and clean all waste receptacles removing waste to a designated central location for disposal. Landlord is to provide for disposal of waste.
 
b.   Empty and clean all ash trays and receptacles.
 
c.   Remove all fingerprints, smudges and other marks from metal partitions, doors and other surfaces.
 
    Weekly
 
d.   Hand dust and clean all office furniture that has been cleared of papers, boxes, and/or personal items, ledges, chair rails, baseboards, and window sills.
 
2.   FLOORS
 
    Group A Granite, ceramic title, marble, terrazzo.
 
    Group B — Linotile, asphalt, koroseal, plastic vinyl, wood, rubber, or other composition floors and base.
 
    Nightly
 
a.   All floors in Group A to be swept, wet mopped and rinsed.
 
b.   All floors in Group B to be dry mopped.
 
    Weekly
 
c.   All floors in Group B to be damp mopped.
 
    Every six (6) months
 
d.   All floors to be scrubbed and buffed.
 
3.   VACUUMING
 
    Nightly
 
a.   Vacuum or carpet sweep all rugs and carpeted areas.
 
    Monthly
 
b.   Brush or dust by hand carpet edges inaccessible to high pressure vacuum attachments.
 
4.   HIGH DUSTING
 
    Every six (6) Months
 
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    graphs, etc.
b.   Dust clean all vertical surfaces such as walls, partitions, door bucks and other surfaces.
 
c.   Dust all venetian blinds.
 
5.   SPECIAL SERVICES
 
    Records and General Storage Area
Floors are to be broom cleaned weekly. Files and exposed open Shelves dusted once every three (3) months.
6.   OTHER SERVICES
 
a.   Landlord shall supply all soap, towels and toilet tissue in both men’s and women’s rooms and sanitary napkins in coin dispensers in the women’s rooms.
 
b.   Landlord will supply all coin operated dispensers and will be responsible for the servicing of same and for the collection of money from the machine.
 
c.   During the term of this lease the dispenser price for sanitary napkins will not exceed a price equal to 150% of the wholesale price paid by the Landlord.
 
7.   CARPETING
In addition to the aforementioned nightly and weekly vacuuming, Landlord will do the following:
    Weekly
All carpeting is to be spot cleaned removing all stains, smudges, and unsightly appearances.
8.   GLASS
 
    Monthly
 
a.   Clean all partitions and furniture glass.
 
    Annually
 
a.   Clean all perimeter windows, both inside and out.
 
9.   GENERAL
 
a.   All lights are to be extinguished and the doors as specified by Tenant are to be locked after cleaning is completed.
 
b.   All personnel are to be uniformed and clean in appearance during business hours.
 
c.   Cleaning of all private bathrooms and/or kitchen areas will be subject to additional charges which will be determined on a case-by-case basis applying uniform rates to all tenants.

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EXHIBIT B
Leased Premises

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EXHIBIT C
PARKING PLAN

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CERTIFICATE OF LIABILITY INSURANCE

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IMPORTANT
If the certificate holder is an ADDITIONAL INSURED, the policy(ies) must be endorsed. A statement on this certificate does not confer rights to the certificate holder in lieu of such endorsement(s).
If SUBROGATION IS WAIVED, subject to the terms and conditions of the policy, certain policies may require an endorsement. A statement on this certificate does not confer rights to the certificate holder in lieu of such endorsement(s).
DISCLAIMER
The Certificate of insurance on the reverse side of this form does not constitute a contract between the issuing insurer(s), authorized representative or producer, and the certificate holder, nor does it affirmatively or negatively amend, extend or alter the coverage afforded by the policies listed thereon.

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EXHIBIT C
Intentionally Omitted

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EXHIBIT D
Insurance Certificate

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EXHIBIT E
Furniture
All Furniture on leased premises is accepted by Sub-Tenant in “As-Is” condition and NUI Corp. makes no representation or warranties as to quality or quantity of such furniture.

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Exhibit 10.33
AGREEMENT OF SUBLEASE
     AGREEMENT OF SUBLEASE (this “Sublease”), made as of the 14 th day of November, 2005, by and between MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company having an office at 85 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (“ Sublessor ”), and GAIN CAPITAL INC., a Delaware corporation, having an office at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921 (“ Sublessee ”).
W I T N E S S E T H :
     WHEREAS, Sublessor, as the successor to ChaseMellon Financial Group LLC, is the current tenant under that certain Lease dated as of February 1,2000, (the “ Prime Lease ”) with 44 Wall Street-YEF IV, LLC (“ Landlord ”), whereby Sublessor leased the entire 7’’’ floor and a portion of the 61h floor (collectively, the “ Premises ”) in an office building (the “ Building ”) commonly known as and located at 44 Wall Street, New York, New York, for a term expiring on July 31, 2010.
     WHEREAS, Sublessor desires to sublet to Sublessee, and Sublessee desires to hire from Sublessor, a portion of the Premises constituting the Subleased Premises (as hereinafter defined) as more particularly described below.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of TEN ($10) DOLLARS, the mutual covenants herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows (capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Prime Lease):
     1.  Subleasing of Subleased Premises: Condition of Subleased Premises.
     (a) During the Term (as hereinafter defined), Sublessor hereby subleases to Sublessee and Sublessee hereby hires from Sublessor, upon and subject to all of the terms, covenants, rentals and conditions hereinafter set forth, that portion of the Premises consisting of a portion of the 6 th floor (the “Subleased Premises”) of the Building, as substantially shown on the floor plan attached hereto as Exhibit A . The attachment of the floor plan of the Subleased Premises does not constitute a representation that said floor plan is exact or correct, and Sublessor makes no representation or warranty with respect to the accuracy of the layout, the conditions or dimensions of the Subleased Premises as shown on said floor plan or otherwise. For all purposes of this Sublease, Sublessor and Sublessee conclusively agree that the Subleased Premises consists of 7,194 rentable square feet.
     (b) (i) Subject to subparagraph (ii) of this Paragraph (b), Sublessee shall accept the Subleased Premises in the condition and state of repair on the Commencement Date (as hereinafter defined), “AS IS.” Sublessee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Sublessor has made no representations with respect to the Subleased Premises or the Building, except as may be expressly set forth in this Sublease. Sublessor shall not be obligated to perform any work to prepare the Subleased Premises for Sublessee, other than the completion of Sublessor’s Work (as hereinafter defined). Suhlessee’s taking occupancy of the Subleased Premises shall be conclusive evidence as against Sublessee that the Subleased Premises was in good and satisfactory condition, with the Sublessor’s Work Substantially Complete (defined below), as of the Commencement Date.

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          (ii) Notwithstanding subparagraph (i) of this Paragraph (b), on the Commencement Date, the Subleased Premises and the network and telecommunications equipment and the wiring in the Subleased Premises shall be in substantially the same condition as they were when Sublessee inspected the Subleased Premises on September 25, 2005.
     (c) Sublessor shall complete the work described on Exhibit A-1 attached hereto (“ Sublessor’s Work ”).
     (d) Sublessee shall not malee any alterations, additions, improvements or changes (collectively, “ Improvements ’’) in or to the Subleased Premises without first obtaining the prior written consent of Sublessor (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed if Landlord consents to such Improvements), and of Landlord if required under the Prime Lease. Sublessee; in making any such approved Improvements in or to the Subleased Premises, shall comply with all applicable terms, covenants and conditions of the Prime Lease and with all requirements of governmental bodies having jurisdiction thereof. Sublessee shall reimburse Sublessor for Sublessor’s actual out-of-pocket costs reasonably incurred by it in connection with 0) its review of any plans and specifications submitted by Sublessee and (ii) Landlord’s review of any plans and specifications submitted by Sublessee, including charges imposed by Landlord.
     2.  Term .
The term (the “ Term ”) of this sub lease Shall commence on the Commencement Date and shall expire on July 30, 2010 (the “ Expiration Date ”). The “ Commencement Date ” shall be defined to mean the later to occur of (i) the date Sublessor Substantially Completes Sublessor’s Work and tenders possession of the Subleased Premises to Sublessee, which date shall be no earlier than December 3,2005 and (ii) the date that Sublessor shall have obtained, and provided a manually executed counterpart to Sublessee of, Landlord’s consent to this Sublease (the “Consent”). Sublessor and Sublessee shall, within ten (10) days after the Commencement Date, execute a written agreement, substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit B , confirming such date as the Commencement Date. Any failure of the parties to execute such written agreement shall not affect the validity of the Commencement Date or excuse any of the parties from their respective obligations hereunder.
     “Substantially Completes” or “ Substantial Completion ” means Sublessor’s Work has been completed except for minor details (so-called “punch list”) items which do not interfere with the conduct of Sublessee’s business.
     3.  Fixed Rent .
     (a) With respect to the Subleased Premises, during the Term, from and after the Commencement Date through and including the Expiration Date, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor, in lawful money of the United States, a fixed annual rent (the “ Fixed Rent ”) as set forth below. If the Fixed Rent shall commence on a date other than the first day of a calendar month, the Fixed Rent for such calendar month shall be prorated.
         
(i)
  From the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the first   $143,880 per annum
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  anniversary of the Commencement Date;    
 
       
(ii)
  From the first anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the second anniversary of the Commencement Date;   $147,477 per annum
($12,289.75 per month)
 
       
(iii)
  From the second anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the third anniversary of the Commencement Date;   $151,164 per annum
($12,597 per month)
 
       
(iv)
  From the third anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the fourth anniversary of the Commencement Date; and   $154,943 per annum
($12,912 per month)
 
       
(v)
  From the fourth anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the Expiration Date.   $158,817 per annum
($13,234.75 per month)
          (b) The Fixed Rent for a month shall he due and payable on the first (1 st ) day of each calendar month for which the monthly installment of rent is due during the Term at the office of Sublessor, or at such other place as Sublessor may designate, at any time and from time to time, without any set-off or deduction of any kind whatsoever (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein), and except that Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor the first monthly installment of Fixed Rent, which shall become due under the terms of this Sublease, upon execution of this Syblease.
          (c) If Sublessee shall fail to pay when due any installment affixed Rent or Additional Rent (as hereinafter defined) and such failure shall continue for a period of five (5) days after such installment or payment shall have become due and payable, (i) Sublessee shall pay a late fee equal to four percent (4%) of any outstanding amounts to help defray the cost of collection, and (ii) Sublessee shall pay interest thereon, from the due date thereof to the date of payment, at the rate equal to the lesser of (x) of six percent (6%) in excess of the prime interest rate then in effect as published in The Wall Street Journal (or successor) or (y) the maximum legal mte of interest (the “ Interest Rate ”). Notwithstanding the imposition of such interest, Sublessee shall be in default under this Sublease if any or all payments required to be made by Sublessee are not made at the time herein stipulated, and neither the demand for, nor collection by Sublessor of, such late fee or such interest shall be construed as a curing of such default on the part of Sublessee. The payment of such late fee and interest shall be in addition to all other rights and remedies available to Sublessor in the case of nonpayment of rent.

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     (d) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Sublease and subject to Exhibit A-I , provided that there shall not then be existing any default beyond any applicable notice and grace period provided under this Sublease, Sublessee shall be entitled to the Aggregate Rent Credit (as hereinafter defined) to be applied solely against the first through the sixth monthly installments of Fixed Rent due under tills Sublease. “ Aggregate Rent Credit ” shall mean $71,940.00.
     4.  Additional Rent .
          (a) With respect to the Subleased Premises, during the Term, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor as “ Additional Rent ” as follows:
               (i) Any items specified in the Prime Lease to be additional rent (except for electricity expenses, which shall be billed to Sublessee as set forth in Section 4(a)(ii) below) and any other sums of money, costs, charges, adjustments, increases, rent or additional rent payable by Sublessor to Landlord under the Prime Lease attributable to the Subleased Premises or the use and occupancy, thereof by Sublessee, or to any alteration or Tenant Change (as such term is defined in ‘the Prime Lease), made or to be made therein by or for Sublessee, provided, that, for the purposes of calculating the amount of Additional Rent payable by Sublessee to Sublessor in respect of Taxes nod tile “ Tenant’s Percentage ” (as defined in the Prime Lease) shul1 be deemed to 2.2590% (subject to adjustment as provided in the Prime Lease), with all other terms having the same meanings ascribed to them in Article 38 of tile Prime Lease, except that the ''Base Year Taxes” (as defined in the Prime Lease) for purposes of this Sublease shall mean the Real Estate Taxes” for the 2005/2006 Tax Year. Sublessee is not obligated to pay any Additional Rent by reason of increases in porter-wage, operating expenses or similar escalations. Except as modified by this Sublease, with respect to the Subleased Premises, the Additional Rent for Taxes shall be calculated in accordance with tile terms of the Prime Lease; and,
               (ii) Additional Rent for electricity at the rate of $2,50 per rentable square foot of the Subleased Premises per annum ($17,985 per annum), payable in equal monthly installments of $1,498.75 (the “ Electric Inclusion Amount ”), which the parties have agreed is the reasonable value to Sublessee, as of the date of tins Sublease, for normal electric service to be provided to the Subleased Premises for lighting, light office equipment and the usual small business machines during Business Hours on Business Days (as defined in the Prime Lease). The Electric Inclusion Amount shall he paid in addition to the Fixed Rent and shall be paid ot the same time and in the same manner as Fixed Rent. Except as specifically set forth herein, there shall he no separate charge to Sublessee for such electric energy by way of measuring the use of electricity on any meter or otherwise.
     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Sublease, the Electric Inclusion Amount shall remain at the amount set forth above in this subparagraph for the first 365 days following the Commencement Date.
     The Electric Inclusion Amount shall be subject to the following:
               (A) If the cost to provide electric energy to the Subleased Premises (the “ Electric Cost ”) is increased or decreased after the date of this Sublease,

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then the Electric Inclusion Amount shall be increased or decreased by an amount equal to the product of (i) the then-existing Electric Inclusion Amount and (n) the percentage increase or decrease in such Electric Cost. Any increase or decrease shall be effective as of the date of such increase or decrease and shall be made retroactively if necessary. Upon the request of either party, Sublessor and Sublessee shall execute a supplementary agreement confirming the increase or decrease. Any adjustment shall be effective even if such supplementary agreement is not executed and delivered. In no event shall the provisions of this subsection A operate to reduce the Electric Inclusion Amount below the amount set forth above; and
               (B) The Electric Inclusion Amount is based upon Sublessor’s assumption that Sublessee’s initial electrical installation will only require electrical service in an amount equal to or less than the amount permitted under Section 39 of the Prime Lease and that Sublessee will use electrical energy only during Business Hours on Business Days. Accordingly, (i) if Sublessee’s initial electrical installation exceeds such criteria,. or (ii) if from time to time Sublessee makes material use of electricity during hours other than Business Hours on Business Days, or (ii) if from time to time Sublessee adds or changes any machinery, appliances or equipment which materially increases the aggregate electrical load in the Subleased Premises (if such increase is permissible under the terms of the Prime Lease) and, as the result of any of the events set forth in subsections (i), (ii) or (iii) above, Sublessor reasonably believes that the Electric Cost is greater than $2.50 per rentable square foot of the Subleased Premises per annum, then the Electric Inclusion Amount shall from time to time be equitably adjusted to reflect the resulting increase in such use. Sublessor shall furnish a statement of Sublessor’s determination as to the amount of the adjustment, and the same shall become binding upon the parties unless, within thirty (30) days, Sublessee notifies Sublessor that it disputes the amount of such adjustment, in which event the parties shall in good faith make reasonable attempts to come to agreement, and, if Sublessor and Sublessee cannot agree thereon, the amount of such adjustment shall be determined, based on standard practices, by an independent electrical consultant selected by Sublessor. Sublessee shall permit such consultant to have access to the Subleased Premises and Sublessee’s electrical facilities for the foregoing purpose at all reasonable times. The fee of such consultant shall be paid by Sublessee unless such consultant finds that Sublessee’s use does not justify an increase in the Electric Inclusion Amount, in which case the fee shall be paid by Sublessor. When the amount of such adjustment is so determined, Sublessor and Sublessee shall execute a supplementary agreement to reflect such adjustment, which shall be effective from the date of the increase of such usage as determined by such electrical consultant and be made retroactively if necessary. Any adjustment shall be effective even if such supplementary agreement is not executed and delivered. Pending the determination of the adjustment, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor the amount of such adjustment as specified in Sublessor’s statement Thereafter if it is determined that Sublessee bas overpaid, Sublessee shall receive a credit against the Electric Inclusion Amount in the amount of the overpayment, said credit to be applied against the next accruing installment(s) of the Electric Inclusion Amount In order to facilitate Sublessor’s determination of whether Sublessee is making material use of electricity during hours other than business hours on business days, Sublessor shall have the right, at any time during the term of this Sublease, to install a meter or other monitoring device to track the use of electricity by Sublessee.

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          (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Sublease, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor the Additional Rent at the time and in the manner Sublessor is required to pay the same to Landlord, as set forth in the Prime Lease. Except as expressly provided herein, all other additional rent, charges, fees or other amounts payable under this Sublease or the Prime Lease by Sublessee shall be payable within fifteen (15) days of written demand therefor.
          (c) The initial demand for Additional Rent payable pursuant to this Section 4 aud any subsequent demand for increases in Additional Rent shall be accompanied by copies of any invoices, bills, demands, statements or other documentation evidencing such Additional Rent which Sublessor shall have received from Landlord in connection therewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any failure by Sublessor to make a demand under the provisions of this Sublease, shall not in any way be a waiver, or cause Sublessor to forfeit or surrender its rights to collect, any Fixed Rent or Additional Rent that may have become due pursuant to the terms of this Sublease.
          (d) Sublessor shall credit Sublessee, its proportionate share of any refunds received by Sublessor from Landlord under the Prime Lease on account of any overpayment of Additional Rent, other than the Electric Inclusion Amount, for which Sublessee bas paid Sublessor under this Sublease; provided, however, that Sublessor shall be entitled to deduct from the aggregate of the amount of such refund Sublessee’s proportionate share of any and all costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, consultants fees and disbursements, incurred by Sublessor in connection with the obtaining of any such refunds. Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor, as Additional Rent, within ten (l0) days after demand therefor, Sublessee’s proportionate share of any amounts (plus interest, if any) due Landlord under the Prime Lease on account of any underpayment of Additional Rent payable under this Sublease, including, without limitation, Additional Rent payable hereunder On account of Taxes due under Article 38 of the Prime Lease.
          (e) All amounts payable by Sublessee to Sublessor pursuant to this Sublease, including, without limitation, Fixed Rent and Additional Rent, shall be deemed to be and shall constitute rent for all purposes hereunder and, in the event of any non-payment thereof, Sublessor shall have all of the rights and remedies provided herein, at law or in equity for nonpayment of rent TIle obligation of Sublessee to pay all amounts to Sublessor hereunder shall survive the Expiration Date or the earlier termination of this Sublease.
     5.  Care. Surrender and Restoration of the Subleased Premises .
          (a) Without limiting any other provision of this Sublease or the Prime Lease, as the case may be, Sublessee shall take good care of the Subleased Premises, suffer no waste or injury thereto and shall comply with all laws, orders and regulations applicable to the Subleased Premises, the Building and Sublessee’s use or manner of use thereof, which are imposed on Sublessor, as tenant under the Prime Lease in connection with the Subleased Premises and/or the Building.
          (b) Upon the Expiration Date or the earlier termination of the Term, Sublessee shall quit and surrender the Subleased Premises to Sublessor in the condition required under the Prime Lease.
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Saturday is a legal holiday, in which case the Tern1 shall expire at noon on the first business day immediately preceding such Saturday. Sublessee shall observe and perform each of the covenants contained in this Sublease and Sublessee’s obligations hereunder shall survive the Expiration Date or earlier termination of this Sublease.
     6.  Use .
     Sublessee shall use and occupy the Subleased Premises as executive and general offices in connection with Sublessee’s business (the “ Permitted Use ”) and for no other purpose.
     7.  Subordination to and Incorporation of Terms of the Prime Lease .
          (a) With respect to the Subleased Premises, this Sublease is in all respects subject and subordinate to all of the terms, provisions, covenants, stipulations, conditions and agreements of the Prime Lease, and to all matters to which the Prime Lease is or shall be subordinate, and, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Sublease, all of the terms, provisions, covenants, stipulations, conditions, rights, obligations, remedies and agreements of the Prime Lease are incorporated in this Sublease by reference and made !l part hereof as if herein set forth at length, and shall, as between Sublessor and Sublessee (as if they were the “Landlord” and “Tenant,” respectively, under the Prime Lease, and as if the words “Prime Lease” were “Sublease” and the word “Premises” were “Subleased Premises”), constitute the terms of this Sublease, except for such other terms of the Prime Lease that are inapplicable, inconsistent with, or specifically modified by, the terms of this Sublease. This clause shall be self-operative and no further instrument of subordination shall be required, but Sublessee shall execute any certificate confirming such subordination that Sublessor may request within a reasonable period of time after receipt of written demand from Sublessor therefor. In the event of any inconsistency between this Sublease and the Prime Lease, such inconsistency shall be resolved in favor of the obligation which is more onerous to Sublessee or that restriction which is more restrictive of Sublessee, as the case may be.
     The following provisions of the Prime Lease shall not apply to this Sublease; all references in the Prime Lease to any of the following terms or to any obligation of the Landlord to perform any of the following: Premises, Commencement Date, Expiration Date, Rent Commencement Date, Security Deposit, Landlord’s Contribution, Initial Installation Contribution, 7 th Floor Air-Conditioning Contribution, Landlord’s Initial Construction, Broker, Notices, rental amounts, rental rates and rent abatements. Representations made by Landlord in the Prime Lease shall not be deemed to be made by Sublessor in this Sublease.
     In addition, the following Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Amendments shall not apply to this Sublease or shall be amended as indicated:
Sections 37(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f); the Tenant’s Percentage listed in Section 38(a)(2), the Base Year Taxes listed in Section 38(a)(iii), Sections 38(b), the last sentence of 38(c)(I) and 38(c)(4), all of Section 39(a) other than the first sentence, Sections 39(g) and (b), references to Article 53 and Exhibit B in Section 41, Sections 42(c) and (I), all of Section 43(b) other than the first sentence, Section 46(b), Section 47, Section 48(g), the overtime rates specified in Section 49(a) and all of (b) and (c) of that Section, Section 51, Sections 53 and 59, Exhibits A, A-I, and B.

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     In furtherance of the foregoing, Sublessee shall not take any action or do or permit to be done anything which (i) is or may be prohibited under the Prime Lease, (ii) might result in a violation of or default under any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of the Prime Lease or any other instrument to which this Sublease is subordinate, or (iii) would result in any additional cost or other liability to Sublessor (unless Sublessee agrees to bear such additional cast).
          (b) In the event of termination, re-entry or dispossess of Sublessor by Landlord under the Prime Lease, Landlord may, at its option, take over all of the right, title and interest of Sublessor, as sublessor under this Sublease, and Sublessee shall, at Landlord’s option, as the case may be, attorn to Landlord” pursuant to the then executory provisions of the Sublease, except that Landlord shall not (i) be liable for any previous act or omission of Sublessor under this Sublease; (ii) be subject to any offset, not expressly provided in this Sublease, that theretofore accrued to Sublessee against Sublessor or (iii) be bound by any previous modification of this Sublease or by any previous prepayment of more than one month’s Fixed Rent or any Additional Rent then due, in either case not approved by Landlord in writing.
     8.  Sublessee’s Obligations .
     Except as specifically set forth herein to the contrary, all acts to be performed by, and all of the terms, provisions, covenants, stipulations, conditions, obligations and agreements to be observed by, Sublessor, as Tenant under the Prime Lease shall, to the extent that the same relate to the Subleased Premises, be performed and observed by Sublessee, and Sublessee’s obligations in respect thereof shall run to Sublessor or Landlord as Sublessor may determine to be appropriate or as may be required by the respective interests of Sublessor or Landlord. Sublessee shall indemnify Sublessor against, and bold Sublessor harmless from, all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, penalties, claims, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs) which are paid, suffered or incurred by Sublessor as a result of the nonperformance or nonobservance of any such terms, provisions, covenants, stipulations, conditions, obligations or agreements by Sublessee.
     9.  Sublessor’s Obligations .
     The benefit of all repairs, restorations, compliance with law and other requirements, materials and services to be provided to the Subleased Premises and the Building by Landlord under the Prime Lease sball accrne to Sublessee; but, nonwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Sublease or in the Prime Lease, Sublessor shall under no circumstances be obligated to make any repairs or restorations, comply with any laws or other requirements or to supply any materials or services to the Subleased Premises or the Building; and Sublessor shall under no circumstances be liable to Sublessee for the failure of Landlord or others so to do. Upon Sublessee’s written request, Sublessor shall present to Landlord, in the name of Sublessor, any demand requested by Sublessee for any such repairs, restorations, materials or right to exercise, in Sublessor’s name, but at Sublessee’s sole cost and expense, all of the rights available to Sublessor to enforce performance of the obligations of Landlord to make any such repairs and restorations and to supply any such materials and services to the Subleased Premises. If requested by Sublessee, Sublessor shall exercise whatever rights Sublessor has under the Prime Lease to dispute increases in Taxes using Sublessee’s consultants. Any such exercise by Sublessor shall be at Sublessee’s sale cost and expense. No failure by Landlord to make any such repairs or restorations or to supply any such materials and services to the Subleased Premises, and no cessation, interruption or suspension of any service provided by Landlord, shall entitle Sublessee to any diminution or abatement of Fixed Rent or Additional Rent or other

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compensation under this Sublease, nor shall this Sublease be affected by reason of any such failure, cessation, iuterruption or suspension, except that to the extent Sublessor shall receive an abatement of Rent under the Prime Lease, Sublesee shall be entitled to a similar abatement with respect to the Subleased Premises.
     10.  Covenants with Respect to the Prime Lease .
     In the event that Sublessee shall be in default of any term, provision, covenant, stipulation, condition, obligation or agreement of, or shall fail to honor any obligation under this Sublease, Sublessor, on giving the notice required by the Prime Lease (as modified pursuant to Section 15 hereof), and subject to the right, if any, of Sublessee to cure any such default within any applicable grace period provided in the Prime Lease (as modified pursuant to Section 15 hereof), sbal1 have available to it all of the remedies available to Landlord under the Prime Lease in the event of a like default or failure on the part of Sublessor, as Tenant thereunder. Such remedies shall be in addition to all other remedies available to Landlord under the Prime Lease in the event of a like default or failure on the part of Sublessor, as Tenant thereunder, and such remedies shall be in addition to all other remedies available to Sublessor at law or in equity.
     11.  Broker .
     Each party represents and warrants to the other that such party making the representation has not dealt with any broker or finder in connection with this Sublease other than CB Richard Ellis, Inc., Jones Lang LaSalle and Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (collectively, “Broker”). Each party does hereby agree to indemnify and hold the other harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, penalties, claims, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other charges and reasonable attorneys’ fees and other charges incurred in connection with the enforcement of this indemnity provision) arising out of any claims, demand or proceeding for a real estate brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other compensation made by any person or entity in connection with this Sublease claiming to have dealt with such party with the indemnification obligation other than Broker. The provisions of this Section 11 shall survive the Expiration Date or the earlier termination of the Sublease. Sublessor shall pay Broker its commission in accordance with a separate agreement(s).
     12.  Indemnification of Sublessor .
     Sublessee agrees to indemnify Sublessor against and hold Sublessor harmless from, any and all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, penalties, claims, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other charges and reasonable attorneys’ fees and other charges in connection with the enforcement of this indemnity provision) which are paid, suffered or incurred by Sublessor as a result of (a) any personal injuries or property damage occurring in, on or about the Subleased Premises during the Term, (b) any work or thing done, or any condition created, by Sublessee in, on or about the Subleased Premises or the Building during the Term, or (c) any act or omission of Sublessee or Sublessee’s agents, contractors, servants, employees, invitees or licensees during the Term, except if any of the foregoing indemnified matters is caused by the negligence or willful misconduct of Sublessor or its agents, contractors, servants, employees, invitees or licensees.

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     13.  Termination or Amendment of the Prime Lease .
     If the term of the Prime Lease is terminated prior to the Expiration Date, then, subject to Section 7(b) hereof, this Sublease shall immediately terminate with respect to the entire Subleased Premises, and Sublessor shall not be liable to Sublessee by reason thereof, unless such termination was the result of a default by Sublessor under the Prime Lease beyond any notice and applicable cure period. Sublessor shall not enter into any voluntary agreement with Landlord to terminate the Prime Lease before the expiration or earlier termination of this Sublease. Sublessor shall not amend the Prime Lease in any manner that would increase the obligations of Sublessee under this Sublease.
     14.  Approvals or Consents .
     In all provisions of the Prime Lease requiring the approval or consent of Landlord, Sublessee shall be required to obtain the express written approval or consent of Sublessor, which consent shall be further subject to the approval or consent of Landlord, pursuant to the Prime Lease. If Sublessor shall give its consent to any request made by Sublessee then Sublessor hereby agrees to promptly furnish to Landlord copies of such request for consent or approval received from Sublessee. If Landlord shall refuse to give its consent or approval to any request made by Sublessee then such request shall be deemed denied, whether or not Sublessor shall have previously granted its consent.
     15.  Time Limits .
     The parties agree that unless otherwise expressly modified herein, the time limits set forth in the Prime Lease for the giving of notices, making demands, payment of any sum, the performance of any act, condition or covenant, or the exercise of any right, remedy or option, are modified for the purpose of this Sublease as follows. Whenever in the Prime Lease a time is specified for the giving of any notice or the making of any demand by the tenant thereunder, such time is hereby changed (for the purpose of this Sublease only) by adding five (5) days thereto; and whenever in the Prime Lease a time is specified for the giving of any notice or the making of any demand by the landlord thereunder, such time is hereby changed (for the purpose of this Sublease only) by subtracting three (3) days therefrom, if such notice, request or demand given or made by landlord thereunder relates to the payment (or default in the payment) of Fixed Rent or additional rent under the Prime Lease, and by ten (10) days if such notice, request or demand of landlord thereunder relates to any subject other than the payment of Fixed Rent or additional rent under the Prime Lease. Whenever in the Prime Lease a time is specified within which the tenant thereunder must give notice or make a demand following an event, or within which the tenant thereunder must respond to any notice, request or demand previously given or made by the landlord thereunder, or to comply with any Obligation on the tenant’s part thereunder, such time is hereby changed (for the purposed of this Sublease only) by subtracting three (3) days therefrom, if the same shall relate to the payment affixed Rent or additional rent under the Lease or under this Sublease, and ten (l0) days if the same shall relate to any other obligation under the Prime Lease or under this Sublease. Wherever in the Prime Lease a time is specified within which the landlord thereunder must respond to any notice, request or demand previously given or made by the tenant thereunder, such lime is hereby changed (for the purpose of this Sublease only) by adding five (5) days thereto. It is the purpose and intent of the foregoing provisions, among other things, to provide Sublessor with time within which to transmit to Landlord any notices or demands received from Sublessee and to transmit to Sublessee any notices or demands received from Landlord. Sublessor and Sublessee shall,

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promptly after receipt thereof, furnish to each other a copy of each notice, demand or other communication received from Landlord with respect to the Subleased Premises.
     16.  Assignment and Subletting .
          (a) Sublessee, for itself, its successors and assigns, expressly covenants that it shall not assign (whether by operation of law or otherwise), pledge or otherwise encumber this Sublease, or sublet all or any portion of the Subleased Premises, without obtaining, in each instance, the prior written consent of Landlord in accordance with the Prime Lease. If Landlord consents to the subject transaction, then Sublessor agrees to consent to the subject transaction.
          (b) Sublessor reserves the right to transfer and assign its interest in and to this Sublease to any entity or person who shall succeed to Sublessor’s interest in and to the Prime Lease.
     17.  End of Term .
          (a) Sublessee acknowledges that possession of the Subleased Premises must be surrendered to Sublessor on the Expiration Date or the earlier termination of this Sublease, in the same condition required under this Sublease and the Prime Lease. Sublessee shall remove all of its personal property and personal effects of all persons claiming through or under Sublessee, and shall pay the cost of repairing all damage to the Subleased Premises and the Building occasioned by such removal. Any of Sublessee’s personal property that remains in the Subleased Premises after the termination of this Sublease shall be deemed to have been abandoned and either may be retained by Sublessor as its property or may be disposed of in such manner as Sublessor may see fit If such property or any part thereof is sold, Sublessor may receive and retain the proceeds of such sale as the property of Sublessor. Any expense incurred by Sublessor in removing or disposing of such property, as well as the cost of repairing all damage to the Building or the Subleased Premises caused by such removal, shall be reimbursed to Sublessor by Sublessee, as Additional Rent, on demand.
          (b) If the Expiration Date falls on a day which is not a business day, then Sublessee’s obligations under this Section 17 shall be performed on or prior to the immediately preceding business day.
          (c) Sublessee expressly waives, for itself and for any person claiming through or under Sublessee, any rights that Sublessee or any such person may have under the provisions of Section 2201 of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules and of any similar or successor law oflilce import then in force in connection with any holdover proceedings that Sublessor may institute to enforce the provisions of this Section 17 .
     If Sublessee shall remain in possession of the Subleased Premises after the Expiration Date, without the execution by both Sublessee and Sublessor of a new sublease, Sublessee, at the election of Sublessor, shall be deemed to be occupying the Subleased Premises as a Sublessee from month-to-month, at a monthly rental equal to two times the Fixed Rent and Additional Rent payable during the last month of the Term, subject to all the other conditions, provisions and obligations of this Sublease insofar as the same are applicable to a month-to-month tenancy. In addition, Sublessee shall indemnify and hold harmless Sublessor for, from and against any and all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, penalties, claims, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other charges) which are paid, suffered or

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incurred by Sublessor as a result of the failure of, or the delay by, Sublessee in so surrendering the Subleased Premises, including, without limitation, any claims made by Landlord or any succeeding tenant founded on such failure or delay.
     18.  Condemnation. Destruction, Fire and other Casualty .
     If the Prime Lease is terminated by Landlord or Sublessor pursuant to the applicable terms of the Prime Lease, then this Sublease shall terminate concurrently therewith. If the whole or any part of the Subleased Premises shall be condemned or damaged by fire or other casualty and the Prime Lease is not terminated on account thereof by Landlord or Sublessor, then this Sublease shall remain in full force and effect with respect to the portion of the Subleased Premises not so terminated, and Sublessee’s obligation to pay Fixed Rent and Additional Rent hereunder shall abate only proportionate to the extent that the Fixed Rent and Additional Rent for the Subleased Premises shall abate under the terms of the Prime Lease.
     19.  Notices .
     Any notice, request or demand (“ Notice ”) permitted or required to be given by the terms and provisions of this Sublease, or by any law or governmental regulation, either by Sublessor or Sublessee, shall be in writing and shall be given as follows: (i) by hand delivery; (ii) by deposit in the United States mail as first class certified mail, return receipt requested, postage paid; or
(iii) by overnight t nationwide commercial courier service; in each case, to the address and party listed below:
If to Sublessor:
Mellon Investor Services LLC
c/o Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
Two Mellon Center, Suite 925
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15259
Attention: Lease Administration
With a copy to:
Mellon Investor Services LLC
c/o Corporate Operations and Real Estate
Two Mellon Center, Suite 975
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15259
Attention: Head of Transaction Management
If to Sublessee:
Gain Capital Inc.
550 Hills Drive
Bedminster, New Jersey 07921
With a copy to:
Canfield, Madden & Ruggiero, LLP
1461 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530

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Attn: David J. Canfield, Esq.
     Any party may change the address to which any such Notice is to be delivered, by furnishing ten (10) days written Notice of such change to the other parties in accordance with the provisions of this Section 19 . Notices shall be deemed to have been given on the date they are actually received ; provided, however, that if any Notice is received on a day that is not a business day or is received after 5:00 p.m. on a business day in the time zone where received, it shall be deemed given on the next succeeding business day and (ii) the inability to deliver Notices because of a changed address of which no Notice was given, rejection or refusal to accept any Notice offered for delivery shall be deemed to be receipt of the Notice as of the date of such inability to deliver or rejection or refusal- to accept delivery (subject to the provisions of clause (i) above).
     20.  Sublease Conditional Upon Consent .
     Sublessor and Sublessee each acknowledges and agrees that this Sublease is subject to Sublessor’s obtaining the Consent, as required by the Prime Lease. Notwithstanding anything set fortb in this Sublease to the contrary, Sublessor shall not be obligated to perform any acts, expend any sums or bring any lawsuits or other legal proceedings, in order to obtain the Consent, other than to request the Consent in due course. Sublessee shall promptly provide Sublessor with all information required or reasonably requested by Landlord under the Prime Lease. If Landlord denies its Consent to this Sublease or if Landlord fails to issue its Consent or before the sixtieth (60 th ) consecutive day immediately following the date this Sublease shall have been executed and delivered by Sublessor and Sublessee, this Sublease shall automatically terminate and be void and of no force or effect. If this Sublease is so terminated, (a) the security deposit referred to in Section 21 of this Sublease and the first monthly installment of Fixed Rent previously paid by Sublessee to Sublessor on account of the Subleased Premises shall be returned to Sublessee within a reasonable period of time after such termination, and (b) the parties thereupon shall be relieved of any further liability or obligation under this Sublease, except for such provisions hereof as are expressly stated to survive.
     21.  Security Deposit .
     (a) Sublessee has deposited with Sublessor the sum of $23,980 (the “Security Deposit”) in cash or by the Letter of Credit (as hereinafter defined) as security for the faithful performance, observance and compliance with all of the terms, covenants aiJd conditions of this Sublease on Sublessee’s part to perform, observe or comply \\~th. In the event that Sublessee defaults under any of the terms, covenants or conditions in this Sublease on Sublessee’s part to observe, perform or comply with (including, without limitation, tile payment of any installment of Fixed Rent or any amount of Additional Rent), and fails to cure such default after the giving of any required notice hereunder (provided however, notwithstanding any provision herein or in the Prime Lease to the contrary, notice shall not be required to draw on the Letter of Credit after a Bankruptcy Event (as hereinafter defined) bas occurred), and the expiration of any applicable cure period, then, to the extent required for the payment of any Fixed Rent, Additional Rent, or any other sums as to which Sublessee is in default, or for any sum that Sublessor may reasonably expend or may be required to expend by reason of any such default (including any damages or deficiency accrued before or after summary proceedings, a Bankruptcy Event or other re-entry by Sublessor, including attorneys’ fees and costs in connection therewith), (a) Sublessor may notify the Issuing Bank (as such term is defined in Section 21 (c) hereof) and thereupon receive all of the monies represented by the said Letter of Credit and use, apply, or retain the whole or

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any part of such proceeds, or (b) in the event that Sublessor is holding a cash security pursuant to Section 21 (b) below, Sublessor may use, apply, or retain the whole or any part of the cash security. In the event that Sublessor applies or retains any portion or all of such cash security or proceeds of such Letter of Credit, or both, as the case may be, the amount not so used, applied or retained shall continue to be treated as a part of the Security Deposit, and Sublessee shall restore the amount so applied or retained (by increase in the Letter of Credit or delivery of cash security) within seven (7) days after Sublessor’s demand therefor, so that, at all times, the amount deposited shall be $23,980. In the event that Sublessee shall fully and faithfully comply with all of the material terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this Sublease, that portion, if any, of the cash security or Letter of Credit, or both, as the case may be, not used, applied or retained shall be returned to Sublessee within sixty (60) days after the Expiration Date and after delivery of possession of the entire Subleased Premises to Sublessor, in accordance with, and subject to, the applicable provisions of this Sublease.
     (b) To the extent that the security deposited under this Section 21 is a cash security deposit, Sublessor agrees to deposit same into an interest bearing account in a bank or savings and loan association to be selected, from time to time, by Sublessor in its sale discretion. Sublessor agrees, further to hold said security in · such an account for the entire Term of this Sublease, subject, however, to the terms of Section 21 (a) above with respect to the use, application or retention of such security. To the extent permitted by law, Sublessee agrees that Sublessor shall he entitled to receive and retain, as an administrative expense, a sum equal to one (1 %) percent per annum upon such security, and Sublessor shall have the right to withdraw such sum from time to time as Sublessor shall determine in its sale discretion. The balance of the interest earned on such security sball, provided Sublessee is not then in default under this Sublease, and to the extent that same shall not be used, applied or retained pursuant to the terms of Section 21 (a) above, be paid to Sublessee upon the request of Sublessee, but not more than once daring any calendar year of the term of this Sublease. Unless and until such interest shall be paid to Sublessor and Sublessee as herein provided, the same shall be held as a part of the security deposited by Sublessee, subject to, and in accordance with, the terms of Section 21 (a) above. Sublessor shall not be required to credit any security with the interest for any period during which Sublessor does not receive interest thereon.
     (c) (i) Any letter of credit (the “Letter of Credit”) to be delivered as security under this Section 21 shall be a clean, irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit issued by and drawn upon such commercial bank (hereinafter referred to as the “Issuing Bank”) with offices for banking purposes in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York which is a member of the New York Clearinghouse Association (or any successor thereto) and which is approved by Sublessor, in its sale discretion, which Letter of Credit shall have a term of not less than one year, be in form and content satisfactory to Sublessor, be for the account of Sublessor and be in the amount of $23,980, as such amount may be reduced as provided herein. Annexed to this Sublease as Exhibit D is a form of letter of credit that is satisfactory to Sublessor. The Letter of Credit shall provide that:
          (A) The Issuing Bank shall pay to Sublessor or its duly authorized representative an amount up to the face amount of the Letter of Credit upon presentation of only the Letter of Credit and a sight draft in the amount to be drawn;
          (B) The Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be automatically renewed, without amendment, for consecutive periods of one year each (the last such extension to provide for the continuance of such Letter of Credit for at least 60 days

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beyond the Expiration Date of this Sublease), unless the Issuing Bank sends written notice (hereinafter called the ''Non-Renewal Notice”) to Sublessor by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, not less than thirty (30) days next preceding the then expiration date of the Letter of Credit that it elects not to have such Letter of Credit renewed; and
          (C) The Letter of Credit shall be transferable by the beneficiary thereof, without charge to the beneficiary, and that any failure to pay the transfer charges shall not affect the beneficiary’s ability to transfer the Letter of Credit; the Letter of Credit may be transferred as aforesaid from time to time, by the then beneficiary under the Letter of Credit; to effectuate a transfer under the Letter of Credit, the beneficiary must notify the Issuing Bank in a writing signed by an authorized signatory of beneficiary, of the name and address of the transferee and of the effective date of the transfer; and upon the Issuing Bank’s receipt of such writing, the Issuing Bank will issue an amendment to the Letter Credit that changes the name and address of the beneficiary hereof and shall deliver the original of such amendment to the new beneficiary/transferee and a copy thereof to the prior beneficiary/transferor. Any transfer of the Letter of Credit shall be in accordance with subparagraph (iii) below.
     (ii) Sublessor, after its receipt of the Non-Renewal Notice, shall have the right, exercisable by a sight draft only, to receive the moneys represented by the Letter of Credit which moneys shall be held by Sublessor as a cash deposit pursuant to tile terms of this Section 21 pending the replacement of such Letter of Credit. Within seven (7) days after receipt of the replacement of such Letter of Credit, Sublessor shall deriver such cash deposit to Sublessee or as Sublessee may so direct in writing.
     (iii) In the event that Sublessor, pursuant to an assignment of the Prime Lease, assigns this Sublease to a third party, Sublessor shall have the right to transfer the cash security deposit and/or Letter of Credit to the assignee and Sublessor shall thereupon be released hy Sublessee from all liability for the return of the cash security deposit and/or Letter of Credit. In such event, Sublessee agrees to look solely to the new Sublessor for the return of said cash security or Letter of Credit. It is agreed that the provisions hereof shall apply to every transfer or assignment.made of said cash security or Letter of Credit (0 a new Sublessor. In connection with the foregoing, Sublessee, at no cost to Sublessor, shall reasonably cooperate with Sublessor and such vendee, transferee or lessee in connection with the transfer or assignment of such security or Letter of Credit, including, without limitation, executing and delivering, ,within ten (10) days after demand therefor, any and all instruments, certificates, agreements or other documents that Sublessor, such vendee, transferee or lessee, the · bank with which such security is deposited or the Issuing Bank may require.
     (d) Sublessee covenants that it will not assign or encumber, or attempt to assign or encumber, such cash security or Letter of Credit, and that neither Sublessor nor its successors or assigns shall be bound by any such assignment, encumbrance, attempted assignment, or attempted encumbrance.
     22.  Insurance Requirements .
Prior to the Commencement Date, Sublessee shall provide Sublessor with evidence of insurance, which includes Sublessor as an insured party and otherwise complies with the requirements of the Prime Lease.

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     23.  Sublessor’s Right of Access .
          (a) Sublessor reserves for itself and its agents and employees the right to enter the Subleased Premises at all reasonable times (upon reasonable telephonic or written notice, except in the case of emergency) to post notices of non-responsibility and to determine whether Sublessee is complying with its obligations under this Sublease. When entering the Subleased Premises, except in case of an emergency, Sublessor shall be accompanied by a representative of Sublessee, provided that Sublessee makes such representative available when Sublessor wishes to enter.
          (b) Sublessor shall have the right to use any and all reasonable means that Sublessor may deem necessary or proper to open doors in an emergency, in order to obtain entry to any portion of the Subleased Premises, provided that Sublessor shall use reasonable efforts to maintain the security of the Subleased Premises and its contents.
     24.  Right to Cure Defaults and Damages .
     If Sublessee shall at any time fail to make any payment or perform any other obligation of Sublessee hereunder after any required notice and within the applicable cure period, if any, then Sublessor shall have the right, but not obligation, after two (2) days written notice to Sublessee, or without notice to Sublessee in the event of any emergency, and without waiving or releasing Sublessee from any obligations of Sublessee hereunder, to make such payment or perform such other obligation of Sublessee in such manner and to such extent as Sublessor shall deem necessary, and in exercising any such right, to pay any incidental costs and expenses, employ attorneys, and incur and pay reasonable attorneys’ fees. Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor, upon demand, all sums so paid or incurred by Sublessor and all incidental costs and expenses of Sublessor in connection therewith, together with interest thereon at the Interest Rate.
     25.  Sublessor’s Representations, Warranties and Covenants .
     Sublessor represents, warrants and covenants to Sublessee that the following are true and correct as of the date hereof: (i) a true and correct copy of the Prime Lease is attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit C, with certain of the provisions that do not apply to the Sublease redacted, (ii) the Prime Lease is unmodified and in full force · and effect, (iii) Sublessor has received no written notice from Landlord of default by Sublessor, as tenant under the Prime Lease, which remains uncured, and (iv) to the best knowledge of Sublessor, neither Sublessor nor Landlord is in default in the performance and/or observance of any material covenant, agreement or condition of the Prime Lease on either Sublessor’s or Landlord’s part to be performed or observed.
     26.  Bankruptcy .
          (a) If a petition is filed by or against Sublessee for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, and Sublessee (including for the purposes of this Section, Sublessee’s successor in bankruptcy, whether a trustee, Sublessee as debtor in possession or other responsible person) assumes, or assumes and proposes to assign this Lease pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code to any person or entity which has made or accepted a bona fide offer to accept an assignment of Uris Sublease, such assumption or assumption and assignment may only he made if all of the terms and conditions of this Section 26 are satisfied.

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          (b) Conditions to Assumption .
               (i) No election by Sublessee to assume this Sublease shall be effective unless each of the following conditions, which Sublessor and Sublessee acknowledge are commercially reasonable, have been satisfied, and Sublessor has acknowledged in writing that: (i) Sublessee has cured, or has provided Sublessor adequate assurance (as defined below) that within ten (10) days from the date of such assumption Sublessee will cure all monetary defaults under this Sublease and within thirty (30) days from the date of such assumption Sublessee will cure all nonmonetary defaults under this Sublease; (ii) Sublessee bas compensated, or bas provided to Sublessor adequate assurance that within ten (10) days from the date of assumption Sublessor will be compensated for any pecuniary loss incurred by Sublessor arising from the default of Sublessee as recited in Sublessor’s written statement of pecuniary loss sent to Sublessee; (iii) Sublessee bas provided Sublessor with adequate assurance of the future performance (as defined below) of each of Sublessee’s obligations · under this Lease, but in any event Sublessee shall have replenished and/or renewed the cash security deposit, as security for the timely payment of Rent and performance of all other obligations hereunder, in the amount of $23,980; and (iv) Sublessee shall have provided Sublessor at least thirty (30) days prior written notice of any proceeding concerning the assumption of this Sublease.
               (ii) For purposes of this Section, Sublessor and Sublessee acknowledge that (A) “adequate assurance” shall mean that the Bankruptcy Court shall have entered a Final Order segregating $23,980 of cash to be payable to Sublessor, and/or authorizing Sublessee to secure “Sublessee’s obligation to Sublessor 10 cure all monetary and/or nonmonetary defaults under this Sublease within the time periods set forth above and (B) “adequate assurance of future performance” shall mean that Sublessee bas and will continue to have sufficient unencumbered assets after the payment of all secured obligations and administrative expenses to fulfill the obligations of Sublessee under this Sublease, in addition to the simultaneous posting of the cash security deposit.
          (c) Conditions to Assignment. In addition to satisfying the terms and conditions of Subsection 26(b), Sublessee shall give notice 10 Sublessor oflbe proposed assignment setting forth (1) the name and address of the proposed assignee and (2) all of the terms and conditions of the offer and proposed assignment. Sublessee shall also deliver to Sublessor a statement confirming that the assignee will continue to use the Subleased Premises for the Permitted Use. Sublessor and Sublessee acknowledge that Sublessor’s asset will be substantially impaired if the trustee in bankruptcy, debtor or debtor in possession or any assignee of the Sublease makes any use of the Subleased Premises other than the Permitted Use. Adequate assurance of future performance of the Sublease shall be furnished by the proposed assigoee, no later than fifteen (15) days after Sublessee has made or received such offer, but in no event later than ten (10) days prior to the date on which Sublessee applies to a court of compelent jurisdiction for authority and approval to effect the proposed assignment. The description of the adequate assurance of future performance of the proposed assignee in such notice shall include such financial and other information as is necessary to demonstrate that the financial condition and operating performance experience of the proposed assignee and its guarantors, if any, is sufficient to perform in such a manner as to meet and satisfy all obligations under this Sublease in a timely fashion, and shall be satisfactory to Sublessor in all other respects. Sublessor shall have the prior right and option, to be exercised by notice to Sublessee given at any time prior to the date on which the court order authorizing such assignment becomes

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a Final Order, to accept an assignment of this Sublease upon the same terms and conditions, and for the same consideration, if any, as the proposed assignee, less any brokerage commissions which may otherwise be payable out of the consideration to be paid by the proposed assignee for the assignment of this Sublease. If this Sublease is assigned pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, “adequate assurance of future performance,” shall require from the assignee a deposit or posting of a letter of credit for the performance of its obligations under this Sublease in the same amount as required by Section 26(b) . Any person or entity to whom this Sublease is assigned pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code shall be deemed without further act or documentation to have assumed all of Sublessee’s obligations arising under this Sublease on and after the date of such assignment. Any such assignee shall, upon demand, execute and deliver to Sublessor an instrument confirming such assumption. No provision of this Sublease shall be deemed a waiver of Sublessor’s rights or remedies under the Bankruptcy Code to oppose any assumption and/or assignment of this Sublease, to require timely performance of Sublessee’s obligations under this Sublease, or to regain possession of the Subleased Premises if this Sublease has neither been assumed nor rejected within sixty (60) days after the date of entry of the Bankruptcy Court’s order for relief.
          (d) Notwithstanding anything in this Sublease to the contrary, all amounts payable by Sublessee to or on behalf of Sublessor under this Sublease, whether or not expressly denominated as such, shall constitute “rent’ for the purposes of Section 502(b)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code.
     27.  Costs and Expenses .
     Sublessee shall reimburse Sublessor on demand for all costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements and court costs) incurred by Sublessor in connection with enforcing Sublessee’s obligations under this Sublease after a default by Sublessee, whether incurred in connection with an action or proceeding commenced by Sublessor, by Sublessee, by a third party or otherwise. All such amounts shall be deemed to be Additional Rent, and shall be collectible whether incurred before or after the expiration or termination of this Sublease.
     28.  Non-Recourse .
     The obligations of Sublessor under this Sublease shall not be binding upon Sublessor named herein after the sale, conveyance, assignment or transfer by such Sublessor (or upon any subsequent Sublessor after the sale, conveyance, assignment or transfer by such subsequent Sublessor) of its interest in the Subleased Premises, and in the event of any such sale, conveyance, assignment or transfer, Sublessor shall be and hereby is entirely freed and relieved of all covenants and obligations of Sublessor under this Sublease thereafter arising, and the transferee shall be deemed to have assumed, subject to the remaining provisions of this Section all obligations of the Sublessor under this Sublease arising after the effective date of the transfer. No trustee, partner, shareholder, director or officer of Sublessor, or of any partner or sbareholder of Sublessor (collectively, the “Parties”) shall have any direct or personal liability for the performance of Sublessor’s obligations under this Sublease, and Sublessee shall oat seek any damages against any of the Parties whatsoever. Sublessee shall not look to any property or assets of any of the Parties in seeking either to enforce Sublessor’s obligations under this Sublease or to satisfy a judgment for Sublessor’s failure to perform such obligations.

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     29.  Miscellaneous .
          (a) Modifications . This Sublease may not be modified, amended, extended, renewed, terminated or otherwise modified except by a written instrument signed by both of the parties hereto.
          (b) Entire Agreement . It is acknowledged and agreed that all understandings and agreements heretofore had between the parties are merged in this Sublease, which alone fully and completely expresses their agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Sublease has been executed and delivered after full investigation by each of the parties hereto, and neither party hereto bas relied upon any statement, representation or warranty which is oat specifically set forth in this Sublease.
          (c) Not an Offer . This Sublease does not constitute an offer to sublease the Subleased Premises to Sublessee and Sublessee shall have no rights with respect to the leasing of the Subleased Premises unless and until Sublessor, in its sale and absolute discretion, elects to be bound hereby by executing and unconditionally delivering to Sublessee an original counterpart hereof.
          (d) Governing Law . This Sublease shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict of laws principles.
          (e) Successors and Assigns . Subject to the restrictions on assignment and subletting in this Sublease and in the Prime Lease, this Sublease and the covenants and agreements herein continued and incorporated herein by reference shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
          (f) Captions . The captions contained in this Sublease are inserted only as a matter of convenience and for reference and in no way define, limit or describe the scope of this Sublease nor the intent of any provision hereof.
          (g) Counterparts . This Sublease may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
          (h) Existing Furniture . The Subleased Premises will be delivered to Sublessee with the furniture located in the Subleased Premises (the “Furniture”) remaining in place and Sublessee agrees to accept the Subleased Premises with the Furniture in place. Sublessee shall be permitted to use the Furniture daring the Term without charge. Sublessor makes no representation or warranty as to the Furniture. Upon the expiration of the Term, title to the Furniture shall vest in Sublessee and Sublesee shall remove the Furniture from the Subleased Premises. If this Sublease is terminated by reason of default by Sublessee, title to the Furniture shall not vest in Sublessee and Sublessee shall not remove the Furniture from the Subleased Premises.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Sublease has been duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
         
  SUBLESSOR :

MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES, LLC
 
 
  By:   /s/ Alex G. Sciulli     
  Name: Alex G. Sciulli   
  Title: Vice President   
 
  SUBLESSEE :

GAIN CAPITAL, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Mark E. Galant     
  Name: Mark E. Galant   
  Title: CEO   
 
  Sublessee’s federal employer identification
number is: 22-3685068
 
 
     
     
     

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EXHIBIT A
Floor Plan of Subleased Premises
[ATTACHED HERETO]

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EXHIBIT A-1
Sublessor’s Work
Sublessor shall, at Sublessor’s sale cost and expense, perform the following work:
1. Paint (to a professional finish) and carpet the main corridor (as shown on Exhibit A ) on the 6 th floor. Paint and carpet shall be building standard in colors selected by Sublessee.
2. Sublessor shall steam clean all carpeted surfaces in the Subleased Premises.

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EXHIBIT B
Form of Commencement Date Agreement
COMMENCEMENT DATE AGREEMENT
     AGREEMENT made as of the ___ day of October, 2005, by and between MELLON JNVESTOR SERVICES LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company having an office at 85 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, as Sublessor, and GAIN CAPITAL INC., a Delaware corporation, having an office at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921, as Sublessee.
W I T N E S S E T H:
     WHEREAS, Sublessor and Sublessee have entered into an Agreement of Sublease, dated as of October _____, 2005 (the “Sublease”), pursuant to which Sublessor subleased to Sublessee certain space in the Building known as and located at 44 Wall Street, New York, New York, as more fully described in the Sublease; and
     WHEREAS, Sublessor and Sublessee wish to confirm the Commencement Date of the Sublease.
     NOW, THEREFORE, the parties confirm as follows:
     1. All capitalized items not defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sublease.
     2. The Term of the Sublease has commenced on                      2005, and such date constitutes the “Commencement Date,” as such term is defined in the Sublease.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Sublessor and Sublessee have respectively executed this Commencement Date Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
         
  SUBLESSOR :

MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC
 
 
  By:      
  Name:    
  Title:    
 
  SUBLESSEE :

GAIN CAPITAL, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Mark E. Galant     
  Name: Mark E. Galant   
  Title: CEO   

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EXHIBIT C
The Prime Lease
[ATTACHED HERETO]

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EXHIBIT D
Form of Letter of Credit
[date]
                                         
                                         
                                         
Gentlemen:
We hereby establish our Clean Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit No. ___ in your favor for up to the aggregate amount of US Dollars ($ ) effective immediately and expiring at our counters at our close of business on October _____, 2005.
Funds are available, from time to time, against presentation of one or more of your sight draft(s). The honoring of any sight draft shall not relieve the undersigned of its liability to so honor any further sight draft(s); provided, however, that the undersigned shall, except as provided below, not be obligated to honor any sight draft if such sight draft, when aggregated with amounts previously drawn under this Letter of Credit, shall exceed the amount stated above; in which case, only the balance then existing shall be disbursed pursuant to such sight draft.
It is a condition of this Letter of Credit that it shall be automatically extended without amendment for additional periods of one (l) year from the present or future expiration date, unless we notify you in writing by Certified Mail, return receipt requested, or overnight courier service at least thirty (30) days prior to the then present expiration date that we elect not to do so. Upon receipt by you of such notice, you may draw on us at sight for the balance remaining in this Letter of Credit.
We hereby engage with you that all draft(s) drawn under and in compliance with the terms of this Letter of Credit will be duly honored upon proper presentation (by facsin1ile or by overnight courier to:                                                                .
This Letter of Credit may be transferred any number of times to any transferee designated by the then beneficiary hereunder. Transfer of this Letter of Credit shall be effective by the presentation to the undersigned of the original of this Letter of Credit accomplished by n request designating the transferee. Upon such presentation, the undersigned shall forthwith effect a transfer of this Letter of .Credit to such designated transferee. All transfer fees shall be for the account of the Applicant.
Upon such presentation, the undersigned shall forthwith effect a transfer of this Letter of Credit to such designated transferee. All transfer fees shall be for the account of the Applicant.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, this Letter of Credit is subject to the International Standby Practices (ISP98), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590.

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Exhibit 10.34
FIRST AMENDMENT OF SUBLEASE
     FIRST AMENDMENT OF SUBLEASE (this “ Agreement ”), made as of the 20 th day of July 2006. by and between MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company having an office at 85 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (“ Sublessor ”), and GAIN CAPITAL INC., a Delaware corporation, having an office at 550 Hills Drive. Bedminster. New Jersey 07921 (“ Sublessee ”).
W I T N E S S E TH:
      WHEREAS, Sublessor and Sublessee entered into a sublease dated November 14.2005 (the “Sublease”) for a portion of the 6th floor (the “ Original Premises ”) of the building located at 44 Wall Street, New York, New York (the “ Building ”);
      WHEREAS, Sublessor and Sublessee desire to amend the Sublease to (i) add certain additional premises to the Original Premises and (ii) otherwise amend the Sublease, all on the terms and conditions provided in this Agreement.
      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained 111 this Agreement, Sublessor and Sublessee agree as follows:
     1.  Capitalized Terms . All capitalized terms used in this Agreement which are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sublease.
     2.  Sublease of Additional Premises . The entire 7 th floor of the Building, substantially as shown hatched on the plan annexed hereto as Schedule A (the “ Additional   Premises ”), is hereby added to, and shall be considered a part of, the Original Premises, and all references in the Sublease to the “Subleased Premises” shall be deemed to include the Additional Premises (except where otherwise noted herein), effective upon the later to occur of (i) the date that Sublessor tenders possession of the Additional Premises to Sublessee with item (ii) of Sublessor’s Work Substantially Completed, and (ii) the date Sublessor procures and provides a duplicate original to Sublessee of 44 Wall Owner, LLC’s (“ Landlord ”) consent to this Agreement (the “Consent”) (such later date being referred to herein as the “ Additional Premises   Commencement Date ”), upon all of the terms, conditions and provisions of the Sublease, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. The term “Sublease” shall mean the Sublease as amended by this Agreement. The Expiration Date for the Additional Premises shall be July 30, 2010. The Original Premises and the Additional Premises are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Subleased Premises”. For the purpose of this Agreement, Sublessor and Sublessee conclusively agree that the Additional Premises consists of 16,100 rentable square feet.
     Sublessor and Sublessee shall within ten (10) days after the Additional Premises Commencement Date, execute a written agreement, substantially in the form provided in the Sublease. confirming such date as the Additional Premises Commencement Date. Any failure of the parties to execute such written agreement shall not affect the validity of the Additional Premises Commencement Date or excuse any of the parties from their respective obligations hereunder.
     Sublessee shall be permitted access to the Additional Premises prior to the Additional Premises Commencement Date on reasonable notice to Sublessor during regular business hours.
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means Sublessor’s Work (defined below) has been completed except for minor details (so-called “punch list” items) which do not interfere with the conduct of Sublessee’s business.
     3.  Condition of Additional Premises . (a) Sublessee shall accept the Additional Premises in the condition and state of repair on the Additional Premises Commencement Date “AS IS,” Sublessee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Sublessor has made no representations with respect to the Additional Premises or the Building, except as may be expressly set forth in this Agreement Sublessor shall not be obligated to perform any work to prepare the Additional Premises for occupancy by Sublessee other than the completion of Sublessor’s Work Sublessee’s taking occupancy of the Additional Premises shall be conclusive evidence as against Sublessee that the Additional Premises was in good and satisfactory condition, with item (ii) of Sublessor’s Work Substantially Complete, as of the Additional’ Premises Commencement Date.
          (b) Sublessor shall complete the following work (“ Sublessor’s Work ”) in the Additional Premises:
               (i) Within 120 days after the Additional Premises Commencement Date, Sublessor shall install new carpet in the existing conference room and elevator lobby (using Landlord’s contractor to perform such work); and
               (ii) Prior to the Additional Premises Commencement Date, Sublessor shall steam clean all carpeted surfaces in the Subleased Premises.
     4.  Fixed Rent; Abatement . (a) Effective on the Additional Premises Commencement Date, the Fixed Rent under the Sublease shall be increased, on account of the Additional Premises, as follows:
             
 
  (i)   From the Additional Premises Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the first anniversary of the Commencement Date.   $322,000 per annum
($26,833 per month).
 
           
 
  (ii)   From the first anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the second anniversary of the Commencement Date.   $330,000 per annum
($27,504 per month).
 
           
 
  (iii)   From the second anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the third anniversary of the Commencement Date.   $338,000 per annum
($28,175 per month).
 
           
 
  (iv)   From the third anniversary of the Commencement Date to and including the day proceeding the Expiration Date.   $346,150 per annum
($28.846 per month).

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     (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4(a), provided that there shall not then be an existing default under the terms and conditions of the Sublease beyond any applicable notice and grace period, Sublessee shall be entitled to an abatement of Fixed Rent in the amount of $134.165, to be applied to the Fixed Rent payable for the Additional Premises only for the first through the fifth month of the Term for the Additional Premises, in the amount of $26,833 per month.
     5.  Additional Rent . In addition to the Additional Rent payable under the Sublease with respect to the Original Premises. Sublessee shall pay Additional Rent with respect to the Additional Premises in accordance with the Sublease, except that (i) Tenant’s Percentage for the Additional Premises is 4.963% and the Electric Inclusion Amount with respect to the Additional Premises is $40,250 per annum ($3,354.17 per month).
     6.  Additional Security Deposit . Simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, Sublessee shall deliver to Sublessor an additional security deposit in the amount of $53,666 meeting the requirements of Article 21 of the Sublease (the “ Additional Security Deposit ”). The provisions of Article 21 of the Sublease shall apply to the Additional Security Deposit.
     7.  Furniture . Sublessee shall be permitted to use during the Term of the Sublease the furniture, phones and equipment (collectively, the “Personal Property”) currently in place in the Additional Premises. The Personal Property is delivered to Sublessee “as is” and without representation or warranty by Sublessor. Upon the expiration of the Term, the Personal Property shall become the property of Sublessee.
     8.  Existing Systems . The following systems presently serving the Additional Premises shall remain in place and Sublessee may use the same during the Term:
               (i) Network and electrical wiring;
               (ii) Card key security system, except that Sublessor shall remove the control unit prior to the Additional Premises Commencement Date;
               (iii) The heating, ventilation and air conditioning system serving the Additional Premises (the “HV AC System”) shall remain in place, on the condition that Sublessee assumes the existing maintenance contract and maintains the HV AC System throughout the Term.
     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if Landlord requires that items (i) or (ii) referred to in this Section be removed at the end of the Term, Sublessee shall remove such systems in accordance with the Sublease and the Prime Lease.
     9.  No Oral Modification . This Agreement may not be changed or terminated orally, but only by an agreement in writing signed by Sublessor and Sublessee.
     10.  Brokerage . Sublessor and Sublessee each represents and warrants to the other that it has not dealt with any broker in connection with this Agreement other than CB Richard Ellis, Inc. and Jones Lang LaSalle (collectively, “ Broker ”). The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties shall be conclusive evidence that they have relied upon the foregoing representations and warranties. Sublessor shall pay Broker its commissions pursuant to separate agreements. Sublessor and Sublessee shall indemnify and hold harmless the other party from and

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against any and all claims for commission, fee or other compensation arising from a breach of such representations and agreements by the indention, and for any and all costs incurred by the indemnities in connection with such claims, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and disbursements. This provision shall survive the expiration or earlier termination of the Sublease.
     11.  Delivery . This Agreement is offered for signature by Sublessee and it is understood that this Agreement shall not be binding upon Sublessor unless and until Sublessor shall have executed and delivered a fully executed copy of this Agreement to Sublessee.
     12.  Ratification . Except as modified by this Agreement, the provisions of the Sublease are confirmed and approved and shall continue in full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Sublessor and Sublessee have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
         
 
SUBLESSOR :      
 
       
 
MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC      
 
By: 
/s/ Alex G. Scinlii
 
 
Name: Alex G. Scinlii      
 
Title: Vice President      
 
       
 
  SUBLESSEE:    
 
       
 
GAIN CAPITAL INC.    
 
By:
/s/ Christopher W. Calhoun
 
 
Name: Christopher W. Calhoun    
 
Title: Chief Operating Officer    
 
       
 
Sublessee’s federal employer identification    
 
number is: 22-3685008    

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SCHEDULE A
Floor Plan
[To Be Attached]

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Exhibit 10.35
SERVICES AGREEMENT
     This SERVICES AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is made as of the date set forth on Schedule J attached hereto by and between Scivantage, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and GAIN Capital Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Client”).
     WHEREAS, Client wishes to obtain certain services provided by the Company as set forth below and the Company wishes to provide such services to Client.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
SECTION 1. STANDARD SERVICES INCLUDED IN CLIENT STANDARD FEE
     (a)  Furnished Office Accommodation : The Company shall provide the number of serviced and fully furnished office workstations in the Company premises for which Client has agreed to pay as set forth in Schedule I attached hereto (the “Standard Fee”). Fully furnished accommodation includes, but is not limited to, the desk space, chairs, filing cabinets and shelving the Company has designed to accommodate the office including the list of workstations the Company has allocated for Client’s use (the “Office Accommodation”).
     (b)  Office Services : The Company shall provide to Client the following office services:
  (i)   access the Office Accommodation twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week;
 
  (ii)   reception of Client’s visitors by the Company’s receptionist during normal business hours;
 
  (iii)   heating and air conditioning as available and controlled by the building:
 
  (iv)   lighting and electrical power for normal office use:
 
  (v)   common area cleaning, sweeping of floors and rubbish removal in the Office Accommodation;
 
  (vi)   use of sanitary facilities; and
 
  (vii)   mail handling
     (c) Conference Rooms & Cafeteria: Client has access to a dedicated conference room to be used in their regular course of business as part of the Office Accommodation. All other conference room use must be scheduled ahead of time with Company’s receptionist Access and usage of the main conference room (Camelot) and the board room (The View) will require prior approval from Company which such approval will not be unreasonably withheld. Client has access to freely use the cafeteria and its amenities (microwave, toaster, and refrigerator). Access to coffee, soft drinks and bottled water is considered as Additional Services should the Client wish to use them at an additional cost.
SECTION 2. ADDITIONAL SERVICES
     The following services may be available for an extra fee in accordance with the Company’s published rates which are subject to change from time to time. The Client’s subscribed to services are defined in Schedule I.
     
Secretarial services
  Photocopying
Telephone sets, line and usage
  Facsimile
Filing and storage
  High speed Internet access
Mail and courier services
  Food, beverage and catering services
Information technology support
  Voicemail
SECTION 3. USING THE OFFICE ACCOMMODATION
(a) The Nature of Client’s Business : Client shall use the Office Accommodation only for office purposes and only for the business stated in Schedule I or otherwise only with the consent of the Company. Office use of a “retail” nature, involving frequent visit by members of the public, is not permitted Client shall not carry on a business which competes with the Company’s business.
(b) Client Name and Address : Client may only carry on its business in Client’s name or some other name to which the Company consents. Client shall not display any signs in the Office Accommodation or anywhere else in the Company premises or in the building Client may use the Company’s address as Client’s business address with C/O Scivantage, Inc.
(c) Client’s Employees : At the Company’s request, Client shall provide the Company with a list of all of Client’s employees that have access to the Company premises and the Office Accommodation. All Employees will be required to obtain building security ID passes under the Company’s name. Company acknowledges and agrees this list may change from time to time upon which Client will provide an updated list of all of Client’s employees having access to Company premises.
(d) Care of Company’s Property : Client shall be liable for any damage caused by Client, or those in the Company premises with Client’s permission or at Client’s invitation, to the Company premises, its equipment, fittings and furnishings. Client may not alter any part of the Office Accommodation without the prior written consent of the Company.
(e) Office Furniture and Equipment : Client shall not install any permanent furniture, office equipment, cabling or telecom connections in the Office Accommodation without the prior written consent of the Company.

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(f) Keys and Security : Any keys or entry cards issued to Client remain the property of the Company at all times. Client shall not make any copies of them or allow anyone else to use them without the prior consent of the Company. Any loss of any keys or entry cards must be reported to the Company immediately and Client must pay the cost of replacement keys or cards and of changing locks, if required Outside normal business hours., it is Client’s responsibility to lock the doors to the Company premises.
(g) Comply with the law : Client must comply with all relevant laws and regulations in the conduct of Client’s business. Client must not do anything that may interfere with the use of the Company premises by the Company or by others, cause any nuisance or annoyance, increase the insurance premiums the Company is required to pay or cause loss or damage to the Company or to the owner of any interest in the building or the property which contains the Office Accommodation. Client acknowledges that (a) the terms of the foregoing sentence are a material inducement to the Company for the execution of this Agreement and (b) any violation by Client of the foregoing sentence shall constitute a material default by Client hereunder, entitling the Company to terminate this Agreement
(h) Comply with House Rules : Client must comply with any reasonable house rules which the Company may impose generally, and from time to time on users of the Office Accommodation whether for reasons of health and safety, or otherwise. The Company may change the house rules at any time at which time Company will provide adequate notice to Client. Client shall not bring animals into the Office Accommodation or to the Company premises. Client shall not play music or use amplification equipment in a way that can be heard outside the Office Accommodation. Client needs to comply with the Company’s and building’s security, fire code and evacuation guidelines at all times. Company will not conduct any activity which may cause a disruption to Client’s intended business as described in Schedule I and frustrate Client’s use of the Company premises and Office Accommodation under this Agreement
(i) Insurance : It is Client’s responsibility to arrange insurance for Client’s own property which Client brings into the Company premises and for Client’s own liability to Client’s employees and to third parties. Client shall name the Company as an additional insured under its general liability policies and any other person or entit(ies) reasonably required by the Company and deliver a copy of the same to the Company prior to moving into the Office Accommodation.
(j) Indemnities : Client shall indemnify the Company in respect of all liability, claims, damages, loss and expenses which may arise (except to the extent caused by the Company’s gross negligence or willful misconduct):
  (i)   if someone dies or is injured while in the Office Accommodation the Client is using;
 
  (ii)   from a third party in respect of Client’s use of the Office Accommodation and services;
 
  (iii)   from a third party in respect of the Company’s providing of services to Client; and
 
  (iv)   as a result of Client not complying with the terms of this Agreement.
(k): Legal Fees . Client must also ray costs, including reasonable legal fees and disbursements, which the Company may incur in connection with the foregoing.
(m) Internet Usage : Client accepts responsibility for all costs incurred by Company as a result of any computer virus infecting Client’s computers and subsequently causing damage to Company’s network
SECTION 4. PROVIDING THE SERVICES
(a) Access to the Office Accommodation : Any duly authorized representative of the Company (a “Representative”) may enter the Office Accommodation at any time. However, unless there is an emergency, the Company will use reasonable effort to attempt to inform Client in advance when Representatives need access the Office Accommodation to carry out testing, repair or work other than routine inspection, cleaning and maintenance.
(b) Initial Occupancy : If for any reason the Company cannot provide any or all of the space stated on Schedule I by such date stated in Schedule 1, the Company shall have no liability to Client for any loss or damages but Client may cancel this Agreement without penalty. The Company shall not charge Client the Standard Fee for space Client cannot use until the space becomes available for Client’s occupancy.
(c) Suspension of Services : The Company may, with or without notice, suspend the provision of services (including access to the Office Accommodation) due to events beyond the Company’s reasonable control for reasons including, but not limited to mechanical breakdown, loss of service in connection with telephones, telephone related services and high-speed Internet access, casualty, condemnation, acts of God, failure of staff; termination of the Company’s interest in the bulking containing the Office Accommodation or strikes (collectively, “Force Majeure”). In the event of a Force Majeure, Client shall continue to pay the Standard Fee for such period.
(d) If the Office Accommodation is Unavailable : In the unlikely event that the Company is no longer able to provide, the services and the Office Accommodation then this Agreement will terminate and Client shall be obligated to ray only the Standard Fees up to the date of termination and for the additional services Client has used to such date. Company will refund any outstanding Pre-Paid Fees.
(e) Company’s Liability : The Company shall not be held liable for any loss as a result of the Company’s failure to provide a service as a result of Force Majeure or otherwise unless the Company does so deliberately or is grossly negligent. The Company shall not be liable for any failure or malfunction until Client has notified the Company about such failure or malfunction and the Company has not remedied the failure or malfunction in a reasonable amount of time as determined by the nature of the failure or malfunction and the type of repair needed.
(f) Consequential loss : If for any reason the Company cannot provide Client with any service, the Company’s liability is limited to crediting or returning to Client a reasonable proportion of the relevant fee. The Client specifically acknowledges that the Company will not be liable for the failure to provide specific services including, but not limited to, telephones, telephone related services and high-speed Internet access. To the extent permitted by law, the Company has no liability whatsoever for any consequential loss or punitive damages as a result of

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anything the Company or its staff does or fruits to do.
(g) Licenses: The Company has or will obtain all licenses, permits or other governmental authorizations necessary for the ownership of its property or to the conduct of its business as currently conducted except where the failure to have or obtain such license, permit or other governmental authorization would not have a material adverse effect on the Company or on the Client
SECTION 5. SERVICES AGREEMENT
(a) The Nature of the Agreement : The whole of the Office Accommodation remain the property of the Company and remain in the Company’s possession and control. Client acknowledges that this Agreement creates no tenancy interest, leasehold estate or other real property interest in Client’s favor with respect to the Office Accommodation. The Company is providing only the right to share with the Company the use of the Office Accommodation to Client This Agreement is personal to Client and cannot be transferred to anyone else.
(b) Duration : This Agreement shall be legally binding as of the date hereof (the «Agreement Date”) as identified on Schedule I. Client’s use of the Office Accommodation and services shall commence on the “Start Date” identified on Schedule 1
(c) Termination : This Agreement and the Client’s rights to utilize the Office Accommodation terminates on the “End Date” identified on Schedule I if unilaterally terminated by either the Company or Client with written notice thirty (30) days prior to the End Date provided to the other party. Otherwise, this Agreement shall be automatica1ly renewed pursuant to Section 5(d) below.
(d) Renewal : The term shall extend automatically for successive periods equal to one (1) year until unilaterally terminated by either the Company or Client after the terminating party shall have given written notice thirty (30) days prior to the Renewal End Date to the non-terminating party. The Standard Fee during any renewal period shall be renegotiated by both parties at least thirty (30) days prior to renewal. Schedule 1 shall be amended from time to time to include any and all Renewal Start Dates and Renewal End Dates and to adjust the Standard Fee and Pre-Paid Fees.
(e) Immediate Termination : Except for pursuant to Section 6(I), the Company or Client may terminate this Agreement fourteen (14) days after giving notice to the respective party if:
     (i) One party is in breach of one of its obligations which cannot be remedied or which the non-breaching party has given prior notice to remedy and which breaching party has failed to remedy, or
     (ii) Client’s conduct, or that of someone at the Office Accommodation with Client’s permission or at Client’s invitation, is incompatible with ordinary office use, does not comply with the nature of the Client’s business as set forth on Schedule I or is grossly inappropriate in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, or
     (iii) Company’s conduct is frustrating Client’s intended business use of the Company premises and Office Accommodation.
(f) If either the Company or the Client unilaterally terminates this Agreement based on Section 5(c), 5(d) or 5(e), such termination does not terminate any then outstanding obligations Client may have and Client must:
  (i)   pay for all services Client has used,
 
  (ii)   except for Section 4(e), pay the Standard Fee for 3 months following termination The Standard Fee for the 3 months will be accelerated and become immediately due, and
 
  (iii)   indemnify the Company against all reasonable costs and losses (including without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and disbursements) the Company may incur as a result of the termination.
(g) Upon the termination of this Agreement, Client shall vacate the Office Accommodation immediately leaving it in the same condition as it was when Client initially began using the Office Accommodation, save for ordinary wear and tear. If Client leaves any of its own property in the Office Accommodation, the Company may dispose of it in any way the Company may choose without owing Client any responsibility for it or any proceeds of sale but may not do so without first providing written notice.
(h) If Client continues to use the Office Accommodation when this Agreement has terminated or if the Client is in default under this Agreement:
  (i)   Client is responsible for any loss, claim or liability (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and disbursements) the Company may incur as a result of Client’s default or failure to vacate on time; including without limitation, lost Standard Fees;
 
  (ii)   the Company may, in its sole discretion, permit Client an extension subject to a surcharge on the Standard Fee; and
 
  (iii)   Client agrees that the Company may bar the Client and its employees from the Office Accommodation and may terminate telephone, high-speed Internet access and other Services.
(i) Non-Solicitation : While this Agreement is in force and for a period of six (6) months after it ends, either party shall not, whether for its own account or for the account of any other individual, partnership, firm, corporation or other business organization, directly or indirectly solicit, endeavor to entice away from the other party or its subsidiaries, or otherwise directly interfere with the relationship of the other party or its subsidiaries with any person who, to the knowledge of the soliciting party, is employed by or otherwise engaged to perform certain services for the non-soliciting party or its subsidiaries (including, but not limited to, any independent sales representatives or organizations) or who is, or was within the then most recent twelve-month period, a customer or client of the non-soliciting party other, its predecessors or any of its subsidiaries. The placement of any general classified or “help wanted” advertisements and/or general solicitations to the public at large shall not constitute a violation of this Section 5(i) unless the non-soliciting party’s name is contained in such advertisements or solicitations.

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(j) Confidentiality : The terms of this Agreement are confidential. Neither party may disclose them (except to their legal counsel employees and other consultants who shall keep this Agreement confidential) without the other’s consent unless required to do so by law or an official authority.
(k) Applicable law : This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey applicable to contracts made and to be performed entirely within such state.
SECTION 6. FEES
(a) Standard Fee : The Standard Fee as set forth on Schedule I is payable in advance, per the payment terms in Section 6(e), in full with respect to standard office services to be provided during such calendar month. Any proration of the Standard Fee, where applicable, will be done on a per diem basis.
(b) Service Deposit : Upon the execution of this Agreement, Client shall pay to the Company a service deposit (“Service Deposit”) as set forth on Schedule I which shall be used to offset any fees Client may owe (i) when Client vacates the Office Accommodation, or (ii) if Client has not occupied the Office Accommodation at any time except as where state otherwise herein. The balance of the Service Deposit shall be returned to the Client either (i) within sixty (60) days after the End Date if this Agreement is not renewed or (ii) within sixty (60) days after the final Renewal End Date if this Agreement is renewed.
(c) Additional services : Fees for additional services are invoiced in either upfront or arrears and payable per the payment terms in Section 6(e).
(d) Payment terms : All payments are to be made on the first day of the month.
(e) Late payment : If Client does not pay all fees due within fifteen (15) days after the first day of the month (the “late period”) the Company may charge a late payment fee of 5% (the rate may change from time to time as determined by the Company, but in no event shall be greater than the rate permitted by law) compounded monthly on the amounts outstanding. If Client disputes any part of an invoice Client must pay the amount not in dispute by the due date. After the late period, the Company may withhold Services (including barring access to the Office Accommodation and/or terminating any and all services, including but not limited to telephones, Internet access and/or related services) while there are any outstanding fees or interest due or if Client is in breach of this Agreement. Company may, in good faith, attempt to notify Client of its intentions to withhold services.
SECTION 7. MISCELLANEOUS
(a) Notices : All communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or facsimile or mailed by overnight courier or by registered or certified mail postage prepaid:
  (i)   if to the Company, 10 Exchange Place, B” Floor, Jersey City NJ 07302, Attention: Tony Scrimenti, or at such other address as it may have furnished in writing to Client, or
 
  (ii)   if to Client, at such address as listed on Schedule 1 hereto, or at such other address is it may have furnished in writing to the Company.
Any notice so addressed shall be deemed to be given on the date of receipt (as evidenced by signature, if available) if delivered by hand; by courier or if mailed by registered of certified mail
(b)  Successors and Assigns : This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of each of the parties.
(c)  Entire Agreement Amendment and Waiver : This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements or understandings with respect to the subject matter hereof among such parties. Schedule I attached hereto is made part of the Agreement In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Agreement and Schedule I the terms of Schedule I shall govern. This Agreement may be amended, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, with (and only with) the written consent of both parties.
(d)  Subordination : This Agreement is subordinate to all of the Company’s senior obligations with respect to the building and to any other agreements to which the Company is subject
(e)  Severability : The invalidity of anyone or more of the sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or words contained in this Agreement or the application thereof 10 any particular set of circumstances, will not after the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement or of their valid application to any other set of circumstances. Regardless of whether or not either party has elected to consult with legal counsel in reviewing this Agreement, it is the intent of the parties that in no event will the terms, conditions or provisions of this Agreement be construed against either party as the drafter of this Agreement
(f)  Execution by Each Party : The parties executing this Agreement warrant and represent: (i) that each executing party has complete and full authority to execute this Agreement, and (ii) each of the parties will fully perform its obligations hereunder.
(g) Where “consent” is referred within this Agreement, such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld except where expressly stated to the contrary.

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(h)  Counterparts : This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall be considered one and the same agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Services Agreement as of the 1 day of Feb., 2008.
           
SCIVANTAGE, INC.
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
 
   
By: 
/s/ Adnane Charchour
  By: 
/s/ Christopher W. Calhoun
Name: Adnane Charchour
  Name: Christopher W. Calhoun
Title: President & CEO
  Title: COO

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SCHEDULE I
     
Company Name:
  SCIVANTAGE, INC.
Client Company Name:
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
Client Address:
  550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921
Client’s Business:
  Financial Services & Technology
Initial Term in months:
  11 months with option to renew for an additional 12 months
Agreement Date:
  February 1, 2008
Start Date:
  February 1, 2008
End Date:
  December 31, 2008 with option to renew for an additional 12 months
Move-In Date:
  February 15, 2008
Office Space:
  29 Workstations/Offices (As highlighted in attached layout)
                                         
Standard FEE- MONTHLY           Details       Quantity   Amount   Total
Standard Fee
  Regular Workstation       All inclusive: taxes         18     $ 350.00     $ 6,300.00  
 
  Large Workstation       escalation and         8     $ 450.00     $ 3,600.00  
 
  Private Office (2 Offices + 1 Conf Room)       electricity         3     $ 550.00     $ 1,650.00  
 
                                       
                Monthly Standard Fee:           $ 11,550.00  
 
                                       
ADDITIONAL SERVICES — MONTHLY                                    
Communications
  Telephone Set Rental**   Per Set             0     $ 20.00          
 
  Telephone lines**                 0     $ 75.00      
 
  - Unlimited calling US                                    
 
  - Voice Mail                                    
 
  - Teleconference bridge line   Per Line                                
 
  Private eFax Line (Receive only)**   Per Line             0     $ 15.00      
 
  LAN Connection (wires & cross connect)*   Per Desk             31     $ 10.00     $ 310.00  
 
  Servers & Computer Equipment Hosting (Space & Power) **   Per Equipment             0     $ 350.00      
 
  Internet Connection — Redundant T1   Per Desk             29     $ 25.00     $ 725.00  
Cafeteria**
  Coffee   Per Person             0     $ 30.00      
 
  Soft Drinks   Per Person             0     $ 45.00      
                Monthly Additional Services Fee   $ 1,035.00  
                Monthly Fees TOTAL:   $ 12,585.00  
 
                                       
ONE-TIME SET-UP, PRE-PAID & SERVICE DEPOSIT FEES                                    
First Month’s Fee (0.5 month)                 0.5     $ 12,585.00     $ 6,292.50  
Service Deposit - 1 Monthly Fee                 1     $ 12,585.00     $ 12,585.00  
Office Space Set-Up (cleaning, fixing, conf room set up etc...)                 29     $ 100.00     $ 2,900.00  
Security Badges   Per Set             29     $ 25.00     $ 725.00  
Telephone**   Per Set             0     $ 50.00      
Analog/Fax Line   Per Line             0     $ 75.00      
Internet/LAN Connectivity*   Per User             31     $ 50.00     $ 1,550.00  
            Move-in/Set-up Fees TOTAL:           $ 24,052.50  
 
1)   Standard Fee is the monthly fee for the office space per the Service Agreement
 
2)   IT Support Services are available for $100/hr (15 minutes increments)
 
3)   Replacement fee for any lost security card is $50

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*   Assuming two printers
 
**   Services not selected can be made available @ above rates
Comments/Amendments to the Service Agreement:
Upon the completion of the Initial Term and upon 30 days notice, Client has the option to renew this Agreement for an additional 12 months under the same terms.
AGREED AND ACCEPTED:
           
SCIVANTAGE, INC.
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
 
By: 
/s/ Adnane Charchour
  By: 
/s/ Christopher W. Calhoun
 
Name: Adnane Charchour
  Name: Christopher W. Calhoun
 
Title: President & CEO
  Title: COO

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Exhibit 10.36
SCHEDULE I (b)
     
Company Name:
  SCIVANTAGE, INC.
Client Company Name:
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
Client Address:
  550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921
Client’s Business:
  Financial Services & Technology
Initial Term in months:
  10.5 months
Agreement Date:
  1-Feb-08
Start Date:
  15-Feb-08
End Date:
  31-Dec-09
Move-in Date
  15-Feb-08
Office Space
  16 Workstations Read to Use for Business Continuity or growth
                                                 
                    Reservation Unit   Occupancy Unit   Reservation   Occupancy
STANDARD FEE - MONTHLY       Details   Quantity   Amount   Amount   Amount   Amount
STANDARD FEE — MONTHLY
  Regular Workstation   All inclusive: taxes,     8     $ 87.56     $ 350.00     $ 700.00          
 
  Large Workstation   escalation and     8     $ 112.50     $ 450.00     $ 900.00          
 
  Private Office**   electricity     0     $ 550.00     $ 550.00            
 
          Monthly Standard Fees                   $ 1,000.00     $ 6,400.00  
ADDITIONAL SERVICES — MONTHLY
                                               
Communications
  Telephone Set Rental**   Per Set     0     $ 20.00     $ 20.00          
 
  Telephone lines**         0     $ 75.00     $ 75.00          
 
  - Unlimited calling US                                            
 
  - Voice Mail                                            
 
  - Teleconference bridge line   Per Line                                        
 
  Private eFax Line (Receive only) **   Per Line     0     $ 15.00     $ 15.00          
 
  LAN Connection (writes & cross connect)   Per Desk     16     $ 10.00     $ 10.00     $ 160.00     $ 160.00  
 
  Services 8 Computer Equipment Hosting (Space & Power) **   Per Equipment     0     $ 350.00     $ 350.00          
 
  Internet Connection — Redundant T1   Per Desk     16     $ 25.00     $ 25.00     $ 400.00     $ 400.00  
Cafeteria**
  Coffee   Per Person     0     $ 30.00     $ 30.00          
 
  Soft Drinks   Per Person     0     $ 45.00     $ 45.00          
 
          Monthly Additional Services Fee                   $ 550.00     $ 550.00  
 
          Monthly Fees TOTAL:                   $ 2,160.00     $ 6,960.00  
                                 
ONE-TIME SET UP, PRE-PAID & SERVICE DEPOSIT FEES           Quantity   Unit Amount   Total
First Month’s Fee (0.5 month)
            0     $ 2,160.00     Waived  
Service Deposit — 1 Monthly Fee
            0     $ 2,160.00     Waived  
Office Space Set-Up (cleaning, faxing, etc...)
            15     $ 100.00     $ 1,600.00  
Security Badges**
      Per Set     0     $ 25.00      
Telephone**
      Per Set     0     $ 50.00      
Analog/Fax Line**
      Per Line     0     $ 75.00      
Internet/LAN Connectivity
      Per Seat     15     $ 50.00     $ 600.00  
 
      Move-in / Set-up Fees
TOTAL:
                  $ 2,400.00  

 


 

 
1)   Standard Fee is the monthly fee for the office space per the Service Agreement
 
2)   IT Support Services are available for $100/hr (15 minutes increments)
 
3)   Replacement fee for any lost security card is $50
 
**   Services not selected can be made available @ above rates
 
Comments/Amendments for the Service Agreement
 
1)   Scivantage will reserve the light blue highlighted office space are on the attached floor plan and make it available for use by GAIN
 
2)   GAIN will setup the reserved office space with computer workstations and phones
 
3)   GAIN will not actually use the reserved office unless needed for business continuity, faster than expected growth or any other reason, in GAIN’s judgment, requiring the additional office space
 
4)   GAIN will pay Scivantage a monthly Reservation Amount representing 25% of the full monthly Occupancy Amount. The monthly Reservation Amount guarantees the space for GAIN for potential future use
 
5)   In the event GAIN actually occupies the office space or some portion thereof, GAIN will pay the Occupancy Amount on a pro rate basis for the sections of the reserved space actually occuppied
 
6)   GAIN will continue to pay the Reservation Amount for the sections of the space not occupied
 
7)   In the event Scivantage needs to use the reserved office space, in whole or in part, to support its business, Scivantage will provide GAIN with 30 days notice so that GAIN can make alternative arrangements
 
8)   In the event that GAIN is not occupying the office space and no longer needs to reserve it, GAIN will provide Scivantage 60 days notice prior to termination
 
9)   This arrangement will be in effect from the Start date above and [illegible] the 2009 calendar year at which point the parties can decide to renew, cancel or renegotiate
           
AGREED AND ACCEPTED:
   
 
SCIVANTAGE, INC.
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
 
By: 
/s/ Adnane Charchour
  By: 
/s/ Chris Calhoun
 
Name: Adnane Charchour
  Name: Chris Calhoun
 
Title: President & CEO
  Title: Managing Director

 


 

     Seating Allocation to Accommodate Gain Capital’s DR Requirements (16 seats)

 

Exhibit 10.37
LEASE AND LEASE AGREEMENT
Between
S/K BED ONE ASSOCIATES LLC
The Landlord
And
GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
The Tenant
For Leased Premises In
135 U.S. Highway Route 202/206, Bedminster, New Jersey
August 18, 2009
Prepared by:
Gary O. Turndorf
520 Route 22
P.O. Box 6872
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
(908) 725-8100

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
         
    Page  
1. DEFINITIONS
    3  
 
       
2. LEASE OF THE LEASED PREMISES
    3  
 
       
3. RENT
    5  
 
       
4. TERM
    6  
 
       
5. PREPARATION OF THE LEASED PREMISES
    7  
 
       
6. OPTIONS
    9  
 
       
7. USE AND OCCUPANCY
    12  
 
       
8. UTILITIES, SERVICES, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
    14  
 
       
9. ALLOCATION OF THE EXPENSE OF UTILITIES, SERVICES, MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS AND TAXES
    16  
 
       
10. COMPUTATION AND PAYMENT OF ALLOCATED EXPENSES OF UTILITIES, SERVICES, MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, TAXES AND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
    16  
 
       
11. LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, FIXTURES AND TRADE FIXTURES
    23  
 
       
12. ALTERATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS AND OTHER MODIFICATIONS BY THE TENANT
    23  
 
       
13. LANDLORD’S RIGHTS OF ENTRY AND ACCESS
    25  
 
       
14. LIABILITIES AND INSURANCE OBLIGATIONS
    26  
 
       
15. CASUALTY DAMAGE TO BUILDING OR LEASED PREMISES
    27  
 
       
16. CONDEMNATION
    28  
 
       
17. ASSIGNMENT OR SUBLETTING BY TENANT
    29  
 
       
18. SIGNS, DISPLAYS AND ADVERTISING
    32  
 
       
19. QUIET ENJOYMENT
    32  
 
       
20. OMITTED INTENTIONALLY
    32  
 
       
21. SURRENDER
    32  
 
       
22. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
    33  
 
       
23. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES
    34  
 
       
24. TERMINATION OF THE TERM
    37  
 
       
25. MORTGAGE AND UNDERLYING LEASE PRIORITY
    38  

 


 

         
    Page  
26. TRANSFER BY LANDLORD
    39  
 
       
27. INDEMNIFICATION
    39  
 
       
28. PARTIES’ LIABILITY
    41  
 
       
29. SECURITY DEPOSIT
    42  
 
       
30. REPRESENTATIONS
    43  
 
       
31. RESERVATION IN FAVOR OF TENANT
    44  
 
       
32. TENANT’S CERTIFICATES AND MORTGAGEE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS
    44  
 
       
33. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
    46  
 
       
34. SEVERABILITY
    46  
 
       
35. NOTICES
    46  
 
       
36. CAPTIONS
    46  
 
       
37. COUNTERPARTS
    47  
 
       
38. APPLICABLE LAW
    47  
 
       
39. EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT
    47  
 
       
40. SUCCESSORS
    47  
 
       
41. AMENDMENTS
    47  
 
       
42. WAIVER
    47  
 
       
43. COURSE OF PERFORMANCE
    47  
 
       
EXHIBIT A — LEASED PREMISES FLOOR SPACE DIAGRAM
    49  
 
       
EXHIBIT B — PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
    50  
 
       
EXHIBIT C – OMITTED INTENTIONALLY
    51  
 
       
EXHIBIT D — BUILDING RULES AND REGULATIONS
    52  
 
       
EXHIBIT E — DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS
    56  
 
       
EXHIBIT F — CLEANING SPECIFICATIONS
    62  

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LEASE AND LEASE AGREEMENT, dated as of August 18, 2009, between S/K BED ONE ASSOCIATES LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company, with offices at 520 Route 22, P.O. Box 6872, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 (the “Landlord”), and GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, with offices at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921 (the “Tenant”).
Subject to all the terms and conditions set forth below, the Landlord and the Tenant hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions .
Certain terms and phrases used in this Agreement (generally those whose first letters are capitalized) are defined in Exhibit E attached hereto and, as used in this Agreement, they shall have the respective meanings assigned or referred to in that exhibit.
2. Lease of the Leased Premises .
2.1. The Landlord shall, and hereby does, lease to the Tenant, and the Tenant shall, and hereby does, lease from the Landlord, Leased Premises in 135 U.S. Highway Route 202/206, Bedminster, New Jersey (the “Building”) as more fully described in the definition of Leased Premises set forth in Exhibit E attached hereto and made a part hereof. The Leased Premises consist of 4,850 square feet of gross rentable floor space on the first floor of the Building (the “First Floor Premises”) and 40,150 square feet of gross rentable floor space on the third floor of the Building (the “Third Floor Premises”). The First Floor Premises and the Third Floor Premises contain 45,000 square feet of gross rentable floor space and are collectively referred to in this Agreement as the Leased Premises. Tenant shall have access to the Leased Premises twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.
2.2. The Landlord shall, and hereby does, grant to the Tenant, and the Tenant shall, and hereby does, accept from the Landlord, the non-exclusive right to use the Common Facilities during the Term for itself, its employees, other agents and Guests in common with the Landlord, any tenants of Other Leased Premises, any of their respective employees, other agents and guests and such other persons as the Landlord may, in the Landlord’s sole discretion, determine from time to time. Tenant’s occupancy of the Leased Premises shall include a non-exclusive right to use the parking spaces situated on the Property in common with Landlord and the other tenants of the Building. However, Tenant shall be allocated twenty-five (25) reserved parking spaces in the covered parking area. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to impose any duty on Landlord to police the use of any parking areas by tenants of Other Leased Premises or by third parties.
2.3. Subject to Tenant’s receipt of all necessary permits and approvals, Tenant shall have the right to install, operate, and maintain, at its sole cost and expense, security systems within the First Floor Third Floor Premises and satellite/telecommunications equipment (and any related equipment necessary for the operation of said satellite/telecommunications equipment) on the roof of the building (the “Roof Installations”), none of which shall exceed any height restriction imposed by any applicable law, regulation, or ordinance (except in the event (i) Landlord approves of such height and (ii) Tenant is able to evidence to Landlord receipt of a variance for the same). Tenant shall not proceed with any such work until it has furnished to the Landlord construction drawings with an appropriate level of detail relative to the scope of

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the work (and which shall be detailed and certified by an architect licensed by New Jersey in the case of any proposed construction that requires the issuance of the Municipality’s building permit prior to commencement of construction), construction specifications and, the details regarding aesthetic shielding and the method of penetrating and restoring the integrity and watertight condition of the roof and its appurtenances and penthouse, if any, both at the time of installation and at the time of removal of the Roof Installations. Tenant shall pay all costs and expenses in relation to maintaining the integrity of the roof should said integrity be compromised as a result of Tenant’s installation, operation or removal of the Roof Installations. Tenant shall be responsible for the maintenance of the areas of the roof on which the Tenant’s equipment is installed. It shall also remove the installations at the end of the Term and shall restore the roof, leaving the roof in sound, watertight condition. Any roof penetrations that may be required shall be undertaken only by Landlord’s roofing contractor under a contract between such contractor and Tenant.
  2.3.1.   Landlord reserves the right to require Tenant to paint the exterior portions of the Roof Installations consistent with the color of the Building and otherwise to take reasonable measures to shield, in whole or in part as deemed practicable, the exterior portions of the Roof Installations from view.
 
  2.3.2.   No such Roof Installations shall interfere with the communications configurations, frequencies or operating equipment which exist on the Property on the effective date of this Agreement or the rights of tenants of Other Leased Premises. Tenant shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Landlord from any claim by any tenant of Other Leased Premises or third party that such Roof Installations interfere or conflicts with the installations of such other persons (“Pre-existing Communications”). Tenant’s Roof Installations and the operation thereof shall comply with all non-interference and health rules of all agencies with jurisdiction including the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). Upon written notice from Landlord of apparent interference by Tenant with Pre-existing Communications of violation of FCC rules, Tenant shall have the responsibility to promptly terminate such interference.
 
  2.3.3.   Tenant shall use the Roof Installations for the transmission, reception and operation of a communications system for its business and for uses incidental thereto and for no other uses. Tenant agrees that the Roof Installations will not cause interference with normal consumer electronics (“Electronics”) used by Landlord or tenants of Other Leased Premises, regardless of whether the Electronics predate or postdate the Roof Installations. Electronics shall include, but not be limited to, computers and accessory equipment, facsimile machines, landline and mobile telephones, Blackberry devices, audio-visual equipment and other similar electronic components commonly associated with operating a commercial enterprise. Tenant has the obligation to not cause interference with Electronics that are operating within the terms of their license and/or intended manufacturer purpose and customary use.
 
  2.3.4.   Within thirty (30) days after the Commencement Date, Tenant shall provide Landlord with as-built drawings of the Roof Installations and the improvements installed on or in the Roof Installations, which show the actual location of all equipment and improvements consistent with the Plans. The drawings shall be accompanied by a complete and detailed inventory of all equipment and personal property. If there are no immediate Roof Installations to be made following Commencement Date, Tenant will provide to Landlord reasonable notice

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      of any Roof Installations prior to taking any measure to install Roof Installations during the Term of this Agreement.
2.4. Landlord may permit others to use other portions of the roof. If required, Tenant shall power down its equipment upon prior notice from the Landlord if Landlord determines that this is necessary to ensure the safety of persons on the roof of the Building for any purpose, including, without limitation, performing maintenance on the roof or adjacent components of the building. Unless there is an emergency or a governmental authority with jurisdiction requires a powering down, the parties shall cooperate to select a time for the powering down so as to minimize, to the extent possible, the interruption of Tenant’s business. If the power to the equipment on the roof is interrupted for more than one (1) day by reason of Landlord’s actions then Rent shall abate on a daily basis for each day thereafter that the power is not restored.
3. Rent .
3.1. The Tenant shall punctually pay the Rent for the Leased Premises for the Term to the Landlord in the amounts and at the times set forth below, without bill or other demand and without any offset, deduction or abatement whatsoever, except as may be otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement.
3.2. The Basic Rent for the Leased Premises during the Initial Term shall be at the rates per year set forth below.
         
Months   Annual Rate   Monthly Installments
8 through 67
  $990,000.00   $82,500.00
68 through 127   $1,080,000.00   $90,000.00
128 through 131       waived
132 through 191   $1,215,000.00   $101,250.00
     The annual rate of Basic Rent for the Leased Premises during any Renewal Term shall be calculated as set forth in subsection 6.1.4 of this Agreement for the respective Renewal Term.
3.3. The Tenant shall pay the applicable Basic Rent in equal monthly installments in advance on the first day of each month during the Term, with the exception of Basic Rent for the first seven full calendar months of the Initial Term which Basic Rent is waived by the Landlord and Tenant will pay Basic Rent for any period of less than a full calendar month at the beginning of the Term. The Tenant shall pay the Basic Rent for the eighth full calendar month of the Initial Term upon execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Tenant shall pay the Basic Rent for a period of less than a full calendar month at the beginning of the Term on the Commencement Date. If neither Option to Cancel is exercised, the Basic Rent for months 128 through 131 is waived by the Landlord.
3.4. The Basic Rent and the Additional Rent for any period of less than a full calendar month shall be prorated. In the event that any installment of Basic Rent cannot be calculated by the time payment is due, such portion as is then known or calculable shall be then due and payable; and the balance shall be due upon the Landlord’s giving notice to the Tenant of the amount of the balance due.
3.5. The Additional Rent for the Leased Premises during the Term shall be promptly paid by the Tenant in the respective amounts and at the respective times set forth in this Agreement.

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3.6. That portion of any amount of Rent or other amount due under this Agreement which is not paid on the day it is first due shall incur a late charge equal to the sum of: (i) three percent of that portion of any amount of Rent or other amount due under this Agreement which is not paid on the day it is first due and (ii) interest on that portion of any amount of Rent or other amount due under this Agreement which is not paid on the day it is first due at the Base Rate(s) in effect from time to time plus two additional percentage points from the day such portion is first due through the day of receipt thereof by the Landlord. Any such late charge due from the Tenant shall be due immediately. Anything hereinabove contained to the contrary notwithstanding, it is expressly understood and agreed that no late charge shall be imposed if Rent is not paid by the fifth day of the month provided that if Rent is not paid by the fifth day of the month more than twice in any twelve month period then, thereafter, the late charge shall be imposed if Rent is not paid by the first day of the month.
4. Term .
4.1. The Initial Term shall commence on the Commencement Date and shall continue for fifteen (15) years and eleven (11) months from the beginning of the Initial Year, or the conclusion of any Renewal Term, unless sooner terminated in accordance with section 24 of this Agreement.
4.2. The Commencement Date shall be the later of:
  4.2.1.   the Target Date; or
  4.2.2.   the date that the last of each of the following conditions set forth in this subsection 4.2.2 of the Agreement that is specifically applicable shall have occurred:
  4.2.2.1.   the date the Leased Premises can be legally occupied for its intended use with a temporary certificate of occupancy issued with no conditions which will materially interfere with the use and enjoyment of the Leased Premises by Tenant;
  4.2.2.2.   preparation of the Leased Premises substantially in accordance with the Tenant Plan is complete (except for (i) any long lead time items that may be required that can not be delivered to the Leased Premises in sufficient time to be incorporated into the work in proper sequence which long lead items Landlord will advise Tenant of within five (5) business days of receipt of Tenant’s Plan and Tenant shall then have five (5) business days to revise Tenant’s Plan to remove or change any long lead items, (ii) minor details of construction, decoration and mechanical adjustments, the non-completion of which do not materially interfere with the use and enjoyment of the Leased Premises by Tenant, and (iii) except as otherwise provided herein, any additional preparation work contemplated by this Agreement that is not being performed by contractors selected and retained by the Landlord);
 
  4.2.2.3.   the Landlord can deliver actual and exclusive possession of the Leased Premises, free of rubbish and debris, to the Tenant (except for any rubbish and debris left by contractors not selected and retained by the Landlord);
 
  4.2.2.4.   a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy has been issued and the tenant had operational control and full access to the Leased Premises.

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4.3. The Commencement Date shall not be advanced by reason of any of the following:
  4.3.1.   the Tenant shall be allowed a period of thirty (30) days prior to the Commencement Date to move furniture, furnishings, and equipment into the Leased Premises to prepare for commencement of operations. Landlord shall provide sufficient vertical riser space to meet Tenant’s electric, voice and data requirements; and
 
  4.3.2.   prior to the Commencement Date, when legally permitted, the Tenant shall be allowed to occupy a portion of the First Floor Premises to prepare a transition of its computer systems (the “Temporary Occupancy Period”). During the Temporary Occupancy Period, Tenant shall pay a Temporary Electric Charge at the rate of $1.75 per square foot per year for the portion occupied for this purpose.
4.4. The Landlord shall give prompt notice to the Tenant of the Commencement Date and if the Tenant does not object thereto by notice given to the Landlord within ten (10) days of the Landlord’s notice, the date set forth in the Landlord’s notice shall thereafter be conclusively presumed to be the Commencement Date. Any dispute, with respect to the Commencement Date shall be resolved by arbitration in Somerset County, New Jersey, in accordance with the rules for commercial arbitration of the American Arbitration Association.
4.5. Provided that Tenant gives at least six (6) months written notice to Landlord of its intention to hold over at the end of the Term, Tenant shall be permitted to hold over for a period of three (3) months and the Term shall be extended as though the additional three (3) months were part of the Term. Thereafter, the provisions regarding Holdover Damages shall apply.
5. Preparation of the Leased Premises .
5.1. Landlord shall (i) provide a turnkey installation to build out the Leased Premises in accordance with the Tenant Plan and (ii) perform the other work and installations required by the provisions of subsection 5.4 of this Agreement (“Landlord’s Work”). The Tenant Plan has been prepared by an architect selected by Tenant. Landlord’s work shall not include any furniture installations or any specialized installations such as computer, data and telephone lines. On or before August 17, 2009, the Landlord shall give notice to the Tenant of the price to build out the Leased Premises in accordance with the Tenant Plan (the “Price”). The general contractor shall be Bridge Street Realty Associates, L.P., an affiliate of Landlord. The Price shall include a general contracting fee which shall be the cost of the work plus ten percent (10%) overhead and five percent (5%) construction services fee. If the Price exceeds the Allowance, Tenant shall pay Landlord the excess over the Allowance in proportion to the progress of the work, as and when billed by the Landlord at convenient intervals, with payment of any remaining final balance due from the Tenant prior to the Commencement Date.
5.2. In developing the Price, Landlord shall cause (i) three bids to be received from the carpentry, plumbing, flooring and painting subcontractors, if available, and Landlord will accept the low, responsible bid in each case, and (ii) two bids to be received from the HVAC and electrical subcontractors and Landlord will accept the low, responsible bid in each case.
5.3. Landlord shall provide an allowance of $1,575,000 for the construction specified in the Tenant Plan and for the other purposes specified below (the “Allowance”). To the extent that the Price is less than the Allowance, Tenant may utilize the balance of the Allowance for all hard and soft costs of Tenant related to the project and other costs which Tenant incurs including, without limitation, (i) the costs incurred

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for architects and engineers, or (ii) moving costs (the “Project Costs”). If the Price plus the Project Costs is less than the Allowance then the Tenant may make a written election either (i) to apply the balance to Rent payments as they fall due; or (ii) to utilize the balance for other Tenant improvements over the first sixty-seven (67) months of the Initial Term.
     The Landlord will pay from the allowance of $1,575,000 all invoices, which invoices shall first be approved by Tenant or CB Richard Ellis, Inc. (the “Project Management Representative”). All invoices approved by Tenant or the Project Management Representative shall be paid within thirty (30) days of receipt thereof with the approval thereon of Tenant or the Project Management Representative. The failure to approve an invoice within fifteen (15) days shall conclusively be deemed an approval.
5.4. In addition to the work required to build out the Leased Premises in accordance with the Tenant Plan, Landlord, at its expense, shall (i) install an insulated demising wall (floor to slab) to separate the Third Floor Premises from the balance of the third floor of the Building; (ii) install and maintain a new energy management system for the Third Floor Premises based on the Novar Controls Building Automation System which will provide Tenant with the ability to regulate, control and monitor the HVAC system serving the Third Floor Premises during and after Regular Business Hours; (iii) install, for Tenant’s sole use, a 500 kw generator at the loading dock area which will feed a 600 amp transfer switch located in the First Floor Premises and provide the secured conduit and wiring to distribute the power to an electric room in the Third Floor Premises housing, among other things, three (3) 200 amp panels; (iv) complete Building Lobby renovations; and (v) renovate all the bathrooms on the first and third floors of the Building, including those in the Common Areas and the Leased Premises of the Building; all in a first class manor reflecting a first class office building. In addition, if Tenant elects to have Landlord install a generator larger than 500 kw, Tenant must advise Landlord of its election on or before August 1, 2009. In such event, and provided that such installation is approved by the authorities having jurisdiction, Landlord will install such larger generator and Tenant shall pay to Landlord the costs over and above those costs to purchase and install the 500 kw generator which Landlord was to purchase and install at its sole cost and expense. Landlord shall promptly supply to Tenant an estimate of the pricing differential to supply and install the larger generator included in the Tenant Plan compared to the cost of supplying and installing a 500kw generator, which shall not exceed $200,000.
5.5. Landlord shall cause substantial completion of the Leased Premises to occur on or before December 6, 2009 (the “Target Completion Date”). If Landlord fails to do so then it shall reimburse Tenant for any holdover penalty which Tenant incurs in its present leased premises at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, New Jersey which shall be the difference between the holdover rent actually charged by the landlord and the basic rent which was due under that lease prior to the holdover (the “550 Damages”). Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Target Completion Date shall be extended for this purpose if Tenant causes any delay in the completion of Landlord’s Work. The Target Completion Date also shall be extended if completion is delayed for any reason outside the control of the Landlord, or its agents, employees or contractors including, without limitation, those causes specified in subsection 28.2 of this Agreement. In addition, the Commencement Date shall be advanced by one (1) day for each day that (i) this Agreement is signed and delivered after August 15, 2009. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the completion of the installation of the generator shall not delay the Commencement Date. The Landlord shall use commercially reasonable efforts to supply and install the generator as soon as possible.

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6. Options .
6.1 Tenant is hereby granted two (2) successive options to renew this Lease (each an “Option to Renew”) upon the following terms and conditions:
  6.1.1   At the time of the exercise of the Option to Renew and at the time of said renewal, the Tenant shall not be in default under the terms and provisions of this Lease, and shall occupy and be in operation at the entire Leased Premises pursuant to this Lease.
 
  6.1.2   Notice of the exercise of the Option to Renew shall be sent to the Landlord in writing at least twelve (12) months before the expiration of the Initial Term or before the expiration of the first Renewal Term, as the case may be.
 
  6.1.3   Each Renewal Term shall be for a period of five (5) years to commence at the expiration of the Initial Term or the expiration of the first Renewal Term, as the case may be, and all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, other than the annual amount of Basic Rent, shall apply during either such Renewal Term. In each Renewal Term, he Base Year for Operating Expenses and the Base Year for Taxes shall be revised to the calendar year in which the first month of the Renewal Term occurs.
 
  6.1.4.   The amount of Basic Rent to be paid during each Renewal Term shall equal the Market Rental Rate which is defined below in Exhibit E.
6.2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be set forth in this Agreement, (i) if no Event of Default shall have occurred or (ii) if an Event of Default shall have occurred, the Tenant shall have previously cured it in full or the Landlord shall have waived it in the form of a written waiver to Tenant, Tenant is granted two (2) successive one time options to terminate this lease (each an “Option to Cancel”), as follows:
  6.2.1.   by a written notice served on or before the end of the sixty-seventh full calendar month of the Initial Term to be effective at the close of business on the last day of the seventy-ninth full calendar month of the Initial Term. Eleven (11) months after serving a notice exercising this Option to Cancel, Tenant shall become obligated to pay a termination fee (the “Termination Fee”) which is the sum of (i) the unamortized portion of the Allowance; (ii) the unamortized portion of the costs incurred by Landlord for the performance of the work and installations required by subsections 5.4(ii) and 5.4(iii) of this Agreement (the “Other Costs”); (ii) the unamortized portion of the brokerage commissions paid to the Brokers, and (iii) $180,000; which total is the consideration for the granting of this Option to Cancel. If this Option to Cancel is not exercised in a timely manner it shall thereupon expire; and
 
  6.2.2.   by a written notice served on or before the end of the one hundred eighteenth full calendar month of the Initial Term to be effective at the close of business on the last day of the one hundred twenty-seventh full calendar month of the Initial Term. Nine (9) months after serving a notice exercising this Option to Cancel, Tenant shall become obligated to pay a termination fee (the “Alternate Termination Fee”) equal to the unamortized portion of the brokerage commissions paid to the Brokers which is the consideration for the granting of this Option to Cancel. If this Option to Cancel is not exercised in a timely manner it shall thereupon expire.

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  6.2.3.   If the Termination Fee is not paid in a timely manner, the cancellation shall be ineffective and the applicable Option to Cancel shall thereupon expire.
 
  6.2.4.   The unamortized portion of the Allowance shall equal the present value of the remaining forty-eight (48) payments which would be due on a monthly annuity in arrears for one hundred twenty-seven (127) months using the amount of the Allowance as the present value, and an annual rate of interest of eight percent (8%). The unamortized portion of the Other Costs shall equal the present value of the remaining forty-eight (48) payments which would be due on a monthly annuity in arrears for one hundred twenty-seven (127) months using the amount of the Other Costs as the present value, and an annual rate of interest of eight percent (8%). If the first Option to Cancel is exercised, the unamortized portion of the brokerage commissions shall equal the present value of the remaining one hundred twelve (112) payments which would be due on a monthly annuity in arrears for one hundred ninety-one (191) months using the amount of the brokerage commissions paid to the Brokers as the present value, and an annual rate of interest of eight percent (8%). If the second Option to Cancel is exercised, the unamortized portion of the brokerage commissions shall equal the present value of the remaining sixty-four (64) payments which would be due on a monthly annuity in arrears for one hundred ninety-one (191) months using the amount of the brokerage commissions paid to the Brokers as the present value, and an annual rate of interest of eight percent (8%).
 
  6.2.5.   If the Option to Cancel is exercised then, with respect to any space leased by Tenant pursuant to the Right of First Offer or the Right of First Refusal, Tenant shall be obligated to pay Landlord an additional termination fee (the “Additional Termination Fee”) which is the sum of (i) the unamortized portion of any allowance granted in connection with any leases made pursuant to the Right of First Offer and the Right of First Refusal; (ii) the unamortized portion of the brokerage commissions paid to any brokers in connection therewith; and (iii) the unamortized portion of free Rent given in connection therewith; which total is the consideration for the granting of the Option to Cancel any leases made pursuant to the Right of First Offer and the Right of First Refusal.
6.3. Tenant is granted a continuing right of first refusal (the “Right of First Refusal”) on the following terms.
  6.3.1.   After the Lease execution, Tenant shall have a Right of First Refusal for any available space on the third floor of the Building (“Third Floor Space”), subject and subordinate to existing rights held by tenants of Other Leased Premises as of the date of this Lease provided that, at the time of the exercise of the Right of First Refusal, the Tenant shall not be in default under the terms and provisions of this Lease beyond any applicable cure periods. Landlord shall give Tenant written notice of all terms and conditions of any bona fide third party offer Landlord has received for the Third Floor Space. Tenant shall notify Landlord in writing within five (5) business days after Tenant’s receipt of such written notice as to whether or not Tenant elects to lease such space. If Tenant either notifies Landlord that Tenant does not wish to lease such space, or Tenant fails to notify Landlord of its intentions within such five (5) business day period, then Tenant’s Right of First Refusal shall cease as to such space and Landlord may lease only such space without giving Tenant any further notice thereof. Landlord agrees to notify Tenant if Landlord has entered into such lease of the Third Floor Space (or not entered into such lease, as the case may be).

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  6.3.2.   Tenant’s notice exercising the Right of First Refusal shall constitute a binding commitment to lease the specified space on the following terms:
  6.3.2.1.   If the Right of First Refusal is exercised within the first eighteen (18) months of the Initial Term (i) the term of the lease for the offered space shall be coterminous with the Initial Term, (ii) the Basic Rent per rentable square foot shall be the same as the Basic Rent per rentable square foot being paid from time to time for the Leased Premises, and (iii) Landlord shall provide an allowance of $35 per rentable square foot in the offered space multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the number of whole months remaining in the first ten years of the Initial Term and whose denominator is 120. Tenant may only look to the Landlord and its successors and assigns for the payment of this allowance but, in no circumstances, may Tenant seek recovery of any such sums from the current or any future mortgagee.
 
  6.3.2.2.   If the Right of First Refusal is exercised after the first eighteen (18) months of the Initial Term (i) the term of the lease for the offered space shall be coterminous with the Initial Term and (ii) the Basic Rent shall be the Market Rental Rate for the offered space.
 
  6.3.2.3.   Landlord and Tenant shall execute and deliver an amendment of this Agreement to confirm the exercise of the Right of First Refusal and to set forth its terms. The amendment shall contain all the same terms as this Agreement, modified to conform to the addition of the offered space. Tenant’s Proportionate Share and the total rentable area of the Leased Premises shall be increased accordingly.
  6.3.3.   The Right of First Refusal set forth in this Article, is personal to Tenant, and its permitted assigns (pursuant to subsection 17.6 of this Agreement), and may not otherwise be assigned or transferred by Tenant.
6.4. Tenant is granted a continuing right of first offer (the “Right of First Offer”) on the following terms.
  6.4.1.   After the Commencement Date, Tenant shall have a Right of First Offer for any space which Landlord knows or reasonably anticipates will become available in the Building (the “Other Space”), subject and subordinate to existing rights held by tenants of Other Leased Premises provided that, at the time of the exercise of the Right of First Offer, the Tenant shall not be in default under the terms and provisions of this Lease.
  6.4.1.1.   If Other Space will become available for a term to begin during the first eighteen (18) months of the Initial Term, Landlord shall offer the Other Space to Tenant on the following terms: (i) the term of the lease for the Other Space shall be coterminous with the Initial Term, (ii) the Basic Rent per rentable square foot shall be the same as the Basic Rent per rentable square foot being paid from time to time for the Leased Premises, and (iii) Landlord shall provide an allowance of $35 per rentable square foot in the Other Space multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the number of whole months remaining in the first ten years of the Initial Term and whose denominator is 120.
 
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      months of the Initial Term, Landlord shall notify Tenant in writing of the terms on which Landlord proposes to lease the Other Space including, without limitation, when the number of rentable square feet in the Other Space and the term of the proposed lease. The Basic Rent per rentable square foot shall be the FMV of the Other Space but not less than $22 per gross rentable foot. Tenant shall notify Landlord in writing within five (5) business days after Tenant’s receipt of the offer as to whether or not Tenant elects to lease the Other Space.
 
  6.4.1.3.   In either case, if Tenant either notifies Landlord that Tenant does not wish to lease the Other Space, or Tenant fails to notify Landlord of its intentions within such five (5) day period, then Tenant’s Right of First Offer shall cease as to such space and Landlord may lease such space without giving Tenant any further notice thereof.
  6.4.2.   If Tenant exercises the Right of First Offer, Tenant’s notice exercising the Right of First Offer shall constitute a binding commitment to lease the Other Space on the same terms and conditions as are set forth in this Lease as modified by the terms set forth in Landlord’s offer. Tenant’s Proportionate Share and the total rentable area of the Leased Premises shall be increased accordingly. If Tenant leases Other Space under Section 6.4.1.2. above, the Base Year for Operating Expenses and Taxes shall be the year in which the term of the Other Space leased commences and Tenant shall execute and deliver an amendment of this Agreement to confirm the exercise of the Right of First Offer.
 
  6.4.3.   The Right of First Offer set forth in this Article, is personal to Tenant named herein, and its permitted assigns (pursuant to subsection 17.6 of this Agreement), and may not otherwise be assigned or transferred by Tenant.
6.5. Except as permitted in subsection 17.6 of this Agreement, in the event the Tenant assigns this Agreement or sublets, or licenses the use or occupancy of, the Leased Premises or any portions thereof in accordance with section 17 of this Agreement or otherwise, or attempts to do so:
  6.5.1.   any Option to Renew which the Tenant has theretofore properly exercised with respect to a Renewal Term that has not yet actually commenced shall be rescinded, if the Landlord so elects by notice to the Tenant, to the same extent as if it had not been exercised at all; and
 
  6.5.2.   any Option to Renew or any other type of option or optional right exercisable by the Tenant not theretofore timely and otherwise properly exercised by the Tenant shall thereupon expire.
7. Use and Occupancy .
7.1. The Tenant shall occupy and use the Leased Premises during the Term exclusively for general office purposes and such other commercial uses as are principal permitted uses under the current applicable zoning code.
7.2. In connection with the Tenant’s use and occupancy of the Leased Premises and use of the Common Facilities, the Tenant shall observe, and the Tenant shall cause the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests to observe, each of the following:
  7.2.1.   the Tenant shall not do, or permit anything which might have the effect of creating an increased risk of, or damage from, fire, explosion or other casualty;

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  7.2.2.   the Tenant shall not do, or permit anything which would have the effect of (a) increasing any premium for any liability, property, casualty or excess coverage insurance policy otherwise payable by the Landlord or any tenant of Other Leased Premises or (b) making any such types or amounts of insurance coverage unavailable or less available to the Landlord or any tenant of Other Leased Premises;
 
  7.2.3.   to the extent they are not inconsistent with this Agreement, the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall comply with the Building Rules and Regulations attached hereto as Exhibit D, and with any reasonable changes made therein by the Landlord for all tenants of the Building if, with respect to any such changes, the Landlord shall have given prior notice of the particular changes to the Tenant and such changes shall not adversely affect the conduct of the Tenant’s business in the Leased Premises and Tenant’s use of the Leased Premises;
 
  7.2.4.   the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall not create, permit or continue any Nuisance in or around the Leased Premises, the Other Leased Premises, the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property;
 
  7.2.5.   The Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall not permit the Leased Premises to be regularly occupied by more than the number of individuals permitted by code (provided that, if any supplemental cooling or ventilation is required, because the Leased Premises are occupied by more than one individual per 200 square feet of usable floor space, the cost of installing, operating and maintaining the same shall be at the Tenant’s sole cost and expense);
 
  7.2.6.   the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall comply with all Federal, state and local statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations and orders as they pertain to the Tenant’s use and occupancy of the Leased Premises, to the conduct of the Tenant’s business and to the use of the Common Facilities, except that this subsection shall not require the Tenant to make any structural changes that may be required thereby;
 
  7.2.7.   the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall comply with the requirements of the Board of Fire Underwriters (or successor organization) and of any insurance carriers providing liability, property, casualty or excess insurance coverage regarding the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities or any portions thereof, and any other improvements on the Property, except that this subsection shall not require the Tenant to make any structural changes that may be required thereby that are generally applicable to the Building as a whole;
 
  7.2.8.   the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall not bring or discharge any material or substance (solid, liquid or gaseous) which is a Hazardous Substance, or conduct any activity, in or on the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities or the Leased Premises that shall have been identified by any Federal, state or local statute (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Spill Compensation and Control Act (58 N.J.S.A. §10-23.11 et seq.); the Industrial Site Recovery Act (“ISRA”)(13 N.J.S.A. §1 K-6 et seq.); the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq.) as amended; the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation

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      and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.); the Federal Water Pollution Control Act/Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq.); the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq.); the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq.); the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq.); the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. §5101 et seq.) the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. §300f through §300j) as amended; the Global Warming Response Act, 26 N.J.S.A. §2C-37 et seq.; the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Act, 26 N.J.S.A. §2C-45 et seq., and the regulations adopted and publications promulgated pursuant to said laws; and in any revisions or successor codes as toxic or hazardous to health or to the environment (“Environmental Laws”) As used herein, “Hazardous Substance” means any material or substance which is toxic, ignitable, reactive, or corrosive; or which is defined as “hazardous waste”, “extremely hazardous waste” or a “hazardous substance” by Environmental Laws; or which is an asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyl or a petroleum product; or which is regulated by Environmental Laws;
 
  7.2.9.   the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall not draw electricity in the Leased Premises in excess of the rated capacity of the electrical conductors and safety devices including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, circuit breakers and fuses, by which electricity is distributed to and throughout the Leased Premises and, without the prior written consent of the Landlord in each instance, shall not connect any fixtures, appliances or equipment to the electrical distribution system serving the Building and the Leased Premises other than typical professional office equipment such as minicomputers, microcomputers, typewriters, copiers, telephone systems, coffee machines and table top microwave ovens, none of which, considered individually and in the aggregate, overall and per fused or circuit breaker protected circuit, shall exceed the above limits. The system is designed to provide three (3) watts per usable square foot for lighting and five (5) watts per usable square foot for the other electric devices enumerated above;
 
  7.2.10.   on a timely basis the Tenant shall pay directly and promptly to the respective taxing authorities any taxes (other than Taxes) charged, assessed or levied exclusively on the Leased Premises or arising exclusively from the Tenant’s use and occupancy of the Leased Premises; and
 
  7.2.11.   the Tenant shall not initiate any appeal or contest of any assessment or collection of Taxes for any period without, in each instance, the prior written consent of the Landlord which, without being deemed unreasonable, the Landlord may withhold if the Building was not ninety percent (90%) occupied by paying tenants throughout that period or if the Tenant is not joined by tenants of Other Leased Premises that leased throughout that period, and that are then leasing, at least eighty percent (80%) of all Other Leased Premises, determined by their gross rentable floor space.
8. Utilities, Services, Maintenance and Repairs .
8.1. The Landlord shall provide or arrange for the provision of:
  8.1.1.   such maintenance and repair of the Building (except the Leased Premises and Other Leased Premises); the Common Facilities; and the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (but not including supplemental cooling, whether supplemental cooling units are found in the Leased Premises or not), any plumbing systems and the electrical systems in

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      the Building, the Common Facilities, the Leased Premises and Other Leased Premises as is customarily provided for first class office buildings in the immediate area;
 
  8.1.2.   maintenance and repair of the Leased Premises, except for refinishing walls and wall treatments, base, ceilings, floor treatments and doors in general from time to time or for gouges, spots, marks, damage or defacement caused by anyone other than the Landlord, its employees and other agents, and except for the Tenant’s furniture, furnishings, equipment and other property;
 
  8.1.3.   such garbage removal from the Building and the Common Facilities and such janitorial services for the Building, the Leased Premises and Other Leased Premises as is customarily provided for first class office buildings in the immediate area;
 
  8.1.4.   the electricity required for the operation of the Building, the Property and the Common Facilities during Regular Business Hours and, on a reduced service basis, during other than Regular Business Hours, and, at all times, the electricity required for the Leased Premises;
 
  8.1.5.   such heat, ventilation and air conditioning (but not including supplemental cooling, whether supplemental cooling units are found in the Leased Premises or not) for the Building, the Leased Premises and Other Leased Premises as is customarily provided for first class office buildings in the immediate area for the comfortable use of the Building during Regular Business Hours. The heating and air conditioning shall have the capacity to maintain, and shall be operated to maintain without material variation, maximum and minimum temperature standards throughout the entire building according to the following: the system shall maintain a maximum of 75 degrees F. dry bulb temperature with not more than 50% relative humidity when the outside air is a dry bulb temperature of 95 degrees F. and a wet bulb temperature of 75 degrees F., assuming heat loads generated by one (1) person per 200 usable square foot, three (3) watts per usable square foot for lighting and four (4) watts per usable square foot for other electric devices (inclusive of supplemental cooling). The system shall maintain a minimum temperature of 72 degrees F. when the outside temperature is 0 degrees F. The Building was designed and constructed in accordance with applicable ASHRAE guidelines for office buildings. The Leased Premises shall have ventilation which meets the minimum ventilation requirements of local building codes (Customary cooling shall be determined without reference to the existence of supplemental cooling units.);
 
  8.1.6.   water (including heated water) to the Building and, if the appropriate plumbing has been installed therein, to the Leased Premises;
 
  8.1.7.   sewage disposal for the Building;
 
  8.1.8.   passenger elevator service for the Building;
 
  8.1.9.   snow clearance from, and sweeping of, Parking Facilities and private access roads which are part of the Property or the Common Facilities;
 
  8.1.10.   the maintenance of landscaping which is part of the Property or the Common Facilities;
 
  8.1.11.   a security guard to be stationed at the security desk in the main lobby during Regular Business Hours;

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  8.1.12.   food service to be available from 6:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on Monday through Friday (except for Legal Holidays);
 
  8.1.13.   a fitness center to be open during Regular Business Hours, provided that, at all hours, Tenant’s employees shall have access to the fitness center by key card;
 
  8.1.14.   the janitorial services specified in Exhibit F which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
8.2. Except as specifically set forth in subsection 8.1 of this Agreement, the Tenant shall maintain and repair the Leased Premises and keep the Leased Premises in as good condition and repair, reasonable wear and use excepted, as the Leased Premises are upon the completion of any improvements contemplated by section 5 of this Agreement.
9. Allocation of the Expense of Utilities, Services, Maintenance, Repairs and Taxes .
9.1. All Tenant Electric Charges shall be borne by the Tenant. It is agreed that the Tenant Electric Charges shall be $1.75 per square foot per year during the Temporary Occupancy Period. Landlord, at its expense, shall separately meter or sub-meter (i) the electricity consumed by the HVAC system serving the Leased Premises, and (ii) the electricity consumed in the Leased Premises. From and after the Commencement Date, the Tenant Electric Charges shall be based on the meter readings. Tenant may inspect the meter during Regular Business Hours, Monday through Friday (except for Legal Holidays), provided that a representative of Landlord shall be present during any such inspection.
9.2. Between the Commencement Date and the end of the No Pass Through Period, the Tenant’s Share of all Operational Expenses and Taxes incurred during such period shall be borne by the Landlord.
9.3. Between the day after the end of the No Pass Through Period and the end of the Term, the Tenant’s Share of Operational Expenses and Taxes incurred during each annual or shorter period ending on (a) December 31 of each year and (b) the end of the Term shall be borne as follows:
  9.3.1.   the Tenant’s Share of: Operational Expenses and Taxes incurred during each such period of twelve (12) months (or shorter period), up to the amounts of Base Year Operational Expenses and Base Year Taxes, respectively (or proportional amount thereof for periods shorter than twelve (12) months), shall be borne by the Landlord; and
 
  9.3.2.   the Tenant’s Share of: the amounts by which Operational Expenses and Taxes incurred during each such period of twelve (12) months (or shorter period) exceed Base Year Operational Expenses and Base Year Taxes, respectively (or proportional amount thereof for periods shorter than twelve (12) months) shall be allocated to, and borne by, the Tenant as more specifically set forth in section 10 of this Agreement.
10.   Computation and Payment of Allocated Expenses of Utilities, Services, Maintenance, Repairs, Taxes and Capital Expenditures .
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  10.1.1.   commencing with the first day after the end of the No Pass Through Period, and on the first day of each month thereafter during the Term, one-twelfth of the Tenant’s Share of the amount by which Taxes for the then current calendar year exceeds Base Year Taxes, computed in accordance with subsection 10.5 of this Agreement. When Landlord knows of facts which cause a revision of the estimate, it may serve a revised estimate and, for the balance of the current calendar year, the estimated payments shall be made accordingly;
 
  10.1.2.   within twenty (20) days of the Landlord’s giving notice to the Tenant after the close of each calendar year closing during the Term, commencing with the first calendar year closing after the close of the No Pass Through Period, and after the end of the Term, the Tenant’s Share of the difference between the Landlord’s previously projected amount of Taxes for such period and the actual amount of Taxes for such period, in either case in excess of Base Year Taxes, computed in accordance with subsection 10.6 of this Agreement (unless such difference is a negative amount, in which case the Landlord shall credit such difference against any amounts next due from the Tenant for Basic Rent);
 
  10.1.3.   commencing with the first day after the end of the No Pass Through Period, and on the first day of each month thereafter during the Term, one-twelfth of the Tenant’s Share of the amount by which Operational Expenses for the then current calendar year exceed Base Year Operational Expenses, computed in accordance with subsection 10.7 of this Agreement. When Landlord knows of facts which cause a revision of the estimate, it may serve a revised estimate and, for the balance of the current calendar year, the estimated payments shall be made accordingly;
 
  10.1.4.   within twenty (20) days of the Landlord’s giving notice to the Tenant after the close of each calendar year closing during the Term, commencing with the first calendar year closing after the close of the No Pass Through Period, and after the end of the Term, the Tenant’s Share of the difference between the Landlord’s previously projected amount of Operational Expenses for such period and the actual amount of Operational Expenses for such period, in either case in excess of Base Year Operational Expenses, computed in accordance with subsection 10.8 of this Agreement (unless such difference is a negative amount, in which case the Landlord shall credit such difference against any amounts next due from the Tenant for Basic Rent);
 
  10.1.5.   commencing with the first day of the first month after the Landlord gives any notice contemplated by subsection 10.9 of this Agreement to the Tenant and continuing on the first day of each month thereafter until the earlier of (a) the end of the Term or (b) the last month of the useful life set forth in the respective notice, one-twelfth of the Tenant’s Share of any Annual Amortized Capital Expenditure, computed in accordance with subsection 10.9 of this Agreement;
 
  10.1.6.   on the first day of each month during the Term, the monthly Tenant Electric Charges, set forth in section 9.1 of this Agreement; and
 
  10.1.7.   promptly as and when billed therefore by the Landlord, the amount of any expense which would otherwise fall within the definition of Operational Expenses, but which is specifically paid or incurred by the Landlord for operation and maintenance of the Building, the Common Facilities or the Property outside Regular Business Hours at the specific request

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      of the Tenant or the amount of any expenditure incurred for maintenance or repair of damage to the Building, the Common Facilities, the Property, the Leased Premises or the Other Leased Premises caused directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by the active or passive negligence or intentional act of the Tenant or any of its employees, other agents or Guests.
10.2. “Operational Expenses” means all expenses paid or incurred by the Landlord in connection with the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities and any other improvements on the Property and their operation and maintenance (other than Taxes (which are separately allocated to the Tenant in accordance with subsections 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 of this Agreement), Capital Expenditures (which are separately allocated to the Tenant in accordance with subsection 10.1.5 of this Agreement) and those expenses contemplated by subsections 10.1.6 and 10.1.7 of this Agreement)) including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
  10.2.1.   Utilities Expenses;
 
  10.2.2.   the expense of providing the services, maintenance and repairs contemplated by subsection 8.1 of this Agreement, whether furnished by the Landlord’s employees or by independent contractors or other agents;
 
  10.2.3.   wages, salaries, fees and other compensation and payments and payroll taxes and contributions to any social security, unemployment insurance, welfare, pension or similar fund and payments for other fringe benefits required by law or union agreement (or, if the employees or any of them are not represented by a union, then payments for benefits comparable to those generally required by union agreement (but not in excess of the union agreements) in first class office buildings in the immediate area which are unionized) made to or on behalf of any employees of Landlord performing services rendered in connection with the operation and maintenance of the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, elevator operators, elevator starters, window cleaners, porters, janitors, miscellaneous handymen, watchmen, persons engaged in patrolling and protecting the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property, carpenters, engineers, mechanics, electricians, plumbers, other tradesmen, other persons engaged in the operation and maintenance of the Building, Common Facilities and Property, Building superintendent and assistants, Building manager, and clerical and administrative personnel working in the Building for the Building manager or the Landlord but not for an persons above the grade of Building manager;
 
  10.2.4.   when employees are required by the Landlord to wear uniforms, the uniforms of such employees and the cleaning, pressing and repair thereof;
 
  10.2.5.   premiums and other related charges incurred by Landlord with respect to all insurance relating to the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property and the operation and maintenance thereof, including, without limitation: property and casualty, fire and extended coverage insurance, including windstorm, flood, hail, explosion, other casualty, riot, rioting attending a strike, civil commotion, aircraft, vehicle and smoke insurance; public liability insurance; elevator, boiler and machinery insurance; excess liability coverage insurance; use and occupancy insurance; workers’ compensation and health,

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      accident, disability and group life insurance for all employees; casualty rent insurance and such other insurance with such limits as may, from time to time, be customary for office buildings or which Landlord may be required to secure by mortgage lenders;
 
  10.2.6.   sales and excise taxes and the like upon any Operational Expenses and Capital Expenditures;
 
  10.2.7.   management fees of any independent managing agent for the Property up to a maximum of three (3%) percent of the gross revenue of the Building, the Building or the Common Facilities; and if there shall be no independent managing agent, or if the managing agent shall be a person affiliated with the Landlord, the management fees that would customarily be charged for the management of the Property, the Building and the Common Facilities by an independent, first class managing agent in the immediate area;
 
  10.2.8.   the cost of replacements for tools, supplies and equipment used in the operation, service, maintenance, inspection, repair and alteration of the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property;
 
  10.2.9.   the cost of repainting or otherwise redecorating any part of the Building or the Common Facilities;
 
  10.2.10.   decorations for the lobbies and other Common Facilities in the Building;
 
  10.2.11.   the cost of licenses, permits and similar fees and charges related to operation, repair and maintenance of the Building, the Property and the Common Facilities; and
 
  10.2.12.   any and all other expenditures of the Landlord in connection with the operation, alteration, repair or maintenance of the Property, the Common Facilities or the Building as a first-class office building and facilities in the immediate area which are properly treated as an expense fully deductible as incurred in accordance with generally applied real estate accounting practice.
10.3. “Capital Expenditures” means the following expenditures incurred or paid by the Landlord in connection with the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities and any other improvements on the Property:
  10.3.1.   all costs and expenses incurred by the Landlord in connection with retro-fitting the entire Building or the Common Facilities, or any portion thereof, to comply with any change in Federal, state or local statute, rule, regulation, order or requirement which change takes effect after the original completion of the Building;
 
  10.3.2.   all costs and expenses incurred by the Landlord to replace and improve the Property, the Building or the Common Facilities or portions thereof for the purpose of continued operation of the Property, the Building and the Common Facilities as a first class office complex in the immediate area; and
 
  10.3.3.   all costs and expenses incurred by the Landlord in connection with the installation of any energy, labor or other cost saving device or system on the Property or in the Building or the Common Facilities.

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10.4. Neither “Operational Expenses” nor “Capital Expenditures” shall include any of the following:
  10.4.1.   principal or interest on any mortgage indebtedness on the Property, the Building or any portion thereof and any ground rents;
 
  10.4.2.   any capital expenditure, or amortized portion thereof, other than those included in the definition of Capital Expenditures set forth in subsection 10.3 above;
 
  10.4.3.   expenditures for any leasehold improvement which is made in connection with the preparation of any portion of the Building for occupancy by a new tenant or which is not made generally to or for the benefit of the Leased Premises and all Other Leased Premises or generally to the Building or the Common Facilities;
 
  10.4.4.   to the extent the Landlord actually receives proceeds of property and casualty insurance policies on the Building, other improvements on the Property or the Common Facilities, expenditures for repairs or replacements occasioned by fire or other casualty to the Building or the Common Facilities;
 
  10.4.5.   expenditures for repairs, replacements or rebuilding occasioned by any of the events contemplated by section 16 of this Agreement;
 
  10.4.6.   expenditures for costs, including advertising and leasing commissions, and legal expenses and professional fees, incurred in connection with efforts to lease portions of the Building and to procure new tenants for the Building and any amount paid for or on behalf of tenants such as space planning, moving costs, rental and other tenant concessions;
 
  10.4.7.   expenditures for the salaries and benefits of the executive officers, if any, of the Landlord above the level of building manager, and any salary, wages, or other compensation or benefits for off-site employees applicable to the time spent working at other buildings, other than the building manager (provided that with respect to each employee that services the Building and other buildings, a pro-rate portion of such employee’s salary shall be included in Operational Expenses);
 
  10.4.8.   depreciation and amortization (as those terms are used in the accounting sense in the context of generally applied real estate accounting practice) of the Building, the Common Facilities and any other equipment, machinery, fixtures or improvements on the Property;
 
  10.4.9.   costs of electricity sold to tenants of the Building by Landlord or any other special service or benefit to the tenants or service or benefit in excess of that furnished to Tenant whether or not Landlord receives reimbursement from such tenants as an additional charge;
 
  10.4.10.   any amounts which would otherwise be included in Operational Expenses paid to any person, firm or corporation related or otherwise affiliated with Landlord or any general partner, officer or director of Landlord or any of its general partners, to the extent same exceeds arms-length competitive prices paid in the Bedminster, New Jersey area for the services or goods provided (i.e., that portion of the costs and expenses for such services that exceed the competitive rate shall not be included in Operational Expenses);
 
  10.4.11.   Landlord’s general entity overhead and general and administrative expenses except as they relates specifically to the actual management of the Project;

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  10.4.12.   costs incurred to correct violations by Landlord of any law, rule, order or regulation which was in effect as of the date hereof;
 
  10.4.13.   costs relating to maintaining Landlord’s existence as a limited liability company or other entity, such as annual fees, administration expenses, and legal and accounting fees (other than with respect to Building operations);
 
  10.4.14.   any expense for which Landlord is reimbursed under the terms of any insurance policy, warranty, or condemnation award;
 
  10.4.15.   bad debt or rent loss or reserves for bad debts or rent loss;
 
  10.4.16.   costs incurred in connection with the sale of ownership of the Building, including brokerage commissions, attorneys’ and accountant’s fees, closing costs, title insurance premiums, transfer taxes and interest charges;
 
  10.4.17.   fines, penalties or interest for landlord’s failure to make any tax payment in a timely fashion;
 
  10.4.18.   costs of repairs, restoration, replacements or other work occasioned by fire, windstorm or other casualty required to be insured by Landlord under this Lease;
 
  10.4.19.   Landlord’s net income, transfer, excise, capital stock and franchise taxes; and
 
  10.4.20.   costs incurred to contain, abate, remove or otherwise clean up the Building or the Land required as a result of the presence of Hazardous Materials in, about or below the Building or the Land.
10.5. As soon as practicable after the close of the No Pass Through Period and December 31 of each year thereafter, any portion of which is during the Term, the Landlord shall furnish the Tenant with a notice setting forth:
  10.5.1.   Taxes billed, or if a bill has not then been received for the entire period, the Landlord’s reasonable projection of Taxes to be billed, for the then current calendar year;
 
  10.5.2.   the amount of Base Year Taxes;
 
  10.5.3.   the amount, if any, by which item 10.5.1 above exceeds item 10.5.2 above; and
 
  10.5.4.   the Tenant’s Share of item 10.5.3 above.
10.6. As soon as practicable after December 31 of each year during the Term and after the end of the Term, the Landlord shall furnish the Tenant with a notice setting forth:
  10.6.1.   the actual amount of Taxes for the preceding calendar year in excess of Base Year Taxes (or proportional amount thereof for shorter periods during the Term);
 
  10.6.2.   the Landlord’s previously projected amount of Taxes for the preceding calendar year in excess of Base Year Taxes (or proportional amount thereof for shorter periods during the Term);

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  10.6.3.   the difference obtained by subtracting item 10.6.2 above from item 10.6.1 above; and
 
  10.6.4.   the Tenant’s Share of item 10.6.3 above.
10.7. As soon as practicable after the close of the No Pass Through Period and December 31 of each year thereafter, any portion of which is during the Term, the Landlord shall furnish the Tenant with a notice setting forth:
  10.7.1.   the Landlord’s projection of annual Operational Expenses for the current period (if any portion thereof is during the Term);
 
  10.7.2.   the amount of the Base Year Operational Expenses;
 
  10.7.3.   the amount, if any, by which item 10.7.1 above exceeds item 10.7.2 above; and
 
  10.7.4.   the Tenant’s Share of item 10.7.3 above.
10.8. As soon as practicable after December 31 of each year during the Term and after the end of the Term, the Landlord shall furnish the Tenant with a notice setting forth:
  10.8.1.   the actual amount of Operational Expenses for the preceding calendar year in excess of Base Year Operational Expenses (or proportional amount thereof for shorter periods during the Term);
 
  10.8.2.   the Landlord’s previously projected amount of Operational Expenses for the preceding calendar year in excess of Base Year Operational Expenses (or proportional amount thereof for shorter periods during the Term);
 
  10.8.3.   the difference obtained by subtracting item 10.8.2 above from item 10.8.1 above; and
 
  10.8.4.   the Tenant’s Share of item 10.8.3 above.
10.9. As soon as practicable after incurring any Capital Expenditure, the Landlord shall furnish the Tenant with a notice setting forth:
  10.9.1.   a description of the Capital Expenditure and the subject thereof;
 
  10.9.2.   the date the subject of the respective Capital Expenditure was first placed into service and the period of useful life selected by the Landlord in connection with the determination of the Annual Amortized Capital Expenditure;
 
  10.9.3.   the amount of the Annual Amortized Capital Expenditure; and
 
  10.9.4.   the Tenant’s Share of item 10.9.3 above.
10.10. Within one hundred fifty (150) days after the Landlord gives any notice enumerated in subsections 10.5 through 10.9 of this Agreement, the Tenant or the Tenant’s authorized agent, upon one week’s prior notice to the Landlord, may inspect the Landlord’s books and records, as they pertain to the particular expense in question, at the Landlord’s office regarding the subject of any such notice to verify the amount(s) and calculation(s) thereof. After payment of the Tenant’s Share in accordance with the provisions of

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section 10 of this Agreement, no further audit shall be conducted with respect to Operational Expenses, Taxes, Capital Expenditures, Base Year Operational Expenses or Base Year Taxes except with respect to items which may have been questioned within the one hundred fifty (150) day period. Tenant agrees that no audit will be conducted by an auditor engaged, in whole or in part, on a contingent fee basis. If an audit is conducted, the Landlord shall have the right to verify that the provisions of this prohibition have been satisfied.
10.11. The mere enumeration of an item within the definitions of Operational Expenses and Capital Expenditures in subsections 10.2 and 10.3 of this Agreement, respectively, shall not be deemed to create an obligation on the part of the Landlord to provide such item unless the Landlord is affirmatively required to provide such item elsewhere in this Agreement. Landlord, at Tenant’s expense and at competitive prices, shall maintain any supplementary facilities which are agreed to be installed by Landlord for Tenant’s sole use and enjoyment including, without limitation, supplementary heating, cooling or ventilation; electronic locking devices; and kitchen facilities such as faucets, drains, pumps and insta-hot lines.
11. Leasehold Improvements, Fixtures and Trade Fixtures .
All leasehold improvements to the Leased Premises, fixtures installed in the Leased Premises and the blinds and floor treatments or coverings shall be the property of the Landlord, regardless of when, by which party or at which party’s cost the item is installed. Movable furniture, furnishings, trade fixtures and equipment of the Tenant which are in the Leased Premises shall be the property of the Tenant, except as may otherwise be set forth in section 23 of this Agreement.
12. Alterations, Improvements and Other Modifications by the Tenant .
12.1. The Tenant shall not make any alterations, improvements or other modifications to the Leased Premises which effect structural changes in the Building or any portion thereof, change the functional utility or rental value of the Leased Premises or, except as may be contemplated by section 5 of this Agreement prior to the Commencement Date, affect the mechanical, electrical, plumbing or other systems installed in the Building or the Leased Premises.
12.2. The Tenant shall not make any other alterations, improvements or modifications to the Leased Premises, the Building or the Property or make any boring in the ceiling, walls or floor of the Leased Premises (other than minor changes including borings in the walls) or the Building unless the Tenant shall have first:
  12.2.1.   furnished to the Landlord detailed, New Jersey architect-certified construction drawings, construction specifications and, if they pertain in any way to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning or other systems of the Building, related engineering design work and specifications regarding, the proposed alterations, improvements or other modifications;
 
  12.2.2.   not received a notice from the Landlord objecting thereto in any respect within thirty (30) days of the furnishing thereof (which shall not be deemed the Landlord’s affirmative consent for any purpose);
 
  12.2.3.   obtained any necessary or appropriate building permits or other approvals from the Municipality and, if such permits or other approvals are conditional, satisfied all conditions to the satisfaction of the Municipality; and

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  12.2.4.   met, and continued to meet, all the following conditions with regard to any contractors selected by the Tenant and any subcontractors, including materialmen, in turn selected by any of them:
  12.2.4.1.   the Tenant shall have sole responsibility for payment of, and shall pay, such contractors;
 
  12.2.4.2.   the Tenant shall have sole responsibility for coordinating, and shall coordinate, the work to be supplied or performed by such contractors, both among themselves and with any contractors selected by the Landlord;
 
  12.2.4.3.   the Tenant shall not permit or suffer the filing of any notice of construction lien claim or other lien or prospective lien by any such contractor or subcontractor with respect to the Property, the Common Facilities, the Building or any other improvements on the Property; and if any of the foregoing should be filed by any such contractor or subcontractor, the Tenant shall forthwith obtain and file the complete discharge and release thereof or provide such payment bond(s) from a reputable, financially sound institutional surety as will, in the opinions of the Landlord, the holders of any mortgage indebtedness on, or other interest in, the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities or any other improvements on the Property, or any portions thereof, and their respective title insurers, be adequate to assure the complete discharge and release thereof;
 
  12.2.4.4.   prior to any such contractor’s entering upon the Property, the Building or the Leased Premises or commencing work the Tenant shall have delivered to the Landlord (a) all the Tenant’s certificates of insurance set forth in section 14 of this Agreement, conforming in all respects to the requirements of section 14 of this Agreement, except that the effective dates of all such insurance policies shall be prior to any such contractor’s entering upon the Property, the Building or the Leased Premises or commencing work (if any work is scheduled to begin before the Commencement Date) and (b) similar certificates of insurance from each of the Tenant’s contractors providing for coverage in equivalent amounts, together with their respective certificates of workers’ compensation insurance, employer’s liability insurance and products-completed operations insurance, the latter providing coverage in at least the amount required for the Tenant’s comprehensive general public liability and excess insurance;
 
  12.2.4.5.   each such contractor shall perform its work in a good and workpersonlike manner and shall not interfere with or hinder the Landlord or any other contractor in any manner;
 
  12.2.4.6.   there shall be no labor dispute of any nature whatsoever involving any such contractor or any workpersons of such contractor or the unions of which they are members with anyone; and if such a labor dispute exists or comes into existence the Tenant shall forthwith, at the Tenant’s sole cost and expense, remove all such contractors and their workpersons from the Building, the Common Facilities and the Property; and
 
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      Premises and all contractors’ materials, equipment and work, regardless of whether their work is in progress or completed.
12.3. After the Commencement Date, the Tenant shall not apply any wall covering (except latex based flat paint) or other treatment to the walls of the Leased Premises without the prior written consent of the Landlord, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Landlord’s disapproval shall not be considered unreasonable if a wall covering will require unusual expense of removal or will increase the fire rating of the Building.
13. Landlord’s Rights of Entry and Access .
The Landlord and its authorized agents shall have the following rights of entry and access to the Leased Premises:
13.1. In case of any emergency or threatened emergency, at any time for any purpose which the Landlord reasonably believes under such circumstances will serve to prevent, eliminate or reduce the emergency, or the threat thereof, or damage or threatened damage to persons and property.
13.2. Upon at least three (3) day’s prior verbal advice to the Tenant, at any time for the purpose of erecting or constructing improvements, modifications, alterations and other changes to the Building or any portion thereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Leased Premises, the Common Facilities or the Property or for the purpose of repairing, maintaining or cleaning them, whether for the benefit of the Landlord, the Building, all tenants of Other Leased Premises in the Building, or one or more tenants of Other Leased Premises, or others. In connection with any such improvements, modifications, alterations, other changes, repairs, maintenance or cleaning, the Landlord may close off such portions of the Property, the Building and the Common Facilities and interrupt such services as may be necessary to accomplish such work, without liability to the Tenant therefore and without such closing or interruption being deemed an eviction or constructive eviction or requiring an abatement of Rent. However, in accomplishing anything set forth in this subsection 13.2, the Landlord shall endeavor not to materially interfere with the Tenant’s use and enjoyment of the Leased Premises or the conduct of the Tenant’s business and to minimize interference, inconvenience and annoyance to the Tenant.
13.3. At all reasonable business hours with prior verbal notice for the purpose of operating, inspecting or examining the Building, including the Leased Premises, or the Property.
13.4. At any time after the Tenant has vacated the Leased Premises, for the purpose of preparing the Leased Premises for another tenant or prospective tenant.
13.5. If practicable by appointment with the Tenant, at all reasonable business hours for the purpose of showing the Building to prospective purchasers, mortgagees and prospective mortgagees and prospective ground lessees and lessors.
13.6. If practicable by appointment with the Tenant, at all reasonable business hours during the last nine (9) months of the Term for the purpose of showing the Leased Premises to prospective tenants thereof.
13.7. The mere enumeration of any right of the Landlord within this section 13 of the Agreement shall not be deemed to create an obligation on the part of the Landlord to exercise any such right unless the Landlord is affirmatively required to exercise such right elsewhere in this Agreement.

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14. Liabilities and Insurance Obligations .
14.1. The Tenant shall, at the Tenant’s own expense, purchase before the Commencement Date, and maintain in full force and effect throughout the Term and any other period during which the Tenant may have possession of the Leased Premises, the following types of insurance coverage from financially sound and reputable insurers, licensed by the State of New Jersey to provide such insurance and acceptable to the Landlord, in the minimum amounts set forth below, each of which insurance policies shall name the Landlord, the Landlord’s managing agent and mortgagees and ground lessors known to the Tenant, if any, of the Building, the Common Facilities, the Property or any interest therein, their successors and assigns as additional persons insured, and none of which insurance policies shall contain a “co-insurance” clause:
  14.1.1.   commercial general liability insurance (including “broad form and contractual liability” coverage) and excess (“umbrella”) insurance which, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, considered together shall insure against such risks as bodily injury, death and property damage, with a combined single limit of not less than $3,000,000.00 for each occurrence; and
 
  14.1.2.   “all-risks” property insurance covering the Leased Premises in an amount sufficient, as determined by the Landlord from time to time, to cover the replacement costs for all Tenant’s alterations, improvements, fixtures and personal property located in or on the Leased Premises.
14.2. With respect to risks:
  14.2.1.   as to which this Agreement requires either party to maintain insurance, or
 
  14.2.2.   as to which either party is effectively insured and for which risks the other party may be liable,
 
  14.2.3.   the party required to maintain such insurance and the party effectively insured shall use its best efforts to obtain a clause, if available from the respective insurer, in each such insurance policy expressly waiving any right of recovery, by reason of subrogation to such party’s rights or otherwise, the respective insurer might otherwise have or obtain against the other party, so long as such a clause can be obtained in the respective insurance policy without additional premium cost. If such a clause can be obtained in the respective insurance policy, but only at additional premium cost, such party shall, by notice to the other party, promptly advise the other party of such fact and the amount of the additional premium cost. If the other party desires the inclusion of such a clause in the notifying party’s respective insurance policy, the other party shall, within 10 days of receipt of the notifying party’s notice, by notice advise the notifying party of its desire and enclose therewith its check in the full amount of the additional premium cost; otherwise the notifying party need not obtain such a clause in the respective insurance.
14.3. Each party hereby waives any right of recovery against the other party for any and all damages for property losses and property damages which are actually insured by either party, but only to the extent:
  14.3.1.   that the waiver set forth in this subsection 14.3 does not cause or result in any cancellation of, or diminution in, the insurance coverage otherwise available under any applicable insurance policy;

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  14.3.2.   of the proceeds of any applicable insurance policy (without adjustment for any deductible amount set forth therein) actually received by such party for such respective loss or damages; and
 
  14.3.3.   the substance of the clause contemplated by subsection 14.2 of this Agreement is actually and effectively set forth in the respective insurance policy.
The waiver set forth in this subsection 14.3 of the Agreement shall not apply with respect to liability insurance policies (as opposed to property and casualty insurance policies).
14.4. The Tenant hereby waives any right of recovery it might otherwise have against the Landlord for losses and damages caused actively or passively, in whole or in part, by any of the risks the Tenant is required to insure against in accordance with subsections 14.1.1 or 14.1.2 of this Agreement, unless such waiver would cause or result in a cancellation of, or diminution in, the coverage of the Tenant’s policies of insurance against such risks.
14.5. The Landlord shall have no liability whatsoever to the Tenant or the Tenant’s employees, other agents or Guests or anyone else for any death, bodily injury, property loss or other damages suffered by any of them or any of their property which is not caused by the negligence or intentional misconduct of the Landlord.
14.6. Each policy of insurance required under subsection 14.1 of this Agreement shall include provisions to the effect that:
  14.6.1.   no act or omission of the Tenant, its employees, other agents or Guests shall result in a loss of insurance coverage otherwise available under such policy to any person required to be named as an additional insured in accordance with subsection 14.1 of this Agreement; and
 
  14.6.2.   the insurance coverage afforded by such policy shall not be diminished, cancelled, permitted to expire or otherwise terminated for any reason except upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice from the insurer to every person required to be named as an additional insured in accordance with subsection 14.1 of this Agreement.
14.7. With respect to each type of insurance coverage referred to in subsection 14.1 of this Agreement, upon the commencement of the Temporary Occupancy Period, the Tenant shall cause its insurer(s) to deliver to the Landlord the certificate(s) of the insurer(s) setting forth the name and address of the insurer, the name and address of each additional insured, the type of coverage provided, the limits of the coverage, any deductible amounts, the effective dates of coverage and that each policy under which coverage is provided affirmatively includes provisions to the effect set forth in subsection 14.6 of this Agreement. In the event any of such certificates indicates a coverage termination date earlier than the end of the Term or the end of any other period during which the Tenant may have possession of the Leased Premises, no later than 10 days before any such coverage termination date, the Tenant shall deliver to the Landlord respective, equivalent, new certificate(s) of the insurer(s).
15. Casualty Damage to Building or Leased Premises .
15.1. In the event of any damage to the Building or any portion thereof by fire or other casualty, with the result that the Leased Premises are rendered unusable, in whole or in part, then, unless the Building is

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destroyed or so damaged that the Landlord does not intend to rebuild the same, the Landlord shall, within thirty (30) business days of the casualty, determine the period of time required to restore the Building and the Leased Premises (but not including the improvements constructed or installed prior to the Term or during the Term in excess of the original allowance for the same).
  15.1.1.   If, in Landlord’s opinion, the restoration described above will take more than 180 days then Landlord may elect to cancel this Agreement effective as of the date of casualty. Notice of the Landlord’s election shall be served upon the Tenant within the thirty (30) day period described above.
 
  15.1.2.   If, in Landlord’s opinion, the restoration described above will take 180 days or less, then Landlord shall not cancel this Agreement and must restore the Building and the Leased Premises as aforesaid. In either of such events, the Landlord shall cause restoration to proceed diligently and expediently to the extent the Landlord has received proceeds of any property, casualty or liability insurance on the damaged portions (or would have received such proceeds had it obtained such coverage).
15.2. Rent shall abate from the date of the casualty until:
  15.2.1.   such time as the Leased Premises are again fully usable and be reduced during such period by the amount which bears the same proportion to the Rent otherwise payable during such period as the gross rentable floor space of the Leased Premises which are rendered unusable bears to the gross rentable floor space of the Leased Premises. The restoration of the improvements constructed or installed prior to the Term or during the Term in excess of the original allowance for the same shall be the Tenant’s responsibility. Tenant shall make reasonable, good faith efforts to integrate the restoration which is its responsibility with the work which is being performed by Landlord. To the extent that is not feasible, Tenant shall be allowed an additional, reasonable interval to complete its work, not to exceed sixty days and Rent shall abate during the interval required for such restoration. The Landlord shall cooperate with Tenant to integrate the restoration of such improvements during the reconstruction period; or
 
  15.2.2.   this Agreement is canceled pursuant to the provisions of subsections 15.1.
15.3. If, in the Landlord’s opinion, the restoration described above will take more than 180 days and the Landlord makes the election to cancel set forth in subsection 15.1 above then Landlord, in such event, may proceed with restoration (or non-restoration) in any manner it chooses, without any liability to Tenant.
15.4. The Tenant shall promptly advise the Landlord of the occurrence of any casualty damage to the Building or the Leased Premises of which the Tenant becomes aware.
16. Condemnation .
If the Leased Premises, or any portion thereof, or the Building or the Common Facilities, or any substantial portion of any of the foregoing, shall be acquired for any public or quasi-public use or purpose by statute, right of eminent domain or private sale in lieu thereof, with the result the Tenant can not use and occupy the Leased Premises for the purpose set forth in subsection 7.1 of this Agreement, this Agreement shall terminate and the Tenant hereby waives any claim against the Landlord, the condemning authority or

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other person acquiring same for any thing of value, tangible or intangible, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the putative value of any leasehold interest or loss of the use of same, except for any right the Tenant might have to make a claim, independent of, and without reference to or having any effect on, any award or claim of the Landlord, against the condemning authority or other acquiring party regarding the value of the Tenant’s installed trade fixtures and other installed equipment which are not removable from the Leased Premises or for ordinary and necessary moving expenses occasioned thereby.
17. Assignment or Subletting by Tenant .
17.1. Except as may be specifically set forth in this section 17 of this Agreement, the Tenant shall not, without the Landlord’s prior written approval:
  17.1.1.   assign this Agreement or any of the Tenant’s rights hereunder;
 
  17.1.2.   sublet the Leased Premises or any portion thereof;
 
  17.1.3.   license the use or occupancy of the Leased Premises or any portion thereof;
 
  17.1.4.   otherwise transfer any interest including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a mortgage, pledge or security interest, in this Agreement, the Leased Premises, but not the contents of the Leased Premises, or the right to the use and occupancy of the Leased Premises; or
 
  17.1.5.   indirectly accomplish, or permit or suffer the accomplishment of, any of the foregoing by merger or consolidation with another entity, by acquisition or disposition of assets or liabilities outside the ordinary course of the Tenant’s business or by acquisition or disposition, by the Tenant’s equity owners or subordinated creditors, of any of their respective interests in the Tenant.
17.2. The Tenant shall not assign this Agreement or any of the Tenant’s rights hereunder or sublet the Leased Premises or any portion thereof without first giving fifteen (15) days prior notice to the Landlord of its desire to assign or sublet and requesting the Landlord’s consent and without first receiving the Landlord’s prior written consent. Within fifteen (15) days after the expiration of the fifteen (15) day notice period, Landlord shall inform Tenant of its decision in writing. If Landlord does not respond within fifteen (15) days, it will be deemed that consent is granted to Tenant. Landlord shall not unreasonably withhold and or delay its consent. The notice shall be accompanied by an agreement by Tenant to reimburse Landlord for the reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the review of the proposed assignment or sublease and the documentation related thereto. The Tenant’s notice to the Landlord also shall include:
  17.2.1.   the full name, address and telephone number of the proposed assignee or sublessee;
 
  17.2.2.   a description of the type(s) of business in which the proposed assignee or sublessee is engaged and proposes to engage;
 
  17.2.3.   a description of the use to which the proposed assignee or sublessee intends to put the Leased Premises or portion thereof;
 
  17.2.4.   the proposed assignee’s or subtenant’s most recent quarterly and annual financial

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      statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and any other evidence of financial position and responsibility that the Tenant or proposed assignee or sublessee may desire to submit;
 
  17.2.5.   by diagram and measurement of the actual square feet of floor space, the portion of the Leased Premises proposed to be subject to the assignment of this Agreement or to be sublet;
 
  17.2.6.   a complete summary of the terms of the proposed assignment or sublease including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all consideration paid or given, or proposed to be paid or to be given, by the proposed assignee, sublessee or other person to the Tenant and the respective times of payment or delivery; and
 
  17.2.7.   any other information reasonably requested by the Landlord.
17.3. By the expiration of the notice period contemplated by subsection 17.2 of this Agreement, the Landlord, in its sole discretion, shall take one of the following actions by notice to the Tenant:
  17.3.1.   grant consent on the terms and conditions set forth in subsection 17.4 of this Agreement and such other reasonable terms and conditions set forth in the Landlord’s notice;
 
  17.3.2.   refuse to grant consent for any of the reasons set forth in subsection 17.5 of this Agreement or for any other reasonable reason set forth in the Landlord’s notice; or
 
  17.3.3.   elect to terminate the Term as of (a) the end of the first full month after the Tenant has given notice of the Tenant’s desire to assign or sublet or (b) the proposed effective date of the proposed assignment or sublease.
17.4. The Landlord’s consent to the Tenant’s proposed assignment or sublease, if granted under subsection 17.3.1 of this Agreement, shall be subject to all the following terms and conditions (and to any other terms and conditions permitted by that subsection):
  17.4.1.   any proposed assignee or sublessee shall, by document executed and delivered forthwith to the Landlord, agree to be bound by all the obligations of the Tenant set forth in this Agreement except that a sublessee shall only be bound to pay the rent agreed to in the sublease;
 
  17.4.2.   the Tenant shall remain liable under this Agreement, jointly and severally with any proposed assignee or sublessee, for the timely performance of all obligations of the Tenant set forth in this Agreement;
 
  17.4.3.   the Tenant shall forthwith deliver to the Landlord manually executed copies of all documents regarding the proposed assignment or sublease and a written, accurate and complete description, manually executed both by the Tenant and the proposed assignee or sublessee, of any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between them regarding the same;
 
  17.4.4.   with respect to any consideration or other thing of value received or to be received by the Tenant in place of or as a substitute for rent in connection with any such assignment or sublease (other than those payable in equal monthly installments each month during the

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      proposed term of any such assignment or sublease), the Tenant shall pay to the Landlord one-half of any such amount and one-half of the fair market value of any other thing of value within 10 days of receipt of same;
 
  17.4.5.   with respect to any amount payable to the Tenant in equal monthly installments each month during the proposed term of any such assignment or sublease in connection with such assignment or sublease, which amount is in excess of the amount of Rent paid by Tenant to Landlord, the Tenant shall pay one-half of such excess to the Landlord together with the Tenant’s monthly installment of Rent after Tenant has deducted therefrom the cost of alterations and improvements, brokerage fees, legal fees and rent concessions;
 
  17.4.6.   the proposed use of the Leased Premises is a permitted use under this Agreement; and
 
  17.4.7.   Tenant shall reimburse Landlord for the reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the review of the proposed assignment or sublease and the documentation related thereto, not to exceed five hundred dollars.
17.5. The Landlord’s refusal to grant consent under subsection 17.3.2 of this Agreement shall not be deemed an unreasonable withholding of consent if based upon any of the following reasons (or any other reason permitted by that subsection):
  17.5.1.   the Landlord desires to take one of the other actions enumerated in subsection 17.3 of this Agreement;
 
  17.5.2.   if comparable space is available in the Building and the proposed sublessee or assignee is an existing tenant of Other Leased Premises;
 
  17.5.3.   the general reputation, financial position or ability or type of business of, or the anticipated use of the Leased Premises by, the proposed assignee or proposed sublessee is unsatisfactory to the Landlord or is inconsistent with those of tenants of Other Leased Premises or inconsistent with any commitment made by the Landlord to any such other tenant;
 
  17.5.4.   Tenant has advertised or listed the space for subleasing or assignment at a rate or at a proposed rate which is less than the rate being quoted by Landlord for other available space in the Building.
17.6. The Tenant shall have the right to assign this Agreement or sublet the Leased Premises or portions thereof without the prior written consent of the Landlord and without the application of subsections 17.1 and 17.2 of this Agreement if one of the following is applicable:
  17.6.1.   the proposed assignee or sublessee is, and continues to be, an Affiliate of the Tenant and the Affiliate relationship was not created to avoid the operation of this section of the Agreement; or
 
  17.6.2.   the proposed assignee or sublessee is an entity (a) resulting from the merger or consolidation of the Tenant with or into such entity or (b) purchasing substantially all the assets (subject to substantially all the liabilities) of the Tenant or (c) purchasing substantially all the issued and outstanding capital stock in the Tenant.

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  17.6.3.   For this purpose, an “Affiliate” of Tenant means an entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, Tenant.
 
  17.6.4.   Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection 17.6, the provisions of subsections 17.4.1, 17.4.3 and 17.4.6 of this Agreement shall continue to apply in the event of an assignment or sublease to an Affiliate.
18. Signs, Displays and Advertising .
18.1. The Tenant shall have one sign identifying the Landlord’s assigned number for the Leased Premises at the principal entrance to the Leased Premises. The Tenant may identify itself in or on each of: the signs at the principal entrance to the Leased Premises, the Building directory and the directory, if any, on the floor of the Building on which the Leased Premises is located. All such signs, and the method and materials used in mounting and dismounting them, shall be in accordance with the Landlord’s specifications. All such signs shall be provided and mounted by the Landlord at the Landlord’s expense, except that the Tenant shall bear any expense of identifying itself on the sign at the principal entrance to the Leased Premises.
18.2. No other sign, advertisement, fixture or display shall be used by the Tenant on the Property or in the Building or the Common Facilities. Any signs other than those specifically permitted under subsection 18.1 of this Agreement shall be removed promptly by the Tenant or by the Landlord at the Tenant’s expense.
18.3. In addition, at Tenant’s request, Landlord shall provide proportionate monument signage, at Landlord’s expense, subject to Township approval. In such event, as long as Tenant occupies at least 30,000 gross rentable square feet in the Building, Tenant’s sign shall be the top sign on the monument.
19. Quiet Enjoyment .
The Landlord is the owner of the Building, the Property and the Common Facilities located on the Property. The Landlord has the right and authority to enter into and execute and deliver this Agreement with the Tenant. So long as an Event of Default shall not have occurred, the Tenant shall and may peaceably and quietly have, hold and enjoy the Leased Premises during the Term in accordance with this Agreement.
20. Omitted Intentionally .
21. Surrender .
21.1. Upon expiration or other termination of the Term, or at any other time at which the Landlord, by virtue of any provision of this Agreement or otherwise has the right to re-enter and re-take possession of the Leased Premises, the Tenant shall surrender possession of the Leased Premises; remove from the Leased Premises all property owned by the Tenant or anyone else other than the Landlord; remove from the Leased Premises any alterations, improvements or other modifications to the Leased Premises made subsequent to the initial installation called for in this Lease that the Landlord may request by notice, to the extent Landlord notified Tenant in writing that such alterations and/or improvements are to be removed at time of Tenant’s submissions of plans for approvals to do such alterations and/or improvements; make any repairs required by such removal; clean the Leased Premises; leave the Leased Premises in as good order and condition as it was upon the completion of any improvements contemplated by section 5 of this Agreement, ordinary wear and use excepted; return all copies of all keys and passes to the Leased Premises,

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the Common Facilities and the Building to the Landlord (or Tenant shall bear the cost of securing replacements); and receive the Landlord’s written acceptance of the Tenant’s surrender. The Landlord shall not be deemed to have accepted the Tenant’s surrender of the Leased Premises unless and until the Landlord shall have executed and delivered the Landlord’s written acceptance of surrender to the Tenant, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
21.2. After the expiration or sooner termination of the Term, Tenant, at its expense, shall remove any or all voice and data wiring, cables and similar installations appurtenant thereto installed by Tenant in the risers, ceilings, plenums and electrical closets of the Building (the “Wiring”) and restore the Leased Premises and the Building to the condition existing prior to the installation of the Wiring (the “Wire Restoration Work”).
21.3. The provisions of this Clause shall survive the expiration or sooner termination of this Agreement.
21.4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 29 , Landlord may retain Tenant’s Security Deposit after the expiration or sooner termination of this Agreement until Tenant has fully performed the Wire Restoration Work. In the event Tenant fails to perform the Wiring Restoration Work within thirty (30) days, Landlord may perform the Wire Restoration Work and apply all or any portion of Tenant’s Security Deposit toward the payment of the cost thereof. The retention or application of such Security Deposit by Landlord pursuant to this subsection 21.5 does not constitute a limitation on or waiver of Landlord’s right to pursue any other or further remedies at law or in equity.
22. Events of Default .
The occurrence of any of the following events shall constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement:
22.1. the Tenant’s failure to pay any installment of Basic Rent or any amount of Additional Rent within five (5) days of the date when it is first due provided that if such payment is not paid when it is first due more than twice in any twelve month period then, thereafter, Tenant’s failure to pay Rent when it is first due;
22.2. the Tenant’s failure to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement if such failure has caused, or may cause, loss or damage that can not promptly be cured by subsequent act of the Tenant;
22.3. the Tenant’s failure to complete performance of any of the Tenant’s obligations under this Agreement (other than those contemplated by subsections 22.1 and 22.2 of this Agreement) within ten (10) days after the Landlord shall have given notice to the Tenant specifying which of the Tenant’s obligations has not been performed and in what respects, unless completion of performance within such period of ten (10) days is not possible using diligence and expedience, then within a reasonable time of the Landlord’s notice so long as the Tenant shall have commenced substantial performance within the first three (3) days of such period of ten (10) days and shall have continued to provide substantial performance through to completion of performance;
22.4. the discovery that any representation made by the Tenant in this Agreement shall have been inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect either on the date it was made or the date as of which it was made;
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22.6. with the exception of those of the following events to which section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code shall apply in the context of an office lease (in which case subsection 22.7 of this Agreement shall apply):
  22.6.1.   the Tenant’s becoming a “debtor,” as that term is defined in section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  22.6.2.   any time when either the value of the Tenant’s liabilities exceed the value of the Tenant’s assets or the Tenant is unable to pay its obligations as and when they respectively become due in the ordinary course of business;
 
  22.6.3.   the appointment of a receiver or trustee of the Tenant’s property or affairs; or
 
  22.6.4.   the Tenant’s making an assignment for the benefit of, or an arrangement with or among, creditors or filing a petition in insolvency or for reorganization or for the appointment of a receiver;
22.7. in the event of the occurrence of any of the events enumerated in subsection 22.6 of this Agreement to which section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code shall apply in the context of an office lease, the earlier of the bankruptcy trustee’s rejection or deemed rejection (as those terms are used in section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code) of this Agreement; or
22.8. the Tenant’s abandoning the Leased Premises and ceasing to pay Rent before expiration of the Term without the prior written consent of the Landlord.
23. Rights and Remedies .
23.1. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default the Landlord shall have all the following rights and remedies:
  23.1.1.   to elect to terminate the Term by giving notice of such election, and the effective date thereof, to the Tenant and to receive Termination Damages;
 
  23.1.2.   to elect to re-enter and re-take possession of the Leased Premises, without thereby terminating the Term, by giving notice of such election, and the effective date thereof, to the Tenant and to receive Re-Leasing Damages;
 
  23.1.3.   if the Tenant remains in possession of the Leased Premises after the Tenant’s obligation to surrender the Leased Premises shall have arisen, to remove the Tenant and the Tenant’s and any others’ possessions from the Leased Premises by any of the following means without any liability to the Tenant therefore, any such liability to the Tenant therefore which might otherwise arise being hereby waived by the Tenant: legal proceedings (summary or otherwise), writ of dispossession and any other means and to receive Holdover Damages, to receive all expenses incurred in removing the Tenant and the Tenant’s and any others’ possessions from the Leased Premises, and of storing such possessions if the Landlord so elects;
 
  23.1.4.   to be awarded specific performance, temporary restraints and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief regarding Events of Default where the Landlord’s rights and remedies at law may be inadequate, without the necessity of proving actual damages or the inadequacy

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      of the rights and remedies at law;
 
  23.1.5.   to receive all expenses incurred in securing, preserving, maintaining and operating the Leased Premises during any period of vacancy, in making repairs to the Leased Premises, in preparing the Leased Premises for re-leasing and in re-leasing the Leased Premises including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any brokerage commissions;
 
  23.1.6.   to receive all reasonable legal expenses, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, attorneys’ fees incurred in connection with pursuing any of the Landlord’s rights and remedies, including indemnification rights and remedies;
 
  23.1.7.   if the Landlord, in its sole discretion, elects to perform any obligation of the Tenant under this Agreement (other than the obligation to pay Rent) which the Tenant has not timely performed, to receive all expenses incurred in so doing;
 
  23.1.8.   to elect to pursue any legal or equitable right and remedy available to the Landlord under this Agreement or otherwise; and
 
  23.1.9.   to elect any combination, or any sequential combination of any of the rights and remedies set forth in subsection 23.1 of this Agreement.
23.2. In the event the Landlord elects the right and remedy set forth in subsection 23.1.1 of this Agreement, Termination Damages shall be equal to the amount which, at the time of actual payment thereof to the Landlord, is the sum of:
  23.2.1.   all accrued but unpaid Rent;
 
  23.2.2.   the present value (calculated using the most recently available (at the time of calculation) published weekly average yield on United States Treasury securities having maturities comparable to the balance of the then remaining Term) of the sum of all payments of Rent remaining due (at the time of calculation) until the date the Term would have expired (had there been no election to terminate it earlier) less the present value (similarly calculated) of all payments of rent to be received through the end of the Term (had there been no election to terminate it earlier) from a lessee, if any, of the Leased Premises at the time of calculation (and it shall be assumed for purposes of such calculations that (i) the amount of future Additional Rent due per year under this Agreement will be equal to the average Additional Rent per month due during the 12 full calendar months immediately preceding the date of any such calculation, increasing annually at a rate of five percent (5%), (ii) if any calculation is made before the first anniversary of the end of the No Pass Through Period, the average Additional Rent due for any month after the end of the No Pass Through Period will be equal to five percent (5%) of the sum of the Base Year Operational Expenses, Base Year Taxes and Tenant Electric Charges (considered on an annual basis), (iii) if any calculation is made before the beginning of the Base Year, the sum of Base Year Taxes and Base Year Operational Expenses shall be assumed to be $7.50 per gross rentable square foot and (iv) if any calculation is made before the end of the Base Year, Base Year Taxes and Base Year Operational Expenses may be extrapolated based on the year to date experience of the Landlord);
 
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  23.2.4.   that amount, which as of the occurrence of the Event of Default, bears the same ratio to the costs, if any, incurred by the Landlord (and not paid by the Tenant) in building out the Leased Premises in accordance with section 5 of this Agreement as the number of months remaining in the Term (immediately before the occurrence of the Event of Default) bears to the number of months in the entire Term (immediately before the occurrence of the Event of Default).
 
  23.2.5.   In case this Lease shall be terminated after an Event of Default, Landlord may, in its sole discretion, but shall not have the obligation, in its own name and on its own behalf, relet the whole or any portion of the Leased Premises, for any period equal to or greater or less than the remainder of the then current Lease Term, for any sum which it may deem reasonable, to any tenant which it may deem suitable and satisfactory, and for any use and purpose which it may deem appropriate, and in connection with any such lease Landlord may make such changes in the character of the improvements on the Leased Premises as Landlord may determine to be appropriate or helpful in effecting such lease and may grant concessions or free rent. Tenant hereby waives any rights it may have at law or in equity which may be imposed upon Landlord to perform acts to mitigate Tenant’s damages resulting from Tenant’s default. Landlord shall not in any event be required to pay Tenant any surplus of any sums received by Landlord on a re-letting of the Leased Premises for any sum in excess of the Rent reserved in this Lease.
 
  23.2.6.   Notwithstanding subsection 23.2.5 above, in the event that applicable law or Court order shall impose any obligation upon Landlord to mitigate the damages of Tenant following the occurrence of any Default, then Tenant agrees that in such circumstance Landlord shall completely discharge its obligation by listing with a nationally recognized broker. Landlord shall not be obligated to: (a) accept a lower amount or rate of Annual Rent than that payable under this Lease for the remainder of the Lease Term; (b) lease less than all of the Leased Premises to a single tenant; (c) lease to any party that does not meet Landlord’s financial and creditworthiness requirements; (d) lease for a term shorter than five (5) years; (e) lease to any tenant who would pose an inordinate burden upon the infrastructure of the Building; (f) lease to any tenant that does not meet any criteria established by the holder of a first mortgage on the Premises; or (g) lease to any party that is unable or unwilling to post security deposits reasonably required by Landlord.
23.3. In the event the Landlord elects the right and remedy set forth in subsection 23.1.2 of this Agreement, Re-Leasing Damages shall be equal to the Rent less any rent actually and timely received by the Landlord from any lessee of the Leased Premises or any portion thereof, payable at the respective times that Rent is payable under the Agreement plus the cost, if any, to the Landlord of building out or otherwise preparing the Leased Premises for, and leasing the Leased Premises to, any such lessee.
23.4. In the event the Landlord elects the right and remedy set forth in subsection 23.1.3 of this Agreement, Holdover Damages shall mean damages at the rate per month or part thereof equal to one and one-half times one-twelfth of all payments of Rent due under this Agreement during each of the last 12 full calendar months payable in full on the first day of each holdover month or part thereof.
23.5. In connection with any summary proceeding to dispossess and remove the Tenant from the Leased Premises under subsection 23.1.3 of this Agreement, the Tenant hereby waives:

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  23.5.1.   any right the Tenant might otherwise have to cause a termination of the action or proceeding by paying to the Landlord or into court or otherwise any Rent in arrears;
 
  23.5.2.   any right the Tenant might otherwise have to transfer or remove such proceeding from the court (or the particular division or part of the court) or other forum in which it shall have been instituted by the Landlord to another court, division or part; and
 
  23.5.3.   any right the Tenant might otherwise have to redeem the Tenant’s former leasehold interest between the entry of any judgment and the execution of any warrant issued in connection therewith by paying to the Landlord or into Court or otherwise any Rent in arrears.
23.6. The enumeration of rights and remedies in this section 23 of the Agreement is not intended to be exhaustive or exclusive of any rights and remedies which might otherwise be available to the Landlord, or to force an election of one or more rights and remedies to the exclusion of others, concurrently, consecutively or sequentially. On the contrary, each right and remedy enumerated in this section 23 of the Agreement is intended to be cumulative with each other right and remedy enumerated in this section 23 of the Agreement and with each other right and remedy that might otherwise be available to the Landlord; and the selection of one or more of such rights and remedies at any time shall not be deemed to prevent resort to one or more others of such rights and remedies at the same time or a subsequent time, even with regard to the same occurrence sought to be remedied.
23.7. If (i) an Event of Default has occurred and the Tenant moves out, whether Landlord has terminated or otherwise, or (ii) if Tenant is dispossessed, and, in either of such events, fails to remove any property, machinery, equipment and fixtures or other property prior to such default, dispossess or removal, then and in that event, the said property, machinery, equipment and fixtures or other property shall be deemed, at the option of the Landlord, to be abandoned; or in lieu thereof, at the Landlord’s option, the Landlord may remove such property and charge the reasonable cost and expense of removal, storage and disposal to the Tenant, together with an additional fifteen percent (15%) of such costs for Landlord’s overhead and profit, which total costs shall be deemed to be additional rent hereunder. The Tenant shall be liable for any damage which it causes in the removal of said property from the Leased Premises.
24. Termination of the Term .
24.1. The Term shall terminate upon the earliest of the following events to occur:
  24.1.1.   expiration of the Term;
 
  24.1.2.   the effective date of an election by the Tenant under subsection 6.2 of this Agreement;
 
  24.1.3.   in connection with a transaction contemplated by section 16 of this Agreement, the later of (a) the vesting of the acquiring party’s right to possession or (b) the Tenant’s vacating the Leased Premises;
 
  24.1.4.   under the circumstances contemplated by subsection 15.1 of this Agreement, upon the Tenant’s giving prompt notice of the failure of the Landlord to give, on a timely basis, the notice contemplated by subsection 15.1.2 of this Agreement and that the Tenant desires termination of the Term (which termination shall be effective as of the date of the subject

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      casualty with respect to those portions of the Leased Premises rendered untenantable and as of the date of the Tenant’s giving notice with respect to those portions of the Leased Premises which were not rendered untenantable);
 
  24.1.5.   under the circumstances contemplated by subsection 15.1 of this Agreement, upon the expiration of thirty (30) additional days (without the Landlord’s completion of restoration in the interim) after the Tenant shall have given prompt notice that the Landlord has not restored the Leased Premises on a timely basis and that the Tenant desires termination of the Term (which termination shall be effective as of the date of the subject casualty with respect to those portions of the Leased Premises rendered untenantable and as of the date of the Tenant’s giving notice with respect to those portions of the Leased Premises which were not rendered untenantable);
 
  24.1.6.   the effective date of any election by the Landlord under subsection 17.3.3 of this Agreement in response to the Tenant’s notice of the Tenant’s desire to assign this Agreement or to sublet all or a portion of the Leased Premises; or
 
  24.1.7.   the effective date of any election by the Landlord to terminate the Term under subsection 23.1.1 of this Agreement.
24.2. No termination of the Term shall have the effect of releasing either the Tenant or the Landlord from any obligation or liability theretofore or thereby incurred and, in the case of the Tenant, until the Tenant shall have surrendered the Leased Premises in accordance with section 21 of this Agreement, from any obligation or liability thereafter incurred.
25. Mortgage and Underlying Lease Priority .
25.1. This Agreement and the estate, interest and rights hereby created for the benefit of the Tenant are, and shall always be, subordinate to any mortgage (other than a mortgage created by the Tenant or a sale, transfer or other disposition by the Tenant in the nature of a security interest in violation of subsections 17.1.4 and 22.5, respectively, of this Agreement) already or afterwards placed on the Property, the Common Facilities, the Building or any estate or interest therein including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any new mortgage or any mortgage extension, renewal, modification, consolidation, replacement, supplement or substitution. This Agreement and the estate, interest and rights hereby created for the benefit of the Tenant are, and shall always be, subordinate to any ground lease already or afterwards made with regard to the Property, the Common Facilities, the Building or any estate or interest therein including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any new ground lease or any ground lease extension, renewal, modification, consolidation, replacement, supplement or substitution. The provisions of this section 25 of the Agreement shall be self-effecting; and no further instrument shall be necessary to effect any such subordination. Nevertheless, the Tenant hereby consents that any mortgagee or mortgagee’s successor in interest may, at any time and from time to time, by notice to the Tenant, subordinate its mortgage to the estate and interest created by this Agreement; and upon the giving of such notice, the subject mortgage shall be deemed subordinate to the estate and interest created by this Agreement regardless of the respective times of execution or delivery of either or of recording the subject mortgage.
25.2 Landlord shall use commercially reasonable efforts to secure a non-disturbance agreement in mortgagee’s standard form from any existing mortgagee which provides that Tenant’s possession will not be disturbed as long as Tenant is not in default under the terms of the Agreement and all future mortgagors, if any, will provide for a non-disturbance of the Tenants rights under this Lease Agreement. If

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Tenant negotiates the terms of the non-disturbance agreement, Tenant shall pay mortgagee’s charge in connection with securing and preparation of the non-disturbance agreement.
26. Transfer by Landlord .
26.1. The Landlord shall have the right at any time and from time to time to sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of the Property, the Common Facilities or the Building or any of the Landlord’s interests therein, or to assign this Agreement or any of the Landlord’s rights thereunder.
26.2. Upon giving notice of the occurrence of any transaction contemplated by subsection 26.1 of this Agreement, the Landlord shall thereby be relieved of any obligation that might otherwise exist under this Agreement with respect to periods subsequent to the effective date of any such transaction. If, in connection with any transaction contemplated by subsection 26.1 of this Agreement the Landlord transfers, or makes allowance for, any Security Deposit of the Tenant and gives notice of that fact to the Tenant, the Landlord shall thereby be relieved of any further obligation to the Tenant with regard to any such Security Deposit which is assumed in writing by the transferee; and the Tenant shall look solely to the transferee with respect to any such Security Deposit.
26.3. In the event of the occurrence of any transaction contemplated by subsection 26.1 of this Agreement the Tenant, upon written request therefore from the transferee, shall attorn to and become the tenant of such transferee upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
26.4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary that may be set forth in subsections 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3 of this Agreement, in the event any mortgage contemplated by section 25 of this Agreement is enforced by the respective mortgagee pursuant to remedies provided in the mortgage or otherwise provided by law or equity and any person succeeds to the interest of the Landlord as a result of, or in connection with, any such enforcement, the Tenant shall, upon the request of such successor in interest, automatically attorn to and become the Tenant of such successor in interest without any change in the terms or provisions of this Agreement, except that such successor in interest shall not be bound by: (a) any payment of Basic Rent or Additional Rent (exclusive of prepayments in the nature of a Security Deposit) for more than one month in advance or (b) any amendment or other modification of this Agreement which was made without the consent of such mortgagee or such successor in interest; and, upon the request of such successor in interest, the Tenant shall execute, acknowledge and deliver any instrument(s) confirming such attornment.
26.5. If this Agreement and the estate, interest and rights hereby created for the benefit of the Tenant are ever subject and subordinate to any ground lease contemplated by section 25 of this Agreement:
  26.5.1.   upon the expiration or earlier termination of the term of any such ground lease before the termination of the Term under this Agreement, the Tenant shall attorn to, and become the Tenant of, the lessor under any such ground lease and recognize such lessor as the Landlord under this Agreement for the balance of the Term; and
 
  26.5.2.   such expiration or earlier termination of the term of any such ground lease shall have no effect on the Term under this Agreement.
27. Indemnification .
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the foregoing, expenses of investigation, defense and enforcement thereof or of the obligation set forth in this section 27 of the Agreement including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, reasonable attorneys’ fees, imposed on or incurred by the Landlord in connection with any of the following matters which occurs during the Term:
  27.1.1.   any matter, cause or thing arising out of the use, occupancy, control or management of the Leased Premises or any portion thereof which is not caused by the Landlord’s negligence or intentional act;
 
  27.1.2.   any negligence or intentional act on the part of the Tenant or any of its employees, other agents or Guests;
 
  27.1.3.   any accident, injury or damage to any person or property occurring in or about the Leased Premises which is not caused by the Landlord’s negligence or intentional act;
 
  27.1.4.   any representation made by the Tenant in this Agreement shall have been inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect either on the date it was made or the date as of which it was made;
 
  27.1.5.   the imposition of any mechanic’s, materialman’s or other lien on the Property, the Common Facilities, the Building, the Leased Premises or any portion of any of the foregoing, or the filing of any notice of intention to obtain any such lien, in connection with any alteration, improvement or other modification of the Leased Premises made or authorized by the Tenant (which indemnification obligation shall be deemed to include the Tenant’s obligations set forth in subsection 12.2.4.3 of this Agreement); or
 
  27.1.6.   any failure on the part of the Tenant to perform or comply with any obligation of the Tenant set forth in this Agreement.
27.2. The Landlord shall, and hereby does, indemnify the Tenant against any and all liabilities, obligations, damages, penalties, claims, costs, charges and expenses including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, expenses of investigation, defense and enforcement thereof including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, reasonable attorneys’ fees, imposed on or incurred by the Tenant in connection with any matter, cause or thing arising out of the Landlord’s negligence or intentional acts in the Building (other than the Leased Premises) or in the Common Facilities except to the extent caused by the Tenant’s negligence or intentional act.
27.3 Payment of indemnification claims shall be due upon giving notice thereof to the party from whom indemnification is due together with invoices and other documents supporting the amount of the claim by Landlord.
27.4. The party seeking indemnification shall promptly give notice of any claim asserted, or action or proceeding commenced, against it as to which it intends to claim indemnification and shall forward copies of all claim or litigation documents received by it. Upon receipt of such notice the party seeking indemnification may, by notice to the other party, participate therein and, to the extent it may desire, assume the defense thereof through independent counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the other party, selected by the party providing indemnification. The other party shall not be bound by any compromise or settlement of any such claim, action or proceeding without its prior written consent.

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28. Parties’ Liability .
28.1. None of the following occurrences shall constitute a breach of this Agreement by the Landlord, a termination of the Term, an active or constructive eviction or an occurrence requiring an abatement of Rent:
  28.1.1.   the inability of the Landlord to provide any utility or service to be provided by the Landlord, as described in section 8 of this Agreement which is due to causes beyond the Landlord’s control, or to necessary or advisable improvements, maintenance, repairs or emergency, so long as the Landlord uses reasonable efforts and diligence under the circumstances to restore the interrupted service or utility;
 
  28.1.2.   any improvement, modification, alteration or other change made to the Property, the Building or the Common Facilities by the Landlord consistently with the Landlord’s obligations set forth in subsection 13.2 of this Agreement providing any change does not affect Tenant’s use and or occupancy to more than a de minimus extent; and
 
  28.1.3.   any change in any Federal, state or local law or ordinance.
28.2. Except for the commencement, duration or termination of the Term (other than under the circumstances contemplated by subsection 15.1 of this Agreement), the Tenant’s obligation to make timely payments of Rent, the Tenant’s obligation to maintain certain insurance coverage in effect, the Tenant’s failure to perform any of its other obligations under this Agreement if such failure has caused loss or damage that can not promptly be cured by subsequent act of the Tenant and the period within which any Option to Renew or any other type of option or optional right exercisable by the Tenant must be exercised, any period of time during which the Landlord or the Tenant is prevented from performing any of its respective obligations under this Agreement because of fire, any other casualty or catastrophe, strikes, lockouts, civil commotion, acts of God or the public enemy, governmental prohibitions or preemptions, embargoes or inability to obtain labor or material due to shortage, governmental regulation or prohibition, shall be added to the time when such performance is otherwise required under this Agreement.
28.3. Landlord shall not be liable for any loss suffered or incurred by Tenant, or any interruption of or injury to its business or property by reason of the use of the Grand Master Key or electronic card key access by Landlord or its representatives. In the event the Landlord is an individual, an entity, partnership, joint venture, association or a participant in a joint tenancy or tenancy in common, neither the Landlord, nor any of its officers, directors, shareholders, partners, venturers, members and joint owners shall have any personal liability or obligation under or in connection with this Agreement or the Tenant’s use and occupancy of the Leased Premises; but recourse shall be limited exclusively to the Landlord’s interest in the Building.
28.4. If Landlord shall be unable to give possession of the Leased Premises on the Target Date, the rent reserved and covenanted to be paid herein shall not commence until the possession of the Leased Premises is given.
28.5. If, at any time during the Term, the payment or collection of any Rent otherwise due under this Agreement shall be limited, frozen or otherwise subjected to a moratorium by applicable law, and such limitation, freeze or other moratorium shall subsequently be lifted, whether before or after the termination of the Term, such aggregate amount of Rent as shall not have been paid or collected during the Term on account of any such limitation, freeze or other moratorium, shall thereupon be due and payable at once.

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There shall be added to the maximum period of any otherwise applicable statute of limitation the entire period during which any such limitation, freeze or other moratorium shall have been in effect.
28.6. If this Agreement is executed by more than one person as Tenant, their liability under this Agreement and in connection with the use and occupancy of the Leased Premises shall be joint and several.
28.7. In the event any rate of interest, or other charge in the nature of interest, calculated as set forth in this Agreement would lead to the imposition of a rate of interest in excess of the maximum rate permitted by applicable usury law, only the maximum rate permitted shall be charged and collected.
28.8. The rule of construction that any ambiguities that may be contained in any contract shall be construed against the party drafting the contract shall be inapplicable in construing this Agreement.
29. Security Deposit .
29.1. The Tenant shall pay to the Landlord upon execution and delivery of this Agreement the sum of $365,200 as a security deposit to be held by the Landlord as security for the Tenant’s performance of all the Tenant’s obligations under this Agreement (the “Security Deposit”). The Landlord may commingle the Security Deposit with its general funds. Any interest earned on the Security Deposit shall belong to the Landlord. The Tenant shall not encumber the Security Deposit. The Landlord, in its sole discretion, may apply the Security Deposit to cure any Event of Default under this Agreement with written notice provided to Tenant. If any such application is made, upon notice by the Landlord to the Tenant, the Tenant shall promptly replace the amount so applied. If there has been no Event of Default during the first thirty-six (36) full calendar months of the Initial Term, Landlord shall return the sum of $91,275 to Tenant and the balance of $273,825 shall be held as the Security Deposit. If there has been no Event of Default during the first sixty (60) full calendar months of the Initial Term, Landlord shall return the further sum of $91,275 to Tenant and the balance of $182,550 shall be held as the Security Deposit. If there has been no Event of Default during the Term, within 30 days after termination of the Term the Landlord shall return the entire balance of the Security Deposit to the Tenant. The Tenant will not look to any foreclosing mortgagee of the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities or any interest therein for such return of the balance of the Security Deposit, unless the mortgagee has expressly assumed the Landlord’s obligations under this Agreement or has actually received the balance of the Security Deposit.
29.2. Upon execution of this Lease, the Tenant may elect to post with Landlord as security for the full and faithful performance of this Lease upon the part of the Tenant to be performed an irrevocable, unconditional Letter of Credit in transferable form (together with all increases, renewals, replacements, amendments and substitutions, the “Letter of Credit”) naming Landlord as beneficiary, with a term of at least one (1) year and an evergreen provision in the amount of $365,100 from an institution acceptable to Landlord in the reasonable exercise of its discretion (a “Qualified Bank”), presentable in New Jersey. In no instance shall the amount of such security be considered a measure of liquidated damages. The evergreen provision may not be terminated except on notice of at least thirty (30) days. If the provision is terminated, Tenant shall cause the Letter of Credit to be renewed for additional one (1) year periods for the entire balance of the Term of the Lease, and at least forty-five (45) days prior to the scheduled expiration of the Letter of Credit each year, Tenant shall provide Landlord with an extension of the Letter of Credit or replacement Letter of Credit from a Qualified Bank. If Tenant fails to provide such extension or replacement Letter of Credit within the time period provided above, Landlord shall have the right to draw immediately upon the entire balance of the Letter of Credit and shall hold or disburse same as cash security in accordance with the provisions of this section 29.

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29.3. If the Letter of Credit is posted as security then, (i) if there has been no Event of Default during the first thirty-six (36) full calendar months of the Initial Term, the Letter of Credit may be reduced by $91,275 to the sum of $273,825; and (ii) if there has been no Event of Default during the first sixty (60) full calendar months of the Initial Term, the Letter of Credit may be reduced by an additional $91,275 to the sum of $182,550; and (ii) upon termination of this Lease, and provided Tenant is not in default hereunder and has performed all of the conditions of this Lease, the Landlord shall return the Letter of Credit to the Tenant. During the term of this Lease, Landlord shall have recourse to the Letter of Credit to make good any default by Tenant, in which event Tenant shall, on demand, promptly restore said Letter of Credit to the amount of the Letter of Credit prior to the default. It is agreed that should Landlord convey its interest under this Lease, the Letter of Credit may be transferred by Landlord to Landlord’s grantee or transferee, and Tenant shall cooperate with Landlord by causing an appropriate amendment to the Letter of Credit to be issued changing the name of the beneficiary. Upon any such delivery of an amendment to the Letter of Credit, Tenant hereby releases Landlord herein named of any and all liability with respect to the security deposit, its application and return, and Tenant agrees to look solely to such grantee or transferee, and it is further understood that this provision shall also apply to subsequent grantees and transferees. Tenant shall not mortgage, encumber or assign said security.
29.4. If Tenant requests Landlord to execute a lien waiver in favor of any lender, Landlord shall only do so if (i) the lender is an institutional lender; (ii) the form of the lien waiver is satisfactory to Landlord; (iii) Tenant agrees to reimburse Landlord for the reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the review of the proposed lien waiver and the documentation related thereto; and (iv) Tenant increases the security deposit by an amount which is sufficient to mitigate the negative economic impact of the granting of such lien waiver.
30. Representations .
The Tenant hereby represents and warrants that:
30.1. its North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) code is 523110 and it will promptly give notice of any change therein during the Term to the Landlord;
30.2. no broker or other agent has shown the Leased Premises or the Building to the Tenant, or brought either to the Tenant’s attention, except CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. and GVA Williams New Jersey, Inc. (the “Brokers”), whose entire commission therefore is set forth in separate documents and which commission the Tenant understands will be paid by the Landlord directly to the named Brokers;
30.3. the execution and delivery of, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by and the performance of all its obligations under, this Agreement by the Tenant have been duly and validly authorized by its general partners, to the extent required by their partnership agreement and applicable law, if the Tenant is a partnership; or, if the Tenant is a limited liability company, by its members, to the extent required by their operating agreement and applicable law; or, if the Tenant is a corporation, by its board of directors and, if necessary, by its stockholders at meetings duly called and held on proper notice for that purpose at which there were respective quorums present and voting throughout; and no other approval, partnership, corporate, governmental or otherwise, is required to authorize any of the foregoing or to give effect to the Tenant’s execution and delivery of this Agreement;
30.4. the execution and delivery of, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by and the performance of all its obligations under, this Agreement by the Tenant will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the provisions of any statute, charter, certificate of incorporation or

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by-laws, partnership agreement or operating agreement of the Tenant or any affiliate of the Tenant, as presently in effect, or any indenture, mortgage, lease, deed of trust, other agreement, instrument, franchise, permit, license, decree, order, notice, judgment, rule or order to or of which the Tenant or any affiliate of the Tenant is a party, a subject or a recipient or by which the Tenant, any affiliate of the Tenant or any of their respective properties and other assets is bound; and
30.5. it is not a Specially Designated National or a Blocked Person as those terms are defined in the rules of the Office of Foreign Assets Control nor a person or entity that is listed in the Annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing, effective September 24, 2001, as amended.
31. Reservation in Favor of Tenant .
Neither the Landlord’s forwarding a copy of this document to any prospective tenant nor any other act on the part of the Landlord prior to execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Landlord shall give rise to any implication that any prospective tenant has a reservation, an option to lease or an outstanding offer to lease any premises.
32. Tenant’s Certificates and Mortgagee Notice Requirements .
32.1. Promptly upon request of the Landlord at any time or from time to time, but in no event more than ten (10) days after the Landlord’s respective request, the Tenant shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Landlord or its designee an estoppel or other certificate, satisfactory in form and substance to the Landlord and any of its mortgagees, ground lessors or lessees or transferees or prospective mortgagees, ground lessors or lessees or transferees, with respect to any of or all the following matters:
  32.1.1.   whether this Agreement is then in full force and effect;
 
  32.1.2.   whether this Agreement has not been amended, modified, superseded, canceled, repudiated or revoked;
 
  32.1.3.   whether the Landlord has satisfactorily completed all construction work, if any, required of the Landlord or contractors selected and retained by the Landlord in connection with readying the Leased Premises for occupancy by the Tenant in accordance with section 5 of this Agreement;
 
  32.1.4.   whether the Tenant is then in actual possession of the Leased Premises;
 
  32.1.5.   whether the Tenant then has no defenses or counterclaims under this Agreement or otherwise against the Landlord or with respect to the Leased Premises;
 
  32.1.6.   whether Landlord is not then in breach of this Agreement in any respect;
 
  32.1.7.   whether the Tenant then has knowledge of any assignment of this Agreement, the pledging or granting of any security interest in this Agreement or in Rent due and to become due under this Agreement;
 
  32.1.8.   whether Rent is not then accruing under this Agreement in accordance with its terms;

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  32.1.9.   whether any Rent is not then in arrears;
 
  32.1.10.   whether Rent due or to become due under this Agreement has not been prepaid by more than one month;
 
  32.1.11.   if the response to any of the foregoing matters is in the negative, a specification of all the reasons that necessitated the negative response in each instance; and
 
  32.1.12.   any other matter reasonably requested by the Landlord or any of its mortgagees, ground lessors or lessees or transferees or prospective mortgagees, ground lessors or lessees or transferees, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such information as the Landlord may request for purposes of assuring compliance with the Industrial Site Recovery Act (13 N.J.S.A. 1K-6 et seq.), as it may be amended, and any other applicable Federal, state or local statute, ordinance, rule, regulation or order concerned with environmental matters.
32.2. If, in connection with the Landlord’s or a prospective transferee’s obtaining financing or refinancing of the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities, any portion thereof or any interest therein, the Landlord or a prospective lender shall so request, the Tenant shall furnish to the requesting party within 15 days of the request:
  32.2.1.   its written consent to any requested modifications of this Agreement provided that, in each such instance, the requested modification does not increase the Rent otherwise due or, in the reasonable judgment of the Tenant, otherwise to a de minimus extent increase the obligations of the Tenant under this Agreement or to a de minimus extent adversely affect the Tenant’s leasehold interest created hereby or the Tenant’s use and enjoyment of the Leased Premises (except in the circumstances contemplated by section 16 of this Agreement); and
 
  32.2.2.   summary financial information regarding its financial position as of the close of its most recently completed fiscal year and its most recently completed interim fiscal period and regarding its results of operations for the periods then ended and comparable year earlier periods, certified by Tenant’s chief financial officer to be a complete, accurate and fair presentation of the summary financial information purporting to be set forth therein.
32.3. If the Landlord or any of its mortgagees gives notice to the Tenant of any of their respective names and addresses from time to time, the Tenant shall give notice to each such mortgagee of any notice of breach or default previously or afterwards given by the Tenant to the Landlord under this Agreement and provide in such notice that if the Landlord has not cured such breach or default within any permissible cure period then such mortgagee shall have the greater of (a) an additional period of thirty (30) days or (b) if such default cannot practically be cured within such period, such additional period as is reasonable under the circumstances, within which to cure such default. Upon request of the Landlord at any time or from time to time, the Tenant shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Landlord or its designee an acknowledgment of receipt of any such notice, an acknowledgment of receipt of any notice of assignment of this Agreement or rights hereunder by the Landlord to any of its mortgagees and the Tenant’s agreement to the foregoing effect on the respective forms, if any, furnished by the Landlord or the respective mortgagees.
32.4. Approximately (i) 90 days prior to the termination of the Term and (ii) thirty (30) days prior to any relocation of the Tenant from the Leased Premises (as constituted on the Commencement Date), the

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Tenant shall obtain from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) or its authorized designeee, and deliver to the Landlord, (a) the Department’s unconditional certificate of non-applicability, or (b) the Department’s approval of the Tenant’s negative declaration or clean-up plan, or (c) a final remediation document (an “FRD”) as defined in the Site Remediation Reform Act (P.L. 2009, c. 60)(the “SRR Act”), together with copies of all documents furnished to NJDEP in connection with obtaining such certificate or approval or the filing of the FRD. This requirement shall not apply if during the term no occupant’s NAICS code was in a covered classification and no use was made of the Leased Premises which requires compliance with the requirements of ISRA.
32.5. In the event compliance with ISRA is required and evidence of compliance with ISRA is not delivered to the Landlord prior to expiration or earlier termination of the Term, Tenant shall be liable for all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in enforcing Tenant’s obligations hereunder until such time as evidence of compliance with ISRA has been delivered to the Landlord, and together with any costs and expenses, including legal and environmental consultant fees incurred by Landlord in enforcing Tenant’s obligations under subsection 7.2.8 and subsection 32.4 of this Agreement. After the Term, Tenant shall nevertheless be obligated to comply with its obligations hereunder. Evidence of compliance, as used herein, shall mean an approved “negative declaration” or an FRD. Evidence of compliance shall be delivered to the Landlord, together with copies of all submissions made to, and received from, the NJDEP, including all environmental reports, test results and other supporting documentation.
33. Waiver of Jury Trial .
The parties hereby waive any right they might otherwise have to a trial by jury in connection with any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the use and occupancy of the Leased Premises.
34. Severability .
In the event that any provision of this Agreement, or the application of any provision in any instance, shall be conclusively determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such determination shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the balance of this Agreement.
35. Notices .
All notices contemplated by, permitted or required by this Agreement shall be in writing. All notices required by this Agreement shall be personally delivered or forwarded by recognized overnight carrier or by certified mail-return receipt requested, addressed to the intended party at its address first set forth above or, in the case of notices to the Tenant during the Term or any other period during which the Tenant shall be in possession of the Leased Premises, at the Leased Premises. All notices required under this Agreement shall be deemed given (i) upon delivery by overnight carrier; (ii) upon deposit, properly addressed and postage prepaid, in a postal depository if delivery is by certified mail; or (iii) upon personal delivery to the intended party, regardless of whether delivery shall be refused. Either party, by a notice served in accordance with the foregoing provisions, may change the address to which notices shall be sent. Notices given by an attorney for a party shall be deemed to be notices given by the party.
36. Captions .
Captions have been inserted at the beginning of each section of this Agreement for convenience of reference only and such captions shall not affect the construction or interpretation of any such section of this Agreement.

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37. Counterparts .
This Agreement may be executed in more than one counterpart, each of which shall constitute an original of this Agreement but all of which, taken together, shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
38. Applicable Law .
This Agreement and the obligations of the parties hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey.
39. Exclusive Benefit .
Except as may be otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement is made exclusively for the benefit of the parties hereto and their permitted assignees and no one else shall be entitled to any right, remedy or claim by reason of any provision of this Agreement.
40. Successors .
This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
41. Amendments .
This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties hereto, subsumes all prior discussions and negotiations and, except as may otherwise be specifically set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement may not be amended or otherwise modified except by a writing signed by all the parties to this Agreement.
42. Waiver .
Except as may otherwise be specifically set forth in this Agreement, the failure of any party at any time or times to require performance of any provision of this Agreement shall in no manner affect the right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver by any party of any condition, or of the breach of any term, covenant, representation or warranty set forth in this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances shall be deemed to be or construed as a further or continuing waiver of any such condition or breach, or as a waiver of any other condition or of the breach of any other term, covenant, representation or warranty set forth in this Agreement. The Landlord’s acceptance of, or endorsement on, any partial payment of Rent or any late payment of Rent from the Tenant shall not operate as a waiver of the Landlord’s right to the balance of the Rent due on a timely basis regardless of any writing to the contrary on, or accompanying, the Tenant’s partial payment or the Landlord’s putative acquiescence therein.
43. Course of Performance .
No course of dealing or performance by the parties, or any of them, shall be admissible for the purpose of obtaining an interpretation or construction of this Agreement at variance with the express language of the Agreement itself.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first above written.

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    LANDLORD:
    S/K BED ONE ASSOCIATES LLC
 
  By:   Majic Investment Corp., manager
 
       
 
  By:   /s/ Jonathan Kushner
 
      Jonathan Kushner, Vice President
 
       
    TENANT:
    GAIN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
 
       
 
  By:   /s/ Henry Lyons
 
      Henry Lyons

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EXHIBIT A — LEASED PREMISES FLOOR SPACE DIAGRAM

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EXHIBIT B — PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND LYING AND BEING SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BEDMINSTER, COUNTY OF SOMERSET, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD SAID POINT BEING DISTANT THE FOLLOWING FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD WITH THE WESTERLY SIDELINE OF ROUTE 202-206 AS PRODUCED AND RUNNING;
A.   ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD,SOUTH 76 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 42 SECONDS WEST, 143.04 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE
B.   NORTH 22 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 48 SECONDS WEST 10.13 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND RUNNING; THENCE
1.   ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF LOT 13 IN BLOCK 71 SOUTH 22 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 48 SECONDS EAST, 351.46 FEET TO A POINT IN THE NORTHERLY LINE OF LOT 15 IN BLOCK 71; THENCE
2.   ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 15 SOUTH 53 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 12 SECONDS WEST 287.73 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
3.   ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 15 NORTH 70 DEGREES 25 MINUTES 12 SECONDS EAST 526.36 FEET TO A POINT IN THE WESTERLY SIDELINE OF ROUTE 202-206; THENCE
4.   ALONG THE WESTERLY SIDELINE OF ROUTE 202-206 SOUTH 20 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 48 SECONDS EAST 48.68 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
5.   STILL ALONG THE WESTERLY SIDELINE OF ROUTE 202-206 SOUTH 19 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 38 SECONDS EAST 671.52 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
6.   STILL ALONG THE WESTERLY SIDELINE OF ROUTE 202-206 SOUTH 19 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 25 SECONDS EAST 169.80 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
7.   ALONG A NORTHEASTERLY SIDELINE OF NJ INTERSTATE 78 AND 287 SOUTH 84 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 16 SECONDS WEST 321.96 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
8.   ALONG A NORTHEASTERLY SIDELINE OF NJ INTERSTATE 78 AND 287 NORTH 83 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 26 SECONDS WEST 200.25 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
9.   ALONG A NORTHEASTERLY SIDELINE OF NJ INTERSTATE 78 AND 287 NORTH 74 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 45 SECONDS WEST 271.02 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
10.   ALONG A NORTHEASTERLY SIDELINE OF NJ INTERSTATE 78 AND 287 NORTH 61 DEGREES 04 MINUTES 18 SECONDS WEST 191.45 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
11.   ALONG A NORTHEASTERLY SIDELINE OF NJ INTERSTATE 78 AND 287 NORTH 50 DEGREES 28 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST 388.11 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
12.   ALONG A SOUTHERLY LINE OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 71 NORTH 70 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 12 SECONDS EAST 81.14 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
13.   ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 6 NORTH 11 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 48 SECONDS WEST 661.28 FEET TO A POINT IN THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD; THENCE
14.   ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD, NORTH 82 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 12 SECONDS EAST 438.82 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
15.   STILL ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD NORTH 82 DEGREES 28 MINUTES 40 SECONDS EAST 72.57 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE
16.   STILL ALONG THE SOUTHERLY SIDELINE OF BURNT MILLS ROAD, NORTH 79 DEGREES 43 MINUTES 40 SECONDS EAST 103.34 FEET TO THE POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING.

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EXHIBIT C – OMITTED INTENTIONALLY

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EXHIBIT D — BUILDING RULES AND REGULATIONS
The following are the Building Rules and Regulations adopted in accordance with subsection 7.2.3 of the Agreement of which this exhibit is a part; and the Tenant and the Tenant’s employees, other agents and Guests shall comply with these Building Rules and Regulations:
1. The sidewalks, driveways, entrances, passages, courts, lobby, esplanade areas, plazas, elevators, vestibules, stairways, corridors, halls and other Common Facilities shall not be obstructed or encumbered or used for any purpose other than ingress and egress to and from the Leased Premises. Landlord, in its discretion, may tow any vehicle left in the Common Facilities overnight, unless Tenant informs Landlord that the vehicle will be left in the Common Facilities overnight provided that no vehicle shall be left overnight for more than five (5) nights in a row. The Tenant shall not permit or suffer any of its employees, other agents or Guests to congregate in any of the said areas, nor will the Landlord allow any tenants of Other Leased Premises to congregate in any of said areas. No door mat of any kind whatsoever shall be placed or left in any public hall or outside any entry door of the Leased Premises.
2. No awnings or other projections shall be attached to the outside walls of the Building. No curtains, drapes, blinds, shades or screens shall be attached to, hung in or used in connection with any window or door of the Leased Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord. If such consent is given, such curtains, drapes, blinds, shades or screens shall be of a quality, type, design and color, and attached in the manner, approved by Landlord.
3. Except as otherwise specifically provided in section 18 of this Agreement, no sign, insignia, advertisement, object, notice or other lettering shall be exhibited, inscribed, painted or affixed so as to be visible from outside the Building. In the event of the violation of the foregoing by the Tenant, the Landlord may remove same without any liability and may charge the expense incurred in such removal to the Tenant.
4. The sashes, doors, skylights, windows, and doors that reflect or admit light and air into the halls, passageways or other public places in the Building shall not be covered or obstructed and no bottles, parcels or other articles shall be placed on the window sills.
5. No showcase or other articles shall be placed in front of or affixed to any part of the Building or the Common Facilities.
6. The lavatories, water and wash closets and other plumbing fixtures shall not be used for any purposes other than those for which they were designed and constructed, and no sweepings, rubbish, rags, acids or other substances shall be thrown or deposited therein. All damages resulting from any misuse thereof shall be repaired at the expense of the Tenant that permitted or suffered the violation hereof by the Tenant, the Tenant’s employees, other agents or Guests.
7. The Tenant shall not mark, paint, drill into or in any way deface any part of the Leased Premises, the Building, the Common Facilities or the Property. No boring, cutting or stringing of wires shall be permitted, except with the prior written consent of the Landlord, and as the Landlord may direct. Linoleum and other resilient floor coverings shall be laid so that the same shall not come in direct contact with the floor of the Leased Premises; and if linoleum or other resilient floor coverings are desired, an interlining of builder’s deadening felt shall be first affixed to the floor by a paste or other material that is, and will remain, soluble in water. The use of cement or other adhesive material that either is not, or will not remain, soluble in water is prohibited.
8. No bicycles, vehicles, animals (other than seeing eye dogs), reptiles, fish or birds of any kind shall be brought into or kept in or about the Leased Premises.

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9. No noise including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, music or the playing of musical instruments, recordings, radio or television which, in the reasonable judgment of Landlord, disturbs tenants of Other Leased Premises shall be made or permitted by the Tenant. Nothing shall be done or permitted in the Leased Premises by the Tenant which would impair or interfere with the use or enjoyment of Other Leased Premises by any tenant thereof. Nothing shall be thrown out of the doors, windows or skylights or down the passageways of the Building.
10. The Tenant shall not manufacture any commodity, or prepare or dispense any foods or beverages, tobacco, flowers or other commodities or articles without the prior written consent of the Landlord. Nothing contained herein shall prevent Tenant from having a room for employees to use for lunch and break periods, including vending machines for employee use.
11. The Building has a Grand Master Key which enables the Landlord and its agents, employees and contractors to enter the Leased Premises. Tenant entry locks and additional locks and bolts of any kind which are not be operable by the Grand Master Key for the Building shall not be installed in any of the doors or windows, nor shall any changes be made in any locks or the mechanisms thereof which shall make such locks inoperable by the Grand Master Key. Tenant may create secured areas to which Landlord and its contractors will have no access. With respect to the secured areas (i) Tenant must provide the names and contact numbers for employees available to provide access for emergency services on a 24 hour per day basis; (ii) Tenant must arrange for access for the cleaning contractor and its personnel at the normal times which such contractor and its personnel perform their services, or Tenant must provide its own cleaning services for such areas; and (iii) Tenant must comply with the requirements of section 12 of this Agreement. If Tenant fails to comply with these restrictions, any cost incurred by Landlord in changing locks, securing new or additional keys, passes or duplicates or for other services of a locksmith shall be borne by Tenant. Duplicates of keys and passes distributed to the Tenant by the Landlord shall not be made. Additional keys for the Leased Premises and any lavatories (where applicable) shall be procured only from Landlord who may make a reasonable charge therefore.
     Where so equipped, the Building also may have electronic card key access which consists of an electronically readable key and a reader at or near the entry and/or rear doors. Tenant will be issued up to two hundred twenty-five (225) card keys without charge and Tenant may purchase additional keys from the Landlord at a cost of $17.50 per key. Only the Landlord may supply keys to the electronic card readers. The Tenant shall maintain an updated, current list of authorized key holders and provide a copy of the list to Landlord. Tenant shall co-operate with Landlord when inquiry is made as to the current list of authorized key holders. Any requests for changes, alterations, deletions or substitutions of existing keys shall be done in writing, by fax or by e-mail to the Landlord. Landlord will edit its master list and remove access rights for any keyholders whose authorization is terminated or whose keys are unaccounted for within ten (10) business days of receipt of notification. Tenant shall promptly notify Landlord of the theft, loss or disappearance of any key or the termination of authorization for any key holder. If the key is not returned to Landlord, Tenant shall bear the current cost for the replacement thereof.
     Where applicable, a mailbox and two (2) mail box keys are supplied to the mail boxes outside the Building. Although the boxes and keys are the property of the Landlord, the Landlord is not responsible for the arrangement of delivery of mail or the contents of the box once the keys have been delivered to the Tenant. The Tenant is advised that the local postmaster retains a master key for the box. Tenant may purchase additional keys from the Landlord at a cost of $17.50 per key.

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12. All deliveries and removals, and the carrying in or out of any safes, freight, furniture, packages, boxes, crates or any other object or matter of any description shall take place during such hours, in such manner and in such elevators and passageways as the Landlord may determine from time to time. The Landlord reserves the right to inspect all objects and matter being brought into the Building or the Common Facilities and to exclude from the Building and the Common Facilities all objects and matter that violates any of these Building Rules and Regulations or that are contraband. The Landlord may (but shall not be obligated to) require any person leaving the Building or the Common Facilities with any package or object or matter from the Leased Premises to establish his authority from the Tenant to do so. The establishment and enforcement of such a requirement shall not impose any responsibility on the Landlord for the protection of the Tenant against the removal of property from the Leased Premises. The Landlord shall not be liable to the Tenant for damages or loss arising from the admission, exclusion or ejection of any person to or from the Leased Premises or the Building or the Common Facilities under this rule.
13. The Tenant shall not place any object in any portion of the Building that is in excess of the safe carrying or designed load capacity of the structure.
14. The Landlord shall have the right to prohibit any advertising or display of any identifying sign by the Tenant which in the Landlord’s judgment tends to impair the reputation of the Building or its desirability; and, on written notice from the Landlord, the Tenant shall refrain from or discontinue such advertising or display of such identifying sign.
15. The Landlord reserves the right to exclude from the Building and the Common Facilities during hours other than Regular Business Hours all persons who do not present a pass thereto signed by both the Landlord and the Tenant. All persons entering or leaving the Building or the Common Facilities during hours other than Regular Business may be required to sign a register. The Landlord will furnish passes to persons for whom the Tenant requests same in writing. The establishment and enforcement of such a requirement shall not impose any responsibility on the Landlord for the protection of the Tenant against unauthorized entry of persons.
16. The Tenant, before closing and leaving the Leased Premises at any time shall see that all lights and appliances generating heat (other than the heating system) are turned off. All entrance doors to the Leased Premises shall be left locked by the Tenant when the Leased Premises are not in use. At any time when the Building or the Common Facilities are locked during hours other than Regular Business Hours, the Building and the Common Facilities locks shall not be defeated by any means, such as by leaving a door ajar.
17. No person shall go upon the roof of the Building without the prior written consent of the Landlord, other than to service Tenant’s equipment, if any. A log shall be maintained detailing each entry and a copy of the log shall be supplied to Landlord.
18. Any requirements of the Tenant may be attended to only upon application at the office of the Building. The Landlord and its agents shall not perform any work or do any work or do anything outside of the Landlord’s obligations under the Agreement except upon special instructions from the Landlord on terms acceptable to the Landlord and the Tenant.
19. Canvassing, soliciting and peddling in the Building and the Common Facilities are prohibited and the Tenant shall cooperate to prevent same.
20. There shall not be used in any space, or in the public halls or other Common Facilities of the Building, in connection with the moving or delivery or receipt of safes, freight, furniture, packages, boxes, crates, paper, office material, or any other matter or thing, any hand trucks or dollies except those

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equipped with rubber tires, side guards and such other safeguards as the Landlord shall require. No hand trucks shall be used in passenger elevators, and no passenger elevators shall be used for the moving, delivery or receipt of the aforementioned articles. In connection with moving in or out any furniture, furnishings, equipment, heavy articles and heavy packages, the Tenant shall take such precautions as may be necessary to prevent excessive wear and tear in the Building’s Common Facilities and the Leased Premises including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, floor and wall treatments.
21. The Tenant shall not cause or permit any odors of cooking or other processes or any unusual or objectionable odors to emanate from the Leased Premises which might constitute a Nuisance. No cooking shall be done in the Leased Premises other than as specifically permitted in the Agreement.
22. The Landlord reserves the right to rescind, amend or waive any Building Rule and Regulation when, in the Landlord’s reasonable judgment, it appears necessary or desirable for the reputation, safety, care or appearance of the Building or the preservation of good order therein or the operation of the Building or the comfort of tenants or others in the Building. No rescission, amendment or waiver of any Building Rule and Regulation in favor of one tenant shall operate as a rescission, amendment or waiver in favor of any other tenant.

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EXHIBIT E — DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS
In accordance with section 1 of the Agreement of which this exhibit is a part, throughout the Agreement the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings set forth or referred to below:
1.   “Additional Rent” means all amounts, other than Basic Rent and any Security Deposit, required to be paid by the Tenant to the Landlord in accordance with this Agreement.
 
2.   “Additional Termination Fee” is defined in subsection 6.2.5 of this Agreement.
 
3.   “Agreement” means this Lease and Lease Agreement (including exhibits), as it may have been amended.
 
4.   “Allowance” is defined in subsection 5.3 of this Agreement.
 
5.   “Alternate Termination Fee” is defined in subsection 6.2.2 of this Agreement.
 
6.   “Annual Amortized Capital Expenditure” means the payment amount determined as an annuity in arrears using the cost incurred by the Landlord for any Capital Expenditure as the present value, a number of periods equal to the number of years of its useful life (not exceeding 10 years) selected by the Landlord in accordance with generally applied real estate accounting practice and the Base Rate in effect when the respective improvement is first placed into service plus two additional percentage points as the annual rate of interest.
 
7.   “Base Rate” means the prime commercial lending rate per year as announced from time to time by Bank of America at its principal office.
 
8.   “Base Year” means the full calendar year 2010 with respect to Operational Expenses and Taxes.
 
9.   “Base Year Operational Expenses” means Operational Expenses incurred by the Landlord during the Base Year as defined in subsection 10.2 of this Agreement. The Base Year Operational Expenses shall be adjusted to the amount which normally would have been incurred had the average occupancy of the rentable area of the Building been 95%, as reasonably estimated by Landlord. The “average occupancy of the rentable area of the Building” for the Base Year shall be the arithmetic average of the rentable area of the Building occupied by tenants on the first day of each month during the Base Year.
 
10.   “Base Year Taxes” means the product of the final assessed value, as the same may subsequently be adjusted in any appeal of the tax assessor’s valuation, of the Property, the Building and any other improvements on the Property in the Base Year and the Municipality’s lowest tax rate for office buildings and the property on which they stand in effect during the Base Year.
 
11.   “Basic Rent” is defined in subsection 3.2 of this Agreement.
 
12.   “Brokers” is defined in subsection 30.2 of this Agreement.
 
13.   “Building” means the office building erected on the Property which is commonly known as 135 U.S. Highway Route 202/206, Bedminster, New Jersey. As the Building is presently constructed it is agreed to contain 161,305 gross rentable square feet of floor space.

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14.   “Capital Expenditure” is defined in subsection 10.3 of this Agreement.
 
15.   “Commencement Date” is defined in section 4 of this Agreement.
 
16.   “Common Facilities” means the areas, facilities and improvements provided by the Landlord in the Building (except the Leased Premises and the Other Leased Premises) and on or about the Property, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Parking Facilities and access roads thereto, for non-exclusive use by the Tenant in accordance with subsection 2.2 of this Agreement, as they may, in the Landlord’s sole discretion, be increased, decreased, modified, altered or otherwise changed from time to time before, during or after the Term, and subject to rights which may be granted to the major tenant to utilize the lobby as a common reception area.
 
17.   “Common Walls” means those walls which separate the Leased Premises from Other Leased Premises.
 
18.   “Electric Charges” means all the supplying utility’s charges for, or in connection with, furnishing electricity including charges determined by actual usage, any seasonal adjustments, demand charges, energy charges, energy adjustment charges and any other charges, howsoever denominated, of the supplying utility, including sales and excise taxes and the like.
 
19.   “Electronics” is defined in subsection 2.3.3 of this Agreement.
 
20.   “Environmental Laws” is defined in subsection 7.2.8 (ii) of this Agreement.
 
21.   “Event of Default” is defined in section 22 of this Agreement.
 
22.   “Expiring Term” means, when used in the context of any Option to Renew, the Term as it is then scheduled to expire (immediately prior to exercise of the next available Option to Renew).
 
23.   “FCC” is defined in subsection 2.3.2 of this Agreement.
 
24.   “First Floor Premises” is defined in subsection 2.1 of this Agreement.
 
25.   “550 Damages” is defined in subsection 5.5 of this Agreement.
 
26.   “FMV” is defined in the definition of Market Rental Rate below.
 
27.   “FRD” is defined in subsection 32.4 of this Agreement.
 
28.   The Tenant’s “Guests” shall mean the Tenant’s licensees, invitees and all others in, on or about the Leased Premises, the Building, the Common Facilities or the Property, either at the Tenant’s express or implied request or invitation or for the purpose of soliciting or visiting the Tenant.
 
29.   “Hazardous Substance” is defined in subsection 7.2.8 (ii) of this Agreement.
 
30.   A “History of Recurring Events of Default” means the occurrence of two or more Events of Default (whether or not cured by the Tenant) in any period of 12 months.
 
31.   “Holdover Damages” is defined in subsection 23.4 of this Agreement.
 
32.   “Initial Term” means the period so designated in subsection 4.1 of this Agreement.

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33.   “Initial Year” means the first 12 full calendar months of the Initial Term.
 
34.   “Landlord” means the person so designated at the beginning of this Agreement and those successors to the Landlord’s interest in the Property and/or the Landlord’s rights and obligations under this Agreement contemplated by section 26 of this Agreement.
 
35.   “Landlord’s Work” is defined in subsection 5.1 of this Agreement.
 
36.   “Leased Premises” means that portion of the interior of the Building (as viewed from the interior of the Leased Premises) bounded by the interior sides of the unfinished floor and the finished ceiling on the floor (as the floors have been designated by the Landlord) of the Building, the centers of all Common Walls and the exterior sides of all walls other than Common Walls, the outline of which floor space is designated on the diagram set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto, which portion contains 4,850 square feet of gross rentable floor space on the first floor of the Building and 40,150 square feet of gross rentable floor space on the third floor of the Building, totaling 45,000 square feet of gross rentable floor space.
 
37.   “Legal Holidays” means New Year’s Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
 
38.   “Letter of Credit” is defined in subsection 29.2 of this Agreement.
 
39.   “LSRP” is defined in subsection 32.5 of this Agreement.
 
40.   “Market Rental Rate” means, at the time of reference, the amount agreed to between the parties. If the parties are unable to agree on the Market Rental Rate, then either party may require an appraisal. Within ten (10) days of the service of a notice requiring an appraisal, each party shall designate an appraiser by written notice to the other, specifying in such notice the name and address of such appraiser. Each party shall cause its designated appraiser to appraise the fair market rental value of the Leased Premises (the “FMV”). Each appraiser shall make its determination in a narrative, written appraisal submitted to the parties not later than twenty (20) days after such designation. If either party shall not have designated an appraiser within the aforesaid ten-day period, then the determination of the fair market rental value shall be made by the appraiser designated by the other party. Such determination shall be binding upon the parties and shall constitute the FMV. If each party shall have designated an appraiser, but only one of the two appraisers so designated shall have submitted the required narrative appraisal to both parties within the aforesaid twenty-day period, then the determination of the FMV by that appraiser shall be binding upon the parties and shall constitute the FMV. If the determinations of the FMV by the aforesaid two appraisers do not differ by more than ten percent (10%) of the lower of the two determinations, then the arithmetic average of those two determinations shall be the FMV. Otherwise, the parties shall promptly direct the two appraisers to consult with one another for the purpose of jointly designating a third appraiser. If a third appraiser has not been so designated within five (5) days after such direction, then the parties shall request the designation of a third appraiser by the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (or any other organization which is successor to the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and mutually acceptable to the parties). The third appraiser shall not review the appraisals prepared by the other two appraisers unless and until such third appraiser has prepared and submitted its own narrative appraisal of the FMV. The FMV shall be the arithmetic average of the FMV as determined by the two appraisals which are closest together or, if the highest and lowest appraisal differ from the third appraisal by the same amount then the amount of the middle appraisal shall be the FMV. Each appraiser designated pursuant to this provision shall be a licensed

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    appraiser in the State of New Jersey, shall be a certified member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (or any equivalent organization) and shall have at least ten (10) years experience in appraising rental values of properties comparable to the Leased Premises in the market area in which the Property is located. The fees and expenses of the appraisers referred to herein shall be divided equally between the parties.
 
41.   “Municipality” means Bedminster, New Jersey, or any successor municipality with jurisdiction over the Property.
 
42.   “No Pass Through Period” means, in the context of Operational Expenses and Taxes, the period beginning on the Commencement Date and ending on the day prior to the first anniversary of the Commencement Date.
 
43.   “Nuisance” means any condition or occurrence which unreasonably or materially adversely interferes with the authorized use and enjoyment of the Other Leased Premises and the Common Facilities by any tenant of Other Leased Premises or by any person authorized to use any Other Leased Premises or Common Facilities.
 
44.   “Operational Expenses” is defined in subsection 10.2 of this Agreement. If in any subsequent calendar year, after the Base Year, the average occupancy of the rentable area of the Building is not 95%, the Operational Expenses for such calendar year shall be adjusted to the amount which normally would have been incurred had the occupancy been 95%. The “average occupancy of the rentable area of the Building” for any year shall be the arithmetic average of the rentable area of the Building occupied by tenants on the first day of each month during the year in question.
 
45.   “Option to Cancel” is defined in subsection 6.2 of this Agreement.
 
46.   “Option to Renew” is defined in subsection 6.1 of this Agreement.
 
47.   “Other Costs” is defined in subsection 6.2.1 of this Agreement.
 
48.   “Other Leased Premises” means all premises within the Building, with the exception of the Leased Premises, that are, or are available to be, leased to tenants or prospective tenants, respectively.
 
49.   “Other Space” is defined in subsection 6.4.1 of this Agreement.
 
50.   “Parking Facilities” means the parking area adjacent to the Building, which parking area is provided as Common Facilities.
 
51.   “Person” includes an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a trust, an estate, an unincorporated group of persons and any group of persons.
 
52.   “Post-Term Rent” is defined in subsection 32.5 of this Agreement.
 
53.   “Pre-existing Communications” is defined in subsection 2.3.2 of this Agreement.
 
54.   “Price” is defined in subsection 5.1 of this Agreement.
 
55.   “Project Costs” is defined in subsection 5.3 of this Agreement.

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56.   “Project Management Representative” is defined in subsection 5.3 of this Agreement.
 
57.   “Property” means the parcel of land described in Exhibit B attached hereto.
 
58.   “Qualified Bank” is defined in subsection 29.2 of this Agreement.
 
59.   “Regular Business Hours” means 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. on Monday through Friday and 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, except on Legal Holidays.
 
60.   “Re-Leasing Damages” is defined in subsection 23.3 of this Agreement.
 
61.   “Renewal Term” means, at the time of reference, any portion of the Term, other than the Initial Term, as to which the Tenant has properly exercised an Option to Renew which Option to Renew has not been rescinded in accordance with subsection 6.2 of this Agreement.
 
62.   “Rent” means Basic Rent and Additional Rent.
 
63.   “Right of First Offer” is defined in subsection 6.4 of this Agreement.
 
64.   “Right of First Refusal” is defined in subsection 6.3 of this Agreement.
 
65.   “Roof Installations” is defined in subsection 2.3 of this Agreement.
 
66.   “Security Deposit” is defined in subsection 29.1 of this Agreement.
 
67.   “SRR Act” is defined in subsection 32.4 of this Agreement.
 
68.   “Target Completion Date” is defined in subsection 5.5 of this Agreement.
 
69.   “Target Date” means the estimated Commencement Date which is January 1, 2010.
 
70.   “Taxes” means, in any calendar year, the aggregate amount of real property taxes, assessments and sewer rents, rates and charges, state and local taxes, transit taxes and every other governmental charge, whether general or special, ordinary or extraordinary (except corporate franchise taxes and taxes imposed on, or computed as a function of, net income or net profits from all sources and except taxes charged, assessed or levied exclusively on the Leased Premises or arising exclusively from the Tenant’s occupancy of the Leased Premises) charged, assessed or levied by any taxing authority with respect to the Property, the Building, the Common Facilities and any other improvements on the Property, less any refunds or rebates (net of expenses incurred in obtaining any such refunds or rebates) of Taxes actually received by the Landlord during such calendar year with respect to any period during the Term for the benefit of the Tenant, tenants of Other Leased Premises and the Landlord. If during the Term there shall be a change in the means or methods of taxing real property generally in effect at the beginning of the Term and another type of tax or method of taxation should be substituted in whole or in part for, or in lieu of, Taxes, the amounts calculated under such other types of tax or by such other methods of taxation shall also be deemed to be Taxes. Until such time as the actual amount of Taxes for any calendar year becomes known, the amount thereof shall be the Landlord’s estimate of Taxes for that calendar year.
 
71.   “Temporary Occupancy Period” is defined in subsection 4.3.2 of this Agreement.

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72.   “Tenant” means the entity designated at the beginning of this Agreement.
 
73.   “Tenant Electric Charges” means (a) during Regular Business Hours, Electric Charges attributable to the Tenant’s use of electricity in the Leased Premises for purposes other than heating, ventilation and air conditioning provided to the Leased Premises by the Landlord in accordance with subsection 8.1.5 of this Agreement, and specifically excluding the charge for electricity for the HVAC for the balance of the Building and the charge for electricity used in the Common Areas, and (b) during other than Regular Business Hours, a charge for the actual costs incurred by the Landlord in connection with the HVAC systems plus Electric Charges chargeable in accordance with subsection 9.1 of this Agreement.
 
74.   “Tenant Plan” means construction drawings and related construction specifications regarding the build-out of the Leased Premises (with any construction drawings in a reproducible diazo sepia mylar form and in CAD readable format) including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the finish schedule and the information called for by Exhibit C, signed and sealed by a New Jersey-licensed architect, complying in all respects with applicable building and fire codes and insurance underwriting standards in effect and in sufficient detail to permit the Municipality to issue any required building permits and to permit skilled contractors to supply and perform the work called for therein. The Tenant Plan shall not include any specialized computer installations or any telecommunications equipment or facilities. The Tenant Plan shall include the layout of all furniture and furniture systems which are required to secure a building permit.
 
75.   “Tenant’s Share” of any amount means 27.9%.
 
76.   “Term” means the Initial Term plus, at the time of reference, any Renewal Term.
 
77.   “Termination Damages” is defined in subsection 23.2 of this Agreement.
 
78.   “Termination Fee” is defined in subsection 6.2.1 of this Agreement.
 
79.   “Third Floor Premises” is defined in subsection 2.1 of this Agreement.
 
80.   “Third Floor Space” is defined in subsection 6.3.1 of this Agreement.
 
81.   “Utilities Expenses” means Electric Charges (other than Tenant Electric Charges) and all charges for any other fuel that may be used in providing heat and in providing electricity and services powered by electricity that the Landlord provides in accordance with section 8 of this Agreement to the Building, the Leased Premises, Other Leased Premises, the Common Facilities and the Property, including sales and excise taxes and the like.
 
82.   “Wire Restoration Work” is defined in subsection 21.2 of this Agreement.
 
83.   “Wiring” is defined in subsection 21.2 of this Agreement.
 
84.   “Work Letter” means Exhibit C attached hereto which generally describes the type of construction of the Building and, unless the Tenant Plan does not require any such respective improvement, those improvements the Landlord will provide or install in the Leased Premises without installation charge to the Tenant in connection with the preparation of the Leased Premises contemplated by section 5 of this Agreement.

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EXHIBIT F — CLEANING SPECIFICATIONS
                     
    FREQUENCY OF SERVICE
EXTENT OF SERVICE   Daily   Weekly   Monthly   Quarterly   As Directed
I. GENERAL, PRIVATE OFFICES, LOBBY, LOUNGE, ETC.
                   
1. Empty wastebaskets.
  x                
2. Transport trash to designated area.
  x                
3. Recycling services.
  x                
4. Dust all furniture including desks, chairs, tables.
      2x            
5. Dust all exposed filing cabinets, bookcases and shelves.
      x            
6. Clean and sanitize telephones.
      x            
7. Clean and sanitize drinking fountains.
  x                
8. Low dust all horizontal surfaces to hand height (70”) including sills, ledges, moldings, shelves, picture frames, ducts, radiators, etc.
      x            
9. High dust above hand height all horizontal surfaces, including shelves, molding, ledges.
                   
10. Spot clean desk tops.       x   (Provided Desktops are Cleared)    
11. Clean entire desk tops.       x   (Provided Desktops are Cleared)    
12. Clean counter tops.
      x            
13. Spot clean reception lobby glass including front door.
  x                
14. Spot clean interior glass in partitions and doors.
  x                
15. Clean entire interior glass in partitions and doors.
              x    

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    FREQUENCY OF SERVICE
EXTENT OF SERVICE   Daily   Weekly   Monthly   Quarterly   As Directed
16. Remove fingerprints front doors, frames, light switches, kick and push plates, handles, railings.
      x            
17. Client papers on desks, drafting tables, filing cabinets, etc. are not disturbed.
  x                
18. Dust venetian blinds.
              x    
19. Damp clean whiteboards if requested.
                  x
20. Vacuum diffuser outlets in ceiling.
              x    
21. Hand dust wood paneling.
          x        
22. Remove dust and cob-webs from ceiling areas.
      x            
23. Stairways-Sweep/ vacuum and dust.
      x            
24. Elevators-Dust, Spotclean
      x            
II. WASHROOMS
                   
1. Clean, sanitize, and polish all vitreous fixtures including toilet bowls, urinals, hand basins.
      x            
2. Clean and sanitize all flush rings, drain & over-flow outlets.
      x            
3. Clean and polish all chrome fittings.
      x            
4. Clean and sanitize toilet seats.
      x            
5. Clean and polish all glass and mirrors.
      x            
6. Empty all containers and disposals, insert liners as required.
      x            
7. Wash and sanitize exterior of all containers
              x    
8. Empty and sanitize interior of sanitary container
  x                

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    FREQUENCY OF SERVICE
EXTENT OF SERVICE   Daily   Weekly   Monthly   Quarterly   As Directed
9. Dust all metal partitions.
      x            
10. Spot clean metal partitions.
  x                
11. Wash and sanitize metal partitions.
              x    
12. Remove spots, stains, splashes from wall area adjacent to hand basins.
  x                
13. Remove fingerprints from doors, frames, light switches, kick and push plates, handles, etc.
  x                
14. Refill all dispensers to normal limits-napkin, soap, tissue, towel, liners, seat holders, cups. Supplies to be furnished by Landlord.
                  x
15. Low dusts all horizontal surfaces to hand height including sills, moldings, ledges, shelves, frames, ducts, heating outlets, etc.
      x            
16. High dust above hand height all horizontal surfaces including shelves, ledges, moldings.
      x            
17. Dust all furniture including tables, chairs, etc.
          x        
18. Vacuum diffuser outlets in ceilings or walls.
  x                
19. Dry clean area adjacent to diffuser outlet.
  x                
20. Flush toilet bowls & urinals with “Bowlclene”.
  x                

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    FREQUENCY OF SERVICE
EXTENT OF SERVICE   Daily   Weekly   Monthly   Quarterly   As Directed
III. EATING AREAS/ KITCHEN
                   
1. Empty all containers and disposals. Sanitize interior
  x                
2. Wash and sanitize exterior of all containers.
          x        
3. Clean and sanitize drinking fountain.
      x            
4. Remove fingerprints from doors, frames, light switches, kick and push plates, handles.
  x                
5. Low dust all horizontal surfaces to hand height including sills, moldings, ledges, shelves, frames, ducts, heating outlets, etc.
          x        
6. High dust above hand height all horizontal surfaces including shelves, ledges, moldings, pipes ducts, heating outlets, etc.
          x        
7. Clean interior glass in partitions & doors.
              x    
IV. RESILIENT AND HARD FLOORS
                   
1. Dust mop or sweep. (alt.)
  x   (alternate days)            
2. Damp mop.
  x   (alternate days)            
3. Sanitize -(Restrooms)
  x                
4. Spray buff open areas including kneeholes of desks.(First Flr. Lobby & Parking Level).
      x           x
5. Scrub and refinish to maintain adequate protective coating.(First Floor Lobby & Parking Level).
              x   x
6. Strip, clean, refinish and machine polish.
              x   x
V. CARPETS
                   
1. Vacuum traffic areas
      2 x            

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    FREQUENCY OF SERVICE
EXTENT OF SERVICE   Daily   Weekly   Monthly   Quarterly   As Directed
2. Vacuum entire carpet areas
      x            
3. Inspect for spots and stains
  x                
4. Spotlight maintenance program.(All floors & Commons Carpet)
          x        
5. Machine shampoo entire open areas
                  x
6. Provide service mats
                  x

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Exhibit 10.38
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ACCESS AGREEMENT
This Agreement (the “ Agreement ”), dated as of this 1st day of December, 2004, by and between Questrade, Inc. an Ontario corporation, located at 5001 Yonge Street, Suite 203, Toronto, Ontario Canada M2N 6P6 (“ Questrade ”), and Gain Capital, Inc., a Delaware Corporation with an office located at 35 Technology Drive, Warren, New Jersey 07059 (“Gain”) (collectively, the “Parties”).
Recitals
     WHEREAS, Questrade is a registered investment dealer with the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA”);
     WHEREAS Questrade provides Canadian clients with online trading, foreign currency and brokerage services utilizing a trading application (the “Trading Application”), which enables its clients to place securities orders for execution by or through Questrade;
     WHEREAS, Gain is a registered Futures Commissions Merchant and a member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Gain is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”);
     WHEREAS Gain operates a proprietary software trading application (along with all future versions thereot) (the “Trading Software” or “Application”), which, among other things, provides users, including Canadian users (each Canadian users, hereinafter a “User”) with access to foreign exchange services; and
     WHEREAS, the Parties desire to provide Questrade Clients with exclusive access to Gain’s foreign exchange trading services offered through its Trading Software;
     NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties, on the basis of the representations, warranties, and covenants contained in this Agreement, agree, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, as follows:
1. Definitions
  a)   Commencement date means the date of execution of this Agreement.
 
  b)   Gain SHIP program refers to the proprietary hedging program developed by GAIN Capital
 
  c)   Questrade Originated Accounts refers to any client signing account opening documents with Questrade
2. Parties’ Obligations
     2.1 During the Term of this Agreement (as defined in Section 4 below), Gain shall provide the functionality that will allow a User to link to a web site and download Gain’s Trading Software for installation on User’s computer. Gain’s Application will be available to provide the functionality that will automatically launch the Trading Software and allow the User to place foreign exchange transactions for execution through Questrade;
     2.2. Gain will automate the collection of Canadian leads so that Questrade will be automatically notified via email about any Canadian prospect that is interested in foreign exchange services.
     2.3. Gain will provide Trading Software training for designated Questrade staff as well as marketing support.
     2.4 During the Term, Gain shall display Questrade banners on the gaincapital.com and

 


 

forex.com websites and promote the relationship between the Parties.
     2.5 Once a User accesses the Trading Application, Gain will have no obligation with respect to the activities conducted by such User on, through, or in connection with such Trading Application. Upon such access, and subject to Questrade’s acceptance and the User’s completion of Questrade’s account documentation, User will become a client of Questrade (“Client”). actions:
     2.6 Gain is prohibited from dealing directly with Clients in connection with the following actions:
a) Describing Questrade’s brokerage services to Clients; provided, however, that Gain may distribute materials prepared or approved by Questrade but shall not have any responsibility for or obligation with respect to any such materials;
b) Becoming involved in the financial services offered by Questrade, including, without limitation, by: (A) opening, approving, maintaining, administering, or closing customer brokerage accounts with Questrade; (B) soliciting, processing, or facilitating securities transactions relating to customer brokerage accounts with Questrade; (C) extending credit to any customer for the purpose of purchasing securities through, or carrying securities with, Questrade; (D) answering Questrade customer inquiries or engaging in negotiations involving brokerage accounts or securities transactions; (E) accepting customer securities orders, selecting among broker-dealers or routing orders to markets for execution; (F) handling funds or securities of Questrade customers, or effecting clearance or settlement of customer securities trades; (G) resolving or attempting to resolve any problems, discrepancies, or disputes involving Questrade customer accounts or related transactions; or (H) recommending or endorsing specific securities, giving advice or promulgating analyses or reports on the value of securities and/or the advisability of investing in securities;
c) Recommending or endorsing securities, services or products, or taking part in any way in the brokerage services, offered by Questrade, including, without limitation, the opening, maintenance, administration, or closing of brokerage accounts, or the solicitation, entry, or execution of orders for a Client;
d) Providing assistance in resolving problems, discrepancies, or disputes involving brokerage accounts or related securities transactions, or answering questions or engaging in negotiations involving brokerage accounts or related securities transactions;
e) Selecting dealers or market centers to which to route orders for Clients;
f) Handling customer funds or securities related to securities orders transmitted to Questrade or effecting clearance and settlement of Clients trades; or
g) Extending credit to any Client for the purpose of purchasing securities through, or carrying securities with, Questrade.
     2.7 Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, Questrade shall be solely responsible for compliance and this Agreement shall be subject to all applicable legal and regulatory requirements of the IDA and the provincial securities commissions in which Questrade provides its brokerage services, (the “Regulators”). This Agreement may be revised in accordance with any change or new securities laws, rules, regulations or by-laws issued by the Regulators.
3.  Fees
3.1 During the term of this Agreement, Gain shall provide Questrade with a daily profit and loss statement for each User of the Trading Software as well as a summary for all Users. At the end of each calendar month, net realized revenues from all Questrade Clients designated for the Gain SHIP program will be split on ***. In any calendar month that a net loss in generated, this net loss will be

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Called forward into the following calendar month and paid out as a net positive number. For example,
(a) For the month of September, the total net revenue for all Questrade Originated Accounts in the SHIP program is ***. *** will be paid to Questrade’s designated account on or about the 15th of October. If in October, the aggregate profit and loss of all Questrade Originated Accounts in the SHIP program amounts to a negative number, this amount will be carried forward to November. In November, any negative balances will be netted against any positive balances before being paid on or about the 15th of December.
(b) Gain will be solely responsible for determining whether or not a Questrade Originated Account will be included in the Gain SHIP program but will notify Questrade upon the registration of each new account.
3.2 For all Canadians who are clients of Gain prior to the Commencement date of this Agreement and are transferred from GAIN to Questrade and remain in the Gain SHIP program, the net realized revenues will be split in accordance with the chart below. Fee Date Fee Split (Questrade/Gain)
     
Fee Date   Fee Split (Questrade/Gain)
Month 1 after Commencement date
  ***
 
   
Month 2 after Commencement date
  ***
 
   
Month 3 after Commencement date
  ***
 
   
Month 4 after Commencement date
  ***
 
   
Month 5 after Commencement date
  ***
3.3. For any prospect referred by Questrade who becomes a Gain client, Gain will pay Questrade *** over the GAIN trading platform. These fees will paid on or about the 15th of the following calendar month for any preceding months’ fees earned.
Gain will provide Questrade with a monthly report, electronically or otherwise, detailing the total number of Questrade referred customers, total transaction volume per customer, and total, if any, earned payments for the reporting period.
3.4 The Parties shall maintain for at least a period of *** complete and accurate records with respect to the calculation of all Fees due under this Agreement and the transactions relating thereto.
3.5 Each User that becomes a Client of Questrade under this Agreement shall be the sole Client of Questrade for securities brokerage purposes and not the customer of Gain. Gain shall not knowingly, solely or in concert with other parties, market to any Client for the purpose of inducing them to terminate their brokerage relationship with Questrade and/or to open a brokerage account with another broker. This provision shall survive the termination of the Agreement for one calendar year from the date of termination.
4. Term and Termination
4.1 The initial term of this Agreement (the “Initial Term”) shall commence as of the date first set forth above and shall continue for a period of one (1) year, to be automatically renewed for successive one (1) year term(s) (each a “Renewal Term”) unless written notice of termination is given to the other Party sixty (60) days prior to end of the Initial Term, or Renewal Term as the case may be.
4.2 Either party may terminate this Agreement if the other party defaults in the performance of a material obligation hereunder, and such default is not cured within *** days after written notice is received from the non-defaulting Party. This Agreement also may be terminated by either party at any

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time upon *** days’ prior written notice;
4.3 Gain shall acquire no right to disclose, and shall not disclose, without Questrade’s prior written consent, the terms or existence of this Agreement. Gain shall acquire no right to use, and shall not use, without Questrade’s prior written consent, the names, characters, artwork, designs, trade names, copyrighted materials, trademarks, or service marks of Questrade, its related or subsidiary companies, parent, employees, directors, shareholders, assigns, successors or licensees except in accordance with this Agreement.
5. Trading Application Functions
5.1 Gain will make its best efforts to provide, through its Trading Software, all of the material functions and characteristics, and access to any systems, or market centers, as represented or identified to Questrade prior to the execution of this Agreement.
6. Exclusivity
During the time in which this Agreement is in force, the parties acknowledge that Gain may not enter into arrangements similar to those set forth in this Agreement with another Canadian brokerage, including but not limited to competitors of Questrade.
7. Representations, Warranties, and Covenants
7.1 Each Party represents, warrants, and covenants to the other Party that (i) it has the full corporate right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the acts required of it hereunder; (ii) the execution of this Agreement by it, and the performance by it of its obligations and duties hereunder, do not and will not violate any agreement to which it is also a Party or by which it is otherwise bound; and (iii) when executed by it, this Agreement will constitute the legal, valid, and binding obligation of such Party, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.
7.2 Questrade represents, warrants, and covenants (as applicable) to Gain that (i) it is and will remain during the term of this Agreement a duly registered Dealer under the applicable securities laws of the provinces where it offers its brokerage services and a member in good standing of the IDA and (ii) Questrade shall be in full compliance with all applicable laws of Canada, including but not limited to the rules and regulations enacted by the IDA and the Canadian provinces where it offers its brokerage services.
7.3 Questrade represents that it shall provide written disclosure to each Client of the Fee arrangement prior to any orders being executed by Questrade. The disclosure may include: (a) a clear definition of how the Fee is calculated; (b) the reason for the payment; (c) the name of the parties receiving and paying the Fee; (d) a statement that it is illegal for the party receiving the fee to trade or advise in respect of securities if it is not duly licensed or registered under applicable securities legislation to provide such advice; and (e) the Member has received instructions directly from the client and shall not receive instructions or advice regarding client transactions from the party receiving the fee.
7.4 Gain represents and warrants that in its performance hereunder, it shall obey all applicable laws, regulations and rules of any government body or agency or other competent authority.
8. Disclaimer of Representations and Warranties
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, NEITHER PARTY MAKES ANY, AND EACH PARTY HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. THE SERVICES HEREUNDER ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED.

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9. Indemnification
9.1 Each party (the “ Indemnifying Party ”) shall indemnify and hold harmless the other Party and its affiliates, subsidiaries and successors and its and their past or present directors, officers, employees and agents (collectively, the “ Indemnified Party ”) from and against any and all claims, suits, actions, loss, costs, damages, liability, or other expense asserted by a third party, in each case as incurred, in any way resulting from the actual or alleged breach of any obligation, representation, warranty, or covenant by the Indemnifying Party under this Agreement or from the actual or alleged acts or omissions of the Indemnifying Party or the Indemnifying Party’s past or present directors, officers, employees or agents in connection with this Agreement or the performance thereunder, provided that the Indemnified Party shall give the Indemnifying Party reasonable notice of any claim for indemnification hereunder and provided further that the Indemnifying Party shall permit the Indemnified Party to reasonably control the defense or settlement of any such claim or cause of action, including permitting the Indemnified Party to select counsel of its choice. The Indemnifying Party, with respect to any such claim or cause of action, shall permit the Indemnified Party to monitor any defense or settlement conducted by the Indemnifying Party, and shall obtain the written approval of the Indemnified Party (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) prior to settling any claim or cause of action covered by this provision. Both the Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party shall cooperate in the defense or settlement of any claim or cause of action covered by this provision.
10. Confidentiality
Each party will regard and preserve as confidential any and all information related to the business of the other, its parent company and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies and its or their clients that may be obtained from any source as a result of this Agreement (the “ Confidential Information ”). Neither party will, without first obtaining the other’s prior written consent, disclose to any person, firm or enterprise, or use for its benefit, any such Confidential Information including information relating to the pricing, methods, processes, financial data, customer lists, apparatus, statistics, programs, research, developments or related information of the disclosing party, its parent company and its subsidiaries, affiliated companies or its or their clients concerning past, present or future business activities of said entities. The aforesaid Confidential Information shall not include information that (i) becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the recipient or anyone to whom it transmits the information, (ii) was available to the recipient on a non-confidential basis prior to the disclosure to it by the disclosing party, (iii) becomes available to the recipient on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the disclosing party who is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with the disclosing patty, (iv) was known to the recipient or in its possession prior to the date of disclosure by the disclosing party, (v) is independently developed by the recipient without reference to the Confidential Information provided by the other party, or (vi) is required to be disclosed by legal process or law, provided that the receiving party will give written notice to the disclosing party immediately upon learning of such requirement so that the disclosing party may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy or may waive compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
10.1 Customer Information . As between Questrade and Gain, Customer Information (as defined below) is and will remain the sole and exclusive property of Questrade and shall be treated by Gain as Confidential Information of Questrade. “Customer Information” means all data and information pertaining to or identifiable to a Questrade customer, prospect or user of a Questrade Service (as defined below) including without limitation, (i) name, address, email address, password, personal financial information, personal preferences, demographic data, marketing data, data about securities transactions, credit data, or any other identification data; (ii) any information that reflects customers’, prospects’ or users’ interactions with a Questrade Service, including but not limited to, information concerning computer search paths, any profiles created or general usage data; or (iii) any data otherwise submitted by customers, prospects, or users in the process of registering for or using a Questrade Service. “Questrade Service” means any service, including without limitation financial or brokerage services that Questrade makes available to its customers, prospects, and users through Web sites, desktops, email, wireless devices, or from any other communications channel developed, owned, licensed, operated,

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hosted, or otherwise controlled by Questrade or any Questrade affiliate.
10.2 Use of Customer Information . Without limiting any other warranty or obligation specified in this Agreement, and in particular the confidentiality provisions of this Section 10 of this Agreement, during the term of this Agreement and thereafter in perpetuity, Gain will not gather, store, or use any Customer Information in any manner and will not disclose, distribute, sell, share, rent, or otherwise transfer any Customer Information to any third party, except as expressly provided in this Agreement or as Gain may be expressly directed in advance in writing by Questrade. Gain hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Questrade and its affiliates against any damages, losses, liabilities, settlements and expenses (including without limitation costs and attorneys’ fees) in connection with any claim or action that arises from Gain’s misuse or alleged misuse of Customer Information.
10.3 Retention of Customer Information . Gain will not retain any Customer Information for any period longer than necessary for Gain to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement. As soon as Gain no longer needs to retain such Customer Information in order to perform its duties under this Agreement, Gain will promptly return or destroy all originals and copies of such Customer Information.
11. General
11.1 Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to its provisions of conflict of laws. Each party hereby consents to the personal jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario, acknowledges that venue is proper in any Superior Court in Ontario, agrees that any action arising out of or related to this Agreement must be brought exclusively in a the Province of Ontario, and waives any objection it has or may have in the future with respect to any of the foregoing.
11.2 Assignment . Neither Party may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other Party. This Agreement shall be binding on and shall inure solely to the benefit of the Parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns, and none of the provisions of this Agreement are intended to be, nor shall they be construed to be, for the benefit of or enforceable by any person not a Party hereto.
11.3 Notices . Any and all notices or other communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if: (i) sent by Federal Express or other commercial overnight courier or (ii) sent postage prepaid by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, in any event addressed as follows:
If to Questrade:
Questrade, Inc.
5001 Yonge Street, Suite 203
Toronto, ON M2N 6P6
If to Gain:
Gain Capital, Inc.
35 Technology Drive
Warren, New Jersey 07059
11.4 No Agency . Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall be construed to constitute an agency, joint venture, partnership or fiduciary relationship between the Parties and no Party shall have the right or authority to act for or on behalf of the other Party, except as is otherwise provided herein.
11.5 Entire Agreement; Amendment . This Agreement and the Software License and Services Agreement entered into by the Parties constitute the entire understanding between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior written or oral proposals, understandings,

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agreements and representations, all of which are merged herein. No amendment or modification of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and executed by the Parties.
11.6 Severability . If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be unenforceable, such provisions shall be ineffective only to the extent unenforceable and the remainder of such provision and all other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
11.7 Limitations of Liability . UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF THAT PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING FROM PERFORMANCE UNDER OR FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES), SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF REVENUE OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION 11.7 SHALL NOT APPLY IN THE EVENT OF A BREACH OF SECTION 10 (CONFIDENTIALITY), OR IN CONNECTION WITH AMOUNTS PAYABLE PURSUANT TO SECTION 9 (INDEMNIFICATION) HEREOF.
11.8 Waiver . No provision of or right under this Agreement shall be deemed to have been waived by any act or acquiescence on the part of either Party, its agents or employees, except by an instrument in writing signed by an authorized officer of the Party to be charged. No waiver of a breach of, or default under, this Agreement shall be effective as to any other breach or default of this Agreement, whether of the same or similar nature, and whether occurring before or after the date of such waiver.
11.9 Interpretation . The Parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (i) each Party and its representatives has reviewed and negotiated the terms and provisions of this Agreement; (ii) the rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of this Agreement; and (iii) the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be construed fairly as to each Party hereto and not in favor of or against either party regardless of which Party was purportedly responsible for the preparation of any aspect of this Agreement.
11.10 Counterparts; Facsimiles . This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Facsimiles shall be deemed to be originals.
11.11 Press Releases . Neither Party shall issue any public statements regarding this Agreement, the services to be provided hereunder, or any other Party, until both parties have executed the Agreement.
11.12 Survival . The provisions set forth in Section 8, Section 9, Section 10 and this Section 11 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
                     
GAIN CAPITAL, INC.       QUESTRADE, INC.    
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Glenn Stevens       By:   /s/ Edward Kholodenko    
Glenn Stevens       Edward Kholodenko    
Title: Managing Director       Title: President and CEO    

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Exhibit 10.39
DATED
PONTSARN INVESTMENTS LIMITED
and
GAINS CAPITAL — FOREX.COM UK LIMITED
LEASE
of
Part Ninth Floor (East), 12-20 Camomile Street, London EC3
N A B A R R O
Lacon House
84 Theobald’s Road
London WC1X 8RW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7524 6000

 


 

CONTENTS
             
Clause   Subject matter   Page
1.
  DEFINITIONS     1  
2.
  INTERPRETATION     4  
3.
  GRANT AND TERM     6  
4.
  RIGHTS GRANTED     6  
5.
  RIGHTS RESERVED AND REGRANTED     7  
6.
  THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OVER THE PREMISES     8  
7.
  PAYMENT OF RENTS     8  
8.
  OTHER FINANCIAL MATTERS     9  
 
  Utilities     9  
 
  Common facilities     9  
 
  Payments relating to the Premises and other property     9  
 
  Landlord’s costs     9  
 
  VAT     10  
 
  Interest     10  
 
  Exclusion of statutory compensation     10  
9.
  INSURANCE     10  
 
  Landlord’s obligations     10  
 
  Reinstatement     11  
 
  Tenant’s obligations     11  
 
  Suspension of Rent     12  
 
  Termination after end of Rent suspension period     12  
 
  Termination following damage by an Excluded Risk     12  
 
  Insurance money     13  
10.
  SERVICE CHARGE     13  
 
  Definitions     13  
 
  Landlord’s obligations     15  
 
  Tenant’s obligations     16  
 
  Estimating and revising the Service Charge     16  
 
  Changes to the Service Charge Cap     17  
 
  General provisions     18  
11.
  STATE AND CONDITION OF THE PREMISES     18  
 
  Repair     18  
 
  Alterations     18  
 
  Signs and reletting notices     19  
 
  Yield up     19  
12.
  USE OF THE PREMISES     20  
 
  The Permitted Use     20  
 
  Obstructions     20  
 
  Restrictions on use     20  
 
  Fire and security precautions     20  
 
  Exclusion of warranty     20  
13:
  DEALINGS     20  
 
  General restrictions     20  
 
  Assignments     20  
 
  Underlettings     21  
 
  Terms to be contained in any underlease     22  

 


 

             
Clause   Subject matter   Page
 
  Further provisions relating to underleases     23  
 
  Charging     23  
 
  Declarations of trust     23  
 
  Group sharing of occupation     23  
 
  Registration of dealings     23  
 
  Registration at the Land Registry     23  
14.
  LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS     24  
 
  Legislation and planning     24  
 
  Notices relating to the Premises     24  
 
  The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007     24  
 
  Regulations     25  
15.
  LANDLORD’S COVENANT FOR QUIET ENJOYMENT     25  
16.
  LIMIT ON LANDLORD’S LIABILITY     25  
17.
  FORFEITURE     26  
 
  Landlord’s right of re-entry     26  
 
  Events giving rise to the Landlord’s right of re-entry     26  
 
  Interpretation     28  
18.
  MISCELLANEOUS     28  
 
  Notice     28  
 
  Landlord’s rights to remedy default by the Tenant     29  
 
  Superior interests     29  
 
  No right to enforce     29  
 
  Tenant to provide information     29  
 
  Tenant’s indemnity     29  
 
  Guarantor to enter into supplemental documents     29  
 
  Replacement Guarantor     29  
 
  Qualification of Landlord’s liability     30  
 
  Removal of goods after end of Term     30  
 
  Governing law     30  
 
  Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999     30  
 
  Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995     30  
 
  Tenant’s acknowledgement and Code     31  
19.
  EXCLUSION OF THE LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954     31  

 


 

PARTICULARS
DATE
     
NEW OR OLD TENANCY
  The tenancy created by this deed is a new tenancy for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995.
 
   
LANDLORD
  Pontsarn Investments Limited
Company registration number
  00611070.
Registered office
  33 Cavendish Square, London W1G OPW.
 
   
TENANT
  Gains Capital - Forex.com UK Limited
Company registration number
  03770004
Registered office
  43-45 Dorset Street, London, W1 U 7NA
 
   
PREMISES
  Part ninth floor (east).
 
   
BUILDING
  12-20 Camomile Street, London EC3.
 
   
TERM GRANTED
  From and including the date of this deed expiring on and including 24 March 2011.
 
   
RENT
  Forty-two thousand one hundred and twenty pounds (£42,120) per annum.
 
   
RENT COMMENCEMENT DATE
  1 May 2009.
 
   
SERVICE CHARGE
  A fair proportion of the total for the Building.
 
   
INTEREST RATE
  Four per cent above HSBC Bank pic base lending rate.
 
   
PERMITIED USE
  Offices within Use Class B1 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as at the date of this deed).

 


 

LEASE
DATE
PARTIES
(1)   PONTSARN INVESTMENTS LIMITED (incorporated and registered in England and Wales under company registration number 00611070), the registered office of which is at 33 Cavendish Square, London W1G OPW (the “ Landlord ”); and
 
(2)   GAINS CAPITAL — FOREX.COM UK LIMITED (incorporated and registered in England and Wales under company registration number 03770004), the registered office of which is at 43-45 Dorset Street, London, W1U 7NA (the “ Tenant ”).
IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
1.   DEFINITIONS
In this Lease the following definitions apply:
“Building”
    means 12-20 Camomile Street, London EC3 of which the Premises form part together with the yard to the rear;
“Common Parts”
    means any part of the Building (other than the Premises and the Lettable Units);
“Excluded Risks”
    means any risk listed in paragraph (a) or referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of Insured Risks against which the Landlord does not insure (or in respect of which there is a partial exclusion to the extent that the partial exclusion applies) because insurance cover for that risk is either not ordinarily available in the London insurance market, or is available there only at a premium or subject to conditions which in the Landlord’s discretion are unacceptable;
“Group”
    means a group of companies within the meaning of section 42 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;
“Guarantor”
    means any person who has entered into a guarantee or an authorised guarantee agreement pursuant to this Lease;
“Insurance Rent”
    means a fair proportion of the cost to the Landlord (before any commission) and including any insurance premium tax of insuring:
  (a)   the Building against the Insured Risks for its full reinstatement cost, including the costs of demolition and site clearance, temporary works, compliance with local authority requirements in connection with any works of repair or reinstatement, architects’, surveyors’ and other professional fees and other

 


 

      incidental expenses, and in each case with due allowance for inflation and VAT;
 
  (b)   against loss of the Rent for a period of three years; and
 
  (c)   against public liability of the Landlord in connection with any matter relating to the Building, its occupation or use;
“Insured Risks”
    means:
  (a)   fire, explosion, lightning, earthquake, flood, storm, bursting or overflowing of water tanks, pipes or other water or heating apparatus, impact, aircraft (other than hostile aircraft) and things dropped from such aircraft, riot, civil commotion, terrorism and malicious damage; and
 
  (b)   such other risks as the Landlord may from time to time insure against (whether at its own discretion or at the request of the Tenant), except to the extent that any such risk is for the time being an Excluded Risk;
“Interest Rate”
    means the rate of four per cent above the base lending rate from time to time of HSBC Bank pic, or if that rate is no longer published then four per cent above the rate of interest which the Landlord reasonably considers to be most closely comparable to minimum lending rates generally applicable in the United Kingdom from time to time;
“Landlord”
    means the first party to this deed and its successors in title and persons entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on the termination of this Lease;
“Landlord’s Surveyor”
    means a chartered surveyor appointed by the Landlord, who may be an individual, or a firm or company of chartered surveyors, or an employee of the Landlord or a company which is in the same Group as the Landlord;
“this Lease”
    means this deed as varied or supplemented by any document which is supplemental to this deed;
“Lettable Unit”
    means any part of the Building (other than the Premises) which is let or is intended
“Permitted Use”
    means offices within Use Class B1 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as at the date of this deed);
“Premises”
    means part of the ninth floor, as shown edged red on the plan annexed to this deed bounded by and including:
  (a)   all non-structural walls wholly within the Premises;
 
  (b)   the internal faces of boundary walls, ceilings and floors that enclose the Premises and the internal faces of all structural walls and columns within the Premises;
 
  (c)   the doors, door frames, internal windows, window frames and glass of the Premises;

 


 

  (d)   all fixtures from time to time at those premises, but if those fixtures are Service Media, then only if they fall within paragraph (e) below;
 
  (e)   Service Media within and from time to time exclusively serving those premises and which are owned by the Landlord;
 
      but excluding:
 
  (f)   any Service Media within such premises but which do not serve such premises exclusively, or which are not owned by the Landlord; and
 
  (g)   the main structure of the Building (including the structure of the floors and ceiling), roofs, foundations, external walls, the external windows and window frames and the window glass of the Building;
“Rent”
    means forty-two thousand one hundred and twenty pounds (£42,120) per annum;
“Rent Commencement Date”
    means 1 May 2009;
“Service Charge”
    means the lesser of a fair proportion of the total cost of the Landlord’s Expenses (as defined in clause 10.1) and the Service Charge Cap in relation to the relevant Service Charge Year;
“Service Charge Balance”
    means the shortfall, if any, between the Service Charge Estimate and the Service Charge;
“Service Charge Cap”
    means for the Service Charge Year which is current at the date of this deed, eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty pounds (£18,360), and for each remaining Service Charge Year during the Term, the amount calculated in accordance with clause 10.5;
“Service Charge Estimate”
    means the same fair proportion of the amount which the Landlord, or the Landlord’s Surveyor or its accountant, reasonably estimates will be the total cost of the Landlord’s Expenses (as defined in clause 10.1) in any Service Charge Year;
“Service Charge Year”
    means the year from and including 1 April to 31 March in each year or such other date which the Landlord chooses from time to time;
“Service Media”
    means conduits and equipment used for the generation, passage, reception and/or storage of Utilities and all fire alarms, sprinklers, smoke detectors, dry risers, security cameras, closed circuit television apparatus and lifts;
“Tenant”
    means the second party to this deed and, except where otherwise expressly stated, its successors in title;

 


 

“Term”
    means the term of years granted by this deed;
“Utilities”
    means electricity, gas, water, foul water and surface drainage, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, smoke and fumes, signals, telecommunications, satellite and data communications and all other utilities;
“VAT”
    means value added tax and/or any similar tax from time to time replacing it or performing a similar fiscal function;
“Working Day”
    means any day (other than a Saturday) on which banks are usually open for business in England and Wales.
2. INTERPRETATION
2.1   In this Lease:
 
2.1.1   the table of contents and clause headings are for reference only and do not affect its construction;
 
2.1.2   the words “include” and “including” are deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”;
 
2.1.3   general words introduced by the word “other” do not have a restrictive meaning by reason of being preceded by words indicating a particular class of acts, things or matters;
[illegible] ....more than one person are owed by or to them jointly and

 


 

Lease Plan   Title Number    
LEASE PLAN NINTH FLOOR, ELLERMAN HOUSE, 12-20 CAMOMILE ST. LONDON EC3

 


 

2.1.5   in clauses 14 and 20 the word “security” includes, without limitation, a guarantee or rent deposit.
 
2.2   In this Lease, unless otherwise specified:
 
2.2.1   a reference to legislation is a reference to all legislation having effect in the United Kingdom at any time during the Term, including directives, decisions and regulations of the Councilor Commission of the European Union, Acts of Parliament, orders, regulations, consents, licences, notices and bye-laws made or granted under any Act of Parliament or directive, decision or regulation of the Council or Commission of the European Union, or made or granted by a local authority or by a court of competent jurisdiction and any approved codes of practice issued by a statutory ·body;
 
2.2.2   a reference to particular legislation is a reference to that legislation as amended, consolidated or re-enacted from time to time and to all to subordinate legislation made under it from time to time;
 
2.2.3   a reference to a person includes an individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership or government body or agency, whether or not legally capable of holding land; and
 
2.2.4   a reference to a clause is a reference to a clause of this deed.
 
2.3   In this Lease:
 
2.3.1   an obligation of the Tenant not to do something includes an obligation not to cause or allow that thing to be done;
 
2.3.2   a reference to any act or to any act or omission of the Tenant includes any act or any act or omission of any other person at the Premises or the Building with the Tenant’s express or implied authority;
 
2.3.3   the rights and remedies of the Landlord under any clause are without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the Landlord;
 
2.3.4   the obligations of or restrictions on the Tenant or a Guarantor under any clause, supplemental document or other instrument entered into in connection with this Lease, are without prejudice to the obligations of or restrictions on the Tenant or Guarantor, or to the rights of the Landlord under any other clause, supplemental document or other instrument entered into in connection with this Lease;
 
2.3.5   a reference to the consent or approval of the Landlord means the prior consent in writing (which, if required by the Landlord, is to be contained in a deed) of the Landlord, and, where required, of any superior landlord or mortgagee of the Landlord;
 
2.3.6   references to any adjoining property of the Landlord include any property adjoining or near the Premises or the Building owned, leased or occupied by the Landlord (or any company in the same Group as the Landlord) from time to time;
 
2.3.7   references to the end of the Term are to the end of the Term whether before or at the end of the term of years granted by this deed;

 


 

2.3.8   references to a fair proportion of any sum ·are to the whole or a proportion of that sum which is fair and reasonable in the circumstances as determined by the Landlord’s Surveyor whose decision will be final and binding (except in the case of manifest error) and where there are different elements to that sum a different proportion for each element may be determined on this basis;
 
2.3.9   the perpetuity period is 80 years from the date of this deed;
 
2.3.10   references to a certified copy are to a copy certified by solicitors to be a true copy of the original; and
 
2.3.11   unless otherwise specified, references to the Premises and the Building include any part of the Premises or the Building.
3.   GRANT AND TERM
 
    The Landlord leases the Premises to the Tenant for a term from and including the date of this deed expiring on and including 24 March 2011, the Tenant paying the following sums, which are reserved as rent: the Rent, the Insurance Rent the Service Charge Estimate, the Service Charge Balance and any VAT payable on those sums and any interest due under this Lease.
 
4.   RIGHTS GRANTED
 
4.1   The Landlord grants the following rights to the Tenant:
 
4.1.1   at all times 24 hours a day 365 days a year to pass and repass on foot from the entrance at the Building to the passenger lifts and thereafter to pass and repass on foot over along and across the Common Parts shown coloured orange on the Plan as a means of access to and egress from the Premises and the toilets within the Common Parts of the Building but for no other purpose whatsoever;
 
4.1.2   to use such of the toilets within the Common Parts as may from time to time be designated by the Landlord acting reasonably;
 
4.1.3   to pass and repass 24 hours a day 365 days a year with or without vehicles over the areas coloured brown on the Plan always provided that no cars or other vehicles belonging to or under the control of the Tenant, its employees or visitors shall be parked or allowed to stand at the rear of the Building save as provided in paragraph 4.1.4 below;
 
4.1.4   between the hours of 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays (inclusive) and 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays (but Sundays and Public Holidays excluded) to park delivery vehicles opposite the rear entrance of the Building for the purpose of loading and unloading of articles and goods only and the Tenant shall comply with such reasonable directions as to the method of such delivery, loading and unloading as the Landlord may give in writing Provided that in any event no obstruction shall be caused thereby;
 
4.1.5   the free passage and use of all Service Media under, over or about the Building or any part thereof which serve the Premises and also the free passage and running of

 


 

    electricity, telecommunications, gas, water and soil to and from the Premises through such Service Media;
 
4.1.6   to display on the tenant’s nameboard within the ground floor entrance hall and in the ninth floor lobby and on the name plates adjacent to the entrances to the Premises a sign stating the Tenant’s name in a size, style and position reasonably designated by the Landlord and make of materials designated by the Landlord.
 
4.2   The Tenant will not be or become entitled to any right, easement or privilege that is not expressly granted by clause 4.1, and section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 does not [cut off]
 
5.   RIGHTS RESERVED AND REGRANTED
 
5.1   The following rights are reserved from this Lease in favour of the Landlord and its lessees, agents and licensees and all other persons who now have or may hereafter be granted similar rights by the Landlord:
 
5.1.1   to build or rebuild upon any adjoining or adjacent land or to alter any building or erection from time to time thereon to such height and in such manner and otherwise as the Landlord may desire or permit and to use the same in whatever manner may be desired and whether or not the access of light or air to the Premises or any other amenity at present appertaining to the Premises shall be lessened or affected in any way but not so far as to prevent the reasonable use and enjoyment of the Premises by the Tenant;
 
5.1.2   to take into use all walls, drains, sewers, pipes, wires and the like and to build upon connect with or otherwise use the same without payment of any consideration to the Tenant (but not so as to lessen or affect the Tenant’s reasonable use and enjoyment thereof) subject as from the date of such taking into use to contributing a fair and just proportion of the expense of maintaining repairing and renewing the same;
 
5.1.3   the free and uninterrupted passage and use of all Service Media under, over or about the Premises or any part thereof and also the free and uninterrupted passage and running of electricity, telecommunications, gas, water and soil to and from the other buildings and land adjoining or near the Premises through such Service Media;
 
5.1.4   to enter upon the Premises upon reasonable prior written notice (except in emergency when no prior written notice need be given) for the purposes of inspecting, repairing, renewing, relaying, cleaning, maintaining or connecting up to any of the Service Media mentioned in the previous paragraph, the Landlord causing as little damage and inconvenience as possible to the Tenant and the Tenant’s business and making good or causing to be made good at its expense any damage which may be occasioned thereby to the Premises and the Tenant’s fixtures and fittings;
 
5.1.5   except where it is impractical and/or impossible without such entry at all reasonable times and upon prior written appointment (except in emergency when no prior written appointment need be made) to the Tenant to enter and remain upon the Premises with all necessary tools, appliances and materials, for the purpose of cleaning, altering, repairing, maintaining any adjoining or contiguous premises or any other things used in common the Landlord causing as little damage and inconvenience as possible to the Tenant and the

 


 

    Tenant’s business and making good or causing to be made good at its expense any damage which may be occasioned thereby to the Premises and the Tenant’s fixtures and fittings;
 
5.1.6   to close or temporarily suspend as often as may be necessary the use of the Common Parts and/or the Service Media and/or any parts of the Common Parts for the purposes of effecting, rebuilding, refurbishing, redevelopment, repairs, removals, improvements and maintenance and for obtaining access to any services and for any other reasonable purpose provided that a suitable alternative is made available;
 
5.1.7   to alter the layout and use of the Common Parts and/or divert the Service Media including (but without limitation) the right to use the Common Parts for all purposes connected with the rebuilding, refurbishment or redevelopment of the Building or adjoining property provided that the Tenant’s use, enjoyment and access to the Premises is not prevented or materially reduced.
 
6.   THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OVER THE PREMISES
 
6.1   There are excepted from this Lease and this Lease is granted subject to:
 
6.1.1   all existing rights which belong to other property, or are enjoyed by other property over the Premises or any land or Service Media over which the Tenant may exercise rights by virtue of this Lease; and
 
6.1.2   the matters contained or referred to in the property and charges registers of title number NGL377181 as at the date of this deed.
 
6.2   The Tenant shall comply with the matters contained or referred to in the registers referred to in clause 6.1 so far as they relate to the Premises or any rights the Tenant may exercise by virtue of this Lease.
 
6.3   The Tenant shall:
 
6.3.1   not permit any third party to acquire any right over the Premises or to encroach upon the Premises and shall give the Landlord immediate written notice of any attempt to do this;
 
6.3.2   take any steps which the Landlord may reasonably require to prevent the acquisition of any right over or encroachment on the Premises;
 
6.3.3   preserve for the benefit of the Premises and the Landlord’s interest in them all existing rights which belong to the Premises and are enjoyed over adjoining or neighbouring property; and
 
6.3.4   not block or obstruct any window or ventilator at the Premises.
 
7.   PAYMENT OF RENTS
 
7.1   The Tenant shall pay to the Landlord the Rent, the Service Charge Estimate and any VAT payable on those sums without deduction or set-off (whether legal or equitable) in four equal

 


 

    installments in advance on the usual quarter days, and shall pay the Insurance Rent on demand, the Service Charge Balance and any VAT on it on demand (whether such demand is made and received before or after the end of the Term) and interest in accordance with clause 8.7.
 
7.2   The Tenant shall pay the first installment of the Rent and any VAT due on it to the Landlord on the Rent Commencement Date, and the first installment is to be a proportionate amount for the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date, until the next quarter day.
 
7.3   The Tenant shall pay the first installment of the Service Charge Estimate and any VAT due on it to the Landlord on the date of this deed, and the first installment is to be a proportionate amount for the period from and including the date of this deed until the next quarter day.
 
7.4   If required by the Landlord, the Tenant shall pay the Rent and the Service Charge Estimate and any VAT on them by banker’s standing order, direct debit or credit transfer to a bank account in the United Kingdom which the Landlord has notified in writing to the Tenant.
 
8.   OTHER FINANCIAL MATTERS
 
8.1   Utilities
 
8.1.1   The Tenant shall pay all charges, including connection and hire charges, relating to the supply of Utilities to the Premises and shall comply with all present or future requirements and recommendations of the suppliers of Utilities to the Premises.
 
8.1.2   The Tenant shall pay to the Landlord on demand and in addition to the Service Charge the cost of electricity used at the Premises.
 
8.2   Common facilities
 
    The Tenant shall pay on demand a fair proportion of any costs incurred or payable by the Landlord in respect of any land or Service Media outside the Building but used in connection with the Premises.
 
8.3   Rates and taxes
 
8.3.1   The Tenant shall pay and indemnify the Landlord against all present and future rates, duties and assessments of any nature charged on or payable in respect of the Premises whether payable by the Landlord, owner, occupier or tenant of the Premises and whether of a capital or income, recurring or non-recurring nature except any income or corporation tax imposed on the Landlord (or any superior landlord) in respect of:
  (a)   the grant of this deed;
 
  (b)   the receipt of the rents reserved by this Lease; or
 
  (c)   any dealing or disposition by the Landlord with its interest in the Premises.
8.3.2   The Tenant shall not make any claim for relief from any of the charges referred to above which could result in the Landlord not being entitled (during or after the end of the Term) to that relief in respect of the Premises.

 


 

8.4   Payments relating to the Premises and other property
 
    Where any of the charges payable under clause 8.1, 8.2 or 8.3 relates to other property as well as the Premises, the amount to be paid by the Tenant will be a fair proportion of the whole of the amount charged or payable.
 
8.5   Landlord’s costs
 
    The Tenant shall pay to the Landlord, on demand, and on an indemnity basis, the fees, costs and expenses properly charged, incurred or payable by the Landlord, and its advisers, agents or bailiffs in connection with:
 
8.5.1   any steps taken in contemplation of, or in relation to, any proceedings under section 146 or 147 of the Law of Property Act 1925 or the Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938, including the preparation and service of all notices, and even if forfeiture is avoided (unless it is avoided by relief granted by the court);
 
8.5.2   preparing and serving schedules of dilapidations at any time during the Term or within six months after the end of the Term (or, if later, six months after the date the Tenant has given vacant possession of the Premises to the Landlord) and supervising any works undertaken to remedy such dilapidations;
 
8.5.3   recovering (or attempting to recover) any arrears of Rent or other sums due to the Landlord under this Lease, including the costs of preparing and serving any notice under section 17 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 and any costs associated with the Landlord’s remedies of distress or execution;
 
8.5.4   any investigations or reports carried out to determine the nature and extent of any breach by the Tenant of its obligations in this Lease;
 
8.5.5   any steps taken to procure that a breach by the Tenant of its obligations under this Lease is remedied; and
 
8.5.6   any application for a consent of the Landlord (including the preparation of any documents) which is needed by virtue of this Lease, whether or not such consent is granted and whether or not the application is withdrawn.
 
8.6   VAT
 
8.6.1   Where the Tenant is to pay the Landlord for any supply made to the Tenant by the Landlord, the Tenant shall also pay any VAT which may be payable in connection with that supply.
 
8.6.2   Where the Tenant is to pay the Landlord the costs of any supplies made to the Landlord, the Tenant shall also pay the Landlord any VAT payable in connection with that supply, except to the extent that the Landlord is able to obtain a credit for the VAT from HM Revenue & Customs.

 


 

8.7   Interest
 
    If the Rent is not paid to the Landlord on the due date for payment or if any other sum payable under this Lease is not paid to the Landlord within five Working Days of the due date for payment, or if the Landlord refuses to accept any Rent or other such sum when the Tenant is, or may be, in breach of any of its obligations in this Lease, the Tenant shall pay interest to the Landlord on such sum at the Interest Rate for the period from and including the due date until payment (both before and after any judgment) or until payment is accepted by the Landlord (as the case may be).
 
8.8   Exclusion of statutory compensation
 
    Any statutory right of the Tenant, or any undertenant, to claim compensation from the Landlord or any superior landlord on leaving the Premises is excluded to the extent that the law allows.
 
9.   INSURANCE
 
9.1   Landlord’s obligations
 
9.1.1   The Landlord shall insure the Building, other than any part installed by or on behalf of the Tenant or any other occupier, against the Insured Risks and with reputable insurers. The insurance will be subject to any exclusions, excesses and conditions as may be usual in the insurance market at the time or required by the insurers, or reasonably required by the Landlord, but otherwise the Landlord shall use reasonable endeavours to obtain the insurance on terms which are fair and reasonable and which represent value for money.
 
9.1.2   The Landlord shall, at the request of the Tenant, provide the Tenant with details of the insurance policy under which the Premises are insured.
 
9.2   Reinstatement
If the Premises are damaged or destroyed by an Insured Risk, then:
9.2.1   unless payment of any insurance money is refused because of any act or omission of the Tenant and the Tenant has failed to comply with clause 9.3.8; and
 
9.2.2   subject to the Landlord being able to obtain any necessary consents and to the necessary labour and materials being and remaining available, the Landlord shall use the insurance money it receives, except money received for loss of rent, in repairing and reinstating the Premises (other than any part which the Landlord is not obliged to insure) or in building reasonably comparable premises as soon as reasonably possible.
 
9.3   Tenant’s obligations
 
    The Tenant shall:
 
9.3.1   pay the Insurance Rent in accordance with this Lease;
 
9.3.2   pay on demand any increase in the insurance premium for the Building or any adjoining property of the Landlord which is attributable to the use of the Premises, or anything done

 


 

    or omitted to be done on the Premises by the Tenant or any other occupier of the Premises;
 
9.3.3   pay on demand a fair proportion of the costs incurred or payable by the Landlord in connection with the Landlord obtaining a valuation of the Building for insurance purposes, as long as such valuation is made at least three years after any previous such valuation;
 
9.3.4   comply with the requirements of the insurers relating to the Premises;
 
9.3.5   not do or omit to do anything which may make any insurance of the Building or of any adjoining property of the Landlord taken out by the Landlord or any superior landlord void or voidable, or which would result in an increase in the premiums for such insurance;
 
9.3.6   give the Landlord immediate written notice of any damage to or destruction of the Premises by an Insured Risk;
 
9.3.7   pay the Landlord on demand the amount of any excess required by the insurers in connection with that damage or destruction;
 
9.3.8   pay the Landlord on demand an amount equal to any amount which the insurers refuse to pay, following damage or destruction by an Insured Risk to any part of the Building or any adjoining property of the Landlord, because of any act or omission of the Tenant;
 
9.3.9   pay the Landlord on demand the costs incurred by the Landlord in preparing and settling any insurance claim relating to the Premises (or a fair proportion of such costs in relation to the Common Parts or the Building as a whole) arising, in any case, from any insurance taken out by the Landlord;
 
9.3.10   not take out any insurance of the Premises against the Insured Risks in its own name other than in respect of any part of the Premises installed by or on behalf of the Tenant or any undertenant or any other occupier, and if the Tenant has the benefit of any such insurance, the Tenant shall hold all money receivable under that insurance upon trust for the Landlord; and
 
9.3.11   if requested by the Landlord remove its fixtures and effects from the Premises to allow the Landlord to repair or reinstate the Premises.
 
9.4   Suspension of Rent
 
9.4.1   If the whole of the Premises or any part which the Landlord is obliged to insure, are damaged or destroyed by an Insured Risk or an Excluded Risk so as to make the Premises or any part which the Landlord is obliged to insure, unfit for occupation or use, the Rent (or a due proportion of it determined by the Landlord according to the nature and extent of the damage) will subject to clause 9.4.2 be suspended from the date of damage or destruction for a period of three years, or, if sooner, until the Premises, or such part, have been made fit for occupation and use.
 
9.4.2   The Rent will not be suspended to the extent that any loss of rent insurance has been made ineffective, or payment of it has been refused by the insurers, because of any deliberate act or omission of the Tenant.

 


 

9.5   Termination after end of Rent suspension period
 
9.5.1   Clause 9.5 applies if the Rent is suspended pursuant to clause 9.4.1 and the Landlord has not substantially completed the works required to be carried out pursuant to clause 9.2 by the end of the three-year period mentioned in clause 9.4.1.
 
9.5.2   If clause 9.5 applies the Landlord or the Tenant may terminate this Lease by giving written notice to the other no later than three months after the end of that three-year period.
 
9.5.3   Termination of this Lease pursuant to clause 9.5 will be without prejudice to any right of the Landlord against the Tenant or any Guarantor for any antecedent breach of its obligations under this Lease.
 
9.6   Termination following damage by an Excluded Risk
 
9.6.1   Clause 9.6 applies if the whole (as opposed to any part) of the Premises are damaged or destroyed by an Excluded Risk so as to prevent occupation of the Premises, unless the damage or destruction is due to a deliberate act or omission of the Tenant.
 
9.6.2   If clause 9.6 applies the Landlord may give written notice to the Tenant stating that the Landlord shall (subject to the Landlord being able to obtain any necessary consents and to the necessary labour and materials being and remaining available) repair and reinstate the Premises (other than any part which the Landlord was not obliged to insure) or build reasonably comparable premises as soon as reasonably practicable.
 
9.6.3   If the Landlord has not given notice pursuant to clause 9.2 within six months after the date of the damage or destruction, the Tenant may within one month after the end of that six month period, terminate this Lease by giving written notice to the Landlord. The Tenant’s notice shall specify a termination date not less than five nor more than 20 days after the date of the Tenant’s notice and upon such termination date this Lease shall determine.
 
9.6.4   Termination of this Lease pursuant to clause 9.6 will be without prejudice to any right of the Landlord against the Tenant or any Guarantor for any antecedent breach of its obligations under this Lease.
 
9.7   Insurance money
All insurance money payable will belong to the Landlord.
10.   SERVICE CHARGE
 
10.1   Definitions
In clause 10 the following definitions apply:
“Certificate”
      means a statement certified by the Landlord or the Landlord’s Surveyor or its accountant, which shows:
  (a)   the Service Charge Estimate;
 
  (b)   the Landlord’s Expenses;

 


 

  (c)   the Service Charge;
 
  (d)   the Service Charge Balance; and
 
  (e)   the Service Charge Cap,
for the relevant Service Charge Year;
“Landlord’s Expenses”
      means the costs (including any VAT charged on such costs to the extent that the Landlord is not able to obtain a credit for such VAT from HM Revenue & Customs) incurred or provided for by or on behalf of the Landlord in connection with all or any of the following items:
  (a)   cleaning, maintaining, carpeting and recarpeting, decorating, lighting, treating, repairing, rebuilding and replacing the Common Parts;
 
  (b)   cleaning the outside of all windows at the Building;
 
  (c)   providing, operating, inspecting, maintaining, repairing and replacing Service Media at the Building (other than Service Media which form part of the Premises or any Lettable Unit or which do not belong to the Landlord);
 
  (d)   removing any obstruction on the Common Parts;
 
  (e)   providing, operating, inspecting, insuring and maintaining, repairing and replacing any equipment, plant and machinery and other materials, which are used in providing the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (f)   fuel and Utilities used on the Common Parts or in providing the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (g)   maintenance and other contracts entered into for the provision of the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (h)   providing, maintaining and, when reasonably necessary, renewing signs at the Building;
 
  (i)   providing and replacing refuse containers for occupiers of the Building and arranging for the collection of refuse;
 
  (j)   providing, maintaining and restocking floral and/or plant displays on’ the Common Parts;
 
  (k)   providing, maintaining and, replacing furniture and fittings for use on the Common Parts;
 
  (l)   providing, maintaining and, when reasonably necessary, replacing or altering such security systems for the benefit of the Whole (or substantially the whole) of the Building, which the Landlord (in the interests of good estate management) reasonably considers appropriate and which’ may include the provision of alarms, closed circuit television, barriers and other equipment, and security guards and patrols (whether employed by the Landlord or engaged as contractors);

 


 

  (m)   providing fire detection, prevention and fighting equipment and any signs, notices or equipment required by the fire authority for the Common Parts and maintaining, repairing and, when necessary, replacing such items;
 
  (n)   providing a reception or security desk in the entrance hall of the Building and staffing it;
 
  (o)   employing or arranging for the employment (and the termination of employment) of staff in connection with the provision of the matters listed in this definition, including the costs of insurance, pension and welfare contributions and the provision of clothing, tools and equipment incurred in connection with such employment and the provision of residential accommodation that may at the Landlord’s discretion be provided for a caretaker;
 
  (p)   all present and future rates, taxes, duties and assessments of whatever nature charged on, or payable in respect of, the Common Parts or in respect of the Building as a whole;
 
  (q)   complying With any legislation relating to the Common Parts or the Building as a whole;
 
  (r)   complying With or, where the Landlord reasonably considers it appropriate, contesting the requirements or proposals of the local or any other competent authority in respect of the Common Parts or of the Building as a whole;
 
  (s)   complying with or, where the Landlord reasonably considers it appropriate, contesting the requirements or proposals of the local or any other competent authority in respect of the Common Parts or of the Building as a whole;
 
  (t)   abating any nuisance to the Building;
 
  (u)   making such provisions as the Landlord reasonably considers appropriate for anticipated future expenditure including the provision and replacement of any plant, machinery, lifts or equipment used or to be used in connection with the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (v)   leasing any item used in providing the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (w)   commitment fees, interest and any other cost of borrowing money, where necessary, to finance the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (x)   obtaining any professional advice which may from time to time be required in relation to the management of the Building or the provision of the matters listed in this definition;
 
  (y)   the fees of managing agents retained by the Landlord for the management of the Building, the provision of the matters listed in this definition and the collection of all rents and service charges (including the Rent, the Service Charge Estimate and the Service Charge Balance) due from the Tenant and the other occupiers of the Building (or where any of those tasks is carried out

 


 

      by the Landlord a reasonable charge of the Landlord for that task), but not any such costs arising by reason of those rents or service charges being in arrears;
 
  (z)   preparing the Certificate (whether by the Landlord or the Landlord’s Surveyor or its accountants); and
 
  (aa)   any other works, services or facilities which the Landlord from time to time reasonably considers desirable for the purpose of maintaining, improving or modernising the services or facilities in or for the Building, and which are for the general benefit of all, or substantially all, of the occupiers of the Building and are in accordance with the principles of good estate management, but excluding any cost which the Landlord recovers under any other clause, or from any insurance taken out by the Landlord, where the Tenant is obliged to refund the Landlord the whole or any part of the premium;
“Services”
      means:
  (a)   cleaning, maintaining, decorating, lighting, treating and repairing the Common Parts;
 
  (b)   lighting the internal areas of the Common Parts;
 
  (c)   cleaning the outside of the windows of the Building;
 
  (d)   heating and providing air conditioning for the internal areas of the Common Parts between such hours and at such times of the year as the Landlord in its discretion, considers appropriate;
 
  (e)   furnishing and carpeting the internal areas of the Common Parts;
 
  (f)   providing hot and cold water, towels and other supplies in the lavatories on the Common Parts;
 
  (g)   providing and replacing refuse containers for occupiers of the Building and arranging for the collection of refuse; and
 
  (h)   any of the other items referred to in the definition of Landlord’s Expenses which the Landlord in its discretion, and from time to time, provides for the management or maintenance of the Building.
10.2   Landlord’s obligations
 
10.2.1   The Landlord shall provide the Services in a manner which the Landlord reasonably considers appropriate.
 
10.2.2   The Landlord will have no liability for any failure or interruption of any Service:
  (a)   while the Tenant is in arrears with payment of the Rent or other sums due under

 


 

      this Lease;
 
  (b)   during the proper inspection, maintenance, repair or replacement of any relevant Service Media or equipment;
 
  (c)   resulting from a shortage of fuel, water, materials or labour;
 
  (d)   resulting from a breakdown of any equipment used in connection with the provision of the Services; or
 
  (e)   resulting from any act or omission of any employee, contractor or agent of the Landlord, or for any other reason beyond the reasonable control of the Landlord.
10.2.3   In the circumstances mentioned in clauses 10.2.2(b), 10.2.2(c), 10.2.2{d) and 10.2.2(e), the Landlord shall restore the relevant Service as soon as is reasonably practicable.
 
10.2.4   The Landlord shall produce the Certificate to the Tenant as soon as practicable after the end of the Service Charge Year.
 
10.2.5   The Landlord shall, but at the cost of the Tenant, allow the Tenant to inspect any invoices and receipts for the Services as long as the Tenant has given the Landlord reasonable written notice.
 
10.2.6   If any Lettable Unit is unlet for any period, the Landlord shall bear a fair proportion of the Landlord’s Expenses in respect of that Lettable Unit.
 
10.3   Tenant’s obligations
 
10.3.1   The Tenant shall pay the Service Charge Estimate, and any VAT on it and the Service Charge Balance, and any VAT on it as provided in clause 7.
 
10.3.2   If the date of this deed does not coincide with the beginning of a Service Charge Year, the Service Charge due from the Tenant for the part of that Service Charge Year which is Within the Term will be reduced by the proportion which the part of that Service Charge Year which is before the beginning of the Term beats to one year, and the Service Charge Estimate for that part of that Service Charge Year will be adjusted accordingly.
 
10.3.3   If the end of the Term does not coincide with the end of a Service Charge Year, the Service Charge due from the Tenant for the part of that Service Charge Year which is within the Term Will be reduced by the proportion which the part of that Service Charge Year which is after the end of the Term bears to one year.
 
10.3.4   The end of the Term shall not prejudice the Landlord’s entitlement to demand nor the Tenant’s liability to pay the Service Charge Balance for the Service Charge Year then current, apportioned in accordance With clause 10.3.3.
 
10.4   Estimating and revising the Service Charge
 
10.4.1   The Landlord shall give the Tenant a statement of the Service Charge Estimate for each Service Charge Year. Until the statement has been given, the Service Charge Estimate

 


 

    shall be payable at the rate of the Service Charge Estimate for the previous Service Charge Year. Once the statement has been given, the remaining installments of the Service Charge Estimate and any VAT on them Will be adjusted so as to provide for payment of the whole Service Charge Estimate for that Service Charge Year to be paid during that year.
 
10.4.2   If, during a Service Charge Year, the Landlord reasonably expects the cost of the Services to increase materially above its previous estimate of the cost of the Services for that Service Charge Year, the Landlord may revise its estimate of those costs and the [cut off] based on that revised estimate and the remaining installments of the Service Charge Estimate adjusted so that the revised Service Charge Estimate will have been paid by the end of that Service Charge Year. The Landlord may revise the Service Charge Estimate more than once in a Service Charge Year.
 
10.5   Changes to the Service Charge Cap
 
10.5.1   In this clause:
“Current Index Figure”
      means, in respect of each relevant Service Charge Year the figure given in the Index for the last month of that Service Charge Year;
“Index”
      means the Retail Prices Index (All Items) published by the Office for National Statistics or any successor government ministry, department or agency;
“Previous Index Figure”
      means, in respect of each relevant Service Charge Year, the figure given in the Index for the month immediately preceding the beginning of that Service Charge Year.
10.5.2   The Service Charge Cap for each Service Charge Year, other than that current at the date of this deed, will be calculated by the following formula:
 
    N=E x C/P
 
    Where:
      N (the new Service Charge Cap) is the Service Charge Cap for the relevant Service Charge Year;
 
      E (the existing Service Charge Cap) is the Service Charge Cap for the previous Service Charge Year;
 
      C is the Current Index Figure;
 
      P is the Previous Index Figure.
10.5.3   If the Index is re-based at any time or times during the Term, the Current Index Figure and the Previous Index Figure will be the figures that would have been given in the Index for the relevant month had there been no re-basing of the Index.
 
10.5.4   If the Index ceases to be published, the Landlord shall, for the purposes of changes to the Service Charge Cap for Service Charge Years the date the Index ceases to be published, select a replacement index, being a prices index published by the Office for National Statistics or any successor government ministry, department or agency, to be the Index

 


 

    for the purposes of this clause. The Landlord shall act reasonably in making its selection of a replacement index.
 
10.5.5   If it becomes impossible or impractical to calculate the Service Charge Cap by reference to the Index (as rebased and/or replaced as mentioned above), then the basis for calculating the Service Charge Cap for the remaining Service Charge Years will be determined under the Arbitration Act 1996 by a single arbitrator who shall set the new basis for calculating the Service Charge Cap, which new basis must be a fair and reasonable basis having regard to the intent of this clause.
 
10.6   General provisions
 
10.6.1   In the absence of manifest error, the Certificate will be conclusive as to the amount of the Service Charge.
 
10.6.2   The Landlord shall notify the Tenant in writing of any change in the date of the beginning of the Service Charge Year.
 
10.6.3   If the Service Charge for any Service Charge Year is less than the Service Charge Estimate (as and if revised), the balance will be credited against the installments of the Service Charge Estimate due from the Tenant in the following Service Charge Year, or, at the end of the Term, set off against any sums due from the Tenant to the Landlord with any balance being repaid to the Tenant.
 
10.6.4   The Landlord’s Expenses for the Service Charge Year in which the beginning of the Term falls may include costs incurred by or provided for or -on behalf of the Landlord before the beginning of the Term so far as they relate to Services which are to be provided during the Term. The Landlord’s Expenses in any Service Charge Year may include provisions for expenses to be made after the end of the Term so far as such provisions are reasonable having regard to the Services which are provided during the Term.
 
11.   STATE AND CONDITION OF THE PREMISES
 
11.1   Repair
 
11.1.1   The Tenant shall repair the Premises and keep them in good and substantial repair and condition.
 
11.1.2   The Tenant shall replace any fixtures, fittings, plant or machinery (other than tenant’s fixtures and fittings) within or forming part of the Premises which are in need of replacement with new articles of similar kind and quality.
 
11.1.3   The Tenant shall regularly clean the inside of the windows at the Premises and replace any plate glass which becomes broken or damaged.
 
11.1.4   The Tenant shall not be liable under clause 11.1 to the extent that the Landlord is obliged to carry out the relevant repair works under clause 9.2 or to the extent that the Landlord is prevented from carrying them out by reason of the matters referred to in clause g.2.2 or to the extent that the disrepair is caused by an Excluded Risk unless the disrepair is caused by the deliberate act or omission of the Tenant.

 


 

11.2   Alterations
 
11.2.1   The Tenant shall not make any alterations or additions to the Premises except as Permitted by clause 11.2.
 
11.2.2   The Tenant shall not make internal structural alterations to the Premises.
 
11.2.3   The Tenant shall not make internal non-structural alterations or additions which will or may affect any of the Service Media or any plant or machinery (or any other services or systems) at the Premises or the Building without the consent of the Landlord, such [omitted] reasonably withheld or delayed.
 
11.2.4   The Tenant shall not make other internal, non-structural alterations without the consent of the Landlord, unless the Tenant shall have notified the Landlord of its intention to carry out any such works at least three weeks before it intends to begin the works and shall have demonstrated td the Landlord’s reasonable satisfaction that they do not affect any of the Service Media. In relation to any such works which the Tenant affects, it shall carry them out:
  (a)   and complete them in a good and workmanlike manner, with new and good quality materials fit for the purpose for which they are required and so as to be free from defects and without using or permitting the use of any material or substance which, at the time of use, does not conform to all relevant British and European standards and codes of practice or which is generally known to the United Kingdom building industry at the time of use to be deleterious to health and safety or to the durability of the works in the particular circumstances in which it is used;
 
  (b)   in accordance in all respects with all relevant legislation and the terms of any consents which are required for the works;
 
  (c)   in a manner so as to cause as little inconvenience and annoyance as reasonably possible to the Landlord, any superior landlord and the other occupiers of the Building;
 
  (d)   so as not to result in the Premises, or any other part of the Building becoming unsafe; and
 
  (e)   at its sale risk,
    and the Tenant shall make good to the Landlord’s satisfaction any damage arising out of, or incidental to, the carrying out or completion of the works and shall provide the Landlord with a set of as-built drawings as soon as reasonably practicable after completion of the alterations or additions.
 
11.2.5   Subject to clause 11.4 the Tenant shall if reasonably required by the Landlord on reasonable notice before the end of the Term remove any alterations or additions made to the Premises (and make good any damage caused by that removal to the reasonable satisfaction of the Landlord).

 


 

11.3   Signs and reletting notices
 
11.3.1   The Tenant shall not display any signs or notices at the Premises save in accordance with clause 4.1.6 of this Lease, and at the end of the Term the Tenant shall remove any such signs and make good any damage caused by that removal to the reasonable satisfaction of the Landlord.
 
11.3.2   The Tenant shall permit the Landlord to place a sign on the Premises at any time advertising the sale of the Landlord’s interest (or any superior interest) in the Premises and during the last six months of the Term for the reletting of the Premises.
 
11.4   Yield up
At the end of the Term the Tenant shall yield up the Premises with vacant possession and in a clean, tidy and safe condition with all furniture and equipment removed (for the avoidance of doubt the Tenant shall not be required to reinstate any partitioning or to redecorate or recarpet).
12.   USE OF THE PREMISES
 
12.1   The Permitted Use
 
    The Tenant shall not use the Premises except for the Permitted Use.
 
12.2   Obstructions
 
    The Tenant shall not obstruct the Common Parts or any other pavement, footpath or roadway adjoining or serving the Premises.
 
12.3   Restrictions on use
 
    The Tenant shall not:
 
12.3.1   do anything on the Premises which is illegal or immoral or which would cause a nuisance or inconvenience or any damage or disturbance to the Landlord or any of the other occupiers of the Building or any owner or occupier of any other property adjoining or near the Premises;
 
12.3.2   carry out any acts at the Premises which are noisy, noxious, dangerous or offensive or store dangerous or inflammable materials at the Premises;
 
12.3.3   allow waste to accumulate at the Premises nor allow any material which is deleterious, polluting or dangerous (to persons or property) to enter any Service Media or any adjoining property; nor
 
12.3.4   overload or obstruct any Service Media which serve the Premises.
 
12.4   Fire and security precautions
 
    The Tenant shall comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority and with any reasonable requirements of the Landlord relating to fire prevention and the

 


 

    provision of fire-fighting equipment at the Premises and the reasonable requirements of the Landlord in relation to the security of the Building and of the Premises while they are vacant
 
12.5   Exclusion of warranty
 
    The Landlord does not warrant or represent that the Premises may be used for the Permitted Use or for any other purpose.
 
13.   DEALINGS
 
13.1   General restrictions
The Tenant shall not part with or share nor agree to part with or share possession of the whole or part of the Premises or this Lease, nor allow any other person to occupy the whole or any part of the Premises, except as permitted by the remainder of clause 13.
13.2   Assignments
 
13.2.1   The Tenant shall not assign or agree to assign any part (as opposed to the whole) of this Lease. The Tenant shall not assign the whole of this Lease without the consent of the Landlord, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
 
13.2.2   The Landlord and the Tenant agree that for the purposes of section 19(1A) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 the Landlord may refuse its consent to an assignment if the proposed assignee is in the same Group as the assignor and in the reasonable opinion of the Landlord the financial standing of the proposed assignee (when assessed together with any proposed guarantor for the proposed assignee) is lower than the financial standing of the assignor (when assessed together with any guarantor of the assignor).
 
13.2.3   The Landlord and the Tenant agree that for the purposes of section 19(1A) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 if:
  (a)   in the reasonable opinion of the Landlord the financial standing of the assignee (when assessed together with any guarantor for the assignee) is lower than the financial standing of the assignor (when assessed together with any guarantor of the assignor), or
 
  (b)   the assignee is incorporated or resident outside the United Kingdom,
    the Landlord may give its consent to an assignment subject to a condition that the Tenant enters into an authorised guarantee agreement no later than the date of the instrument of the assignment, which agreement is to be by deed, is to provide for a guarantee of all the obligations of the assignee under this Lease from the date of the instrument of the assignment until the assignee is released by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995, and which provides for all the matters permitted by section 16(5) of that Act and which is otherwise in accordance with section 16 of that Act and in a form reasonably required by the Landlord.
 
13.2.4   Clauses 13.2.2 and 13.2.3 do not limit the right of the Landlord to refuse consent to an assignment on any other reasonable ground or to impose any other reasonable condition

 


 

    to its consent.
 
13.3   Underlettings
 
13.3.1   The Tenant shall not underlet or agree to underlet any part of the Premises (as opposed to the whole).
 
13.3.2   The Tenant shall not underlet the whole of the Premises, except in accordance with the remainder of clause 13.3 and with clause 13.4 and then only with the consent of the Landlord, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
 
13.3.3   The Tenant shall not underlet the Premises without first obtaining from the undertenant a covenant by the undertenant with the Landlord to comply with the obligations on the undertenant in the underlease (and any document which is supplemental or collateral to the underlease) throughout the term of the underlease or until the undertenant is released by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995, if sooner.
 
13.3.4   Any underlease shall be granted at a rent which is not less than the then full open market rental value of the Premises (but this will not prevent an underlease providing for a rentfree period of a length as is then usual in the open market in respect of such a letting), and without a fine or premium and with the underlease rent payable not more than one quarter in advance.
 
13.3.5   The Tenant shall not grant an underlease unless:
  (a)   before the earlier of the undertenant entering into the underlease and the undertenant becoming contractually bound to do so, the Tenant has served a notice on the undertenant and the undertenant (or a person duly authorised by the undertenant) has made a statutory declaration, such notice and statutory declaration to relate to the tenancy to be created by the underlease and to comply with section 38A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and the relevant schedules of the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003; and
 
  (b)   the Tenant has supplied the Landlord with a certified copy of the notice and statutory declaration referred to in clause 14.3.5(a).
13.3.6   The Tenant shall not grant any underlease for a term which will expire by effluxion of time later than three clear days before the date the contractual term granted by this deed will expire by effluxion of time.
 
13.3.7   The Tenant shall not enter into any collateral deed nor give any side letter varying or relieving the undertenant from any terms required by clause 13.3 or 13.4 to be contained in the underlease.
 
13.4   Terms to be contained in any underlease
 
    Any underlease shall contain the following terms:
 
13.4.1   an obligation on the undertenant not to deal with or dispose of its interest in the underlease (including by way of declaration of trust) or part with or share possession of the whole or part of that interest or permit any other person to occupy the Premises

 


 

    except by way of an assignment or charge of the whole of its interest in the Premises, which may only be made with the Landlord’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, or as permitted by clause 13.8;
 
13.4.2   agreements between the Tenant and the undertenant in the same terms as clauses 13.2.2 and 13.2.3 and a further agreement between the Tenant and the undertenant expressed to be for the purposes of section 19(1A) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 that the Tenant may give its consent to an assignment of the underlease subject to a condition that the assignee of the underlease enters into a covenant with the Landlord with effect from the date of the instrument of the assignment of the underlease in the terms of the covenant required by clause 13.3.3;
 
13.4.3   a statement in the terms of clause 13.2.5;
 
13.4.4   if this Lease requires the consent or approval of the Landlord for any matter and that matter is permitted by the underlease, a provision requiring the consent or approval of the Landlord for that matter;
 
13.4.5   if this Lease requires the consent or approval of the Landlord, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed for any matter and that matter is permitted by the underlease, a provision requiring the consent or approval of the Landlord for that matter, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed,
 
13.4.6   a statement by the Tenant and the undertenant referring to the notice and statutory declaration mentioned in clause 13.3.5, and where the statutory declaration was made by a person other than the undertenant, a statement by the undertenant confirming that such person was duly authorised by the undertenant to make the statutory declaration and an agreement between the Tenant and the undertenant that the provisions of sections 24 to 28 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be excluded in relation to the tenancy and shall otherwise be on terms which are consistent with the Tenant being able to observe and perform its obligations in this Lease.
 
13.5   Further provisions relating to underleases
 
13.5.1   The Tenant shall enforce the obligations of the undertenant in any underlease and exercise its rights under the agreements made between it and the undertenant for the purposes of section 19(1 A) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927.
 
13.5.2   The Tenant shall not vary the terms of. nor. without the consent of the Landlord. such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. accept or agree to accept a surrender of. nor forfeit any underlease.
 
13.6   Charging
 
    The Tenant shall not charge or agree to charge any part of the Premises (as opposed to the whole) and shall not charge or agree to charge the whole of the Premises without the consent of the Landlord. such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
 
13.7   Declarations of trust
 
    The Tenant shall not make any declaration of trust of the whole or any part of its interest in

 


 

    the Premises or this Lease.
 
13.8   Group sharing of occupation
 
    Nothing in clause 13 will prevent the Tenant or any permitted undertenant from sharing occupation of the Premises with another member of the same Group if and so long as that other member remains a member of that Group and no relationship of landlord and tenant subsists between the Tenant or permitted undertenant and that other member. The Tenant shall keep the Landlord informed of the identity of all occupiers and of the basis of their occupation of the Premises.
 
13.9   Registration of dealings
 
    Within one month of any dealing with. or devolution of. the Premises or this Lease or of any interest created out of them or it. the Tenant shall give the Landlord written notice of that dealing or devolution together with a certified copy of any document effecting or evidencing the dealing or devolution (and a certified copy for any superior landlord) and shall pay the Landlord a reasonable registration fee of not less than seventy five pounds (£75)
 
13.10   Registration at the Land Registry
 
13.10.1   If this Lease and/or the rights granted or reserved by this Lease are or should be registered at the Land Registry under the Land Registration Act 2002 then the Tenant shall:
  (a)   register this Lease and any assignment or other registrable disposition of this Lease at the Land Registry within one month of the date of the grant of this Lease or the date of the instrument of assignment or other disposition requiring registration (as the case may be);
 
  (b)   use its best endeavours to procure that all rights granted or reserved by this Lease are properly noted against the affected titles; and
 
  (c)   within five Working Days of the registration of the grant, assignment, other registrable disposition of this Lease or notice against the affected titles (as the case may be) deliver to the Landlord official copies of the registered title.
13.10.2   The Landlord shall not be liable to the Tenant for the Tenant’s failure to register and/or to protect this Lease or any rights granted by it.
 
14.   LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS
 
14.1   Legislation and planning
 
    The Tenant shall:
 
14.1.1   comply with all legislation affecting the Premises, their use and occupation and the health and safety of persons working at or visiting the Premises, whether the legislation requires the owner, landlord, tenant or occupier to comply;

 


 

14.1.2   give the Landlord written notice of any defect in the Premises which may make the Landlord liable to do, or not to do, any act to comply with the duty of care imposed by the Defective Premises Act 1972, and shall display any notices at the Premises needed to enable the Landlord to comply with the Defective Premises Act 1972;
 
14.1.3   not apply for planning permission without the consent of the Landlord, and shall pay any charge imposed under legislation relating to town and country planning in respect of the use of the Premises, or any works carried out at the Premises; and
 
14.1.4   at the end of the Term pay the Landlord a fair proportion of any compensation which the Tenant has received or which is receivable by the Tenant because of any restriction placed on the use of the Premises under any legislation.
 
14.2   Notices relating to the Premises
 
14.2.1   The Tenant shall give the Landlord a copy of any notice received by the Tenant, relating to the Premises or the Building or any occupier of them, or to the Landlord’s interest in them, upon having received it and take any steps which the Landlord may require in connection with such notice.
 
14.2.2   The Tenant shall not give any notice or counter-notice under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 without the consent of the Landlord.
 
14.3   The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
 
14.3.1   In this clause “Regulations” means the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 and “File” means the Health and Safety file required by the Regulations for any project (within the meaning of the Regulations) carried out by or on behalf of the Tenant or any undertenant or other occupier of the Premises.
 
14.3.2   In respect of any works carried out by or on behalf of the Tenant or any undertenant or other occupier of the Premises (including any works of reinstatement which may be carried out after the end of the Term) to which the Regulations apply:
  (a)   the Tenant shall comply in all respects with the Regulations and procure that any person (other than the Landlord) who otherwise has any duty under the Regulations, complies with the Regulations;
 
  (b)   the Tenant shall pay the Landlord on demand its reasonable costs and expenses (and any VAT in relation to them) for providing any information or documents which the Landlord may supply to any person in connection with such works; and
 
  (c)   if and to the extent that the Landlord is a client for the purposes of the Regulations, the Tenant shall elect in writing (or the Tenant shall procure that the undertenant or other occupier of the Premises (as the case may be) elects in writing), for the purpose of the Regulations, to be the only client in relation to such works, and the Tenant shall not begin (or shall procure that the undertenant or other occupier (as the case may be) does not begin) to carry out such works until the Landlord has consented to that election.

 


 

14.3.3   The Tenant shall:
  (a)   compile, maintain and make the File available to the Landlord for inspection at all times;
 
  (b)   on request provide copies of the whole or any part of the File to the Landlord; and
 
  (c)   hand the File to the Landlord at the end of the Term.
14.3.4   The Tenant shall obtain all copyright licences which are needed for the Tenant to comply lawfully with clause 14.3.
 
14.3.5   The copyright licences obtained by the Tenant shall:
  (a)   be granted with full title guarantee;
 
  (b)   allow the Landlord and any superior landlord and anyone deriving title through or under them to take further copies of the File or any part of it;
 
  (c)   be obtained without cost to any such person;
 
  (d)   allow any such person to grant sub-licences on similar terms; and
 
  (e)   be irrevocable.
14.4   Regulations
 
    The Tenant shall comply with any regulations concerning the Common Parts reasonably made by the Landlord from time to time.
 
15.   LANDLORD’S COVENANT FOR QUIET ENJOYMENT
 
    The Landlord agrees with the Tenant that for so long as the Tenant complies with the terms of this Lease the Tenant may hold and use the Premises during the Term without any interruption (except as authorised by this Lease) by the Landlord or by any person lawfully claiming through, under or in trust for the Landlord.
 
16.   LIMIT ON LANDLORD’S LIABILITY
 
    To the extent that the obligations on the Landlord contained or implied in this Lease relate to any time after a person has parted with the whole of its interest in the reversion immediately expectant on the end of the Term, they shall not be binding on or enforceable against that person after that person has parted with the whole of that interest.
 
17.   FORFEITURE
 
17.1   Landlord’s right of re-entry
 
    If any event set out in clause 17.2 occurs, the Landlord may forfeit this Lease and re-enter the Premises (or any part of them in the name of the whole). The Term will then end, but this will be without prejudice to any claim which the Landlord may have against the Tenant or a

 


 

    Guarantor for any failure to comply with the terms of this Lease.
 
17.2   Events giving rise to the Landlord’s right of re-entry
 
17.2.1   The Rent or any other sum payable under this Lease has not been paid 15 Working Days after it became due, whether formally demanded or not.
 
17.2.2   The Tenant or any Guarantor has failed to comply with any of the terms of this Lease.
 
17.2.3   The Tenant or any Guarantor who is an individual (or if more than one individual then any one of them):
  (a)   is unable to pay, or has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay, its debts within the meaning of section 268 of the Insolvency Act 1986;
 
  (b)   is the subject of an application for an interim order under the Insolvency Act 1986, or it enters into, or commences negotiations in respect of, or calls or convenes any meeting for the approval of any composition, compromise, moratorium, scheme or other similar arrangement with its creditors or any of them, whether under the Insolvency Act 1986 or otherwise;
 
  (c)   requests or suffers the appointment of a Law of Property Act 1925, court appointed or other receiver or receiver and manager or Similar officer over or in relation to the whole or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets, or any person holding security over the whole or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets takes possession of all or any part of them, or it requests that such a person does so;
 
  (d)   is the subject of a bankruptcy petition, or an interim receiver of its property is appointed, or a bankruptcy order is made against it;
 
  (e)   has a receiver appointed for it under the Mental Health Act 1983 or the court makes any declaration or order under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to the Tenant’s or Guarantor’s property or affairs or appoints any deputy to make decision on the Tenant’s or Guarantor’s behalf in relation to its property and affairs;
 
  (f)   has any distress, execution, sequestration or other process levied or forced upon or against its undertaking, chattels, property or any of its assets; or
 
  (g)   is, or becomes, subject to, or takes or has taken against it or in relation to it or the whole or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets, any finding, step, process or proceeding in any jurisdiction other than England and’ Wales which is equivalent, analogous, corresponding or similar to any of the findings, steps, processes or proceedings mentioned in clauses 17.2.3(a)-17.2.3(f), and whether or not any such finding, step, process or proceeding has been taken in England and Wales.
17.2.4   The Tenant or any Guarantor which is a company (or if more than one company then any one of them):
  (a)   is unable to pay, or has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay, its debts

 


 

      within the meaning of section 123 or sections 222 to 224 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (but disregarding references in those sections to proving it to the court’s satisfaction);
 
  (b)   resolves or its directors resolve to enter into, or it enters into, or it or its directors commence negotiations or make any application to court in respect of, or call or convene any meeting for the approval of any composition, compromise, moratorium (including a moratorium statutorily obtained, whether as a precursor to a voluntary arrangement under the Insolvency Act 1986 or otherwise, or a moratorium informally obtained), scheme or other similar arrangement with its creditors or any of them, whether under the Insolvency Act 1986, the Companies Act 1985 or otherwise;
 
  (c)   resolves, or its directors resolve, to appoint an administrator of it, or to petition or apply to court for an administration order in respect of it, or a petition or an application for an administration order is made in respect of it, or an administration order is made in respect of it, or any step under the Insolvency Act 1986 is taken to appoint an administrator of it out of court, or it enters administration;
 
  (d)   requests or suffers the appointment of a Law of Property Act 1925, court appointed or other receiver or receiver and manager, or similar officer over or in relation to the whole or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets, or any person holding security over all or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets takes possession of all or any part of them or requests that such a person does so;
 
  (e)   resolves or its directors resolve to wind it up, whether as a voluntary liquidation or a compulsory liquidation, or its directors take any step under the Insolvency Act 1986 to wind it up voluntarily or to petition the court for a winding-up order, or a winding-up petition is presented against it, or a provisional liquidator is appointed to it, or it goes into liquidation within the meaning of section 247 of the Insolvency Act 1986;
 
  (f)   is dissolved, or is removed from the Register of Companies, or ceases to exist (whether or not being capable of reinstatement or reconstitution) or threatens to cease to exist, or its directors apply for it to be struck off the Register of Companies;
 
  (g)   has any distress, execution, sequestration or other process levied or forced upon or against its undertaking, chattels, property or any of its assets; or
 
  (h)   is, or becomes, subject to, or takes or has taken against it or in relation to it or the whole or any part of its undertaking, property, revenue or assets, any finding, step, process or proceeding in any jurisdiction other than England and Wales which is equivalent, analogous, corresponding or similar to any of the findings, steps, processes or proceedings mentioned in clauses 17.2.4(a)-17.2.4(g), and whether or not any such finding, step, process or proceeding has been taken in England and Wales.
17.2.5   The Tenant or any Guarantor ceases or threatens to cease to carry on any business, or

 


 

    makes or permits or threatens to make or permit any material change in the nature of its business, or suspends or threatens to suspend payment of its debts.
 
17.3   Interpretation
 
17.3.1   In clause 17 “company” includes:
  (a)   a company as defined in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985;
 
  (b)   a body corporate or corporation within the meaning of section 740 of the Companies Act 1985;
 
  (c)   an unregistered company or association;
 
  (d)   any “company or legal person” in relation to which insolvency proceedings may be opened pursuant to Article 3 of the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings 2000 (No 1346/2000);
 
  (e)   a partnership within the meaning of the Partnership Act 1890;
 
  (f)   a limited partnership registered under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907;
 
  (g)   a limited liability partnership incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, and the “Registrar of Companies” includes the keeper of any register of any of the legal persons mentioned above.
17.3.2   In relation to a Tenant or Guarantor that is a partnership within the meaning of the Partnership Act 1890 or a limited partnership registered under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907, the provisions of clause 17.2.4 will, except where the context otherwise requires, apply mutatis mutandis to the Tenant or Guarantor (as the case may be) incorporating, where relevant, the modifications mentioned in the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994 and the Insolvent Partnerships (Amendment) Order 2005.
 
17.3.3   In relation to a Tenant or Guarantor that is a limited liability partnership incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, the provisions of clause 17.2.4 will, except where the context otherwise requires, apply mutatis mutandis to the Tenant or Guarantor (as the case may be) incorporating, where relevant, the modifications mentioned in the Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations 2001.
 
18.   MISCELLANEOUS
 
18.1   Notices
 
18.1.1   Where a notice is to be given in connection with this Lease, it must be given in writing and signed by or on behalf of the party giving it, unless it is stated that it need not be given in writing.
 
18.1.2   Any notice to be given in connection with this Lease will be validly served if sent by first class post, or registered postal service or recorded delivery and addressed to or

 


 

    personally delivered to:
  (a)   the Landlord at the address given in this deed or such other address which the Landlord has notified to the Tenant in writing;
 
  (b)   the Tenant at the Premises or its registered office or its last known address; and
 
  (c)   a Guarantor at the Premises or its registered office or its last known address.
18.1.3   Any notice or demand sent by post from within the United Kingdom and properly stamped and correctly addressed will be conclusively treated as having been delivered two Working Days after posting.
 
18.1.4   The Tenant shall give the Landlord oral notice (as well as written notice) of any matter affecting the Premises where emergency action is needed.
 
18.2   Landlord’s rights to remedy default by the Tenant
 
    If the Tenant fails to comply with any of its obligations in this Lease, the Landlord may give the Tenant written notice of that failure, and the Tenant shall remedy the failure within the time reasonably specified by the Landlord (or immediately in the case of an emergency). If the Tenant fails to do this the Landlord may enter the Premises and carry out any works or do anything else which may be needed to remedy the Tenant’s failure to comply with its obligations under this Lease, and any costs incurred by the Landlord will be a debt due from the Tenant payable on demand and may be recovered by the Landlord as if it were additional rent.
 
18.3   Superior interests
 
    If at any time this Lease is an underlease, the Tenant shall comply with the terms of any superior lease to the extent that they relate to the. Premises, other than any obligation to pay any rent, and the Landlord shall pay any rent due under the immediate superior lease.
 
18.4   No right to enforce
Nothing contained or referred to in this Lease entitles the Tenant to the benefit of, or the right to enforce, or to prevent the release or modification of any agreement entered into by any other tenant or occupier of the Building with the Landlord.
18.5   Tenant to provide information
 
    The Tenant shall give the Landlord any information or documents which the Landlord reasonably requests to show that the Tenant is complying with its obligations in this Lease and shall give the Landlord immediate written notice of any matter in connection with the Premises which may make the Landlord liable to the Tenant or any third party.
 
18.6   Tenant’s indemnity
 
    The Tenant agrees to indemnify the Landlord at all times (both during and after the Term) against all charges, claims, proceedings, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses arising directly or indirectly from the existence, state of repair or use of the Premises or any

 


 

    works carried out at the Premises or any breach of any of the Tenant’s obligations in this Lease, or any act or omission of the Tenant subject to the Landlord not settling any claim or taking any step or action in any proceedings without the Tenant’s consent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
 
18.7   Guarantor to enter into supplemental documents
 
    The Tenant shall procure that a Guarantor enters into and executes and delivers to the Landlord any deed or document which is supplemental to this deed and which is entered into before that Guarantor is released by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995.
 
18.8   Replacement Guarantor
 
18.8.1   In clause 18.8 a “Guarantor Replacement Event” is the death of a Guarantor or the occurrence of any of the events referred to in clause 17.2.3,17.2.4, or 17.2.5 in relation to a Guarantor, or where a Guarantor comprises more than one person, the death of any one of them or the occurrence of any of those events in relation to any one of them.
 
18.8.2   If at any time during the Term a Guarantor Replacement Event occurs, the Tenant shall give immediate written notice of it to the Landlord. The Landlord may after a Guarantor Replacement Event (and whether or not it has received notice of it from the Tenant) give written notice to the Tenant requiring the Tenant to procure a replacement or additional guarantor. Within one month of the Landlord giving such notice to the Tenant, the Tenant shall procure that a person of standing acceptable to the Landlord enters into and executes and delivers to the Landlord a replacement or additional guarantee and indemnity in the same form as that entered into by the Guarantor in respect of which the Guarantor Replacement Event has occurred.
 
18.8.3   Clause 18.8 does not apply in relation to a Guarantor “ho is a Guarantor by reason of having entered into an authorised guarantee agreement.
 
18.9   Qualification of Landlord’s liability
 
    The Landlord shall not be liable to the Tenant or any other person for:
 
18.9.1   any damage to person or property arising from any act, omission or misfeasance by the Landlord or its employees, agents or independent contractors or by any other tenant or occupier of the Building or from the state and condition of the Premises or of any other part of the Building or any adjoining property of the Landlord;
 
18.9.2   any interruption to the supply of Utilities to the Premises or other parts of the Building;
 
18.9.3   any accidental damage to the Premises or to any property of the Tenant or any other occupier of the Premises or their employees, agents or independent contractors; or
 
18.9.4   for any failure to perform any obligation in this Lease, unless the Tenant has given the Landlord written notice of the facts giving rise to that failure and allowed the Landlord a reasonable time to remedy the matter.
 
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    The Tenant shall remove all its fittings, goods and other possessions at the end of the Term and the Landlord may dispose of any such items left at the Premises more than 10 Working Days after the end of the Term as the Landlord sees fit.
 
18.11   Governing law
 
    This Lease will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
 
18.12   Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
 
    Unless expressly stated nothing in this Lease will create any rights in favour of any person pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
 
18.13   Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995
 
    This Lease is a new tenancy for the purposes of section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995.
 
18.14   Tenant’s acknowledgement and Code
 
18.14.1   The Tenant acknowledges that except for the written replies made by the Landlord’s solicitors to the formal written pre-lease enquiries made by the Tenant’s solicitors, it has not relied on or taken into account any statement or representation (whether written or oral) made by or on behalf of the Landlord, in deciding whether to enter into this deed, and the documents annexed to it and any document expressed to be supplemental to this Lease and entered into on the same day as this deed and will have no remedy in respect of any such statement or representation.
 
18.14.2   This Lease is granted after the publication of the Code for Leasing Business Premises in England and Wales 2007 (the “Code”). If there is any conflict between the Code and this Lease the terms of this Lease will prevail. In respect of any matter contained in the Code and as to which this Lease is silent, the terms of the Code as to such matter are not incorporated into this Lease and (without prejudice to the generality of clause 18.16.1) the Landlord makes no representation or warranty and the Tenant will have no remedy in relation to them.
 
18.14.3   Nothing in this deed will operate to limit or exclude any liability arising or remedy available by reason of fraud.
 
19.   EXCLUSION OF THE LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954
 
19.1   The Landlord and the Tenant confirm that before this deed the agreement for lease made between (1) the Landlord and (2) the Tenant dated 2008 was entered into:
 
19.1.1   a notice complying with Schedule 1 to the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003 which relates to this tenancy was served by the Landlord on the Tenant on     ; and
 
19.1.2   a statutory declaration dated     complying with paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to that

 


 

    Order was made by     , whom the Tenant confirms was duly authorized by the Tenant Act 1954 shall be excluded in relation to the tenancy created by this deed.
In witness of which this deed has been duly executed and is delivered on the date written at the beginning of this deed.
     
Signed as a deed by
   
GAINS CAPITAL – FOREX.COM UK LIMITED
  [illegible]
acting by a director and its secretary or by two
                        Director
directors
  [illegible]
 
            Secretary/Director

 

Exhibit 10.40
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Addendum to ACCESS AGREEMENT
Between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
Dated December 2004
In consideration for the mutual promises contained herein and the consideration for the Agreement, the parties hereto agree to amend and revise the Agreement as per Section 3 as follows:
SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED.
Payment for Order Flow
GAIN will compensate Questrade, Inc. *** per million on standard forex fixed spreads and USD *** per million on forex fractional spreads per round trip base currency unit transaction executed by Customers introduced to GAIN by Questrade. GAIN will compensate Questrade the Fee for all customers · selected to participate in the Default Program. All other customers will not be affected by this Addendum.
All volume calculations to determine the Fee will begin the first trading day of each calendar month and end the last trading day of each calendar month. GAIN will make these fee payments to Questrade for trade order flow during the initial term of the Agreement between GAIN and Questrade provided both parties honor all terms and conditions of the Agreement and this Addendum.
All other terms under this provision are not affected by this Addendum.
To the extent this Addendum shall be deemed inconsistent with any terms or conditions of this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned hereby acknowledges having read this Addendum. understands and consents to be bound by all its terms.
                     
Questrade, Inc,       GAIN Capital Group, LLC    
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Edward Kholodenko       By:   /s/ Tom Levine    
Print Name: Edward Kholodenko       Name: Tom Levine    
Title: President & CEO       Title: Director    
Date: 7/23/07       Date: 7/2307    

Exhibit 10.41
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Addendum to ACCESS AGREEMENT
Between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and Questrade, Inc.
Dated December 2004
In consideration for the mutual promises Contained herein and the consideration for the Agreement, the parties hereto agree to amend and revise the Agreement as per Section 3 as follows:
SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED.
Payment for Order Flow
GAIN will compensate Questrade, Inc. *** on standard forex fixed spreads; *** per million on forex fractional spreads; USD $40 per million on ForexPro; *** on GainPro per round trip base currency unit transaction executed by Customers originated by Questrade. GAIN will compensate Questrade the Fee for all customers selected to participate in the Default Program. All other customers will not be affected by this Addendum.
All volume calculations to determine the Fee will begin the first trading day of each calendar month and end the last trading day of each calendar month. GAIN will make these fee payment to Questrade for trade order flow during the initial term of the Agreement between GAIN and Questrade provided both parties honor all terms and conditions of the Agreement and this Addendum.
All other terms under this provision are not affected by this Addendum.
To the extent this Addendum shall be deemed inconsistent with any terms or conditions of this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned hereby acknowledges having read this Addendum, understands and consent to be bound by all Its terms.
                     
Questrade, Inc,       GAIN Capital Group, LLC    
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Edward Kholodenko       By:   /s/ Tom Levine    
Print Name: Edward Kholodenko       Name: Tom Levine    
Title: President & CEO       Title: Director    
Date: 10/12/07       Date: 10/10/07    

Exhibit 10.42
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOFTWARE LICENSING AND SERVICES AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT made effective as of the 1 st day of December, 2004 between Gain Capital, Inc., a Delaware Corporation” with its principal place of business located at 35 Technology Drive, Warren, New Jersey 07059 (“Gain”) and Questrade, Inc. and Ontario corporation, with its principal place of business located at 5001 Yonge Street, Suite 203, Toronto, Ontario Canada M2N 6P6 (“Questrade”).
WHEREAS:
A.   Questrade is a registered investment dealer with the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (“IDA”);
 
B.   Questrade provides Canadian clients with online trading, foreign currency and brokerage services utilizing a trading application (the “Trading Application”), which enables its customers to place securities orders for execution by or through Questrade ;
 
C.   Gain is a registered Futures Commissions Merchant and member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Gain is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”);
 
D.   Gain operates a proprietary software trading application which provides clients with foreign exchange services (“Trading Software”); and
 
E.   Gain and Questrade desire to provide to Questrade clients exclusive access to the Trading Software;
NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1. Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
Unless otherwise specifically set out herein, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings wherever used in this Agreement;
(a)   “Agreement” means this Agreement, and any schedules and attachments hereto;
 
(b)   “Clients” means all Trading Software users who reside in Canada and who have executed account agreements with Questrade to access and use Questrade’s trading and brokerage services, as well as any other accounts that belong to Questrade.;
 
(c)   “Confidential Information” means technical data, trade secrets, know-how, research, product plans, ideas or concepts, products, services, software, inventions, patent applications, techniques, processes, developments, algorithms, formulas, technology, designs, schematics, drawings, engineering, and hardware configuration information, business or financial plans or strategies, including but not limited to customers, customer lists, markets, financial statements and projections, product pricing and marketing, financial or other strategic business plans or information disclosed by one Party (“Disclosing Party”) to the other Party (“Receiving Party”). For greater certainty, Confidential Information includes (i) Trading Technology, (ii) the User’s Manuals, (iii) all prior versions of the Trading Software and the User’s Manuals. Confidential Information does not include any of the foregoing items which (i) at the time of its disclosure is publicly available through no fault of the Receiving Party; (ii) after disclosure hereunder, is released to the public without restriction or otherwise becomes part of the public domain through no fault of Receiving Party (but only after it is released or otherwise becomes part of the public domain); (iii) Receiving Party can demonstrate was in its possession at the time of disclosure and which was not acquired by such Party under any obligation of confidence; or (iv) Receiving Party can demonstrate was independently developed by such Party without any use of the Confidential Information.
 
(d)   “Order” means any executed request by a Client to purchase or sell a security placed through the Trading

 


 

    Application, without regard to the manner in which Questrade may seek to execute an Order.
 
(e)   “Product” means the Trading Software and any and all user manuals, developments and improvements made thereto, whether those improvements are made or initiated by Gain and extending to any use to which the Product, the developments and improvements thereto may be applied and not limited to the industry for which originally intended;
 
(f)   “Territory” means Canada.
1.2 Preamble and Schedules
The parties hereby confirm and ratify the matters contained and referred to in the Preamble to this Agreement and agree that the same and the various schedules hereto are expressly incorporated into and form part of this Agreement.
2. License
2.1 License
Gain hereby grants to Questrade, and Questrade accepts, an exclusive and indivisible license in the Territory to sublicense the Trading Software to Clients and to enable such Clients to access the Product in the Territory, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
2.2 Service to be Provided
a) During the term of this Agreement, Gain will provide the functionality that will allow each Client to link to a web site and download Gain’s Trading Software for installation on Client’s computer. Gain’s Application will be available to provide the functionality that will automatically launch the Trading Software and allow the Client to place foreign exchange transactions for execution through Questrade. Gain shall configure the Trading Application so that it will specifically identify Clients using the Trading Software and track Orders entered into by such Clients. Gain shall also provide Clients and Questrade with access to online trade confirmations and monthly statements. All documentation delivered to Clients, electronically or otherwise must be according to Questrade’s specifications and must display the Questrade logo. Gain will produce and deliver to Questrade an archival electronic copy on a monthly basis of all trade conformations and monthly statements delivered to Clients.
b) Gain will provide Questrade with a daily electronic file of all client transactions in a format acceptable to Questrade. Gain will also provide a start of day electronic file containing start of day positions and mark to market equity for each Client.
c) Gain will provide Questrade with access to back office administrative and risk monitoring software to manage Client access and trading activity.
2.3 Future Development
Gain agrees to extend this exclusive Licensing Agreement to include any and all future patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, inventions, improvements in the Products, process and manufacturing techniques falling within the scope of the Licensed Rights.
2.4 Restrictions on Use
a) Gain agrees that it will not during the term of this Agreement knowingly permit others to use the processes, trade secrets or Confidential Information disclosed by it to Questrade pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and that it will keep all processes and Confidential Information secret; and that Gain shall not use and shall have no right to use any of the Confidential Information, or any part thereof without Questrade’s express permission.

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b) Except for the rights granted in this Agreement, Questrade acknowledges and agrees that Gain is the owner of all right, title and interest to the Product, Trading Software, and all intellectual property related thereto, and Questrade shall not make any claim to the contrary or do anything inconsistent with Gain’s rights.
3. Obligations of the Parties
Gain’s Obligations
3.1   Gain shall provide maintenance for the Trading Software during the term of this Agreement.
 
3.2   Gain shall be responsible for providing instructions and technical support to Questrade’s Clients for installing and using the Trading Software to access the Product.
 
3.3   Gain will provide Questrade with marketing and promotional materials so that Questrade can support the Product.
 
3.4   Gain shall be responsible for facilitating the execution of orders submitted by Questrade’s Clients via the Trading Software.
 
3.5   Gain shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (1) maintain the privacy of any Client information in the possession of or available to Gain and to (2) comply with any applicable Canadian laws and regulations relating to Client information privacy, including without limitation privacy of financial and personal information.
 
3.6   Gain shall provide Questrade’s designated employees with sufficient training for demonstrating the Trading Software to enable Questrade to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement.
 
3.7   Gain shall make and maintain complete, clear and accurate records of all actions that it is required to take in connection with this Agreement. Upon reasonable request and upon 30 days notice, but not more that two times in anyone (1) year period, Questrade shall have the right to conduct a reasonable inspection of Gain’s books and records that pertain to this Agreement.
Questrade’s Obligations
3.7   Questrade shall be solely responsible for the opening and management of any and all accounts of its Clients.
4. Representations and Warranties
4.1 Representations and Warranties of Gain
Gain hereby represents and warrants to Questrade as follows and acknowledges that Questrade is relying on such representations and warranties:
(a)   Gain has all requisite power, authority and right to enter into and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder;
 
(b)   The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not violate or conflict with any of the provisions of the constating documents or by-laws of Gain, any provision of any agreement or instrument to which Gain is a party or by which it is bound or any judgment, decree, order, law, statute, rule or regulation applicable to Gain;
 
(c)   Gain is a valid and subsisting corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware with all necessary power to own its property and carry on its business, is duly licensed and registered to carry on business in each of the jurisdictions in which it operates, and has made all necessary filings under all applicable corporate, securities or taxation laws or any other law to which Gain is made subject which, had such filings not been made, would have a material adverse effect on Gain or its business operations;

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(d)   This Agreement has been fully authorized, executed and delivered by Gain and all other documents executed and delivered hereunder in relation to the granting of the exclusive license by Gain shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered and this Agreement does, and such other documents will, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of Gain enforceable in accordance with their respective terms;
 
(e)   Gain has all rights, titles, licenses, permissions and approvals necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement;
 
(f)   Gain has the right to grant this exclusive, non-transferable license to Questrade, for the Territory in accordance with this Agreement;
 
(g)   Gain is the owner of the Intellectual Property and that it has the sole right to grant this exclusive license; and it further warrants that it has granted no prior license and that there is no outstanding license granted by it covering the Product, the Intellectual Property or the Licensed Rights and that this exclusive license is granted free from all encumbrances, liens or actions of any nature whatsoever.
4.2 Representations and Warranties of Questrade
a)   All orders for Questrade’s Client’s accounts, shall be placed in conformity with all applicable laws and rules, regulations, interpretations and policies of the IDA and all appropriate Canadian regulatory authorities
 
b)   Questrade has all requisite power, authority and right to enter into and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder;
 
c)   The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not violate or conflict with any of the provisions of the constating documents or by-laws of Questrade, any provision of any agreement or instrument to which Questrade is a party or by which it is bound or any judgment, decree, order, law, statute, rule or regulation applicable to Questrade;
 
d)   Questrade is a valid and subsisting corporation under the laws of the Province of Ontario with all necessary power to own its property and carry on its business, is duly licensed and registered to carry on business in each of the jurisdictions in which it operates, and has made all necessary filings under all applicable corporate, securities or taxation laws or any other law to which Questrade is made subject which, had such filings not been made, would have a material adverse effect on Questrade or its business operations;
 
e)   This Agreement has been fully authorized, executed and delivered by Questrade and all other documents executed and delivered hereunder in relation to the granting of the exclusive, indivisible, non-transferable license to Questrade shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered and this Agreement does, and such other documents will, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of Questrade enforceable in accordance with their respective terms;
 
f)   Questrade is not a non-resident of Canada within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and is not a non-Canadian within the meaning of the Investment Canada Act;
5. Confidentiality
5.1 Confidential Information
Each Party agrees to hold the Confidential Information in confidence and to take all reasonable precautions necessary to safeguard the confidentiality of such information. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, each Party shall not, without the express written consent of the Disclosing Party, disclose, provide, or otherwise make available all or any portion of the Confidential Information in any form to any person other than those of Receiving Party’s employees, independent contractors and sub-licensed Clients who have a need to know the Confidential Information

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5.2 Infringement
If either party shall have information that the Intellectual Property or licensed claim is being infringed or that any person has attempted to infringe such property, the information with respect to such infringement or attempted infringement shall be promptly transmitted to the other party, whereupon Gain shall enter suit to prevent infringement, and to prosecute and do all acts reasonably necessary to maintain the exclusive rights to the Intellectual Property and the exclusive rights provided herein.
6. Termination
6.1 Term
The term of this Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and shall terminate one (1) year from the Effective Date (“Initial Term”) unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year periods at the end of the Initial Term.
6.2 Termination Without Cause
Either party may terminate this Agreement without cause by giving the other party at *** days prior Written notice.
6.3 Termination with Cause
Except as provided in this Agreement, either party may terminate this Agreement immediately by either party by giving written notice, provided the basis for such termination is a material failure by the other party to perform its responsibilities and obligations under this Agreement. In addition, if either party reasonably believes that the other party’s Services provided under this Agreement has exposed, or is likely to expose, Gain or Questrade, respectively, to regulatory, civil or criminal liability or investigation, Gain or Questrade, as the case may be, will promptly notify the other party of such concern in writing and shall have the right, without liability, to thereafter suspend the Services provided for in this Agreement. The parties agree to cooperate in resolving such concerns, and, if the parties cannot reach resolution satisfactory to both parties within *** days of the suspension, either party shall have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately.
6.4 Effect of Termination
Upon termination of this Agreement, the rights and licenses granted in this Agreement shall immediately terminate. Questrade shall promptly discontinue using the Trading Software, the User Manuals and shall make reasonable commercial efforts to cause its Clients to discontinue use of the Trading Software and User’s Manuals and destroy or return all copies (written or electronic form) of the Confidential Information, including, but not limited to, the Trading Software, User Manuals and all related documentation and materials to Gain.
7. Disclaimers
7.1 Limitation of Liability
In no event shall one Party to this Agreement, their parents, employees, officers, directors, and agents be liable to the other Party Gain or any other person for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages, expenses, lost profits, lost savings, loss of use, damages for injuries, or other damages arising out of or in connection with (1) this Agreement or (2) the furnishing, performance or use or misuse of the technology, trading software, hardware components, trading hardware, user manuals, Gain products and execution services, pursuant to this Agreement.
8. Indemnification
Each party (the “ Indemnifying Party ”) shall indemnify and hold harmless the other Party and its affiliates, subsidiaries and successors and its and their past or present directors, officers, employees and agents (collectively,

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the “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all claims, suits, actions, loss, costs, damages, liability, or other expense asserted by a third party, in each case as incurred, in any way resulting from the actual or alleged breach of any obligation, representation, warranty, or covenant by the Indemnifying Party under this Agreement or from the actual or alleged acts or omissions of the Indemnifying Party or the Indemnifying Party’s past or present directors, officers, employees or agents in connection with this Agreement or the performance thereunder, provided that the Indemnified Party shall give the Indemnifying Party reasonable notice of any claim for indemnification hereunder and provided further that the Indemnifying Party shall permit the Indemnified Party to reasonably control the defense or settlement of any such claim or cause of action, including permitting the Indemnified Party to select counsel of its choice. The Indemnifying Party, with respect to any such claim or cause of action, shall permit the Indemnified Party to monitor any defense or settlement conducted by the Indemnifying Party, and shall obtain the written approval of the Indemnified Party (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) prior to settling any claim or cause of action covered by this provision. Both the Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party shall cooperate in the defense or settlement of any claim or cause of action covered by this provision.
9. General
9.1 No Waiver
No failure or delay on the part of Gain to exercise its right of termination or cancellation on any default by Questrade shall be construed to prejudice Gain’s right of termination or cancellation for default.
9.2 Succession
This Agreement shall be binding upon and, except as otherwise provided, shall enure to the benefit of the legal successors or representatives of the parties, and to the assigns of Gain, but this Agreement and any rights granted hereunder shall not be assigned by Questrade, except in accordance with this Agreement or with the written consent and approval of Gain.
9.3 Entire Agreement
This Agreement and the Access Agreement entered into by the parties on December 1, 2004 embody the entire agreements of the parties and there are no further or other agreements or understandings, written or oral, in effect between the parties, relating to the subject matter hereof.
9.4 Notices
All notices required or permitted to be given pursuant to this Agreement shall be delivered by hand to the party for which it is intended, or sent by telex, fax, telegram, electronic email or other form of transmitted or electronic message or sent by prepaid courier directly to such party at the following addresses, respectively:
If to Questrade:
Questrade, Inc.
Royal Bank Building
5001 Yonge Street
Suite 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2N 6P
Attention: Edward Kholodenko, CEO
If to Gain:
Gain Capital, Inc.
35 Technology Drive
Warren, New Jersey 07059

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or at such other address as either party may stipulate by notice to the other. Any notice delivered by hand or prepaid courier or sent by facsimile or electronic email shall be deemed to be received on the date of actual delivery thereof. Any notice so sent by telex, telegram or similar form of transmitted message shall be deemed to have been received on the next day following transmission.
9.5 Headings
The division of this Agreement into Articles, Sections and paragraphs and the insertion in this Agreement of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
9.6 Governing Law, Dispute Resolution and Submission to Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario. Any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the attached Exhibits may be submitted by either party first to voluntary non-binding mediation. A mediator will be selected by voluntary agreement of both Parties from the ADR Institute of Canada (“Institute”). In the event both Parties cannot agree on a mediator, a mediator will be selected in accordance with the laws of the province of Ontario and the then current Rules of Procedure for Commercial Arbitration of the Institute.
In the event that the Parties do not pursue non-binding mediation or that the Parties pursue non-binding mediation but such mediation is not successful in resolving any dispute or claim between the Parties, the Parties hereto hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario.
9.7 Enurement
This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and permitted assigns.
9.8 Force Majeure
Except for the payment of any amount due pursuant to this Agreement neither party shall be liable to the other for damages in the event of any loss, damage, claim, delay or default arising by reason of Acts of God (including storm, fire, flood, earthquake, etc.) labor disturbance (including strikes, boycotts, lockouts, etc.) war, civil commotion, present or future governmental law, ordinance, rule, or regulation, disruption of postal, electrical, telephone or other utility service, or other cause beyond the reasonable control of the party sought to be charged.
9.9 No Agency
Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall be construed to constitute an agency, joint venture, partnership or fiduciary relationship between the Parties and no Party shall have the right or authority to act for or on behalf of the other Party, except as is otherwise provided herein.
9.10 Waiver
This Agreement, or any term hereof, may be modified, amended or waived only by a written instrument duly executed by both parties, and a failure by either party to enforce any term of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver by that party of such term or any other term of this Agreement. No written waiver shall excuse the performance of any act other than those specifically referred to therein.
9.11 Survival
Sections pertaining to Confidentiality, Gain Representations and Warranties, Payment and License Fees, Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability, Indemnification Notice, and Governing Law shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement.

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9.12 No Third Party Rights
This Agreement is not intended to grant any right to, or provide any basis for any claims by third parties.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the date first above written.
                     
GAIN
          QUESTRADE      
Per:
  /s/ Glenn Stevens       Per:      /s/ Edward Kholodenko    
Glenn Stevens       Edward Kholodenko    
Managing Director       President & CEO    
Addendum to Access Agreement (Dated December 2004)
3.x Fees
Introducing Brokers introduced by Questrade
GAIN Capital will pay named IB introduced by Questrade *** up to USD *** round trip base currency unit transaction executed by named IBIs Originated Customers through GAIN Capital. All volume calculations will begin the first trading day of each calendar month and end the last trading day of each calendar month. GAIN Capital will make these payments for trade order flow during the initial term of the Agreement between GAIN Capital and Your Company, provided that both Your Company and GAIN Capital honor all terms and conditions of the Agreement.
In addition, Questrade will receive USD *** round trip base currency unit transaction executed by named IBIs Originated Customers through GAIN Capital.

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Exhibit 10.43
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
AGREEMENT No AGREEMENT No MT4/GCG-07
Date: 9 August 2007
This agreement (hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”) is made by and between Gain Capital Group, LLC with its principal office located at 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, N.J. 07921 United States duly represented by its Corporate Operating Officer Chris Calhoun (hereinafter referred to as “the Licensee”) and MetaQuotes Software Corp ., #28 Parliament Street, P.O. Box CB-12345, Nassau, Bahamas, duly represented by its General Director Renat Fatkhullin (hereinafter referred to as “the Licensor”). The Licensor and the Licensee may herein-below be jointly referred to as lithe Parties’” and each one in particular, as “a Party”.
WHEREAS:
The Licensor is a legal owner of exclusive property rights and copyright to MetaTrader trading information system, a computer software package (hereinafter referred to as “the System”), properly registered by the Licensor with the Russian Patent and Trademark Office (“Rospatent”) (Certificate No. 200361 1699 dated July 17, 2003), intended for the provision of brokerage service to customers engaged in Internet trading;
The Licensor is a legal owner of the MetaTrader trademark, properly registered by the Licensor with the Russian Patent and Trademark Office (“Rospatent”) (Certificate No 2003611699 dated July 17’” 2003);
The Licensee intends to acquire from the Licensor property rights for the use of the System as intended by this Agreement,
NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties have agreed as follows:
1. SUBJECT OF THE AGREEMENT
1.1. The Licensor shall grant the Licensee property rights for the use of the System as intended by this Agreement.
1.2. Licensee shall be entitled to manufacture copies of the System and perform their copying (hereinafter referred to as “the Licensed Number of Copies”) onto computers (servers, workstations, terminals, portable computers and other digital electronic devices), owned by the Licensee and the third parties approved by the Licensor in accordance with the terms and conditions stipulated in this Agreement.
2. DELIVERY SET
MetaTrader Server (trading server);
MetaTrader Data Center (proxy server);
MetaTrader Manager (Manager/Broker workstation);
MetaTrader Administrator (Administrator workstation);
MetaTrader (Client terminal);
MetaTrader4 Manager API, MetaTrader4 Server API, Datafeed API
All the System components shall be delivered in the form of installation distribution disks and the user manuals shall be built into the software.
Further documentation and technical instructions shall be posted on the MetaQuotes Support Center website at http://support.metaquotes.net . MetaQuotes Support Center access accounts shall be provided after the completion of the Registration Questionnaire (Supplement No. 1).

 


 

Registration details required for the conclusion of trading server and client terminal provision contracts shall also be provided in the Questionnaire (Supplement No. 1).
3.  DELIVERY TIMES AND PROCEDURE
3.1. The System shall be delivered to the Licensee within three weeks following the execution of this Agreement.
3.2. The delivery shall be affected by a transmission of the System over the Internet to the Licensee’s address in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3.3. All the subsequent upgrades of the System shall be conducted automatically via the inbuilt LiveUpdate service from the liveupdate.metaquotes.net authorized server.
3.4. At the Licensee’s choice, the Licensor may perform a remote installation and primary setup of the System server components on the Licensee’s equipment.
4. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
4.1. The Licensor shall grant the Licensee a right of use of the Licensed Number of Copies of each System component:
One working copy of the server (MetaTrader Server);
One backup copy of the server;
One demo copy of the server (for training accounts of the ‘demo’ group);
Unlimited number of copies of proxy servers (Meta Trader Data Center);
Unlimited number of copies of manager terminals (MetaTrader Manager);
Unlimited number of copies of administrator terminals (MetaTrader Administrator);
Unlimited number of copies of MetaTrader client terminals.
The Licensee undertakes to use only the above-mentioned copies of the server components of the MetaTrader Server software. Use of additional copies shall be authorized by the Licensor. Copies of the installed server component may be located at the server sites, either leased or owned by the Licensee. No other installations of the server components are permitted, and the Licensee unconditionally agrees that the breach of this term will entitle the Licensor to termination of this Agreement without any conditions or limitations.
4.2. The Licensee shall pay for the right of use of the System in accordance with the provisions of par. 5. The Licensor shall only extend the Licensee’s right of use of the System subject to the Licensee’s compliance with the provisions of par. 5.
4.3. The Licensor undertakes to correct errors identified in the System software. Such errors shall be corrected within a minimal reasonable time, which, however, shall not exceed 3 (three) days from the date of the submission of an error report file to Licensor.
4.4. The Licensor shall provide free twenty-four-hour technical support of the System for the first 6 (six) months of the date of execution hereof. After the expiration of such 6 (six) months period the technical support shall be provided on a fee basis. The technical support fee might be increased on annual bases.
4.5. Maintenance and warranty service shall be conducted remotely, by transmission and update of the System modules through the LiveUpdate service. In cases where the remote warranty service proves impossible and, as a consequence, the physical presence of the

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Licensor’s staff at the Licensee’s premises becomes necessary, the related travel and accommodation costs shall be borne by the Licensee.
4.6. The Licensee shall not interfere with the operation of the server components of the LiveUpdate automatic service, which accesses only the Iiveupdate.metaquotes.net server in order to perform the following tasks:
transmission of notification (the notification details include the name of the company, the server release number and the list of IP addresses attached to the trading server) at the launch of the MetaTrader Server;
checking and loading of the files of System updates (archived, encrypted and signed with the Licensor’s digital signature);
transmission of the accumulated error record files in text format (in zip archives). The Licensor guarantees that the LiveUpdate service does not perform any other tasks and does not transmit any other information.
4.7. The Licensor warrants operational efficiency only with respect to the System copies received by the Licensee under this Agreement. Licensee shall accept the delivery of the System with all its in-built components and options.
4.8. As the Licensor does not provide services of an Internet provider or computer equipment installation and monitoring services, it cannot be held liable for any communication and/or equipment failures, delays in reporting of transactions in accounting books or their confirmation or any faults in electric circuits.
4.9. The Licensor shall not be liable for any legal actions or claims of the Licensee’s customers arising from the relations between the Licensee and its customers, relating to the operation of the System or the use by the Licensee and its customers of the Expert Advisors written using the in-built MetaQuotes Language.
4.10. Where the Licensee develops its own software using MetaTrader Server API, it shall obtain Licensor’s written permission for its use in conjunction with the System. Other than this, The Licensor does not guarantee operational efficiency of a System with additional modules developed on the basis of MetaTrader Server API without an expert examination by the Licensor.
4.11. No Licensor’s permit is required for the development by the Licensee of its own software using other MetaTrader API except in the cases where the development is for MetaTrader Server API.
4.12. The Licensor may provide the Licensee with additional White Label licenses for the MetaTrader client terminal subject to execution of an additional Agreement.
4.13. The Licensee consents to posting its corporate name on the Licensor’s web servers in its capacity of the Licensor’s customer.
4.14. The Licensee shall not withhold information directly relating to the Licensor’s copyright and its other proprietary rights in the System.
5. PAYMENT TERMS AND PAYMENT PROCEDURE
5.1. In consideration of the grant to the Licensee of the property rights mentioned in the Agreement, the Licensee shall pay the Licensor a royalty in the amount of *** (***) in accordance with the following schedule:

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5.1.1. *** (***) from the date of signing this agreement, and
5.1.2 *** to be paid in installments of *** *** and following each month on the first of each month for the following *** after initial monthly payment.
5.1.3. The cost to offer services to any White Label Partner would be *** (***) per month for technical support fees plus a one-time setup fee of *** (***).
5.2. Payment of the monthly fee for the technical support starts *** after contract execution and is equal to ***.
5.3. Invoices issued by the Licensor are payable within *** days of the date of their receipt. In case of any delay in the payment owed, a penalty is charged at the *** *** per each day of the delay. The total of the penalty cannot exceed the total amount of the payment owed.
5.4. A delay in payment for more than *** after receipt of an invoice shall be considered a material breach of the terms of the Agreement.
6. EFFECTIVE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT
6.1. The Agreement shall be deemed to be effective from the moment of its execution by both Parties and shall stay in force until the full discharge by the Parties of their respective obligations.
6.2. The Agreement may be terminated subject to mutual consent of the Parties.
6.3. A material breach of the Agreement by any of the Parties may provide proper grounds for termination by the other Party in a manner prescribed by Russian Federation law law.
7. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
7.1. Any disputes arising between the Parties shall be settled through negotiations between them. In the case where a dispute cannot be resolved through negotiations of the Parties, it shall be resolved in the manner prescribed by the current law of Russian Federation.
7.2. Any other issues which are not addressed by this Agreement shall be governed by the current law of Russian Federation.
8. CONFIDENTIALITY PROVISIONS
8.1. Unless otherwise required by law, the Licensee shall observe the conditions of confidentiality with respect to this Agreement and its specific provisions and recognize their commercial value for the Licensor. On this basis, the Licensee shall not disclose the contents of this Agreement to non-affiliated third parties.
8.2. Each of the Parties agrees that, within the effective term of this Agreement, as well as after its expiration, it will treat as confidential and not use for its own purposes or disclose without the prior written consent of the other Party to any third party any confidential information, including, without limitation, any operational or technical data, know-how or other information, business and strategic plans, discoveries, production methods, designs, financial and accounting information, sales and marketing data, customer lists and information, except for the cases where such information:
exists in the public domain, or
if already available to such Party at the moment of its disclosure, or

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subsequently passes into the public domain other than through the violation of this Agreement, or
is subsequently made available by such Party to a third party in a legal manner as required by law.
8.3. Provisions of this Article 8 shall survive the effective term of this Agreement.
8.4. The Licensee shall be required to obtain preliminary written Licensor’s consent (and the Licensor shall not unreasonably withhold such consent) for the disclosure of Confidential materials to third parties in cases where the Licensee is able to prove that it is liable under the law to proceed to such disclosure due to performance of other obligations unrelated to this Agreement.
9. MATERIALS OWNED BY THE LICENSOR
9.1. The “Materials owned by the Licensor” include:
Licensor’s technical designs, any upgrades of such materials and any parts of such materials in any form, or
any other information or data, whether in written, graphical or machine-readable form, relating to Licensor’s technical designs received by the Licensee from the Licensor, or
Licensor’s technical documentation, articles and news obtained from the MetaQuotes Support Center website (http://support.metaquotes.net).
9.2. The Licensee acknowledges that the Materials owned by the Licensor are confidential proprietary information and constitute assets which are valuable for the Licensor. The Licensee shall not use any Materials owned by the Licensor for any purposes other than for the purposes specifically mentioned in the Agreement.
9.3. The Licensee agrees not to disclose or provide any Materials owned by the Licensor or any part thereof, in any form, to any persons other than its employees and employees of the Licensor, agents and other duly authorized persons. The Licensee agrees to take appropriate steps to perform its obligations under this Agreement with respect to copying, modification, protection and integrity of such Materials owned by the Licensor.
9.4. The Licensee shall not perform any disassembling or decompilation of any program entities of the System or attempt otherwise to create, use or modify any software provided by the Licensor, unless such activities are permitted by the conditions of this Agreement.
9.5. The Licensee’s obligations envisaged by this Article 9 shall survive the effective term of this Agreement and continue in force after its termination.
10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1. Any amendments to this Agreement shall be invalid unless made in written form and executed by both Parties.
11. DETAILS OF THE PARTIES
     
THE LICENSEE
  THE LICENSOR
 
   
GAIN Capital Group, LLC
  MetaQuotes Software Corp.

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550 Hills Drive
  #28 Parliament Street,
Bedminster, NJ 07921
  P.O. Box CB-12345,
U.S.A.
  Nassau, Bahamas
 
   
Tel: 1.908.731.0750
  Tel.: +7 843 5700037
Fax: 1.908.731.0788
 
+ 357 25875 134
 
  Fax: +7 843 5700037 ext. 105
 
   
COO: Chris Calhoun
  Director: Renat Fatkhullin
 
/s/ Chris Calhoun
   

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SUPPLEMENT No. 1 REGISTRATION QUESTIONNAIRE
     
1. General company information
   
Company name
  Gain Capital Group, LLC
Email address of the technical support unit
   
 
   
2. General client terminal information
   
Full mailing address of the company (country, city, ZIP code, correct address)
  550 Hills Drive Bedminster,
  N.J. 07921 USA
Telephone/Fax (including the country code)
   
 
  www.gaincapital.com;
Corporate website
  www.forex.com
Full correct name of the terminal
  Forex Trader. Meta
Abbreviated name of the terminal
  Forex Trader. Meta
 
   
3. Technical administrator contact details
   
Full name
  Andrew Haines
Email
  ahaines@gaincapital.com
Telephone (including the country code)
  908-212-3908 (US)
ICQ / MSN
   
 
   
4. Servers
   
IP addresses of trading servers (list, separated by commas)
  TBD
Default SMTP server
  TBD
 
   
5. Access accounts of MetaQuotes Support Center
   
Full name, email and login
  Andrew Haines
 
  Neil Wilkinson
Full name, email and login
  nwilkinson@gaincapital.com
 
  Ravi Srikantan
Full name, email and login
  rsrikantan@gaincapital.com
Passwords will be generated and sent to the indicated emailing addresses.
   
 
   
6. Payment Coordinator
   
Full name
  Dave Cromartie
Email
  dcromartie@gaincapital.com
Telephone (including the country code)
  908-212-3923
ICQ / MSN
   

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Exhibit 10.45
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SALES LEAD AGREEMENT
This Sales Lead Agreement (the “Agreement”), is hereby made as of October 9th 2006 (“Effective Date”), by and between GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC a company whose registered office is 550 Hills Drive, Bedminster, NJ 07921, USA, (“SALES AGENT”) and TRADING CENTRAL , a Societe Anonyme, with offices at II BIS RUE SCRIBE 75009 PARIS, FRANCE (RCS Paris 423 512 607) (“Research Provider”).
WHEREAS, Research Provider is in the business of producing technical analysis (collectively “Investment Research”);
WHEREAS, SALES AGENT desires to distribute the Investment Research, and Research Provider wishes to utilize SALES AGENT to distribute its Investment Research.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and mutual covenants contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1.  Services to Be Performed by SALES AGENT . SALES AGENT shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to distribute the Investment Research on a non-exclusive basis.
2.  Services to Be Provided by Research Provider . Research Provider shall provide SALES AGENT with Investment Research along with other items as determined by SALES AGENT on a non-exclusive basis.
3.  Term and Termination of Agreement . The term of this Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and shall continue for a period of twelve (12) months. After the initial twelve (12) month period, this Agreement may be terminated by either party at any time upon at least thirty (30) days prior written notice. If either party defaults in the performance of any of its material obligations under this Agreement and fails to cure such default within ten (10) days after receiving written notice of the default, the non-defaulting party shall then have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately at any time following the ten (10) days.
4.  Confidentiality . Any customer list of SALES AGENT is deemed to be “Confidential Information,” and Research Provider shall use reasonable efforts to keep such information confidential and not utilize such information for its own use. Research Provider agrees that it will take all reasonable precautions to prevent any unauthorized disclosure of Confidential Information by its principals, employees, or agents.
5.  Fees and Payment Terms .
TRADING CENTRAL shall provide SALES AGENT with current, accurate and complete pricing and product information on the Materials, as applicable.
Unless otherwise agreed, subscriptions by Users that contract with TRADING CENTRAL SA shall be invoiced and collected by TRADING CENTRAL.
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signed between one User and TRADING CENTRAL for the delivery of technical analysis services or any other service delivered and invoiced by TRADING CENTRAL and (ii) whereby significant sales efforts were handled directly by TRADING CENTRAL representatives in the form of sales calls, on-site or phone presentations, product demonstrations and/or price negotiations.
A Sales Lead is valid only if (i) a Lead Form (detailing company name, desk activity, contact details including name, phone number, e-mail, and position) has been sent by e-mail to TRADING CENTRAL and faxed or e-mailed back to SALES AGENT wearing the approval signature of an accredited person (CEO, MD or Head of Sales of TRADING CENTRAL).
If SALES AGENT provides a Sales Lead which lead to a signed contract between User and TRADING CENTRAL then TRADING CENTRAL shall pay SALES AGENT a Commission worth *** by TRADING CENTRAL for access to its technical analysis service during the first year of the contract signed between Users.
If SALES AGENT provides both a Sales Lead and a closed contract which required no sales effort nor involvement by TRADING CENTRAL representatives then TRADING CENTRAL shall pay SALES AGENT *** by TRADING CENTRAL for access to its technical analysis service during the first year of the contract signed between Users and TRADING CENTRAL.
Commissions will be paid to SALES AGENT on a quarterly basis only on payment actually received from Users.
6.  Expenses . Each party shall bear its own costs and expenses in providing the services rendered by it hereunder. All expenses of preparing the Investment Research materials shall be the sole responsibility of Research Provider.
7.  Representations and Warranties .
     (a) Research Provider represents and warrants now and on a continuing basis that:
  (1)   It has the requisite authority to enter into this Agreement.
 
  (2)   Research Provider represents and warrants that any copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos or other commercial designations are owned by Research Provider free of encumbrances or claims of any kind, and Research Provider has right to grant SALES AGENT a license to use such items in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
 
  (3)   Research Provider has all required governmental and regulatory approvals and licenses required to conduct the business contemplated by this Agreement, including any required registrations.
     (b) SALES AGENT represents and warrants now and on a continuing basis that:
  (1)   It has the requisite authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out the services as contemplated herein.
 
  (2)   It agrees to maintain the registrations and licenses necessary under

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      applicable laws and regulations.
     (c) Each party hereto represents and warrants that it shall provide to the other such information or documentation necessary for such party to fulfill its obligations hereunder, and such other information or documentation as any party may reasonably request.
9.  Indemnification . Each party to this Agreement (the “Indemnifying Party”) shall indemnify and hold harmless the other party (the “Indemnified Party”) and its affiliates and each officer, employee and agent of the Indemnified Party and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses, damages, liabilities, or costs, charges, reasonable counsel fees, and expenses of any nature (“Losses”) arising out of (i) any misleading statements, inaccuracy or omission in any materials generated by the Indemnifying Patty pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) any material breach by the Indemnifying Party of any representation, warranty, covenant, or agreement contained in this Agreement and (iii) any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Indemnifying Party pursuant to this Agreement, except to the extent such Losses result from Indemnified Party’s breach of this Agreement, bad faith, willful misconduct, or gross negligence.
10.  Miscellaneous .
     (a)  Application of UK Law . This Agreement shall be governed by and in accordance with the laws of England applicable to agreements made and fully to be performed therein.
     (b)  Entire Agreement, Amendment. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes voids and rescinds any and all prior oral or written agreements between Research Provider and SALES AGENT and is a fully integrated agreement. This Agreement may not be amended nor modified, nor any of the provisions hereof waived, except by the written consent of both parties hereto.
     (c)  Binding Arbitration . Research Provider and SALES AGENT agree to arbitrate any controversy between Research Provider and SALES AGENT or its directors, officers, partners or employees relating in any way to this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the performance, construction or breach of this Agreement. Such arbitration will be conducted in accordance with the rules then in effect of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Research Provider and SALES AGENT understand that any award rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
     (d)  Relationship of Parties . Neither Research Provider nor SALES AGENT has any exclusive right to the services offered by the other, or, except as provided in this Agreement, to restrict other activities of the other party. This Agreement shall not be construed as precluding SALES AGENT or its affiliates from performing services of any nature for any third persons.
     (e)  Assignment . No party hereto may transfer, sell, encumber or assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder in whole or in part without the express written consent of the other patty hereto.
      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed for and on behalf of the undersigned as of the above date.

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TRADING CENTRAL   GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Alain Pellier   By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens        
 
 
 
     
 
       
Name:
  Alain Pellier   Name:   Glenn Stevens        
Title:
  CEO   Title:   CEO        
Date:
  9/October/2006   Date:   10/January/2007        
SCHEDULE A-I: Sales Leads
SALES AGENT will receive *** received, per subscription.
     
New Subscriptions   Subscription Renewals
SALES AGENT ***/Trading Central ***
  SALES AGENT ***/Trading Central ***
SCHEDULE A-2: Sales Leads + Closed Contracts
SALES AGENT will receive *** received, per subscription.
     
New Subscriptions   Subscription Renewals
SALES AGENT ***/Trading Central ***
  SALES AGENT ***/Trading Central ***
SCHEDULE B
GURU TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
to be confirmed

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CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1, These terms shall be incorporated into every agreement (“an Agreement”) with a subscriber (“a Subscriber”) for the supply of any of TRADING CENTRAL online services (information, analyses and forecasts) available on www tradingcentral.com (“the Service”), All Subscribers contract with TRADING CENTRAL SA, a company whose registered office is 11 bis rue Scribe, 75009 Paris, France, registered at the registry of commerce and companies of Paris under the number 423 512 607.
2 Each Agreement will come into effect only when accepted by TRADING CENTRAL and commence as from the agreed commencement date (or, if none is agreed, the date on which the TRADING CENTRAL Service was first provided, after the end of any free trial, where relevant) and (unless otherwise specified in the Agreement) will continue for a term of one (1) year and for further terms of one (1) year thereafter until terminated by the Subscriber giving to TRADING CENTRAL not less than three (3) months notice in writing expiring at the end of the relevant term.
3.(a) Unless otherwise agreed, subscriptions for TRADING CENTRAL Services shall be as shown in TRADING CENTRAL’s standard price list at the time the subscription is due. (b) Unless and until TRADING CENTRAL notifies otherwise, subscriptions with Subscribers who contract with TRADING CENTRAL will be invoiced and collected by TRADING CENTRAL and shall be due and payable quarterly in advance, without set-off or deduction (c) Each Subscriber will pay a penalty worth EURIBOR *** if payments are not made to TRADING CENTRAL in due time. (d) Without prejudice to any other remedy which it may have, TRADING CENTRAL reserves the right to terminate the Subscriber’s access to any TRADING CENTRAL services for non-payment of invoices. (e) All sums due to TRADING CENTRAL are exclusive of Goods and Services Tax, Sales Tax, Value Added Tax, and any other use or sales taxes, duties, or levies imposed by any authority, government or government agency which may apply or be introduced from time to time which shall be charged thereon in accordance with the relevant regulations in force at the time of providing the Service and shall be paid by the Subscriber. If a Subscriber is required by any tax authority to account for withholding tax (or similar duties or taxes) in respect of any subscription due to TRADING CENTRAL, the subscription shall be grossed up so that TRADING CENTRAL actually receives the amount which would have been payable had such withholding tax not been so accounted for Fees subject to annual increase based on Euro Zone inflation rate.
4 EACH SUBSCRIBER AGREES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT, (A) NO EXPRESS UNDERTAKING IS GIVEN AND NONE CAN BE IMPLIED AS TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICE (B) THE SERVICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE IN ANY WAY A SOLICITATION NOR INCENTIVE TO SELL OR BUY ANY SHARES, STOCK OPTIONS AND SIMILAR AND ASSIMILATED PRODUCTS. (C) EACH SUBSCRIBER OF THE SERVICE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE FACT THAT, BY ITS VERY NATURE, ANY INVESTMENT IN SHARES, STOCK OPTIONS AND SIMILAR AND ASSIMILATED PRODUCTS IS CHARACTERISED BY A CERTAIN DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY THAT, CONSEQUENTLY, ANY INVESTMENT OF THIS NATURE INVOLVES RISKS FOR WHICH THE USER IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE AND LIABLE. IT IS TO BE NOTED IN THIS RESPECT THAT PAST PERFORMANCE OF A FINANCIAL PRODUCT DO NOT GUARANTEE ANY AND ARE NOT AN INDICATION AS TO FUTURE PERFORMANCE. (D) THE USE AND INTERPRETATION OF THE SERVICE REQUIRE FINANCIAL SKILL AND JUDGEMENT. ANY UTILISATION WHATSOEVER BY THE SUBSCRIBER, RELATING TO THE SERVICE, AS WELL AS ANY DECISION WHICH THE USERS MAY TAKE REGARDING A POSSIBLE PURCHASE OR SALE OF SHARES, STOCK OPTIONS AND SIMILAR AND ASSIMILATED PRODUCTS, ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY OF THE SUBSCRIBER WHO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THIS AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO AND PRIOR TO ANY ACCESS TO THE SERVICE; (E) AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE, ALL LEGAL LIABILITY

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DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING WHATSOEVER IN RESPECT OF THE UTILISATION OF THE INFORMATION AND RELATED PRODUCTS OF OUR SERVICE, IN PA RTICULAR IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES AS DESCRIB ED IN POINT (C) OF THIS DISCLAIMER, IS HEREBY EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW AND CONSEQUENTIAL AND ECONOMIC LOSS IS EXCLUDED WITHOUT LIMITATION; (F) TRADING CENTRAL IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INTERRUPTION, DISRUPTION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICE AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET WHATSOEVER, EVEN WHEN THIS RESULT CAUSES THE INFORMATION AND RELATED PRODUCTS PROVIDED TO BE RENDERED INACCURATE, INACCESSIBLE OR INCOMPLETE.
5 (a) Each Subscriber agrees that it will use the Service for the specific business purposes stated herein (b) Subscribers may not internally or externally, copy, distribute, relay, publish or otherwise deal with, disclose or make available any part of a the Service whether in the form received by them or in any other form and may not transfer any part of the Service to another information distribution network or publication system whether external or internal or any terminal not authorised by TRADING CENTRAL to receive the Service except in the designated case allowed by this Agreement allowing Subscriber to electronically provide the Service to its customers who hold live foreign exchange trading accounts with Subscriber (c) Each Subscriber agrees to limit the number of internal Users to those listed on the Commercial Information Addendum (page 3) These internal Users are the individuals allowed direct access to the Service which will enable them to provide it to Subscriber’s customers (d) The total number of Users may increase based on in-site observations or based on client request and shall lead TRADING CENTRAL to increase the total subscription fees as described on the Commercial Information Addendum (page 3). When applicable, a Notice will be sent to the Subscriber for each increase and will be deemed to be duly given if delivered personally or sent by first class air mail post or sent by email or sent by fax.
6. TRADING CENTRAL shall have the right to add to, vary or reduce the contents of the Service or to replace, omit or otherwise vary any of the sources used in the making of the Service with reasonable written notice to Subscribers only when the content of the Service has been substantially altered making it essential to notify Subscribers. Edits considered minimal and part of normal course of business are not considered substantial enough warranting notice to Subscriber If Service is substantially altered, Subscriber maintains the right to terminate the contract or seek to renegotiate the price.
7. TRADING CENTRAL shall have the right to give written notice at any time and for any reason terminating any Agreement and/or terminate any TRADING CENTRAL Service forthwith If such termination does not result from a breach of an Agreement by the Subscriber, TRADING CENTRAL shall reimburse or arrange for the reimbursement of any part of the current subscription that relates to the period after termination. Other than in the instance where TRADING CENTRAL has breached its (‘contractual obligations according to this Agreement, Subscriber shall have the right to terminate if Service is materially altered rendering use of the Service impractical and useless.
8. Subscribers hereby agree to be bound by such amendments as TRADING CENTRAL may make to these standard terms and conditions from time to time. In such an event, TRADING CENTRAL shall communicate via e-mail to inform Subscribers of such amendments no less than 20 days from the time amendments will take effect Notice of these amendments made available by e-mail shall be deemed duly given upon the time e-mail notification is sent The Subscriber will be deemed to have accepted the terms if it does an act, reaffirming its subscription, or if no notice of objection is received within 20 days of when the e-mail notification was first sent.

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CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
9. The Service, including but not limited to text, figures, content, graphics, video, audio, photographs, images, illustrations, news articles, also known as ‘material”, is protected by copyright and/or other proprietary rights under French and other Laws, and is solely and exclusively owned and controlled by TRADING CENTRAL The Subscriber do and shall not acquire any rights of any kind nor licenses of any type in or to the Service and material contained in the Service by using or subscribing to the Service in accordance with these Subscriber Terms and Conditions, unless expressly set out in these Subscriber Terms and Conditions All present and future rights in copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, service marks, now-how and other proprietary rights of any type under the laws of any country shall at all times remain the sole and exclusive property of TRADING CENTRAL
10. Upon prior reasonable notification, each Subscriber will permit TRADING CENTRAL and its representatives to enter into business location during normal business hours to inspect the manner in which TRADING CENTRAL services are being accessed and/or received and to have access to and make copies of the books, records and computers used for purposes of this Agreement at such locations for the sale purpose of ensuring that the provisions of the Agreement are being complied with
11. Except in the event of TRADING CENTRAL’S gross negligence or willful misconduct, each Subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless TRADING CENTRAL, its officers, directors, shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents and representatives against all suits, claims demands, causes of action, losses, damages, costs, expenses, or liabilities of any nature (including attorney’s fees) incurred by TRADING CENTRAL as a result of breach of an Agreement by the Subscriber. TRADING CENTRAL agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Subscriber, its officers, directors, shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents and representative harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, loses and expenses (including, without limitation, all judgments, costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and amounts paid in settlement or compromise of any litigation) of any kind or nature (collectively, ‘losses”) to which Subscriber may become subject to
12. Without prejudice to any other relief or rights to which it is entitled, TRADING CENTRAL may claim from Subscribers all legal fees incurred to enforce any provisions of an Agreement. As such, Subscriber may seek from TRADING CENTRAL any legal fees incurred in enforcing or attempting to enforce any provision of this Agreement
13. TRADING CENTRAL shall not be liable for failure to perform or delay in performing any obligation if such failure or delay is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
14. No failure to exercise or delay in exercising any right by TRADING CENTRAL shall operate as a waiver of such right and no exercise of any right shall preclude a further exercise of such right.
15. TRADING CENTRAL shall be entitled to assign any Agreement to any associated company and in such event upon providing written notification to Subscriber and receiving written consent from Subscriber. Subscriber agrees to treat such Agreement with effect from the date of assignment as being entered into for all purposes between the Subscriber and such associated company.
16. Each Agreement constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between the parties relating to the TRADING CENTRAL Service(s) provided thereunder and supersedes all oral or written agreements, proposals (including any representations) and all other communication between them.
17. The address for delivery of notices on the Subscriber is as stated in the relevant Agreement The address for delivery of notices on TRADING CENTRAL SA is 11 bis rue Scribe, 75009 Paris, France.

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18. Notices will be deemed to be duly given if delivered personally or sent by first class air mail post or sent by electronic mail or sent by fax Notices will be deemed to have been given at the time of delivery in the case of notices delivered personally, within 5 days of posting in the cases of notices sent by first class air mail and the time of sending in the case of electronic mail and faxes Notices sent by electronic mail shall not deemed delivered unless the sender can demonstrate that the electronic mail has been delivered to the Subscriber.
19. The place where each Agreement is made and comes into effect is Paris All Agreements shall be governed by the laws of France and Subscribers agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the French Courts.
Agreed to by:
           
TRADING CENTRAL SA
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
By:  
/s/ Alain Pellier   By:   /s/ Christopher Calhoun
Name: Alain Pellier
  Name: Christopher W. Calhoun
Title: CEO
  Title: Chief Operating Officer
Date: 20 December 2006
  Date: 10/11/07

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CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
COMMERCIAL TERMS & SUBSCRIPTION FEES
OPTION 1: OUTSOURCED WHITE LABEL MARKET BRIEFS
    ***
DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
    ***
OPTION 2: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH ON FOREX.COM
REAL TIME TECHNICAL LEVELS
    ***
TECHNICAL PATTERN ALERTS
    ***
JAPANESE CANDLESTICK ALERTS
    ***
DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
    ***
SPECIAL INVESTMENT TERMS
OPTION 1 PRICING
    ***
OPTION 2 PRICING
    ***
Launch Date: 2-4 weeks after contract signature date

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CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
SUBSCRIBER DETAILS
COMPANY NAME: GAIN CAPITAL GROUP (FOREX.COM)
ADDRESS: 550 HILLS DRIVE, SUITE 210, BEDMINSTER, NJ 07921 USA
     
CONTACT NAME: KEN O’BRIEN
  TELEPHONE NUMBER: +1.908.212.3930
EMAIL: kobrien@gaincapital.com
  FACSIMILE: +1.908.731.0701
     
TRADING CENTRAL
   
YOUR SALES CONTACT
  SALES@TRADINGCENTRAL.COM
TELEPHONE (LONDON)
  +44 207 847 4042
TELEPHONE (PARIS):
  +331 55288040
FACSIMILE:
  +331 5528 8049

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ADDENDUM TO CONTRACT SIGNED 10 OCTOBER 2006
UPGRADED FOREX RESEARCH PACKAGE
     
From:
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP (FOREX.COM)
Address:
  550 HILLS DRIVE, SUITE 210, BEDMINSTER, NJ 07921 USA
Contact name:
  KEN O’BRIEN
Phone:
  +1.908.212.3930
E-Mail:
  kobrien@gaincapital.com
 
   
To:
  TRADING CENTRAL
Attn:
  JULIEN HEIDERSCHEID
Fax:
  1-646-349-2240
As per contract: OPTION 2 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH ON FOREX.COM should be:
OPTION 2 PRICING
- ***
- TOTAL UPGRADE INVESTMENT SHOULD BE = ***
As per our meeting on September 5th 2007 we now offer the following terms:
Services shall be broken down per “customer type” and will be activated one by one during the coming 3 months (from signature date below) at Gain Capital’s discretion given TRADING CENTRAL two week notice. Additional charges and/or savings will activate when services are actually launched to Gain Capital’s customers. Activation dates shall be announced by Gain Capital and agreed by both parties.
A - “DEMO” customers will have access to:
- ***
B - “BASIC” customers will have access to:
- ***
- Note: this is a new service - template will be similar to HTML template (colors, sponsored by)
C - “FX PLUS” customers will have access to:
- ***
- Note: this is part of Option 2 in the contract
D - “PREMIER” customers will have access to:
- ***
- Note: this is the full Option 2 in the contract
ADDENDUM TO CONTRACT SIGNED 10 OCTOBER 2006
UPGRADED PACKAGE INVESTMENT SCHEDULE (prices in USD per month)
         
A - “DEMO” Services
  = Savings   ***
Note: ***
       
 
       
B - “BASIC” Services
  = Additional charge   ***
Note: ***
       
 
       
C and D - “FX PLUS” and “PREMIER” Services
  = Additional charge   ***

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TOTAL UPGRADE INVESTMENT
  = Additional charge   ***
Additional Services included in the upgraded package FREE of charge:
    ***
Note: these services are free as long as they are delivered in combination with the above upgraded package. Full pricing would apply should they be purchased separately
  TOTAL FOREX RESEARCH INVESTMENT ***
once all the above services are launched
  Contract length: 2 Years
 
  Special offer valid until September 30 th 2007
         
    DATE / NAME / TITLE   SIGNATURE
 
  September 11 th 2007    
 
       
 
  Kenneth W. O’Brien    
 
       
 
  VP Strategic Alliances    

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Exhibit 10.46
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
FOREX INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, INC.
AND
TRADESTATION SECURITIES, INC.

 


 

FOREX
INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT
     This FOREX INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is made this 20th day of April, 2005 by and between GAIN Capital Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GAIN”), and TradeStation Securities, Inc., a Florida corporation (“Broker”).
RECITALS
A.   Broker wishes to introduce Broker’s customers (“Customers”) on a fully-disclosed basis to GAIN, including Customers that may be referred to Broker by GAIN (as described later in this Agreement), for the purpose of enabling the Customers to enter into principal foreign exchange (“forex”) transactions with GAIN.
 
B.   The respective roles of GAIN and Broker with respect to forex accounts of Customers, generally speaking, shall be as follows. Broker’s role is to acquire Customers, including Customers that may be referred to Broker by GAIN (as described later in this Agreement), for the forex services GAIN will provide, using whatever marketing, sales and account-opening methods, techniques, media and efforts that Broker, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems appropriate. Broker shall also provide customer and technical support services to the Customers, and otherwise own and maintain the customer relationship with Customers and all good will associated therewith (GAIN will, at no additional cost or expense to Broker, provide training and remote services directly to Broker to support these services as and when reasonably requested by Broker on a day to- day basis). GAIN will provide trade desk and technical support services to Broker’s trade desk and client services personnel when they call with issues relating to orders, deals and other issues that may be raised by Customers with Broker on a daily basis. GAIN shall not deal directly with Customers. GAIN’s role is to act as a principal/counterparty in forex deals with Customers and to provide all order placement, execution, clearing, settlement, processing, reporting and other deal services and functions relating to forex transactions of and with Customers. Broker is not the only introducing broker from whom GAIN or its affiliates may be introduced forex customers or business, and GAIN is not or will not necessarily be the sole forex principal or clearing firm to or with whom Broker or its affiliates may introduce or transact forex business (i.e., neither party is granting or agreeing to an “exclusive” arrangement); provided, however, other than pursuant to any agreements or arrangements Broker has in place on the date of this Agreement, Broker shall, as long as this Agreement is in effect, not use any forex principal other than GAIN during 2005.
 
C.   Forex orders will be made by Customers by seamlessly accessing GAIN’s electronic forex trading system via, as the complete front-end, Broker’s TradeStation trading platform. In order to accomplish this, each party, at its own expense, shall, in cooperation with the other party, develop and complete such application program interfaces and other technical compatibilities as required to be able to provide to

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    Customers, as promptly as possible, using a FIX server engine framework, the TradeStation trading platform for the design, back-testing, optimization, analysis,
 
    automation and placement of forex trading strategies, including manual and automated trade execution seamlessly through GAIN’s electronic forex trading system, together with real-time access to Customers’ positions and other trading and account information (collectively, the “Compatibility”).
 
    REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS AND UNDERTAKINGS
1.0 AGREEMENT
     Subject to the terms of this Agreement, GAIN shall deal as a principal/counterparty in forex transactions with Customers of Broker. Each party represents, warrants and covenants to the other that the Recitals above are true and accurate, and that the Recitals are hereby restated and incorporated by reference in this Section I as if fully herein set forth, and constitute a part of this Agreement.
2.0 REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
     2.1 Representations, Warranties and Covenants . Each party represents, warrants and covenants to the other as follows:
     2.1.1 Organization . It is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation. It is authorized to do business in each jurisdiction in which it is required to be authorized to conduct its business, except where the failure to qualify would not have a material adverse effect on Broker’s or GAIN’s business.
     2.1.2 Registration . It has obtained all registrations, licenses or memberships required by applicable governmental, quasi-governmental, agency or self-regulatory laws, rules, or regulations as necessary for it to enter into and carry out its obligations and activities under and contemplated by this. Agreement.
     2.1.3 Authority to Enter Agreement . It has all requisite power and authority, whether arising under applicable law or the applicable rules and regulations of any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or organization to which it is subject, to enter into this Agreement and to perform its obligations and contemplated activities in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligations, enforceable against it in accordance with the terms hereof.
     2.1.4. Material Compliance with Rules and Regulations . Such party and its affiliates and, to such party’s knowledge, each of their respective employees, are in material compliance with, and during the term of this Agreement shall remain in material compliance with, the registration, qualification, customer protection, and all other rules and regulations of every governmental, quasi-governmental, agency and self-regulatory authority to which it or any of its employees is subject (all of the laws, rules and regulations referred to in Sections 2.1.2, 2.1.3 and

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this 2.1.4, as well as all other laws, rules or regulations applicable to either party’s business or the transactions or activities contemplated by this Agreement, are collectively referred to as “Rules”); provided, however, such party shall not be in breach of this representation and warranty if it or its affiliate (as applicable) remedies any material violation that occurs within a reasonable time following notice or discovery thereof.
     2.1.5 No Pending Action, Suit. Investigation, or Inquiry . Every material action, suit, investigation, inquiry, or proceeding (formal or informal) pending or threatened against or affecting it, any of its affiliates, or any officer, director, or principal of it, or their respective property or assets, by or before any court or other tribunal, any arbitrator, any governmental authority, or any agency or self-regulatory organization of which any of them is a member, is disclosed in its publicly available filings, and it shall amend or supplement such filings as required by applicable law in the event a material disclosable event occurs. If it is not obligated by law to publicly disclose all material litigation or claims against it, it shall promptly notify the other party of any such material action, suit, investigation, inquiry or proceeding that arises.
     2.1.6 Independent Contractor . Each party is an independent contractor and not an agent or employee of the other. Neither will hold itself out as an agent of the other in any capacity. Each party acknowledges that the other does not control the business or operations of such party. Neither party will use the name of the oilier in answering its telephone or in any other way hold itself out to be associated with the oilier, other than the relationship of introducing broker to principal. Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement, neither shall have any responsibility whatsoever for the expenses incurred by the other in connection with the operation of the other’s business.
     2.1.7 Forex Data Services . GAIN shall provide to Broker, and hereby grants to Broker, a royalty-free (subject only to the provisions of Section 14.1, if those provisions become applicable) license to use and provide to Customers and other end users forex market data (which shall be provided by GAIN as part of the Compatibility) on a streaming real-time, delayed, daily and historical basis. This forex market data shall be the same data GAIN currently uses for its proprietary and highest-end forex trading operations, as same may be enhanced or improved from time to time, and shall be of the type and quality used by active or institutional forex traders to chart and analyze the forex markets in real-time and to spot trade. Broker’s license to use and provide the forex data includes the right to use such data internally for any purpose related to Broker’s or its affiliates’ businesses, and to redistribute such data to Customers and other end users of Broker and its affiliates for their personal use and/or to assist them in their forex trading. Historical data acquired during the term of this Agreement may continue to be used and provided royalty-free perpetually following any expiration or termination of this Agreement, but real-time, delayed and daily market data services shall not be received by Broker following the effective date: of termination of this Agreement except pursuant to Section 14.1, if applicable, or unless Broker and GAIN enter into an independent redistribution agreement at that time. In no event Shall Customers or other end users be given the right to redistribute or re-vend the data service to others. GAIN represents, warrants and covenants to Broker that it has the full power, right and authority to grant to Broker the license to use the forex data as described above. At no cost or expense to Broker, and as part of the Compatibility, GAIN shall provide such application programming interfaces and other technical information and assistance as Broker reasonably

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requires or requests to assist Broker in integrating the forex data with the TradeStation platform and to enable Broker to redistribute the data to Customers and other end users as part of; or in conjunction with, Broker’s or its affiliates’ technology or other services. GAIN’s obligation to provide ongoing assistance shall terminate March 31, 2008, even though Broker’s right to use and redistribute historical data continues perpetually.
3.0 CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS
     3.1 Acceptance of New Accounts . Broker shall be responsible for opening and approving new accounts for forex trading with or through GAIN, subject to GAIN’s rejection rights described below.
     3.1.1 Rejection of Accounts . GAIN reserves the right to reject any account which Broker may forward to GAIN as a potential new account provided there is a reasonable basis for such rejection. GAIN also reserves the right to terminate any account previously accepted by it as a new account provided there is a reasonable basis for such termination. GAIN must notify Broker directly of such decision so that Broker may inform the Customer or Customer prospect of the decision.
     3.1.2 Customer Information . At the time of the opening of any new account, Broker shall obtain information from the Customer sufficient to satisfy itself as to the identity of the Customer and the source of the Customer’s funds for the purpose of complying with the applicable requirements of any laws regarding anti-money laundering.
     3.2 Maintenance of Account Information . Broker shall ascertain the essential facts relative to any Customer account, including the genuineness of all documents and signatures provided by Customers for each account. Broker shall also have the responsibility, to the extent required by Rules, to make full, fair and complete disclosure of the risks, terms and conditions of forex trading to the Customers. GAIN may rely without inquiry on the validity of all Customer information furnished to it by Broker.
4.0 SUPERVISION OF ORDERS AND ACCOUNTS
     4.1 Soliciting and Accepting Orders . Broker shall make any disclosures to, and obtain any agreements from, Customers required by applicable Rules, including, without limitation, any disclosures or agreements reasonably required by GAIN to be given to, or obtained from, Customers (provided that GAIN timely provides the form and content of such required agreements or disclosures to Broker). Broker may accept orders for forex transactions (via its trade desk or via the TradeStation platform) and will transmit such orders to GAIN orally or via the Compatibility. Broker shall obtain all essential facts relating to each Customer, each account, each order that is orally transmitted by a Customer to Broker’s trade desk, and each person holding a power of attorney over any account, in order to assess authenticity. Broker will not open or maintain accounts for persons who it knows to be minors or otherwise legally incompetent.
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solely at its own risk and expense, refuse to accept and deal with any order, discontinue accepting orders from any Customer, and impose limits on the size of any Customer account and the positions carried therein.
     4.3 Preparation and Transmission of Confirmations and Statements . GAIN, at its expense, shall prepare and deliver, in accordance with forex industry standards, confirmations and periodic summary statements on an electronic basis to Customers (and/or on a hard ·-copy mailed basis if GAIN lacks the right or authority to give solely electronic statements) and Broker. All confirmations and statements shall identify GAIN as dealer and Broker as referring agent but otherwise shall, in look and feel and branding, resemble Broker’s statements to its account holders.
     4.4 Examination and Notification of Errors . Subsequent to the close of trading on each trading day, GAIN will make available to Broker on an electronic basis a daily preliminary repollt recapping the day’s trades made with Customers. In addition, GAIN shall make available on an electronic basis daily equity and margin runs to Broker reporting all Customers’ trades for the previous trading day as well as all open or rollover positions for Customers. Broker has the obligation to examine each of the aforementioned reports and thereby check trades Broker has executed for its Customers’ accounts via Broker’s trade desk by orally transmitting order information to GAIN (“Orally-transmitted Trades”). Broker will use reasonable efforts to notify GAIN of any patent error regarding Orally-transmitted Trades claimed by Broker in any account prior to 9:00 AM (eastern time) on the trading day subsequent to the execution of the transaction in dispute, provided that Broker is given sufficient and timely information to identify the error. Solely GAIN, and not Broker, is responsible for any and all trading or reporting errors for trades executed by GAIN or Customer.
     4.5 Responsibility for Errors in Execution . As between Broker and GAIN, GAIN shall be responsible for all Customer orders and deals and for any errors in the recording, transmission, processing, execution, clearing, settlement or reporting of such orders or deals. Broker shall be responsible to transmit to GAIN Orally-transmitted Trade orders it receives from Customers.
5.0 MARGIN AND DEFICITS
     5.1 Margin Requirements . ***. Without limitation of the foregoing, in the event of a margin call that is not met, either Broker or GAIN, in its sole discretion, may liquidate any account in whole or in part. In addition, each of Broker and GAIN is authorized to take whatever action it reasonably deems necessary to protect itself from risk. Either Broker or GAIN may, whenever in its sole and absolute discretion considers it necessary, liquidate the positions in any Customer’s account. Either’s compliance with a request by the other to withhold action shall not be deemed a waiver by either of any of its rights under this Agreement. GAIN agrees to be responsible for, and to hold Broker harmless from any loss or expense incurred by Broker as a result of, a margin call or an automatic freezing or liquidation of a Customer account by GAIN, or an attempted or failed freezing, liquidation or collection by GAIN, or other actions taken by GAIN based upon its risk management decisions for margin account activity.

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     5.2 Deficits . GAIN assumes full risk for all obligations of the Customers, including in the event any Customer’s account is in a deficit status, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. GAIN may not withhold compensation or other amounts payable to Broker as a result of Customer account deficits or a Customer’s refusal, failure or inability to pay or meet any obligation.
5.3 Charging of Interest. Interest with respect to deficit balances in Customers’ accounts shall be charged at ***.
6.0 AUDIO TAPING OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS
     Each party understands that for quality control; dispute resolution or other business purposes, the other party may record some or all telephone conversations between them. Each party hereby consents to such recording and will inform Customers, employees, representatives and agents of this practice.
7.0 COMPENSATION AND CHARGES
     During the term of this Agreement, GAIN shall compensate Broker as set forth in Exhibit A hereto and as may from time to time be mutually agreed upon in writing. Broker may, in its sole discretion, at any time and from time to time, require Customers to be charged and to pay commissions and other fees and expenses, including, but not limited to, administrative and inactive account fees and charges.
8.0 FUNDS AND SECURITIES
GAIN is not responsible for any funds or securities delivered by a Customer to Broker until those funds have been delivered to GAIN or GAIN’s bank or other custodial agent ill clear funds. Any funds or securities of a Customer received by GAIN shall not be required to be segregated by GAIN from the assets of other Customers or GAIN’s assets and revenues as a forex principal/counterparty, except as otherwise required by applicable Rules or best practices in the industry, and provided that GAIN remains a single-purpose entity that engages solely in the business of acting as a principal/counterparty for forex trading (and related and incidental activities and services) and that, in all events, Customer funds shall not at any time be commingled with funds of any GAIN affiliates or other persons or entities. GAIN fully assumes all risks and liabilities related to decisions it makes relating to the handling and segregation of Customer assets, and those decisions shall never violate, or cause violation of, any Rules.
9.0 FURTHER OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARTIES
9.1 Disciplinary Action,’ Suspension, or Restriction . If either party or any of such party’s affiliates, or any officer, director or principal of such party or its affiliates, becomes subject to investigation, disciplinary action, suspension, or restriction by a governmental agency,

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exchange, or regulatory or self-regulatory organization having jurisdiction over such person or entity or its business, that could reasonably be expected to affect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, such party shall notify the other promptly, orally and in writing, and provide the other with a copy of any document requests, subpoenas and decisions relating to such action, suspension or restriction. The other party may take any action it reasonably deems to be necessary: (i) to assure that such party will continue to comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and self-regulatory requirements, notwithstanding such action, suspension, or restriction; and (ii) to comply with any requests, directives, or demands made upon the other party by any such governmental agency, exchange, or regulatory or self-regulatory organization. 9.2 Privacy of Customer Financial Information. GAIN agrees that it shall not take any action inconsistent with Broker’s published policies relating to the privacy of Customer identity, contact and financial information. In no event, except as specifically required by Rules, shall GAIN disclose to anyone any facts, metrics or statistics relating to Customers’ trading activity or accounts, whether individually or as a group.
10.0 ACCESS TO INFORMATION; FINANCIAL REPORTS.
     10.1 Inspection . Each party shall make its books and records relating to forex trading by Customers available for reasonable inspection at all times by duly authorized representatives of the other party.
     10.2 Customer Information . Each party shall, upon request, provide the other with any information in its possession with respect to any Customer relating to forex trading.
11.0 DAMAGES; INDEMNIFICATION
     11.1 Limitations on Damages . Neither party shall be liable for special, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, whether such damages arc incurred or experienced as a result of entering into or relying on this Agreement or otherwise, even if each party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Broker and GAIN each agree not to make any claim for punitive damages against the other. Each party acknowledges and agrees that the parties’ respective economic positions under this Agreement reflect and take into account an allocation of risks including, but not limited to, the foregoing limitation of liability and the indemnity obligations set forth below. A modification of the allocation of risks set forth in this Agreement would affect each party’s bargain and, in consideration thereof, each party agrees to such allocation of risks, including the indemnification obligations set forth below.
     11.2 GAIN Indemnification . In addition to any other obligations it may possess under other provisions of this Agreement, GAIN shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Broker, and its affiliates and officers and directors, from and against all claims, demands, proceedings, suits, actions, liabilities, expenses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees (including fees and costs incurred in enforcing Broker’s right to indemnification), and costs in connection therewith, arising out of any negligent, dishonest, fraudulent or criminal act, error or omission on the part of GAIN or any of its officers, agents or employees with respect to the services provided by GAIN, or the transactions contemplated to be performed by GAIN, under this Agreement, or GAIN’s business, or which arise out of any event or occurrence for which GAIN has agreed to

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assume responsibility, or which arise out of or relate to forex orders and deals, and/or the execution, clearing, settlement or reporting thereof. This paragraph shall be read together with Section 11.3 below, so that each party’s indemnification obligations are proportionate to its fault.
     11.3 Broker Indemnification . In addition to any other obligation it may possess under other provisions of the Agreement, Broker shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless GAIN, and its affiliates any officers and directors, from and against all claims, demands, proceedings, suits” actions, liabilities, expenses, and reasonable attorneys’ fees (including fees and costs incurred in enforcing GAIN’s right to indemnification), and costs in connection therewith, arising out of any negligent, dishonest, fraudulent, or criminal act, error or omission on the part of Broker or any of its officers, agents or employees with respect to Broker’s business, Broker’s dealings with Customers, or with respect to the transactions contemplated to be performed by Broker under this Agreement, or which arise out of any event or occurrence for which Broker has agreed to assume responsibility. This paragraph shall be read together with Section 11.2 above, so that each party’s indemnification obligations are proportionate to its fault.
     11.4 Indemnified Third-party’ Claims . Each party agrees to give the other prompt written notice of any claim that might give rise to the other party’s indemnification obligations under this Agreement, stating the nature and basis of the claim, and the actual or estimated amount thereof (if it can reasonably be estimated), but the failure to give such notice shall not affect the rights of the indemnified party except to the extent the indemnified party suffers actual damage or harm as a result of the failure to give notice or the timing thereof. The indemnifying party shall have the right, at its sole cost and expense, to defend such claim in its name and the name of the indemnified party by counsel of the indemnifying party’s choosing that is reasonably acceptable to the indemnified party. If there is a conflict that arises from the claim (other than a dispute relating to the right to indemnification or proportionate fault, which each party may pursue and defend through counsel of its own choosing and at its own expense) that reasonably requires GAIN and Broker to be represented by separate counsel, then the indemnifying party shall also be required to pay the reasonable fees and expenses of the indemnified party’s counsel, subject to its right to approve such counsel (which shall not be unreasonably withheld). Each party agrees to render to the other such assistance as may be reasonably required to best ensure the proper and adequate defense of the indemnified claim. The indemnified party may not settle any claim without the consent of the indemnifying party; however, the indemnifying party may settle any claim, if, as and when it so decides, following notice to the indemnified party describing the settlement, provided that it reasonably demonstrates to the indemnified party, if requested, that it has the financial resources to pay the settlement in accordance with its terms.
12.0 THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS
     This Agreement is not intended to grant any third party any rights, whether as a third party beneficiary or otherwise, including, but not limited to, any Customers.
13.0 COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC
     13.1 Advertising . Neither GAIN nor Broker shall utilize the name of the other in any

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Way without the other’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, except to disclose the relationship between the parties. Neither party shall employ the other’s name in such a manner as to create the impression that the relationship between them is anything other than that of introducing broker and principal. Solely Broker is authorized to market and advertise the forex services contemplated by this Agreement, which shall be in the name and under the brands of solely Broker, and Broker may market and offer the forex services contemplated by this Agreement together with its equities, futures, options and other brokerage and related services; provided, however, that, solely for the purpose of soliciting and referring to Broker forex or futures accounts for existing GAIN customers or prospects, GAIN may, with Broker’s prior written approval of the copy, method and distribution, market by direct mail or similar direct means the forex brokerage and deal services contemplated by this Agreement (“Referred Forex Customers”) and Broker’s futures brokerage services (“Referred Futures Customers”). The parties acknowledge that a principal part of any marketing approach may be the value of the TradeStation platform for the design, testing, optimization, automation and analysis of forex trading ideas and strategies. The forex services under this Agreement shall be solely under the TradeStation brand, and shall have a TradeStation brand look and feel, and the only references to GAIN in the forex service offering shall be to fully disclose the relationship between Broker and GAIN, and the role and services GAIN will perform, in the account opening documentation, the contract between the Customer and GAIN therein, and in legal sections of marketing materials.
     13.2 Linking Between Sites . Without express written authorization, and except as specifically described in this Agreement, neither party may provide or allow an electronic hyperlink directly from its service or site on the Internet to the other’s.
     13.3 Referred Futures Customers. A “Referred Futures Customer” is any customer who opens a futures brokerage account with Broker during the term of this Agreement (a) directly as a result of the solicitation, procurement and referral of that customer by GAIN to Broker, and (b) at the time of the referral, holds no other account with Broker or Broker’s affiliates (as a securities, futures or forex brokerage customer or as a subscriber or software licensee). Broker shall pay GAIN a referral fee, on a monthly basis, for each Referred Futures Customer, equal to 3% of each base round-turn commission (GAIN acknowledges that nearly all of Broker’s futures trades are electronic contracts for which $5.00 is the advertised base round-turn commission charged) paid by such Referred Futures Customer with respect to each round-turn traded by such Referred Futures Customers prior to the first anniversary of the date such Referred Futures Customer’s account is funded. Broker has no obligation to approve or open, or refrain from closing or otherwise dealing with, any futures account referred by GAIN.
14.0 TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT
     This Agreement shall continue until March 31, 2008 unless earlier terminated as hereinafter provided:
     14.1 Termination Upon 30-Day Notice . This Agreement may be terminated by Broker without cause upon at least ***. If Broker terminates this Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1, GAIN shall have the right to limit the number of new accounts it

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accepts from Broker during the period between the giving of notice and the transfer of Broker’s accounts. In the event that Broker terminates this Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1: (a) if the ,effective date of termination is on or before ***, Broker shall pay to GAIN a fee of ***; (b) if the effective date of termination is on or before ***, Broker shall pay to GAIN a fee of ***; (c) if the effective date of termination is on or before ***, Broker shall pay to GAIN a fee of ***; and, (d) if the effective date of termination is on or after ***, but prior to ***, Broker shall pay to GAIN a fee of ***; provided, however, in no event shall any fee be payable if Broker’s notice to terminate is given prior to Compatibility being attained to Broker’s satisfaction or if Broker’s notice of termination is given prior to the sixtieth day following the date Customers first begin executing forex deals with GAIN via the Compatibility as contemplated by this Agreement. If any fee described in this Section 14.1 is payable by Broker, it shall be paid on or before the effective date of termination and, when paid, shall constitute a lump-sum royalty payment for a continuation of the license from GAIN to Broker of the forex market data pursuant to Section 2.1.7 (and, upon such payment being made, such license shall automatically be so extended) from the effective date of termination through ***.
     14.2 No Termination by GAIN Without Cause . This Agreement may be terminated by GAIN only pursuant to Section 14.3 or 14.4 below.
     14.3 Default . If either party defaults in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, or otherwise violates the provisions of this Agreement, the non-defaulting party may terminate this Agreement by delivering notice to the defaulting party: (i) specifying the nature of the default; and (ii) notifying the defaulting party that unless the default, if curable, is cured within a period of 30 days from the date of the notice, this Agreement will be terminated without further proceedings by the non-defaulting party; provided, however, if the party in default or violation commences its cure activities or actions within said 30-day period and diligently pursues to cure until the cure is effected, the 30-day grace period shall be extended by the additional time it takes to complete the cure.
     14.4 Inability to Perform . This Agreement may be terminated by GAIN or Broker immediately in the event that the other party is enjoined, suspend cd, prohibited, or otherwise becomes unable to engage in the forex business or any part of it by operation of law or as a result of any administrative or judicial order by any governmental, regulatory, or self-regulatory. organization having jurisdiction over such party.
     14.5 Omnibus Account . The parties acknowledge and agree that it is anticipated that Broker may, sometime in the future during the term of this Agreement, request to convert the services described in this Agreement to undisclosed omnibus account services. GAIN agrees that if and when that time comes (i) GAIN will, if reasonably requested by Broker, execute and deliver a replacement or modified agreement materially consistent with the t=s of this Agreement (with all business terms and risks at least as favorable to Broker as the ones set forth in this Agreement and no less favorable than the terms of any omnibus account GAIN is then clearing) and (ii) GAIN shall at no additional cost to Broker promptly implement all internal operational changes necessary to facilitate Broker’s conversion from an introducing broker arrangement to an omnibus account.
     14.6 Conversion of Accounts . In the event that this Agreement is terminated for any reason other than by a valid termination by GAIN pursuant to Section 14.4, Broker shall arrange

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for the conversion of Broker’s and its Customers’ accounts to another company that will act as principal counterparty or otherwise provide forex trading services for Broker’s introduced customers, or to Broker if it plans to directly engage in such activities. Both parties shall use all reasonable efforts to help ensure that the transition is’ as seamless and uninterruptive to Customers as possible. Broker shall give GAIN notice (the “Conversion Notice”) of: (i) the name of the company that will assume responsibility for forex services for Customers and Broker; (ii) the expected date on which such company will commence providing such services (which is subject to reasonable changes as the conversion is implemented); (iii) whether SI bulk transfer is being requested (which, if it is, shall be honored by GAIN within a reasonable time period and include a blanket assignment of GAIN’s agreements and other rights with or relating to Customers in form and content reasonably acceptable to Broker); and (iv) the name of an individual or individuals within the new company whom GAIN may contact to coordinate the conversion. With respect to any such conversion, each party shall comply with all applicable Rules, and bear its own cost and expenses relating to the conversion.
     14.7 Survival . Termination of this Agreement in any manner shall not release Broker or GAIN from any liability or responsibility with respect to any representation or warranty or covenant, or any indemnification obligation, or from any obligation or liability under this Agreement accruing prior to termination of this Agreement, or affect any Customer forex transaction on the books of GAIN.
15.0 CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF DOCUMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION
     15.1 Confidentiality . Neither GAIN nor Broker shall disclose the terms of this Agreement or information obtained as a result hereof, except to governmental, regulatory or self · regulatory organizations, pursuant to judicial process or as otherwise required by law, or to authorized employees. Any other publication or disclosure of the terms of this Agreement may be made only with the prior written consent of the other party. Broker and GAIN shall each maintain the confidentiality of documents and information received from the other party pursuant to this Agreement. Each party acknowledges that the transactions and activities contemplated hereunder may involve access to each other’s proprietary technology, trading and other systems, and that techniques, algorithms and processes contained in such systems constitute trade secrets, and each party shall exercise reasonable care to protect the other’s interest in such trade secrets. Each party agrees to make the proprietary nature of such systems known to those of its consultants, staff, agents or clients who may reasonably be expected to come into contact with such systems. Each party agrees that any breach of this confidentiality provision may result in its being liable for damages as provided by law.
     15.2 Injunctive Relief . In the event of a breach or threatened breach of any of the provisions of this Agreement by either party or any employee or representative of either party, for which payment of damages would not be an adequate remedy (in whole or in part), the other party shall be entitled to seek preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to enforce the provisions hereof. In addition, each party acknowledges that a breach of the tennis regarding confidentiality of information would cause irreparable and incalculable damage to the party that owns such confidential information. Nothing herein shall preclude the parties from pursuing any action or other remedy for any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, all of which shall be cumulative.

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16.0 ACTION AGAINST CUSTOMERS BY GAIN
     GAIN may, in its sole discretion, upon notice to Broker, institute and prosecute in its name any action or proceeding against any Customer in relation to any controversy or claim arising out of GAIN’s agreements and transactions with such Customer provided that GAIN has a good faith claim that has been rejected by the Customer, and Broker, after receiving reasonably detailed notice from GAIN, has unreasonably refused to pursue the claim against such Customer. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed either (a) to require GAIN to institute or prosecute such an action or proceeding, or (b) to impair or prejudice its right to do so, should it so eject, nor shall the institution or prosecution of any such action or proceeding relieve Broker of any liability or responsibility which Broker would otherwise have had under this Agreement. Broker assigns to GAIN its rights against its Customer as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this paragraph.
17.0 NOTICES
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all notices required to be given under this .Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be effective upon receipt as provided herein. Any such written notice shall be deemed received upon the earlier of: (a) actual receipt by the other party; or (b) the close of business on: (i) the date of transmission if sent by facsimile or same day courier, (ii) on the business day after the date sent, if sent by overnight courier, or (iii) the fifth business day after post-marked, if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid. For the purposes of delivery of any notice hereunder, the address and facsimile number of GAIN and Broker, respectively, shall be as set forth below. Either party may change its address or facsimile number for notices by giving written notice of the new address or number to the other party.
     
Broker:
  TradeStation Securities, Inc.
 
  8050 SW 10th St., Suite 2000
 
  Plantation, FL 33324
 
  Fax No.: (954) 652-7019 and (954) 652-5701 and (954) 652-5021
 
   
 
  Attn: Joseph Nikolson and Marc J. Stone
 
   
GAIN:
  GAIN Capital Group, Inc.
 
  35 Technology Drive
 
  Warren, NJ 07059
 
  Fax No.: (908) 731-0701
 
  Attn: Glenn Stevens and Mark Galant
18.0 GENERAL PROVISIONS
     18.1 Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns. No assignment of this Agreement or any rights hereunder by Broker or GAIN shall be effective unless the other’s

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written consent shall be first obtained, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and except as required by applicable Rules, no consent shall be required for any assignment in connection with a direct or indirect sale or transfer of the equity interests in, or assets of, a party. Each party may assign this Agreement to any of its affiliates without consent being required.
     18.2 Severability . If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions and conditions shall not be affected thereby.
     18.3 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed and delivered via facsimile and in our or more counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute a single agreement, and shall be as legally binding as ink signatures delivered in person.
     18.4 Entire Agreement Amendments and Duties Not Specifically Enumerated Herein. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter herein contained and all prior discussions, agreements and promises, written or oral, are herein merged. This Agreement may not be changed orally, but only by an agreement in writing signed by the parties.
     18.5 Captions . Captions herein are for convenience only and are not of substantive Effect.
     18.6 Applicable Law . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to its principles of conflicts of laws. The parties agree to submit any dispute arising out of this Agreement to the jurisdiction of, and hereby consent to jurisdiction and venue in, any state or federal court in Broward County, Florida. Each party waives any objection to venue or jurisdiction that it may have pursuant to the doctrine of forum non conveniens.
     18.7 Construction of Agreement . Neither this Agreement nor the performance of the services hereunder shall be considered to create a joint venture or partnership between GAIN and Broker or between Broker and other brokers for whom GAIN may perform the same or similar services.
     18.8 Non-Exclusivity of Remedies . The enumeration herein of specific remedies shall not be exclusive of any other remedies. Any delay or failure by a party to this Agreement to exercise any right, power, remedy, or privilege herein contained, or now or hereafter existing under any applicable Rules, shall not be construed to be a waiver of such light, power, remedy, or privilege. No single, partial, or other exercise of any such light, power, remedy, or privilege shall preclude the further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power, remedy, or privilege.
     18.9 Broker’s Customers . Each brokerage client account introduced or transferred or cleared by Broker to or through GAIN or for which Broker provides commodities, futures, options, forex or securities brokerage services of any kind (as the case may be, a “Broker

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Customer”), shall be treated by GAIN as confidential and proprietary information of Broker, and GAIN shall not disclose or use any such information, including names or contact information of any Broker Customers, except as required by Rules (GAIN hereby specifically acknowledging that all of such information constitutes trade secrets of Broker). In addition, GAIN covenants to Broker that GAIN shall not, and shall not permit any of its affiliates (GAIN and its affiliates are collectively referred to as “GAIN Group”), under any circumstances, to solicit or accept commodities, futures, options, forex or securities brokerage business of any kind from any Broker Customers for a period commencing the date of the Agreement and ending two years following termination of the Agreement (regardless of the reason for termination). In no event, however, shall any member of GAIN Group ever, at any time during or after the Agreement, directly or actively solicit the business of any Broker Customer.
     18.10 Relationship Manager . GAIN shall provide to Broker, at no additional fee, cost or expense, priority service, support, assistance and treatment in all material respects to help ensure that the business relationship between GAIN and Broker (as same may evolve to omnibus clearing status as contemplated by this Agreement), and to help ensure that the brokerage and clearing operations that this Agreement seeks to produce, are as high-quality and efficient as reasonably possible.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement by their respectively duly authorized officers on the date first above written.
         
  GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens  
  Glenn Stevens, Managing Director   
       
 
  TRADESTATION SECURITIES, INC.    
 
  By:   /s/ Marc Stone  
  Marc J. Stone, Vice President   
       

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Exhibit A to Forex Introducing Broker Agreement between GAIN Capital Group, Inc.
(“GAIN”) and TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation”)
1. ***
2. ***
3. ***
4***
5. ***
         
  Agreed to and Accepted:


GAIN CAPITAL GROUP, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Glenn Stevens  
  Glenn Stevens, Managing Director   
       
 
  TRADESTATION SECURITIES, INC.    
  By:   /s/ Marc Stone  
  Marc J. Stone, Vice President   
       

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Exhibit A-1
Currency Pairs and Crosses
***

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Exhibit 10.47
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Addendum to INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT
Between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
Dated April 20, 2005
This Addendum to the Introducing Broker Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into this 1 st day of October 2007 and made effective as of the 27th day of June 2007 (the “Effective Date”), by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC, a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (“GAIN”) and TradeStation Securities, Inc., a company incorporated in the State of Florida (“TradeStation”).
     WHEREAS, GAIN and TradeStation are parties to an Introducing Broker Agreement dated as of April 20, 2005 (the “Agreement”);
     WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement;
     WHEREAS, pursuant to and as contemplated by the Agreement, (and described therein as the “Compatibility”), TradeStation and GAIN are now prepared to offer Customers, who have been introduced or are going to be introduced to GAIN by TradeStation, a forex trading platform that enables seamless order execution of forex deals with GAIN from the TradeStation Order Bar, Market Depth Window or Matrix or through the use of certain macros or automation functions offered by the TradeStation Platform (the “Integrated Offering”);
     WHEREAS, the parties hereby agree Customers who trade *** will become part of the ***; and
     WHEREAS, as part of ***, GAIN has agreed to make available to Customers the ***.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and in reliance on the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties agree the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
1.   The parties represent and warrant to one another that the statements are true, accurate and complete in all material respects, and now constitute part of the Agreement.
 
2.   GAIN represents and warrants it is making available the Inside Spreads for the Integrated Offering, and TradeStation confirms that it has agreed it will receive no share in the Inside Spreads as a fee for introducing Customers to GAIN.
 
3.   The parties confirm and ratify Tradestation’s fee of $17.00 per 100,000 deal lot per the Agreement (as previously amended) for the Traditional Retail Offering. The parties further confirm and agree that Customers trading ***.
 
4.   Notwithstanding anything in the Agreement to the contrary, GAIN shall, as between GAIN and TradeStation, have no indemnity obligation or other liability to TradeStation under Section 11 of the Agreement to the extent any liability to Customers is deemed to have arisen and occurred due to design errors or bugs in the TradeStation trading platform application relating to the placement of forex deal orders from the TradeStation Order Bar, Market Depth Window or Matrix, or design errors or bugs in certain TradeStation macros or automation features.

 


 

    The foregoing sentence amends or modifies the provisions of Section 4 and Section 5 of the Agreement only to the extent regarding the subject matter the sentence addresses herein. Those provisions of Section 4 and 5 relating to subject matter(s) not addressed in this amendment shall remain unaffected and of full force and effect.
5.   The expiration of the term of the Agreement shall now be December 31, 2009. Should TradeStation elect termination pursuant to Section 14.1 after August 31, 2007 and before December 1, 2009, TradeStation agrees to a termination fee in the amount of ***.
 
6.   Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement has not been modified and is of full force and effect. Capitalized tenns used herein, which are not herein defined, shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Addendum by their duly authorized representatives on the date first written above.
                     
TradeStation Securities, Inc.       GAIN Capital Group, LLC    
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Marc Stone       By:   /s/ Christopher Calhoun     
 
 
 
         
 
   
Print Name: Marc J. Stone       Print Name: Christopher W. Calhoun    
Title: VP & General Counsel       Title: COO    
Date: 3/12/08       Date: 3/3/08    

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Exhibit 10.48
Confidential Treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. The copy filed herewith omits the information subject to the confidentiality request. Omissions are designated as “***”. A complete version of this exhibit has been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Second Addendum to INTRODUCING BROKER AGREEMENT
Between GAIN Capital Group, LLC and TradeStation Securities, Inc.
Dated April 20, 2005
     This Second Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into and effective as of the 1st day of April 2009, by and between GAIN Capital Group, LLC, a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (“GAIN”) and TradeStation Securities, Inc., a company incorporated in the State of Florida (“TradeStation”).
     WHEREAS, GAIN and TradeStation are parties to an Introducing Broker Agreement dated as of April 20, 2005, as amended by Addendum to Introducing Broker Agreement dated October 1, 2007 (the “Agreement”);
     WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend some of the financial terms of the Agreement.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and in reliance on the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties agree the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
1. The parties represent and warrant to one another that the statements above are true, accurate and complete in all material respects, and constitute part of the Agreement.
2. ***; provided that (a) if, in any month, the total lots average at least ***, the amount payable for all deals for that month in excess of the ***, and (b) if, in any month, the total lots average ***. These amounts shall be paid by GAIN to TradeStation monthly, no later than the 15 th day of the month following the month to which the payment relates. The average daily dollar amount shall be multiplied by the number of trading days in the month, and then divided by ***, and that number shall then be multiplied by the forgoing applicable *** to calculate the monthly payment. No wire transfer fees will be charged by GAIN.
3. The expiration of the term of the Agreement shall now be December 31, 2010. ***.
4. Should TradeStation decide to reorganize its forex business by transferring it to an affiliate, TradeStation shall provide GAIN with reasonable prior written notice thereof, and GAIN agrees that the Agreement shall automatically be between GAIN and such TradeStation affiliate and the parties shall execute and deliver appropriate documents to reflect such change.
5. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Agreement has not been modified and is of full force and effect. Capitalized terms used herein, which are not herein defined, shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.

 


 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Second Addendum by their duly authorized representatives on the date first written above.
         
TradeStation Securities, Inc.    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Marc Stone    
 
 
 
   
 
  Marc J. Stone, Vice President    
 
       
GAIN Capital Group, LLC    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Glenn Stevens    
 
 
 
Glenn Stevens, CEO
   

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