UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
In re:
PG&E CORPORATION,
- and -
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
Debtors.
□ Affects PG&E Corporation
□ Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company
☑ Affects both Debtors
* All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case, No. 19-30088 (DM).
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Bankruptcy Case
No. 19-30088 (DM)
Chapter 11
(Lead Case)
(Jointly Administered)
DEBTORS’ AND SHAREHOLDER
PROPONENTS’ JOINT CHAPTER 11 PLAN OF REORGANIZATION DATED JUNE 19, 2020
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I.
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DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATION AND CONSENTS
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1
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ARTICLE II.
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ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS, PRIORITY TAX CLAIMS AND OTHER UNCLASSIFIED CLAIMS
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37
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2.1
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Administrative Expense Claims
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37
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2.2
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Professional Fee Claims
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37
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2.3
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DIP Facility Claims
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38
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2.4
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Priority Tax Claims
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38
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ARTICLE III.
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CLASSIFICATION OF CLAIMS AND INTERESTS
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3.1
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Classification in General
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3.2
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Summary of Classification
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3.3
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Separate Classification of Other Secured Claims
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40
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3.4
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Nonconsensual Confirmation
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40
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3.5
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Debtors’ Rights in Respect of Unimpaired Claims
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41
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ARTICLE IV.
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TREATMENT OF CLAIMS AND INTERESTS
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4.1
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Class 1A – HoldCo Other Secured Claims
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4.2
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Class 2A – HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claims
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4.3
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Class 3A: HoldCo Funded Debt Claims
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42
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4.4
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Class 4A: HoldCo General Unsecured Claims
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42
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4.5
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Class 5A-I – HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims
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4.6
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Class 5A-II – HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims
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4.7
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Class 5A-III – HoldCo Fire Victim Claims
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4.8
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Class 5A-IV – HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims
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4.9
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Class 6A – HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claims
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44
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4.10
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Class 7A – HoldCo Environmental Claims
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44
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4.11
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Class 8A – HoldCo Intercompany Claims
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44
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4.12
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Class 9A – HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claims
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4.13
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Class 10A-I – HoldCo Common Interests
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4.14
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Class 10A-II – HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims
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4.15
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Class 11A – HoldCo Other Interests
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4.16
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Class 1B – Utility Other Secured Claims
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4.17
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Class 2B – Utility Priority Non-Tax Claims
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4.18
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Class 3B-I – Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims
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4.19
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Class 3B-II – Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims
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4.20
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Class 3B-III – Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims
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4.21
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Class 3B-IV: Utility Funded Debt Claims
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4.22
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Class 3B-V: Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims
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4.23
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Class 4B: Utility General Unsecured Claims
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4.24
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Class 5B-I – Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims
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4.25
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Class 5B-II – Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims
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4.26
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Class 5B-III – Utility Fire Victim Claims
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4.27
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Class 5B-IV – Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims
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4.28
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Class 6B – Utility Workers’ Compensation Claims
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4.29
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Class 7B – 2001 Utility Exchange Claims
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4.30
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Class 8B – Utility Environmental Claims
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4.31
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Class 9B – Utility Intercompany Claims
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4.32
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Class 10B – Utility Subordinated Debt Claims
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4.33
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Class 11B – Utility Preferred Interests
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4.34
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Class 12B – Utility Common Interests
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ARTICLE V.
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PROVISIONS GOVERNING DISTRIBUTIONS
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5.1
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Distributions Generally
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5.2
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Plan Funding
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5.3
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No Postpetition or Default Interest on Claims
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5.4
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Date of Distributions
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5.5
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Distribution Record Date
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5.6
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Disbursing Agent
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5.7
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Delivery of Distributions
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5.8
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Unclaimed Property
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5.9
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Satisfaction of Claims
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5.10
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Fractional Stock
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5.11
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Manner of Payment under Plan
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5.12
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No Distribution in Excess of Amount of Allowed Claim
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5.13
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Setoffs and Recoupments
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5.14
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Rights and Powers of Disbursing Agent
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5.15
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Withholding and Reporting Requirements
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5.16
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Credit for Distributions under Wildfire Assistance Program
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ARTICLE VI.
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MEANS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND EXECUTION OF THE PLAN
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6.1
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[Reserved.]
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6.2
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Restructuring Transactions; Effectuating Documents
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6.3
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Continued Corporate Existence
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6.4
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The Subrogation Wildfire Trust
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6.5
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Subrogation Wildfire Trustee
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6.6
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Subrogation Trust Advisory Board
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6.7
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The Fire Victim Trust
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6.8
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Fire Victim Trustee
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6.9
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Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund
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6.10
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Go-Forward Wildfire Fund
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6.11
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Officers and Board of Directors
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6.12
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Management Incentive Plan
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6.13
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Cancellation of Existing Securities and Agreements
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6.14
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Cancellation of Certain Existing Security Agreements
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6.15
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Issuance of New HoldCo Common Stock
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6.16
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Exit Financing
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6.17
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Rights Offering
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6.18
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Plan Proponent Reimbursement
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6.19
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Securities Act Registrations or Exemptions
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ARTICLE VII.
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PROCEDURES FOR DISPUTED CLAIMS
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7.1
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Objections to Claims
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7.2
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Resolution of Disputed Administrative Expense Claims and Disputed Claims
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7.3
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Payments and Distributions with Respect to Disputed Claims
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7.4
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Distributions After Allowance
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7.5
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Disallowance of Claims
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7.6
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Estimation
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ARTICLE VIII.
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EXECUTORY CONTRACTS AND UNEXPIRED LEASES
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8.1
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General Treatment
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8.2
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Determination of Cure Disputes and Deemed Consent
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8.3
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Rejection Damages Claims
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8.4
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Survival of the Debtors’ Indemnification Obligations
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8.5
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Assumption of Employee Benefit Plans
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8.6
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Collective Bargaining Agreements
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8.7
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Insurance Policies
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8.8
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Reservation of Rights
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8.9
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Modifications, Amendments, Supplements, Restatements, or Other Agreements
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ARTICLE IX.
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EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PLAN
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9.1
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Conditions Precedent to Confirmation of the Plan
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9.2
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Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date
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9.3
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Satisfaction of Conditions
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9.4
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Waiver of Conditions
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9.5
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Effect of Non-Occurrence of Effective Date
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ARTICLE X.
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EFFECT OF CONFIRMATION
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10.1
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Binding Effect
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10.2
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Vesting of Assets
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10.3
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Discharge of Debtors
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10.4
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Term of Injunctions or Stays
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10.5
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Injunction Against Interference with Plan
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10.6
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Injunction
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10.7
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Channeling Injunction
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10.8
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Exculpation
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10.9
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Releases
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10.10
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Subordination
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10.11
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Retention of Causes of Action/Reservation of Rights
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10.12
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Preservation of Causes of Action
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10.13
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Special Provisions for Governmental Units
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10.14
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Document Retention and Cooperation with the Fire Victim Trust
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10.15
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Solicitation of Plan
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ARTICLE XI.
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RETENTION OF JURISDICTION
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11.1
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Jurisdiction of Bankruptcy Court
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ARTICLE XII.
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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12.1
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Dissolution of Statutory Committees
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12.2
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Substantial Consummation
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12.3
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Exemption from Transfer Taxes
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12.4
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Expedited Tax Determination
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12.5
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Payment of Statutory Fees
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12.6
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Plan Modifications and Amendments
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12.7
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Revocation or Withdrawal of Plan
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12.8
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Courts of Competent Jurisdiction
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12.9
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Severability
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12.10
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Governing Law
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12.11
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Schedules and Exhibits
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12.12
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Successors and Assigns
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12.13
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Time
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12.14
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Notices
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12.15
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Reservation of Rights
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PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the above-captioned debtors and debtors in possession, certain funds and accounts
managed or advised by Abrams Capital Management, L.P., and certain funds and accounts managed or advised by Knighthead Capital Management, LLC (together, the “Shareholder
Proponents,” and, collectively with the Debtors, the “Plan Proponents”), as plan proponents within the meaning of section 1129 of the
Bankruptcy Code, propose the following joint chapter 11 plan of reorganization pursuant to section 1121(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.1 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in Article
I of the Plan.
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATION AND CONSENTS
DEFINITIONS. The following terms used herein shall have the respective meanings defined below (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural):
1.1 2001 Utility Exchange Claim means any Claim against the Utility arising solely from (a) amounts due to the CAISO, PX, and/or various market participants
based on purchases or sales of electricity, capacity, or ancillary services by the Utility and other market participants in markets operated by the CAISO and the PX that are subject to determination by FERC in refund proceedings bearing FERC
Docket Nos. EL00-95-000 and EL00-98-000 and related subdockets, and (b) amounts due under any settlement agreements, allocation agreements, escrow agreements, letter agreements, other written agreements, or court orders (including orders
entered in the chapter 11 case styled In re California Power Exchange Corporation, Case No. LA 01-16577 ES) that expressly relate thereto.
1.2 503(b)(9) Claim means a Claim against a Debtor or any portion thereof entitled to administrative expense priority pursuant to section 503(b)(9) of the
Bankruptcy Code, which Claim was timely filed and Allowed pursuant to the 503(b)(9) Procedures Order.
1.3 503(b)(9) Procedures Order means the Amended Order Pursuant to 11
U.S.C. §§ 503(b)(9) and 105(a) Establishing Procedures for the Assertion, Resolution, and Satisfaction of Claims Asserted Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(9) [Docket No. 725].
1.4 Administrative Expense Claim means any cost or expense of administration of any of the Chapter 11 Cases arising on or before the Effective Date that is
allowable under section 503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and entitled to priority under sections 364(c)(1), 503(b) (including 503(b)(9) Claims), 503(c), 507(a)(2), 507(b), or 1114(e)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code that has not already been paid,
including, (a) any actual and necessary costs and expenses of preserving the Debtors’ estates, any actual and necessary costs and expenses of operating the Debtors’ businesses, any indebtedness or obligations incurred or assumed by one or more
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1 The Plan and the Plan Supplement may be amended or supplemented, as necessary, to include relevant information contained in the submissions made by the
Utility in connection with the proceeding regarding the Plan currently pending before the CPUC (Investigation (I).19-09-016), including but not limited to certain governance-related commitments.
the Debtors, as a debtor in possession, during the Chapter 11 Cases, including, for the acquisition or lease of property or an interest in
property or the performance of services, or any fees or charges assessed against the estates of the Debtors under section 1930 of chapter 123 of title 28 of the United States Code, (b) any DIP Facility Claim, (c) any Professional Fee Claim, and
(d) any Intercompany Claim authorized pursuant to the Cash Management Order.
1.5 Aggregate Backstop Commitment Amount means the aggregate amount of all backstop commitments, if any, under all Backstop Commitment Letters; provided, however, that if the backstop commitments under all Backstop Commitment Letters shall be $0, then all consent and other rights hereunder shall no
longer apply.
1.6 Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration means the aggregate consideration used to fund the Fire Victim Trust of (a) $5.4 billion in cash to be contributed
on the Effective Date, (b) $1.35 billion consisting of (i) $650 million to be paid in cash on or before January 15, 2021 pursuant to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement, and (ii) $700 million to be paid in cash on or before January 15, 2022
pursuant to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement; (c) $6.75 billion in New HoldCo Common Stock (issued at Fire Victim Equity Value), which shall not be less than 20.9% of the New HoldCo Common Stock based on the number of fully diluted shares of
Reorganized HoldCo (calculated using the treasury stock method (using an Effective Date equity value equal to Fire Victim Equity Value)) that will be outstanding as of the Effective Date (assuming all equity offerings and all other equity
transactions specified in the Plan, including without limitation, equity issuable upon the exercise of any rights or the conversion or exchange of or for any other securities, are consummated and settled on the Effective Date, but excluding any
future equity issuance not specified by the Plan) assuming the Utility’s allowed return on equity as of the date of the Tort Claimants RSA and reasonable registration rights consistent with the recommendations of the Debtors’ equity underwriter
and tax rules and regulations; (d) the assignment by the Debtors and Reorganized Debtors to the Fire Victim Trust of the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action; and (e) assignment of rights, other than the rights of the Debtors to be reimbursed
under the 2015 Insurance Policies for claims submitted to and paid by the Debtors prior to the Petition Date, under the 2015 Insurance Policies to resolve any claims related to Fires in those policy years. For the avoidance of doubt, the
Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration shall not include any amounts for the Public Entities Settlement which shall be satisfied from other Plan financing sources but not from the Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration.
1.7 Allowed means, with reference to any Claim against a Debtor or Interest: (a) any Claim listed in the Debtors’ Schedules, as such Schedules may be
amended from time to time in accordance with Bankruptcy Rule 1009, as liquidated, non-contingent, and undisputed, and for which no contrary proof of Claim has been filed; (b) any Claim or Interest expressly allowed hereunder; (c) any Claim
(other than a Subrogation Wildfire Claim) or Interest to which a Debtor and the holder of such Claim or Interest agree to the amount and priority of the Claim or Interest, which agreement is approved by a Final Order; (d) any individual
Subrogation Wildfire Claim (not held by a Consenting Creditor or a party to the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement) to which the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee and the holder of such Claim agree to the amount of such Claim; (e) any
Claim or Interest that is compromised, settled or otherwise resolved or Allowed pursuant to a Final Order (including
any omnibus or procedural Final Order relating to the compromise, settlement, resolution, or allowance of any Claims) or under the Plan; or (f)
any Claim or Interest arising on or before the Effective Date as to which no objection to allowance has been interposed within the time period set forth in the Plan; provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, unless expressly waived by the Plan, the Allowed amount of Claims or Interests shall be subject to, and shall not exceed the limitations or maximum amounts permitted by, the
Bankruptcy Code, including sections 502 or 503 of the Bankruptcy Code, to the extent applicable. The Reorganized Debtors shall retain all Claims and defenses with respect to Allowed Claims that are Reinstated or otherwise Unimpaired under the
Plan.
1.8 Assigned Rights and Causes of Action means any and all rights, claims, causes of action, and defenses related thereto relating directly or indirectly to
any of the Fires that the Debtors may have against vendors, suppliers, third party contractors and consultants (including those who provided services regarding the Debtors’ electrical system, system equipment, inspection and maintenance of the
system, and vegetation management), former directors and officers of the Debtors solely to the extent of any directors and officers’ Side B Insurance Coverage, and others as mutually agreed upon by the Plan Proponents and identified in the
Schedule of Assigned Rights and Causes of Action.
1.9 Avoidance Action means any action commenced, or that may be commenced, before or after the Effective Date pursuant to chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code
including sections 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, 550, or 551 of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.10 Backstop Approval Order means an order of the Bankruptcy Court, approving the Backstop Commitment Letters, which order shall be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Debtors and the Backstop Parties.
1.11 Backstop Commitment Letters means those certain letter agreements, as may be amended or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof
and the Backstop Approval Order, pursuant to which the Backstop Parties have agreed to purchase shares of New HoldCo Common Stock on the terms and subject to the conditions thereof.
1.12 Backstop Parties means the parties that have agreed to purchase shares of New HoldCo Common Stock on the terms and subject to the conditions of the
Backstop Commitment Letters and the Backstop Approval Order.
1.13 Ballot means the form(s) distributed to holders of impaired Claims or Interests on which the acceptance or rejection of the Plan is to be indicated.
1.14 Bankruptcy Code means title 11 of the United States Code, as applicable to the Chapter 11 Cases.
1.15 Bankruptcy Court means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, having subject matter jurisdiction over the Chapter
11 Cases and, to the extent of any reference withdrawal made under section 157(d) of title 28 of the United States Code, the District Court.
1.16 Bankruptcy Rules means the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure as promulgated by the United States Supreme Court under section 2075 of title 28 of the
United States Code, applicable to the Chapter 11 Cases, and any Local Rules of the Bankruptcy Court.
1.17 Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are required or
authorized to close by law or executive order.
1.18 CAISO means the California Independent System Operator Corporation.
1.19 Cash means legal tender of the United States of America.
1.20 Cash Management Order means the Final Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§
105(a), 345(b), 363(b), and 363(c), and Fed. R. Bankr. P.6003 and 6004 (i) Authorizing Debtors to (a) Continue Their Existing Cash Management System, (b) Honor Certain Prepetition Obligations Related to the Use Thereof, (c) Continue
Intercompany Arrangements, (d) Continue to Honor Obligations Related to Joint Infrastructure Projects, and (e) Maintain Existing Bank Accounts and Business Forms; and (ii) Waiving the Requirements of 11 U.S.C. § 345(b), dated March 13,
2019 [Docket No. 881].
1.21 Cause of Action means, without limitation, any and all actions, class actions, proceedings, causes of action, controversies, liabilities, obligations,
rights, rights of setoff, recoupment rights, suits, damages, judgments, accounts, defenses, offsets, powers, privileges, licenses, franchises, Claims, Avoidance Actions, counterclaims, cross-claims, affirmative defenses, third-party claims,
Liens, indemnity, contribution, guaranty, and demands of any kind or character whatsoever, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, reduced to judgment or otherwise, liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, matured or
unmatured, disputed or undisputed, suspected or unsuspected, foreseen or unforeseen, direct or indirect, choate or inchoate, secured or unsecured, assertable directly or derivatively, existing or hereafter arising, in contract or in tort, in
law, in equity, or otherwise, whether arising under the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable nonbankruptcy law, based in whole or in part upon any act or omission or other event occurring on or prior to the Petition Date or during the course of
the Chapter 11 Cases, including through the Effective Date. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, when referring to Causes of Action of the Debtors or their estates, Causes of Action shall include (a) all rights of setoff,
counterclaim, or recoupment and Claims for breach of contracts or for breaches of duties imposed by law or equity; (b) the right to object to any Claim or Interest; (c) Claims (including Avoidance Actions) pursuant to section 362 and chapter 5
of the Bankruptcy Code, including sections 510, 542, 543, 544 through 550, or 553; (d) Claims and defenses such as fraud, mistake, duress, usury, and any other defenses set forth in section 558 of the Bankruptcy Code; and (e) any Claims under
any state or foreign law, including any fraudulent transfer or similar claims.
1.22 Channeling Injunction means the permanent injunction provided for in Section 10.7 of the Plan with respect to Fire Claims to be issued pursuant to, and
included in, the Confirmation Order.
1.23 Chapter 11 Cases means the jointly administered cases under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code commenced by the Debtors on the Petition Date in the
Bankruptcy Court and currently styled In re PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Ch. 11 Case No. 19-30088 (DM) (Jointly
Administered).
1.24 Charging Lien means any Lien or other priority in payment to which a Funded Debt Trustee is entitled pursuant to the applicable Funded Debt Documents or
any equivalent indemnification or reimbursement rights arising under the applicable Funded Debt Documents.
1.25 Claim has the meaning set forth in section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.26 Claims Resolution Procedures means, collectively, the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures and the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement.
1.27 Class means any group of Claims or Interests classified herein pursuant to sections 1122 and 1123(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.28 Collateral means any property or interest in property of the estate of any Debtor subject to a Lien, charge, or other encumbrance to secure the payment
or performance of a Claim, which Lien, charge, or other encumbrance is not subject to a Final Order ordering the remedy of avoidance on any such lien, charge, or other encumbrance under the Bankruptcy Code.
1.29 Collective Bargaining Agreements means, collectively, (a) the IBEW Collective Bargaining Agreements, (b) the Collective Bargaining Agreement currently
in place between the Utility and the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE, and (c) the Collective Bargaining Agreement currently in place between the Utility and the Service Employees International Union.
1.30 Confirmation Date means the date on which the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court enters the Confirmation Order.
1.31 Confirmation Hearing means the hearing to be held by the Bankruptcy Court regarding confirmation of the Plan, as such hearing may be adjourned or
continued from time to time.
1.32 Confirmation Order means the order of the Bankruptcy Court confirming the Plan pursuant to section 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code and approving the
transactions contemplated thereby, which shall be in form and substance acceptable to the Debtors.
1.33 Consenting Creditors has the meaning set forth in Subrogation Claims RSA.
1.34 Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals has the meaning set forth in the Tort Claimants RSA.
1.35 Consenting Noteholders has the meaning set forth in the Noteholder RSA.
1.36 CPUC means the California Public Utilities Commission.
1.37 CPUC Approval means all necessary approvals, authorizations and final orders from the CPUC to implement the Plan, and to participate in the Go-Forward
Wildfire Fund, including: (a) satisfactory provisions pertaining to authorized return on equity and regulated capital structure (it being acknowledged that the provisions included in the CPUC’s final decision dated December 19, 2019 in the 2020
Cost of Capital Proceeding are satisfactory for purposes of this provision); (b) a disposition of proposals for certain potential changes to the Utility’s corporate structure and authorizations to operate as a utility; (c) satisfactory
resolution of claims for monetary fines or penalties under the California Public Utilities Code for prepetition conduct; (d) approval (or exemption from approval) of the financing structure and securities to be issued under Article VI of the
Plan; and (e) any approvals or determinations with respect to the Plan and related documents that may be required by the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054).
1.38 Creditors Committee means the statutory committee of unsecured creditors appointed by the U.S. Trustee in the Chapter 11 Cases pursuant to section 1102
of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.39 Cure Amount means the payment of Cash or the distribution of other property (as the parties may agree or the Bankruptcy Court may order) as necessary to
(a) cure a monetary default, as required by section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code by the Debtors in accordance with the terms of an executory contract or unexpired lease of the Debtors, and (b) permit the Debtors to assume or assume and assign
such executory contract or unexpired lease under section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Such Cure Amount will include interest at the applicable contract rate, or in the event no contract rate exists, at the applicable statutory rate from the
Petition Date through the date of distribution.
1.40 D&O Liability Insurance Policies means all directors’, managers’, and officers’ liability insurance policies (including any “tail policy”) of either
of the Debtors.
1.41 Debtors means, collectively, HoldCo and the Utility.
1.42 DIP Facilities means the senior secured postpetition credit facilities approved pursuant to the DIP Facility Order, as the same may be amended,
modified, or supplemented from time to time through the Effective Date in accordance with the terms of the DIP Facility Documents and the DIP Facility Order.
1.43 DIP Facility Agents means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., solely in its capacity as administrative agent under the DIP Facility Documents, and Citibank,
N.A., solely in its capacity as collateral agent under the DIP Facility Documents, and their respective successors, assigns, or any replacement agents appointed pursuant to the terms of the DIP Facility Documents.
1.44 DIP Facility Claim means any Claim arising under, or related to, the DIP Facility Documents.
1.45 DIP Facility Credit Agreement means that certain Senior Secured Superpriority Debtor-In-Possession Credit, Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of
February 1, 2019, by and among the Utility as borrower, HoldCo as guarantor, the DIP Facility Agents, and the DIP Facility Lenders, as the same has been or may be further amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time.
1.46 DIP Facility Documents means, collectively, the DIP Facility Credit Agreement and all other “Loan Documents” (as defined therein), and all other
agreements, documents, and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection therewith (including any collateral documentation) (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from
time to time).
1.47 DIP Facility Lenders means the lenders under the DIP Facility Credit Agreement and each other party that becomes a lender thereunder from time to time
in accordance with the terms of the DIP Facility Credit Agreement.
1.48 DIP Facility Order means the Final Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§
105, 362, 363, 503 and 507, Fed. R. Bankr. P. 2002, 4001, 6004 and 9014 and (i) Authorizing the Debtors to Obtain Senior Secured, Superpriority, Postpetition Financing, (ii) Granting Liens and Superpriority Claims, (iii) Modifying the
Automatic Stay, and (iv) Granting Related Relief [Docket No. 1091], dated March 27, 2019, as may be amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time through the Effective Date.
1.49 DIP Letters of Credit means any letters of credit issued by a DIP Facility Lender pursuant to the DIP Facility Credit Agreement.
1.50 Disallowed means a Claim, or any portion thereof, (a) that has been disallowed by a Final Order, agreement between the holder of such Claim and the
applicable Debtor, or the Plan; (b) that is listed in the Debtors’ Schedules, as such Schedules may be amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time in accordance with Bankruptcy Rule 1009, at zero ($0) dollars or as contingent,
disputed, or unliquidated and as to which no proof of Claim has been filed by the applicable deadline or deemed timely filed with the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to either the Bankruptcy Code or any Final Order of the Bankruptcy Court or
applicable law; or (c) that is not listed in the Debtors’ Schedules and as to which no proof of Claim has been timely filed by the applicable deadline or deemed timely filed with the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to either the Bankruptcy Code or
any Final Order of the Bankruptcy Court or under applicable law.
1.51 Disbursing Agent means the Utility (or such Entity designated by the Debtors and without the need for any further order of the Bankruptcy Court) in its
capacity as a disbursing agent pursuant to Section 5.6 hereof.
1.52 Disclosure Statement means the disclosure statement relating to the Plan, including, all schedules, supplements, and exhibits thereto, as approved by
the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.53 Disclosure Statement Order means a Final Order finding that the Disclosure Statement contains adequate information pursuant to section 1125 of the
Bankruptcy Code.
1.54 Disputed means with respect to a Claim against a Debtor or any portion thereof (a) that is neither Allowed nor Disallowed under the Plan or a Final
Order, nor deemed Allowed under sections 502, 503, or 1111 of the Bankruptcy Code; (b) that has not been Allowed and is listed as unliquidated, contingent, or disputed in the Schedules; (c) that is a Subrogation Wildfire Claim not held by a
Consenting Creditor that is also a party to the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement; or (d) for which a proof of Claim has been filed and related to which the Debtors or any other party in interest has interposed a timely objection
or request for estimation, and such objection or request for estimation has not been withdrawn or determined by a Final Order.
1.55 Distribution Record Date means the Effective Date, unless otherwise provided in the Plan or designated by the Bankruptcy Court. The Distribution Record
Date shall not apply to Securities of the Debtors deposited with DTC, the holders of which shall receive a distribution in accordance with Article V of this Plan and, as applicable, the customary procedures of DTC.
1.56 District Court means the United States District Court for the Northern District of California having subject matter jurisdiction over the Chapter 11
Cases.
1.57 DTC means the Depository Trust Company.
1.58 Effective Date means a Business Day on or after the Confirmation Date selected by the Debtors, on which the conditions to the effectiveness of the Plan
specified in Section 9.2 hereof have been satisfied or effectively waived in accordance with the terms hereof.
1.59 Eligible Offeree has the meaning set forth in the Rights Offering Procedures, if applicable.
1.60 Employee Benefit Plans means any written contracts, agreements, policies, programs, and plans (including any related trust or other funding vehicle)
governing any obligations relating to compensation, reimbursement, indemnity, health care benefits, disability benefits, deferred compensation benefits, travel benefits, vacation and sick leave benefits, savings, severance benefits, retirement
benefits, welfare benefits, relocation programs, life insurance, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, including written contracts, agreements, policies, programs, and plans for bonuses and other incentives or compensation for the
current and former directors, officers, and employees, as applicable, of any of the Debtors.
1.61 Entity has the meaning set forth in section 101(15) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.62 Environmental Claim means any Claim under any Environmental Law; provided, however, that Environmental Claims shall not include (x) any Claim for
personal injury (including, but not limited to, sickness, disease or death) or (y) any Fire Claim.
1.63 Environmental Law means all federal, state and local statutes, regulations, ordinances and similar provisions having the force or effect of law, all
judicial and administrative judgments, orders, agreements, permits, licenses, tariffs, determinations, and all common law, in each case concerning, in whole or in part, pollution, hazardous substances or waste, water quality, conservation or
other protection of the environment, human health, safety, and welfare.
1.64 Environmental Performance Obligation means an obligation or requirement arising from any consent decree, permit, license, tariff, Cause of Action,
agreement, injunction, cleanup and abatement order, cease and desist order, or any other administrative or judicial judgment, order or decree under any Environmental Law that is not a Claim and does not arise from any Fire.
1.65 Exculpated Parties means collectively, and, in each case, in their capacities as such: (a) the Debtors and Reorganized Debtors; (b) the DIP Facility
Agents; (c) the DIP Facility Lenders; (d) the Exit Financing Agents; (e) the Exit Financing Lenders; (f) the Funded Debt Trustees; (g) the HoldCo Revolver Lenders; (h) the HoldCo Term Loan Lenders; (i) the Utility Revolver Lenders; (j) the
Utility Term Loan Lenders; (k) the underwriters, initial purchasers, and any agents under or in connection with any underwritten primary or secondary offering of, or private placement of, or direct investment in, any equity securities, equity
forward contracts or other equity-linked securities issued or entered into in connection with the Plan Funding; (l) the Public Entities Releasing Parties; (m) the Statutory Committees; (n) the Backstop Parties; (o) the Consenting Creditors; (p)
the Shareholder Proponents; (q) the Consenting Noteholders; and (r) with respect to each of the foregoing entities (a) through (q), such entities’ predecessors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries, affiliates, managed accounts and funds, current
and former officers and directors, principals, equity holders, members, partners, managers, employees, subcontractors, agents, advisory board members, restructuring advisors, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, investment bankers,
consultants, representatives, management companies, fund advisors (and employees thereof), and other professionals, and such entities’ respective heirs, executors, estates, servants, and nominees, in each case in their capacity as such.
1.66 Exit Financing means, collectively, the Exit Revolver Facility, and all other indebtedness to be incurred by the Reorganized Debtors on or about the
Effective Date as part of the Plan Funding.
1.67 Exit Financing Agents means, collectively, the Exit Revolver Facility Agent and any other facility agent or indenture trustee acting in such capacity
under the Exit Financing Documents.
1.68 Exit Financing Documents means, collectively, the Exit Revolver Facility Documents and all other agreements, indentures, documents, and instruments
delivered or
entered into pursuant to or in connection with the Exit Financing (including any guarantee agreements and collateral documentation) (in each case,
as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.69 Exit Financing Lenders means, collectively, the Exit Revolver Facility Lenders and all other lenders or holders (as applicable) under the Exit Financing
Documents.
1.70 Exit Financing Term Sheets means those certain term sheets that shall be included in the Plan Supplement that set forth the principal terms of the Exit
Financing.
1.71 Exit Revolver Facility means any revolving loan facility provided to the Reorganized Utility or Reorganized HoldCo, pursuant to the Exit Revolver
Facility Documents, including the Exit Revolver Facility Credit Agreement, as contemplated by, and which shall be consistent with, the Exit Financing Term Sheets.
1.72 Exit Revolver Facility Agent means the administrative agent or collateral agent (if applicable) under the Exit Revolver Facility Credit Agreement, its
successors, assigns, or any replacement agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Exit Revolver Facility Documents.
1.73 Exit Revolver Facility Credit Agreement means the credit agreement providing for the Exit Revolver Facility, including all agreements, notes,
instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time), as contemplated by, and which shall be consistent with, the
Exit Financing Term Sheets.
1.74 Exit Revolver Facility Documents means, collectively, the Exit Revolver Facility Credit Agreement and all other agreements, documents, and instruments
delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (including any guarantee agreements and collateral documentation) (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time), each of which
shall be, to the extent applicable, consistent with the Exit Financing Term Sheets.
1.75 Exit Revolver Facility Lenders means each person who on the Effective Date shall become a lender under the Exit Revolver Facility Documents.
1.76 Federal Judgment Rate means the interest rate of 2.59% as provided under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a), calculated as of the Petition Date.
1.77 Final Order means an order or judgment of the Bankruptcy Court entered by the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court on the docket in the Chapter 11 Cases which
has not been reversed, vacated, or stayed and as to which (a) the time to appeal, petition for certiorari, or move for a new trial, reargument, or rehearing has expired and as to which no appeal, petition for certiorari, or other proceeding for
a new trial, reargument, or rehearing shall then be pending, or (b) if an appeal, writ of certiorari, new trial, reargument, or rehearing thereof has been sought, such order or judgment of the Bankruptcy Court shall have been affirmed by the
highest court to which such order was appealed, or certiorari shall have been denied, or a new trial, reargument, or rehearing shall have been
denied or resulted in no modification of such order, and the time to take any further appeal, petition for certiorari, or move for a new trial, reargument, or rehearing shall have expired; provided, that no order or judgment shall fail to be a Final Order solely because of the possibility that a motion under Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has been or may be filed with respect
to such order or judgment. The susceptibility of a Claim to a challenge under section 502(j) of the Bankruptcy Code shall not render a Final Order not a Final Order.
1.78 Fire Claim means any Claim against the Debtors in any way arising out of the Fires, including, but not limited to, any Claim resulting from the Fires
for (a) general and/or specific damages, including any Claim for personal injury, wrongful death, emotional distress and similar claims, pavement fatigue, damage to culverts, ecosystem service losses, municipal budget adjustments/reallocation,
lost revenue and tax impacts, local share of reimbursed fire clean-up costs, future estimated infrastructure costs, water service losses, lost landfill capacity, costs related to unmet housing (e.g., housing market impact due to the Fires and
adjustments for increased homeless population), and/or hazard mitigation costs (including, watershed restoration and hazardous tree removal expenses); (b) damages for repair, depreciation and/or replacement of damaged, destroyed, and/or lost
personal and/or real property; (c) damages for loss of the use, benefit, goodwill, and enjoyment of real and/or personal property; (d) damages for loss of wages, earning capacity and/or business profits and/or any related displacement expenses;
(e) economic losses; (f) damages for wrongful injuries to timber, trees, or underwood under California Civil Code § 3346; (g) damages for injuries to trees under California Code of Civil Procedure § 733; (h) punitive and exemplary damages under
California Civil Code §§ 733 and 3294, California Public Utilities Code § 2106, or otherwise, (i) restitution; (j) fines or penalties; (k) any and all costs of suit, including all attorneys’ fees and expenses, expert fees, and related costs,
including all attorneys and other fees under any theory of inverse condemnation; (l) for prejudgment and/or postpetition interest; (m) other litigation costs stemming from the Fires; and (n) declaratory and/or injunctive relief. For avoidance
of doubt and without prejudice to the Debtors’ right to object to any such Claim, “Fire Claim” shall not include any (x) Claim for substantial contribution under section 503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, (y) Subordinated Debt Claim, HoldCo Common
Interest or HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, or (z) Ghost Ship Fire Claim. The Fire Claims shall not include claims arising from any fire other than the Fires (including, without limitation, the Kincade Fire or any postpetition fire) or any
Administrative Expense Claims.
1.79 Fire Victim Claim means any Fire Claim that is not a Public Entities Wildfire Claim, Subrogation Wildfire Claim, or a Subrogation Butte Fire Claim.
1.80 Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures means the procedures for the resolution, liquidation, and payment of Fire Victim Claims by the Fire Victim
Trust, substantially in the form included in the Plan Supplement, which shall comply with Section 4.25(f)(ii) hereof.
1.81 Fire Victim Equity Value means 14.9 multiplied by the Normalized Estimated Net Income as of a date to be agreed upon among the parties to the Tort
Claimants RSA.
1.82 Fire Victim Trust means one or more trusts established on the Effective Date, in accordance with Section 6.7 of the Plan to, among other purposes,
administer, process, settle, resolve, satisfy, and pay Fire Victim Claims, and prosecute or settle the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action.
1.83 Fire Victim Trust Agreement means that certain trust agreement or agreements by and among the Debtors, the Fire Victim Trust, and the Fire Victim
Trustee, substantially in the form included in the Plan Supplement.
1.84 Fire Victim Trustee means the Person or Persons selected by the Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals and the Tort Claimants Committee, subject to the
approval of the Bankruptcy Court, and identified in the Plan Supplement, to serve as the trustee(s) of the Fire Victim Trust, and any successor thereto, appointed pursuant to the Fire Victim Trust Agreement.
1.85 Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee means the oversight committee appointed by the Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals and the Tort Claimants
Committee to oversee the Fire Victim Trust in accordance with the Plan and the Fire Victim Trust Agreement.
1.86 Fires means the fires that occurred in Northern California, listed on Exhibit
A annexed hereto.
1.87 Funded Debt Claims means, collectively, the HoldCo Funded Debt Claims and the Utility Funded Debt Claims.
1.88 Funded Debt Documents means, collectively, the HoldCo Revolver Documents, the HoldCo Term Loan Documents, the PC Bond Loan Documents, the PC Bond LOC
Documents, the PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Documents, the Utility Revolver Documents, the Utility Term Loan Documents, and the Utility Senior Notes Documents.
1.89 Funded Debt Trustees means, collectively, the HoldCo Revolver Agent, the HoldCo Term Loan Agent, the Utility Revolver Agent, the Utility Term Loan
Agent, the Utility Senior Notes Trustee, the PC Bond Trustee, and each Utility Issuing Lender.
1.90 General Unsecured Claim means any Claim against a Debtor, other than a DIP Facility Claim, Administrative Expense Claim, Professional Fee Claim,
Priority Tax Claim, Other Secured Claim, Priority Non-Tax Claim, Funded Debt Claim, Workers’ Compensation Claim, 2001 Utility Exchange Claim, Fire Claim, Ghost Ship Fire Claim, Intercompany Claim, Utility Senior Note Claim, Utility PC Bond
(2008 F and 2010 E) Claim, Environmental Claim or Subordinated Debt Claim, that is not entitled to priority under the Bankruptcy Code or any Final Order. General Unsecured Claims shall include any (a) Prepetition Executed Settlement Claim,
including but not limited to settlements relating to Subrogation Butte Fire Claims; and (b) Claim for damages resulting from or otherwise based on the Debtors’ rejection of an executory contract or unexpired lease.
1.91 Ghost Ship Fire means the fire known as the “Ghost Ship Fire” which occurred in Oakland, California on December 2, 2016.
1.92 Ghost Ship Fire Claim means any Claim related to or arising from the Ghost Ship Fire.
1.93 Go-Forward Wildfire Fund means a long-term, state-wide fund established, pursuant to section 3292(a) of the California Public Utilities Code and the
Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054), to pay for certain future wildfire obligations, the terms of which are set forth in the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054).
1.94 Governmental Unit has the meaning set forth in section 101(27) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.95 HoldCo means Debtor PG&E Corporation, a California corporation.
1.96 HoldCo Common Interest means any HoldCo Interest which results or arises from the existing common stock of HoldCo.
1.97 HoldCo Fire Victim Claim means any Fire Victim Claim against HoldCo.
1.98 HoldCo Environmental Claim means any Environmental Claim against HoldCo.
1.99 HoldCo Funded Debt Claims means, collectively, the HoldCo Revolver Claims and the HoldCo Term Loan Claims.
1.100 HoldCo General Unsecured Claim means any General Unsecured Claim against HoldCo.
1.101 HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claim means any Ghost Ship Fire Claim against HoldCo.
1.102 HoldCo Intercompany Claim means any Intercompany Claim against HoldCo.
1.103 HoldCo Interest means any Interest in HoldCo immediately prior to the Effective Date.
1.104 HoldCo Other Interest means any HoldCo Interest that is not a HoldCo Common Interest.
1.105 HoldCo Other Secured Claim means any Other Secured Claim against HoldCo.
1.106 HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claim means any Priority Non-Tax Claim against HoldCo.
1.107 HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claim means any Public Entities Wildfire Claim against HoldCo.
1.108 HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim means any Claim against HoldCo subject to subordination pursuant to section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code arising from
or related to the common stock of HoldCo.
1.109 HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim Share means, with respect to an Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, a number of shares of New HoldCo Common
Stock equal to the sum of following: (a) the portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim relating to purchases of common stock of HoldCo on or before October 13, 2017, less the Insurance Deduction on account of such portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, divided by 65.00;
and (b) the portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim relating to purchases of common stock of HoldCo from October 14, 2017, through and including December 20, 2017, less the Insurance Deduction on account of such portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, divided by 46.50;
and (c) the portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim relating to purchases of common stock of HoldCo from December 21, 2017, through and including May 25, 2018, less the Insurance Deduction on account of such portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, divided by 37.25;
and (d) the portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim relating to purchases of common stock of HoldCo from May 26, 2018, through and including November 15, 2018, less the Insurance Deduction on account of such portion of such Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, divided by 32.50.
1.110 HoldCo Revolver Agent means such entity or entities acting as administrative agent under the HoldCo Revolver Documents, and any of their respective successors, assigns, or replacement agents appointed pursuant to the terms of the HoldCo Revolver Documents.
1.111 HoldCo Revolver Claim means any Claim
arising under, or related to, the HoldCo Revolver Documents.
1.112 HoldCo Revolver Credit Agreement means that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2015, by and among HoldCo, the
HoldCo Revolver Agent, and the HoldCo Revolver Lenders, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to
time.
1.113 HoldCo Revolver Documents means, collectively, the HoldCo Revolver Credit Agreement and all other “Loan Documents” (as defined therein), and all other
agreements, documents, and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection
therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.114 HoldCo Revolver Lenders means the lenders under the HoldCo Revolver Credit Agreement and each other party that becomes a lender thereunder from time to
time in accordance with the terms of the HoldCo Revolver Credit Agreement.
1.115 HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim means any Claim against HoldCo that is subject to subordination under section 510(b)
of the Bankruptcy Code, including any Claim for reimbursement, indemnification or contribution, but excluding any HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims.
1.116 HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claim means any
Subrogation Wildfire Claim against HoldCo.
1.117 HoldCo Term Loan Agent means Mizuho Bank, Ltd. solely in its capacity as administrative agent under the HoldCo Term Loan Documents, its successors,
assigns, or any replacement agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the HoldCo Term Loan Documents.
1.118 HoldCo Term Loan Claim means any Claim arising
under, or related to, the HoldCo Term Loan Documents.
1.119 HoldCo Term Loan Credit Agreement means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 16, 2018, by and among HoldCo, as borrower, the HoldCo Term Loan Agent, and the HoldCo Term Loan Lenders, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
1.120 HoldCo Term Loan Documents means, collectively, the HoldCo Term Loan Credit Agreement and all other “Loan Documents”
(as defined therein), including all other agreements, documents, and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection therewith
(in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.121 HoldCo Term Loan Lenders means the lenders under the HoldCo Term Loan Credit Agreement and each other party that becomes a lender thereunder from time to time in accordance with the terms of the HoldCo Term Loan Credit Agreement.
1.122 HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claim means any
Workers’ Compensation Claim against HoldCo.
1.123 IBEW Agreement means the agreements between the
Debtors and IBEW Local 1245 contained in Exhibit B annexed hereto.
1.124 IBEW Collective Bargaining Agreements means, collectively, the two (2) Collective Bargaining Agreements currently in place between the Utility and IBEW
Local 1245: (i) the IBEW Physical Agreement, and (ii) the IBEW Clerical Agreement, as such agreements will, subject to the
occurrence of the Effective Date, be further amended, supplemented or modified in a manner consistent with the IBEW Agreement.
1.125 IBEW Local 1245 means Local Union No. 1245 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
1.126 Impaired means, with respect to a Claim, Interest, or Class of Claims or Interests, “impaired” within the meaning of sections 1123(a)(4) and 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.127 Indemnification Obligation means each of the Debtors’ indemnification obligations existing or outstanding prior to the Effective Date, whether arising
by statute, agreement, in the bylaws, certificates of incorporation or formation, limited liability company agreements, other organizational or formation documents, board resolutions, management or indemnification agreements, or employment or other contracts, for their current and former directors, officers, managers, employees, attorneys, accountants,
restructuring advisors, financial advisors, investment bankers, and other professionals and agents of the Debtors, as applicable.
1.127A Insurance Deduction means any cash payments received from an Insurance Policy (other than cash payments received from a Side A Policy) on account of all
or any portion of an Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, to be applied proportionally in accordance with subparagraphs (a)
through (d) of the definition of “HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim Share” above.
1.128 Insurance Policies means any insurance policies issued prior to the Effective Date to any of the Debtors or under which the Debtors have sought or may
seek coverage, including the D&O Liability Insurance Policies.
1.129 Intercompany Claim means any Claim against a Debtor held by either another Debtor or by a non-Debtor affiliate which is controlled by a Debtor (excluding any Claims of an individual).
1.130 Interest means (a) any equity security (as defined in section 101(16) of the Bankruptcy Code) of a Debtor, including all units, shares, common stock, preferred stock, partnership interests, or other instrument evidencing any fixed or contingent ownership interest in any
Debtor, including any option, warrant, or other right, contractual or otherwise, to acquire any such interest in a Debtor, whether or not transferable and whether fully vested or vesting in the future, that existed immediately before the
Effective Date and (b) any Claim against any Debtor subject to subordination pursuant to section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code arising from or related to any of the foregoing.
1.131 Interim Compensation Order means the Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§
331 and 105(a) and Fed. R. Bankr. P. 2016 for Authority to Establish Procedures for Interim Compensation and Reimbursement of Expenses of Professionals [Docket No. 701].
1.132 Kincade Fire means the wildfire which started
on October 23, 2019 in the area northeast of Geyserville, in Sonoma County, California.
1.133 Lien has the meaning set forth in section 101(37)
of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.134 Management Incentive Plan means the post-emergence management incentive plan for certain of the Reorganized Debtors’ employees on the terms set forth in
the Management Incentive Plan Term Sheet that may be established and implemented at the discretion of the New Board on or after the Effective
Date.
1.135 Management Incentive Plan Term Sheet means that
certain term sheet that sets forth the principal terms of the Management Incentive Plan.
1.136 New Board means, on and as of the Effective
Date, the board of directors of Reorganized HoldCo, and the board of directors of the Reorganized Utility, as applicable.
1.137 New HoldCo Common Stock means the common stock of Reorganized HoldCo issued in connection with the implementation of the Plan.
1.138 New Organizational Documents means, if applicable, the forms of articles of incorporation or other forms of organizational documents and bylaws, as
applicable, of the Reorganized Debtors, substantially in the form included in the Plan Supplement and which shall be in form and substance acceptable to the Debtors.
1.139 New Utility Funded Debt Exchange Notes means, collectively, (i) $1,949 million in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on
the Effective Date that shall bear interest at the rate of 3.15%, mature on the 66 month anniversary of the Effective Date, and otherwise have the same terms and conditions of the Reference Short-Term Senior Note Documents; and (ii) $1,949
million in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on the Effective Date that shall bear interest at the rate of 4.50%, mature on the anniversary of the Effective Date in 2040, and otherwise have the same terms and
conditions of the Reference Long-Term Senior Note Documents.
1.140 New Utility Long-Term Notes means, collectively, (i) $3.1 billion in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on the Effective
Date that shall bear interest at the rate of 4.55%, mature on the anniversary of the Effective Date in 2030, and otherwise have the same terms and conditions of the Reference Long-Term Senior Note Documents; and (ii) $3.1 billion in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on the Effective Date that shall bear interest at the rate of
4.95%, mature on the anniversary of the Effective Date in 2050, and otherwise have the same terms and conditions of the Reference Long-Term Senior Note Documents.
1.141 New Utility Short-Term Notes means, collectively, (i) $875 million in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on the Effective
Date that shall bear interest at the rate of 3.45%, mature on the anniversary of the Effective Date in 2025, and otherwise have the same terms and conditions as the Reference Short-Term Senior Note Documents; and (ii) $875 million in new senior secured notes to be issued by the Reorganized Utility on the Effective Date that shall bear interest at the rate
of 3.75%, mature on the anniversary of the Effective Date in 2028 and otherwise have substantially similar terms and conditions as the Reference Short-Term Senior Notes Documents.
1.142 Non-cash Recovery has the meaning set forth in the Subrogation Claims RSA.
1.143 Normalized Estimated Net Income shall mean, in each case with respect to the estimated year 2021, (a) on a component-by-component basis (e.g., distribution, generation, gas transmission and storage, and electrical transmission), the sum of (i) the Utility’s estimated earning rate base for such
component, times (ii) the equity percentage of the Utility’s authorized capital structure, times (iii) the Utility’s authorized rate of return on equity for such component, less (b) the projected post-tax
difference in interest expense or preferred dividends for the entire company and the authorized interest expense or preferred dividends expected to be collected in rates based on the capital structure in the approved Plan, if any, less (c) the amount of the Utility’s post-tax annual contribution to the Go-Forward Wildfire Fund.
1.144 North Bay Public Entities means, collectively, (a) the City of Clearlake, a California municipal corporation duly organized and existing by virtue of
the laws of the State of California; (b) the City of Napa, a California municipal corporation duly organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (c) the City of Santa Rosa, a California municipal corporation duly
organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (d) the County of Lake, a general law county and political subdivision of the State of California duly organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of
California; (e) Lake County Sanitation District, a sanitary district organized under the laws of the State of California; (f) the County of Mendocino, a general law county and political subdivision of the State of California, duly organized and
existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (g) Napa County, a general law county and political subdivision of the State of California, duly organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (h) the County
of Nevada, a general law county and political subdivision of the State of California, duly organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (i) the County of Sonoma, a general law county and political subdivision of the
State of California, duly organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California; (j) the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, a public agency formed pursuant to the Public Resources code sections
5500, et seq.; (k) Sonoma County Community Development Commission, a public and corporate entity pursuant to section 34110 of the California Health & Safety Code; (l) Sonoma County Water Agency, a public agency of the State of California;
(m) Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District, a sanitary district organized under the laws of the State of California; and (n) the County of Yuba, a general law county and political subdivision of the State of California, duly organized and
existing by virtue of the laws of the State of California.
1.145 Noteholder RSA means that certain Restructuring
Support Agreement, dated as of January 22, 2020, and as approved by the Order of the Bankruptcy Court dated February 5, 2020 [Docket No. 5637], by and among the Debtors, the Shareholder Proponents, and the Consenting Noteholders, as amended,
supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, in accordance with its terms.
1.146 Ordinary Course Professionals Order means the Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105(a), 327, 328, and 330 Authorizing the Debtors to Employ Professionals Used in
the Ordinary Course of Business Nunc Pro Tunc to the Petition Date,
dated February 28, 2019 [Docket No. 707].
1.147 Other Secured Claim means a Secured Claim that is not a DIP Facility Claim or Priority Tax Claim.
1.148 PC Bond Documents means, collectively, the PC Bond Loan Documents and the PC Bond LOC Documents.
1.149 PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Documents means each of the following loan agreements, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, (a) Amended and Restated Loan Agreement between California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the
Utility, dated September 1, 2010 (Series 2008F); and (b) Loan Agreement between the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Utility, dated April 1, 2010 (Series 2010 E).
1.150 PC Bond Loan Documents means each of the following loan agreements, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, (a)
Loan Agreement between the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Utility, dated August 1, 2009 (Series 2009 A); (b) Loan Agreement between the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Utility,
dated August 1, 2009 (Series 2009 B); (c) Loan Agreement between the California Pollution Control Financing Authority and the Utility, dated September 1, 1997 (1997 Series B-C); (d) First Supplemental Loan Agreement between the California
Pollution Control Financing Authority and the Utility, dated December 1, 2003 (1997 Series B); (e) Loan Agreement between the California Pollution Control Financing Authority and the Utility, dated May 1, 1996 (1996 Series A-G); (f) First
Supplemental Loan Agreement between the California Pollution Control Financing Authority and the Utility, dated July 1, 1998 (1996 Series A-G); and (g) Third Supplemental Loan Agreement between the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Utility, dated December 1, 2003 (1996 Series C, E, F).
1.151 PC Bond LOC Documents means each of the following reimbursement agreements, as assigned, amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from
time to time: (a) Reimbursement Agreement (Series 2009A) between the Utility and Union Bank, N.A., dated June 5, 2014; (b) Reimbursement Agreement (Series 2009B) between the Utility and Union Bank, N.A., dated June 5, 2014; (c) Reimbursement
Agreement between the Utility and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch relating to California Pollution Control Financing Authority Pollution Control Refunding Revenue Bonds (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) 1997 Series B, dated
December 1, 2015; (d) Reimbursement Agreement between the Utility and Mizuho Bank Ltd. relating to California Pollution Control Financing Authority Pollution Control Refunding Revenue Bonds (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) 1996 Series C,
dated December 1, 2015; (e) Reimbursement Agreement between the Utility and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation relating to California Pollution Control Financing Authority Pollution Control Refunding Revenue Bonds (Pacific Gas and Electric
Company) 1996 Series E, dated December 1, 2015; and (f) Reimbursement Agreement between the Utility and TD Bank N.A. relating to California Pollution Control Financing Authority Pollution
Control Refunding Revenue Bonds (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) 1996 Series F, dated December 1, 2015.
1.152 PC Bond Trustee means, as applicable, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company or Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, solely in their capacity as
indenture trustee or successor indenture trustee under Indentures for pollution control bonds issued in connection with the PC Bond Loan Documents or the PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Documents.
1.153 Person has the meaning set forth in section 101(41) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.154 Petition Date means January 29, 2019, the date on which the Debtors commenced the Chapter 11 Cases.
1.155 Plan means this chapter 11 plan, as the same may be amended, supplemented, or modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the
Bankruptcy Code and the terms hereof.
1.156 Plan Document means any of the documents, other than this Plan, to be executed, delivered, assumed, or performed in connection with the occurrence of
the Effective Date, including the documents to be included in the Plan Supplement, all of which shall be in form and substance as provided herein and acceptable to the Plan Proponents.
1.157 Plan Funding means, collectively, (a) the proceeds from the incurrence of the Exit Financing, (b) the proceeds of any Rights Offering, if implemented,
(c) any other sources of funding used for distributions under the Plan, including from any underwritten primary or secondary equity offering, a direct equity investment, and/or other equity-linked securities, and (d) Cash on hand. For the
avoidance of doubt, Plan Funding does not include any Claim that has been Reinstated pursuant to the Plan.
1.158 Plan Supplement means the forms of certain documents effectuating the transactions contemplated herein, which documents shall be filed with the Clerk of
the Bankruptcy Court no later than fourteen (14) days prior to the deadline set to file objections to the confirmation of the Plan, including, but not limited to: (a) the Schedule of Rejected Contracts; (b) the Wildfire Trust Agreements; (c)
the New Organizational Documents (to the extent such New Organizational Documents reflect material changes from the Debtors’ existing articles of incorporation and bylaws); (d) to the extent known, information required to be disclosed in
accordance with section 1129(a)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code; (e) the Exit Financing Term Sheets; (f) the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures; and (g) the Schedule of Assigned Rights and Causes of Action. Such documents shall be consistent
with the terms hereof, provided, that, through the Effective Date, the Plan Proponents shall have the right to amend, modify, or supplement documents
contained in, and exhibits to, the Plan Supplement in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
1.159 Prepetition Executed Settlement Claim means any liquidated Claim against a Debtor, other than a 2001 Utility Exchange Claim, arising from a binding
award, agreement,
or settlement fully effective prior to the Petition Date, which for the purposes of the Plan shall be Allowed in the amount set forth in the
applicable award, agreement or settlement.
1.160 Priority Non-Tax Claim means any Claim against a Debtor, other than an Administrative Expense Claim or a Priority Tax Claim, entitled to priority in
payment as specified in section 507(a)(3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.161 Priority Tax Claim means any Claim of a Governmental Unit against a Debtor of the kind entitled to priority in payment as specified in sections 502(i)
and 507(a)(8) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.162 Professional means an Entity, excluding those Entities entitled to compensation pursuant to the Ordinary Course Professionals Order that is retained in
the Chapter 11 Cases pursuant to an order of the Bankruptcy Court in accordance with sections 327, 363, or 1103 of the Bankruptcy Code and that is entitled to be compensated for services rendered and expenses incurred pursuant to sections 327,
328, 329, 330, 331, and 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.163 Professional Fee Claim means any Administrative Expense Claim for the compensation of a Professional and the reimbursement of expenses incurred by such
Professional through and including the Effective Date to the extent such fees and expenses have not been paid pursuant to any Final Order (including, but not limited to, any fees of a Professional held back in accordance with the Interim
Compensation Order or otherwise). To the extent the Bankruptcy Court denies or reduces by a Final Order any amount of a Professional’s requested fees and expenses (whether or not paid pursuant to an order granting interim allowance), then the
amount by which such fees or expenses are reduced or denied shall reduce the applicable Professional Fee Claim.
1.164 Professional Fee Escrow Account means an interest-bearing account in an amount equal to the Professional Fee Reserve Amount and funded by the Debtors in
Cash on the Effective Date, pursuant to Section 2.2(b) of the Plan.
1.165 Professional Fee Reserve Amount means the total amount of Professional Fee Claims estimated in accordance with Section 2.2(c) of the Plan.
1.166 Public Entities means, collectively, (a) the North Bay Public Entities; (b) the Town of Paradise; (c) the County of Butte; (d) the Paradise Park and
Recreation District; (e) the County of Yuba; and (f) the Calaveras County Water District.
1.167 Public Entities Operative Complaints means all complaints filed by the Public Entities in relation to the Fires, including the complaints filed in Calaveras County Water District v. PG&E, No. 34-2018-00238630 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sacramento Cty), the Public Entity Master Complaint filed in Judicial
Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4853, Butte Fire Cases, No. JCCP 4853 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sacramento Cty.), City of Clearlake v. PG&E Corp. et al., No. CV419398 (Cal. Super. Ct. Lake Cty.), City of Napa v. PG&E
Corp. et al., No. 19CV000148 (Cal. Super. Ct. Napa Cty.), City of Santa Rosa v. Pacific Gas and Electric
Company, et al., No. SCV-262772 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sonoma
Cty.), County of Lake v. PG&E Corp. et al., No. CV-419417 (Cal. Super. Ct. Lake Cty.), Mendocino County v. PG&E Corporation et al., No. SCUK-CVPO-18-70440 (Cal. Super. Ct. Mendocino Cty.), Napa County v. PG&E
Corporation et al., No. 18CV000238 (Cal. Super. Ct. Napa Cty.), County of Nevada v. PG&E Corp. et al., No. CU19-083418 (Cal. Super. Ct. Nevada
Cty.), County of Sonoma v. PG&E Corporation et al., No. SCV-262045 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sonoma Cty.), County of Yuba v. PG&E Corp. et al., No. CVCV19-00045 (Cal. Super. Ct. Yuba Cty.), the Public Entity Master Complaint filed in Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4955 (California North Bay Fire Cases, No. JCCP 4955 (Cal. Super. Ct. San Francisco Cty.), Butte County v. PG&E Corp et al., No. 19CV00151 (Cal. Super. Ct. Butte Cty.) and Town of Paradise v. PG&E Corporation et al., No.
19CV00259 (Cal. Super. Ct. Butte Cty.).
1.168 Public Entities Plan Support Agreements means the Plan Support Agreements as to Plan Treatment of Public Entities’ Wildfire Claims, each dated June 18,
2019, by and between the Debtors and the Public Entities.
1.169 Public Entities Releasing Parties means the Public Entities and any subsidiary, affiliate, department, agency, political subdivision, or instrumentality
thereof.
1.170 Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund means a segregated fund established for the benefit of the Public Entities in the amount of $10 million, which
funds shall be used by the Reorganized Debtors solely to reimburse the Public Entities for any and all legal fees and costs associated with the defense or resolution of any Public Entities Third Party Claims against a Public Entity, in
accordance with the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements.
1.171 Public Entities Settlement means the settlement of the Public Entities Wildfire Claims pursuant to the terms of the Public Entities Plan Support
Agreements and this Plan.
1.172 Public Entities Settlement Distribution Protocol means the $1.0 billion in Cash, to be deposited in a trust account and distributed in accordance with
the Plan and the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, to satisfy the Public Entities Wildfire Claims.
1.173 Public Entities Third Party Claims means any past, present, or future Claim held by entities or individuals other than the Debtors or the Public
Entities against the Public Entities that in any way arises out of or relates to the Fires, including but not limited to any Claim held by individual plaintiffs or subrogated insurance carriers against the Public Entities for personal injuries,
property damage, reimbursement of insurance payments, and/or wrongful death that in any way arises out of or relates to the Fires.
1.174 Public Entities Wildfire Claim means any Fire Claim against the Debtors, including any Claim pleaded or asserted or that could have been pleaded or
asserted based on the factual allegations set forth in the Public Entities Operative Complaints or that were filed or could be filed by the Public Entities in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases whether arising under California law or any
other applicable law of the United States (state or federal) or any other jurisdiction, in each case whether such claims are absolute or contingent, direct or
indirect, known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, in contract, tort or in equity, under any theory of law.
1.175 PX means the California Power Exchange Corporation.
1.176 Reference Long-Term Senior Note Documents means the Indenture governing the 3.95% Senior Notes due December 1, 2047 referred to in clause (jj) in the
definition of Utility Senior Notes, including all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time
to time solely with respect to the 3.95% Senior Notes due December 1, 2047).
1.177 Reference Short-Term Senior Note Documents means the Indenture governing the 6.05% Senior Notes due March 1, 2034 referred to in clause (o) in the
definition of Utility Senior Notes, including all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time
to time solely with respect to the 6.05% Senior Notes due March 1, 2034).
1.178 Reinstatement means (a) leaving unaltered the legal, equitable, and contractual rights to which a Claim or Interest entitles the holder of such Claim or
Interest in accordance with section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (b) if applicable under section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to any class of Claims or Interests, (i) curing all prepetition and postpetition defaults other than
defaults specified in section 365(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code; (ii) reinstating the maturity date of the Claim or Interest as such maturity existed before the default; (iii) compensating the holder of such Claim or Interest for damages
incurred as a result of its reasonable reliance on a contractual provision or such applicable law allowing the Claim’s acceleration; (iv) compensating the holder of such Claim or Interest (other than the Debtors or insiders of the Debtors) for
actual pecuniary losses incurred by such holder arising from the failure to perform a nonmonetary obligation; and (v) not otherwise altering the legal, equitable or contractual rights to which the Claim or Interest entitles the holder thereof.
For the avoidance of doubt, such Claims or Interests are Reinstated when the requirements for Reinstatement have been met by the Debtors in
accordance with section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.179 Released Parties means, collectively, and in each case in their capacities as such: (a) the Debtors and Reorganized Debtors; (b) the Tort Claimants
Committee; (c) the DIP Facility Agents; (d) the DIP Facility Lenders; (e) the Exit Financing Agents; (f) the Exit Financing Lenders; (g) the Backstop Parties; (h) the Public Entities Releasing Parties; (i) the Consenting Creditors (solely in
their capacity as holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims); (j) the Shareholder Proponents; (k) the Consenting Noteholders; (l) the Funded Debt Trustees; and (m) with respect to each of the foregoing entities (a) through (l), such entities’
predecessors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries, affiliates, managed accounts and funds, current and former officers and directors, principals, equity holders, members, partners, managers, employees, subcontractors, agents, advisory board
members, restructuring advisors, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, investment bankers, consultants, representatives,
management companies, fund advisors (and employees thereof), and other professionals, and such entities’ respective heirs, executors, estates,
servants, and nominees, in each case in their capacity as such.
1.180 Releasing Parties means, collectively, and, in each case, in their capacities as such: (a) the Debtors; (b) the Reorganized Debtors, (c) any holder of a
Claim or Interest that is solicited and voluntarily indicates on a duly completed Ballot submitted on or before the Voting Deadline that such holder opts into granting the releases set forth in Section 10.9(b) of the Plan to the extent
permitted by applicable law, provided that for the avoidance of doubt any such a holder who does not indicate on their Ballot that they opt into
granting such releases shall not be a Releasing Party, provided further that such holder’s decision to opt-in or not to the releases shall not in any
way affect the classification or treatment of such Claim or Interest; (d) the DIP Facility Agents; (e) the DIP Facility Lenders; (f) the Exit Financing Agents; (g) the Exit Financing Lenders; (h) the Funded Debt Trustees; (i) the HoldCo
Revolver Lenders; (j) the HoldCo Term Loan Lenders; (k) the Utility Revolver Lenders; (l) the Utility Term Loan Lenders; (m) the holders of Utility Senior Note Claims; (n) the Public Entities Releasing Parties; (o) the Tort Claimants Committee;
(p) the Backstop Parties; (q) the Consenting Creditors; (r) the Consenting Noteholders; and (s) with respect to each of the foregoing entities (a) through (r), such entities’ predecessors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries, affiliates, managed
accounts and funds, current and former officers and directors, principals, equity holders, members, partners, managers, employees, subcontractors, agents, advisory board members, restructuring advisors, financial advisors, attorneys,
accountants, investment bankers, consultants, representatives, management companies, fund advisors (and employees thereof), and other professionals, and such entities’ respective heirs, executors, estates, servants, and nominees, in each case
in their capacity as such.
1.181 Reorganized Debtors means each of the Debtors, or any successor thereto, as reorganized, pursuant to and under the Plan, on and after the Effective
Date.
1.182 Reorganized HoldCo means HoldCo as reorganized, pursuant to and under the Plan, on and after the Effective Date.
1.183 Reorganized Utility means the Utility as reorganized, pursuant to and under the Plan, on and after the Effective Date.
1.184 Restructuring means the restructuring of the Debtors, the principal terms of which are set forth in the Plan, the Plan Documents and the Plan
Supplement.
1.185 Restructuring Transactions has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2(a) of the Plan.
1.186 Rights Offering means, if implemented, an offering pursuant to which each Eligible Offeree is entitled to receive subscription rights to acquire shares
of New HoldCo Common Stock in accordance with the Plan, the Rights Offering Procedures, and the Backstop Commitment Letters.
1.187 Requisite Consenting Creditors has the meaning set forth in Subrogation Claims RSA.
1.188 Rights Offering Procedures means, if applicable, the procedures governing and for the implementation of the Rights Offering, as approved by the
Bankruptcy Court.
1.189 Schedule of Assigned Rights and Causes of Action means the schedule to be included in the Plan Supplement that is consistent in all respects with the
definition of Assigned Rights and Causes of Action.
1.190 Schedule of Rejected Contracts means the schedule of executory contracts and unexpired leases to be rejected by the Debtors pursuant to the Plan, to be
filed as part of the Plan Supplement.
1.191 Schedules means the schedules of assets and liabilities and the statements of financial affairs filed by the Debtors under section 521 of the Bankruptcy
Code, Bankruptcy Rule 1007, and the Official Bankruptcy Forms of the Bankruptcy Rules as such schedules and statements have been or may be amended, supplemented, or modified from time to time.
1.192 Secured Claim means any Claim against a Debtor secured by a Lien on property in which a Debtor’s estate has an interest or that is subject to setoff
under section 553 of the Bankruptcy Code, to the extent of the value of the Claim holder’s interest in such estate’s interest in such property or to the extent of the amount subject to setoff, as applicable, as determined pursuant to sections
506(a) and, if applicable, 1129(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.193 Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.
1.194 Security has the meaning set forth in section 101(49) of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.194A Side A Policy means insurance maintained exclusively for the Debtors’ directors and officers and payable if and only if the D&O Liability Insurance
Policies with coverage that is shared by the Debtors and the directors and officers have been first exhausted or are otherwise unavailable and there is a covered non-indemnified loss, consistent with the terms and conditions of the applicable
policies.
1.195 Side B Insurance Coverage means all director and officer insurance policy proceeds paid by any insurance carrier to reimburse the Debtors for amounts
paid pursuant to their indemnification obligations to their former directors and officers in connection with any Assigned Rights or Causes of Action under Section 1.8 hereof.
1.196 Statutory Committees means collectively, the Creditors Committee and the Tort Claimants Committee.
1.197 Subordinated Debt Claim means any HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim and any Utility Subordinated Debt Claim.
1.198 Subrogation Butte Fire Claim means any Fire Claim arising from the Butte Fire (2015) that arises from subrogation (whether such subrogation is
contractual, equitable, or statutory), assignment (whether such assignment is contractual, equitable, or statutory), or otherwise in connection with payments made or to be made by the applicable insurer to insured tort victims, and whether
arising as a matter of state or federal law, including, without limitation, under section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code, including attorneys’ fees and interest. Subrogation Butte Fire Claims shall not include the claims of any Governmental Unit
(as defined in section 101(27) of the Bankruptcy Code).
1.199 Subrogation Claims RSA means that certain Restructuring Support Agreement, dated as of September 22, 2019, by and among the Debtors and the Consenting
Creditors, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, in accordance with its terms.
1.200 Subrogation Claims RSA Approval Order means the order of the Bankruptcy Court, dated December 19, 2019, approving the Subrogation Claims RSA and the
Allowance of the Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims as provided therein [Docket No. 5173].
1.201 Subrogation Wildfire Claim means any Fire Claim (other than a Fire Claim arising from the Butte Fire (2015)) that arises from subrogation (whether such
subrogation is contractual, equitable, or statutory), assignment (whether such assignment is contractual, equitable, or statutory), or otherwise in connection with payments made or to be made by the applicable insurer to insured tort victims,
and whether arising as a matter of state or federal law, including, without limitation, under section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code, including attorneys’ fees and interest. For the avoidance of doubt, Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall include both
“Paid” and “Reserved” claims, each as defined in the Subrogation Claims RSA. Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall not include (a) the claims of any Governmental Unit (as defined in section 101(27) of the Bankruptcy Code) or (b) any Fire Claim
asserting direct injury to a fire victim, regardless of whether the claimant is an insured and has received or will receive a recovery from their insurer, and any such claims are not the subject of, or compromised under, the Subrogation Claims
RSA.
1.202 Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement means the agreement entered into by and among certain holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims, and which
describes the procedures for the payment of Subrogation Wildfire Claims by the Subrogation Wildfire Trust, consistent with the terms of the Subrogation Claims RSA.
1.203 Subrogation Wildfire Trust means one or more trusts established on the Effective Date, in accordance with Section 6.4 of the Plan, to administer,
process, settle, resolve, liquidate, satisfy and pay all Subrogation Wildfire Claims.
1.204 Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board means the advisory board appointed by the holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims in accordance with the
Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement to oversee the Subrogation Wildfire Trust in accordance with the Plan, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement, and the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement.
1.205 Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement means that certain trust agreement or agreements substantially in the form included in the Plan Supplement, which
shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Ad Hoc Subrogation Group (as defined in the Subrogation Claims RSA) in accordance with the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement, and the Debtors (whose consent will not be
unreasonably withheld).
1.206 Subrogation Wildfire Trustee means the Person selected by the holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims in accordance with the Subrogation Wildfire Claim
Allocation Agreement to serve as the trustee or trustees of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust, and any successor thereto, in each case, appointed pursuant to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement; provided that, in the event the Debtors intend that a Subrogation Wildfire Trust will be funded (at least in part) through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, the identity of the Person or Persons
to be selected to serve as the trustee of such Subrogation Wildfire Trust shall not impair the use of tax-exempt financing.
1.207 Tax Benefits mean the difference between the income taxes actually paid by the Reorganized Utility and the income taxes that the Reorganized Utility
would have paid to the taxing authorities for such taxable year absent the net operating losses of the Utility and any deductions arising from the payment of Fire Victim Claims and Subrogation Wildfire Claims.
1.208 Tax Benefits Payment Agreement means an agreement between the Reorganized Utility and the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to which the Reorganized Utility
agrees (a) to pay to the Fire Victim Trust an amount of cash equal to (i) up to $650 million of Tax Benefits for fiscal year 2020 to be paid on or before January 15, 2021 (the “First Payment Date”); and (ii) up to $700 million of Tax Benefits for fiscal year 2021 to be paid on or before January 15, 2022 (the “Final
Payment Date”) plus the amount of any shortfall of the payments owed on the First Payment Date and the Final Payment Date so that on the Final Payment Date, the Fire Victim Trust shall have received payments under the Tax Benefits
Payment Agreement in an aggregate cash amount of $1.350 billion from Tax Benefits or draws upon letters of credit under the terms of this definition or otherwise; (b) in the event that Tax Benefits in fiscal year 2020 exceed $650 million, the
Reorganized Utility shall use such excess Tax Benefits to prepay, on or before the First Payment Date the amount of Tax Benefits to be paid for fiscal year 2021; (c) in the event that payments from the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement received on
or before the First Payment Date are less than $650 million for any reason (a “First Payment Shortfall”), the Reorganized Utility shall deliver to the Fire
Victim Trust an unconditional, standby letter of credit, payable at sight (with no approval or confirmation from the Reorganized Utility or other drawing conditions) and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Fire Victim Trustee,
naming the Fire Victim Trust as beneficiary the (“LOC”), from an institution acceptable to the Fire Victim Trust within fifteen (15) business days of the
First Payment Date (the “LOC Issuance Date”) in an amount to cover such First Payment Shortfall, which may be presented to the issuing bank for payment to
the Fire Victim Trust on January 18, 2022 to the extent that any amounts remain owing to the Fire Victim Trust under the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement on that date; (d) if the Reorganized Utility has not delivered such letter of credit within
ten (10) days of the LOC Issuance Date, then the Fire Victim Trust shall have the right to file a stipulated judgment against the Reorganized Utility,
which executed stipulated judgment shall be an exhibit to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement, in the amount of the First Payment Shortfall based
on a declaration by the Fire Victim Trustee of the Reorganized Utility’s failure to comply with this requirement of the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement; (e) in the event that payments from the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement and LOC received on or
before the Final Payment Date are less than $1.350 billion for any reason (a “Final Payment Shortfall”) then on February 9, 2022, the Fire Victim Trust shall
have the right to file a stipulated judgment against the Reorganized Utility, which executed stipulated judgment shall be an exhibit to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement, in the amount of the Final Payment Shortfall based on a declaration by the
Fire Victim Trustee of the Reorganized Utility’s failure to comply with this requirement of the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement; (f) in the event there is a change of control as defined within the meaning of Section of 382 of the Internal Revenue
Code after and other than as a result of the occurrence of the Effective Date, if any, all such payments provided for in (a)(i) and (ii) shall become automatically due and payable within fifteen days of such change in control (and the letter of
credit, if issued, may be drawn); and (g) in the event that the Reorganized Utility obtains financing that monetizes or is otherwise secured by any Tax Benefits, the Reorganized Utility shall use the first $1.350 billion in proceeds of such
financing to make all payments in (a)(i) and (ii) above to the Fire Victim Trust on January 15, 2021.
1.209 Tax Code means title 26 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time.
1.210 Tort Claimants Committee means the official committee of tort claimants appointed by the U.S. Trustee in the Chapter 11 Cases pursuant to section 1102
of the Bankruptcy Code.
1.211 Tort Claimants RSA means that certain Restructuring Support Agreement, dated December 6, 2019, by and among the Debtors, the Tort Claimants Committee,
the Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals, and the Shareholder Proponents, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, in accordance with its terms.
1.212 Trading Order means the Final Order Pursuant to Sections 105(a) and
362 of the Bankruptcy Code Establishing (1) Notification Procedures and Certain Restrictions Regarding Ownership and Acquisitions of Stock of the Debtors and (2) a Record Date Regarding the Ownership of Claims Against the Debtors with Respect
to Certain Notification and Sell-Down Procedures and Requirements, dated March 27, 2019 [Docket No. 1094].
1.213 U.S. Trustee means Andrew S. Vara, Acting United States Trustee for Regions 3 and 9, or such other person appointed to serve as the United States
Trustee in respect of the Chapter 11 Cases.
1.214 Unimpaired means, with respect to a Claim, Interest, or Class of Claims or Interests, not “impaired” within the meaning of section 1124 of the
Bankruptcy Code.
1.215 Utility means Debtor Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California corporation.
1.216 Utility Common Interest means any Interest in the Utility that is not a Utility Preferred Interest.
1.217 Utility Environmental Claim means any Environmental Claim against the Utility.
1.218 Utility Fire Victim Claim means any Fire Victim Claim against the Utility.
1.219 Utility Funded Debt Claim means any Claim arising under, or related to, the Utility Funded Debt Documents.
1.220 Utility Funded Debt Claim Interest and Charges Amount means the sum of (i) interest on the applicable Utility Funded Debt Claim Principal Amount that
was accrued and unpaid prior to the Petition Date calculated using the applicable non-default contract rate, (ii) reasonable fees and charges and other obligations owed as of the Petition Date to the extent provided in the applicable Utility
Funded Debt Document, (iii) reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses of counsel to the agents and certain lenders under the Utility Revolver Documents and Utility Term Loan Documents and certain holders of claims under PC Bond LOC Documents
solely to the extent provided in the applicable Utility Funded Debt Document, not to exceed $7 million in the aggregate; and (iv) interest calculated using the Federal Judgment Rate on the sum of the applicable Utility Funded Debt Claim
Principal Amount plus the amounts in clauses (i) and (ii) of this definition for the period commencing on the day after the Petition Date (or with respect to a Utility Funded Debt Claim based upon a PC Bond LOC Document, the later of the day
after the Petition Date and the date on which such reimbursement obligation was actually paid) and ending on the Effective Date.
1.221 Utility Funded Debt Claim Principal Amount means the portion of an Utility Funded Debt Claim consisting of principal outstanding as of the Petition
Date, or, with respect to claims under a PC Bond LOC Document, the reimbursement obligation, actually paid under such PC Bond LOC Document.
1.222 Utility Funded Debt Documents means, collectively, the (i) Utility Revolver Documents, (ii) Utility Term Loan Documents, and (iii) PC Bond Documents.
1.223 Utility General Unsecured Claim means any General Unsecured Claim against the Utility.
1.224 Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claim means any Ghost Ship Fire Claim against the Utility.
1.225 Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim Interest Amount means the sum of (i) interest on the applicable Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim Principal Amount
that was accrued and unpaid prior to the Petition Date calculated using the applicable non-default contract rate plus (ii) interest calculated using the Federal Judgment Rate on the sum of the applicable principal of an Utility Impaired Senior
Note Claim plus the amount in clause (i) of
this definition for the period commencing on the day after the Petition Date and ending on the Effective Date.
1.226 Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim Principal Amount means the portion of an
Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim consisting of principal outstanding as of the Petition Date.
1.227 Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims means any Claim arising under, or related to, the Utility Impaired Senior Note Documents.
1.228 Utility Impaired Senior Note Documents means, collectively, the Utility Senior Notes Indentures governing the Utility Impaired Senior Notes, including
all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.229 Utility Impaired Senior Notes means, collectively, the following series of notes issued by the Utility pursuant to the Utility Senior Notes Indentures:
(a) 6.05% Senior Notes due 2034; (b) 5.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2037; (c) 6.35% Senior Notes due February 15, 2038; (d) 6.25% Senior Notes due March 1, 2039; (e) 5.40% Senior Notes due January 15, 2040; and (f) 5.125% Senior Notes due
November 15, 2043.
1.230 Utility Intercompany Claim means any Intercompany Claim against the Utility.
1.231 Utility Issuing Lender means an Issuing Lender (as defined in the Utility Revolver Credit Agreement).
1.232 Utility Letters of Credit means any letters of credit issued by a Utility Revolver Lender pursuant to the Utility Revolver Documents.
1.233 Utility Other Secured Claim means any Other Secured Claim against the Utility.
1.234 Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim means any Claim arising under, or related to, the PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Documents.
1.235 Utility Preferred Interest means any Interest in the Utility which results or arises from preferred stock issued by the Utility.
1.236 Utility Priority Non-Tax Claim means any Priority Non-Tax Claim against the Utility.
1.237 Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claim means any Public Entities Wildfire Claim against the Utility.
1.238 Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims means any Claim arising under, or related to, the Utility Reinstated Senior Note Documents.
1.239 Utility Reinstated Senior Note Documents means, collectively, the Utility Senior Notes Indentures governing the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes,
including all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.240 Utility Reinstated Senior Notes means, collectively, all notes issued by the Utility under the Utility Senior Notes Indentures that (a) will not have
matured in accordance with their terms as of September 30, 2020; and (b) are not (x) Utility Impaired Senior Notes or (y) Utility Short-Term Senior Notes.
1.241 Utility Revolver Agent means Citibank, N.A., solely in its capacity as administrative agent under the Utility Revolver Documents, its successors,
assigns, or any replacement agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Utility Revolver Documents.
1.242 Utility Revolver Credit Agreement means that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2015, by and among Utility, the
Utility Revolver Agent, and the Utility Revolver Lenders, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
1.243 Utility Revolver Documents means, collectively, the Utility Revolver Credit Agreement and all other “Loan Documents” (as defined therein), including all
other agreements, documents, and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.244 Utility Revolver Lenders means the lenders under the Utility Revolver Credit Agreement and each other party that becomes a lender thereunder from time
to time in accordance with the terms of the Utility Revolver Credit Agreement.
1.245 Utility Senior Note Claim means, collectively, Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims, Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims, and Utility Short-Term Senior
Note Claims.
1.246 Utility Senior Notes means, collectively, the following series of notes issued by the Utility pursuant to the Utility Senior Notes Indentures: (a) 3.50%
Senior Notes due October 1, 2020; (b) 4.25% Senior Notes due May 15, 2021; (c) 3.25% Senior Notes due September 15, 2021; (d) 2.45% Senior Notes due August 15, 2022; (e) 3.25% Senior Notes due June 15, 2023; (f) 4.25% Senior Notes due August 1,
2023; (g) 3.85% Senior Notes due November 15, 2023; (h) 3.75% Senior Notes due February 15, 2024; (i) 3.40% Senior Notes due August 15, 2024; (j) 3.50% Senior Notes due June 15, 2025, (k) 2.95% Senior Notes due March 1, 2026; (l) 3.30% Senior
Notes due March 15, 2027; (m) 3.30% Senior Notes due December 1, 2027; (n) 4.65% Senior Notes due August 1, 2028; (o) 6.05% Senior Notes due March 1, 2034; (p) 5.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2037; (q) 6.35% Senior Notes due
February 15, 2038; (r) 6.25% Senior Notes due March 1, 2039; (s) 5.40% Senior Notes due January 15, 2040; (t) 4.50% Senior Notes due December 15,
2041; (u) 4.45% Senior Notes due April 15, 2042; (v) 3.75% Senior Notes due August 15, 2042; (w) 4.60% Senior Notes due June 15, 2043; (x) 5.125% Senior Notes due November 15, 2043; (y) 4.75% Senior Notes due February 15, 2044; (z) 4.30% Senior
Notes due March 15, 2045; (aa) 4.25% Senior Notes due March 15, 2046; (bb) 4.00% Senior Notes due December 1, 2046; and (cc) 3.95% Senior Notes due December 1, 2047.
1.247 Utility Senior Notes Documents means, collectively, the Utility Senior Notes Indentures, the Utility Senior Notes, and all other agreements, documents,
and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, restated, modified, or supplemented from time to time).
1.248 Utility Senior Notes Indentures means, the following senior notes indentures and supplemental indentures, between the Utility, as issuer, and the
Utility Senior Notes Trustee, governing the Utility Senior Notes, including all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or
otherwise modified from time to time): (a) Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005, Supplementing, Amending and Restating the Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of March 11, 2004, as supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March
23, 2004 and a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 12, 2004 (“Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of April 22, 2005”); (b) First
Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of March 13, 2007 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture Dated as of April 22, 2005; (c) Third Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of March 3, 2008 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture,
Dated as of April 22, 2005; (d) Sixth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of March 6, 2009 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (e) Seventh Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of June 11, 2009 – Supplement
to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005 (f) Eighth Supplemental Indenture Dated as of November 18, 2009 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture Dated as of April 22, 2005; (g) Ninth Supplemental Indenture,
Dated as of April 1, 2010 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (h) Tenth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of September 15, 2010 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22,
2005; (i) Twelfth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of November 18, 2010 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (j) Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture Dated as of May 13, 2011 – Supplement to the Amended
and Restated Indenture Dated as of April 22, 2005; (k) Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture Dated as of September 12, 2011 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture Dated as of April 22, 2005; (l) Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture, Dated
as of December 1, 2011 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (m) Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of April 16, 2012 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22,
2005; (n) Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of August 16, 2012 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (o) Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of June 14, 2013 – Supplement to the
Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (p) Twentieth Supplemental
Indenture, Dated as of November 12, 2013 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (q) Twenty-First
Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of February 21, 2014 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (r) Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of August 18, 2014 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated
Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (s) Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of November 6, 2014 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (t) Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of
June 12, 2015 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (u) Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of November 5, 2015 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005;
(v) Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of March 1, 2016 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (w) Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of December 1, 2016 – Supplement to the
Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (x) Twenty-Ninth Supplemental Indenture, Dated as of March 10, 2017 – Supplement to the Amended and Restated Indenture, Dated as of April 22, 2005; (y) Indenture, Dated as of November
29, 2017; (z) Indenture, Dated as of August 6, 2018; and (aa) First Supplemental Indenture Dated as of August 6, 2018, to Indenture, Dated as of August 6, 2018.
1.249 Utility Senior Notes Trustee means BOKF, N.A., as successor indenture trustee to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company solely in its capacity as
indenture trustee under the Utility Senior Notes Indentures for the applicable Utility Senior Notes, and their successors and assigns.
1.250 Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims means any Claim arising under, or related to, the Utility Short-Term Senior Note Documents.
1.251 Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim Interest Amount means the sum of (i) interest on the applicable Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim Principal
Amount that was accrued and unpaid prior to the Petition Date calculated using the applicable non-default contract rate plus (ii) interest calculated using the Federal Judgment Rate on the sum of the applicable principal of an Utility
Short-Term Senior Note Claim plus the amount in clause (i) of this definition for the period commencing on the day after the Petition Date and ending on the Effective Date.
1.252 Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim Principal Amount means the portion of an Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim consisting of principal outstanding
as of the Petition Date.
1.253 Utility Short-Term Senior Note Documents means, collectively, the Utility Senior Notes Indentures governing Utility Short-Term Senior Notes, including
all agreements, notes, instruments, and any other documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.254 Utility Short-Term Senior Notes means, collectively, the following series of notes issued by the Utility pursuant to the Utility Senior Notes
Indentures: (a) 3.50% Senior Notes due October 1, 2020; (b) 4.25% Senior Notes due May 15, 2021; (c) 3.25% Senior Notes due September 15, 2021; and (d) 2.45% Senior Notes due August 15, 2022.
1.255 Utility Subordinated Debt Claim means any Claim against the Utility that is subject to subordination under section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code,
including any Claim for reimbursement, indemnification or contribution.
1.256 Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claim means any Subrogation Wildfire Claim against the Utility.
1.257 Utility Term Loan Agent means The Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., solely in its capacity as administrative agent under the Utility Term Loan
Documents, its successors, assigns, or any replacement agent appointed pursuant to the terms of the Utility Term Loan Documents.
1.258 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of February 23, 2018, by and among the Utility as borrower, the
Utility Term Loan Agent, and the Utility Term Loan Lenders, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
1.259 Utility Term Loan Documents means, collectively, the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement and all other “Loan Documents” (as defined therein), including
all other agreements, documents, and instruments delivered or entered into pursuant thereto or entered into in connection therewith (in each case, as amended, supplemented, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time).
1.260 Utility Term Loan Lenders means the lenders under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement and each other party that becomes a lender thereunder from time
to time in accordance with the terms of the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement.
1.261 Utility Workers’ Compensation Claim means any Workers’ Compensation Claim against the Utility.
1.262 Voting Deadline means May 15, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. (Prevailing Pacific Time) or such other date set by the Bankruptcy Court by which all completed Ballots
must be received.
1.263 Wildfire Assistance Program means the Wildfire Assistance Program established and administered pursuant to the Wildfire Assistance Program Orders.
1.264 Wildfire Assistance Program Orders means, collectively, the Order
Authorizing Debtors to Establish and Fund Program to Assist Wildfire Claimants with Alternative Living Expenses and Other Urgent Needs and (b) Granting Related Relief, dated May 24, 2019 [Docket No. 2223], the Supplemental Order (a) Approving Appointment of Administrator and Establishing Guidelines for the Wildfire Assistance Program and (b)
Granting Related Relief, dated June 5, 2019 [Docket No.
2409], and the Order (a) Establishing Qualified Settlement Fund for the Wildfire Assistance Program and (b) Authorizing QSF Administrator, dated July 17,
2019 [Docket No. 3026].
1.265 Wildfire Insurance Policy means any Insurance Policy that was issued or allegedly issued that does or may afford the Debtors rights, benefits,
indemnity, or insurance coverage with respect to any Fire Claim.
1.266 Wildfire Insurance Proceeds means any proceeds received by the Debtors under a Wildfire Insurance Policy.
1.267 Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054) means A.B. 1054, 2019 Assemb. (Cal. 2019).
1.268 Wildfire Trust Agreements means, collectively, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement and the Fire Victim Trust Agreement.
1.269 Wildfire Trusts means, collectively, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and the Fire Victim Trust.
1.270 Workers’ Compensation Claims means any Claim against the Debtors by an employee of the Debtors for the payment of workers’ compensation benefits under
applicable law.
INTERPRETATION; APPLICATION OF DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
For purposes herein: (a) the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto,” “hereunder,” and other words of similar import refer to the Plan as a whole and
not to any particular section, subsection, or clause contained therein; (b) in the appropriate context, each term, whether stated in the singular or the plural, shall include both the singular and the plural, and pronouns stated in the masculine,
feminine, or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine, and the neuter gender; (c) except as otherwise provided, any reference herein to a contract, lease, instrument, release, indenture, or other agreement or document being in a
particular form or on particular terms and conditions means that the referenced document shall be substantially in that form or substantially on those terms and conditions; (d) the words “include” and “including,” and variations thereof, shall
not be deemed to be terms of limitation, and shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation;” (e) a term used herein that is not defined herein or by cross reference shall have the meaning assigned to that term in the Bankruptcy
Code; (f) the rules of construction contained in section 102 of the Bankruptcy Code shall apply to the Plan; (g) the headings in the Plan are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the provisions hereof; (h) in
the event that a particular term of the Plan (including any exhibits or schedules hereto) conflicts with a particular term of the definitive documentation required to be implemented pursuant to the terms of the Plan or any settlement or other
agreement contemplated hereunder, the Plan shall control; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent the Confirmation Order conflicts with the
Plan, the Confirmation Order shall control for all purposes; (i) except as otherwise provided, any reference herein to an existing document or exhibit having been filed or to be filed shall mean that document or exhibit, as it may thereafter be
amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms of the Plan; (j) any effectuating provisions may be interpreted by the Reorganized Debtors in a manner consistent with the overall purpose and intent of the Plan
and the Confirmation Order; (k) any effectuating provisions relating to the Fire Victim Claims, Fire Victim Trust, Subrogation Wildfire Claims, or Subrogation Wildfire Trust may be interpreted by the Fire Victim Trustee or the Subrogation
Wildfire Trustee, as applicable, in a manner consistent with the overall purpose and intent of the Plan, all without further notice to or action, order, or approval of the court or any other entity, and such interpretation shall control in all
respects to the extent permitted by the Fire Victim Trust Agreement, Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures, Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement, and Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement, as applicable; (l) except as otherwise
provided, any reference to the Effective Date shall mean the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter; and (m) any docket number references in the Plan shall refer to the docket number of any document filed with the
Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases.
CERTAIN CONSENT RIGHTS.
Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, and without limiting the Debtors’ fiduciary duties, any and all consent rights of any party
set forth in the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, or any other plan support agreement that the Debtors hereafter enter into with any
other parties with respect to the form and substance of this Plan, the Plan Supplement, the Plan Documents, including any amendments, restatements, supplements, or other modifications to such documents, and any consents, waivers, or other
deviations under or from any such documents, shall be incorporated herein by this reference (including to the applicable definitions in Article I
hereof) and fully enforceable as if stated in full herein until such time as the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the
Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, or, as applicable, such other plan support agreements, are terminated in accordance with their terms.
ARTICLE II.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS, PRIORITY TAX CLAIMS AND OTHER
UNCLASSIFIED CLAIMS
2.1 Administrative Expense Claims. In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and
discharge of any Allowed Administrative Expense Claim against a Debtor, except to the extent the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of an Allowed Administrative Expense Claim against a Debtor agrees to a less favorable
treatment of such Administrative Expense Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, each holder of an Allowed Administrative Expense Claim shall receive, in full and final satisfaction, settlement, and
discharge of such Allowed Administrative Expense Claim, an amount in Cash equal to the Allowed amount of such Administrative Expense Claim; provided that any
Allowed Administrative Expense Claim that is not due and payable prior to the Effective Date, shall be paid by the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice and in
accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of any orders or agreements governing, instruments evidencing, or other documents establishing, such liabilities. For the avoidance of doubt, no Administrative Expense Claims shall be
discharged pursuant to the Plan, other than Allowed Administrative Expense Claims that have been paid in Cash or otherwise satisfied in the ordinary course in an amount equal to the Allowed amount of such Claim on or prior to the Effective
Date.
2.2 Professional Fee Claims.
(a) All final requests for the payment of
Professional Fee Claims against a Debtor, including any Professional Fee Claim incurred during the period from the Petition Date through and including the Effective Date, must be filed and served on the Reorganized Debtors no later than sixty
(60) days after the Effective Date. All such final requests will be subject to approval by the Bankruptcy Court after notice and a hearing in accordance with the procedures established by the Bankruptcy Code, the Interim Compensation Order, and
any other prior orders of the Bankruptcy Court regarding the payment of Professionals in the Chapter 11 Cases, and once approved by the Bankruptcy Court, promptly paid in Cash in the Allowed amount from the Professional Fee Escrow Account. If
the Professional Fee Escrow Account is insufficient to fund the full Allowed amount of all Professional Fee Claims, remaining unpaid Allowed Professional Fee Claims will be allocated among and paid in full in Cash directly by the Reorganized
Debtors.
(b) Prior to the Effective Date, the Debtors shall
establish and fund the Professional Fee Escrow Account with Cash equal to the Professional Fee Reserve Amount. Such funds shall not be considered property of the estates of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors. Any amounts remaining in the
Professional Fee Escrow Account after payment in full of all Allowed Professional Fee Claims shall promptly be paid to the Reorganized Debtors without any further action or order of the Bankruptcy Court.
(c) No later than ten (10) Business Days prior to the
Effective Date, each Professional shall provide the restructuring advisors for the Debtors with an estimate of its unpaid Professional Fee Claims incurred in rendering services to the Debtors or their estates before and as of the Effective
Date; provided, that such estimate shall not be deemed to limit the amount of fees and expenses that are the subject of the Professional’s final request
for payment of its Professional Fee Claims whether from the Professional Fee Escrow Account or, if insufficient, from the Reorganized Debtors. If a Professional does not timely provide an estimate as set forth above, the Debtors or Reorganized
Debtors shall estimate the unpaid and unbilled fees and expenses of such Professional for purposes of funding the Professional Fee Escrow Account. The total amount of Professional Fee Claims estimated pursuant to this Section shall comprise the
Professional Fee Reserve Amount. The Professional Fee Reserve Amount, as well as the return of any excess funds in the Professional Fee Escrow Account after all Allowed Professional Fee Claims have been paid in full, shall be allocated to the
applicable Debtor for whose benefit such Professional Fees Claims were incurred.
(d) Except as otherwise specifically provided in the
Plan, from and after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors shall, in the ordinary course of business and without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Bankruptcy Court, pay in Cash the reasonable and documented legal,
professional, or other fees and expenses incurred by the Reorganized Debtors. Upon the Effective Date, any requirement that Professionals comply with sections 327 through 331, 363, and 1103 of the Bankruptcy Code in seeking retention or
compensation for services rendered after such date shall terminate, and the Reorganized Debtors may employ and pay any professional in the ordinary course of business without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Bankruptcy
Court.
2.3 DIP Facility Claims. In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge
of the Allowed DIP Facility Claims against the Debtors (subject to the last sentence of this Section 2.3), on the Effective Date, such Allowed DIP Facility Claims shall be paid in full in Cash by the Debtors in the Allowed amount of such DIP
Facility Claims and all commitments under the DIP Facility Documents shall terminate. On the Effective Date, any DIP Letters of Credit outstanding shall be replaced or canceled and returned to the issuing DIP Facility Lender in accordance with
the terms of the applicable DIP Letter of Credit and the DIP Facility Documents. Upon the indefeasible payment or satisfaction in full in Cash of the DIP Facility Claims (other than any DIP Facility Claims based on the Debtors’ contingent
obligations under the DIP Facility Documents not yet due and payable), the termination of all commitments thereunder, and the replacement, return, collateralization or backstop of all outstanding DIP Letters of Credit in accordance with the
terms of this Plan, on the Effective Date, all Liens granted to secure such obligations automatically shall be terminated and of no further force and effect.
2.4 Priority Tax Claims. In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge
of any Allowed Priority Tax Claim against a Debtor, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of an Allowed Priority Tax Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, each holder of an
Allowed Priority Tax Claim shall receive, at the option of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, (a) Cash in an amount equal to such Allowed Priority Tax Claim on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, or (b) Cash, in
equal semi-annual installments and continuing over a period not exceeding five (5) years from and after the Petition Date, together with interest accrued thereon at the applicable nonbankruptcy rate, which as to
any Allowed Priority Tax Claim of the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of the United States shall be the applicable rate specified by the Tax Code, as of the
Confirmation Date, applied pursuant to section 511 of the Bankruptcy Code, subject to the sole option of the Reorganized Debtors to prepay the entire amount of the Allowed Priority Tax Claim. Any Allowed Priority Tax Claim that is not due and
payable on or before the Effective Date shall be paid in the ordinary course of business as such obligation becomes due, together with any interest due at the applicable nonbankruptcy rate.
ARTICLE III.
CLASSIFICATION OF CLAIMS AND INTERESTS
3.1 Classification in General. A Claim or Interest is placed in a particular Class for all
purposes, including voting, confirmation, and distribution under the Plan and under sections 1122 and 1123(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code; provided that a
Claim or Interest is placed in a particular Class for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to the Plan only to the extent that such Claim or Interest is an Allowed Claim or Allowed Interest in that Class and such Allowed Claim or
Allowed Interest has not been satisfied, released, or otherwise settled prior to the Effective Date.
3.2 Summary of Classification.
(a) The following table designates the Classes of
Claims against, and Interests in, the Debtors and specifies which of those Classes are (i) Impaired or Unimpaired by the Plan, (ii) entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan in accordance with section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code, and (iii)
presumed to accept or deemed to reject the Plan. In accordance with section 1123(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, Administrative Expense Claims and Priority Tax Claims have not been classified.
Class
|
Designation
|
Impairment
|
Entitled to Vote
|
Claims Against and Interests in HoldCo
|
Class 1A
|
HoldCo Other Secured Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 2A
|
HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 3A
|
HoldCo Funded Debt Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 4A
|
HoldCo General Unsecured Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 5A-I
|
HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5A-II
|
HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5A-III
|
HoldCo Fire Victim Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5A-IV
|
HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 6A
|
HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 7A
|
HoldCo Environmental Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 8A
|
HoldCo Intercompany Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 9A
|
HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 10A-I
|
HoldCo Common Interests
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 10A-II
|
HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 11A
|
HoldCo Other Interests
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Claims Against and Interests in the Utility
|
Class 1B
|
Utility Other Secured Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 2B
|
Utility Priority Non-Tax Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 3B-I
|
Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 3B-II
|
Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 3B-III
|
Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 3B-IV
|
Utility Funded Debt Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 3B-V
|
Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 4B
|
Utility General Unsecured Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 5B-I
|
Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5B-II
|
Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5B-III
|
Utility Fire Victim Claims
|
Impaired
|
Yes
|
Class 5B-IV
|
Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 6B
|
Utility Workers’ Compensation Claims
|
Unimpaired
|
No (presumed to accept)
|
Class 7B
|
2001 Utility Exchange Claims
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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Class 8B
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Utility Environmental Claims
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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Class 9B
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Utility Intercompany Claims
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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Class 10B
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Utility Subordinated Debt Claims
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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Class 11B
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Utility Preferred Interests
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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Class 12B
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Utility Common Interests
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Unimpaired
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No (presumed to accept)
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3.3 Separate Classification of Other Secured Claims. Each Other Secured Claim, to the
extent secured by a Lien on Collateral different from the Collateral securing another Other Secured Claim, shall be treated as being in a separate sub-Class for the purposes of receiving distributions under this Plan.
3.4 Nonconsensual Confirmation. In the event any Impaired Class of Claims or Interests
entitled to vote on the Plan does not accept the Plan by the requisite statutory majority under
section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, then the Debtors reserve the right to undertake to have the Bankruptcy Court confirm the Plan under section 1129(b) of the
Bankruptcy Code.
3.5 Debtors’ Rights in Respect of Unimpaired Claims. Except as otherwise provided in this
Plan, nothing under this Plan shall affect the rights of the Reorganized Debtors in respect of any Claim that is not “impaired” (within the meaning of such term in section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code), including all rights in respect of legal
and equitable defenses to, or setoffs or recoupments against, any such Claim.
ARTICLE IV.
TREATMENT OF CLAIMS AND INTERESTS
4.1 Class 1A – HoldCo Other Secured Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed HoldCo Other Secured Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of
an Allowed HoldCo Other Secured Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo Other Secured Claim shall, at the option of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, (i) retain its HoldCo Other Secured Claim
and the Collateral securing such Claim; (ii) receive Cash in an amount equal to such Allowed Claim, including the payment of any interest due and payable under section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, on the Effective Date or as soon as
reasonably practicable thereafter, but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the later to occur of (A) the Effective Date and (B) the date such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim; or (iii) receive treatment of such Allowed HoldCo Other
Secured Claim in any other manner that is necessary to satisfy the requirements of section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code. In the event a HoldCo Other Secured Claim is treated under clause (ii) of this Section 4.1(a), the Liens securing such Other
Secured Claim shall be deemed released immediately upon payment.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Other Secured Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Other Secured Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.2 Class 2A – HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder
of an Allowed HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claim shall receive, at the option of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable (i) Cash in
an amount equal to such Allowed HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claim, including interest through the Effective Date calculated at the Federal Judgment Rate, payable on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, or (ii) such
other treatment consistent with the provisions of section 1129(a)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Priority Non-Tax Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.3 Class 3A: HoldCo Funded Debt Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed HoldCo Funded Debt Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of an
Allowed HoldCo Funded Debt Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo Funded Debt Claim shall receive Cash in an amount equal
to (i) the principal amount outstanding as of the Petition Date of such holder’s HoldCo Funded Debt Claim plus all accrued and unpaid interest owed as of the Petition Date at the non-default contract rate; (ii) all interest accrued from the
Petition Date through the Effective Date at the Federal Judgment Rate; and (iii) fees and charges and other obligations owed through the Effective Date, solely to the extent provided for under the HoldCo Term Loan Documents or the HoldCo
Revolver Documents, as applicable.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Funded Debt Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Funded Debt Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.4 Class 4A:
HoldCo General Unsecured Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed HoldCo General Unsecured Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a
holder of an Allowed HoldCo General Unsecured Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the later to occur
of (i) the Effective Date and (ii) the date such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo General Unsecured Claim shall receive Cash in an amount equal to such holder’s Allowed HoldCo General Unsecured Claim. The Allowed
amount of any HoldCo General Unsecured Claim shall include all interest accrued from the Petition Date through the date of distribution at the Federal Judgment Rate.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo General Unsecured Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of HoldCo General Unsecured Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.5 Class 5A-I – HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims shall be deemed satisfied, settled, released and discharged through the treatment provided to Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims.
HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims shall be satisfied solely from the Cash amount of $1.0 billion and the Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund, as described in Section 4.24(a) of the Plan.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims are Impaired, and holders of HoldCo Public Entities Wildfire Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.6 Class 5A-II
– HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be deemed satisfied, settled, released and discharged through the treatment provided to Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims. Pursuant to
the Channeling Injunction, each holder of a HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claim shall have its Claim permanently channeled to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust, and such Claim shall be asserted exclusively against the Subrogation Wildfire Trust in
accordance with its terms, with no recourse to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets and properties.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims are Impaired, and holders of HoldCo Subrogation Wildfire Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.7 Class 5A-III – HoldCo Fire Victim Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all HoldCo Fire Victim Claims shall be deemed satisfied, settled, released and discharged through the treatment provided to Utility Fire Victim Claims. Pursuant to the Channeling
Injunction, each holder of a HoldCo Fire Victim Claim shall have its Claim permanently channeled to the Fire Victim Trust, and such Claim shall be asserted exclusively against the Fire Victim Trust in accordance with its terms, with no recourse
to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets and properties.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Fire Victim Claims are Impaired, and holders of HoldCo Fire Victim Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.8 Class 5A-IV – HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against Reorganized HoldCo as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced, provided that as provided in the Bankruptcy Court’s Order Re: Motion for
Relief From Automatic Stay to Permit the Courts of the State of California to Conduct a Jury Trial and Related Pretrial and Post Trial Matters in Connection with the Ghost Ship Fire Cases [Docket No. 5280] any recovery or payment with
respect to the HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims shall be limited solely to amounts available under the Debtors’ Insurance (as such term is defined in such Order, including any remaining Self Insured Retention that may still be available at the
time of any settlement or final judgment). Under no circumstances shall any holder of a HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claim be entitled to receive any recovery from the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets or properties other
than as provided in the immediately preceding sentence.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Ghost Ship Fire Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.9 Class 6A – HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against Reorganized HoldCo as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of HoldCo Workers’ Compensation Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.10 Class 7A – HoldCo Environmental Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a HoldCo Environmental Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against Reorganized HoldCo as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced, and each
Environmental Performance Obligation against HoldCo shall also survive the Effective Date as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Environmental Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of HoldCo Environmental Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.11 Class 8A – HoldCo Intercompany Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all Allowed HoldCo Intercompany Claims shall either be (i) cancelled (or otherwise eliminated) and receive no distribution under the Plan or (ii) Reinstated, in each case as
determined in the sole discretion of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Intercompany Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Intercompany Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.12 Class 9A – HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of
an Allowed HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim shall receive Cash in
an amount equal to such holder’s Allowed HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claim.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Subordinated Debt Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.13 Class 10A-I – HoldCo Common Interests.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, subject to the New Organizational Documents, each holder of a HoldCo Common Interest shall retain such Interest subject to dilution
from any New HoldCo Common Stock, or securities linked to New HoldCo Common Stock, issued pursuant to the Plan and, if applicable, shall receive a pro rata
distribution of any subscription rights to be distributed to holders of HoldCo Common Interests in connection with a Rights Offering.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Common Interests are Impaired, and the holders of HoldCo Common Interests are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.14 Class 10A-II – HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder
of an Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the later to occur of (i)
the Effective Date and (ii) the date such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim, each holder of an Allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim shall receive a number of shares of New HoldCo Common Stock equal to such holder’s HoldCo Rescission or Damage
Claim Share.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims are Impaired, and the holders of HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.15 Class 11A – HoldCo Other Interests.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, each holder of a HoldCo Other Interest shall have such holder’s HoldCo Other Interest Reinstated.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The HoldCo Other Interests are Unimpaired, and the holders of HoldCo Other Interests are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.16 Class 1B – Utility Other Secured Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed Utility Other Secured Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of
an Allowed Utility Other Secured Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, each holder of an Allowed Utility Other Secured Claim shall, at the option of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, (i) retain its Utility Other Secured
Claim and the Collateral securing such Claim; (ii) receive Cash in an amount equal to such Allowed Claim, including the payment of any interest due and payable under section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, on the Effective Date or as soon as
reasonably practicable thereafter, but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the later to occur of (A) the Effective Date and (B) the date such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim; or (iii) receive treatment of such Allowed Utility Other
Secured Claim in any other manner that is necessary to satisfy the requirements of section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code. In the event a Utility Other Secured Claim is treated under clause (ii) of this Section 4.16(a), the Liens securing such
Other Secured Claim shall be deemed released immediately upon payment.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Other Secured Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility Other Secured Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.17 Class 2B – Utility Priority Non-Tax Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed Utility Priority Non-Tax Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder
of an Allowed Utility Priority Non-Tax Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, each holder of an Allowed Utility Priority Non-Tax Claim shall receive, at the option of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable (i)
Cash in an amount equal to such Allowed Utility Priority Non-Tax Claim, including interest through the Effective Date calculated at the Federal Judgment Rate, payable on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, or
(ii) such other treatment consistent with the provisions of section 1129(a)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Priority Non-Tax Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility Priority Non-Tax Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.18 Class 3B-I – Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, holders of Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims shall receive Cash equal to their Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim Interest Amount and equal amounts of each issue of the New
Utility Long-Term Notes in an aggregate amount equal to such holder’s Utility Impaired Senior Note Claim Principal Amount.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims are Impaired, and holders of Utility Impaired Senior Note Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.19 Class 3B-II – Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, each holder of a Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claim shall have such holder’s Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claim Reinstated.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of Utility Reinstated Senior Note Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.20 Class 3B-III – Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, holders of Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims shall receive Cash equal to their Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim Interest Amount and equal amounts of each issue of New
Utility Short-Term Notes in an aggregate amount equal to such holder’s Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claim Principal Amount.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims are Impaired, and the holders of Utility Short-Term Senior Note Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.21 Class 3B-IV: Utility Funded Debt Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, holders of Utility Funded Debt Claims shall receive Cash equal to their Utility Funded Debt Claim Interest and Charges Amount and equal amounts of each issue of the New Utility
Funded Debt Exchange Notes in an aggregate amount equal to such holder’s Utility Funded Debt Claim Principal Amount. On the Effective Date, any Utility Letters of Credit outstanding shall be replaced or canceled and returned to the issuing
Utility Revolver Lender in accordance with the terms of the applicable Utility Letter of Credit and the Utility Revolver Documents.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Funded Debt Claims are Impaired, and holders of Utility Funded Debt Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.22 Class 3B-V: Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable,
and a holder of an Allowed Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, each holder of an Allowed Utility PC Bond (2008 F and
2010 E) Claim shall receive Cash in an amount equal to (i) the principal amount outstanding as of the Petition Date of such holder’s Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim plus all accrued and unpaid interest owed as of the Petition Date at
the non-default contract rate; (ii) all interest accrued from the Petition Date through the Effective Date at the Federal Judgment Rate; and (iii) fees and charges and other obligations owed through the Effective Date, solely to the extent
provided for under the applicable PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Documents.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.23 Class 4B: Utility General Unsecured Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Allowed Utility General Unsecured Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder
of an Allowed Utility General Unsecured Claim agree to a less favorable treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the later to occur of (i)
the Effective Date and (ii) the date such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim, each holder of an Allowed Utility General Unsecured Claim shall receive Cash in an amount equal to such holder’s Allowed Utility General Unsecured Claim. The Allowed
amount of any Utility General Unsecured Claim shall reflect all interest accrued from the Petition Date through the date of distribution at the Federal Judgment Rate.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility General Unsecured Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility General Unsecured Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.24 Class 5B-I – Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of all Allowed Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims, on the Effective Date, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, but in no
event later than thirty (30) days after the Effective Date, the Public Entities shall receive an aggregate Cash amount of $1.0 billion, as provided in the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, to be distributed in accordance with the Public
Entities Settlement Distribution Protocol. The Reorganized Debtors shall also establish the Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund, in accordance with the terms of the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements. Utility Public Entities Wildfire
Claims shall be satisfied solely from the Cash amount of $1.0 billion and the Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund, as described above.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims are Impaired, and holders of the Utility Public Entities Wildfire Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.25 Class 5B-II – Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims.
The Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be treated as follows:
(a) Allowance: For purposes of this Plan, and in accordance with the Subrogation Claims RSA Approval Order, the Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be settled and Allowed in the aggregate amount of $11 billion.
(b) Treatment: On the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the Reorganized Debtors shall fund the Subrogation Wildfire Trust with Cash in the amount of $11 billion. No postpetition, and
pre-Effective Date, interest shall be paid with respect to the Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims as Allowed pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (a). All Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be satisfied solely from the assets
funded to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust. The Plan may be amended prior to the entry of the Disclosure Statement Order in accordance with the Subrogation Claims RSA to replace a portion of the Cash consideration with Non-cash Recovery.
(c) Professional Fees: On the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors shall pay the reasonable, documented, and contractual professional fees of the Ad Hoc Professionals (as such term is defined in the Subrogation
Claims RSA) up to an aggregate amount of $55 million (inclusive of all such fees and expenses paid by the Debtors prior to the Effective Date, and which shall include success fees, transaction fees or other similar fees). The Reorganized
Debtors are authorized to pay the professional fees and expenses of Rothschild & Co US Inc., Kekst and Company Incorporated d/b/a Kekst CNC, and Wilson Public Affairs, in each case subject to, and in accordance with, the Subrogation Claims
RSA without the necessity of filing formal fee applications. Solely with respect to fees and expenses for professional services rendered by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Diemer & Wei LLP, the Reorganized Debtors are authorized to pay
such fees and expenses ten (10) business after the receipt by the Debtors and the U.S. Trustee (the “Review Period”) of invoices therefor (the “Invoiced Fees”) and without the necessity of filing formal fee applications. The invoices for such Invoiced Fees shall include the number of hours billed and
the aggregate expenses incurred by the
applicable professional firm; provided, however, that any such invoice (i) may be limited and/or redacted to protect privileged, confidential, or proprietary information and (ii) shall not be required to contain individual
time detail (provided that such invoice shall contain summary data regarding hours worked by each timekeeper for the applicable professional and such timekeepers’ hourly rates). The Reorganized Debtors and the U.S. Trustee may object to any
portion of the Invoiced Fees (the “Disputed Invoiced Fees”) within the Review Period by filing with the Court a motion or other pleading, on at least ten
days’ prior written notice (but no more than 30 days’ notice) of any hearing on such motion or other pleading, setting forth the specific objections to the Disputed Invoiced Fees in reasonable narrative detail and the bases for such objections;
provided that the Reorganized Debtors shall pay all amounts that are not the subject of such objection upon the expiration of the Review Period and shall pay the balance following resolution of any such objection or upon an order of the
Bankruptcy Court.
(d) Distributions and Discharge: Funding of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust as provided above shall be in restitution and in full and final satisfaction, release, and discharge of all Subrogation Wildfire Claims. Each
holder of a Subrogation Wildfire Claim that is party to the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement shall receive payment as determined in accordance with the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement. Holders of Disputed
Subrogation Wildfire Claims as of the Effective Date shall not receive any payment unless and until such claims either are resolved consensually as between such holders and the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee or become Allowed Claims.
(e) Channeling Injunction: On the Effective Date, the Debtors’ liability for all Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be fully assumed by, and be the sole responsibility of, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust, and all
such Claims shall be satisfied solely from the assets of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust. Pursuant to the Channeling Injunction, each holder of a Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claim shall have its Claim permanently channeled to the Subrogation
Wildfire Trust, and such Claim shall be asserted exclusively against the Subrogation Wildfire Trust in accordance with its terms, with no recourse to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets and properties.
(f) In accordance with the provisions of the
Subrogation Claims RSA, the Confirmation Order shall contain the following findings and order:
(i) the resolution of the Debtors’
insolvency proceeding provides funding or establishes reserves for, provides for assumption of, or otherwise provides for satisfying any prepetition wildfire claims asserted against the Debtors in the insolvency proceeding in the amounts agreed
upon in any pre-insolvency proceeding settlement agreements or any post-insolvency settlement agreements, authorized by the court through an estimation process or otherwise allowed by the court, and
(ii) except with respect to any
settlement or other agreement regarding the Fire Victim Claims asserted by Adventist Health System/West and Feather River Hospital d/b/a Adventist Health Feather River, any settlement or other agreement with any holder or holders of a Fire
Victim Claim that fixes the amount or terms for satisfaction of such Claim, including by a post-Effective Date trust established for the resolution and payment of such
Claim, shall contain as a condition to such settlement or other agreement that the holder or holders of such Claim contemporaneously execute and
deliver a release and waiver of any potential made-whole claims against present and former holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims, which release shall be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C.
(g) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims are Impaired, and holders of Utility Subrogation Wildfire Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.26 Class 5B-III – Utility Fire Victim Claims.
(a) Treatment: In accordance with the requirements of section 3292 of the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054), on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the Reorganized Debtors shall establish
and fund the Fire Victim Trust with the Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration. Utility Fire Victim Claims shall be satisfied solely from the Fire Victim Trust.
(b) Funding of the Fire Victim Trust as provided
above shall be in restitution and full and final satisfaction, release, and discharge of all Fire Victim Claims. Each holder of a Fire Victim Claim shall receive payment as determined in accordance with the Fire Victim Claims Resolution
Procedures.
(c) On the Effective Date, the Debtors’ liability for
all Utility Fire Victim Claims shall be fully assumed by, and be the sole responsibility of the Fire Victim Trust, and all such Claims shall be satisfied solely from the assets of the Fire Victim Trust. Pursuant to the Channeling Injunction,
each holder of a Utility Fire Victim Claim shall have its Claim permanently channeled to the Fire Victim Trust, and such Claim shall be asserted exclusively against the Fire Victim Trust in accordance with its terms, with no recourse to the
Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets and properties.
(d) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Fire Victim Claims are Impaired, and holders of Utility Fire Victim Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.
4.27 Class 5B-IV – Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against the Reorganized Utility as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced, provided that as provided in the Bankruptcy Court’s Order Re: Motion for
Relief From Automatic Stay to Permit the Courts of the State of California to Conduct a Jury Trial and Related Pretrial and Post Trial Matters in Connection with the Ghost Ship Fire Cases [Docket No. 5280] any recovery or payment with
respect to the Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims shall be limited solely to amounts available under the Debtors’ Insurance (as such term is defined in such Order, including any remaining Self Insured Retention that may still be available at the
time of any settlement or final judgment). Under no circumstances shall any holder of a Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claim be entitled to receive any recovery from the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, or their respective assets or properties other
than as provided in the immediately preceding sentence.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility Ghost Ship Fire Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.28 Class 6B – Utility Workers’ Compensation Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a Utility Workers’ Compensation Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against the Reorganized Utility as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been
commenced.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Workers’ Compensation Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of Utility Workers’ Compensation Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.29 Class 7B – 2001 Utility Exchange Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a 2001 Utility Exchange Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against the Reorganized Utility as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The 2001 Utility Exchange Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of 2001 Utility Exchange Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.30 Class 8B – Utility Environmental Claims.
(a) Treatment: On and after the Effective Date, each holder of a Utility Environmental Claim shall be entitled to pursue its Claim against the Reorganized Utility as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced, and
each Environmental Performance Obligation against the Utility shall also survive the Effective Date as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Environmental Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of Utility Environmental Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.31 Class 9B – Utility Intercompany Claims.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all Allowed Utility Intercompany Claims shall either be (i) cancelled (or otherwise eliminated) and receive no distribution under the Plan or (ii) Reinstated, in each case as
determined in the sole discretion of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Intercompany Claims are Unimpaired, and holders of Utility Intercompany Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.32 Class 10B – Utility Subordinated Debt Claims.
(a) Treatment: In full and final satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of any Utility Subordinated Debt Claim, except to the extent that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and a holder of
an Allowed Utility Subordinated Debt Claim agree to a less favorable
treatment of such Claim, on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, each holder of an Allowed Utility Subordinated Debt Claim shall
receive Cash in an amount equal to such holder’s Allowed Utility Subordinated Debt Claim.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Subordinated Debt Claims are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility Subordinated Debt Claims are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.33 Class 11B
– Utility Preferred Interests.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all Utility Preferred Interests shall be Reinstated.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Preferred Interests are Unimpaired, and holders of Utility Preferred Interests are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
4.34 Class 12B – Utility Common Interests.
(a) Treatment: On the Effective Date, all Utility Common Interests shall be Reinstated.
(b) Impairment and Voting: The Utility Common Interests are Unimpaired, and the holders of Utility Common Interests are presumed to have accepted the Plan.
ARTICLE V.
PROVISIONS GOVERNING DISTRIBUTIONS
5.1 Distributions Generally. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Wildfire Trust
Agreements, or the Claims Resolution Procedures the Disbursing Agent shall make all distributions to the appropriate holders of Allowed Claims, or such other persons designated by this Plan, in accordance with the terms of this Plan.
5.2 Plan Funding. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Wildfire Trust Agreements,
or the Claims Resolution Procedures, distributions of Cash shall be funded from the proceeds of the Plan Funding or the Wildfire Insurance Proceeds as of the applicable date of such distribution as set forth herein.
5.3 No Postpetition or Default Interest on Claims. Except as otherwise specifically
provided for in this Plan or the Confirmation Order, or another order of the Bankruptcy Court or required by the Bankruptcy Code, postpetition and/or default interest shall not accrue or be paid on any Claims, and no holder of a Claim shall be
entitled to interest accruing on such Claim on or after the Petition Date.
5.4 Date of Distributions. Unless otherwise provided in this Plan, the Wildfire Trust
Agreements, or the Claims Resolution Procedures, any distributions and deliveries to be made under this Plan shall be made on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter;
provided, that the Reorganized Debtors may implement periodic distribution
dates to the extent they determine appropriate. Holders of Fire Claims subject to the Claims Resolution Procedures shall receive distributions in accordance with the applicable Claims Resolution Procedures.
5.5 Distribution Record Date. Except as otherwise provided in the Wildfire Trust Agreements
or the Claims Resolution Procedures, as of the close of business on the Distribution Record Date, the various lists of holders of Claims and Interests in each Class, as maintained by the Debtors or their agents, shall be deemed closed, and
there shall be no further changes in the record holders of any Claims or Interests after the Distribution Record Date. None of the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Disbursing Agent shall have any obligation to recognize any transfer of
a Claim or Interest occurring after the close of business on the Distribution Record Date. In addition, with respect to the reconciliation of any Cure Amounts or disputes over any Cure Amounts, none of the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or
the Disbursing Agent shall have any obligation to recognize or deal with any party other than the non-Debtor party to the applicable executory contract or unexpired lease, even if such non-Debtor party has sold, assigned, or otherwise
transferred its Claim for a Cure Amount; provided, however that a distribution on account of any Claim for a Cure Amount that has been duly and properly
sold, assigned, or otherwise transferred prior to the Distribution Record Date (on appropriate notice and otherwise in accordance with applicable Bankruptcy and non-Bankruptcy law) shall be made to the purchaser, assignee, or transferee of such
Claim for a Cure Amount as set forth in the Official Claims Register for these Chapter 11 Cases.
5.6 Disbursing Agent. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan or the Wildfire Trust
Agreements, all distributions under this Plan shall be made by the Disbursing Agent, on behalf of the applicable Debtor, on and after the Effective Date as provided herein. The Disbursing Agent shall not be required to give any bond or surety
or other security for the performance of its duties. The Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Disbursing Agent (if other than the Reorganized Debtors) with the amounts of
Claims and the identities and addresses of holders of Claims, in each case, as set forth in the Debtors’ or Reorganized Debtors’ books and records. The Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, shall cooperate in good faith with the
Disbursing Agent (if other than the Reorganized Debtors) to comply with the reporting and withholding requirements outlined in Section 5.15 of this Plan. Fire Claims subject to the Channeling Injunction shall not be administered by the
Disbursing Agent and shall instead be administered by the Wildfire Trusts. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, distributions to holders of Allowed Funded Debt Claims and Allowed Utility Senior Note Claims shall be made to
or at the direction of the applicable Funded Debt Trustee, which shall, to the extent directed by the applicable Funded Debt Trustee, act as Disbursing Agent for distributions to the respective Holders of Allowed Funded Debt Claims and Allowed
Utility Senior Note Claims under the applicable Funded Debt Documents. The Funded Debt Trustees, as applicable, may transfer such distributions or direct the transfer of such distributions by the Debtors or through the facilities of DTC
(whether by means of book-entry exchange, free delivery, or otherwise) and will be entitled to recognize and deal for all purposes under the Plan with holders of Allowed Funded Debt Claims or Allowed Utility Senior Note Claims to the extent
consistent with the customary practices of DTC or the customary practices for administrative agents under syndicated credit facilities (as applicable). Distributions in respect of Allowed Funded Debt Claims and Allowed Utility Senior Notes
Claims shall be subject in all respects to the right of the applicable Funded Debt Trustee to assert its Charging
Lien, if any, against such distributions. All distributions to be made to holders of Allowed Utility Senior Note Claims shall be eligible to be distributed through
the facilities of DTC and as provided for under the applicable Funded Debt Documents.
5.7 Delivery of Distributions.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the
Wildfire Trust Agreements, or the Claims Resolution Procedures, the Disbursing Agent will make the applicable distribution under this Plan and, subject to Bankruptcy Rule 9010, will make all distributions to any holder of an Allowed Claim as
and when required by this Plan at: (i) the address of such holder on the books and records of the Debtors or their agents, (ii) the address in the most recent proof of claim filed by such holder, or (iii) the address in any written notice of
address change delivered to the Debtors or the Disbursing Agent, including any addresses included on any transfers of Claim filed pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 3001. In the event that any distribution to any holder is returned as undeliverable,
no distribution or payment to such holder shall be made unless and until the Disbursing Agent has been notified of the then current address of such holder, at which time or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable, such distribution shall
be made to such holder without interest.
(b) The Disbursing Agent, with the Funded Debt
Trustees’ cooperation and consistent with Section 5.6 of this Plan, shall make any distributions on account of the Allowed Funded Debt Claims and Utility Senior Note Claims. At the request of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, each Funded Debt
Trustee shall provide a copy of any registry or list of beneficial owners maintained by the Funded Debt Trustees to the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, as soon as reasonably practicable following such request and, to the extent
specifically requested by the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, such Funded Debt Trustee shall freeze such registry on a date specified by the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors for purposes of permitting distributions to be made pursuant to this
Plan. If the applicable Funded Debt Document so provides, the Disbursing Agent may make distributions on account of the Allowed Funded Debt Claims, Utility Senior Note Claims, or Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims to the applicable
Funded Debt Trustee. The Funded Debt Trustees shall have no duties or responsibility relating to any form of distribution that is not DTC eligible and the Disbursing Agent, the Debtors, or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, shall seek the
cooperation of DTC so that any distribution on account of an Allowed Funded Debt Claim, Utility Senior Note Claim, or Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim that is held in the name of, or by a nominee of, DTC, shall be made through the
facilities of DTC on the Effective Date or as soon as practicable thereafter. The Reorganized Debtors shall reimburse the Funded Debt Trustees for any reasonable and documented fees and expenses (including the reasonable and documented fees and
expenses of its counsel and agents) incurred after the Effective Date solely in connection with actions explicitly requested by the Reorganized Debtors necessary for implementation of the Plan; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the Plan or Confirmation Order shall be considered or construed as an explicit request by the Reorganized Debtors authorizing the incurrence of
fees and expenses by the Funded Debt Trustees.
5.8 Unclaimed Property. For distributions other than from the Wildfire Trusts, all
distributions payable on account of Claims or Interests that are not deliverable, or have not responded to a request for information to make such delivery, and remain unclaimed shall be deemed unclaimed property under section 347(b) of the
Bankruptcy Code and shall revert to the Reorganized Debtors or
their successors or assigns one year from the later of (a) the Effective Date and (b) the date that is ten (10) Business Days after the date a Claim is first
Allowed, and all claims of any other Entity (including the holder of a Claim in the same Class) to such distribution shall be discharged and forever barred. The Reorganized Debtors and the Disbursing Agent shall have no obligation to attempt to
locate any holder of an Allowed Claim other than by reviewing the Debtors’ books and records and filings with the Bankruptcy Court.
5.9 Satisfaction of Claims. Unless otherwise provided herein, any distributions and deliveries to be made on account of Allowed Claims under this Plan shall be in complete and
final satisfaction, settlement, and discharge of and exchange for such Allowed Claims.
5.10 Fractional Stock. No fractional shares or Interests of New HoldCo Common Stock shall be distributed. If any distributions of New HoldCo Common Stock pursuant to the Plan or the
Plan Documents would result in the issuance of a fractional share or Interest of New HoldCo Common Stock, then the number of shares or Interests of New HoldCo Common Stock to be issued in respect of such distribution shall be calculated to one
decimal place and rounded up or down to the closest whole share or Interest (with a half share or Interest or greater rounded up and less than a half share or Interest rounded down). The total number of shares or Interests of New HoldCo Common
Stock, as applicable, to be distributed in connection with the Plan shall be adjusted as necessary to account for the rounding provided for in this Section 5.10. No consideration shall be provided in lieu of fractional shares or Interests that
are rounded down. Neither the Reorganized Debtors nor the Disbursing Agent shall have any obligation to make a distribution that is less than (1) share or Interest of New HoldCo Common Stock. Any New HoldCo Common Stock that is not distributed
in accordance with this Section 5.10 shall be returned to, and ownership thereof shall vest in, Reorganized HoldCo.
5.11 Manner of Payment under Plan. Except as specifically provided herein, at the option of
the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, any Cash payment to be made under this Plan may be made by check, ACH, wire transfer, or any other method agreed between the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors and the holder of the Claim.
5.12 No Distribution in Excess of Amount of Allowed Claim. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Plan, no holder of an Allowed Claim shall receive, on account of such Allowed Claim, distributions in excess of the Allowed amount of such Claim, except to the extent that payment of postpetition interest on such Claim is
specifically provided for by the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or another order of the Bankruptcy Court or required by the Bankruptcy Code.
5.13 Setoffs and Recoupments. Each Debtor or Reorganized Debtor, as applicable, or such
Entity’s successor or designee, may, pursuant to section 553 of the Bankruptcy Code or applicable nonbankruptcy law, offset or recoup against any Allowed Claim and the distributions to be made pursuant to this Plan on account of such Allowed
Claim any and all Claims, rights, and Causes of Action that such Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or its successors may hold against the holder of such Allowed Claim; provided, that neither the failure to effect a setoff or recoupment nor the allowance of any Claim hereunder will constitute a waiver or release by a Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or its successor of any Claims, rights, or
Causes of Action that any such entity or it successor or designee may possess against such holder.
5.14 Rights and Powers of Disbursing Agent.
(a) The Disbursing Agent shall be empowered to: (i)
effect all actions and execute all agreements, instruments, and other documents necessary to perform its duties under this Plan; (ii) make all applicable distributions or payments provided for under this Plan; (iii) employ professionals to
represent it with respect to its responsibilities; and (iv) exercise such other powers (A) as may be vested in the Disbursing Agent by order of the Bankruptcy Court (including any order issued after the Effective Date) or pursuant to this Plan
or (B) as deemed by the Disbursing Agent to be necessary and proper to implement the provisions of this Plan.
(b) To the extent the Disbursing Agent is an Entity
other than a Debtor or Reorganized Debtor, except as otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court, the amount of any reasonable fees and expenses incurred by the Disbursing Agent on or after the Effective Date (including taxes) and any reasonable
compensation and expense reimbursement Claims (including for reasonable attorneys’ and other professional fees and expenses) made by the Disbursing Agent shall be paid in Cash by the Reorganized Debtors.
5.15 Withholding and Reporting Requirements.
(a) In connection with this Plan and all
distributions made hereunder, the Reorganized Debtors and the Disbursing Agent shall comply with all applicable withholding and reporting requirements imposed by any federal, state, local, or foreign taxing authority, and all distributions
under this Plan shall be subject to any such withholding or reporting requirements. In the case of a non-Cash distribution that is subject to withholding, the distributing party may withhold an appropriate portion of such distributed property
and sell such withheld property to generate Cash necessary to pay over the withholding tax. Any amounts withheld pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deemed to have been distributed to and received by the applicable recipient for all
purposes of this Plan.
(b) Notwithstanding the above, each holder of an
Allowed Claim that is to receive a distribution under this Plan shall have the sole and exclusive responsibility for the satisfaction and payment of any tax obligations imposed on such holder by any federal, state, local, or foreign taxing
authority, including income, withholding, and other tax obligations, on account of such distribution. The Reorganized Debtors and the Disbursing Agent have the right, but not the obligation, to not make a distribution until such holder has made
arrangements satisfactory to any issuing or disbursing party for payment of any such tax obligations.
(c) The Reorganized Debtors and the Disbursing Agent
may require, as a condition to receipt of a distribution, that the holder of an Allowed Claim provide any information necessary to allow the distributing party to comply with any such withholding and reporting requirements imposed by any
federal, state, local, or foreign taxing authority. If the Reorganized Debtors or the Disbursing Agent make such a request and the holder fails to comply before the date that is 180 days after the request is made, the amount of such
distribution shall irrevocably revert to the applicable Reorganized Debtor and any Claim in respect of such distribution shall be discharged and forever barred from assertion against such Reorganized Debtor or its respective property.
5.16 Credit for Distributions under Wildfire Assistance Program. If a holder of an Allowed
Fire Claim has received or will receive any distribution from the Wildfire Assistance Program, such distribution shall be credited against any distribution to be made on account of such holder’s Fire Claim under this Plan and in accordance with
the terms of the Wildfire Trust Agreements.
ARTICLE VI.
MEANS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND EXECUTION OF THE PLAN
6.1 [Reserved.]
6.2 Restructuring Transactions; Effectuating Documents.
(a) Following the Confirmation Date or as soon as
reasonably practicable thereafter, the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, may take all actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate any transaction described in, approved by, contemplated by, or necessary to
effectuate the Plan or to obtain any of the Plan Funding (collectively, the “Restructuring Transactions”), including (i) the execution and delivery of
appropriate agreements or other documents of merger, amalgamation, consolidation, restructuring, conversion, disposition, transfer, arrangement, continuance, dissolution, sale, purchase, or liquidation containing terms that are consistent with
the terms of the Plan, (ii) the execution and delivery of appropriate instruments of transfer, assignment, assumption, or delegation of any asset, property, right, liability, debt, or obligation on terms consistent with the terms of the Plan,
(iii) the filing of appropriate certificates or articles of incorporation, reincorporation, merger, consolidation, conversion, amalgamation, arrangement, continuance, or dissolution pursuant to applicable state or federal law, (iv) the
execution and delivery of the Plan Documents, (v) the issuance of securities, all of which shall be authorized and approved in all respects in each case without further action being required under applicable law, regulation, order, or rule
(except such filings, approvals and authorizations as may be required, necessary or desirable for offerings of securities not exempt from the Securities Act pursuant to section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code), (vi) such other transactions that are
necessary or appropriate to implement the Plan in the most tax efficient manner, (vii) the cancellation of existing securities, and (viii) all other actions that the applicable Entities determine to be necessary or appropriate, including making
filings or recordings that may be required by applicable law.
(b) Each officer, or member of the board of
directors, of the Debtors is (and each officer, or member of the board of directors of the Reorganized Debtors shall be) authorized to issue, execute, deliver, file, or record such contracts, securities, instruments, releases, indentures, and
other agreements or documents and take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate, implement, and further evidence the terms and conditions of the Plan and the securities issued pursuant to the Plan in the name of and on
behalf of the Reorganized Debtors, all of which shall be authorized and approved in all respects, in each case, without the need for any approvals, authorization, consents, or any further action required under applicable law, regulation, order,
or rule (including any action by the stockholders or directors of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors) except for those expressly required pursuant to the Plan.
(c) All matters provided for herein involving the
corporate structure of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, or any corporate action required by the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors in connection herewith shall be deemed to have occurred and shall be in effect, without any requirement of further
action by the stockholders or directors of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, and with like effect as though such action had been taken unanimously by the stockholders of the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors.
6.3 Continued Corporate Existence. Except as otherwise provided in this Plan (including
pursuant to the Restructuring Transactions), the Debtors shall continue to exist after the Effective Date as Reorganized Debtors in accordance with the applicable laws of the respective jurisdictions in which they are incorporated or organized.
On and after the Effective Date, without prejudice to the rights of any party to a contract or other agreement with any Debtor, each Reorganized Debtor may, in its sole discretion, take such action as permitted by applicable law and such
Reorganized Debtor’s organizational documents, as such Reorganized Debtor may determine is reasonable and appropriate, including: (i) changing the legal name of a Reorganized Debtor; (ii) closing the applicable Chapter 11 Case; and (iii)
amending its charter so as to prevent the acquisition, sale, or other transaction of any class or classes of stock of Reorganized HoldCo, other than pursuant to the Plan, for the purpose of preserving the tax benefits of the Reorganized Debtors
if such acquisition, sale, or other transaction would result in an increase in the amount of stock of Reorganized HoldCo beneficially owned (as determined for applicable tax purposes) by any person or group of persons that owns, or as a result
of such acquisition, sale, or other transaction would own, at least 4.75% of any class or classes of stock of Reorganized HoldCo.
6.4 The Subrogation Wildfire Trust.
(a) On or before the Effective Date, the Subrogation
Wildfire Trust shall be established by the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee and on the Effective Date or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the Debtors shall fund the Subrogation Wildfire Trust as provided in Section 4.25(b) hereof. In
accordance with the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement and the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement, each of which shall become effective as of the Effective Date, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust shall administer, process, settle,
resolve, liquidate, satisfy, and pay all Subrogation Wildfire Claims. All Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall be channeled to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and shall be subject to the Channeling Injunction.
(b) Each trust comprising the Subrogation Wildfire
Trust is intended to be treated, and shall be reported, as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes and shall be treated consistently for state and local tax purposes, to the extent applicable; provided, however, that the Reorganized Debtors may elect to treat any trust comprising the Subrogation Wildfire Trust as a “grantor trust” for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, in which case each such trust shall be treated consistently for state and local tax purposes, to the extent applicable. The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee and all holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims shall report consistently with the
foregoing. The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall be the “administrator,” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.468B-2(k)(3), of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and, in such capacity, the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall be
responsible for filing all tax returns of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and, out of the assets of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust, the payment of any taxes due with respect to trust assets or otherwise imposed on the Subrogation Wildfire Trust
(including any tax liability arising in
connection with the distribution of trust assets), and shall be permitted to sell any assets of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust to the extent necessary to satisfy
such tax liability (including any tax liability arising in connection with such sale).
(c) Except as otherwise provided in the Subrogation
Wildfire Trust Agreement, or the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement, the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee will make the applicable distribution under the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement and, subject to Bankruptcy Rule 2002, at:
(i) the address of such holder on the books and records of the Debtors or their agents; (ii) the address provided by such holder on its most recent proof of claim, or (iii) the address in any written notice of address change delivered to the
Debtors prior to the Effective Date, or the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee after the Effective Date, including any addresses included on any transfers of Claim filed pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 3001. In the event that any distribution to any
holder is returned as undeliverable, no distribution or payment to such holder shall be made unless and until the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee has been notified of the then-current address of such holder, at which time or as soon as reasonably
practicable thereafter, such distribution shall be made to such holder without interest.
(d) The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee may request an
expedited determination of taxes under section 505(b) of the Bankruptcy Code for all tax returns filed by or on behalf of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust through the termination of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust.
6.5 Subrogation Wildfire Trustee.
(a) Powers and Duties of Trustee. The powers and duties of the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall include, but shall not be limited to, those responsibilities vested in the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee pursuant to the
terms of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement, or as may be otherwise necessary and proper to (i) make distributions to holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims in accordance with the terms of the Plan, Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement,
and Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement and (ii) carry out the provisions of the Plan relating to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and the Subrogation Wildfire Claims. The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall maintain good and
sufficient books and records relating to each Subrogation Wildfire Claim, including the identity of the owner of each Subrogation Wildfire Claim and the amount and date of all Distributions made on account of each such Subrogation Wildfire
Claim.
(b) The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall cooperate
fully with the Reorganized Debtors in connection with the preparation and filing by the Reorganized Debtors of any tax returns, claims for refunds, or other tax filings, and any tax proceedings, to the extent relating to any transfers to,
distributions by, or the operations of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust.
6.6 Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board.
(a) Appointment of Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board. The Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board shall consist of three (3) initial members selected by holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims in accordance
with the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement and the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement.
(b) Powers and Duties of Subrogation Trust Advisory Board. The Subrogation Trust Advisory Board shall, as and when requested by the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee, or as is otherwise either (i) required under the Plan,
the Confirmation Order, the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement or (ii) contemplated by the Subrogation Wildfire Claim Allocation Agreement, consult with and advise the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee as to the administration and management of
the Subrogation Wildfire Trust in accordance with the terms of this Plan, the Confirmation Order, and/or the Subrogation Trust Agreement.
(c) The Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board
shall be appointed on the Effective Date. The rights and responsibilities of the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Advisory Board shall be set forth in the Subrogation Wildfire Trust Agreement.
6.7 The Fire Victim Trust.
(a) On or before the Effective Date, the Fire Victim
Trust shall be established. In accordance with the Plan, the Confirmation Order, the Fire Victim Trust Agreement and the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures, the Fire Victim Trust shall, among other tasks described in this Plan or the Fire
Victim Trust Agreement, administer, process, settle, resolve, liquidate, satisfy, and pay all Fire Victim Claims, and prosecute or settle all Assigned Rights and Causes of Action. All Fire Victim Claims shall be channeled to the Fire Victim
Trust and shall be subject to the Channeling Injunction. The Fire Victim Trust shall be funded with the Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration. To the extent, if any, a holder of a Fire Victim Claim asserts damages against the Debtors or the Fire
Victim Trust for amounts covered by a policy of insurance, the Fire Victim Trust may receive a credit against the Fire Victim Claim of any such holder, its predecessor, successor, or assignee, for insurance coverage amounts as provided in the
Fire Victim Trust Agreement. In addition, coverage provisions of any insurance policy for losses resulting from a Fire and any funds received by any holder of a Fire Victim Claim, net of attorney’s fees, shall satisfy, to the extent applicable,
any amounts of restitution the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors might be subject to under Cal. Penal Code § 1202.4
(b) Each trust comprising the Fire Victim Trust is
intended to be treated, and shall be reported, as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes and shall be treated consistently for state and local tax purposes, to the extent applicable; provided, however, that the
Reorganized Debtors may elect to treat any trust comprising the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, in which case each such trust shall be treated consistently for state and local tax purposes, to the
extent applicable. The Fire Victim Trustee and all holders of Fire Victim Claims shall report consistently with the foregoing. The Fire Victim Trustee shall be the “administrator,” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section
1.468B-2(k)(3), of the Fire Victim Trust and, in such capacity, the Fire Victim Trustee shall be responsible for filing all tax returns of the Fire Victim Trust and, out of the assets of the Fire Victim Trust, the payment of any taxes due with
respect to trust assets or otherwise imposed on the Fire Victim Trust (including any tax liability arising in connection with the distribution of trust assets), shall be permitted to sell any assets of the Fire Victim Trust to the extent
necessary to satisfy such tax liability (including any tax liability arising in connection with such sale).
(c) On the Effective Date, the Fire Victim Claims
Resolution Procedures shall become effective.
(d) No parties other than holders of Fire Victim
Claims shall have a right, or involvement in, the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures, the Fire Victim Trust Agreement, the administration of the Fire Victim Trust, the selection of a Fire Victim Trustee, settlement fund administrator,
claims administrator, or the Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee. The Fire Victim Claims shall be administered by a Fire Victim Trust and the Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee independent of the Debtors. The Fire Victim Claims shall be
administered, allocated and distributed in accordance with applicable ethical rules and subject to adequate informed consent procedures. The Fire Victim Trustee shall receive settlement allocations consistent with Rule 1.8(g) of the Model Rules
of Professional Conduct. The rules and procedures governing the administration and allocation of the funds from the Fire Victim Trust shall be objectively applied and transparent. No party other than holders of Fire Victim Claims, including but
not limited to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, and any holders of Claims or Interests other than holders of Fire Victim Claims, shall have any rights to any of the proceeds in the Fire Victim Trust, or any clawback or reversionary
interest of any of the consideration (whether Cash or otherwise) allocated to any of the holders of Fire Victim Claims generally or in the total amount funded to the Fire Victim Trust.
6.8 Fire Victim
Trustee
(a) Powers and Duties of Trustee. The powers and duties of the Fire Victim Trustee shall include, but shall not be limited to, those responsibilities vested in the Fire Victim Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Fire
Victim Trust Agreement, or as may be otherwise necessary and proper to (i) make distributions to holders of Fire Victim Claims in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the Fire Victim Trust Agreement and (ii) carry out the provisions of the
Plan relating to the Fire Victim Trust and the Fire Victim Claims, including but not limited to prosecuting or settling all Assigned Rights and Causes of Action in his or her capacity as a trustee for the benefit of Fire Victims. On the
Effective Date, pursuant to this Plan and sections 1123, 1141, and 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors, on behalf of their estates, and the Fire Victim Trustee, will be authorized and directed to, and will execute the Fire Victim Trust
Agreement in substantially the form that will be attached to the Plan Supplement, and will be further authorized and directed to, and will, take all such actions as required to transfer the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action from the Debtors
to the Fire Victim Trust. The Fire Victim Trustee shall maintain good and sufficient books and records relating to each Fire Victim Claim, including the identity of the owner of each Fire Victim Claim and the amount and date of all
Distributions made on account of each such Fire Victim Claim. In addition to all powers enumerated in the Fire Victim Trust Agreement, in this Plan, and in the Confirmation Order, from and after the Effective Date, the Fire Victim Trust shall
succeed to all of the rights and standing of the Debtors with respect to the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action in its capacity as a trust administering assets for the benefit of Fire Victims.
(b) The Fire Victim Trustee will be appointed as the
representative of each of the Debtors’ estates pursuant to sections 1123(a)(5), (a)(7), and (b)(3)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code and as such will be vested with the authority and power (subject to the Fire Victim Trust Agreement and the Plan) to,
among other things: (i) administer, object to or settle Fire Victim Claims; (ii) make distributions to holders of Fire Victim Claims in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the Fire Victim Trust Agreement, and (iii) carry out the
provisions of the Plan related to the Fire Victim Trust and the Fire Victim Claims, including but not limited to prosecuting or settling all Assigned Rights and Causes of Action in his or her capacity as a trustee for the benefit of holders of
Fire Victim Claims.
As the representative of the Debtors’ estates, in his or her capacity as a trustee for the benefit of Fire Victims, the Fire Victim Trustee will succeed to all of
the rights and powers of the Debtors and their estates with respect to all Assigned Rights and Causes of Action assigned and transferred to the Fire Victim Trust, and the Fire Victim Trustee will be substituted and will replace the Debtors, their
estates, any official committee appointed in these cases if applicable, in all such Assigned Rights and Causes of Action, whether or not such claims are pending in filed litigation.
(c) The Fire Victim Trustee shall cooperate fully
with the Reorganized Debtors in connection with the preparation and filing by the Reorganized Debtors of any tax returns, claims for refunds, or other tax filings, and any tax proceedings, to the extent relating to any transfers to,
distributions by, or the operations of the Fire Victim Trust.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in the Fire Victim
Trust Agreement, or the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures, the Fire Victim Trustee will make the applicable distribution under the Fire Victim Trust Agreement and, subject to Bankruptcy Rule 2002, at: (i) the address of such holder on
the books and records of the Debtors or their agents; (ii) the address provided by such holder on its most recent proof of claim, or (iii) the address in any written notice of address change delivered to the Debtors prior to the Effective Date,
or the Fire Victim Trustee after the Effective Date, including any addresses included on any transfers of Claim filed pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 3001. In the event that any distribution to any holder is returned as undeliverable, no
distribution or payment to such holder shall be made unless and until the Fire Victim Trustee has been notified of the then-current address of such holder, at which time or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, such distribution shall
be made to such holder without interest.
(e) The Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee shall
be appointed on the Effective Date. The Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee shall consist of members selected and appointed by the Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals and the Tort Claimants Committee. The rights and responsibilities of the
Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee shall be set forth in the Fire Victim Trust Agreement.
(f) Unless otherwise expressly provided under this
Plan, on the Effective Date, all Assigned Rights and Causes of Action will vest in the Fire Victim Trust. On and after the Effective Date, the transfer of the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action to the Fire Victim Trust will be deemed final
and irrevocable and distributions may be made from the Fire Victim Trust. The Confirmation Order will provide the Fire Victim Trustee with express authority and standing necessary to take all actions to prosecute or settle any and all Assigned
Rights and Causes of Action.
(g) The Fire Victim Trustee may request an expedited
determination of taxes under section 505(b) of the Bankruptcy Code for all tax returns filed by or on behalf of the Fire Victim Trust through the termination of the Fire Victim Trust.
6.9 Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund.
(a) On the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors
shall fund the Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund in accordance with the terms of the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements.
(b) The Public Entities Segregated Defense Fund shall
be maintained by the Reorganized Debtors until the later of (i) the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations period for any and all Public Entities Third Party Claims and (ii) the conclusion of all litigation, including appeals,
involving all Public Entities Third Party Claims.
6.10 Go-Forward Wildfire Fund.
(a) On the Effective Date, the Debtors shall
contribute, in accordance with the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054), an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and first annual contribution of approximately $193 million, to the Go-Forward Wildfire Fund in order to secure the
participation of the Reorganized Debtors therein.
(b) The Reorganized Debtors shall also be responsible
for ongoing funding commitments to the Go-Forward Wildfire Fund as required by the terms thereof and the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054).
6.11 Officers and Board of Directors.
(a) The New Boards for HoldCo and the Utility will,
among other things, satisfy the requirements of the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054) and other applicable law, including with respect to directors having appropriate experience in safety, finance and utility operations. The composition of the
New Boards shall be disclosed in accordance with section 1129(a)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the Plan
Supplement, the officers of the respective Debtors immediately before the Effective Date, as applicable, shall serve as the initial officers of each of the respective Reorganized Debtors on and after the Effective Date.
(c) Except to the extent that a member of the board
of directors of a Debtor continues to serve as a director of the respective Reorganized Debtor on and after the Effective Date, the members of the board of directors of each Debtor prior to the Effective Date, in their capacities as such, shall
have no continuing obligations to the Reorganized Debtors on or after the Effective Date and each such director will be deemed to have resigned or shall otherwise cease to be a director of the applicable Debtor on the Effective Date.
(d) Commencing on the Effective Date, the directors
of each of the Reorganized Debtors shall be elected and serve pursuant to the terms of the applicable organizational documents of such Reorganized Debtor and may be replaced or removed in accordance with such organizational documents.
6.12 Management Incentive Plan. On or after the Effective Date, the Management Incentive
Plan may be established and implemented at the discretion of the New Board and in compliance with the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054).
6.13 Cancellation of Existing Securities and Agreements.
(a) Except for the purpose of enabling holders of
Allowed Claims to receive a distribution under the Plan as provided herein and except as otherwise set forth in this Plan, the Plan Supplement or the Confirmation Order, on the Effective Date, all agreements, instruments, and other documents
evidencing any prepetition Claim or any rights of any holder in respect thereof shall be deemed cancelled, discharged, and of no force or effect. For the avoidance of doubt, in accordance with Sections 4.13, 4.15, 4.19, 4.33, and 4.34 of the
Plan, none of the HoldCo Common Interests, the HoldCo Other Interests, the Utility Reinstated Senior Note Documents, the Utility Preferred Interests, or the Utility Common Interests shall be cancelled pursuant to the Plan. The holders of, or
parties to, such cancelled instruments, Securities, and other documentation shall have no rights arising from or related to such instruments, Securities, or other documentation or the cancellation thereof, except the rights provided for
pursuant to this Plan.
(b) Except as otherwise set forth in the Plan, the
Funded Debt Trustees shall be released and discharged from all duties and responsibilities under the applicable Funded Debt Documents; provided that; notwithstanding
the releases in Article X of the Plan, entry of the Confirmation Order or the occurrence of the Effective Date, each of the Funded Debt Documents or agreement that governs the rights of the holder of a Claim shall continue in effect to the
extent necessary to: (i) enforce the rights, Claims, and interests of the Funded Debt Trustees thereto vis-a-vis any parties other than the Released Parties; (ii) allow the holders of Allowed Funded Debt Claims, Utility Senior Note Claims, or
Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claim, as applicable, to receive distributions under the Plan, to the extent provided for under the Plan; (iii) appear to be heard in the Chapter 11 Cases or in any proceedings in this Court or any other
court; (iv) preserve any rights of the Funded Debt Trustees to payment of fees, expenses, and indemnification obligations from or on any money or property to be distributed in respect of the Allowed Funded Debt Claims, Utility Senior Note
Claims and Utility PC Bond (2008 F and 2010 E) Claims, solely to the extent provided in the Plan, including permitting the Funded Debt Trustees to maintain, enforce, and exercise a Charging Lien against such distributions; and (v) enforce any
obligation owed to the Funded Debt Trustees under the Plan. For the avoidance of doubt, on and after the Effective Date, the Utility Senior Notes Trustee shall not be released from any duty or responsibility under or arising from the Utility
Reinstated Senior Note Documents.
6.14 Cancellation of Certain Existing Security Agreements. Promptly following the payment in
full or other satisfaction of an Allowed Other Secured Claim, the holder of such Allowed Other Secured Claim shall deliver to the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, any Collateral or other property of a Debtor held by such holder,
together with any termination statements, instruments of satisfaction, or releases of all security interests with respect to its Allowed Other Secured Claim that may be reasonably required to terminate any related financing statements,
mortgages, mechanics’ or other statutory Liens, or lis pendens, or similar interests or documents.
6.15 Issuance of Equity and Equity-Linked Securities. On and after the Confirmation Date,
HoldCo and Reorganized HoldCo, as applicable, shall be authorized to offer, sell, distribute, and issue, or cause to be offered, sold, distributed and issued, subject to or substantially concurrent with the occurrence of the Effective Date, any
equity securities, equity forward contracts or other equity-linked securities that are issued to obtain Plan Funding, all without the need for any
further corporate, limited liability company, or shareholder action, and to authorize and reserve for issuance New HoldCo Common Stock to be issued pursuant to any
such transaction or upon the exercise, conversion or settlement of any such equity forward contracts or other equity-linked securities. All of the New HoldCo Common Stock distributable under the Plan or pursuant to any instrument or document
entered into in connection with the Plan Funding shall be duly authorized, validly issued, and fully paid and non-assessable.
6.16 Exit Financing. On the Effective Date, the Exit Financing Documents shall be executed
and delivered. The Reorganized Debtors shall be authorized to execute, deliver, and enter into and perform under the Exit Financing Documents and to consummate the Exit Financing without the need for any further corporate action and without
further action by the holders of Claims or Interests.
6.17 Rights Offering. If applicable, following approval by the Bankruptcy Court of the
Rights Offering Procedures and, if the offer, issuance and distribution of Securities pursuant to the Rights Offering is to be registered under the Securities Act, effectiveness of an appropriate registration statement registering such offer,
issuance and distribution under the Securities Act, the Debtors shall, if they determine to implement the same, commence and consummate the Rights Offering in accordance therewith. New HoldCo Common Stock shall be issued to each Eligible
Offeree that exercises its respective subscription rights pursuant to the Rights Offering Procedures and the Plan. The consummation of the Rights Offering shall be conditioned on the occurrence of the Effective Date, and any other condition
specified in the Backstop Commitment Letters. Amounts held by the subscription agent with respect to the Rights Offering prior to the Effective Date shall not be entitled to any interest on account of such amounts and no Eligible Offeree
participating in the Rights Offering shall have any rights in New HoldCo Common Stock until the Rights Offering is consummated.
6.18 Plan Proponent Reimbursement. On the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors shall
reimburse the Shareholder Proponents for their out‐of‐pocket expenses (excluding any professional fees) incurred in connection with the furtherance of the Debtors’ reorganization, which in the aggregate shall not exceed $150,000.
6.19 Securities Act Registrations or Exemptions.
(a) The offer, issuance and distribution of the New
HoldCo Common Stock and other Securities as provided hereunder may be exempt from registration under (i) the Securities Act of 1933 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) any state or local law requiring registration for
the offer, issuance, or distribution of Securities, pursuant to section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code, without further act or action by any Entity, pursuant to another available exemption from registration, such as section 4(a)(2) of the
Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder, or pursuant to Article III of the Securities Act, or such offer, issuance and distribution may be registered under the Securities Act pursuant to an appropriate registration statement.
Any offer, issuance and distribution of Securities pursuant to any Backstop Commitment Letter may be exempt from registration pursuant to section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
(b) Under section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code, any
securities issued under the Plan that are exempt from such registration pursuant to section 1145(a) of the Bankruptcy Code will be freely tradable by the recipients thereof, subject to (i) the provisions of section 1145(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy
Code relating to the definition of an underwriter in section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act of 1933, (ii) compliance with any rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, if any, applicable at the time of any future transfer
of such securities or instruments, (iii) the restrictions, if any, on the transferability of such securities and instruments, including any restrictions on the transferability under the terms of the New Organizational Documents, (iv) any
applicable procedures of DTC, and (v) applicable regulatory approval.
ARTICLE VII.
PROCEDURES FOR DISPUTED CLAIMS
7.1 Objections to Claims. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the Claims Resolution
Procedures, the Subrogation Claims RSA, and in the Wildfire Trust Agreements, the Reorganized Debtors shall be entitled to object to Claims. The Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall be entitled to object to Subrogation Wildfire Claims. The Fire
Victim Trustee shall be entitled to object to Fire Victim Claims. Except as otherwise set forth in the Plan, any objections to Claims shall be served and filed on or before the later of (i) one-hundred and eighty (180) days after the Effective
Date and (ii) such later date as may be fixed by the Bankruptcy Court (as the same may be extended by the Bankruptcy Court for cause shown). Fire Victim Claims, other than those Claims arising out of the 2015 Butte fires that were the subject
of fully executed prepetition settlement agreements with the Debtor(s) and any other Fire Victim Claim that is settled or Allowed by order of the Bankruptcy Court prior to the Effective Date, are treated as unliquidated Disputed Claims for
purposes of the Fire Victim Trust and shall be subject to resolution by the Fire Victim Trust in accordance with the Fire Victim Claims Resolution Procedures.
7.2 Resolution of Disputed Administrative Expense Claims and Disputed Claims. Except as
otherwise provided for in the Plan, in the Claims Resolution Procedures, the Subrogation Claims RSA, or in the Wildfire Trust Agreements, on and after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors shall have the authority to compromise, settle,
otherwise resolve, or withdraw any objections to Disputed Administrative Expense Claims or Disputed Claims and to compromise, settle, or otherwise resolve any Disputed Administrative Expense Claims and Disputed Claims without approval of the
Bankruptcy Court, other than with respect to any Professional Fee Claims. On and after the Effective Date, the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall have the authority to compromise, settle, otherwise resolve, or withdraw any objections to
Disputed Subrogation Wildfire Claims without approval of the Bankruptcy Court. On and after the Effective Date, the Fire Victim Trustee shall have the authority to compromise, settle, otherwise resolve, or withdraw any objections to Disputed
Fire Victim Claims without approval of the Bankruptcy Court. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, Subrogation Wildfire Claims and Fire Victim Claims may only be compromised, settled, or resolved pursuant to the
applicable Claims Resolution Procedures and Wildfire Trust Agreement.
7.3 Payments and Distributions with Respect to Disputed Claims. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, if any portion of a Claim is a Disputed Claim, no
payment or distribution provided hereunder shall be made on account of such Claim (including on account of the non-Disputed portion of such Claim) unless and until
such Disputed Claim becomes an Allowed Claim.
7.4 Distributions After Allowance. After such time as a Disputed Claim becomes, in whole
but not in part, an Allowed Claim, the holder thereof shall be entitled to distributions, if any, to which such holder is then entitled as provided in this Plan, including any interest accrued in respect of such Allowed Claim from the Petition
Date through the date of such distributions on account of such Allowed Claim, at the applicable rate provided for in such Claim’s treatment pursuant to this Plan. Such distributions shall be made as soon as practicable after the date that the
order or judgment of the Bankruptcy Court allowing such Disputed Claim (or portion thereof) becomes a Final Order.
7.5 Disallowance of Claims. Any Claims held by an Entity from which property is recoverable
under sections 542, 543, 550, or 553 of the Bankruptcy Code or that is a transferee of a transfer avoidable under section 522(f), 522(h), 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, or 724(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, as determined by a Final Order, shall be deemed
disallowed pursuant to section 502(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, and holders of such Claims may not receive any distributions on account of such Claims until such time as such Causes of Action against that Entity have been settled or a Final Order
with respect thereto has been entered and all sums due, if any, to the Debtors by that Entity have been turned over or paid to the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors. Except as otherwise provided herein or by an order of the Bankruptcy Court,
all proofs of Claim filed after the Effective Date shall be disallowed and forever barred, estopped, and enjoined from assertion, and shall not be enforceable against any Reorganized Debtor, without the need for any objection by the Reorganized
Debtors or any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Bankruptcy Court, other than a claim for damages arising from the rejection of an executory contract or unexpired lease.
7.6 Estimation. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Claims Resolution Procedures,
the Subrogation Claims RSA, and the Wildfire Trust Agreements, the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors (or the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Subrogation Wildfire Claims and the Fire Victim Trustee solely with
respect to Disputed Fire Victim Claims) may determine, resolve and otherwise adjudicate all contingent Claims or unliquidated Claims in the Bankruptcy Court or such other court of the Debtors’, Reorganized Debtors’, the Subrogation Wildfire
Trustee’s or the Fire Victim Trustee’s choice having jurisdiction over the validity, nature or amount thereof. The Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors (or the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Subrogation Wildfire
Claims and the Fire Victim Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Fire Victim Claims) may at any time request that the Bankruptcy Court estimate any contingent Claims or unliquidated Claims pursuant to section 502(c) of the Bankruptcy Code for
any reason or purpose, regardless of whether any of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors (or the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Subrogation Wildfire Claims and the Fire Victim Trustee solely with respect to
Disputed Fire Victim Claims) have previously objected to such Claim or whether the Bankruptcy Court has ruled on any such objection. The Bankruptcy Court shall retain jurisdiction to estimate any Claim at any time during litigation concerning
any objection to any Claim, including, during the pendency of any appeal relating to any such objection. If the Bankruptcy Court estimates any contingent Claim or unliquidated Claim, that estimated amount shall constitute the maximum limitation
on such Claim, and the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors (or the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Subrogation Wildfire Claims and the
Fire Victim Trustee solely with respect to Disputed Fire Victim Claims) may pursue supplementary proceedings to object to the ultimate allowance of such Claim; provided, that such limitation shall not apply to Claims requested by the Debtors to be estimated for voting purposes only. All of the aforementioned objection,
estimation and resolution procedures are cumulative and not exclusive of one another. Claims may be estimated and subsequently compromised, settled, withdrawn, or resolved by any mechanism approved by the Bankruptcy Court. Notwithstanding section
502(j) of the Bankruptcy Code, in no event shall any holder of a Claim that has been estimated pursuant to section 502(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise be entitled to seek reconsideration of such Claim unless the holder of such Claim has
filed a motion requesting the right to seek such reconsideration on or before twenty (20) calendar days after the date such Claim is estimated by the Bankruptcy Court. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, Subrogation
Wildfire Claims and Fire Victim Claims may only be compromised, settled, or resolved pursuant to terms of the applicable Wildfire Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII.
EXECUTORY CONTRACTS AND UNEXPIRED LEASES
8.1 General Treatment.
(a) As of, and subject to, the occurrence of the
Effective Date and the payment of any applicable Cure Amount, all executory contracts and unexpired leases of the Reorganized Debtors shall be deemed assumed, unless such executory contract or unexpired lease (i) was previously assumed or
rejected by the Debtors, pursuant to a Final Order, (ii) previously expired or terminated pursuant to its own terms or by agreement of the parties thereto, (iii) is the subject of a motion to assume, assume and assign, or reject filed by the
Debtors on or before the Confirmation Date, or (iv) is specifically designated as an executory contract or unexpired lease to be rejected on the Schedule of Rejected Contracts.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, as of and subject
to the occurrence of the Effective Date and the payment of any applicable Cure Amount, all power purchase agreements, renewable energy power purchase agreements, and Community Choice Aggregation servicing agreements of the Debtors shall be
deemed assumed.
(c) Subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date,
entry of the Confirmation Order by the Bankruptcy Court shall constitute approval of the assumptions, assumptions and assignments, or rejections provided for in this Plan pursuant to sections 365(a) and 1123 of the Bankruptcy Code. Each
executory contract and unexpired lease assumed pursuant to this Plan shall vest in, and be fully enforceable by, the applicable Reorganized Debtor in accordance with its terms, except as modified by the provisions of this Plan, any order of the
Bankruptcy Court authorizing and providing for its assumption or assumption and assignment, or applicable law.
8.2 Determination of Cure Disputes and Deemed Consent.
(a) Any defaults under an assumed or assumed and
assigned executory contract or unexpired lease, shall be satisfied, pursuant to section 365(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, by payment
of the default amount, as reflected in the applicable cure notice, in Cash on the Effective Date, subject to the limitations described below, or on such other terms
as the parties to such executory contracts or unexpired leases and the Debtors may otherwise agree.
(b) At least fourteen (14) days before the deadline
set to file objections to confirmation of the Plan, the Debtors shall distribute, or cause to be distributed, assumption and cure notices to the applicable third parties. Any objection by a counterparty to an executory contract or unexpired lease to the proposed assumption, assumption and assignment, or related Cure Amount must be filed, served, and actually received by the Debtors before
the deadline set to file objections to confirmation of the Plan. Any counterparty to an executory contract or unexpired lease that fails to object timely to the proposed assumption, assumption and assignment, or Cure Amount will be
deemed to have assented to such assumption, assumption and assignment, or Cure Amount. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) in the event that any executory contract or unexpired lease is removed from the Schedule of Rejected
Contracts after such fourteen (14)-day deadline, a cure notice with respect to such executory contract or unexpired lease will be sent promptly to the counterparty thereof and a noticed hearing set to consider whether such executory contract or
unexpired lease can be assumed or assumed and assigned, as applicable, and (ii) the right of any counterparty or holder of a Claim for a Cure Amount to investigate and/or challenge the calculation of interest with respect to any applicable Cure
Amount, consistent with the Plan, is preserved.
(c) In the event of an unresolved dispute regarding
(i) any Cure Amount, (ii) the ability of the Reorganized Debtors or any assignee to provide “adequate assurance of future performance” (within the meaning of section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code) under the executory contract or unexpired lease to
be assumed, or (iii) any other matter pertaining to assumption, assumption and assignment, or the Cure Amounts required by section 365(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, such dispute shall be resolved by a Final Order (which order may be the
Confirmation Order).
(d) If the Bankruptcy Court makes a determination
regarding any of the matters set forth in Section 8.2(c) above with respect to any executory contract or unexpired lease (including, without limitation that the Cure Amount is greater than the amount set forth in the applicable cure notice), as
set forth in Section 8.8(a) below, the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, shall have the right to alter the treatment of such executory contract or unexpired lease, including, without limitation, to add such executory contract or
unexpired lease to the Schedule of Rejected Contracts, in which case such executory contract or unexpired lease shall be deemed rejected as of the Effective Date.
(e) Assumption or assumption and assignment of any
executory contract or unexpired lease pursuant to the Plan or otherwise shall result in the full release and satisfaction of any defaults by any Debtor arising under any assumed executory contract or unexpired lease at any time before the date
that the Debtors assume or assume and assign such executory contract or unexpired lease to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law.
8.3 Rejection Damages Claims. In the event that the rejection of an executory contract or
unexpired lease hereunder results in damages to the other party or parties to such contract or lease, any Claim for such damages, if not heretofore evidenced by a timely filed proof of Claim, shall be forever barred and shall not be enforceable
against the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors,
or their respective estates, properties or interests in property, unless a proof of Claim is filed with the Bankruptcy Court and served upon the Debtors or the
Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, no later than thirty (30) days after the later of (i) the Confirmation Date or (ii) the effective date of the rejection of such executory contract or unexpired lease, as set forth on the Schedule of Rejected
Contracts or order of the Bankruptcy Court. The Confirmation Order shall constitute the Bankruptcy Court’s approval of the rejection of all the leases and contracts identified in the Schedule of Rejected Contracts.
8.4 Survival of the Debtors’ Indemnification Obligations. Any and all obligations of the
Debtors pursuant to their corporate charters, agreements, bylaws, limited liability company agreements, memorandum and articles of association, or other organizational documents (including all Indemnification Obligations) to indemnify current
and former officers, directors, agents, or employees with respect to all present and future actions, suits, and proceedings against the Debtors or such officers, directors, agents, or employees based upon any act or omission for or on behalf of
the Debtors shall remain in full force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and shall not be discharged, impaired, or otherwise affected by this Plan. All such obligations shall be deemed and treated as executory
contracts that are assumed by the Debtors under this Plan and shall continue as obligations of the Reorganized Debtors. Any Claim based on the Debtors’ obligations in this Section 8.4 herein shall not be a Disputed Claim or subject to any
objection, in either case, by reason of section 502(e)(1)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise.
8.5 Assumption of Employee Benefit Plans.
(a) On the Effective Date, all Employee Benefit Plans
are deemed to be, and shall be treated as, executory contracts under this Plan and, on the Effective Date, shall be assumed pursuant to sections 365 and 1123 of the Bankruptcy Code. All outstanding payments which are accrued and unpaid as of
the Effective Date pursuant to the Employee Benefit Plans shall be made by the Reorganized Debtors on the Effective Date or as soon as practicable thereafter.
(b) The deemed assumption of the Employee Benefit
Plans pursuant to this Section 8.5 shall result in the full release and satisfaction of any Claims and Causes of Action against any Debtor or defaults by any Debtor arising under any Employee Benefit Plan at any time before the Effective Date.
Any proofs of Claim filed with respect to an Employee Benefit Plan shall be deemed disallowed and expunged, without further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the
Plan, the Reorganized Debtors shall continue and assume the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan (“Defined Benefit Plan”) subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and any other applicable law, including (i) the minimum funding standards in 26 U.S.C. §§ 412, 430, and 29 U.S.C. §§ 1082, 1083 and (ii) premiums under 29 U.S.C. §§ 1306 and
1307. All proofs of claim filed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with respect to the Defined Benefit Plan are deemed withdrawn on the Effective Date.
8.6 Collective Bargaining Agreements.
(a) On or prior to the Effective Date, and subject to
the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors shall assume the Collective Bargaining Agreements. The prepetition grievance claims set out in the letter from the Debtors to IBEW Local 1245 dated May 15, 2020 shall be resolved in
the ordinary course of business in accordance with the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreements, and all parties reserve their rights with respect thereto.
8.7 Insurance Policies.
(a) All Insurance Policies (including all D&O
Liability Insurance Policies and tail coverage liability insurance), surety bonds, and indemnity agreements entered into in connection with surety bonds to which any Debtor is a party as of the Effective Date shall be deemed to be and treated
as executory contracts and shall be assumed by the applicable Debtors or Reorganized Debtor and shall continue in full force and effect thereafter in accordance with their respective terms.
8.8 Reservation of Rights.
(a) The Debtors may amend the Schedule of Rejected
Contracts and any cure notice until the later of (i) 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Business Day immediately prior to the commencement of the Confirmation Hearing or (ii) if Section 8.2(d) is applicable, the Business Day that is seven (7)
Business Days following the determination by the Bankruptcy Court, in order to add, delete, or reclassify any executory contract or unexpired lease; provided,
that if the Confirmation Hearing is adjourned for a period of more than two (2) consecutive calendar days, the Debtors’ right to amend such schedules and notices shall be extended to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Business Day immediately
prior to the adjourned date of the Confirmation Hearing, with such extension applying in the case of any and all subsequent adjournments of the Confirmation Hearing.
(b) Neither the exclusion nor the inclusion by the
Debtors of any contract or lease on any exhibit, schedule, or other annex to this Plan or in the Plan Supplement, nor anything contained in this Plan or in the Plan Documents, will constitute an admission by the Debtors that any such contract
or lease is or is not an executory contract or unexpired lease or that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors or their respective affiliates has any liability thereunder.
(c) Except as explicitly provided in this Plan,
nothing herein shall waive, excuse, limit, diminish, or otherwise alter any of the defenses, claims, Causes of Action, or other rights of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors under any executory or non-executory contract or unexpired or
expired lease.
(d) Nothing in this Plan will increase, augment, or
add to any of the duties, obligations, responsibilities, or liabilities of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, under any executory or non-executory contract or unexpired or expired lease.
8.9 Modifications, Amendments, Supplements, Restatements, or Other Agreements. Unless
otherwise provided in the Plan, each executory contract or unexpired lease that is assumed shall include all modifications, amendments, supplements, restatements, or other
agreements that in any manner affect such executory contract or unexpired lease, and executory contracts and unexpired leases related thereto, if any, including
easements, licenses, permits, rights, privileges, immunities, options, rights of first refusal, and any other interests, unless any of the foregoing agreements has been previously rejected or repudiated or is rejected or repudiated under the
Plan.
ARTICLE IX.
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PLAN
9.1 Conditions Precedent to Confirmation of the Plan. The following are conditions
precedent to confirmation of the Plan:
(a) The Disclosure Statement Order has been entered
by the Bankruptcy Court;
(b) The Bankruptcy Court shall have entered the
Confirmation Order in form and substance acceptable to the Debtors;
(c) The Debtors have received the CPUC Approval,
other than the approval referred to in Section 1.37(c) of the Plan;
(d) The Subrogation Claims RSA shall be in full force
and effect;
(e) The Tort Claimants RSA shall be in full force and
effect;
(f) The Noteholder RSA shall be in full force and
effect; and
(g) The Backstop Commitment Letters, if necessary for
the Plan Funding, shall be in full force and effect and binding on all parties thereto, and shall not have been terminated by the parties thereto.
9.2 Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date. The following are conditions precedent to
the Effective Date of the Plan:
(a) The Confirmation Order shall have been entered by
the Bankruptcy Court no later than the June 30, 2020 date set forth in section 3292(b) of the Wildfire Legislation (A.B. 1054) or any extension of such date and such order shall be in full force and effect, and no stay thereof shall be in
effect;
(b) The Subrogation Claims RSA shall be in full force
and effect;
(c) The Tort Claimants RSA shall be in full force and
effect;
(d) The Noteholder RSA shall be in full force and
effect;
(e) The adversary proceeding commenced by the Tort
Claimants Committee against the Ad Hoc Group of Subrogation Claim Holders (Complaint for Declaratory Judgment
Subordinating and Disallowing Claims and For an Accounting, Official Comm. of
Tort Claimants v. Ad Hoc Grp. of Subrogation Claim Holders, Adv. Pro. No. 19-3053 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 8, 2019), ECF. No. 1) shall have been dismissed with prejudice;
(f) The Tax Benefits Payment Agreement shall be in
full force and effect, and shall have received any necessary approvals;
(g) The Debtors shall have implemented all
transactions contemplated by this Plan;
(h) All documents and agreements necessary to
consummate the Plan shall have been effected or executed;
(i) The Bankruptcy Court approval for the Debtors to
participate in and fund the Go-Forward Wildfire Fund shall be in full force and effect;
(j) The Debtors shall have obtained the Plan Funding;
(k) The Debtors shall have received all
authorizations, consents, legal and regulatory approvals, rulings, letters, no-action letters, opinions, or documents that are necessary to implement and consummate the Plan and the Plan Funding and that are required by law, regulation, or
order;
(l) The CPUC Approval shall be in full force and
effect;
(m) The Subrogation Wildfire Trust shall have been
established and the Subrogation Wildfire Trustee shall have been appointed;
(n) The Fire Victim Trust shall have been
established, the Fire Victim Trustee shall have been appointed and the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement shall have been fully executed; and
(o) The Plan shall not have been materially amended,
altered or modified from the Plan as confirmed by the Confirmation Order, unless such material amendment, alteration or modification has been made in accordance with Section 12.6 of the Plan.
9.3 Satisfaction of Conditions. Except as otherwise provided herein, any actions required
to be taken on the Effective Date shall take place and shall be deemed to have occurred simultaneously, and no such action shall be deemed to have occurred prior to the taking of any other such action. If the Debtors determine that any of the
conditions precedent set forth in Sections 9.1 or 9.2 hereof cannot be satisfied and the occurrence of such conditions is not waived pursuant to Section 9.4, then the Debtors shall file a notice of the failure of the Effective Date with the
Bankruptcy Court.
9.4 Waiver of Conditions. The conditions set forth in Sections 9.1 or 9.2 may be waived or
modified only by the Plan Proponents with the consent of the Backstop Parties holding a majority of the Aggregate Backstop Commitment Amount (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), without notice, leave, or order
of the Bankruptcy Court or any formal action other than proceedings to confirm or consummate the Plan; provided that for Sections 9.1(d) and 9.2(b) of
the Plan only, the consent of the Requisite Consenting Creditors shall also be
required; provided further that for Sections 9.1(e) and 9.2(c) of the
Plan only, the consent of the Requisite Consenting Fire Claimant Professionals (as such term is defined in the Tort Claimants RSA) shall also be required.
9.5 Effect of Non-Occurrence of Effective Date. If the Effective Date does not occur on or
before December 31, 2020, then: (a) the Plan will be null and void in all respects; and (b) nothing contained in the Plan or the Disclosure Statement shall: (i) constitute a waiver or release of any Claims, Interests, or Causes of Action by any
Entity; (ii) prejudice in any manner the rights of any Debtor or any other Entity; or (iii) constitute an admission, acknowledgment, offer, or undertaking of any sort by any Debtor or any other Entity.
ARTICLE X.
EFFECT OF CONFIRMATION
10.1 Binding Effect. Except as otherwise provided in section 1141(d)(3) of the Bankruptcy
Code, and subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, on and after the entry of the Confirmation Order, the provisions of this Plan shall bind every holder of a Claim against or Interest in any Debtor and inure to the benefit of and be
binding on such holder’s respective successors and assigns, regardless of whether the Claim or Interest of such holder is Impaired under this Plan and whether such holder has accepted this Plan.
10.2 Vesting of Assets. Upon the Effective Date, pursuant to sections 1141(b) and (c) of the
Bankruptcy Code, all assets and property of the Debtors shall vest in the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, free and clear of all Claims, Liens, charges, and other interests, except as otherwise provided herein. The Reorganized Debtors may
operate their businesses and use, acquire, and dispose of property free of any restrictions of the Bankruptcy Code or the Bankruptcy Rules and in all respects as if there were no pending cases under any chapter or provision of the Bankruptcy
Code, except as otherwise provided herein.
10.3 Discharge of Debtors. Upon the Effective Date and in consideration of the distributions
to be made hereunder, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Debtors shall be discharged to the fullest extent permitted by section 1141 of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that any liability of the Debtors arising from any fire or any other act or omission occurring after the
Petition Date, including the Kincade Fire, that has not been satisfied in full as of the Effective Date shall not be discharged, waived, or released. In addition, (a) from and after the Effective Date neither the automatic stay nor any other
injunction entered by the Bankruptcy Court shall restrain the enforcement or defense of any claims for fires or any other act or omission occurring after the Petition Date, including the Kincade Fire or the Lafayette fire, in any court that
would otherwise have jurisdiction if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been filed and (b) no claims for fires or any other act or omission or motions for allowance of claims for fires or any act or omission occurring after the Petition Date need to
be filed in the Chapter 11 Cases. Upon the Effective Date, all holders of Claims against or Interests in the Debtors shall be forever precluded and enjoined, pursuant to section 524 of the Bankruptcy Code, from prosecuting or asserting any such
discharged Claim against or Interest in the Debtors.
10.4 Term of Injunctions or Stays. Unless otherwise provided herein or in a Final Order, all
injunctions or stays arising under or entered during the Chapter 11 Cases under section 105 or 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, and in existence on the Confirmation Date, shall remain in full force and effect until the later of the
Effective Date and the date indicated in the order providing for such injunction or stay. The Trading Order shall remain enforceable as to transfers through the Effective Date with respect to those persons having “beneficial ownership” of
“PG&E Stock” (as such terms are defined in Trading Order). Accordingly, the Trading Order has no applicability or effect with respect to the trading of stock of Reorganized HoldCo after the Effective Date.
10.5 Injunction Against Interference with Plan. Upon entry of the Confirmation Order, all
holders of Claims against or Interests in the Debtors and other parties in interest, along with their respective present or former employees, agents, officers, directors, principals, and affiliates, shall be enjoined from taking any actions to
interfere with the implementation or consummation of the Plan; provided, that nothing herein or in the Confirmation Order shall preclude, limit, restrict or prohibit any party in interest from seeking to enforce the terms of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or any other agreement or instrument
entered into or effectuated in connection with the consummation of the Plan.
10.6 Injunction.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Plan or in
the Confirmation Order, as of the entry of the Confirmation Order but subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, all Entities who have held, hold, or may hold Claims or Interests are, with respect to any such Claim or Interest,
permanently enjoined after the entry of the Confirmation Order from: (i) commencing, conducting, or continuing in any manner, directly or indirectly, any suit, action, or other proceeding of any kind (including, any proceeding in a judicial,
arbitral, administrative, or other forum) against or affecting, directly or indirectly, a Debtor, a Reorganized Debtor, or an estate or the property of any of the foregoing, or any direct or indirect transferee of any property of, or direct or
indirect successor in interest to, any of the foregoing Persons mentioned in this subsection (i) or any property of any such transferee or successor; (ii) enforcing, levying, attaching (including any prejudgment attachment), collecting, or
otherwise recovering in any manner or by any means, whether directly or indirectly, any judgment, award, decree, or order against a Debtor, a Reorganized Debtor, or an estate or its property, or any direct or indirect transferee of any property
of, or direct or indirect successor in interest to, any of the foregoing Persons mentioned in this subsection (ii) or any property of any such transferee or successor; (iii) creating, perfecting, or otherwise enforcing in any manner, directly
or indirectly, any encumbrance of any kind against a Debtor, a Reorganized Debtor, or an estate or any of its property, or any direct or indirect transferee of any property of, or successor in interest to, any of the foregoing Persons mentioned
in this subsection (iii) or any property of any such transferee or successor; (iv) acting or proceeding in any manner, in any place whatsoever, that does not conform to or comply with the provisions of this Plan to the full extent permitted by
applicable law; and (v) commencing or continuing, in any manner or in any place, any action that does not comply with or is inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan; provided, that nothing contained herein shall preclude such Entities who have held, hold, or may hold Claims against a Debtor or an estate from exercising their rights, or obtaining benefits, pursuant to and
consistent with the terms of this Plan, the Confirmation Order, or any other agreement or instrument entered into or effectuated in connection with the consummation of the Plan.
(b) By accepting distributions pursuant to this Plan,
each holder of an Allowed Claim will be deemed to have affirmatively and specifically consented to be bound by this Plan, including, the injunctions set forth in this Section.
10.7 Channeling Injunction.
(a) The sole source of recovery
for holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims and Fire Victim Claims shall be from the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and the Fire Victim Trust, as applicable. The holders of such Claims shall have no recourse to or Claims whatsoever against the
Debtors or Reorganized Debtors or their assets and properties. Consistent with the foregoing, all Entities that have held or asserted, or that hold or assert any Subrogation Wildfire Claim or Fire Victim Claim shall be permanently and forever
stayed, restrained, and enjoined from taking any action for the purpose of directly or indirectly collecting, recovering, or receiving payments, satisfaction, or recovery from any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or its assets and properties with
respect to any Fire Claims, including all of the following actions:
(i) commencing,
conducting, or continuing, in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, any suit, action, or other proceeding of any kind in any forum with respect to any such Fire Claim, against or affecting any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor, or any property
or interests in property of any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor with respect to any such Fire Claim;
(ii) enforcing,
levying, attaching, collecting or otherwise recovering, by any manner or means, or in any manner, either directly or indirectly, any judgment, award, decree or other order against any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or against the property of any
Debtor or Reorganized Debtor with respect to any such Fire Claim;
(iii) creating,
perfecting, or enforcing in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, any Lien of any kind against any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or the property of any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor with respect to any such Fire Claims;
(iv) asserting
or accomplishing any setoff, right of subrogation, indemnity, contribution, or recoupment of any kind, whether directly or indirectly, against any obligation due to any Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or against the property of any Debtor or
Reorganized Debtor with respect to any such Fire Claim; and
(v) taking any
act, in any manner, in any place whatsoever, that does not conform to, or comply with, the provisions of the Plan Documents, with respect to any such Fire Claim.
(b) Reservations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 10.7 of the Plan, this Channeling
Injunction shall not enjoin:
(i) the rights of holders of
Subrogation Wildfire Claims and Fire Victim Claims to the treatment afforded them under the Plan, including the right to assert such Claims
in accordance with the applicable Wildfire Trust Agreements solely against the applicable Wildfire Trust whether or not there are funds to pay
such Fire Claims; and
(ii) the Wildfire Trusts from
enforcing their rights under the Wildfire Trust Agreements.
(c) Modifications. There can be no modification, dissolution, or termination of the Channeling Injunction,
which shall be a permanent injunction.
(d) No Limitation on Channeling Injunction. Nothing in the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or the Wildfire Trust
Agreements shall be construed in any way to limit the scope, enforceability, or effectiveness of the Channeling Injunction provided for herein and in the Confirmation Order.
(e) Bankruptcy Rule 3016 Compliance. The Debtors’ compliance with the requirements of Bankruptcy Rule 3016
shall not constitute an admission that the Plan provides for an injunction against conduct not otherwise enjoined under the Bankruptcy Code.
10.8 Exculpation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and except for the Assigned Rights and Causes of
Action solely to the extent preserved by Section 10.9(g), no Exculpated Party shall have or incur, and each Exculpated Party is hereby released and exculpated from, any Claim, Interest, obligation, suit, judgment, damage, demand, debt, right,
Cause of Action, loss, remedy, or liability for any claim (including, but not limited to, any claim for breach of any fiduciary duty or any similar duty) in connection with or arising out of the administration of the Chapter 11 Cases; the
negotiation and pursuit of the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, the Exit Financing Documents, the Plan Funding, the DIP Facilities,
the Disclosure Statement, the Plan, the Restructuring Transactions, the Wildfire Trusts (including the Plan Documents, the Claims Resolution Procedures and the Wildfire Trust Agreements), or any agreement, transaction, or document related to
any of the foregoing, or the solicitation of votes for, or confirmation of, this Plan; the funding of this Plan; the occurrence of the Effective Date; the administration of this Plan or the property to be distributed under this Plan; any
membership in (including, but not limited to, on an ex officio basis), participation in, or involvement with the Statutory Committees; the issuance of
Securities under or in connection with this Plan; or the transactions in furtherance of any of the foregoing; except for Claims related to any act or omission that is determined in a Final Order by a court of competent jurisdiction to have
constituted actual fraud or willful misconduct, but in all respects such Entities shall be entitled to reasonably rely upon the advice of counsel with respect to their duties and responsibilities pursuant to this Plan. The Exculpated Parties
and each of their respective affiliates, agents, directors, officers, employees, advisors, and attorneys have acted in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code with regard to the solicitation and distributions pursuant
to this Plan and, therefore, are not, and on account of such distributions shall not be, liable at any time for the violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation governing the solicitation of acceptances or rejections of this Plan or
such distributions made pursuant to this Plan, including the issuance of Securities thereunder. This exculpation shall be
in addition to, and not in limitation of, all other releases, indemnities, exculpations, and any other applicable law or rules protecting such
Exculpated Parties from liability.
10.9 Releases.
(a) Releases by the Debtors. As of and subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, except for the
rights that remain in effect from and after the Effective Date to enforce this Plan and the Plan Documents, and except for the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action solely to the extent preserved by Section 10.9(g), for good and valuable
consideration, the adequacy of which is hereby confirmed, including, the service of the Released Parties to facilitate the reorganization of the Debtors, the implementation of the Restructuring, and except as otherwise provided in this Plan
or in the Confirmation Order, the Released Parties are deemed forever released and discharged, to the maximum extent permitted by law and unless barred by law, by the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, and the Debtors’ estates, in each case on
behalf of themselves and their respective successors, assigns, and representatives and any and all other Entities who may purport to assert any Cause of Action derivatively, by or through the foregoing Entities, from any and all claims,
interests, obligations, suits, judgments, damages, demands, debts, rights, Causes of Action, losses, remedies, or liabilities whatsoever, including any derivative claims, asserted or assertable on behalf of the Debtors, the Reorganized
Debtors, or the Debtors’ estates, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, existing or hereinafter arising, in law, equity, or otherwise, that the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Debtors’ estates would have been legally
entitled to assert in their own right (whether individually or collectively) or on behalf of the holder of any Claim or Interest or other Entity, based on or relating to, or in any manner arising from, in whole or in part, the Debtors, the
Chapter 11 Cases, the Fires, the purchase, sale, or rescission of the purchase or sale of any Security of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, the subject matter of, or the transactions or events giving rise to, any Claim or Interest that
is treated in this Plan, the business or contractual arrangements between any Debtor and any Released Party, the DIP Facilities, the Plan Funding, the Restructuring, the restructuring of any Claim or Interest before or during the Chapter 11
Cases, the Restructuring Transactions, the Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, the Exit Financing Documents, the negotiation,
formulation, or preparation of the Disclosure Statement and this Plan and related agreements, instruments, and other documents (including the Plan Documents, the Claims Resolution Procedures, the Wildfire Trust Agreements, Public Entities
Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, and the Exit Financing Documents), the solicitation of votes with respect to this Plan, any membership
(including, but not limited to, on an ex officio basis), participation in, or involvement with the Statutory Committees, or any other act or omission, transaction, agreement, event, or other occurrence, and in all respects such Entities shall be entitled to reasonably rely upon the
advice of counsel with respect to their duties and responsibilities pursuant to this Plan.
(b) Releases by Holders of Claims and Interests. As of and subject to the occurrence of the Effective
Date, except for the rights that remain in effect from and after the Effective Date to enforce the Plan and the Plan Documents, and except for the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action solely to the extent preserved by Section 10.9(g), for
good and valuable
consideration, the adequacy of which is hereby confirmed, including, the service of the Released Parties to facilitate the reorganization of the
Debtors and the implementation of the Restructuring, and except as otherwise provided in the Plan or in the Confirmation Order, the Released Parties, are deemed forever released and discharged, to the maximum extent permitted by law and unless
barred by law, by the Releasing Parties from any and all claims, interests, obligations, suits, judgments, damages, demands, debts, rights, Causes of Action, losses, remedies, and liabilities whatsoever, including any derivative claims, asserted
or assertable on behalf of the Debtors, and any claims for breach of any fiduciary duty (or any similar duty), whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, existing or hereinafter arising, in law, equity, or otherwise, that such holders or
their affiliates (to the extent such affiliates can be bound) would have been legally entitled to assert in their own right (whether individually or collectively) or on behalf of the holder of any Claim or Interest or other Entity, based on or
relating to, or in any manner arising from, in whole or in part, the Debtors, the Fires, the Chapter 11 Cases, the purchase, sale, or rescission of the purchase or sale of any Security of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, the subject matter
of, or the transactions or events giving rise to, any Claim or Interest that is treated in the Plan, the business or contractual arrangements between any Debtor and any Released Party, the DIP Facilities, the Plan Funding, the Restructuring, the
restructuring of any Claim or Interest before or during the Chapter 11 Cases, the Restructuring Transactions, the Public Entities Plan Support Agreement, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the
Noteholder RSA, the Exit Financing Documents, the negotiation, formulation, or preparation of the Disclosure Statement, the Plan and related agreements, instruments, and other documents (including the Plan Documents, the Claims Resolution
Procedures, the Wildfire Trust Agreements, Public Entities Plan Support Agreements, the Backstop Commitment Letters, the Subrogation Claims RSA, the Tort Claimants RSA, the Noteholder RSA, and the Exit Financing Documents), the solicitation of
votes with respect to the Plan, any membership in (including, but not limited to, on an ex officio basis), participation in, or involvement with the
Statutory Committees, or any other act or omission, transaction, agreement, event, or other occurrence, and in all respects such Entities shall be entitled to reasonably rely upon the advice of counsel with respect to their duties and
responsibilities pursuant to the Plan. Notwithstanding the above, the holders of Environmental Claims, Workers’ Compensation Claims and 2001 Utility Exchange Claims retain the right to assert such Claims against the Reorganized Debtors in
accordance with the terms of the Plan; and nothing herein shall be deemed to impose a release by holders of Fire Victim Claims of insurance claims arising under their insurance policies against holders of Subrogation Wildfire Claims, other than
any rights such holder may elect to release as part of any settlement as set forth in Section 4.25(f)(ii) hereof.
(c) Only Consensual Non-Debtor Releases. Except as set forth under Section 4.25(f)(ii) hereof, for the
avoidance of doubt, and notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, nothing in the Plan is intended to, nor shall the Plan be interpreted to, effect a nonconsensual release, satisfaction, compromise, settlement or discharge of a holder
of a Claim or Cause of Action in favor of a party that is not a Debtor, it being acknowledged that such holder shall be deemed to have released, or to effectuate a satisfaction, compromise, settlement or discharge of, a party that is not a
Debtor under the Plan solely to the extent that such holder consensually elects to provide such Plan release in accordance with the opt-in release procedures
set forth herein or in any applicable Ballot. The holder of a Claim shall receive the same amount of consideration under the Plan whether or not
such holder elects to release a party that is not a Debtor in accordance with the opt-in release procedures set forth herein or in any applicable Ballot.
(d) Release of Liens. Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan or in any contract,
instrument, release, or other agreement or document created pursuant to the Plan, including the Exit Financing Documents, on the Effective Date and concurrently with the applicable distributions made pursuant to the Plan and, in the case of a
Secured Claim, satisfaction in full of the portion of the Secured Claim that is Allowed as of the Effective Date, all mortgages, deeds of trust, Liens, pledges, or other security interests against any property of the estates shall be fully
released and discharged, and all of the right, title, and interest of any holder of such mortgages, deeds of trust, Liens, pledges, or other security interests shall revert to the Reorganized Debtors and their successors and assigns, in each
case, without any further approval or order of the Bankruptcy Court and without any action or filing being required to be made by the Debtors.
(e) Waiver of Statutory Limitations on Releases. Each Releasing Party in any general release contained in
the Plan expressly acknowledges that although ordinarily a general release may not extend to claims which the Releasing Party does not know or suspect to exist in his favor, which if known by it may have materially affected its settlement
with the party released, each Releasing Party has carefully considered and taken into account in determining to enter into the above releases the possible existence of such unknown losses or claims. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, and solely with respect to any general release under this Plan, each Releasing Party expressly waives any and all rights conferred upon it by any statute or rule of law which provides that a release does not extend to claims which
the claimant does not know or suspect to exist in its favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by it may have materially affected its settlement with the released party, including the provisions of California Civil Code
section 1542. The releases contained in this Article X of the Plan are effective regardless of whether those released matters are presently known, unknown, suspected or unsuspected, foreseen or unforeseen.
(f) Injunction Related to Releases and Exculpation. The Confirmation Order shall permanently enjoin the commencement
or prosecution by any Person or Entity, whether directly, derivatively, or otherwise, of any Claims, obligations, suits, judgments, damages, demands, debts, rights, Causes of Action, losses, or liabilities released pursuant to this Plan,
including, the claims, obligations, suits, judgments, damages, demands, debts, rights, Causes of Action, and liabilities released or exculpated in this Plan. For the avoidance of doubt, this injunction shall not apply to the rights of the
Fire Victim Trust to prosecute and settle any Assigned Rights and Causes of Action solely to the extent provided for in the Plan. Notwithstanding the above, the holders of Environmental Claims, Workers’ Compensation Claims and 2001 Utility
Exchange Claims retain the right to assert such Claims against the Reorganized Debtors in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
(g) No Release or Exculpation of Assigned Rights and Causes of Action. Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Plan, including anything in Section 10.8 and/or 10.9, the
releases, discharges, and exculpations contained in this Plan shall not release, discharge, or exculpate any Person from the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action.
10.10 Subordination. The allowance, classification, and treatment of all Allowed Claims
and Interests and the respective distributions and treatments thereof under this Plan take into account and conform to the relative priority and rights of the Claims and Interests in each Class in connection with any contractual, legal, and
equitable subordination rights relating thereto, whether arising under general principles of equitable subordination, sections 510(a), 510(b), or 510(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise. Pursuant to section 510 of the Bankruptcy Code, the
Debtors reserve the right to reclassify any Allowed Claim (other than any DIP Facility Claims) or Interest in accordance with any contractual, legal, or equitable subordination relating thereto.
10.11 Retention of Causes of Action/Reservation of Rights.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 10.9
hereof, nothing herein or in the Confirmation Order shall be deemed to be a waiver or the relinquishment of any rights or Causes of Action that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors may have or which the Reorganized Debtors may choose to
assert on behalf of their respective estates under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable nonbankruptcy law, including (i) any and all Claims against any Person or Entity, to the extent such Person or Entity asserts a
crossclaim, counterclaim, and/or Claim for setoff which seeks affirmative relief against the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or their officers, directors, or representatives and (ii) for the turnover of any property of the Debtors’ estates.
(b) Nothing herein or in the Confirmation Order shall
be deemed to be a waiver or relinquishment of any rights or Causes of Action, right of setoff, or other legal or equitable defense that the Debtors had immediately prior to the Petition Date, against or with respect to any Claim left Unimpaired
by the Plan. The Reorganized Debtors shall have, retain, reserve, and be entitled to assert all such claims, Causes of Action, rights of setoff, and other legal or equitable defenses that they had immediately prior to the Petition Date fully as
if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced, and all of the Reorganized Debtors’ legal and equitable rights with respect to any Claim left Unimpaired by the Plan may be asserted after the Confirmation Date to the same extent as if the
Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.
(c) The Reorganized Debtors reserve and shall retain
the applicable Causes of Action notwithstanding the rejection of any executory contract or unexpired lease during the Chapter 11 Cases or pursuant to the Plan. In accordance with section 1123(b)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, any Causes of Action
that a Debtor may hold against any Entity shall vest in the Reorganized Debtors in accordance with the terms hereof. The Reorganized Debtors shall have the exclusive right, authority, and discretion to determine and to initiate, file,
prosecute, enforce, abandon, settle, compromise, release, withdraw, or litigate to judgment any such Causes of Action and to decline to do any of the foregoing without the consent or approval of any third party or further notice to or action,
order, or approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the
Plan, no claims shall be brought under Section 547 of the Bankruptcy Code to recover any payments made to any Person or Entity as a result of damages caused by wildfires.
10.12 Preservation of Causes of Action. No Entity may rely on the absence of a specific
reference in the Plan, the Plan Supplement, or the Disclosure Statement to any Cause of Action against them as any indication that the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors will not pursue any and all available Causes of Action against them. The
Debtors and the Reorganized Debtors expressly reserve all rights to prosecute any and all Causes of Action against any Entity, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.
10.13 Special Provisions for Governmental Units. Solely with respect to Governmental
Units, nothing herein shall limit or expand the scope of discharge, release, or injunction to which the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors are entitled under the Bankruptcy Code. Further, nothing herein, including Sections 10.8 and 10.9 hereof,
shall discharge, release, enjoin, or otherwise bar (a) any liability of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors to a Governmental Unit arising on or after the Confirmation Date, (b) any liability to a Governmental Unit that is not a Claim, (c)
any affirmative defense, valid right of setoff or recoupment of a Governmental Unit, (d) any police or regulatory action by a Governmental Unit (except with respect to any monetary amount related to any matter arising prior to the Petition
Date), (e) any action to exercise the power of eminent domain and any related or ancillary power or authority of a Governmental Unit, (f) any environmental liability to a Governmental Unit that the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, any
successors thereto, or any other Person or Entity may have as an owner or operator of real property after the Confirmation Date, or (g) any liability to a Governmental Unit on the part of any Persons or Entities other than the Debtors or the
Reorganized Debtors, except that nothing in this Section 10.13 shall affect the exculpation in Section 10.8 hereof or the Debtors’ releases in Section 10.9 hereof. Nothing herein shall enjoin or otherwise bar any Governmental Unit from
asserting or enforcing, outside the Bankruptcy Court, any of the matters set forth in clauses (a) through (g) above. Nothing herein shall affect the treatment of Environmental Claims and Environmental Performance Obligations as specified in
Sections 4.10 and 4.30 hereof.
10.14 Document Retention and Cooperation with the Fire Victim Trust. On and after the
Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors may maintain documents in accordance with the Debtors’ standard document retention policy, as may be altered, amended, modified, or supplemented by the Reorganized Debtors. The Debtors and the Reorganized
Debtors shall respond to reasonable requests of the Fire Victim Trust for any non-privileged information and documents related to the Assigned Rights and Causes of Action and the Fire Victim Claims or as reasonably necessary for the
administration of the Fire Victim Trust.
10.15 Solicitation of Plan. As of the Confirmation Date: (a) the Debtors shall be
deemed to have solicited acceptances of the Plan in good faith and in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including sections 1125(a) and (e) of the Bankruptcy Code, and any applicable non-bankruptcy law, rule, or
regulation governing the adequacy of disclosure in connection with such solicitation and (b) the Debtors and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, restructuring advisors, financial advisors, investment
bankers, professionals, accountants, and attorneys shall be deemed to have participated in good faith and in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code in the offer and issuance of any securities under the Plan, and
therefore are not, and on account of such offer, issuance, and solicitation shall not be, liable at any time for any violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation governing
the solicitation of acceptances or rejections of the Plan or the offer and issuance of any securities under the Plan.
ARTICLE XI.
RETENTION OF JURISDICTION
11.1 Jurisdiction of Bankruptcy Court. On and after the Effective Date, the Bankruptcy Court
shall retain jurisdiction (without prejudice to the rights of any Entity to assert that such jurisdiction is exclusive) of all matters arising under, arising out of, or related to the Chapter 11 Cases and the Plan pursuant to, and for the
purposes of, sections 105(a) and 1142 of the Bankruptcy Code and for, among other things, the following purposes:
(a) To hear and determine motions for and any
disputes involving the assumption, assumption and assignment, or rejection of executory contracts or unexpired leases and the allowance of Claims resulting therefrom, including the determination of any Cure Amount;
(b) To determine any motion, adversary proceeding,
application, contested matter, and other litigated matter pending on or commenced before or after the Confirmation Date, including, any proceeding with respect to a Cause of Action or Avoidance Action;
(c) To ensure that distributions to holders of
Allowed Claims are accomplished as provided herein;
(d) To consider Claims or the allowance,
classification, priority, compromise, estimation, or payment of any Claim, including any Administrative Expense Claims;
(e) To enter, implement, or enforce such orders as
may be appropriate in the event the Confirmation Order is for any reason stayed, reversed, revoked, modified, or vacated;
(f) To issue injunctions, enter and implement other
orders, and take such other actions as may be necessary or appropriate to restrain interference by any Entity with the consummation, implementation, or enforcement of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or any other order, judgment or ruling of
the Bankruptcy Court, including enforcement of the releases, exculpations, and the Channeling Injunction;
(g) To hear and determine any application to modify
the Plan in accordance with section 1127 of the Bankruptcy Code and to remedy any defect or omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan, the Disclosure Statement, or any order of the Bankruptcy Court, including the Confirmation Order,
in such a manner as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and effects thereof;
(h) To hear and determine all applications under
sections 330, 331, and 503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code for awards of compensation for services rendered and reimbursement of expenses incurred prior to the Effective Date;
(i) To hear and determine disputes arising in
connection with or related to the interpretation, implementation, or enforcement of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, any transactions or payments contemplated herein, or any agreement, instrument, or other document governing or relating to any
of the foregoing;
(j) To hear and determine disputes arising in
connection with Disputed Claims;
(k) To take any action and issue such orders as may
be necessary to construe, enforce, implement, execute, and consummate the Plan or to maintain the integrity of the Plan following consummation;
(l) To recover all assets of the Debtors and property
of the Debtors’ estates, wherever located;
(m) To determine such other matters and for such
other purposes as may be provided in the Confirmation Order;
(n) To hear and determine matters concerning state,
local, and federal taxes in accordance with sections 346, 505, and 1146 of the Bankruptcy Code (including the expedited determination of taxes under section 505(b) of the Bankruptcy Code);
(o) To enforce all orders previously entered by the
Bankruptcy Court;
(p) To hear and determine any other matters related
hereto and not inconsistent with the Bankruptcy Code and title 28 of the United States Code;
(q) To resolve any disputes concerning whether a
Person or Entity had sufficient notice of the Chapter 11 Cases, the Disclosure Statement, any solicitation conducted in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, any bar date established in the Chapter 11 Cases, or any deadline for responding or
objecting to a Cure Amount, in each case, for the purpose for determining whether a Claim or Interest is discharged hereunder or for any other purpose;
(r) To determine any other matters or adjudicate any
disputes that may arise in connection with or are related to the Plan, the Disclosure Statement, the Confirmation Order, the Plan Supplement, or any document related to the foregoing; provided, that the Bankruptcy Court shall not retain jurisdiction over disputes concerning documents contained in the Plan Supplement that have a jurisdictional, forum selection or dispute resolution clause
that refers disputes to a different court;
(s) To hear and determine all disputes involving the
existence, nature, or scope of the Debtors’ discharge;
(t) To hear and determine any rights, claims, or
Causes of Action held by or accruing to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code or any federal or state statute or legal theory;
(u) To hear and determine any dispute involving the
Wildfire Trusts, including but not limited to the interpretation of the Wildfire Trust Agreements;
(v) To hear any other matter not inconsistent with
the Bankruptcy Code; and
(w) To enter a final decree closing the Chapter 11
Cases.
To the extent that the Bankruptcy Court is not permitted under applicable law to preside over any of the forgoing matters, the reference to the
“Bankruptcy Court” in this Article XI shall be deemed to be replaced by the “District Court.” Nothing in this Article XI shall expand the exclusive jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court beyond that provided by applicable law.
ARTICLE XII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
12.1 Dissolution of Statutory Committees. On the Effective Date, the Statutory Committees
shall dissolve, the current and former members of the Statutory Committees, including any ex officio members, and their respective officers, employees,
counsel, advisors and agents, shall be released and discharged of and from all further authority, duties, responsibilities and obligations related to and arising from and in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, except for the limited purpose
of (i) prosecuting requests for allowances of compensation and reimbursement of expenses incurred prior to the Effective Date and objecting to any such requests filed by other Professionals, including any appeals in connection therewith, (ii)
having standing and a right to be heard in connection with any pending litigation, including appeals, to which such committee is a party, or (iii) prosecuting any appeals of the Confirmation Order.
12.2 Substantial Consummation. On the Effective Date, the Plan shall be deemed to be
substantially consummated under sections 1101 and 1127(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.
12.3 Exemption from Transfer Taxes. Pursuant to section 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, the
issuance, transfer, or exchange of any Security or property hereunder or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the creation, filing, or recording of any mortgage, deed of trust, or other security interest, the making,
assignment, filing, or recording of any lease or sublease, or the making or delivery of any deed, bill of sale, or other instrument of transfer under, in furtherance of, or in connection with the Plan, or any agreements of consolidation, deeds,
bills of sale, or assignments executed in connection with any of the transactions contemplated herein, shall constitute a “transfer under a plan” within the purview of section 1146 of the Bankruptcy Code and shall not be subject to or taxed
under any law imposing a stamp tax or similar tax, to the maximum extent provided by section 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. To the maximum extent provided by section 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and applicable nonbankruptcy law, the
Restructuring Transactions shall not be taxed under any law imposing a stamp tax or similar tax.
12.4 Expedited Tax Determination. The Reorganized Debtors may request an expedited
determination of taxes under section 505(b) of the Bankruptcy Code for all returns filed for or on behalf of the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors for all taxable periods of the Debtors through the Effective Date.
12.5 Payment of Statutory Fees. On the Effective Date, and thereafter as may be required,
each of the Debtors shall pay all the respective fees payable pursuant to section 1930 of chapter 123 of title 28 of the United States Code, together with interest, if any, pursuant to section 3717 of title 31 of the United States Code, until
the earliest to occur of the entry of (i) a final decree closing such Debtor’s Chapter 11 Case, (ii) a Final Order converting such Debtor’s Chapter 11 Case to a case under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) a Final Order dismissing such
Debtor’s Chapter 11 Case.
12.6 Plan Modifications and Amendments. Subject to the Certain Consent Rights set forth in
Article I of this Plan, the Plan may be amended, modified, or supplemented by the Plan Proponents, in the manner provided for by section 1127 of the Bankruptcy Code or as otherwise permitted by law without additional disclosure pursuant to
section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code, except as the Bankruptcy Court may otherwise direct, so long as such action does not materially and adversely affect the treatment of holders of Claims or Interests hereunder. The Plan Proponents may
institute proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court to remedy any defect or omission or reconcile any inconsistencies in the Plan or the Confirmation Order with respect to such matters as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and effects of the
Plan and any holder of a Claim or Interest that has accepted the Plan shall be deemed to have accepted the Plan as so amended, modified, or supplemented. Prior to the Effective Date, the Plan Proponents may make appropriate technical
adjustments and modifications to the Plan without further order or approval of the Bankruptcy Court; provided, that such technical adjustments and
modifications do not materially and adversely affect the treatment of holders of Claims or Interests.
12.7 Revocation or Withdrawal of Plan. The Plan Proponents may revoke, withdraw, or delay
consideration of the Plan prior to the Confirmation Date, either entirely or with respect to one or more of the Debtors, and to file subsequent amended plans of reorganization. If the Plan is revoked, withdrawn, or delayed with respect to fewer
than all of the Debtors, such revocation, withdrawal, or delay shall not affect the enforceability of the Plan as it relates to the Debtors for which the Plan is not revoked, withdrawn, or delayed. If the Plan Proponents revoke the Plan in its
entirety, the Plan shall be deemed null and void. In such event, nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute a waiver or release of any Claim by or against the Debtors or any other Entity or to prejudice in any manner the rights of the Debtors
or any other Entity in any further proceedings involving the Debtors.
12.8 Courts of Competent Jurisdiction. If the Bankruptcy Court abstains from exercising, or
declines to exercise, jurisdiction or is otherwise without jurisdiction over any matter arising out of the Plan, such abstention, refusal, or failure of jurisdiction shall have no effect upon and shall not control, prohibit, or limit the
exercise of jurisdiction by any other court having competent jurisdiction with respect to such matter.
12.9 Severability. If, prior to entry of the Confirmation Order, any term or provision of
the Plan is held by the Bankruptcy Court to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, the Bankruptcy Court, in each case at the election and request of the Debtors may alter and interpret such term or provision to make it valid or enforceable to the
maximum extent practicable, consistent with the original purpose of the term or provision held to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, and such term or provision shall then be applicable as altered or interpreted. Notwithstanding any such
holding, alteration, or interpretation, the remainder of the terms and provisions of the Plan shall remain in full
force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired, or invalidated by such holding, alteration, or interpretation. The Confirmation Order shall constitute a
judicial determination and provide that each term and provision hereof, as it may have been altered or interpreted in accordance with the foregoing, is (a) valid and enforceable pursuant to its terms; (b) integral to the Plan and may not be
deleted or modified except in accordance with the terms of the Plan; and (c) nonseverable and mutually dependent.
12.10 Governing Law. Except to the extent the Bankruptcy Code or other U.S. federal law
is applicable, or to the extent a schedule hereto, or a schedule in the Plan Supplement expressly provides otherwise, the rights, duties, and obligations arising hereunder shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the
laws of the State of California, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law thereof to the extent they would result in the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
12.11 Schedules and Exhibits. The schedules and exhibits to the Plan and the Plan
Supplement are incorporated into, and are part of, the Plan as if set forth herein.
12.12 Successors and Assigns. All the rights, benefits, and obligations of any Person
named or referred to herein shall be binding on, and inure to the benefit of, the heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and/or assigns of such Person.
12.13 Time. In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed herein, unless
otherwise set forth herein or determined by the Bankruptcy Court, the provisions of Bankruptcy Rule 9006 shall apply.
12.14 Notices. To be effective, all notices, requests, and demands to or upon the
Debtors shall be in writing (including by facsimile or electronic transmission) and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when actually delivered, or in the case of notice by facsimile
transmission, when received and telephonically confirmed, addressed as follows:
If to the Debtors, to:
PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and
Electric Company
77 Beale Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Attn: Janet Loduca, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
E-mail: janet.loduca@pge.com
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153
Attn: Stephen Karotkin, Ray C. Schrock,
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Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Worldwide Plaza
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019-7475
Attn: Kevin J. Orsini, Paul H. Zumbro
Telephone: (212) 474-1000
Email: korsini@cravath.com,
pzumbro@cravath.com
Keller Benvenutti Kim LLP
650 California Street, Suite 1900
San Francisco, CA 94108
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Jessica Liou and Matthew Goren
Telephone: (212) 310-8000
E-mail: stephen.karotkin@weil.com,
ray.schrock@weil.com,
jessica.liou@weil.com,
matthew.goren@weil.com
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Attn: Tobias S. Keller, Peter J. Benvenutti,
Jane Kim
Telephone: (415) 496-6723
Facsimile: (650) 636-9251
Email: tkeller@kbkllp.com,
pbenvenutti@kbkllp.com, jkim@kbkllp.com
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If to the Shareholder Proponents, to:
Jones Day
555 South Flower Street
Fiftieth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300
Attn: Bruce S. Bennett, Joshua M. Mester
and James O. Johnston
Telephone: (213) 489-3939
E-mail: bbennett@jonesday.com,
jmester@jonesday.com,
jjohnston@jonesday.com
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If to the Creditors Committee, to:
Milbank LLP
55 Hudson Yards
New York, New York 10001-2163
Attn: Dennis F. Dunne
Telephone: (212) 530-5000
Email: ddunne@milbank.com
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Milbank LLP
2029 Century Park East, 33rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA US 90067-3019
Attn: Thomas A. Kreller
Telephone: (424) 386-4000
Email: tkreller@milbank.com
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If to the Tort Claimants Committee, to:
Baker & Hostetler LLP
600 Montgomery Street, Suite 3100
San Francisco, CA 94111
Attn: Robert Julian and Cecily A. Dumas
Telephone: (628) 208 6434
Email: rjulian@bakerlaw.com and
cdumas@bakerlaw.com
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Baker & Hostetler LLP
11601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Attn: Eric E. Sagerman and Lauren T. Attard
Telephone (310) 820 8800
Email: esagerman@bakerlaw.com,
lattard@bakerlaw.com
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If to the U.S. Trustee, to:
United States Department of Justice
Office of the U.S. Trustee
450 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 05-0153
San Francisco, CA 94102
Attn: Andrew R. Vara and Timothy S.
Laffredi
Telephone: (415) 705-3333
Email: Andrew.R.Vara@usdoj.gov and
Timothy.S.Laffredi@usdoj.gov
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After the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors have authority to send a notice to Entities that in order to continue to
receive documents pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2002, such Entities must file a renewed request to receive documents pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2002. After the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors are authorized to limit the
list of Entities receiving documents pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2002 to those Entities that have filed such renewed requests.
12.15 Reservation of Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, this Plan shall be of no force or effect unless the Bankruptcy Court enters the Confirmation Order. None of
the filing of this Plan, any statement or provision of this Plan, or the taking of any action by the Debtors with respect to this Plan shall be or shall be deemed to be an admission or waiver of any rights of the Debtors with respect to any
Claims or Interests prior to the Effective Date.
Dated: June 19, 2020
San Francisco, California
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Respectfully submitted,
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PG&E CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ Jason P. Wells
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Name:
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Jason P. Wells
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Title:
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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/s/ David S. Thomason
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David S. Thomason
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Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller
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SHAREHOLDER PROPONENTS
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Abrams Capital Management, L.P.,
On behalf of certain funds and accounts it manages or
advises
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Abrams Capital Management, LLC, its general partner
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By:
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/s/ David Abrams
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David Abrams
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Knighthead Capital Management, LLC
On behalf of certain funds and accounts it manages or
advises
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By:
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/s/ Thomas A. Wagner
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Thomas A. Wagner
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Managing Member
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Exhibit A
Fires
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Butte Fire (2015)
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2.
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North Bay Wildfires (2017)
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LaPorte
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McCourtney
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Lobo
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Honey
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Redwood / Potter Valley
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Sulphur
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Cherokee
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h.
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37
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Blue
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Pocket
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Atlas
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Cascade
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Nuns
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Pressley
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Partrick
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Camp Fire (2018)
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Exhibit B
IBEW Agreement
1. The IBEW Collective Bargaining Agreements (as defined in the Plan) that
were extended by Letter of Agreement 18-09 shall be further extended through and including 12/31/25.
2. In conjunction with the extension of the IBEW
Collective Bargaining Agreements, a 3.75% General Wage Increase shall be applied on the January 1st of each year of the extension (i.e., 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).
3. The Summary Plan Description (SPD), also referred to
as the Summary of Benefits Handbook, and the Plan Document shall be extended through and including 12/31/25.2 The Reorganized Debtors and IBEW Local 1245 shall use the SPD to provide negotiated benefits information to IBEW Local
1245-represented employees and further agree that the Medical, Dental and Vision Benefit Agreement and Benefit Agreement covering Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Retirement, Savings Fund Plan and TRASOP and PAYSOP Plans effective January
1, 1994; letter agreements negotiated between the parties; and items agreed to during general negotiations will provide the basis of bargaining history and in case of conflict, will prevail as the governing documents.
4. Health Reimbursement Accounts, deductibles, out of
pocket maximums, co-payments, and employee premium contributions for all eligible IBEW Local 1245-represented employees pursuant to the Benefits Agreements remain at the 2020 amounts in dollar terms and are extended through and including
12/31/25.
5. The Reorganized Debtors shall not implement involuntary lay-offs of IBEW
Local 1245-represented employees (except for cause) unless agreed to by IBEW Local 1245.
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2 Per Letter of Agreement 01-25-PGE, there are three types of documents describing IBEW-represented employee benefits: 1) the Collective Bargaining Agreement
(including all applicable letters of agreements) negotiated by the parties, 2) the Summary Plan Description (SPD), also referred to as the Summary of Benefits Handbook, and 3) the Plan Document (collectively, the “Benefits Agreements”).
6. The Reorganized Debtors’ management and IBEW Local
1245 leadership agree to work together for the mutual benefit of all parties and will focus their attention and skills on improving safety and the safety culture at the Reorganized Debtors.
7. The Reorganized Debtors will continue to operate the Diablo Canyon Power
Plant through the term of the current operating licenses.