UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)  January 27, 2016
 
W. R. GRACE & CO.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
 
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
1-13953
 
65-0773649
(Commission File Number)
 
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
 
7500 Grace Drive
 
 
Columbia, Maryland
 
21044
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
(410) 531-4000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
 
 
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
 
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W. R. GRACE & CO.
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Separation and Distribution
On January 27, 2016, W. R. Grace & Co. (the “Company” or “Grace”) and its wholly owned subsidiary W. R. Grace & Co.—Conn. (“Grace Conn”) entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement with GCP Applied Technologies Inc. (“GCP”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to transfer its construction products business and its packaging technologies business operated under the “Darex” name to GCP and distribute all of the Company-owned common stock of GCP to the Company’s shareholders in a distribution intended to be tax-free to the Company’s shareholders. The distribution to the Company’s shareholders of record as of the close of business on January 27, 2016 is intended to be effective at 6:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 3, 2016. As a result of the distribution, it is intended that GCP will be an independent public company and that its common stock will be listed under the symbol “GCP” on the New York Stock Exchange. The distribution remains subject to the satisfaction of or waiver certain conditions set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
In connection with the separation and distribution, on January 27, 2016, the Company and/or Grace Conn entered into various agreements with GCP contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement to provide a framework for the Company’s relationship with GCP after the separation and distribution. Such agreements include:
a Tax Sharing Agreement,
an Employee Matters Agreement,
a Transition Services Agreement,
a Cross-License Agreement, and
a Grace Transitional License Agreement.
Separation and Distribution Agreement
Transfer of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities
The Separation and Distribution Agreement identifies the assets transferred, the liabilities assumed and the contracts assigned to each of the Company (and its subsidiaries) and GCP (and its subsidiaries) as part of the separation of Grace into two companies, and it provides for when and how these transfers, assumptions and assignments have occurred or will occur.
In particular, the Separation and Distribution Agreement provides, among other things, that subject to the terms and conditions contained therein:
Certain assets related to the GCP business, which are referred to as the “GCP Assets,” will be transferred to GCP or entities that will be GCP entities after the separation from entities that will be Company entities after the separation, including:
equity interests in certain Company subsidiaries that hold assets relating to the GCP business;
contracts that primarily relate to the GCP business;
information, technology, software and intellectual property related to the GCP Assets, the GCP Liabilities, or the GCP business;
real property primarily related to the GCP business;

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rights and assets expressly allocated to GCP or entities that will be GCP entities after the separation pursuant to the terms of the Separation and Distribution Agreement or certain other agreements entered into in connection with the separation; and
permits that primarily relate to the GCP business.
Certain liabilities related to the GCP business or the GCP Assets, which are referred to as the “GCP Liabilities,” will be retained or assumed by GCP or entities that will be GCP entities after the separation.
Certain assets related to the Company’s business, which are referred to as the “Grace Assets,” will be transferred to the Company or entities that will be Company entities after the separation from entities that will be GCP entities after the separation, including:
equity interests in certain Company subsidiaries that hold assets relating to the Company’s business;
contracts that primarily relate to the Company’s business;
information, technology, software and intellectual property related to the Grace Assets, the Grace Liabilities, or the Company’s business;
real property primarily related to the Company’s business;
rights and assets expressly allocated to the Company or entities that will be Company entities after the separation pursuant to the terms of the Separation and Distribution Agreement or certain other agreements entered into in connection with the separation; and
permits that primarily relate to the Company’s business.
Certain liabilities related to the Company’s business or the Grace Assets, which are referred to as the “Grace Liabilities,” will be retained or assumed by the Company or entities that will be Company entities after the separation.
Except as expressly set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any ancillary agreement, neither the Company nor GCP will make any representation or warranty as to the assets, business or liabilities transferred or assumed as part of the separation, as to any approvals or notifications required in connection with the transfers, as to the value of or the freedom from any security interests of any of the assets transferred, as to the absence or presence of any defenses or right of setoff or freedom from counterclaim with respect to any claim or other asset of either the Company or GCP, or as to the legal sufficiency of any assignment, document or instrument delivered to convey title to any asset or thing of value to be transferred in connection with the separation. All assets will be transferred on an “as is,” “where is” basis and the respective transferees will bear the economic and legal risks that any conveyance will prove to be insufficient to vest in the transferee good and marketable title, free and clear of all security interests, and that any necessary consents or governmental approvals are not obtained or that any requirements of laws, agreements, security interests, or judgments are not complied with.
Information in this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to the assets and liabilities of the parties following the distribution is presented based on the allocation of such assets and liabilities pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires. The Separation and Distribution Agreement will provide that, in the event that the transfer or assignment of certain assets and liabilities to the Company or its subsidiaries or GCP or its subsidiaries, as applicable, does not occur prior to the separation, then until such assets or liabilities are able to be transferred or assigned, the Company and its subsidiaries or GCP and its subsidiaries, as applicable, will hold such assets on behalf and for the benefit of the other party and will pay, perform, and discharge such liabilities, for which the other party will reimburse the Company and its subsidiaries or GCP and its subsidiaries, as applicable, for all commercially reasonable payments made in connection with the performance and discharge of such liabilities.

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The Distribution
The Separation and Distribution Agreement also governs the rights and obligations of the parties regarding the distribution following the completion of the separation. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the distribution, on the distribution date, the Company will distribute to its shareholders that hold Company common shares as of the record date for the distribution all of the issued and outstanding shares of GCP common stock on a pro rata basis.
Conditions to the Distribution
The Separation and Distribution Agreement provides that the distribution is subject to satisfaction (or waiver by the Company) of certain conditions. The Company will have the sole and absolute discretion to determine (and change) the terms of, and to determine whether to proceed with, the distribution.
Claims
In general, each party to the Separation and Distribution Agreement will assume liability for all pending, threatened and unasserted legal matters related to its own business or its assumed or retained liabilities and will indemnify the other party for any liability to the extent arising out of or resulting from such assumed or retained legal matters.
Releases
The Separation and Distribution Agreement provides that GCP and its affiliates will release and discharge the Company and its affiliates from all liabilities assumed by GCP as part of the separation, from all acts and events occurring or failing to occur, and all conditions existing, on or before the distribution date relating to GCP’s business, and from all liabilities existing or arising in connection with the implementation of the separation, except as expressly set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement. The Company and its affiliates will release and discharge GCP and its affiliates from all liabilities retained by the Company and its affiliates as part of the separation and from all liabilities existing or arising in connection with the implementation of the separation, except as expressly set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
These releases will not extend to obligations or liabilities under any agreements between the parties that remain in effect following the separation, which agreements include, but are not limited to, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Employee Matters Agreement, and certain other agreements, including the intellectual property agreements and the transfer documents in connection with the separation.
Indemnification
In the Separation and Distribution Agreement, GCP has agreed to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, each of its affiliates and each of their respective directors, officers and employees, from and against all liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from:
the GCP Liabilities;
the failure of GCP or any other person to pay, perform or otherwise promptly discharge any of the GCP Liabilities, in accordance with their respective terms, whether prior to, at or after the distribution;
except to the extent relating to a Grace Liability, any guarantee, indemnification or contribution obligation for the benefit of GCP by the Company that survives the distribution;
any breach by GCP of the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any of the ancillary agreements; and
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission of material fact (other than made explicitly in Grace’s name) in the registration statement on Form 10 filed by GCP with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of GCP’s common stock

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under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Form 10”), including the information statement filed as an exhibit thereto.
The Company has agreed to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GCP, each of its affiliates and each of its respective directors, officers and employees from and against all liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from:
the Grace Liabilities;
the failure of the Company or any other person to pay, perform, or otherwise promptly discharge any of the Grace Liabilities, in accordance with their respective terms whether prior to, at, or after the distribution;
except to the extent relating to a GCP Liability, any guarantee, indemnification or contribution obligation for the benefit of the Company by GCP that survives the distribution;
any breach by the Company of the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any of the ancillary agreements; and
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission of a material fact made explicitly in the Company’s name in the Form 10, including the information statement filed as an exhibit thereto.
The Separation and Distribution Agreement also establishes procedures with respect to claims subject to indemnification and related matters.
Insurance
The Separation and Distribution Agreement provides for the allocation between the parties of rights and obligations under existing insurance policies with respect to occurrences prior to the distribution and sets forth procedures for the administration of insured claims.
Further Assurances
In addition to the actions specifically provided for in the Separation and Distribution Agreement, except as otherwise set forth therein or in any ancillary agreement, the parties have agreed in the Separation and Distribution Agreement to use reasonable best efforts, prior to, on and after the distribution date, to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable laws, regulations and agreements to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement and the ancillary agreements.
Dispute Resolution
The Separation and Distribution Agreement contains provisions that govern, except as otherwise provided in any ancillary agreement, the resolution of disputes, controversies or claims that may arise between the Company and GCP related to the separation or distribution. These provisions will contemplate that efforts will be made to resolve disputes, controversies and claims by escalation of the matter to executives of the Company and GCP. If such efforts are not successful, either the Company or GCP may submit the dispute, controversy or claim to nonbinding mediation or, if such nonbinding mediation is not successful, binding alternative dispute resolution, subject to the provisions of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Expenses
Except as expressly set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement or in any ancillary agreement, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the separation and distribution incurred prior to the distribution date, including costs and expenses relating to legal and tax counsel, financial advisors and accounting advisory work related to the separation and distribution, will be paid by the party incurring such cost and expense.

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Other Matters
Other matters that will be governed by the Separation and Distribution Agreement include access to financial and other information, confidentiality and access to and provision of records.
Termination
The Separation and Distribution Agreement provides that it may be terminated, and the separation and distribution may be modified or abandoned, at any time prior to the distribution date in the sole discretion of the Company without the approval of any person, including GCP’s or the Company’s shareholders. In the event of a termination of the Separation and Distribution Agreement, no party, nor any of its directors, officers, or employees, will have any liability of any kind to the other party or any other person. After the distribution date, the Separation and Distribution Agreement will provide that it may not be terminated except by an agreement in writing signed by both GCP and the Company.
Tax Sharing Agreement
The Company, Grace Conn and GCP entered into a Tax Sharing Agreement that generally governs the parties’ respective rights, responsibilities and obligations after the distribution with respect to taxes (including taxes arising in the ordinary course of business and taxes, if any, incurred as a result of any failure of the distribution and certain related transactions to qualify under Sections 355 and certain other relevant provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”)), tax attributes, the preparation and filing of tax returns, tax elections, tax contests, and certain other tax matters.
In addition, the Tax Sharing Agreement imposes certain restrictions on GCP and its subsidiaries (including restrictions on share issuances, business combinations, sales of assets and similar transactions) that are designed to preserve the qualification of the distribution and certain related transactions under Sections 355 and certain other relevant provisions of the Code. The Tax Sharing Agreement provides special rules that allocate tax liabilities in the event the distribution, together with certain related transactions, does not so qualify. In general, under the Tax Sharing Agreement, each party is expected to be responsible for any taxes imposed on, and certain related amounts payable by, GCP or the Company that arise from the failure of the distribution and certain related transactions, to qualify under Sections 355 and certain other relevant provisions of the Code, to the extent that the failure to so qualify is attributable to actions, events or transactions relating to such party’s respective stock, assets or business, or a breach of the relevant representations or covenants made by that party in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Employee Matters Agreement
The Company, Grace Conn and GCP entered into an Employee Matters Agreement to allocate certain liabilities and responsibilities relating to employment matters, employee compensation and benefits plans and programs, and other related matters. The Employee Matters Agreement governs certain compensation and employee benefit obligations with respect to the current and former employees and non-employee directors of each company.
The Employee Matters Agreement provides that, unless otherwise specified, the Company will be responsible for liabilities associated with employees who will be employed by the Company (or its subsidiaries) following the separation, former employees whose last employment was with the Company’s business, and certain specified current and former corporate employees (collectively, “Company allocated employees”), and GCP will be responsible for liabilities associated with employees who will be employed by GCP (or its subsidiaries) following the separation, former employees whose last employment was with GCP’s business, and certain specified current and former corporate employees (collectively, “GCP allocated employees”).
Employee Benefits Generally
GCP allocated employees will be eligible to participate in GCP’s benefit plans as of the separation in accordance with the terms and conditions of GCP’s plans as in effect from time to time. Generally and subject to certain exceptions, GCP will adopt compensation and benefit plans that mirror the terms of corresponding Company compensation and benefit plans, and GCP will credit each GCP allocated employee with his or her service with the

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Company prior to the separation for all purposes under GCP’s benefit plans to the same extent such service was recognized by the Company for similar purposes and so long as such crediting does not result in a duplication of benefits.
Equity Compensation Awards
The Employee Matters Agreement provides for the conversion of the outstanding awards granted under the Company’s equity compensation programs into adjusted awards relating to shares of Company common stock and/or GCP common stock. The adjusted awards generally will be subject to the same vesting conditions and other terms that applied to the original Company award immediately before the separation. Effective as of the separation, all awards converted into awards relating to shares of GCP common stock will be assumed by, and become the obligation of, GCP.
Each Company stock option granted prior to January 1, 2015 and held by a current employee as of the separation date will be converted into an adjusted Company stock option and a GCP stock option. The exercise price and number of shares subject to each stock option will be adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company stock option as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding. Each Company stock option granted prior to January 1, 2015 and held by a former employee will be converted into an adjusted Company stock option, with the exercise price and the number of shares subject to such stock option adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company stock option as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding.
Each Company stock option or restricted stock unit granted on or after January 1, 2015 will be converted into either a corresponding adjusted Company award or a GCP award, depending on whether the original Company award is held by (1) an employee who will be employed by the Company following the separation or a former employee, or (2) an employee who will be employed by GCP following the separation. The number of shares subject to each award (and in the case of stock options, the exercise price of the award) will be adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company award as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding.
Company performance-based units granted in respect of 2014 (“2014 Grace PBU awards”) will be divided into two portions representing (1) the portion of the performance period that has elapsed between the beginning of the performance period on January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2015 and (2) the portion of the performance period between January 1, 2016 and the end of the performance period on December 31, 2016. Performance conditions with respect to the first portion of the 2014 Grace PBU award will be deemed satisfied based on the actual performance of the Company through the separation, and performance conditions with respect to the second portion of the 2014 Grace PBU award will be deemed satisfied at target as of the separation. The number of shares of Company common stock underlying the 2014 Grace PBU awards will be established once such performance conditions are deemed satisfied.
Holders of 2014 Grace PBU awards granted in 2014 who are current employees will retain their 2014 Grace PBU awards, and, pursuant to the adjustment provisions of the Grace equity plan, will also receive restricted stock units of GCP in an amount that reflects the distribution of GCP common stock to Company shareholders by applying the distribution ratio to the number of Company common shares underlying their original 2014 Grace PBU awards. Together, these GCP and Company awards are intended to preserve the value of a holder’s original 2014 Grace PBU award, as measured immediately before and immediately after the distribution. The GCP and Company awards will continue to be subject to substantially the same terms and conditions (other than performance-vesting conditions) that applied to the original 2014 Grace PBU awards, and will vest on December 31, 2016, generally subject to the award holder’s continued employment through that date. Any 2014 Grace PBU awards granted in 2015 and any 2014 Grace PBU awards held by former employees will be adjusted (with performance-vesting conditions deemed satisfied as described above) to preserve the value of the original 2014 Grace PBU awards as measured immediately before and immediately after the distribution. These adjusted 2014 Grace PBU awards will continue to be subject to substantially the same terms and conditions (other than performance-vesting conditions) that applied to the original 2014 Grace PBU awards.
Company performance-based units granted in 2013 (“2013 Grace PBU awards”) will be converted into either a corresponding adjusted Company award or a GCP award, depending on whether the original Company award is held by (1) an employee who will be employed by the Company following the separation or a former

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employee, or (2) an employee who will be employed by GCP following the separation. The number of shares subject to the award will be adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company award, as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding.
Company restricted stock awards held by non-employee directors will be canceled immediately prior to the record date and replaced with an adjusted Company restricted stock award following the separation. The number of shares subject to the award will be adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company award, as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding.
Company deferred share awards held by Company employees and non-employee directors will be converted into an adjusted Company award. The number of shares subject to the award will be adjusted to preserve the aggregate intrinsic value of the original Company award, as measured immediately before and immediately after the separation, subject to rounding.
Any dividend equivalent payments on GCP or Company restricted stock units in respect of dividends declared after the separation will be paid by the Company to Company allocated employees, and by GCP to GCP allocated employees. For purposes of vesting for all awards, continued employment with or service to GCP or the Company, as applicable, will be treated as continued employment with or service to both GCP and the Company.
If local regulations outside the United States do not permit use of the adjustment method described above or would cause an adverse effect for equity award holders, a compliant alternative adjustment method will be used. In such cases, it is anticipated that affected employees will receive adjusted awards in the equity of their post-distribution employer or an amount in cash equal to the intrinsic value of the award.
Miscellaneous
The Employee Matters Agreement also addresses other current and former employee-related issues and certain special circumstances, including employees who will transfer to their eventual permanent employer on a delayed basis, and special rules for benefit arrangements in various jurisdictions.
Transition Services Agreement
Grace Conn and GCP entered into a Transition Services Agreement pursuant to which GCP and its subsidiaries and Grace Conn and its subsidiaries will provide, on an interim, transitional basis, various services to each other. The services to be provided include information technology, accounts payable, payroll, and other financial functions and administrative services. The agreed upon charges for such services will be generally intended to allow the servicing party to recover all out-of-pocket costs and expenses of providing such services.
Cross-License Agreement
GCP, Grace Conn and Grace GmbH & Co. KG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grace Conn, entered into a Cross-License Agreement that provides each party licenses under certain intellectual property assets owned by the other party. The agreement permits Grace Conn and its subsidiaries and GCP and its subsidiaries to continue current business activities that may utilize intellectual property retained by the other party pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement. The Cross-License Agreement will remain in effect for twenty years or until expiration of the relevant IP right in accordance with the terms of the Agreement.
Grace Transitional License Agreement
Grace Conn and GCP entered into the Grace Transitional License Agreement, wherein Grace Conn provides a limited license to GCP under the Grace trademark for certain products until new brands for those products are phased in. The relevant products are those which rely on the Grace brand at the time of the separation.
The above summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Employee Matters Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Cross-License Agreement, and the Grace Transitional License Agreement filed, respectively, as Exhibits 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

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GCP Senior Notes
On January 27, 2016, GCP completed the sale of $525,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”).
The Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of January 27, 2016 (the “Indenture”), by and among GCP, the guarantors party thereto (the “Guarantors”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Indenture provides, among other things, that the Notes and the related guarantees are senior unsecured obligations of GCP and the Guarantors, respectively. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing on August 1, 2016. The Notes will mature on February 1, 2023.
GCP may, at its option, at any time prior to February 1, 2019, redeem all or any portion of the Notes at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date plus a ‘‘make-whole’’ premium. In addition, GCP may, at its option, redeem up to 40% of the Notes at any time prior to February 1, 2019 with the net cash proceeds from certain equity offerings at the redemption price set forth in the Indenture plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date. On or after February 1, 2019, GCP may, at its option, redeem some or all of the Notes at any time at the redemption prices set forth in the Indenture.
If a change of control occurs, GCP will be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes at a price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of repurchase.
The Notes and the related guarantees rank equally with all of the existing and future senior indebtedness of GCP and the Guarantors and senior in right of payment to any existing and future subordinated indebtedness of GCP and the Guarantors. The Notes are effectively subordinated to any secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness and structurally subordinated to all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities of GCP’s non-guarantor subsidiaries.
The Indenture contains covenants that limit GCP’s ability, subject to certain exceptions and qualifications, to (i) create liens on certain assets, (ii) incur additional debt, (iii) make certain investments and acquisitions, (iv) consolidate, merge, or sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of GCP’s assets , (v) sell certain assets, (vi) pay dividends on or make distributions in respect of GCP’s capital stock or make other restricted payments, (vii) enter into certain transactions with GCP’s affiliates and (viii) place restrictions on distributions from and other actions by subsidiaries.
The Indenture provides for customary events of default which include (subject in certain cases to customary grace periods), among others, nonpayment of principal or interest; breach of other agreements in the Indenture; failure to pay certain other indebtedness; failure to discharge final judgments aggregating in excess of $50.0 million (excluding any judgments covered by insurance or indemnities) rendered against GCP or any of its significant subsidiaries; certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency; and failure of the guarantee of any of GCP’s significant subsidiaries to be in full force and effect.
The Notes are being issued in connection with Grace’s proposed separation and distribution, as described above under the heading “Separation and Distribution.” GCP expects to use the proceeds from the offering: (i) to fund a distribution to Grace Conn in an amount of $500.0 million, (ii) to pay fees and expenses related to the separation and the distribution, the financings and the other related transactions and (iii) for general corporate purposes.
The descriptions of the Indenture and the Notes herein are summaries and are qualified in their entirety by the terms of the Indenture and the Notes. A copy of the Indenture is attached here to as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. A form of 9.500% Note due 2023 (which is included in Exhibit A to the Indenture) is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.2 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The Notes and the related guarantees issued in the offering were not and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

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Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report under the heading “GCP Senior Notes” is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Forward-looking statements
This document contains forward-looking statements, that is, information related to future, not past, events. Such statements generally include the words “believes,” “plans,” “intends,” “targets,” “will,” “expects,” “suggests,” “anticipates,” “outlook,” “continues” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expected financial positions; results of operations; cash flows; financing plans; business strategy; operating plans; capital and other expenditures; competitive positions; growth opportunities for existing products; benefits from new technology and cost reduction initiatives, plans and objectives; and markets for securities. For these statements, Grace and GCP claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Like other businesses, each of GCP and Grace is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause its actual results to differ materially from its projections or that could cause other forward-looking statements to prove incorrect. Factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements or that could cause other forward-looking statements to prove incorrect include, without limitation, risks related to: the cyclical and seasonal nature of the industries that GCP and Grace serve; the effectiveness of each of GCP’s and Grace’s research and development and new product introductions; the cost and availability of raw materials and energy; foreign operations, especially in emerging regions; changes in currency exchange rates; developments affecting each company’s outstanding liquidity and indebtedness, including debt covenants and interest rate exposure; developments affecting each company’s funded and unfunded pension obligations; acquisitions and divestitures of assets and gains and losses from dispositions; warranty and product liability claims; hazardous materials and costs of environmental compliance; the separation, such as: uncertainties that may delay or negatively impact the separation and distribution or cause the separation and distribution to not occur at all, GCP’s lack of history as a public company and the costs of the separation, each company’s ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the separation and distribution, and the value of the common stock of each of GCP and Grace following the separation; and those additional factors set forth in Grace’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K which have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the “Risk Factors” section of the preliminary information statement included in the Registration Statement on Form 10 filed by GCP with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)    Exhibits
Exhibit No.
 
Description of Exhibit
2.1
 
Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
4.1
 
Indenture, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among GCP Applied Technologies Inc., the guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
4.2
 
Form of 9.500% Note due 2023 (included as Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.1).
10.1
 
Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.2
 
Employee Matters Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.3
 
Transition Services Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and between W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.4
 
Cross-License Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among GCP Applied Technologies Inc., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and Grace GmbH & Co. KG.
10.5
 
Grace Transitional License Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and between W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
W. R. GRACE & CO.
 
(Registrant)
 
 
 
 
 
 
By
/s/ Hudson La Force III
 
 
 
 
 
Hudson La Force III
 
 
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 
 
Dated: January 27, 2016
 





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Exhibit Index
Exhibit No.
 
Description of Exhibit
2.1
 
Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
4.1
 
Indenture, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among GCP Applied Technologies Inc., the guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
4.2
 
Form of 9.500% Note due 2023 (included as Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.1).
10.1
 
Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.2
 
Employee Matters Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.3
 
Transition Services Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and between W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
10.4
 
Cross-License Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and among GCP Applied Technologies Inc., W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and Grace GmbH & Co. KG.
10.5
 
Grace Transitional License Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016, by and between W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn. and GCP Applied Technologies Inc.

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Exhibit 2.1



FORM OF
SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
BY AND AMONG
W. R. GRACE & CO.,
W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.
AND
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
DATED AS OF JANUARY 27, 2016

 

    





TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article I DEFINITIONS    2
Article II THE SEPARATION    15
2.1 Transfer of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities    15
2.2 GCP Assets; Grace Assets    17
2.3 GCP Liabilities; Grace Liabilities    21
2.4 Approvals and Notifications.    24
2.5 Novation of Liabilities    27
2.6 Release of Guarantees    28
2.7 Termination of Agreements    29
2.8 Treatment of Shared Contracts    30
2.9 Bank Accounts; Cash Balances    31
2.10 Ancillary Agreements    32
2.11 Disclaimer of Representations and Warranties    32
2.12 Financial Information Certifications    32
Article III THE DISTRIBUTION    32
3.1 Sole and Absolute Discretion; Cooperation    32
3.2 Actions Prior to the Distribution    33
3.3 Conditions to the Distribution    34
3.4 The Distribution    36
Article IV MUTUAL RELEASES; INDEMNIFICATION    37
4.1 Release of Pre-Distribution Claims    37
4.2 Indemnification by GCP    39
4.3 Indemnification by Grace    39
4.4 Indemnification Obligations Net of Insurance Proceeds and Other Amounts    40
4.5 Procedures for Indemnification of Third-Party Claims    41
4.6 Additional Matters    43
4.7 Right of Contribution    44
4.8 Covenant Not to Sue or Assert Defense    45
4.9 Remedies Cumulative    45
4.10 Survival of Indemnities    45
4.11 Real Property Transfer Documents    45
Article V CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS    46
5.1 Insurance Matters    46
5.2 Late Payments    48
5.3 Treatment of Payments for Tax Purposes    48
5.4 Inducement    48
5.5 Post-Effective Time Conduct    48

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Article VI EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; CONFIDENTIALITY    49
6.1 Agreement for Exchange of Information    49
6.2 Ownership of Information    50
6.3 Compensation for Providing Information    50
6.4 Record Retention    50
6.5 Limitations of Liability    50
6.6 Other Agreements Providing for Exchange of Information    50
6.7 Production of Witnesses; Records; Cooperation    51
6.8 Privileged Matters    51
6.9 Confidentiality    54
6.10 Protective Arrangements    55
6.11 Name Change Obligation    55
Article VII DISPUTE RESOLUTION    55
7.1 Good-Faith Negotiation    55
7.2 Mediation    56
7.3 Arbitration    56
7.4 Litigation and Unilateral Commencement of Arbitration    57
7.5 Conduct During Dispute Resolution Process    58
Article VIII FURTHER ASSURANCES AND ADDITIONAL COVENANTS    58
8.1 Further Assurances    58
Article IX TERMINATION    59
9.1 Termination    59
9.2 Effect of Termination    59
Article X MISCELLANEOUS    59
10.1 Counterparts; Entire Agreement; Corporate Power    59
10.2 Governing Law    60
10.3 Assignability    60
10.4 Third-Party Beneficiaries    61
10.5 Notices    61
10.6 Severability    62
10.7 Force Majeure    62
10.8 No Set-Off    62
10.9 Publicity    62
10.10 Expenses    63
10.11 Headings    63
10.12 Survival of Covenants    63
10.13 Waivers of Default    63
10.14 Specific Performance    63
10.15 Amendments    63
10.16 Interpretation    64
10.17 Limitations of Liability    64

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10.18 Performance    64
10.19 Mutual Drafting    64
10.20 Existing Plan of Reorganization    65



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SCHEDULES

Schedule 1.1             GCP Carveout Group Members
Schedule 1.2            GCP Contracts
Schedule 1.3            GCP Registered Intellectual Property
Schedule 1.4            GCP IT Hardware
Schedule 1.5            GCP Owned Real Property
Schedule 1.6            GCP Leased Real Property
Schedule 1.7            GCP Transferred Entities
Schedule 1.8            Grace Contracts
Schedule 1.9            Grace Registered Intellectual Property
Schedule 1.10            Grace IT Hardware
Schedule 1.11            Grace Names
Schedule 1.12            Grace Owned Real Property
Schedule 1.13            Grace Leased Real Property
Schedule 1.14            Grace Transferred Entities
Schedule 2.2 (a)(i)        Excluded GCP Assets (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(B)        GCP Contracts (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(C)        GCP IP (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(D)        GCP Permits (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.2 (a)(ii)        Excluded GCP Assets (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.2(b)(i)(K)        Additional Grace Assets
Schedule 2.2(b)(i)        Excluded Grace Assets (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(B)        Grace Contracts (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(C)        Grace IP (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(D)        Grace Permits (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)        Excluded Grace Assets (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.3(a)(i)         Excluded GCP Liabilities
Schedule 2.3(a)(ii)         Excluded GCP Liabilities (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.3(b)(i)(G)        Additional Grace Liabilities
Schedule 2.3(b)(i)        Excluded Grace Liabilities (GCP Carveout Group)
Schedule 2.3(b)(ii)        Excluded Grace Liabilities (Grace Group)
Schedule 2.5(a)        Exceptions to GCP Novation
Schedule 2.5(b)        Exceptions to Grace Novation
Schedule 2.7(b)(ii)        Termination Matters
Schedule 4.3(e)        Form 10 Indemnification

EXHIBITS

Exhibit A
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
Exhibit B
Amended and Restated By-laws of GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
Exhibit C
Restructuring Steps Memorandum

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SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
This SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT, dated as of January 27, 2016 (this “ Agreement ”), is by and among W. R. Grace & Co., a Delaware corporation (“ Grace ”), W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn., a Connecticut corporation (“ Grace Conn ”) and GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ GCP ”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Article I .
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, the board of directors of Grace (the “ Grace Board ”) has determined that it is in the best interests of Grace and its stockholders to create a new publicly traded company that will operate the GCP Business;
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the Grace Board has determined that it is appropriate and desirable to separate the GCP Business from the Grace Business (the “ Separation ”) and, following the Separation, make a distribution, on a pro rata basis, to holders of Grace Shares on the Record Date of all the outstanding GCP Shares (the “ Distribution ”);
WHEREAS, GCP has been incorporated solely for these purposes and has not engaged in activities except in preparation for the Separation and the Distribution;
WHEREAS, as described in the Restructuring Steps Memorandum, it is contemplated that, (i) prior to the Internal Distribution (as defined below), GCP will borrow up to $525 million in cash from a third party and distribute approximately $500 million of such funds to Grace Conn (the “ First GCP Cash Distribution ”), and (ii) after the Internal Distribution and prior to the Distribution, GCP will borrow up to $275 million in cash from a third party and distribute approximately $250 million of such funds to Grace;
WHEREAS, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (a) the transfer by Grace Conn of certain GCP Assets directly to GCP in exchange for (i) the issuance by GCP to Grace Conn of GCP Shares, (ii) the assumption by GCP of certain GCP Liabilities and (iii) the distribution by GCP to Grace Conn of any cash (the “ Contribution ”) and (b) the Internal Distribution, taken together, are intended to qualify under Section 355 and Section 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code;
WHEREAS, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Distribution is intended to qualify under Section 355 of the Code;
WHEREAS, Grace expects to receive one or more opinions of outside legal counsel or tax advisors regarding the U.S. federal income tax treatment of (i) the Contribution and the Internal Distribution, taken together, and (ii) the Distribution (the “ Tax Opinions ”);
WHEREAS, GCP and Grace have prepared, and GCP has filed with the SEC, the Form 10, which includes the Information Statement, and which sets forth disclosure concerning GCP, the Separation and the Distribution;






WHEREAS, each of Grace, Grace Conn and GCP has determined that it is appropriate and desirable to set forth the principal corporate transactions required to effect the Separation and the Distribution and certain other agreements that will govern certain matters relating to the Separation and the Distribution and the relationship of Grace, GCP and the members of their respective Groups following the Distribution;
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Separation and Distribution, Grace, Grace Conn and GCP previously entered into that certain Plan of Reorganization, dated October 6, 2015 (as amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “ Plan of Reorganization ”); and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Separation and Distribution, Grace, Grace Conn and GCP now desire to amend and restate the Plan of Reorganization in its entirety on the terms set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

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Article I
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Action ” shall mean any demand, action, claim, dispute, suit, countersuit, arbitration, inquiry, subpoena, proceeding or investigation of any nature (whether criminal, civil, legislative, administrative, regulatory, prosecutorial or otherwise) by or before any federal, state, local, foreign or international Governmental Authority or any arbitration or mediation tribunal.
Affiliate ” shall mean, when used with respect to a specified Person, a Person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such specified Person. For the purpose of this definition, “ control ” (including with correlative meanings, “ controlled by ” and “ under common control with ”), when used with respect to any specified Person shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or other interests, by contract, agreement, obligation, indenture, instrument, lease, promise, arrangement, release, warranty, commitment, undertaking or otherwise. It is expressly agreed that, prior to, at and after the Effective Time, for purposes of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, (a) no member of the GCP Group shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of any member of the Grace Group and (b) no member of the Grace Group shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of any member of the GCP Group.
Agent ” shall mean the trust company or bank duly appointed by Grace to act as distribution agent, transfer agent and registrar for the GCP Shares in connection with the Distribution.
Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
Ancillary Agreement ” shall mean all agreements (other than this Agreement) entered into by the Parties or the members of their respective Groups (but as to which no Third Party is a party) in connection with the Separation, the Distribution or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Employee Matters Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, Cross License Agreement, the Transitional License Agreement, the Site Service Agreements, and the Transfer Documents.
Approvals or Notifications ” shall mean any consents, waivers, approvals, permits or authorizations to be obtained from, notices, registrations or reports to be submitted to, or other filings to be made with, any Third Party, including any Governmental Authority.
Arbitration Request ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.3(a) .

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Asbestos Liabilities ” shall mean all asbestos-related Liabilities for personal injury, property damage or environmental remediation, whether arising before, on or after the Effective Time.
Assets ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the assets, properties, claims and rights (including goodwill) of such Person, wherever located (including in the possession of vendors or other Third Parties or elsewhere), of every kind, character and description, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible, intangible or contingent, in each case whether or not recorded or reflected or required to be recorded or reflected on the books and records or financial statements of such Person, including rights and benefits pursuant to any contract, license, permit, indenture, note, bond, mortgage, agreement, concession, franchise, instrument, undertaking, commitment, understanding or other arrangement.
Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Contribution ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
CPR ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.2 .
Cross License Agreement ” shall mean the Cross License Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace Conn, Grace Gmbh & Co. KG, and GCP in connection with the Separation and the Distribution.
Delayed GCP Asset ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(c).
Delayed GCP Liability ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(c) .
Delayed Grace Asset ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(h) .
Delayed Grace Liability ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(h) .
Disclosure Document ” shall mean any registration statement (including the Form 10) filed with the SEC by or on behalf of any Party or any member of its Group, and also includes any information statement (including the Information Statement), prospectus, offering memorandum, offering circular, periodic report or similar disclosure document, whether or not filed with the SEC or any other Governmental Authority, in each case which describes the Separation, the Distribution or the GCP Group or primarily relates to the transactions contemplated hereby.
Dispute ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.1 .
Distribution ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Distribution Date ” shall mean the date of the consummation of the Distribution, which shall be determined by the Grace Board in its sole and absolute discretion.
Distribution Ratio ” shall mean a number equal to one (1).

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Effective Time ” shall mean 6:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Distribution Date.
Employee Matters Agreement ” shall mean the Employee Matters Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace and GCP or members of their respective Groups in connection with the Separation and the Distribution.
Environmental Law ” shall mean any Law relating to pollution, protection or restoration of or prevention of harm to the environment or natural resources, including the use, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, Release or discharge of Hazardous Materials or the protection of or prevention of harm to human health and safety.
Environmental Liabilities ” shall mean all Liabilities, other than Asbestos Liabilities, relating to, arising out of or resulting from any Hazardous Materials, Environmental Law or contract or agreement relating to environmental, health or safety matters (including all removal, remediation or cleanup costs, investigatory costs, response costs, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injury damages, costs of compliance with any product take back requirements or with any settlement, judgment or other determination of Liability and indemnity, contribution or similar obligations) and all costs and expenses, interest, fines, penalties or other monetary sanctions in connection therewith.
Exchange Act ” shall mean the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Force Majeure ” shall mean, with respect to a Party, an event beyond the control of such Party (or any Person acting on its behalf), which event (a) does not arise or result from the fault or negligence of such Party (or any Person acting on its behalf) and (b) by its nature would not reasonably have been foreseen by such Party (or such Person), or, if it would reasonably have been foreseen, was unavoidable, and includes acts of God, acts of civil or military authority, embargoes, epidemics, war, riots, insurrections, fires, explosions, earthquakes, floods, unusually severe weather conditions, labor problems or unavailability of parts, or, in the case of computer systems, any failure in electrical or air conditioning equipment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the receipt by a Party of an unsolicited takeover offer or other acquisition proposal, even if unforeseen or unavoidable, and such Party’s response thereto shall not be deemed an event of Force Majeure .
Form 10 ” shall mean the registration statement on Form 10 filed by GCP with the SEC to effect the registration of GCP Shares pursuant to the Exchange Act in connection with the Distribution, as such registration statement may be amended or supplemented from time to time prior to the Distribution.
GCP ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
GCP Accounts ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.9(a) .
GCP Assets ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a) .

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GCP Balance Sheet ” shall mean the pro forma combined balance sheet of the GCP Business, including any notes and subledgers thereto, as of September 30, 2015 as presented in the Information Statement.
GCP Business ” shall mean the development, manufacture and sale of (a) construction chemicals, including concrete admixtures, cement additives, and related products and services, (b) building materials, including waterproofing membranes, vapor and air barriers, fire protection materials, and related products and services, (c) packaging products, including can and closure sealants, can and closure coatings, and related products and services and (d) carbon dioxide absorbents and related products and services used in anesthesiology and mine safety applications and sold under the Sodasorb ® name conducted at any time prior to the Effective Time by either Party or any of their current or former Subsidiaries.
GCP By-laws ” shall mean the Amended and Restated By-laws of GCP, substantially in the form of Exhibit B .
GCP Carveout Group Members ” shall mean the members of the GCP Group identified on Schedule 1.1 .
GCP Certificate of Incorporation ” shall mean the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of GCP, substantially in the form of Exhibit A .
GCP Contracts ” shall mean the following contracts and agreements to which either Party or any member of its Group is a party or by which it or any member of its Group or any of their respective Assets is bound, whether or not in writing; provided that GCP Contracts shall not include any contract or agreement that is contemplated to be retained by Grace or any member of the Grace Group from and after the Effective Time pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement :
(a)    other than contracts and agreements that are Shared Indirect Supply Chain Contracts, any customer, distribution, supply or vendor contract or agreement or license agreement entered into prior to the Effective Time that is primarily related to the GCP Business as of the Effective Time;
(b)    any Shared Indirect Supply Chain Contract entered into prior to the Effective Time to which a GCP Carveout Group Member is a party;
(c)    any guarantee, indemnity, representation, covenant, warranty or other Liability of either Party or any member of its Group in respect of any other GCP Contract, any GCP Liability or the GCP Business;
(d)    any employment, change of control, retention, consulting, indemnification, termination, severance or other similar agreements with any GCP Group Employee or consultants of the GCP Group that are in effect as of the Effective Time;

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(e)    any contract or agreement that is otherwise expressly contemplated pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements to be assigned to any member of the GCP Group;
(f)    any interest rate, currency, commodity or other swap, collar, cap or other hedging or similar agreements or arrangements that is primarily related to the GCP Business as of the Effective Time; and
(g)    any contracts, agreements or settlements listed on Schedule 1.2 , including the right to recover any amounts under such contracts, agreements or settlements.
GCP Designees ” shall mean any and all entities (including corporations, general or limited partnerships, trusts, joint ventures, unincorporated organizations, limited liability entities or other entities) designated by GCP and that will be members of the GCP Group as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
GCP Group ” shall mean (a) prior to the Effective Time, GCP and each Person that will be a Subsidiary of GCP immediately following the Effective Time, including the GCP Transferred Entities, even if, prior to the Effective Time, such Person is not a Subsidiary of GCP; and (b) on and after the Effective Time, GCP and each Person that is a Subsidiary of GCP.
GCP Indemnitees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.3 .
GCP Intellectual Property ” shall mean (a) the Registrable IP set forth on Schedule 1.3 and (b) all Other IP owned or controlled by either Party or any member of its Group as of the Effective Time that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the GCP Business as of the Effective Time.
GCP IT Hardware ” shall mean the assets set forth on Schedule 1.4.
GCP Liabilities ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a) .
GCP Permits ” shall mean all Permits owned or licensed by either Party or member of its Group that are primarily used or primarily held for use in the GCP Business as of the Effective Time.
GCP Real Property ” shall mean (a) the Real Property owned by either Party or member of its Group as of the Effective Time listed or described on Schedule 1.5 and (b) the Real Property Leases to which either Party or member of its Group is party as of the Effective Time set forth on Schedule 1.6 .
GCP Shares ” shall mean the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of GCP.
GCP Software ” shall mean all Software owned or licensed by either Party or member of its Group that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the GCP Business as of the Effective Time.

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GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses ” shall mean any terminated, divested or discontinued businesses, operations and activities of either Party or any member of its Group that were formerly a part of, or were managed by the management of, the business, operations or activities constituting the GCP Business.
GCP Technology ” shall mean all Technology owned, controlled or licensed by either Party or any member of its Group that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the GCP Business as of the Effective Time.
GCP Transferred Entities ” shall mean the entities set forth on Schedule 1.7 .
Governmental Approvals ” shall mean any Approvals or Notifications to be made to, or obtained from, any Governmental Authority.
Governmental Authority ” shall mean any nation or government, any state, municipality or other political subdivision thereof, and any entity, body, agency, commission, department, board, bureau, court, tribunal or other instrumentality, whether federal, state, local, domestic, foreign or multinational, exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory, administrative or other similar functions of, or pertaining to, government and any executive official thereof.
Grace ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
Grace Accounts ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.9(a) .
Grace Asbestos Liabilities ” shall mean all Asbestos Liabilities, except for Liabilities with respect to property damage or environmental remediation (i) on, adjoining, or associated with GCP Real Property or at sites otherwise owned or operated by the GCP Business on or after the Effective Time, and (ii) that may arise from GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses. The foregoing notwithstanding, Grace Asbestos Liabilities shall include Liabilities at former expanding plants that processed vermiculite from Libby MT, unless such Liabilities are at or associated with sites owned, leased or occupied by GCP at the Effective Time.
Grace Assets ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(b) .
Grace Board ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Grace Business ” shall mean the development, manufacture and sale of (a) fluid catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, hydroprocessing catalysts, polyolefin catalysts (including polypropylene process technology) and catalyst supports, other chemical catalysts, and related products and services and (b) silica-based and silica-alumina-based materials, including but not limited to silica gels, precipitated silicas, and colloidal silicas, used in coatings, print media, consumer, industrial, and pharmaceutical, life science and related applications, and related products and services conducted at any time prior to the Effective Time by either Party or any member of its Group .
Grace Conn ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

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Grace Contracts ” shall mean the following contracts and agreements to which either Party or any member of its Group is a party or by which it or any member of its Group or any of their respective Assets is bound, whether or not in writing; provided that Grace Contracts shall not include any contract or agreement that is contemplated to be retained by GCP or any member of the GCP Group from and after the Effective Time pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement:
(a)    other than contracts and agreements that are Shared Indirect Supply Chain Contracts, any customer, distribution, supply or vendor contract or agreement or license agreement entered into prior to the Effective Time that is primarily related to the Grace Business as of the Effective Time;
(b)    any Shared Indirect Supply Chain Contract that is not a GCP Contract;
(c)    any guarantee, indemnity, representation, covenant, warranty or other Liability of either Party or any member of its Group in respect of any other Grace Contract, any Grace Liability or the Grace Business;
(d)    any employment, change of control, retention, consulting, indemnification, termination, severance or other similar agreements with any Grace Group Employee or consultants of the Grace Group that are in effect as of the Effective Time;
(e)    any contract or agreement that is otherwise expressly contemplated pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements to be assigned to any member of the Grace Group;
(f)    any interest rate, currency, commodity or other swap, collar, cap or other hedging or similar agreements or arrangements that is primarily related to the Grace Business as of the Effective Time; and
(g)    any contracts, agreements or settlements listed on Schedule 1.8 , including the right to recover any amounts under such contracts, agreements or settlements.
Grace Designees ” shall mean any and all entities (including corporations, general or limited partnerships, trusts, joint ventures, unincorporated organizations, limited liability entities or other entities) designated by Grace and that will be members of the Grace Group as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Grace Group ” shall mean Grace and each Person that is a Subsidiary of Grace (other than GCP and any other member of the GCP Group).
Grace Indemnitees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 .
Grace Intellectual Property ” shall mean (a) the Registrable IP set forth on Schedule 1.9 and (b) all Other IP owned or controlled by either Party or any member of its Group as of the Effective Time that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the Grace Business as of the Effective Time.

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Grace IT Hardware ” shall mean the assets set forth on Schedule 1.10 .
Grace Liabilities ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b) .
Grace Name and Grace Marks ” shall mean the registered, applied for renewed or unregistered names, marks, trade dress, logos, monograms, slogans, color and font style schemes, tag lines, domain names and other source or business identifiers of either Party or any member of its Group using or containing “Grace” or the names set forth on Schedule 1.11 , either alone or in combination with other words or elements, and all names, marks, trade dress, logos, monograms, slogans, color and font style schemes, tag lines, domain names and other source or business identifiers confusingly similar to or embodying any of the foregoing either alone or in combination with other words or elements, together with the goodwill associated with any of the foregoing.
Grace Permits ” shall mean all Permits owned or licensed by either Party or member of its Group that are primarily used or primarily held for use in the Grace Business as of the Effective Time.
Grace Real Property ” shall mean (a) all of the Real Property owned by either Party or member of its Group as of the Effective Time listed or described on Schedule 1.12 , and (b) all the Real Property Leases to which either Party or member of its Group is party as of the Effective Time set forth on Schedule 1.13 .
Grace Shares ” shall mean the common shares of Grace.
Grace Software ” shall mean all Software owned or licensed by either Party or member of its Group that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the Grace Business as of the Effective Time.
Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses ” shall mean any terminated, divested or discontinued businesses, operations and activities of either Party or any member of its Group formerly that were formerly a part of, or were managed by the management of, the business, operations or activities constituting the Grace Business.
Grace Technology ” shall mean all Technology owned, controlled or licensed by either Party or any member of its Group that is primarily used or primarily held for use in the Grace Business as of the Effective Time.
Grace Transferred Entities ” shall mean the entities set forth on Schedule 1.14 .
Group ” shall mean either the GCP Group or the Grace Group, as the context requires.
Hazardous Materials ” shall mean any chemical, material, substance, waste, pollutant, emission, discharge, release or contaminant that could result in Liability under, or that is prohibited, limited or regulated by or pursuant to, any Environmental Law, and any natural or artificial substance (whether solid, liquid or gas, noise, ion, vapor or electromagnetic) that could

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cause harm to human health or the environment, including petroleum, petroleum products and byproducts, asbestos and asbestos-containing materials, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, electronic, medical or infectious wastes, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, radioactive substances, chlorofluorocarbons and all other ozone-depleting substances.
Indemnifying Party ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.4(a) .
Indemnitee ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.4(a) .
Indemnity Payment ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.4(a) .
Information ” shall mean information, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, in written, oral, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms, stored in any medium, including studies, reports, records, books, contracts, instruments, surveys, discoveries, ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, designs, specifications, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, models, prototypes, samples, flow charts, data, computer data, disks, diskettes, tapes, computer programs or other software, marketing plans, customer names, communications by or to attorneys (including attorney-client privileged communications), memos and other materials prepared by attorneys or under their direction (including attorney work product), and other technical, financial, employee or business information or data; provided that “Information” shall not include Registrable IP.
Information Statement ” shall mean the information statement to be sent to the holders of Grace Shares in connection with the Distribution, as such information statement may be amended or supplemented from time to time prior to the Distribution.
Initial Notice ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.1 .
Internal Distribution ” means the distribution by Grace Conn to Grace, in its capacity as the sole shareholder of Grace Conn, of all the outstanding GCP Shares.
Insurance Proceeds ” shall mean those monies:
(a)    received by an insured from an insurance carrier; or
(b)    paid by an insurance carrier on behalf of the insured;
in any such case net of any applicable premium adjustments (including retrospectively rated premium adjustments) and net of any costs or expenses incurred in the collection thereof.
Intellectual Property ” shall mean all of the following whether arising under the Laws of the U.S. or of any other foreign or multinational jurisdiction: (a) patents, patent applications (including patents issued thereon) and statutory invention registrations, including reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations in part, substitutions, renewals, extensions and reexaminations of any of the foregoing, and all rights in any of the foregoing provided by international treaties or conventions, (b) trademarks, service marks, trade names, service names, trade dress, logos and other source or business identifiers, including all goodwill associated with

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any of the foregoing, and any and all common law rights in and to any of the foregoing, registrations and applications for registration of any of the foregoing, all rights in and to any of the foregoing provided by international treaties or conventions, and all reissues, extensions and renewals of any of the foregoing, (c) Internet domain names, registrations and related rights, (d) copyrightable works, copyrights, moral rights, mask work rights, database rights and design rights, in each case, other than Software, whether or not registered, and all registrations and applications for registration of any of the foregoing, and all rights in and to any of the foregoing provided by international treaties or conventions, (e) confidential and proprietary information, including trade secrets, invention disclosures, processes and know-how, in each case, other than Software, and (f) any other intellectual property rights arising from or in respect of any Technology.
IRS ” shall mean the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Law ” shall mean any national, supranational, federal, state, provincial, local or similar law (including common law), statute, code, order, ordinance, rule, regulation, treaty (including any income tax treaty), license, permit, authorization, approval, consent, decree, injunction, binding judicial or administrative interpretation or other requirement, in each case, enacted, promulgated, issued or entered by a Governmental Authority.
Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses ” shall mean any terminated, divested or discontinued businesses of either Party or any member of its Group that are neither GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses nor Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses .
Liabilities ” shall mean all debts, guarantees, assurances, commitments, liabilities, responsibilities, Losses, remediation, deficiencies, damages, fines, penalties, settlements, sanctions, costs, expenses, interest and obligations of any nature or kind, whether accrued or fixed, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, accrued or not accrued, asserted or unasserted, liquidated or unliquidated, foreseen or unforeseen, known or unknown, reserved or unreserved, or determined or determinable, including those arising under any Law, claim (including any Third-Party Claim), demand, Action, or order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, stipulation, determination or award entered by or with any Governmental Authority or arbitration tribunal, and those arising under any contract, agreement, obligation, indenture, instrument, lease, promise, arrangement, release, warranty, commitment or undertaking, or any fines, damages or equitable relief that is imposed, in each case, including all costs and expenses relating thereto.
Linked ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.9(a) .
Losses ” shall mean actual losses (including any diminution in value), costs, damages, penalties and expenses (including legal and accounting fees and expenses and costs of investigation and litigation), whether or not involving a Third-Party Claim.
Mediation Request ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.2 .
NYSE ” shall mean the New York Stock Exchange.

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Other IP ” shall mean (a) all Intellectual Property, other than Registrable IP, that is owned by either Party or any member of its Group as of the Effective Time, and (b) any other rights under Intellectual Property, other than Registrable IP, that is controlled, but not owned, by either Party or any member of its Group as of the Effective Date, including, but not limited to, rights licensed or sub-licensed from a Third Party.
Parties ” shall mean the parties to this Agreement.
Permits ” shall mean permits, approvals, authorizations, consents, licenses or certificates issued by any Governmental Authority.
Person ” shall mean an individual, a general or limited partnership, a corporation, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability entity, any other entity and any Governmental Authority.
Prime Rate ” shall mean the rate that Bloomberg displays as “Prime Rate by Country United States” at  www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/key-rates/ or on a Bloomberg terminal at PRIMBB Index.
Privileged Information ” shall mean any information, in written, oral, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms, including any communications by or to attorneys (including attorney-client privileged communications), memoranda and other materials prepared by attorneys or under their direction (including attorney work product), as to which a Party or any other member of its Group would be entitled to assert or have asserted a privilege, including the attorney-client and attorney work product privileges.
Real Property ” shall mean land together with all easements, rights and interests arising out of the ownership thereof or appurtenant thereto and all buildings, structures, improvements and fixtures located thereon.
Real Property Leases ” shall mean all leases to Real Property and, to the extent covered by such leases, any and all buildings, structures, improvements and fixtures located thereon.
Record Date ” shall mean the close of business on the date to be determined by the Grace Board as the record date for determining holders of Grace Shares entitled to receive GCP Shares pursuant to the Distribution.
Record Holders ” shall mean the holders of record of Grace Shares as of the Record Date.
Registrable IP ” shall mean all patents, patent applications, statutory invention registrations, registered trademarks and registered service marks.
Release ” shall mean any release, spill, emission, discharge, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, injection, deposit, disposal, dispersal, leaching or migration of Hazardous

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Materials into the environment (including, ambient air, surface water, groundwater and surface or subsurface strata).
Representatives ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any of such Person’s directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants, advisors, accountants, attorneys or other representatives.
Restructuring Steps Memorandum ” shall mean the memorandum attached as Exhibit C hereto setting forth the restructuring steps taken or to be taken prior to the Effective Time and the sequence thereof.
SEC ” shall mean the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Security Interest ” shall mean any mortgage, security interest, pledge, lien, charge, claim, option, right to acquire, voting or other restriction, right-of-way, covenant, condition, easement, encroachment, restriction on transfer, or other encumbrance of any nature whatsoever.
Separation ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Shared Contract ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.8(a) .
Shared Indirect Supply Chain Contracts ” shall mean any supply or vendor contract or agreement to which either Party or any member of its Group is a party, whether or not in writing, other than supply or vendor contracts or agreements related to the purchase of raw materials.
Site Service Agreements ” shall mean (1) the Atsugi, Japan Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Grace Japan Kabuskiki Kaishi and W. R. Grace Japan K.K.; (2) the Bogota, Columbia Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Grace Colombia, S.A. and Grace Holdings, S.A. de C.V., Sucursal de Colombia; (3) the Dubai, United Arab Emirates Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Emirate Chemicals LLC and Grace GmbH & Co. KG; (4) the Epernon, France Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among W. R. Grace S.A. and Alltech France S.A.R.L.; (5) the Epping Australia Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Grace Australia Pty. Ltd. and Alltech Associates (Australia) Pty. Ltd.; (6) the Passirana, Italy Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among W. R. Grace Italiana S.p.A. and Grace Italy S.r.l.; (7) the Shanghai City, China Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Grace Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Grace China Limited; and (8) the Sorocaba, Brazil Site Service Agreement to be entered into by and among Grace Brasil Ltda. and W. R. Grace Brasil Indústria e Comércia de Produtos Químicos Ltda.
Software ” shall mean any and all (a) computer programs, including any and all software implementation of algorithms, models and methodologies, whether in source code, object code, human readable form or other form, (b) databases and compilations, including any and all data and collections of data, whether machine readable or otherwise, (c) descriptions,

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flow charts and other work products used to design, plan, organize and develop any of the foregoing, (d) screens, user interfaces, report formats, firmware, development tools, templates, menus, buttons and icons and (e) documentation, including user manuals and other training documentation, relating to any of the foregoing.
Subsidiary ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, joint venture or partnership of which such Person (a) beneficially owns, either directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of (i) the total combined voting power of all classes of voting securities, (ii) the total combined equity interests or (iii) the capital or profit interests, in the case of a partnership, or (b) otherwise has the power to vote, either directly or indirectly, sufficient securities to elect a majority of the board of directors or similar governing body.
Tangible Information ” shall mean information that is contained in written, electronic or other tangible forms.
Tax ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Tax Sharing Agreement ” shall mean the Tax Sharing Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace and GCP or members of their respective Groups in connection with the Separation and the Distribution.
Tax Opinion ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Tax Return ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Technology ” shall mean all technology, designs, formulae, algorithms, procedures, methods, discoveries, processes, techniques, ideas, know-how, research and development, technical data, tools, materials, specifications, processes, inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice), apparatus, creations, improvements, works of authorship in any media, confidential, proprietary or nonpublic information, and other similar materials, and all recordings, graphs, drawings, reports, analyses and other writings, and other tangible embodiments of the foregoing in any form whether or not listed herein, in each case, other than Software.
Third Party ” shall mean any Person other than the Parties or the members of their respective Groups.
Third-Party Claim ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.5(a) .
Transfer Documents ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b) .

Transition Services Agreement ” shall mean the Transition Services Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace Conn and GCP or members of their respective Groups in connection with the Separation and the Distribution.

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Transitional License Agreement ” shall mean the Grace Transitional License Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace Conn and GCP in connection with the Separation and the Distribution.
Unreleased GCP Liability ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5(a)(ii) .
Unreleased Grace Liability ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5(b)(ii) .
U.S. ” shall mean the United States of America.
ARTICLE II     
THE SEPARATION
2.1      Transfer of Assets and Assumption of Liabilities .

(a)      Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, on or prior to the Effective Time in accordance with the Restructuring Steps Memorandum, and to the extent not previously effected prior to the date hereof pursuant to the steps of the Restructuring Steps Memorandum or the Plan of Reorganization:
(i)      Transfer and Assignment of GCP Assets . Grace shall, and shall cause the applicable members of the Grace Group to, and Grace Conn shall, and shall cause the other members of the Grace Group to, contribute, assign, transfer, convey and deliver to GCP, or the applicable GCP Designees, and GCP or such GCP Designees shall accept from Grace and the applicable members of the Grace Group, all of Grace’s and such Grace Group member’s respective direct or indirect right, title and interest in and to all GCP Assets held by Grace or a member of the Grace Group (it being understood that if any GCP Asset shall be held by a GCP Transferred Entity or Subsidiary of a GCP Transferred Entity, such GCP Asset may be considered to be so assigned, transferred, conveyed and delivered to GCP or a GCP Designee as a result of the transfer of equity interests in such GCP Transferred Entity from Grace or the applicable member(s) of the Grace Group to GCP or the applicable GCP Designee);
(ii)      Acceptance and Assumption of GCP Liabilities . GCP and the applicable GCP Designees shall accept, assume and agree faithfully to perform, discharge and fulfill all of the GCP Liabilities owed by any member of the Grace Group in accordance with their respective terms. GCP and such GCP Designees shall be responsible for all GCP Liabilities in accordance with their respective terms, regardless of when or where such GCP Liabilities arose or arise, or whether the facts on which they are based occurred prior to or subsequent to the Effective Time, regardless of where or against whom such GCP Liabilities are asserted or determined (including any GCP Liabilities arising out of claims made by Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, employees, agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group) or whether asserted or determined prior to the date hereof, and

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regardless of whether arising from or alleged to arise from negligence, recklessness, violation of Law, fraud or misrepresentation by any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates;
(iii)      Payment of First GCP Cash Distribution . Prior to the Internal Distribution, GCP will pay to Grace Conn the First GCP Cash Distribution in partial exchange for assets transferred by Grace Conn to GCP;
(iv)      Transfer and Assignment of Grace Assets . Grace and Grace Conn shall cause the applicable members of the GCP Group to, contribute, assign, transfer, convey and deliver to Grace or the applicable Grace Designees, and Grace or such Grace Designees shall accept from GCP and the applicable members of the GCP Group, all of GCP’s and such GCP Group member’s respective direct or indirect right, title and interest in and to all Grace Assets held by GCP or a member of the GCP Group (it being understood that if any Grace Asset shall be held by a Person all of the outstanding equity of which is included in the Grace Assets to be transferred pursuant to this Section 2.1(a)(iv) , such Grace Asset may be considered to be so assigned, transferred, conveyed and delivered to Grace as a result of the transfer of all of the equity interests in such person from GCP or the applicable member(s) of the GCP Group to Grace or the applicable Grace Designee); and
(v)      Acceptance and Assumption of Grace Liabilities . Grace and the applicable Grace Designee shall accept, assume and agree faithfully to perform, discharge and fulfill all of the Grace Liabilities owed by any member of the GCP Group in accordance with their respective terms. Grace and such Grace Designees shall be responsible for all Grace Liabilities in accordance with their respective terms, regardless of when or where such Grace Liabilities arose or arise, or whether the facts on which they are based occurred prior to or subsequent to the Effective Time, regardless of where or against whom such Grace Liabilities are asserted or determined (including any Grace Liabilities arising out of claims made by Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, employees, agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group) or whether asserted or determined prior to the date hereof, and regardless of whether arising from or alleged to arise from negligence, recklessness, violation of Law, fraud or misrepresentation by any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates.
(b)      Transfer Documents . In furtherance of the contribution, assignment, transfer, conveyance and delivery of the Assets and the assumption of the Liabilities in accordance with Section 2.1(a) , (i) each Party shall execute and deliver, and shall cause the applicable members of its Group to execute and deliver, such bills of sale, quitclaim deeds, stock powers, certificates of title, assignments of contracts and other instruments of transfer, conveyance and assignment as and to the extent necessary to evidence the transfer, conveyance and assignment of all of such Party’s and the applicable members of its Group’s right, title and

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interest in and to such Assets to the other Party and the applicable members of its Group in accordance with Section 2.1(a) and (ii) each Party shall execute and deliver, and shall cause the applicable members of its Group to execute and deliver, to the other Party such assumptions of contracts and other instruments of assumption as and to the extent necessary to evidence the valid and effective assumption of the Liabilities by such Party and the applicable members of its Group in accordance with Section 2.1(a) . All of the foregoing documents contemplated by this Section 2.1(b) shall be referred to collectively herein as the “ Transfer Documents .”
(c)      Misallocations . In the event that at any time or from time to time (whether prior to, at or after the Effective Time), one Party (or any member of such Party’s Group) shall receive or otherwise possess any Asset that is allocated to the other Party (or any member of such other Party’s Group) pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, such first Party shall promptly transfer, or cause to be transferred, such Asset to the other Party so entitled thereto (or to a member of such other Party’s Group), and such other Party (or member of such other Party’s Group) shall accept such Asset. Prior to any such transfer, the Person receiving or possessing such Asset shall hold such Asset in trust for any such other Person. In the event that at any time or from time to time (whether prior to, at or after the Effective Time), one Party hereto (or any member of such Party’s Group) shall receive or otherwise assume any Liability that is allocated to the other Party (or any member of such other Party’s Group) pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, such first Party shall promptly transfer, or cause to be transferred, such Liability to the other Party responsible therefor (or to a member of such other Party’s Group), and such other Party (or member of such other Party’s Group) shall accept, assume and agree to faithfully perform such Liability.
(d)      Waiver of Bulk-Sale and Bulk-Transfer Laws . GCP hereby waives compliance by each and every member of the Grace Group with the requirements and provisions of any “bulk-sale” or “bulk-transfer” Laws of any jurisdiction that may otherwise be applicable with respect to the transfer or sale of any or all of the GCP Assets to any member of the GCP Group. Grace hereby waives compliance by each and every member of the GCP Group with the requirements and provisions of any “bulk-sale” or “bulk-transfer” Laws of any jurisdiction that may otherwise be applicable with respect to the transfer or sale of any or all of the Grace Assets to any member of the Grace Group.
2.2      GCP Assets; Grace Assets .
(a)      GCP Assets . For purposes of this Agreement, “ GCP Assets ” shall mean, without duplication:
(i)      to the extent such Assets are Assets of the members of the Grace Group:
(A)      all issued and outstanding capital stock of, or other equity interests in, the GCP Transferred Entities as of the Effective Time;
(B)      all Assets (including cash and cash equivalents) included or reflected as Assets of the GCP Group on the GCP Balance Sheet, subject to any

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dispositions of such Assets subsequent to the date of the GCP Balance Sheet; provided that the amounts set forth on the GCP Balance Sheet with respect to any Assets shall not be treated as minimum amounts or limitations on the amount of such Assets that are included in the definition of GCP Assets pursuant to this subclause (B);
(C)      all Assets as of the Effective Time that are of a nature or type that would have resulted in such Assets being included or reflected as Assets of GCP or members of the GCP Group on a pro forma combined balance sheet of the GCP Group or any notes or subledgers thereto as of the Effective Time (were such balance sheet, notes and subledgers to be prepared on a basis consistent with the determination of the Assets included or reflected as Assets of the GCP Group on the GCP Balance Sheet), it being understood that: (x) the GCP Balance Sheet shall be used to determine the types of, and methodologies used to determine, those Assets that are included in the definition of GCP Assets pursuant to this subclause (C); and (y) the amounts set forth on the GCP Balance Sheet with respect to any Assets shall not be treated as minimum amounts or limitations on the amount of such Assets that are included in the definition of GCP Assets pursuant to this subclause (C);
(D)      all Assets as of the Effective Time that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement as Assets to be transferred to GCP or any other member of the GCP Group;
(E)      all rights, interests and claims as of the Effective Time in or with respect to GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses;
(F)      all GCP Contracts as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims thereunder as of the Effective Time;
(G)      all GCP IT Hardware;
(H)      all GCP Intellectual Property, GCP Software and GCP Technology as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims thereunder as of the Effective Time, and any license of Intellectual Property of any member of the Grace Group to any member of the GCP Group pursuant to the terms of the Intellectual Property and License Agreement;
(I)      all GCP Permits as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims thereunder as of the Effective Time;
(J)      all GCP Real Property as of the Effective Time; and
(K)      all rights, interests and claims as of the Effective Time with respect to Information that is primarily related to the other GCP Assets, the GCP Liabilities, the GCP Business or the GCP Transferred Entities and, subject to the

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provisions of the applicable Ancillary Agreements, a non-exclusive right to all Information that is related to, but not primarily related to, the other GCP Assets, the GCP Liabilities, the GCP Business or the GCP Transferred Entities;
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to this Section 2.2(a)(i) , the GCP Assets shall not in any event include any Asset set forth on Schedule 2.2(a)(i) .
(ii)      all Assets of the GCP Carveout Group Members as of the Effective Time, other than Grace Assets, it being understood that such GCP Assets shall include:
(A)      all Assets that are expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (or the Schedules hereto or thereto) as Assets to be retained by GCP or any other member of the GCP Group;
(B)      all contracts as of the Effective Time that are not Grace Contracts, including the contracts identified on Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(B) ;
(C)      all Intellectual Property as of the Effective Time other than the Grace Intellectual Property, including the Intellectual Property identified on Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(C) ;
(D)      all Permits of either Party or any of the members of its Group as of the Effective Time other than the Grace Permits, including the Permits identified on Schedule 2.2(a)(ii)(D) ; and
(E)      all rights, interests and claims as of the Effective Time in or with respect to GCP Sold and Discontinued Business and Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses;
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to this Section 2.2(a)(ii), the GCP Assets shall not in any event include any Asset set forth on Schedule 2.2(a)(ii) .
(b)      Grace Assets . For the purposes of this Agreement, “ Grace Assets ” shall mean, without duplication:
(i)      to the extent such Assets are Assets of the GCP Carveout Group Members:
(A)      all issued and outstanding capital stock of, or other equity interests in, the Grace Transferred Entities as of the Effective Time;
(B)      all Assets as of the Effective Time that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement as Assets to be transferred to Grace or any other member of the Grace Group;
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(D)      all Grace Contracts as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims as of the Effective Time;
(E)      all Grace IT Hardware;
(F)      all Grace Intellectual Property, Grace Software and Grace Technology as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims thereunder as of the Effective Time, and any license of Intellectual Property of any member of the Grace Group to any member of the Grace Group pursuant to the terms of the Intellectual Property and License Agreement;
(G)      the Grace Name and Grace Marks;
(H)      all Grace Permits as of the Effective Time and all rights, interests or claims thereunder as of the Effective Time;
(I)      all Grace Real Property as of the Effective Time;
(J)      all rights, interests and claims as of the Effective Time with respect to Information that is primarily related to the other Grace Assets, the Grace Liabilities, the Grace Business or the Grace Transferred Entities and, subject to the provisions of the applicable Ancillary Agreements, a non-exclusive right to all Information that is related to, but not primarily related to, the other Grace Assets, the Grace Liabilities, the Grace Business or the Grace Transferred Entities; and
(K)    any and all Assets set forth on Schedule 2.2(b)(i)(K);
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to this Section 2.2(b)(i) , the Grace Assets shall not in any event include any Asset set forth on Schedule 2.2(b)(i) .

(ii)      all Assets of the Grace Group members as of the Effective Time, other than GCP Assets, it being understood that such Grace Assets shall include:
(A)      all Assets that are expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (or the Schedules hereto or thereto) as Assets to be retained by Grace or any other member of the Grace Group;
(B)      all contracts as of the Effective Time that are not GCP Contracts, including the contracts identified on Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(B) ;
(C)      all Intellectual Property as of the Effective Time other than the GCP Intellectual Property, including the Grace Name and Grace Marks and the Intellectual Property set forth on Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(C) ;

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(D)      all Permits as of the Effective Time other than the GCP Permits, including the Permits identified on Schedule 2.2(b)(ii)(D) ; and
(E)      all rights, interests and claims as of the Effective Time in or with respect to Grace Sold and Discontinued Business and Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses.
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to this Section 2.2(b)(ii), the Grace Assets shall not in any event include any Asset set forth on Schedule 2.2(b)(ii) .
2.3      GCP Liabilities; Grace Liabilities .
(a)      GCP Liabilities . For the purposes of this Agreement, “ GCP Liabilities ” shall mean:
(iii)      to the extent such Liabilities are Liabilities of the members of the Grace Group:
(A)      all Liabilities included or reflected as liabilities or obligations of GCP or the members of the GCP Group on the GCP Balance Sheet, subject to any discharge of such Liabilities subsequent to the date of the GCP Balance Sheet; provided that the amounts set forth on the GCP Balance Sheet with respect to any Liabilities shall not be treated as minimum amounts or limitations on the amount of such Liabilities that are included in the definition of GCP Liabilities pursuant to this subclause (A);
(B)      all Liabilities as of the Effective Time that are of a nature or type that would have resulted in such Liabilities being included or reflected as Liabilities of GCP or the members of the GCP Group on a pro forma combined balance sheet of the GCP Group or any notes or subledgers thereto as of the Effective Time (were such balance sheet, notes and subledgers to be prepared on a basis consistent with the determination of the Liabilities included on the GCP Balance Sheet), it being understood that: (x) the GCP Balance Sheet shall be used to determine the types of, and methodologies used to determine, those Liabilities that are included in the definition of GCP Liabilities pursuant to this subclause (B); and (y) the amounts set forth on the GCP Balance Sheet with respect to any Liabilities shall not be treated as minimum amounts or limitations on the amount of such Liabilities that are included in the definition of GCP Liabilities pursuant to this subclause (B);
(C)      all Liabilities, including any Environmental Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case to the extent that such Liabilities relate to, arise

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out of or result from the GCP Business, a GCP Sold and Discontinued Business or another GCP Asset;
(D)      any and all Liabilities that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (or the Schedules hereto or thereto) as Liabilities to be assumed by GCP or any other member of the GCP Group, and all agreements, obligations and Liabilities of any member of the GCP Group under this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements;
(E)      all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the GCP Contracts, the GCP Intellectual Property, the GCP Software, the GCP Technology, the GCP Permits or the GCP IT Hardware;
(F)      all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the GCP Real Property; and
(G)      all Liabilities arising out of claims made by any Third Party (including Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, stockholders, employees and agents) against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the GCP Business, the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses, the other GCP Assets or the other business, operations, activities or Liabilities referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to this Section 2.3(a)(i), the Parties agree that the Liabilities set forth on Schedule 2.3(a)(i) shall not be GCP Liabilities but instead shall remain Grace Liabilities.
(iv)      all Liabilities of the GCP Carveout Group Members relating to, arising out of or resulting from actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case that are not Grace Liabilities, including all Liabilities arising out of claims made by any Third Party (including Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, stockholders, employees and agents) against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the GCP Business, the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses, the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the other GCP Assets;
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parties agree that, with respect to this Section 2.3(a)(ii), the Liabilities set forth on Schedule 2.3(a)(ii) shall not remain GCP Liabilities but instead shall be Grace Liabilities.
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(i)      to the extent such Liabilities are Liabilities of the GCP Carveout Group Members:

(A)      all Liabilities, including any Environmental Liabilities, relating to, arising out of or resulting from the actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case to the extent that such Liabilities relate to, arise out of or result from the Grace Business, a Grace Sold and Discontinued Business or another Grace Asset;
(B)      any and all Liabilities that are expressly provided by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (or the Schedules hereto or thereto) as Liabilities to be assumed by Grace or any other member of the Grace Group, and all agreements, obligations and Liabilities of any member of the Grace Group under this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements;
(C)      all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Grace Contracts, the Grace Intellectual Property, the Grace Software, the Grace Technology, the Grace Permits, or the Grace IT Hardware;
(D)      all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Grace Real Property;
(E)      all Grace Asbestos Liabilities;
(F)      all Liabilities arising out of claims made by any Third Party (including Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, stockholders, employees and agents) against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Grace Business, the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses, the other Grace Assets or the other business, operations, activities or Liabilities referred to in clauses (A) through (E) above; and
(G)    all Liabilities set forth on Schedule 2.3(b)(i)(G);
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parties agree that, with respect this Section 2.3(b)(i), the Liabilities set forth on Schedule 2.3(b)(i) shall not be Grace Liabilities but instead shall remain GCP Liabilities.
(ii)      all Liabilities of the members of the Grace Group relating to, arising out of or resulting from actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such

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Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case that are not GCP Liabilities, including all Liabilities arising out of claims made by any Third Party (including Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, stockholders, employees and agents) against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Grace Business, the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the other Grace Assets.
provided that , notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parties agree that, with respect to this Section 2.3(b)(ii), the Liabilities set forth on Schedule 2.3(b)(ii) shall not remain Grace Liabilities but instead shall be GCP Liabilities.
2.4      Approvals and Notifications .
(a)      Approvals and Notifications for GCP Assets . To the extent that the transfer or assignment of any GCP Asset contemplated hereby, the assumption of any GCP Liability contemplated hereby, the Separation, or the Distribution requires any Approvals or Notifications, the Parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to obtain or make such Approvals or Notifications as soon as reasonably practicable; provided , however , that, except to the extent expressly provided in this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements or as otherwise agreed between Grace and GCP, neither Grace nor GCP shall be obligated to contribute capital or pay any consideration in any form (including providing any letter of credit, guaranty or other financial accommodation) to any Person in order to obtain or make such Approvals or Notifications.
(b)      Delayed GCP Transfers . If and to the extent that the valid, complete and perfected transfer or assignment to the GCP Group of any GCP Asset or assumption by the GCP Group of any GCP Liability, in each case contemplated hereby, would be a violation of applicable Law or require any Approval or Notification in connection with the Separation or the Distribution that has not been obtained or made by the Effective Time then, unless the Parties mutually shall otherwise determine, the transfer or assignment to the GCP Group of such GCP Assets or the assumption by the GCP Group of such GCP Liabilities, as the case may be, shall be automatically deemed deferred and any such purported transfer, assignment or assumption shall be null and void until such time as all legal impediments are removed or such Approval or Notification has been obtained or made. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such GCP Assets or GCP Liabilities shall continue to constitute GCP Assets and GCP Liabilities for all other purposes of this Agreement.
(c)      Treatment of Delayed GCP Assets and Delayed GCP Liabilities . If any transfer or assignment of any GCP Asset or any assumption of any GCP Liability intended to be transferred, assigned or assumed hereunder, as the case may be, is not consummated on or prior to the Effective Time, whether as a result of the provisions of Section 2.4(b) or for any other reason (any such GCP Asset, a “ Delayed GCP Asset ” and any such GCP Liability, a “ Delayed GCP Liability ”), then, insofar as reasonably possible and subject to applicable Law, the member of the Grace Group retaining such Delayed GCP Asset or such Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, shall thereafter hold such Delayed GCP Asset or retain such Delayed GCP Liability

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for the account (and at the expense) of the applicable member of the GCP Group, for the use and benefit of the member of the GCP Group entitled thereto (at the expense of the member of the GCP Group entitled thereto). In addition, the member of the Grace Group retaining such Delayed GCP Asset or such Delayed GCP Liability shall, insofar as reasonably possible and to the extent permitted by applicable Law, treat such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability in the ordinary course of business in accordance with past practice and take such other actions as may be reasonably requested by the member of the GCP Group to which such Delayed GCP Asset is to be transferred or assigned, or which will assume such Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, in order to place such member of the GCP Group in a substantially similar position as if such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability had been transferred, assigned or assumed as contemplated hereby and so that all the benefits and burdens relating to such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, including use, risk of loss, potential for gain, and dominion, control and command over such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, and all costs and expenses related thereto, shall inure from and after the Effective Time to the GCP Group.
(d)      Transfer of Delayed GCP Assets and Delayed GCP Liabilities . If and when the Approval or Notification, the absence of which caused the deferral of transfer or assignment of any Delayed GCP Asset or the deferral of assumption of any Delayed GCP Liability pursuant to Section 2.4(b) , is obtained or made, and, if and when any other legal impediments for the transfer or assignment of any Delayed GCP Asset or the assumption of any Delayed GCP Liability have been removed, the transfer or assignment of the applicable Delayed GCP Asset or the assumption of the applicable Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, shall be effected in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Restructuring Steps Memorandum and/or the applicable Ancillary Agreement.
(e)      Costs for Delayed GCP Assets and Delayed GCP Liabilities . Any member of the Grace Group retaining a Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability due to the deferral of the transfer or assignment of such Delayed GCP Asset or the deferral of the assumption of such Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, shall not be obligated, in connection with the foregoing, to expend any money unless the necessary funds are advanced (or otherwise made available) by GCP or the member of the GCP Group entitled to the Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability, other than reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, attorneys’ fees and recording or similar fees, all of which shall be promptly reimbursed by GCP or the member of the GCP Group entitled to such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability.
(f)      Approvals and Notifications for Grace Assets . To the extent that the transfer or assignment of any Grace Asset or the assumption of any Grace Liability requires any Approvals or Notifications, the Parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to obtain or make such Approvals or Notifications as soon as reasonably practicable; provided , however , that, except to the extent expressly provided in this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements or as otherwise agreed between Grace and GCP, neither Grace nor GCP shall be obligated to contribute capital or pay any consideration in any form (including providing any letter of credit, guaranty or other financial accommodation) to any Person in order to obtain or make such Approvals or Notifications.

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(g)      Delayed Grace Transfers . If and to the extent that the valid, complete and perfected transfer or assignment to the Grace Group of any Grace Asset or assumption by the Grace Group of any Grace Liability would be a violation of applicable Law or require any Approval or Notifications in connection with the Separation or the Distribution that has not been obtained or made by the Effective Time then, unless the Parties mutually shall otherwise determine, the transfer or assignment to the Grace Group of such Grace Assets or the assumption by the Grace Group of such Grace Liabilities, as the case may be, shall be automatically deemed deferred and any such purported transfer, assignment or assumption shall be null and void until such time as all legal impediments are removed or such Approval or Notification has been obtained or made. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such Grace Assets or Grace Liabilities shall continue to constitute Grace Assets and Grace Liabilities for all other purposes of this Agreement.
(h)      Treatment of Delayed Grace Assets and Delayed Grace Liabilities . If any transfer or assignment of any Grace Asset or any assumption of any Grace Liability intended to be transferred, assigned or assumed hereunder, as the case may be, is not consummated on or prior to the Effective Time whether as a result of the provisions of Section 2.4(g) or for any other reason (any such Grace Asset, a “ Delayed Grace Asset ” and any such Grace Liability, a “ Delayed Grace Liability ”), then, insofar as reasonably possible and subject to applicable Law, the member of the GCP Group retaining such Delayed Grace Asset or such Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, shall thereafter hold such Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, for the use and benefit of the member of the Grace Group entitled thereto (at the expense of the member of the Grace Group entitled thereto). In addition, the member of the GCP Group retaining such Delayed Grace Asset or such Delayed Grace Liability shall, insofar as reasonably possible and to the extent permitted by applicable Law, treat such Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability in the ordinary course of business in accordance with past practice and shall take such other actions as may be reasonably requested by the member of the Grace Group to which such Delayed Grace Asset is to be transferred or assigned, or which will assume such Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, in order to place such member of the Grace Group in a substantially similar position as if such Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability had been transferred, assigned or assumed as contemplated hereby and so that all the benefits and burdens relating to such Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, including use, risk of loss, potential for gain, and dominion, control and command over such Delayed GCP Asset or Delayed GCP Liability, as the case may be, and all costs and expenses related thereto, shall inure from and after the Effective Time to the Grace Group.
(i)      Transfer of Delayed Grace Assets and Delayed Grace Liabilities . If and when the Approval or Notification, the absence of which caused the deferral of transfer or assignment of any Delayed Grace Asset or the deferral of assumption of any Delayed Grace Liability, is obtained or made, and, if and when any other legal impediments for the transfer or assignment of any Delayed Grace Asset or the assumption of any Delayed Grace Liability have been removed, the transfer or assignment of the applicable Delayed Grace Asset or the assumption of the applicable Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, shall be effected in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Restructuring Steps Memorandum, and/or the applicable Ancillary Agreement.

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(j)      Costs for Delayed Grace Assets and Delayed Grace Liabilities . Any member of the GCP Group retaining an Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability due to the deferral of the transfer or assignment of such Delayed Grace Asset or the deferral of the assumption of such Delayed Grace Liability, as the case may be, shall not be obligated, in connection with the foregoing, to expend any money unless the necessary funds are advanced (or otherwise made available) by Grace or the member of the Grace Group entitled to the Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability, other than reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, attorneys’ fees and recording or similar fees, all of which shall be promptly reimbursed by Grace or the member of the Grace Group entitled to such Delayed Grace Asset or Delayed Grace Liability.
2.5      Novation of Liabilities .
(a)      Novation of GCP Liabilities.
(i)      Except as set forth on Schedule 2.5(a) or novated or assigned prior to the date hereof pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, each of Grace, Grace Conn, and GCP, at the request of the other, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, as soon as reasonably practicable, any consent, substitution, approval or amendment required to novate or assign all GCP Liabilities and obtain in writing the unconditional release of each member of the Grace Group that is a party to any such arrangements, so that, in any such case, the members of the GCP Group shall be solely responsible for such GCP Liabilities; provided , however , that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, neither Grace nor GCP shall be obligated to contribute any capital or pay any consideration in any form (including providing any letter of credit, guaranty or other financial accommodation) to any Third Party from whom any such consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release is requested.
(ii)      If Grace, Grace Conn or GCP is unable to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, any such required consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release and the applicable member of the Grace Group continues to be bound by such agreement, lease, license or other obligation or Liability (each, an “ Unreleased GCP Liability ”), GCP shall, to the extent not prohibited by Law, as indemnitor, guarantor, agent or subcontractor for such member of the Grace Group, as the case may be, (i) pay, perform and discharge fully all the obligations or other Liabilities of such member of the Grace Group that constitute Unreleased GCP Liabilities from and after the Effective Time and (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such payment, performance or discharge prior to any demand for such payment, performance or discharge is permitted to be made by the obligee thereunder on any member of the Grace Group. If and when any such consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release shall be obtained or the Unreleased GCP Liabilities shall otherwise become assignable or able to be novated, Grace and Grace Conn shall promptly assign, or cause to be assigned, and GCP or the applicable GCP Group member shall assume, such Unreleased GCP Liabilities without exchange of further consideration.
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(i)      Except as set forth on Schedule 2.5(b) , each of Grace, Grace Conn, and GCP, at the request of the other, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, as soon as reasonably practicable, any consent, substitution, approval or amendment required to novate or assign all Grace Liabilities and obtain in writing the unconditional release of each member of the GCP Group that is a party to any such arrangements, so that, in any such case, the members of the Grace Group shall be solely responsible for such Grace Liabilities; provided , however , that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, neither Grace nor GCP shall be obligated to contribute any capital or pay any consideration in any form (including providing any letter of credit, guaranty or other financial accommodation) to any Third Party from whom any such consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release is requested.
(ii)      If Grace, Grace Conn or GCP is unable to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, any such required consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release and the applicable member of the GCP Group continues to be bound by such agreement, lease, license or other obligation or Liability (each, an “ Unreleased Grace Liability ”), Grace and Grace Conn shall, to the extent not prohibited by Law, as indemnitor, guarantor, agent or subcontractor for such member of the GCP Group, as the case may be, (i) pay, perform and discharge fully all the obligations or other Liabilities of such member of the GCP Group that constitute Unreleased Grace Liabilities from and after the Effective Time and (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such payment, performance or discharge prior to any demand for such payment, performance or discharge is permitted to be made by the obligee thereunder on any member of the GCP Group. If and when any such consent, substitution, approval, amendment or release shall be obtained or the Unreleased Grace Liabilities shall otherwise become assignable or able to be novated, GCP shall promptly assign, or cause to be assigned, and Grace or the applicable Grace Group member shall assume, such Unreleased Grace Liabilities without exchange of further consideration.
2.6      Release of Guarantees . In furtherance of, and not in limitation of, the obligations set forth in Section 2.5 :
(a)      On or prior to the Effective Time or as soon as practicable thereafter, each of Grace and GCP shall, at the request of the other Party and with the reasonable cooperation of such other Party and the applicable member(s) of such other Party’s Group, use commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have any member(s) of the Grace Group removed as guarantor of or obligor for any GCP Liability to the extent that they relate to GCP Liabilities, including the removal of any Security Interest on or in any Grace Asset that may serve as collateral or security for any such GCP Liability, and (ii) have any member(s) of the GCP Group removed as guarantor of or obligor for any Grace Liability to the extent that they relate to Grace Liabilities, including the removal of any Security Interest on or in any GCP Asset that may serve as collateral or security for any such Grace Liability.
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(i)      any member of the Grace Group, GCP shall execute a guarantee agreement in the form of the existing guarantee or such other form as is agreed by the relevant parties to such guarantee agreement, which agreement shall include the removal of any Security Interest on or in any Grace Asset that may serve as collateral or security for any such Grace Liability, except to the extent that such existing guarantee contains representations, covenants or other terms or provisions either (i) with which GCP would be reasonably unable to comply or (ii) which GCP would not reasonably be able to avoid breaching; and
(ii)      any member of the GCP Group, Grace shall execute a guarantee agreement in the form of the existing guarantee or such other form as is agreed by the relevant parties to such guarantee agreement, which agreement shall include the removal of any Security Interest on or in any GCP Asset that may serve as collateral or security for any such GCP Liability, except to the extent that such existing guarantee contains representations, covenants or other terms or provisions either (i) with which Grace would be reasonably unable to comply or (ii) which Grace would not reasonably be able to avoid breaching.
(c)      If Grace or GCP is unable to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, any such required removal or release as set forth in clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 2.6 , (i) the Party that has assumed, or the member of whose Group has assumed, the Liability with respect to such guarantee shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the guarantor or obligor against or from any Liability arising from or relating thereto in accordance with the provisions of Article IV and such Party shall, or shall cause the applicable member of its Group to, as agent or subcontractor for such guarantor or obligor, pay, perform and discharge fully all the obligations or other Liabilities of such guarantor or obligor thereunder and (ii) each of Grace and GCP, on behalf of itself and the other members of its respective Group, agrees not to renew or extend the term of, increase any obligations under, or transfer to a Third Party, any loan, guarantee, lease, contract or other obligation for which the other Party or a member of its Group is or may be liable unless all obligations of such other Party and the members of such other Party’s Group with respect thereto are thereupon terminated by documentation satisfactory in form and substance to such other Party.
2.7      Termination of Agreements .
(a)      Except as set forth in Section 2.7(b) , in furtherance of the releases and other provisions of Section 4.1 , GCP, on its own behalf and each member of the GCP Group, on the one hand, and Grace, on its own behalf and each member of the Grace Group, on the other hand, hereby terminate any and all agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings, whether or not in writing, between or among GCP and/or any member of the GCP Group, on the one hand, and Grace and/or any member of the Grace Group, on the other hand, effective as of the Effective Time. No such terminated agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding (including any provision thereof which purports to survive termination) shall be of any further force or effect after the Effective Time. Each Party shall, at the reasonable request of the other Party, take, or cause to be taken, such other actions as may be necessary to effect the foregoing.

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(b)      The provisions of Section 2.7(a) shall not apply to any of the following agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings (or to any of the provisions thereof): (i) this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (and each other agreement or instrument expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement to be entered into by any of the Parties or any of the members of their respective Groups or to be continued from and after the Effective Time), (ii) any agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings listed or described on Schedule 2.7(b)(ii) , (iii) any agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings to which any Third Party is a party, including any Shared Contracts, (iv) any intercompany accounts payable or accounts receivable accrued as of the Effective Time that are reflected in the books and records of the Parties or otherwise documented in writing in accordance with past practices, which shall be settled in the manner contemplated by Section 2.7(c) , and (v) any agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings to which any non-wholly owned Subsidiary of Grace or GCP, as the case may be, is a party (it being understood that directors’ qualifying shares or similar interests will be disregarded for purposes of determining whether a Subsidiary is wholly owned).
(c)      All of the intercompany accounts receivable and accounts payable between any member of the Grace Group, on the one hand, and any member of the GCP Group, on the other hand, outstanding prior to the effective time of the Internal Distribution or the Effective Time, respectively, shall, prior to the effective time of the Internal Distribution or the Effective Time, respectively, be repaid, settled or otherwise eliminated by means of cash payments, a dividend, capital contribution, a combination of the foregoing, or otherwise as determined by Grace in its sole and absolute discretion.
2.8      Treatment of Shared Contracts .
(a)      Subject to applicable Law and without limiting the generality of the obligations set forth in Section 2.1 , unless the Parties otherwise agree or the benefits of any contract, agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding described in this Section 2.8 are expressly conveyed to the applicable Party pursuant to this Agreement or an Ancillary Agreement, any contract or agreement, a portion of which is a GCP Asset, but the remainder of which is a Grace Asset (any such contract or agreement, a “ Shared Contract ”), shall be assigned in relevant part to the applicable member(s) of the applicable Group, if so assignable, or appropriately amended prior to, on or after the Effective Time, so that each Party or the member of its Group shall, as of the Effective Time, be entitled to the rights and benefits, and shall assume the related portion of any Liabilities, inuring to its respective businesses; provided , however , that (i) in no event shall any member of any Group be required to assign (or amend) any Shared Contract in its entirety or to assign a portion of any Shared Contract which is not assignable (or cannot be amended) by its terms (including any terms imposing consents or conditions on an assignment where such consents or conditions have not been obtained or fulfilled) and (ii) if any Shared Contract cannot be so partially assigned by its terms or otherwise, or cannot be amended or if such assignment or amendment would impair the benefit the parties thereto derive from such Shared Contract, then the Parties shall, and shall cause each of the members of their respective Groups to, take such other reasonable and permissible actions (including by providing prompt notice to the other Party with respect to any relevant claim of

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Liability or other relevant matters arising in connection with a Shared Contract so as to allow such other Party the ability to exercise any applicable rights under such Shared Contract) to cause a member of the GCP Group or the Grace Group, as the case may be, to receive the rights and benefits of that portion of each Shared Contract that relates to the GCP Business or the Grace Business, as the case may be (in each case, to the extent so related), as if such Shared Contract had been assigned to (or amended to allow) a member of the applicable Group pursuant to this Section 2.8 , and to bear the burden of the corresponding Liabilities (including any Liabilities that may arise by reason of such arrangement), as if such Liabilities had been assumed by a member of the applicable Group pursuant to this Section 2.8 .
(b)      Each of Grace and GCP shall, and shall cause the members of its Group to, (i) treat for all Tax purposes the portion of each Shared Contract inuring to its respective businesses as Assets owned by, and/or Liabilities of, as applicable, such Party, or the members of its Group, as applicable, not later than the effective time of the Internal Distribution, and (ii) neither report nor take any Tax position (on a Tax Return or otherwise) inconsistent with such treatment (unless required by applicable Law).
(c)      Nothing in this Section 2.8 shall require any member of any Group to make any non- de minimis payment (except to the extent advanced, assumed or agreed in advance to be reimbursed by any member of the other Group), incur any non- de minimis obligation or grant any non- de minimis concession for the benefit of any member of any other Group in order to effect any transaction contemplated by this Section 2.8 .
2.9      Bank Accounts; Cash Balances .
(a)      Each of Grace and GCP agree to take, or cause the applicable members of its Group to take, at or before the effective time of the Internal Distribution, all actions necessary to amend all contracts or agreements governing each bank and brokerage account owned by GCP or any other member of the GCP Group (collectively, the “ GCP Accounts ”) and all contracts or agreements governing each bank or brokerage account owned by Grace or any other member of the Grace Group (collectively, the “ Grace Accounts ”) so that each such GCP Account and Grace Account, if currently linked (whether by automatic withdrawal, automatic deposit or any other authorization to transfer funds from or to, hereinafter “ Linked ”) to any Grace Account or GCP Account, respectively, is de-Linked from such Grace Account or GCP Account, respectively.
(b)      It is intended that, following consummation of the actions contemplated by Section 2.9(a) , there will be in place a cash management process pursuant to which the GCP Accounts will be managed and funds collected will be transferred into one (1) or more accounts maintained by GCP or a member of the GCP Group.
(c)      It is intended that, following consummation of the actions contemplated by Section 2.9(a) , there will continue to be in place a cash management process pursuant to which the Grace Accounts will be managed and funds collected will be transferred into one (1) or more accounts maintained by Grace or a member of the Grace Group.

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(d)      With respect to any outstanding checks issued or payments initiated by Grace, GCP, or any of the members of their respective Groups prior to the Effective Time, such outstanding checks and payments shall be honored following the Effective Time by the Person or Group owning the account on which the check is drawn or from which the payment was initiated, respectively.
(e)      As between Grace and GCP (and the members of their respective Groups), all payments made and reimbursements received at or after the effective time of the Internal Distribution by either Party (or member of its Group) that relate to a business, Asset or Liability of the other Party (or member of its Group), shall be held by such Party in trust for the use and benefit of the Party entitled thereto and, promptly following receipt by such Party of any such payment or reimbursement, such Party shall pay over, or shall cause the applicable member of its Group to pay over to the other Party the amount of such payment or reimbursement without right of set-off.
2.10      Ancillary Agreements . Effective on or prior to the Effective Time, each of Grace and GCP will, or will cause the applicable members of their Groups to, execute and deliver all Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party.
2.11      Disclaimer of Representations and Warranties . EACH OF GRACE (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND EACH MEMBER OF THE GRACE GROUP) AND GCP (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND EACH MEMBER OF THE GCP GROUP) UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES THAT, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN OR IN ANY ANCILLARY AGREEMENT, NO PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY ANCILLARY AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT OR DOCUMENT CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT, ANY ANCILLARY AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE, IS REPRESENTING OR WARRANTING IN ANY WAY AS TO THE ASSETS, BUSINESSES OR LIABILITIES TRANSFERRED OR ASSUMED AS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, AS TO ANY CONSENTS OR APPROVALS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AS TO THE VALUE OR FREEDOM FROM ANY SECURITY INTERESTS OF, OR ANY OTHER MATTER CONCERNING, ANY ASSETS OF SUCH PARTY, OR AS TO THE ABSENCE OF ANY DEFENSES OR RIGHT OF SETOFF OR FREEDOM FROM COUNTERCLAIM WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM OR OTHER ASSET, INCLUDING ANY ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, OF ANY PARTY, OR AS TO THE LEGAL SUFFICIENCY OF ANY ASSIGNMENT, DOCUMENT OR INSTRUMENT DELIVERED HEREUNDER TO CONVEY TITLE TO ANY ASSET OR THING OF VALUE UPON THE EXECUTION, DELIVERY AND FILING HEREOF OR THEREOF. EXCEPT AS MAY EXPRESSLY BE SET FORTH HEREIN OR IN ANY ANCILLARY AGREEMENT, ALL SUCH ASSETS ARE BEING TRANSFERRED ON AN “AS IS,” “WHERE IS” BASIS (AND, IN THE CASE OF ANY REAL PROPERTY, BY MEANS OF A QUITCLAIM OR SIMILAR FORM OF DEED OR CONVEYANCE) AND THE RESPECTIVE TRANSFEREES SHALL BEAR THE ECONOMIC AND LEGAL RISKS THAT (I) ANY CONVEYANCE WILL PROVE TO BE INSUFFICIENT TO VEST IN THE TRANSFEREE GOOD AND MARKETABLE TITLE, FREE AND CLEAR OF ANY SECURITY INTEREST, AND (II) ANY NECESSARY

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APPROVALS OR NOTIFICATIONS ARE NOT OBTAINED OR MADE OR THAT ANY REQUIREMENTS OF LAWS OR JUDGMENTS ARE NOT COMPLIED WITH.
2.12      Financial Information Certifications . Grace’s disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting (as each is contemplated by the Exchange Act) are currently applicable to GCP as its Subsidiary. In order to enable the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of GCP to make the certifications required of them under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Grace, within thirty-five (35) days of the end of any fiscal quarter during which GCP remains Grace’s Subsidiary, shall provide GCP with one or more certifications with respect to such disclosure controls and procedures, its internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness thereof. Such certification(s) shall be provided by Grace (and not by any officer or employee in their individual capacity).
ARTICLE III     
THE DISTRIBUTION
3.1      Sole and Absolute Discretion; Cooperation .
(a)      Grace shall, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine the terms of the Distribution, including the form, structure and terms of any transaction(s) and/or offering(s) to effect the Distribution, or to be effected in connection with the Distribution, and the timing and conditions to the consummation of the Distribution and any such transaction(s) and/or offering(s). In addition, Grace may, at any time and from time to time until the consummation of the Distribution, modify or change the terms of the Distribution and any such transaction(s) and/or offering(s), including by accelerating or delaying the timing of the consummation of all or part of the Distribution. Nothing shall in any way limit Grace’s right to terminate this Agreement or the Distribution as set forth in Article IX or alter the consequences of any such termination from those specified in Article IX .
(b)      GCP shall cooperate with Grace to accomplish the Distribution and shall, at Grace’s direction, promptly take any and all actions necessary or desirable to effect the Distribution, including in respect of the registration under the Exchange Act of GCP Shares on the Form 10. Grace shall select any investment bank or manager in connection with the Distribution, as well as any financial printer, solicitation and/or exchange agent and financial, legal, accounting and other advisors for Grace. GCP and Grace, as the case may be, will provide to the Agent any information required in order to complete the Distribution.
3.2      Actions Prior to the Distribution . Prior to the Effective Time and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Parties shall take, or cause to be taken, the following actions in connection with the Distribution:
(a)      Notice to NYSE . Grace shall, to the extent possible, give the NYSE not less than ten (10) days’ advance notice of the Record Date in compliance with Rule 10b-17 under the Exchange Act.

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(b)      GCP Certificate of Incorporation and GCP By-laws . On or prior to the Distribution Date, Grace and GCP shall take all necessary actions so that, as of the Effective Time, the GCP Certificate of Incorporation and the GCP By-laws shall become the certificate of incorporation and By-laws of GCP, respectively.
(c)      GCP Directors and Officers . On or prior to the Distribution Date, Grace and GCP shall take all necessary actions so that, as of the Effective Time, (i) the directors and executive officers of GCP shall be those set forth in the Information Statement mailed to the Record Holders prior to the Distribution Date, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, (ii) each individual referred to in clause (i) shall have resigned from his or her position, if any, as a member of the Grace Board and/or as an executive officer of Grace and (iii) GCP shall have such other officers as GCP shall appoint.
(d)      NYSE Listing . GCP shall prepare and file, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to have approved, an application for the listing of the GCP Shares to be distributed in the Distribution on the NYSE, subject to official notice of distribution.
(e)      Securities Law Matters . GCP shall file any amendments or supplements to the Form 10 as may be necessary or advisable in order to cause the Form 10 to become and remain effective as required by the SEC or federal, state or other applicable securities Laws. Grace and GCP shall cooperate in preparing, filing with the SEC and causing to become effective registration statements or amendments thereof which are required to reflect the establishment of, or amendments to, any employee benefit and other plans necessary or advisable in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements. Grace and GCP will prepare, and GCP will, to the extent required under applicable Law, file with the SEC any such documentation and any requisite no-action letters which Grace determines are necessary or desirable to effectuate the Distribution, and each of Grace and GCP shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain all necessary approvals from the SEC with respect thereto as soon as practicable. Grace and GCP shall take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate under the securities or blue sky laws of the U.S. (and any comparable Laws under any foreign jurisdiction) in connection with the Distribution.
(f)      Mailing of Information Statement . Grace shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the Form 10 is declared (or otherwise becomes) effective under the Exchange Act and the Grace Board has approved the Distribution, cause the Information Statement to be mailed to the Record Holders.
(g)      The Distribution Agent . Grace shall enter into a distribution agent agreement with the Agent or otherwise provide instructions to the Agent regarding the Distribution.
(h)      Stock-Based Employee Benefit Plans . Grace and GCP shall take all actions as may be necessary to approve the grants of adjusted equity awards by Grace (in respect of Grace shares) and GCP (in respect of GCP shares) in connection with the Distribution in order to satisfy the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act.

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(i)      Restructuring Steps . Prior to the Effective Time, Grace, Grace Conn and GCP shall and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to take such actions as are necessary to carry out each of the steps described in the Restructuring Steps Memorandum as taking place prior to the Effective Time.
3.3      Conditions to the Distribution .
(a)      The consummation of the Distribution will be subject to the satisfaction, or waiver by Grace in its sole and absolute discretion, of the following conditions:
(i)      The Separation shall have been completed in accordance with the Restructuring Steps Memorandum.
(ii)      The SEC shall have declared effective the Form 10 (or the Form 10 shall otherwise have become effective), no order suspending the effectiveness of the Form 10 shall be in effect and no proceedings for such purposes shall have been instituted or threatened by the SEC.
(iii)      The Information Statement shall have been mailed to Record Holders.
(iv)      Grace shall have received the Tax Opinions, in form and substance satisfactory to Grace in its sole discretion.
(v)      The transfer of the GCP Assets (other than any Delayed GCP Asset) and GCP Liabilities (other than any Delayed GCP Liability) contemplated to be transferred from Grace or another member of the Grace Group to GCP or another member of the GCP Group on or prior to the Distribution shall have occurred as contemplated by Section 2.1 , and the transfer of the Grace Assets (other than any Delayed Grace Asset) and Grace Liabilities (other than any Delayed Grace Liability) contemplated to be transferred from GCP or another member of the GCP Group to Grace or another member of the Grace Group on or prior to the Distribution Date shall have occurred as contemplated by Section 2.1 , in each case in accordance with or pursuant to the Restructuring Steps Memorandum
(vi)      The actions and filings necessary or appropriate under applicable U.S. federal, U.S. state or other securities Laws or blue sky Laws and the rules and regulations thereunder shall have been taken or made, and, where applicable, shall have become effective or been accepted.
(vii)      Each of the Ancillary Agreements shall have been duly executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto.
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consummation of the Separation, the Distribution or any of the transactions related thereto shall be in effect.
(ix)      (A) GCP shall have entered into the financing transactions described in the Form 10 and contemplated to occur on or prior to the Distribution Date (the “ Financing Arrangements ”) and the respective financings thereunder shall have been consummated; and (B) the Financing Arrangements shall be in full force and effect immediately prior to the Distribution.
(x)      The GCP Shares to be distributed to the Grace stockholders in the Distribution shall have been accepted for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of distribution.
(xi)      No other events or developments shall exist or shall have occurred that, in the judgment of the Grace Board, in its sole and absolute discretion, make it inadvisable to effect the Separation, the Distribution or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
(b)      The foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit of Grace and shall not give rise to or create any duty on the part of Grace or the Grace Board to waive or not waive any such condition or in any way limit Grace’s right to terminate this Agreement as set forth in Article IX or alter the consequences of any such termination from those specified in Article IX . Any determination made by the Grace Board prior to the Distribution concerning the satisfaction or waiver of any or all of the conditions set forth in Section 3.3(a) shall be conclusive and binding on the Parties. If Grace waives any material condition, it shall promptly issue a press release disclosing such fact and file a Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC describing such waiver.
3.4      The Distribution .
(a)      Subject to Section 3.3 , on or prior to the Effective Time, GCP will deliver to the Agent, for the benefit of the Record Holders, book-entry transfer authorizations for such number of the outstanding GCP Shares as is necessary to effect the Distribution, and shall cause the transfer agent for the Grace Shares to instruct the Agent to distribute at the Effective Time the appropriate number of GCP Shares to each such holder or designated transferee or transferees of such holder by way of direct registration in book-entry form. GCP will not issue paper stock certificates in respect of the GCP Shares. The Distribution shall be effective at the Effective Time.
(b)      Subject to Section 3.3 , each Record Holder will be entitled to receive in the Distribution a number of whole GCP Shares equal to the number of Grace Shares held by such Record Holder on the Record Date multiplied by the Distribution Ratio, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
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Holder would otherwise be entitled shall not entitle such Record Holder to vote or to any other rights as a stockholder of GCP. In lieu of any such fractional shares, each Record Holder that, but for the provisions of this Section 3.4(c) , would be entitled to receive a fractional share interest of a GCP Share pursuant to the Distribution, shall be paid cash, without any interest thereon, as hereinafter provided. As soon as practicable after the Effective Time, Grace shall direct the Agent to determine the number of whole and fractional GCP Shares allocable to each Record Holder, to aggregate all such fractional shares into whole shares, and to sell the whole shares obtained thereby in the open market at the then-prevailing prices on behalf of the Record Holders that otherwise would be entitled to receive fractional share interests (with the Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, determining when, how and through which broker-dealer and at what price to make such sales), and to cause to be distributed to each such Record Holder, in lieu of any fractional share, such Record Holder’s or owner’s ratable share of the total proceeds of such sale, after deducting any Taxes required to be withheld and applicable transfer Taxes, and after deducting the costs and expenses of such sale and distribution, including brokers fees and commissions. None of Grace, GCP or the Agent will be required to guarantee any minimum sale price for the fractional GCP Shares sold in accordance with this Section 3.4(c) . Neither Grace nor GCP will be required to pay any interest on the proceeds from the sale of fractional shares. Neither the Agent nor the broker-dealers through which the aggregated fractional shares are sold shall be Affiliates of Grace or GCP. Solely for purposes of computing fractional share interests pursuant to this Section 3.4(c) and Section 3.4(d) , the beneficial owner of Grace Shares held of record in the name of a nominee in any nominee account shall be treated as the Record Holder with respect to such shares.
(d)      Any GCP Shares or cash in lieu of fractional shares with respect to GCP Shares that remain unclaimed by any Record Holder one hundred and eighty (180) days after the Distribution Date shall be delivered to GCP, and GCP shall hold such GCP Shares for the account of such Record Holder, and the Parties agree that all obligations to provide such GCP Shares and cash, if any, in lieu of fractional share interests shall be obligations of GCP, subject in each case to applicable escheat or other abandoned property Laws, and Grace shall have no Liability with respect thereto.
(e)      Until the GCP Shares are duly transferred in accordance with this Section 3.4 and applicable Law, from and after the Effective Time, GCP will regard the Persons entitled to receive such GCP Shares as record holders of GCP Shares in accordance with the terms of the Distribution without requiring any action on the part of such Persons. GCP agrees that, subject to any transfers of such shares, from and after the Effective Time (i) each such holder will be entitled to receive all dividends payable on, and exercise voting rights and all other rights and privileges with respect to, the GCP Shares then held by such holder and (ii) each such holder will be entitled, without any action on the part of such holder, to receive evidence of ownership of the GCP Shares then held by such holder.
ARTICLE IV     
MUTUAL RELEASES; INDEMNIFICATION
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(a)      GCP Release of Grace. Except as provided in Sections 4.1(c) and 4.1(d) , effective as of the Effective Time, GCP does hereby, for itself and each other member of the GCP Group and their respective successors and assigns, and, to the extent permitted by Law, all Persons who at any time prior to the Effective Time have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the GCP Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), remise, release and forever discharge (i) Grace and the members of the Grace Group, and their respective successors and assigns, and (ii) all Persons who at any time prior to the Effective Time have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the Grace Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns , in each case from (A) all GCP Liabilities, (B) all Liabilities arising from or in connection with the transactions and all other activities to implement the Separation and the Distribution and (C) all Liabilities arising from or in connection with actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the GCP Business, the GCP Assets or the GCP Liabilities.
(b)      Grace Release of GCP. Except as provided in Sections 4.1(c) and 4.1(d) , effective as of the Effective Time, Grace does hereby, for itself and each other member of the Grace Group and their respective successors and assigns, and, to the extent permitted by Law, all Persons who at any time prior to the Effective Time have been stockholders, directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of the Grace Group (in each case, in their respective capacities as such), remise, release and forever discharge GCP and the members of the GCP Group and their respective successors and assigns, from (i) all Grace Liabilities, (ii) all Liabilities arising from or in connection with the transactions and all other activities to implement the Separation and the Distribution and (iii) all Liabilities arising from or in connection with actions, inactions, events, omissions, conditions, facts or circumstances occurring or existing prior to the Effective Time (whether or not such Liabilities cease being contingent, mature, become known, are asserted or foreseen, or accrue, in each case before, at or after the Effective Time), in each case to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Grace Business, the Grace Assets or the Grace Liabilities.
(c)      Obligations Not Affected. Nothing contained in Section 4.1(a) or 4.1(b) shall impair any right of any Person to enforce this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding that is specified in Section 2.7(b) (or the applicable Schedules thereto) as not to terminate as of the Effective Time, in each case in accordance with its terms. Nothing contained in Section 4.1(a) or 4.1(b) shall release any Person from:
(i)      any Liability provided in or resulting from any agreement among any members of the Grace Group or the GCP Group that is specified in Section 2.7(b) (or the applicable Schedules thereto) as not to terminate as of the Effective Time, or any other Liability specified in Section 2.7(b) as not to terminate as of the Effective Time;

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(ii)      any Liability, contingent or otherwise, assumed, transferred, assigned or allocated to the Group of which such Person is a member in accordance with, or any other Liability of any member of any Group under, this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement;
(iii)      any Liability for the sale, lease, construction or receipt of goods, property or services purchased, obtained or used in the ordinary course of business by a member of one Group from a member of the other Group prior to the Effective Time;
(iv)      any Liability that the Parties may have with respect to indemnification or contribution pursuant to this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or otherwise for claims brought against the Parties by Third Parties, which Liability shall be governed by the provisions of this Article IV and Article V and, if applicable, the appropriate provisions of the Ancillary Agreements; or
(v)      any Liability the release of which would result in the release of any Person other than a Person released pursuant to this Section 4.1 .
In addition, nothing contained in Section 4.1(a) shall release any member of the Grace Group from honoring its existing obligations to indemnify any director, officer or employee of GCP who was a director, officer or employee of any member of the Grace Group on or prior to the Effective Time, to the extent such director, officer or employee becomes a named defendant in any Action with respect to which such director, officer or employee was entitled to such indemnification pursuant to such existing obligations; it being understood that, if the underlying obligation giving rise to such Action is a GCP Liability, GCP shall indemnify Grace for such Liability (including Grace’s costs to indemnify the director, officer or employee) in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Article IV .
(d)      No Claims. GCP shall not make, and shall not permit any member of the GCP Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any Action asserting any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or any indemnification, against Grace or any other member of the Grace Group, or any other Person released pursuant to Section 4.1(a) , with respect to any Liabilities released pursuant to Section 4.1(a) . Grace shall not make, and shall not permit any other member of the Grace Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any Action asserting any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or any indemnification against GCP or any other member of the GCP Group, or any other Person released pursuant to Section 4.1(b) , with respect to any Liabilities released pursuant to Section 4.1(b) .
(e)      Execution of Further Releases. At any time at or after the Effective Time, at the request of either Party, the other Party shall cause each other member of its respective Group to execute and deliver releases reflecting the applicable provisions of this Section 4.1 .
4.2      Indemnification by GCP . Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, GCP shall, and shall cause the other members of the GCP Group to, indemnify, defend and hold harmless Grace,

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each member of the Grace Group and each of their respective past, present and future directors, officers, employees and agents, in each case in their respective capacities as such, and each of the heirs, executors, successors and assigns of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “ Grace Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all Liabilities of the Grace Indemnitees relating to, arising out of or resulting from, directly or indirectly, any of the following items (without duplication):
(a)      any GCP Liability;
(b)      any failure of GCP, any other member of the GCP Group or any other Person to pay, perform or otherwise promptly discharge any GCP Liabilities in accordance with their terms, whether prior to, on or after the Effective Time;
(c)      any breach by GCP or any other member of the GCP Group of this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements;
(d)      except to the extent it relates to a Grace Liability, any guarantee, indemnification or contribution obligation, surety bond or other credit support agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding for the benefit of any member of the GCP Group by any member of the Grace Group that survives following the Distribution; and
(e)      any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, with respect to all information contained in the Form 10, the Information Statement (as amended or supplemented if GCP shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any other Disclosure Document, other than the matters described in clause (e) of Section 4.3 .
4.3      Indemnification by Grace . Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, from and after the Effective Time Grace shall, and shall cause the other members of the Grace Group to, indemnify, defend and hold harmless GCP, each member of the GCP Group and each of their respective past, present and future directors, officers, employees or agents, in each case in their respective capacities as such, and each of the heirs, executors, successors and assigns of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “ GCP Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all Liabilities of the GCP Indemnitees relating to, arising out of or resulting from, directly or indirectly, any of the following items (without duplication):
(a)      any Grace Liability;
(b)      any failure of Grace, any other member of the Grace Group or any other Person to pay, perform or otherwise promptly discharge any Grace Liabilities in accordance with their terms, whether prior to, on or after the Effective Time;
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(d)      except to the extent it relates to a GCP Liability, any guarantee, indemnification or contribution obligation, surety bond or other credit support agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding for the benefit of any member of the Grace Group by any member of the GCP Group that survives following the Distribution; and
(e)      any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, with respect to statements made explicitly in Grace’s name in the Form 10, the Information Statement (as amended or supplemented if GCP shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any other Disclosure Document; it being agreed that the statements set forth on Schedule 4.3(e)  shall be the only statements made explicitly in Grace’s name in the Form 10, the Information Statement or any other Disclosure Document.
4.4      Indemnification Obligations Net of Insurance Proceeds and Other Amounts .
(a)      The Parties intend that any Liability subject to indemnification, contribution or reimbursement pursuant to this Article IV or Article V will be net of Insurance Proceeds or other amounts actually recovered (net of any out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred in the collection thereof) from any Person by or on behalf of the Indemnitee in respect of any indemnifiable Liability. Accordingly, the amount which either Party (an “ Indemnifying Party ”) is required to pay to any Person entitled to indemnification or contribution hereunder (an “ Indemnitee ”) will be reduced by any Insurance Proceeds or other amounts actually recovered (net of any out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred in the collection thereof) from any Person by or on behalf of the Indemnitee in respect of the related Liability. If an Indemnitee receives a payment (an “ Indemnity Payment ”) required by this Agreement from an Indemnifying Party in respect of any Liability and subsequently receives Insurance Proceeds or any other amounts in respect of the related Liability, then the Indemnitee will pay to the Indemnifying Party an amount equal to the excess of the Indemnity Payment received over the amount of the Indemnity Payment that would have been due if the Insurance Proceeds or such other amounts (net of any out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred in the collection thereof) had been received, realized or recovered before the Indemnity Payment was made.
(b)      The Parties agree that it is their intent that an insurer that would otherwise be obligated to pay any claim shall not be relieved of the responsibility with respect thereto or, solely by virtue of any provision contained in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, otherwise have any of its rights or obligations altered with respect thereto, it being understood that no insurer or any other Third Party shall be entitled to a “windfall” ( i.e. , a benefit they would not be entitled to receive in the absence of the indemnification provisions) by virtue of the indemnification and contribution provisions hereof. Each Party shall, and shall cause the other members of its Group to, use commercially reasonable efforts (taking into account the probability of success on the merits and the cost of expending such efforts, including attorneys’ fees and expenses) to collect or recover any Insurance Proceeds that may be collectible or recoverable respecting the Liabilities for which indemnification or contribution may be available

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under this Article IV . Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Indemnifying Party may not delay making any indemnification payment required under the terms of this Agreement, or otherwise satisfying any indemnification obligation, pending the outcome of any Action to collect or recover Insurance Proceeds, and an Indemnitee need not attempt to collect any Insurance Proceeds prior to making a claim for indemnification or contribution or receiving any Indemnity Payment otherwise owed to it under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
4.5      Procedures for Indemnification of Third-Party Claims .
(a)      Notice of Claims. If, at or following the Effective Time, an Indemnitee shall receive notice or otherwise learn of the assertion by a Person (including any Governmental Authority) who is not a member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group of any claim or of the commencement by any such Person of any Action (collectively, a “ Third-Party Claim ”) with respect to which an Indemnifying Party may be obligated to provide indemnification to such Indemnitee pursuant to Section 4.2 or 4.3 , or any other Section of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, such Indemnitee shall give such Indemnifying Party written notice thereof as soon as practicable, but in any event within fourteen (14) days (or sooner if the nature of the Third-Party Claim so requires) after becoming aware of such Third-Party Claim. Any such notice shall describe the Third-Party Claim in reasonable detail, including the facts and circumstances giving rise to such claim for indemnification, and include copies of all notices and documents (including court papers) received by the Indemnitee relating to the Third-Party Claim. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure of an Indemnitee to provide notice in accordance with this Section 4.5(a) shall not relieve an Indemnifying Party of its indemnification obligations under this Agreement, except to the extent to which the Indemnifying Party is actually prejudiced by the Indemnitee’s failure to provide notice in accordance with this Section 4.5(a) .
(b)      Control of Defense. An Indemnifying Party may elect to defend (and seek to settle or compromise), at its own expense and with its own counsel, any Third-Party Claim; provided that, prior to the Indemnifying Party assuming and controlling defense of such Third-Party Claim, it shall first confirm to the Indemnitee in writing that, assuming the facts presented to the Indemnifying Party by the Indemnitee being true, the Indemnifying Party shall indemnify the Indemnitee for any such Liabilities to the extent resulting from, or arising out of, such Third-Party-Claim. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Indemnifying Party assumes such defense and, in the course of defending such Third-Party Claim, (i) the Indemnifying Party discovers that the facts presented at the time the Indemnifying Party acknowledged its indemnification obligation in respect of such Third-Party Claim were not true in all material respects and (ii) such untruth provides a reasonable basis for asserting that the Indemnifying Party does not have an indemnification obligation in respect of such Third-Party Claim, then (A) the Indemnifying Party shall not be bound by such acknowledgment, (B) the Indemnifying Party shall promptly thereafter provide the Indemnitee written notice of its assertion that it does not have an indemnification obligation in respect of such Third-Party Claim and (C) the Indemnitee shall have the right to assume the defense of such Third-Party Claim. Within thirty (30) days after the receipt of a notice from an Indemnitee in accordance with Section 4.5(a) (or sooner, if the nature of the Third-Party Claim so requires), the Indemnifying Party shall provide written notice to the Indemnitee indicating whether the Indemnifying Party shall assume responsibility for defending

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the Third-Party Claim. If an Indemnifying Party elects not to assume responsibility for defending any Third-Party Claim or fails to notify an Indemnitee of its election within thirty (30) days after receipt of the notice from an Indemnitee as provided in Section 4.5(a) , then the Indemnitee that is the subject of such Third-Party Claim shall be entitled to continue to conduct and control the defense of such Third-Party Claim.
(c)      Allocation of Defense Costs . If an Indemnifying Party has elected to assume the defense of a Third-Party Claim, then such Indemnifying Party shall be solely liable for all fees and expenses incurred by it in connection with the defense of such Third-Party Claim and shall not be entitled to seek any indemnification or reimbursement from the Indemnitee for any such fees or expenses incurred by the Indemnifying Party during the course of the defense of such Third-Party Claim by such Indemnifying Party, regardless of any subsequent decision by the Indemnifying Party to reject or otherwise abandon its assumption of such defense. If an Indemnifying Party elects not to assume responsibility for defending any Third-Party Claim or fails to notify an Indemnitee of its election within thirty (30) days after receipt of a notice from an Indemnitee as provided in Section 4.5(a) , and the Indemnitee conducts and controls the defense of such Third-Party Claim and the Indemnifying Party has an indemnification obligation with respect to such Third-Party Claim, then the Indemnifying Party shall be liable for all reasonable fees and expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with the defense of such Third-Party Claim.
(d)      Right to Monitor and Participate. An Indemnitee that does not conduct and control the defense of any Third-Party Claim, or an Indemnifying Party that has failed to elect to defend any Third-Party Claim as contemplated hereby, nevertheless shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel as necessary) of its own choosing to monitor and participate in (but not control) the defense of any Third-Party Claim for which it is a potential Indemnitee or Indemnifying Party, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnitee or Indemnifying Party, as the case may be, and the provisions of Section 4.5(c) shall not apply to such fees and expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to Sections 6.7 and 6.8 , such Party shall cooperate with the Party entitled to conduct and control the defense of such Third-Party Claim in such defense and make available to the controlling Party, at the non-controlling Party’s expense, all witnesses, information and materials in such Party’s possession or under such Party’s control relating thereto as are reasonably required by the controlling Party. In addition to the foregoing, if any Indemnitee shall in good faith determine that such Indemnitee and the Indemnifying Party have actual or potential differing defenses or conflicts of interest between them that make joint representation inappropriate, then the Indemnitee shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel as necessary) and to participate in (but not control) the defense, compromise, or settlement thereof, and the Indemnifying Party shall bear the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel for all Indemnitees.
(e)      No Settlement. Neither Party may settle or compromise any Third-Party Claim for which either Party is seeking to be indemnified hereunder without the prior written consent of the other Party, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, unless such settlement or compromise is solely for monetary damages, does not involve any finding or

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determination of wrongdoing or violation of Law by the other Party or another member of its Group and provides for a full, unconditional and irrevocable release of the other Party and the other members of its Group from all Liability in connection with the Third-Party Claim. The Parties hereby agree that if a Party presents the other Party with a written notice containing a proposal to settle or compromise a Third-Party Claim for which either Party is seeking to be indemnified hereunder and the Party receiving such proposal does not respond in any manner to the Party presenting such proposal within thirty (30) days (or within any such shorter time period that may be required by applicable Law or court order) of receipt of such proposal, then the Party receiving such proposal shall be deemed to have consented to the terms of such proposal.
(f)      Tax Sharing Agreement Governs. The above provisions of this Section 4.5 and the provisions of Section 4.6 do not apply to Taxes (Taxes being governed by the Tax Sharing Agreement). In the case of any conflict or inconsistency between this Agreement and the Tax Sharing Agreement in relation to any matters addressed by the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement shall prevail.
4.6      Additional Matters .
(a)      Timing of Payments. Indemnification or contribution payments in respect of any Liabilities for which an Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification or contribution under this Article IV shall be paid reasonably promptly (but in any event within thirty (30) days of the final determination of the indemnification or contribution amount to which the Indemnitee is entitled under this Article IV ) by the Indemnifying Party to the Indemnitee as such Liabilities are incurred upon demand by the Indemnitee, including reasonably satisfactory documentation setting forth the basis for the amount of such indemnification or contribution payment, including documentation with respect to calculations made and consideration of any Insurance Proceeds that actually reduce the amount of such Liabilities. The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Article IV shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Indemnitee and (ii) the knowledge by the Indemnitee of Liabilities for which it might be entitled to indemnification hereunder.
(b)      Notice of Direct Claims. Any claim for indemnification or contribution under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement that does not result from a Third-Party Claim shall be asserted by written notice given by the Indemnitee to the applicable Indemnifying Party; provided , that the failure by an Indemnitee to so assert any such claim shall not prejudice the ability of the Indemnitee to do so at a later time except to the extent (if any) that the Indemnifying Party is prejudiced thereby. Such Indemnifying Party shall have a period of thirty (30) days after the receipt of such notice within which to respond thereto. If such Indemnifying Party does not respond within such thirty (30)-day period, such specified claim shall be conclusively deemed a Liability of the Indemnifying Party under this Section 4.6(b) or, in the case of any written notice in which the amount of the claim (or any portion thereof) is estimated, on such later date when the amount of the claim (or such portion thereof) becomes finally determined. If such Indemnifying Party does not respond within such thirty (30)-day period or rejects such claim in whole or in part, such Indemnitee shall, subject to the provisions of Article VII , be free to pursue such remedies as may be available to such Indemnifying Party as

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contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, as applicable, without prejudice to its continuing rights to pursue indemnification or contribution hereunder.
(c)      Pursuit of Claims Against Third Parties. If (i) a Party incurs any Liability arising out of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, (ii) an adequate legal or equitable remedy is not available for any reason against the other Party to satisfy the Liability incurred by the incurring Party and (iii) a legal or equitable remedy may be available to the other Party against a Third Party for such Liability, then the other Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the incurring Party, at the incurring Party’s expense, to permit the incurring Party to obtain the benefits of such legal or equitable remedy against the Third Party.
(d)      Subrogation. In the event of payment by or on behalf of any Indemnifying Party to any Indemnitee in connection with any Third-Party Claim, such Indemnifying Party shall be subrogated to and shall stand in the place of such Indemnitee as to any events or circumstances in respect of which such Indemnitee may have any right, defense or claim relating to such Third-Party Claim against any claimant or plaintiff asserting such Third-Party Claim or against any other Person. Such Indemnitee shall cooperate with such Indemnifying Party in a reasonable manner, and at the cost and expense of such Indemnifying Party, in prosecuting any subrogated right, defense or claim.
(e)      Substitution. In the event of an Action in which the Indemnifying Party is not a named defendant, if either the Indemnitee or Indemnifying Party shall so request, the Parties shall endeavor to substitute the Indemnifying Party for the named defendant. If such substitution or addition cannot be achieved for any reason or is not requested, the named defendant shall allow the Indemnifying Party to manage the Action as set forth in Section 4.5 and this Section 4.6 , and the Indemnifying Party shall fully indemnify the named defendant against all costs of defending the Action (including court costs, sanctions imposed by a court, attorneys’ fees, experts fees and all other external expenses), the costs of any judgment or settlement and the cost of any interest or penalties relating to any judgment or settlement.
4.7      Right of Contribution .
(a)      Contribution. If any right of indemnification contained in Section 4.2 or Section 4.3 is held unenforceable or is unavailable for any reason, or is insufficient to hold harmless an Indemnitee in respect of any Liability for which such Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder, then the Indemnifying Party shall contribute to the amounts paid or payable by the Indemnitees as a result of such Liability (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and the members of its Group, on the one hand, and the Indemnitees entitled to contribution, on the other hand, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
(b)      Allocation of Relative Fault. Solely for purposes of determining relative fault pursuant to this Section 4.7 , (i) any fault associated with the business conducted with the Delayed GCP Assets or Delayed GCP Liabilities (except for the gross negligence or intentional misconduct of a member of the Grace Group) or with the ownership, operation or activities prior

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to the Effective Time of the GCP Business, the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses or a Legacy Sold and Discontinued Business constituting a GCP Asset shall be deemed to be the fault of GCP and the other members of the GCP Group, and no such fault shall be deemed to be the fault of Grace or any other member of the Grace Group, and (ii) any fault associated with the business conducted with Delayed Grace Assets or Delayed Grace Liabilities (except for the gross negligence or intentional misconduct of a member of the GCP Group) or with the ownership, operation or activities prior to the Effective Time of the Grace Business, the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses or a Legacy Sold and Discontinued Business constituting a Grace Asset shall be deemed to be the fault of Grace and the other members of the Grace Group, and no such fault shall be deemed to be the fault of GCP or any other member of the GCP Group.
4.8      Covenant Not to Sue or Assert Defense . Each Party hereby covenants and agrees that none of it, the other members of such Party’s Group or any Person claiming through it shall bring suit or otherwise assert any claim against any Indemnitee, or assert a defense against any claim asserted by any Indemnitee, before any court, arbitrator, mediator or administrative agency anywhere in the world, alleging that (a) the assumption or retention of any GCP Liabilities by GCP or a member of the GCP Group on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements is void or unenforceable for any reason; (b) the assumption or retention of any Grace Liabilities by Grace or a member of the Grace Group on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements is void or unenforceable for any reason or (c) the provisions of this Article IV are void or unenforceable for any reason.
4.9      Remedies Cumulative . The remedies provided in this Article IV shall be cumulative and, subject to the provisions of Article VIII , shall not preclude assertion by any Indemnitee of any other rights or the seeking of any and all other remedies against any Indemnifying Party.
4.10      Survival of Indemnities . The rights and obligations of each of Grace and GCP and their respective Indemnitees under this Article IV shall survive (a) the sale or other transfer by either Party or any member of its Group of any assets or businesses or the assignment by it of any liabilities or (b) any merger, consolidation, business combination, sale of all or substantially all of its Assets, restructuring, recapitalization, reorganization or similar transaction involving either Party or any of the other members of its Group.
4.11      Real Property Transfer Documents . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of the Transfer Documents entered into in connection with the transfer of Real Property, no warranty or any other provision contained therein shall act to increase either Party’s Liability beyond as set forth in this Agreement.
ARTICLE V     
CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS
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(a)      Grace and GCP agree to cooperate in good faith to provide for an orderly transition of insurance coverage from the date hereof through the Effective Time. In no event shall any member of the Grace Group or any Grace Indemnitee have Liability or obligation whatsoever to any member of the GCP Group in the event that any insurance policy or other contract or policy of insurance shall be terminated or otherwise cease to be in effect for any reason, shall be unavailable or inadequate to cover any Liability of any member of the GCP Group for any reason whatsoever or shall not be renewed or extended beyond the current expiration date.
(b)      From and after the Effective Time, with respect to any losses, damages and Liability incurred by any member of the GCP Group prior to the Effective Time, Grace will provide GCP with access to, and GCP may, upon ten (10) days’ prior written notice to Grace, make claims under, Grace’s insurance policies in place immediately prior to the Effective Time and Grace’s historical policies of insurance, but solely to the extent that such policies provided coverage for members of the GCP Group prior to the Effective Time; provided that such access to, and the right to make claims under, such insurance policies, shall be subject to the terms and conditions of such insurance policies, including but not limited to any limits on coverage or scope, and any deductibles, self-insured retentions, retrospectively rated insurance plans and other fees and expenses, and shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(i)      GCP shall report any claim to Grace as promptly as practicable, and in any event in sufficient time so that such claim may be made in accordance with the policies’ terms and conditions;
(ii)      GCP and the other members of the GCP Group shall be responsible for making payments directly to insurers where possible, and shall indemnify, hold harmless and reimburse Grace and the members of the Grace Group for any deductibles, self-insured retention, retrospective premium payments, and fees and expenses incurred by any member of the Grace Group to the extent resulting from any access to, or any claims made by GCP or any other members of the GCP Group under, any insurance provided pursuant to this Section 5.1(b) , including claims previously reported and any indemnity payments, settlements, judgments, legal fees and allocated claims expenses and claim handling fees, whether such claims are made by a member of the GCP Group, employees or Third Parties; and
(iii)      GCP shall exclusively bear (and no member of the Grace Group shall have any obligation to repay or reimburse any member of the GCP Group for) and shall be liable for all uninsured, uncovered, unavailable or uncollectible amounts of all such claims made by any member of the GCP Group under the policies as provided for in this Section 5.1(b) . In the event an insurance policy aggregate is exhausted, or believed likely to be exhausted, due to noticed claims, the GCP Group, on the one hand, and the Grace Group, on the other hand, shall be responsible for their pro rata portion of the reinstatement premium, if any, based upon the losses of such Group submitted to Grace’s insurance carrier(s) (including any submissions prior to the Effective Time). To the extent that the Grace Group or the GCP Group is allocated more than its pro rata portion

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of such premium due to the timing of losses submitted to Grace’s insurance carrier(s), the other party shall promptly pay the first party an amount so that each Group has been properly allocated its pro rata portion of the reinstatement premium. Subject to the following sentence, Grace may elect not to reinstate the policy aggregate. In the event that Grace elects not to reinstate the policy aggregate, it shall provide prompt written notice to GCP, and GCP may direct Grace in writing to, and Grace shall, in such case, reinstate the policy aggregate; provided that GCP shall be responsible for all reinstatement premiums and other costs associated with such reinstatement.
(c)      Except as provided in Section 5.1(b) , from and after the Effective Time, no member of the GCP Group shall have any rights to or under any of the insurance policies of any member of the Grace Group. At the Effective Time, the members of the GCP Group shall have in effect all insurance programs required to comply with the GCP Group’s contractual obligations and such other insurance policies required by Law or as reasonably necessary or appropriate for companies operating a businesses similar to GCP’s. Such insurance programs may include general liability, commercial auto liability, workers’ compensation, employer’s liability, product liability, property, cargo, employee dishonesty/crime, directors’ and officers’ liability and fiduciary liability.
(d)      No member of the GCP Group, in connection with making a claim under any insurance policy of any member of the Grace Group pursuant to this Section 5.1 , shall take any action that would be reasonably likely to (i) have an adverse impact on the then-current relationship between any member of the Grace Group, on the one hand, and the applicable insurance company, on the other hand; (ii) result in the applicable insurance company terminating or reducing coverage, or increasing the amount of any premium owed by any member of the Grace Group under the applicable insurance policy or (iii) otherwise compromise, jeopardize or interfere with the rights of any member of the Grace Group under the applicable insurance policy, provided that, for avoidance of doubt that this Section 5.1(d) shall not preclude or otherwise restrict any member of the GCP Group from reporting claims to insurers in the ordinary course of business.
(e)      All payments and reimbursements by GCP pursuant to this Section 5.1 will be made within fifteen (15) days after GCP’s receipt of an invoice therefor from Grace. In the event that GCP makes payments to insurance companies directly, then GCP shall make payments in compliance with the requirements and policies and procedures with respect to insurance payments in effect prior to the Effective Time. If Grace incurs costs to enforce GCP’s obligations herein, GCP agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Grace for such enforcement costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees pursuant to Section 4.6 . Grace shall retain the exclusive right to control its insurance policies and programs, including the right to exhaust, settle, release, commute, buy-back or otherwise resolve disputes with respect to any of its insurance policies and programs and to amend, modify or waive any rights under any such insurance policies and programs, notwithstanding whether any such policies or programs apply to any GCP Liabilities and/or claims GCP has made or could make in the future. No member of the GCP Group shall, without the prior consent of Grace or otherwise as expressly permitted under this Agreement, erode, exhaust, settle, release, commute, buyback or otherwise resolve

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disputes with Grace’s insurers with respect to any of Grace’s insurance policies and programs, or amend, modify or waive any rights under any such insurance policies and programs. GCP shall cooperate with Grace and share such information as is reasonably necessary in order to permit Grace to manage and conduct its insurance matters as it deems appropriate. No member of the Grace Group shall have any obligation to secure extended reporting for any claims under any Liability policies of any member of the Grace Group for any acts or omissions by any member of the GCP Group incurred prior to the Effective Time.
(f)      This Agreement shall not be considered as an attempted assignment of any policy of insurance or as a contract of insurance and shall not be construed to waive any right or remedy of any member of the Grace Group in respect of any insurance policy or any other contract or policy of insurance.
(g)      GCP does hereby, for itself and each other member of the GCP Group, agree that no member of the Grace Group shall have any Liability whatsoever as a result of the insurance policies and practices of the members of the Grace Group as in effect at any time, including as a result of the level or scope of any such insurance, the creditworthiness of any insurance carrier, the terms and conditions of any policy, the adequacy or timeliness of any notice to any insurance carrier with respect to any claim or potential claim or otherwise.
5.2      Late Payments . Except as expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, any amount not paid when due pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (and any amounts billed or otherwise invoiced or demanded and properly payable that are not paid within thirty (30) days of such bill, invoice or other demand) shall accrue interest at a rate per annum equal to Prime Rate plus two (2%) percent.
5.3      Treatment of Payments for Tax Purposes . For all tax purposes, the Parties agree to treat (i) any payment required by this Agreement (other than payments with respect to interest accruing after the Effective Time) as either a contribution by Grace Conn to GCP or a distribution by GCP to Grace or Grace Conn, as the case may be, occurring immediately prior to the effective time of the Internal Spin or the Effective Time or as a payment of an assumed or retained Liability, as the case may be, in each case, as determined by Grace, in its sole discretion, and (ii) any payment of interest as taxable or deductible, as the case may be, to the Party entitled under this Agreement to retain such payment or required under this Agreement to make such payment, in either case except as otherwise required by applicable Law.
5.4      Inducement . GCP acknowledges and agrees that Grace’s willingness to cause, effect and consummate the Separation and the Distribution has been conditioned upon and induced by GCP’s covenants and agreements in this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, including the assumption by members of the GCP Group of the GCP Liabilities to be assumed by them pursuant to the Separation and the provisions of this Agreement and GCP’s covenants and agreements contained in Article IV .
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actions and inactions and its own Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the conduct of its business, operations and activities following the Effective Time, except as may otherwise be provided in any Ancillary Agreement, and each Party shall (except as otherwise provided in Article IV ) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such Liabilities from being inappropriately borne by the other Party.
ARTICLE VI     
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; CONFIDENTIALITY
6.1      Agreement for Exchange of Information .
(a)      Subject to Section 6.9 and any other applicable confidentiality obligations, each of Grace and GCP, on behalf of itself and each member of its Group, agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to provide or make available, or cause to be provided or made available, to the other Party and the other members of such other Party’s Group, at any time before, on or after the Effective Time, as soon as reasonably practicable after written request therefor from the other Party or its Group members, any information (or a copy thereof) in the possession or under the control of such first Party or its Group members to the extent that (i) such information relates to the GCP Business, or any GCP Asset or GCP Liability, if a member of the GCP Group is the requesting Party, or to the Grace Business, or any Grace Asset or Grace Liability, if a member of the Grace Group is the requesting Party, (ii) such information is required by the requesting Party to comply with its obligations under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or (iii) such information is required by the requesting Party to comply with any obligation imposed by any Governmental Authority; provided , however , that, in the event that the Party to whom the request has been made determines that any such provision of information could be detrimental to the Party providing the information, violate any Law or agreement, or waive any privilege available under applicable Law, including any attorney-client privilege, then the Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to permit compliance with such obligations to the extent and in a manner that avoids any such harm or consequence.  The Party providing information pursuant to this Section 6.1 shall only be obligated to provide such information in the form, condition and format in which it then exists, and in no event shall such Party be required to perform any improvement, modification, conversion, updating or reformatting of any such information, and nothing in this Section 6.1 shall expand the obligations of a Party under Section 6.4 .
(i)      Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, until the first GCP fiscal year end occurring after the Effective Time (and for a reasonable period of time afterwards as required for each Party to prepare consolidated financial statements or complete a financial statement audit for the fiscal year during which the Distribution Date occurs), each Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the other Party’s information requests to enable (i) the other Party to meet its timetable for dissemination of its earnings releases, financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its disclosure controls and procedures and its internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Items 307 and 308, respectively, of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Exchange Act and (ii) the other Party’s accountants to timely complete their review of the quarterly financial statements and

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audit of the annual financial statements, including, to the extent applicable to such Party, its auditor’s audit of its internal control over financial reporting and management’s assessment thereof in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC’s and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s rules and auditing standards thereunder and any other applicable Laws.
6.2      Ownership of Information . The provision of any information pursuant to Section 6.1 or Section 6.7 shall not affect the ownership of such information (which shall be determined solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements), or constitute a grant of rights in or to any such information.
6.3      Compensation for Providing Information . The Party requesting information agrees to reimburse the other Party for the reasonable costs, if any, of creating, gathering, copying, transporting and otherwise complying with the request with respect to such information (including any reasonable costs and expenses incurred in any review of information for purposes of protecting Privileged Information of the providing Party or in connection with the restoration of backup media for purposes of providing the requested information). Except as may be otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any other agreement between the Parties, such costs shall be computed in accordance with the providing Party’s standard methodology and procedures.
6.4      Record Retention . To facilitate the possible exchange of information pursuant to this Article VI and other provisions of this Agreement after the Effective Time, the Parties agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts, which shall be no less rigorous than those used for retention of such Party’s own information, to retain all information in their respective possession or control at the Effective Time in accordance with the policies of Grace as in effect at the Effective Time or such other policies as may be adopted by Grace after the Effective Time ( provided , in the case of GCP, that Grace notifies GCP of any such change); provided , however , that in the case of any information relating to Taxes, such retention period shall be extended to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations (giving effect to any extensions thereof). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 9.01 of the Tax Sharing Agreement will govern the retention of Tax related records, and Section 9.01 of the Employee Matters Agreement will govern the retention of employment and benefits related records.
6.5      Limitations of Liability . Neither Party shall have any Liability to the other Party in the event that any information exchanged or provided pursuant to this Agreement is found to be inaccurate in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct by the Party providing such information. Neither Party shall have any Liability to the other Party if any information is destroyed after commercially reasonable efforts by such first Party to comply with the provisions of Section 6.4 .
6.6      Other Agreements Providing for Exchange of Information .
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(b)      Any party that receives, pursuant to a request for information in accordance with this Article VI , Tangible Information that is not relevant to its request shall (i) return it to the providing Party or, at the providing Party’s request, destroy such Tangible Information and (ii) deliver to the providing Party written confirmation that such Tangible Information was returned or destroyed, as the case may be, which confirmation shall be signed by an authorized representative of the requesting Party.
6.7      Production of Witnesses; Records; Cooperation .
(a)      After the Effective Time, except in the case of an adversarial Action or Dispute between Grace and GCP, or any members of their respective Groups, each Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make available to the other Party, upon written request, the former, current and future directors, officers, employees, other personnel and agents of the members of its respective Group as witnesses and any books, records or other documents within its control or which it otherwise has the ability to make available without undue burden, to the extent that any such person (giving consideration to business demands of such directors, officers, employees, other personnel and agents) or books, records or other documents may reasonably be required in connection with any Action in which the requesting Party (or other member of its Group) may from time to time be involved, regardless of whether such Action is a matter with respect to which indemnification may be sought hereunder. The requesting Party shall bear all costs and expenses in connection therewith.
(b)      Without limiting the foregoing, the Parties shall cooperate and consult to the extent reasonably necessary with respect to any Actions.
(c)      Without limiting any provision of this Section 6.7 and subject to the terms of the Cross License Agreement, each of the Parties agrees to cooperate, and to cause each member of its respective Group to cooperate, with each other in the defense of any infringement or similar claim with respect any Intellectual Property and shall not claim to acknowledge, or permit any member of its respective Group to claim to acknowledge, the validity or infringing use of any Intellectual Property of a Third Party in a manner that would hamper or undermine the defense of such infringement or similar claim.
(d)      The obligation of the Parties to provide witnesses pursuant to this Section 6.7 is intended to be interpreted in a manner so as to facilitate cooperation and shall include the obligation to provide as witnesses inventors and other officers without regard to whether the witness or the employer of the witness could assert a possible business conflict (subject to the exception set forth in the first sentence of Section 6.7(a) ).
6.8      Privileged Matters .
(a)      The Parties recognize that legal and other professional services that have been and will be provided prior to the Effective Time have been and will be rendered for the collective benefit of each of the respective members of the Grace Group and the GCP Group, and that each of the respective members of the Grace Group and the GCP Group should be deemed to be the client with respect to such services for the purposes of asserting all privileges which may

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be asserted under applicable Law in connection therewith. The Parties recognize that legal and other professional services will be provided following the Effective Time, which services will be rendered solely for the benefit of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, as the case may be.
(b)      The Parties agree as follows:
(i)      Grace shall be entitled, in perpetuity, to control the assertion or waiver of all privileges and immunities in connection with any Privileged Information that relates solely to the Grace Business, the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses and the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute Grace Assets and not to the GCP Business, the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute GCP Assets, whether or not the Privileged Information is in the possession or under the control of any member of the Grace Group or any member of the GCP Group. Grace shall also be entitled, in perpetuity, to control the assertion or waiver of all privileges and immunities in connection with any Privileged Information that relates solely to any Grace Liabilities resulting from any Actions that are now pending or may be asserted in the future, whether or not the Privileged Information is in the possession or under the control of any member of the Grace Group or any member of the GCP Group; and
(ii)      GCP shall be entitled, in perpetuity, to control the assertion or waiver of all privileges and immunities in connection with any Privileged Information that relates solely to the GCP Business the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses and the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute GCP Assets and not to the Grace Business the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute Grace Assets, whether or not the Privileged Information is in the possession or under the control of any member of the GCP Group or any member of the Grace Group. GCP shall also be entitled, in perpetuity, to control the assertion or waiver of all privileges and immunities in connection with any Privileged Information that relates solely to any GCP Liabilities resulting from any Actions that are now pending or may be asserted in the future, whether or not the privileged Information is in the possession or under the control of any member of the GCP Group or any member of the Grace Group.
(iii)      If the Parties do not agree as to whether certain information is Privileged Information, then such information shall be treated as Privileged Information, and the Party that believes that such information is Privileged Information shall be entitled to control the assertion or waiver of all privileges and immunities in connection with any such information unless the Parties otherwise agree.  The Parties shall use the procedures set forth in Article VII to resolve any disputes as to whether any information relates (A) solely to the Grace Business, the Grace Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute Grace Assets, (B) solely to the GCP Business, the GCP Sold and Discontinued Businesses or the Legacy Sold and Discontinued Businesses that constitute GCP Assets or (C) to both.

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(c)      Subject to the remaining provisions of this Section 6.8 , the Parties agree that they shall have a shared privilege or immunity with respect to all privileges and immunities not allocated pursuant to Section 6.8(b) and all privileges and immunities relating to any Actions or other matters that involve both Parties (or one or more members of their respective Groups) and in respect of which both Parties have Liabilities under this Agreement, and that no such shared privilege or immunity may be waived by either Party without the consent of the other Party.
(d)      If any Dispute arises between the Parties or any members of their respective Group regarding whether a privilege or immunity should be waived to protect or advance the interests of either Party and/or any member of their respective Group, each Party agrees that it shall (i) negotiate with the other Party in good faith, (ii) endeavor to minimize any prejudice to the rights of the other Party and (iii) not unreasonably withhold consent to any request for waiver by the other Party.  Further, each Party specifically agrees that it shall not withhold its consent to the waiver of a privilege or immunity for any purpose except in good faith to protect its own legitimate interests.
(e)      In the event of any adversarial Action or Dispute between Grace and GCP, or any members of their respective Groups, either Party may waive a privilege in which the other Party or member of such other Party’s Group has a shared privilege, without obtaining consent pursuant to Section 6.8(c) , provided that such waiver of a shared privilege shall be effective only as to the use of information with respect to the Action or Dispute between the Parties and/or the applicable members of their respective Groups, and shall not operate as a waiver of the shared privilege with respect to any Third Party.
(f)      Upon receipt by either Party, or by any other member of its respective Group, of any subpoena, discovery or other request that may reasonably be expected to result in the production or disclosure of Privileged Information subject to a shared privilege or immunity or as to which the other Party has the sole right hereunder to assert a privilege or immunity, or if either Party obtains knowledge that any of its, or any member of its respective Group’s, current or former directors, officers, agents or employees have received any subpoena, discovery or other requests that may reasonably be expected to result in the production or disclosure of such Privileged Information, such Party shall promptly notify the other Party of the existence of the request (which notice shall be delivered to such other Party no later than ten (10) business days following the receipt of any such subpoena, discovery or other request) and shall provide the other Party a reasonable opportunity to review the Privileged Information and to assert any rights it or they may have under this Section 6.8 or otherwise, to prevent the production or disclosure of such Privileged Information.
(g)      Any furnishing of, or access or transfer of, any information pursuant to this Agreement is made in reliance on the agreement of Grace and GCP set forth in this Section 6.8 and in Section 6.9 to maintain the confidentiality of Privileged Information and to assert and maintain all applicable privileges and immunities. The Parties agree that their respective rights to any access to information, witnesses and other Persons, the furnishing of notices and documents and other cooperative efforts between the Parties contemplated by this

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Agreement, and the transfer of Privileged Information between the Parties and members of their respective Groups pursuant to this Agreement, shall not be deemed a waiver of any privilege that has been or may be asserted under this Agreement or otherwise.
(h)      In connection with any matter contemplated by Section 6.7 or this Section 6.8 , the Parties agree to, and to cause the applicable other members of their Group to, use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain their respective separate and joint privileges and immunities, including by executing joint defense and/or common interest agreements where necessary or useful for this purpose.
6.9      Confidentiality .
(a)      Confidentiality. Subject to Section 6.10 , from and after the Effective Time until the five-year anniversary of the Effective Time, each of Grace and GCP, on behalf of itself and each other member of its respective Group, agrees to hold, and to cause its respective Representatives to hold, in strict confidence, with at least the same degree of care that applies to Grace’s confidential and proprietary information pursuant to policies in effect as of the Effective Time, all confidential and proprietary information concerning any member of the other Party’s Group or their respective businesses that is either in its possession (including confidential and proprietary information in its possession prior to the date hereof) or furnished by any member of such Party’s Group or their respective Representatives at any time pursuant to this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or otherwise, and shall not use any such confidential and proprietary information other than for such purposes as shall be expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder, except, in each case, to the extent that such confidential and proprietary information has been (i) in the public domain or generally available to the public, other than as a result of a disclosure by any member of such first Party’s Group or any of their respective Representatives in violation of this Agreement, (ii) later lawfully acquired from other sources by such first Party (or any other member of such Party’s Group) which sources are not themselves bound by a confidentiality obligation or other contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation of confidentiality with respect to such confidential and proprietary information or (iii) independently developed or generated without reference to or use of any proprietary or confidential information of any member of such first Party’s Group. If any confidential and proprietary information of one Party or any other member of its Group is disclosed to any member of the other Party’s Group in connection with providing services to any member of such first Party’s Group under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, then such disclosed confidential and proprietary information shall be used only as required to perform such services.
(b)      No Release; Return or Destruction. Each Party agrees not to release or disclose, or permit to be released or disclosed, any information addressed in Section 6.9(a) to any other Person, except its Representatives who need to know such information in their capacities as such (who shall be advised of their obligations hereunder with respect to such information), and except in compliance with Section 6.10 . Without limiting the foregoing, when any such information is no longer needed for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, each Party will promptly after request of the other Party either return to the other Party all such information in a tangible form (including all copies thereof and all notes,

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extracts or summaries based thereon) or notify the other Party in writing that it has destroyed such information (and such copies thereof and such notes, extracts or summaries based thereon).
(c)      Third-Party Information; Privacy or Data Protection Laws. Each Party acknowledges that it and members of its Group may presently have and, following the Effective Time, may gain access to or possession of confidential or proprietary information of, or personal information relating to, Third Parties (i) that was received under confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements entered into between such Third Parties, on the one hand, and a member of the other Party’s Group, on the other hand, prior to the Effective Time or (ii) that, as between the two Parties, was originally collected by a member of the other Party’s Group and that may be subject to and protected by privacy, data protection or other applicable Laws. Each Party agrees that it shall hold, protect and use, and shall cause the other members of its Group and its and their respective Representatives to hold, protect and use, in strict confidence the confidential and proprietary information of, or personal information relating to, Third Parties in accordance with privacy, data protection or other applicable Laws and the terms of any agreements that were either entered into before the Effective Time or affirmative commitments or representations that were made before the Effective Time by, between or among the members of the other Party’s Group, on the one hand, and such Third Parties, on the other hand.
6.10      Protective Arrangements . In the event that a Party or any other member of its Group either determines on the advice of its counsel that it is required to disclose any information pursuant to applicable Law or receives any request or demand under lawful process or from any Governmental Authority to disclose or provide information of any member of the other Party’s Group that is subject to the confidentiality provisions hereof, such Party shall notify the other Party (to the extent legally permitted) as promptly as practicable under the circumstances prior to disclosing or providing such information and shall cooperate, at the expense of the other Party, in seeking any appropriate protective order requested by the other Party. In the event that such other Party fails to receive such appropriate protective order in a timely manner and the Party receiving the request or demand reasonably determines that its failure to disclose or provide such information shall actually prejudice the Party receiving the request or demand, then the Party that received such request or demand may thereafter disclose or provide information to the extent required by such Law (as so advised by its counsel) or by lawful process or such Governmental Authority, and the disclosing Party shall promptly provide the other Party with a copy of the information so disclosed, in the same form and format so disclosed, together with a list of all Persons to whom such information was disclosed, in each case to the extent legally permitted.
6.11      Name Change Obligation . GCP hereby covenants and agrees that as soon as reasonably practicable, and in no event later than eighteen (18) months, following the Effective Time, or such longer period as may be required by applicable Law, GCP shall, and shall cause each applicable member of the GCP Group to (i) change its legal name to a name that does not include the word “Grace”, nor uses the Grace Name and Grace Marks, and (ii) take such actions as may be necessary to cause any GCP Permits held by each such entity to refer to such new legal name and to eliminate the word “Grace” and any references to the Grace Name and Grace Marks.

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ARTICLE VII     
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
7.1      Good-Faith Negotiation . Subject to Section 7.4 , either Party seeking resolution of any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or Ancillary Agreement (including regarding whether any Assets are GCP Assets, any Liabilities are GCP Liabilities or the validity, interpretation, breach or termination of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement) (a “ Dispute ”), shall provide written notice thereof to the other Party (the “ Initial Notice ”), and within thirty (30) days of the delivery of the Initial Notice, the Parties shall attempt in good faith to negotiate a resolution of the Dispute. The negotiations shall be conducted by executives who hold, at a minimum, the title of vice president and who have authority to settle the Dispute. All such negotiations shall be confidential and shall be treated as compromise and settlement negotiations for purposes of applicable rules of evidence. If the Parties are unable for any reason to resolve a Dispute within thirty (30) days after the delivery of such notice or if a Party reasonably concludes that the other Party is not willing to negotiate as contemplated by this Section 7.1 , the Dispute shall be submitted to mediation in accordance with Section 7.2 .
7.2      Mediation . Any Dispute not resolved pursuant to Section 7.1 shall, at the written request of a Party (a “ Mediation Request ”), be submitted to nonbinding mediation in accordance with the then current International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“ CPR ”) Mediation Procedure, except as modified herein. The mediation shall be held in (i) New York, New York or (ii) such other place as the Parties may mutually agree in writing. The Parties shall have twenty (20) days from receipt by a Party of a Mediation Request to agree on a mediator. If no mediator has been agreed upon by the Parties within twenty (20) days of receipt by a Party of a Mediation Request, then a Party may request (on written notice to the other Party), that CPR appoint a mediator in accordance with the CPR Mediation Procedure. All mediation pursuant to this clause shall be confidential and shall be treated as compromise and settlement negotiations for purposes of applicable rules of evidence, and no oral or documentary representations made by the Parties during such mediation shall be admissible for any purpose in any subsequent proceedings. No Party shall disclose or permit the disclosure of any information about the evidence adduced or the documents produced by the other Party in the mediation proceedings or about the existence, contents or results of the mediation without the prior written consent of such other Party, except in the course of a judicial or regulatory proceeding or as may be required by Law or requested by a Governmental Authority or securities exchange. Before making any disclosure permitted by the preceding sentence, the Party intending to make such disclosure shall, to the extent reasonably practicable, give the other Party reasonable written notice of the intended disclosure and afford the other party a reasonable opportunity to protect its interests. If the Dispute has not been resolved within sixty (60) days of the appointment of a mediator, or within ninety (90) days after receipt by a Party of a Mediation Request (whichever occurs sooner), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree to in writing, then the Dispute shall be submitted to binding arbitration in accordance with Section 7.3 .
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(a)      In the event that a Dispute has not been resolved within sixty (60) days of the appointment of a mediator in accordance with Section 7.2 , or within ninety (90) days after receipt by a Party of a Mediation Request (whichever occurs sooner), or within such longer period as the Parties may agree to in writing, then such Dispute shall, upon the written request of a Party (the “ Arbitration Request ”) be submitted to be finally resolved by binding arbitration pursuant to the CPR Arbitration Procedure. The arbitration shall be held in the same location as the mediation pursuant to Section 7.2 . Unless otherwise agreed by the Parties in writing, any Dispute to be decided pursuant to this Section 7.3 will be decided (i) before a sole arbitrator if the amount in dispute, inclusive of all claims and counterclaims, totals less than $2 million, or (ii) by a panel of three (3) arbitrators if the amount in dispute, inclusive of all claims and counterclaims, totals $2 million or more.
(b)      If the arbitration will be before a panel of three (3) arbitrators, the arbitrators will be chosen as follows: (i) within fifteen (15) days from the date of the receipt of the Arbitration Request, each Party will name an arbitrator; and (ii) the two (2) Party-appointed arbitrators will thereafter, within thirty (30) days from the date on which the second of the two (2) arbitrators was named, name a third, independent arbitrator who will act as chairperson of the arbitral tribunal. In the event that either Party fails to name an arbitrator within fifteen (15) days from the date of receipt of the Arbitration Request, then upon written application by either Party, that arbitrator shall be appointed pursuant to the CPR Arbitration Procedure. In the event that the two (2) Party-appointed arbitrators fail to appoint the third, then the third, independent arbitrator will be appointed pursuant to the CPR Arbitration Procedure. If the arbitration will be before a sole independent arbitrator, then the sole independent arbitrator will be appointed by agreement of the Parties within fifteen (15) days of the date of receipt of the Arbitration Request. If the Parties cannot agree on a sole independent arbitrator, then upon written application by either Party, the sole independent arbitrator will be appointed pursuant to the CPR Arbitration Procedure.
(c)      The arbitrator(s) will have the right to award, on an interim basis, or include in the final award, any relief which it (or they) deem(s) proper in the circumstances, including money damages (with interest on unpaid amounts from the due date), injunctive relief (including specific performance) and attorneys’ fees and costs; provided that the arbitrator(s) will not award any relief not specifically requested by the Parties and, in any event, will not award any indirect, punitive, exemplary, remote, consequential, speculative or similar damages in excess of compensatory damages of the other arising in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (other than any such Liability with respect to a Third-Party Claim). Upon selection of the arbitrator(s) following any grant of interim relief by a special arbitrator or court pursuant to Section 7.4 , the arbitrator(s) may affirm or disaffirm that relief, and the Parties will seek modification or rescission of the order entered by the court as necessary to accord with the decision of the arbitrator(s). The award of the arbitrator(s) shall be final and binding on the Parties, and may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. The initiation of mediation or arbitration pursuant to this Article VII will toll the applicable statute of limitations for the duration of any such proceedings.

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7.4      Litigation and Unilateral Commencement of Arbitration . Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article VII , (a) a Party may seek preliminary provisional or injunctive judicial relief with respect to a Dispute without first complying with the procedures set forth in Section 7.1 , Section 7.2 and Section 7.3 if such action is reasonably necessary to avoid irreparable damage and (b) either Party may initiate arbitration before the expiration of the periods specified in Section 7.2 and Section 7.3 if (i) such Party has submitted a Mediation Request or Arbitration Request, as applicable, and the other Party has failed, within the applicable periods set forth in Section 7.3 , to agree upon a date for the first mediation session to take place within thirty (30) days after the appointment of such mediator or such longer period as the Parties may agree to in writing or (ii) the other Party has failed to comply with Section 7.3 in good faith with respect to commencement and engagement in arbitration. In such event, the first Party may commence and prosecute such arbitration unilaterally in accordance with the CPR Arbitration Procedure.
7.5      Conduct During Dispute Resolution Process . Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Parties shall, and shall cause the other members of their respective Group to, continue to honor all commitments under this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement to the extent required by such agreements during the course of dispute resolution pursuant to the provisions of this Article VII , unless such commitments are the specific subject of the Dispute at issue.

ARTICLE VIII     
FURTHER ASSURANCES AND ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
8.1      Further Assurances .
(a)      In addition to the actions specifically provided for elsewhere in this Agreement, each of the Parties shall use its reasonable best efforts, prior to, on and after the Effective Time, to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all things, reasonably necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Laws, regulations and agreements to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements.
(b)      Without limiting the foregoing, prior to, at and after the Effective Time, each Party shall cooperate with the other Party, and without any further consideration, but at the expense of the requesting Party, to execute and deliver, or use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be executed and delivered, all instruments, including instruments of conveyance, assignment and transfer, and to make all filings with, and to obtain all Approvals or Notifications of, any Governmental Authority or any other Person under any permit, license, agreement, indenture or other instrument (including any consents or Governmental Approvals), and to take all such other actions as such Party may reasonably be requested to take by the other Party from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, in order to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and the transfers of the GCP Assets and the Grace Assets and the assignment and assumption of the GCP Liabilities and the Grace Liabilities and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. Without

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limiting the foregoing, each Party will, at the reasonable request, cost and expense of the other Party, take such other actions as may be reasonably necessary to vest in such other Party good and marketable title to the Assets allocated to such Party under this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, free and clear of any Security Interest, if and to the extent it is practicable to do so.
(c)      On or prior to the Effective Time, Grace and GCP in their respective capacities as direct and indirect stockholders of the members of their Groups, shall each ratify any actions which are reasonably necessary or desirable to be taken by Grace, GCP or any of the members of their respective Groups, as the case may be, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements.
(d)      Grace and GCP, on their own behalf and on behalf of each of the members of their respective Groups, waive (and agree not to assert against any of the others) any claim or demand that any of them may have against any of the others for any Liabilities or other claims relating to or arising out of (i) the failure of any member of the GCP Group, on the one hand, or of any member of the Grace Group, on the other hand, to provide any notification or disclosure required under any state Environmental Law in connection with the Separation, the Distribution or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the transfer by any member of any Group to any member of the other Group of ownership or operational control of any Assets not previously owned or operated by such transferee or (ii) any inadequate, incorrect or incomplete notification or disclosure under any such state Environmental Law by the applicable transferor. To the extent any Liability to any Governmental Authority or any Third Party arises out of any action or inaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above, the transferee of the applicable Asset hereby assumes and agrees to pay any such Liability.

ARTICLE IX     
TERMINATION
9.1      Termination . This Agreement and all Ancillary Agreements may be terminated and the Distribution may be amended, modified or abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time by Grace, in its sole and absolute discretion, without the approval or consent of any other Person, including GCP. After the Effective Time, this Agreement may not be terminated except by an agreement in writing signed by a duly authorized officer of each of the Parties.
9.2      Effect of Termination . In the event of any termination of this Agreement prior to the Effective Time, no Party (nor any of its directors, officers or employees) shall have any Liability or further obligation to the other Party by reason of this Agreement.
ARTICLE X     
MISCELLANEOUS
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(a)      This Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the Parties and delivered to the other Parties.
(b)      This Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the Exhibits, Schedules and appendices hereto and thereto contain the entire agreement among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all previous agreements, negotiations, discussions, writings, understandings, commitments and conversations with respect to such subject matter, and there are no agreements or understandings among the Parties other than those set forth or referred to herein or therein.
(c)      Grace represents on behalf of itself and each other member of the Grace Group, and GCP represents on behalf of itself and each other member of the GCP Group, as follows:
(i)      each such Person has the requisite corporate or other power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; and
(ii)      this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement to which it is a party has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of it enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
(d)      Each Party acknowledges that it, each of the other Parties and each other party to an Ancillary Agreement is executing this Agreement and certain of the Ancillary Agreements by facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature, and that delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (whether executed by manual, stamp or mechanical signature) by facsimile or by email in portable document format (PDF) shall be effective as delivery of such executed counterpart of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement. Each Party expressly adopts and confirms each such facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature (regardless of whether delivered in person, by mail, by courier, by facsimile or by email in portable document format (PDF)) made in its respective name as if it were a manual signature delivered in person, agrees that it will not assert that any such signature or delivery is not adequate to bind such Party to the same extent as if it were signed manually and delivered in person and agrees that, at the reasonable request of the other Parties at any time, it will as promptly as reasonably practicable cause this Agreement and each such Ancillary Agreement to be manually executed (any such execution to be as of the date of the initial date thereof) and delivered in person, by mail or by courier.
(e)      In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Agreement and the Tax Sharing Agreement in relation to any matters addressed by the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement shall prevail. For the avoidance of doubt, the Tax Sharing Agreement shall govern all matters (including any indemnities and payments among the parties and each other member of their respective Groups and the allocation of any rights and

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obligations pursuant to agreements entered into with Third Parties) relating to Taxes or otherwise addressed in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
10.2      Governing Law . This Agreement and, unless expressly provided therein, each Ancillary Agreement (and any claims or disputes arising out of or related hereto or thereto or to the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby or to the inducement of any Party to enter herein and therein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware irrespective of the choice of laws principles of the State of Delaware including all matters of validity, construction, effect, enforceability, performance and remedies.
10.3      Assignability . Except as set forth in any Ancillary Agreement, this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and the parties thereto, respectively, and their respective successors and permitted assigns; provided , however , that none of the Parties may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement without the express prior written consent of the other Parties hereto or other parties thereto, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such consent shall be required for the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (except as may be otherwise provided in any such Ancillary Agreement) in whole ( i.e. , the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and all Ancillary Agreements all at the same time) in connection with a change of control of a Party so long as the resulting, surviving or transferee Person assumes all the obligations of the relevant Party thereto by operation of Law or pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the other Parties. Nothing herein is intended to, or shall be construed to, prohibit any Party or any member of its Group from being party to or undertaking a change of control.
10.4      Third-Party Beneficiaries . Except for the indemnification rights under this Agreement of any Grace Indemnitee or GCP Indemnitee in their respective capacities as such, (a) the provisions of this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Parties and any other parties thereto are not intended to confer upon any Person except the Parties (and such other parties) any rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder and (b) there are no third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement and neither this Agreement nor any Ancillary Agreement shall provide any third person with any remedy, claim, Liability, reimbursement, claim of action or other right in excess of those existing without reference to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
10.5      Notices . All notices, requests, claims, demands or other communications under this Agreement and, to the extent, applicable and unless otherwise provided therein, under each of the Ancillary Agreements shall be in writing and shall be given or made (and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made upon receipt) by delivery in person, by overnight courier service, to the respective Parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified in a notice given in accordance with this Section 10.5 ):

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If to Grace or Grace Conn, to:
W. R. Grace & Co.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21044
Attention: General Counsel

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention:     Andrew R. Brownstein
Gregory E. Ostling

If to GCP, to:
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
666 Whitmore Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 04120
Attention:     General Counsel

with a copy (prior to the Effective Time) (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention:     Andrew R. Brownstein
Gregory E. Ostling
Any Party may, by notice to the other Parties, change the address to which such notices are to be given.
10.6      Severability . If any provision of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or the application thereof to any Person or circumstance is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions hereof or thereof, or the application of such provision to Persons or circumstances or in jurisdictions other than those as to which it has been held invalid or unenforceable, shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated thereby. Upon such determination, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon such a suitable and equitable provision to effect the original intent of the Parties.
10.7      Force Majeure . No Party shall be deemed in default of this Agreement or, unless otherwise expressly provided therein, any Ancillary Agreement for any delay or failure to fulfill any obligation (other than a payment obligation) hereunder or thereunder so long as and to the extent to which any delay or failure in the fulfillment of such obligation is prevented,

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frustrated, hindered or delayed as a consequence of circumstances of Force Majeure. In the event of any such excused delay, the time for performance of such obligations (other than a payment obligation) shall be extended for a period equal to the time lost by reason of the delay. A Party claiming the benefit of this provision shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the occurrence of any such event, (a) provide written notice to the other Party of the nature and extent of any such Force Majeure condition and (b) use commercially reasonable efforts to remove any such causes and resume performance under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, as applicable, as soon as reasonably practicable.
10.8      No Set-Off . Except as set forth in any Ancillary Agreement or as otherwise mutually agreed to in writing by the Parties, neither Grace nor GCP nor any member of either such Party’s Group shall have any right of set-off or other similar rights with respect to (a) any amounts received pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or (b) any other amounts claimed to be owed to the other Party or any member of its Group arising out of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
10.9      Publicity . Prior to the Effective Time, each of GCP and Grace shall consult with each other prior to issuing any press releases or otherwise making public statements with respect to the Separation, the Distribution or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby or under any Ancillary Agreement and prior to making any filings with any Governmental Authority with respect thereto.
10.10      Expenses . Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, or as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Parties, all costs and expenses incurred on or prior to the Effective Time in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and implementation of this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement, the Separation, the Form 10, the steps contemplated by the Restructuring Steps Memorandum and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will be borne by the Party or its applicable Subsidiary incurring such fees, costs or expenses.
10.11      Headings . The article, section and paragraph headings contained in this Agreement and in the Ancillary Agreements are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
10.12      Survival of Covenants . Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, the covenants, representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement, and Liability for the breach of any obligations contained herein, shall survive the Separation and the Distribution and shall remain in full force and effect.
10.13      Waivers of Default . Waiver by a Party of any default by any other Party of any provision of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Party of any subsequent or other default, nor shall it prejudice the rights of the other Party. No failure or delay by any Party in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or

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partial exercise thereof prejudice any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
10.14      Specific Performance . Subject to the provisions of Article VII , in the event of any actual or threatened default in, or breach of, any of the terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, the Party that is, or is to be, thereby aggrieved shall have the right to specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief in respect of its rights under this Agreement or such Ancillary Agreement, in addition to any and all other rights and remedies at law or in equity, and all such rights and remedies shall be cumulative. The Parties agree that the remedies at law for any breach or threatened breach, including monetary damages, are inadequate compensation for any loss and that any defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate is waived. Any requirements for the securing or posting of any bond with such remedy are waived by each of the Parties.
10.15      Amendments . No provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall be deemed waived, amended, supplemented or modified by a Party, unless such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification is in writing and signed by the authorized representative of the Party against whom it is sought to enforce such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification.
10.16      Interpretation . In this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement, (a) words in the singular shall be deemed to include the plural and vice versa and words of one gender shall be deemed to include the other genders as the context requires, (b) the terms “hereof,” “herein,” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement (or the applicable Ancillary Agreement) as a whole (including all of the Schedules, Exhibits and Appendices hereto and thereto) and not to any particular provision of this Agreement (or such Ancillary Agreement), (c) Article, Section, Schedule, Exhibit and Appendix references are to the Articles, Sections, Schedules, Exhibits and Appendices to this Agreement (or the applicable Ancillary Agreement) unless otherwise specified, (d) unless otherwise stated, all references to any agreement shall be deemed to include the exhibits, schedules and annexes to such agreement, (e) the word “including” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement (or the applicable Ancillary Agreement) shall mean “including, without limitation,” unless otherwise specified, (f) the word “or” shall not be exclusive, (g) unless otherwise specified in a particular case, the word “days” refers to calendar days, (h) references to “business day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law to close in the U.S. or New York, New York, (i) references herein to this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement or such other agreement as of the date on which it is executed and as it may be amended, modified or supplemented thereafter, unless otherwise specified and (j) unless expressly stated to the contrary in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, all references to “the date hereof,” “the date of this Agreement,” “hereby” and “hereupon” and words of similar import shall all be references to January 27, 2016.

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10.17      Limitations of Liability . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but without limiting any recovery expressly provided by Section 8.2 , no member of the GCP Group, on the one hand, nor any member of the Grace Group, on the other hand, shall be liable under this Agreement to the other for any indirect, punitive, exemplary, remote, speculative or similar damages in excess of compensatory damages of the other arising in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (other than any such Liability with respect to a Third-Party Claim).
10.18      Performance . Grace will cause to be performed, and hereby guarantees the performance of, all actions, agreements and obligations set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement to be performed by any member of the Grace Group. GCP will cause to be performed, and hereby guarantees the performance of, all actions, agreements and obligations set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement to be performed by any member of the GCP Group. Each Party (including its permitted successors and assigns) further agrees that it will (a) give timely notice of the terms, conditions and continuing obligations contained in this Agreement and any applicable Ancillary Agreement to all of the other members of its Group and (b) cause all of the other members of its Group not to take any action or fail to take any such action inconsistent with such Party’s obligations under this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
10.19      Mutual Drafting . This Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements shall be deemed to be the joint work product of the Parties and any rule of construction that a document shall be interpreted or construed against a drafter of such document shall not be applicable
10.20      Existing Plan of Reorganization . The obligations of the parties under the Plan of Reorganization shall continue under this Agreement, and shall not in any event be terminated, extinguished or annulled, but shall hereafter be governed by this Agreement. All references to the Plan of Reorganization in any Transaction Document (other than this Agreement) or other document or instrument delivered in connection therewith shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement and the provisions hereof. It is understood and agreed that the Plan of Reorganization is being amended and restated in its entirety hereby by entry into this Agreement on the date hereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Separation and Distribution Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives.

W. R. GRACE & CO.
By:
    /s/ Mark A.Shelnitz            
Name:     Mark A. Shelnitz
Title:    
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.
By:
    /s/ Mark A.Shelnitz            
Name:     Mark A. Shelnitz
Title:    
Vice President and Secretary
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:
    /s/ Mark A.Shelnitz            
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz     
Title:    
Vice President and Assistant Secretary

[Signature Page to Separation Agreement]
Exhibit 4.1





GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.,

the GUARANTORS party hereto from time to time

AND

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee

9.500% Senior Notes due 2023


INDENTURE

Dated as of January 27, 2016










Table of Contents
Page
ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1.
Definitions     1
SECTION 1.2.
Other Definitions     40
SECTION 1.3.
Rules of Construction     43
ARTICLE II

THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1.
Form, Dating and Terms     44
SECTION 2.2.
Execution and Authentication     49
SECTION 2.3.
Registrar and Paying Agent     50
SECTION 2.4.
Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust     50
SECTION 2.5.
Holder Lists     51
SECTION 2.6.
Transfer and Exchange     51
SECTION 2.7.
[Reserved]     54
SECTION 2.8.
[Reserved]     54
SECTION 2.9.
Form of Certificate to be Delivered in Connection with Transfers Pursuant to Regulation S     54
SECTION 2.10.
[Reserved]     56
SECTION 2.11.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes     56
SECTION 2.12.
Outstanding Notes     56
SECTION 2.13.
Temporary Notes     57
SECTION 2.14.
Cancellation     57
SECTION 2.15.
Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest     57
SECTION 2.16.
CUSIP and ISIN Numbers     58
ARTICLE III

COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1.
Payment of Notes     58
SECTION 3.2.
Limitation on Indebtedness .    59
SECTION 3.3.
Limitation on Restricted Payments     64
SECTION 3.4.
Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries     69
SECTION 3.5.
Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock     71
SECTION 3.6.
Limitation on Liens     74
SECTION 3.7.
Limitation on Guarantees     74
SECTION 3.8.
Limitation on Affiliate Transactions     75
SECTION 3.9.
Change of Control     78
SECTION 3.10.
Reports     80
SECTION 3.11.
[Reserved]     82
SECTION 3.12.
Maintenance of Office or Agency     82
SECTION 3.13.
Corporate Existence     82
SECTION 3.14.
Payment of Taxes     82
SECTION 3.15.
[Reserved]     82
SECTION 3.16.
Compliance Certificate     82



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SECTION 3.17.
Further Instruments and Acts     83
SECTION 3.18.
[Reserved]     83
SECTION 3.19.
Statement by Officers as to Default     83
SECTION 3.20.
Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries     83
SECTION 3.21.
Suspension of Certain Covenants on Achievement of Investment Grade Status     83
ARTICLE IV

SUCCESSOR COMPANY; SUCCESSOR PERSON
SECTION 4.1.
Merger and Consolidation     84
ARTICLE V

REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 5.1.
Notices to Trustee     85
SECTION 5.2.
Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased     86
SECTION 5.3.
Notice of Redemption     86
SECTION 5.4.
[Reserved]    87
SECTION 5.5.
Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price     87
SECTION 5.6.
Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part     87
SECTION 5.7.
Optional Redemption     88
SECTION 5.8.
Mandatory Redemption     89
SECTION 5.9.
Special Mandatory Redemption     89
ARTICLE VI

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.1.
Events of Default     89
SECTION 6.2.
Acceleration     91
SECTION 6.3.
Other Remedies     92
SECTION 6.4.
Waiver of Past Defaults     92
SECTION 6.5.
Control by Majority     92
SECTION 6.6.
Limitation on Suits     92
SECTION 6.7.
Rights of Holders to Receive Payment     93
SECTION 6.8.
Collection Suit by Trustee     93
SECTION 6.9.
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim     93
SECTION 6.10.
Priorities     94
SECTION 6.11.
Undertaking for Costs     94
ARTICLE VII

TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1.
Duties of Trustee     94
SECTION 7.2.
Rights of Trustee     95
SECTION 7.3.
Individual Rights of Trustee     96
SECTION 7.4.
Trustee’s Disclaimer     96
SECTION 7.5.
Notice of Defaults     97
SECTION 7.6.
[Reserved]     97
SECTION 7.7.
Compensation and Indemnity     97

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SECTION 7.8.
Replacement of Trustee     97
SECTION 7.9.
Successor Trustee by Merger     98
SECTION 7.10.
Eligibility; Disqualification     98
SECTION 7.11.
[Reserved]     98
SECTION 7.12.
Trustee’s Application for Instruction from the Company     98
ARTICLE VIII

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.1.
Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance; Defeasance     99
SECTION 8.2.
Legal Defeasance and Discharge     99
SECTION 8.3.
Covenant Defeasance     99
SECTION 8.4.
Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance     100
SECTION 8.5.
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions     100
SECTION 8.6.
Repayment to the Company     101
SECTION 8.7.
Reinstatement     101
ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS
SECTION 9.1.
Without Consent of Holders     101
SECTION 9.2.
With Consent of Holders     103
SECTION 9.3.
Compliance with this Indenture     104
SECTION 9.4.
Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers     104
SECTION 9.5.
Notation on or Exchange of Notes     104
SECTION 9.6.
Trustee to Sign Amendments     104
ARTICLE X

GUARANTEE
SECTION 10.1.
Guarantee     105
SECTION 10.2.
Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge .    106
SECTION 10.3.
Right of Contribution     107
SECTION 10.4.
No Subrogation     107
ARTICLE XI

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 11.1.
Satisfaction and Discharge     107
SECTION 11.2.
Application of Trust Money     108
ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 12.1.
Notices     108
SECTION 12.2.
Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent     109
SECTION 12.3.
Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion     109

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SECTION 12.4.
When Notes Disregarded     110
SECTION 12.5.
Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar     110
SECTION 12.6.
Legal Holidays     110
SECTION 12.7.
Governing Law     110
SECTION 12.8.
Jurisdiction     110
SECTION 12.9.
Waivers of Jury Trial     110
SECTION 12.10.
USA PATRIOT Act     111
SECTION 12.11.
No Recourse Against Others     111
SECTION 12.12.
Successors     111
SECTION 12.13.
Multiple Originals     111
SECTION 12.14.
Table of Contents; Headings     111
SECTION 12.15.
Force Majeure     111
SECTION 12.16.
Severability     111


EXHIBIT A    Form of Global Restricted Note
EXHIBIT B    Form of Supplemental Indenture



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INDENTURE dated as of January 27, 2016, among GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC. (the “C ompany ”), the Guarantors party hereto from time to time and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of (i) its 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 issued on the date hereof (the “ Initial Notes ”) and (ii) any additional Notes (“ Additional Notes ” and, together with the Initial Notes, the “ Notes ”) that may be issued after the Issue Date.
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture;
WHEREAS, all things necessary (i) to make the Notes, when executed and duly issued by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid obligations of the Company, and (ii) to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company have been done; and
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders, as follows:
ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1.     Definitions .
Acquired EBITDA ” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable.
Acquired Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness (x) of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, (y) assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person, in each case whether or not Incurred by such Person in connection with such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or such acquisition or (z) of a Person at the time such Person merges or amalgamates with or into or consolidates or otherwise combines with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary. Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been Incurred, with respect to clause (x) of the preceding sentence, on the date such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, with respect to clause (y) of the preceding sentence, on the date of consummation of such acquisition of assets and, with respect to clause (z) of the preceding sentence, on the date of the relevant merger, consolidation, amalgamation or other combination.
Additional Assets ” means:
(1)    any property or assets (other than Capital Stock) used or to be used by the Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or otherwise useful in a Similar Business (it being understood that capital expenditures on property or assets already used in a Similar Business or to replace any property or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition shall be deemed an investment in Additional Assets);
(2)    the Capital Stock of a Person that is engaged in a Similar Business and becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; or
(3)    Capital Stock constituting a minority interest in any Person that at such time is a Restricted Subsidiary.





Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person, directly or indirectly, controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
Alternative Currency ” means any currency (other than Dollars) that is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars (as determined in good faith by the Company).
Applicable Premium ” means the greater of (A) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note and (B) on any redemption date, the excess (to the extent positive) of:
(a)    the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of such Note at February 1, 2019 (such redemption price (expressed in percentage of principal amount) being set forth in the table under Section 5.7(d) (excluding accrued but unpaid interest, if any)), plus (ii) all required interest payments due on such Note to and including such date set forth in clause (i) (excluding accrued but unpaid interest, if any), computed upon the redemption date using a discount rate equal to the Applicable Treasury Rate at such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over
(b)    the outstanding principal amount of such Note;
in each case, as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculations of the Applicable Premium.
Applicable Treasury Rate ” means the yield to maturity at the time of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) which has become publicly available at least two (2) Business Days prior to the redemption date (or, if such statistical release is not so published or available, any publicly available source of similar market data selected by the Company in good faith)) most nearly equal to the period from the redemption date to February 1, 2019; provided , however , that if the period from the redemption date to February 1, 2019 is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Applicable Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the redemption date to such applicable date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.
Asset Disposition ” means:
(a)    the voluntary sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, of property or assets (including by way of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (in each case other than Capital Stock of the Company) (each referred to in this definition as a “disposition”); or
(b)    the issuance or sale of Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries issued in compliance with Section 3.2 hereof or directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required under applicable law), whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions;
in each case, other than:
(1)    a disposition by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

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(2)    a disposition of cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;
(3)    a disposition of inventory or other assets (including Settlement Assets) in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or held for sale or no longer used in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or held for sale or no longer used in the ordinary course of business;
(4)    a disposition of obsolete, worn out, uneconomic, damaged or surplus property, equipment or other assets or property, equipment or other assets that are no longer economically practical or commercially desirable to maintain or used or useful in the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries whether now or hereafter owned or leased or acquired in connection with an acquisition or used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including by ceasing to enforce, allowing the lapse, abandonment or invalidation of or discontinuing the use or maintenance of or putting into the public domain any intellectual property that is, in the reasonable judgment of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries, no longer used or useful, or economically practicable to maintain, or in respect of which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary determines in its reasonable business judgment that such action or inaction is desirable);
(5)    transactions permitted under Section 4.1 hereof or a transaction that constitutes a Change of Control;
(6)    an issuance of Capital Stock by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary or as part of or pursuant to an equity incentive or compensation plan approved by the Board of Directors;
(7)    any dispositions of Capital Stock, properties or assets in a single transaction or series of related transactions with a fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Company) of less than $25.0 million;
(8)    any Restricted Payment that is permitted to be made, and is made, under Section 3.3 and the making of any Permitted Payment or Permitted Investment or, solely for purposes of Section 3.5(a)(3) , asset sales, the proceeds of which are used to make such Restricted Payments or Permitted Investments;
(9)    dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens;
(10)    dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;
(11)    conveyances, sales, transfers, licenses or sub-licenses or other dispositions of intellectual property, software or other general intangibles and licenses, sub-licenses, leases or subleases of other property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or pursuant to a research or development agreement in which the counterparty to such agreement receives a license in the intellectual property or software that results from such agreement;
(12)    the lease, assignment or sub-lease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;
(13)    foreclosure, condemnation or any similar action with respect to any property or other assets;
(14)    the sale or discount (with or without recourse, and on customary or commercially reasonable terms and for credit management purposes) of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising in

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the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, or the conversion or exchange of accounts receivable for notes receivable;
(15)    any disposition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary;
(16)    any disposition of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement or other obligation with or to a Person (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) from whom such Restricted Subsidiary was acquired, or from whom such Restricted Subsidiary acquired its business and assets (having been newly formed in connection with such acquisition), made as part of such acquisition and in each case comprising all or a portion of the consideration in respect of such sale or acquisition;
(17)    (i) dispositions of property to the extent that such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is promptly purchased, (ii) dispositions of property to the extent that the proceeds of such disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property (which replacement property is actually promptly purchased), and (iii) to the extent allowable under Section 1031 of the Code, any exchange of like property (excluding any boot thereon) for use in a Similar Business;
(18)    sales of accounts receivable or other assets or participations therein, in connection with any Receivables Facility, or the disposition of an account receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(19)    any financing transaction with respect to property constructed, acquired, replaced, repaired or improved (including any reconstruction, refurbishment, renovation and/or development of real property) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date, including Sale and Leaseback Transactions and asset securitizations, permitted by this Indenture;
(20)    dispositions of Investments in joint ventures or similar entities to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the parties to such joint venture set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements;
(21)    any surrender or waiver of contractual rights or the settlement, release, surrender or waiver of contractual, tort, litigation or other claims of any kind;
(22)    the unwinding of any Cash Management Services or Hedging Obligations; and
(23)    dispositions of non-core assets.
In the event that a transaction (or any portion thereof) meets the criteria of a permitted Asset Disposition and would also be a Permitted Investment or an Investment permitted under Section 3.3 , the Company, in its sole discretion, will be entitled to divide and classify such transaction (or a portion thereof) as an Asset Disposition and/or one or more of the types of Permitted Investments or Investments permitted under Section 3.3 .
Associate ” means (i) any Person engaged in a Similar Business of which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries are the legal and beneficial owners of between 20.0% and 50.0% of all outstanding Voting Stock and (ii) any joint venture entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11 of the United States Code or similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
Board of Directors ” means (1) with respect to the Company or any corporation, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, of the corporation, or any duly authorized committee thereof; (2) with respect to any partnership, the board of directors or other governing body of the general partner, as applicable, of the partnership or

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any duly authorized committee thereof; (3) with respect to a limited liability company, the managing member or members or any duly authorized controlling committee thereof; and (4) with respect to any other Person, the board or any duly authorized committee of such Person serving a similar function. Whenever any provision requires any action or determination to be made by, or any approval of, a Board of Directors, such action, determination or approval shall be deemed to have been taken or made if approved by a majority of the directors on any such Board of Directors (whether or not such action or approval is taken as part of a formal board meeting or as a formal board approval).
Business Day ” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York, United States or in the jurisdiction of the place of payment are authorized or required by law to close.
Business Successor ” means (a) any former Subsidiary of the Company and (b) any Person that, after the Issue Date, has acquired, merged or consolidated with a Subsidiary of the Company (that results in such Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Company), or acquired (in one transaction or a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of a Subsidiary or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of a Subsidiary of the Company in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), as a result of a transaction not prohibited hereunder.
Capital Stock ” of any Person means any and all shares of, rights to purchase, warrants, options or depositary receipts for, or other equivalents of, or partnership or other interests in (however designated), equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity.
Capitalized Lease Obligations ” means an obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease for financial reporting purposes on the basis of GAAP. The amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation will be the capitalized amount of such obligation at the time any determination thereof is to be made as determined on the basis of GAAP, and the Stated Maturity thereof will be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date such lease may be terminated without penalty.
Captive Insurance Subsidiaries ” means, collectively or individually as of any date of determination, those regulated Subsidiaries of the Company primarily engaged in the business of providing insurance and insurance related services to the Company and its other Subsidiaries.
Cash Equivalents ” means:
(1)
(a) Dollars, Canadian dollars, Swiss Francs, Euro or any national currency of any member state of the European Union; or (b) any other foreign currency held by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(2)
securities issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the United States, Canadian or Swiss governments, a member state of the European Union or, in each case, or any agency or instrumentality thereof ( provided that the full faith and credit of such country or such member state is pledged in support thereof), having maturities of not more than two years from the date of acquisition;
(3)
certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank deposits or bankers’ acceptances having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any lender or by any bank or trust company (a) whose commercial paper is rated at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or if at the time neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization) or (b) (in the event that the bank or trust company does not have commercial paper which is rated) having combined capital and surplus in excess of $100.0 million;

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(4)
repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3) and (7) entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;
(5)
securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Person referenced in clause (3) above;
(6)
commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by a bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above (or by the parent company thereof) maturing within one year after the date of creation thereof or any commercial paper and variable or fixed rate note issued by, or guaranteed by a corporation rated at least (A) “A-1” or higher by S&P or “P-1” or higher by Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) maturing within two years after the date of creation thereof or (B) “A-2” or higher by S&P or “P-2” or higher by Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) maturing within one year after the date of creation thereof, or, in each case, if no rating is available in respect of the commercial paper or fixed rate notes, the issuer of which has an equivalent rating in respect of its long-term debt;
(7)
marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least “P-2” or “A-2” from either S&P or Moody’s, respectively (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company), and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation or acquisition thereof;
(8)
readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, province, commonwealth or territory of the United States of America, Canada, Switzerland, any member state of the European Union or any political subdivision, taxing authority or public instrumentality thereof, in each case, having one of the two highest ratings categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) with maturities of not more than two years from the date of creation or acquisition;
(9)
readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision, taxing authority or public instrumentality thereof, in each case, having one of the two highest ratings categories obtainable by S&P or Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) with maturities of not more than two years from the date of acquisition;
(10)
Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated within the three highest ratings categories by S&P or Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company);
(11)
with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business, provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in each case maturing within one year after the date of investment therein, (ii) certificates of deposit of, bankers acceptance of, or time deposits with, any commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business, provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is

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at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “ Approved Foreign Bank ”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;
(12)
Indebtedness or Preferred Stock issued by Persons with a rating of “BBB-” or higher from S&P or “Baa3” or higher from Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(13)
bills of exchange issued in the United States, Canada, a member state of the European Union or Japan eligible for rediscount at the relevant central bank and accepted by a bank (or any dematerialized equivalent);
(14)
investments in money market funds access to which is provided as part of “sweep” accounts maintained with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;
(15)
investments in industrial development revenue bonds that (i) “re-set” interest rates not less frequently than quarterly, (ii) are entitled to the benefit of a remarketing arrangement with an established broker dealer and (iii) are supported by a direct pay letter of credit covering principal and accrued interest that is issued by any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;
(16)
investments in pooled funds or investment accounts consisting of investments in the nature described in the foregoing clause (15);
(17)
Cash Equivalents or instruments similar to those referred to in clauses (1) through (16) above denominated in Dollars or any Alternative Currency;
(18)
interests in any investment company, money market, enhanced high yield fund or other investment fund which invests 90.0% or more of its assets in instruments of the types specified in clauses (1) through (17) above; and
(19)
for purposes of clause (2) of the definition of “Asset Disposition,” any marketable securities portfolio owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the Issue Date.
In the case of Investments by any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary or Investments made in a country outside the United States of America, Cash Equivalents shall also include (a) investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (1) through (9) and clauses (11) through (14) above of foreign obligors, which Investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies and (b) other short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments analogous to the foregoing investments in clauses (1) through (14) and in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clause (1) above, provided that such amounts are converted into any currency listed in clause (1) as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts. For the avoidance of doubt, any items identified as Cash Equivalents under this definition (other than clause (16) above) will be deemed to be Cash Equivalents for all purposes under this Indenture regardless of the treatment of such items under GAAP.
Cash Management Services ” means any of the following to the extent not constituting a line of credit (other than an overnight draft facility that is not in default): automated clearing house transactions, treasury, depository, credit or debit card, purchasing card, stored value card, electronic fund transfer services and/or cash management services, including, without limitation, controlled disbursement services, overdraft facilities, foreign exchange facilities, deposit and other accounts and merchant services or other cash management arrangements in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice.

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CFC ” means (1) a controlled foreign corporation (as that term is defined in Section 957 of the Code) and (2) any corporation that is organized or incorporated in the United States or any State or territory thereof, all of the assets of which (except for an immaterial amount) consist of the equity or debt of one or more CFCs.
Change of Control ” means:
(1)
the Company becomes aware of (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date), directly or indirectly, of more than 50.0% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company (other than, prior to the Spin-Off, by Grace and its Subsidiaries) (provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction or series of transactions will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (1) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (2) the direct or indirect beneficial owners of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction or transactions are substantially the same as the beneficial owners of the Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transaction or transactions); or
(2)
the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other business combination transaction), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole to a Person, other than the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
Code ” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense ” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including amortization or write-off of (i) intangibles and non-cash organization costs, (ii) deferred financing fees or costs and (iii) capitalized expenditures, customer acquisition costs and incentive payments, conversion costs and contract acquisition costs, the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par and amortization of favorable or unfavorable lease assets or liabilities, of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP and any write-down of assets or asset value carried on the balance sheet.
Consolidated EBITDA ” for any period means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:
(1)    increased (without duplication) by:
(a)
any (x) Transaction Expenses and (y) any fees, costs, expenses or charges (other than Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense) related to any actual, proposed or contemplated Equity Offering (including any expense relating to enhanced accounting functions or other transactions costs associated with becoming a public company), Permitted Investment, acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or the Incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred by this Indenture (including a refinancing thereof) (in each case, whether or not successful), including (i) such fees, expenses or charges related to this Indenture, the Notes, the Credit Agreement, any other Credit Facilities and any Receivables Fees, and (ii) any amendment, waiver or other modification of this Indenture, the Notes, the Credit Agreement, Receivables Facilities, any other Credit Facilities, any Receivables Fees, any other Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture or any Equity Offering, in each case, whether or not consummated, to the

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extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(b)
provision for taxes based on income, profits, revenue or capital, including, without limitation, federal, state, provincial, territorial, local, foreign, unitary, excise, property, franchise and similar taxes and foreign withholding and similar taxes of such Person paid or accrued during such period, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations (including, without limitation, any additions to such taxes, and any penalties and interest with respect thereto), deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(c)
any other non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period including any impairment charges or the impact of purchase accounting (provided that if any such non-cash charge, write-down or item to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future period then the cash payment in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA when paid) or other items classified by the Company as special items; plus
(d)
(i) the amount of any restructuring charge, reserve, integration cost or other business optimization expense or cost (including charges directly related to the implementation of cost-savings initiatives) that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any one-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions or divestitures after the Issue Date, including, without limitation, those related to any severance, retention, signing bonuses, relocation, recruiting and other employee related costs, future lease commitments and costs related to the opening and closure and/or consolidation of facilities and to existing lines of business and (ii) fees, costs and expenses associated with acquisition related litigation and settlements thereof; plus
(e)
any net loss included in the Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810-10-45 (“ Topic 810 ”); plus
(f)
the amount of board of director fees, management, monitoring, advisory, consulting, refinancing, subsequent transaction, advisory and exit fees (including termination fees) and related indemnities and expenses paid or accrued in such period to any member of the Board of Directors of the Company to the extent permitted under Section 3.8 ; plus
(g)
net realized losses from Hedging Obligations or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standard Codification Topic 815 (“ Topic 815 ”) and related pronouncements; plus
(h)
cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such income were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (2) below for any previous period and not added back; plus
(i)
any costs or expense incurred by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement, any severance agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Company or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company solely to the extent that

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such net cash proceeds are excluded from the calculation set forth in Section 3.3(a)(iii) ; plus
(j)
any net pension or other post-employment benefit costs representing amortization of unrecognized prior service costs, actuarial losses, including amortization of such amounts arising in prior periods, amortization of the unrecognized net obligation (and loss or cost) existing at the date of the initial application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715, and any other items of a similar nature; plus
(k)
the amount of loss or discount on sale of receivables and related assets to the Receivables Subsidiary in connection with a Receivables Facility; plus
(l)
earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, in each case in connection with acquisitions or an Investment; plus
(m)
the amount of “run rate” cost savings (including, without limitation, cost savings with respect to salary, benefit and other direct savings resulting from workforce reductions and facility, benefit and insurance savings), operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and initiatives and synergies projected by the Company in good faith to be reasonably anticipated to be realizable or a plan for realization shall have been established within eighteen (18) months of the date thereof (which will be added to Consolidated EBITDA as so projected until fully realized and calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings (including, without limitation, cost savings with respect to salary, benefit and other direct savings resulting from workforce reductions and facility, benefit and insurance savings), operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and initiatives and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that, to the extent any such operational changes are not associated with the Transactions, all steps have been taken, or are reasonably expected to be taken, in the good faith determination of the Company, for realizing such cost savings and such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable ( provided that, with respect to this clause (m), the aggregate amount for all such cost savings shall not exceed 20% of Consolidated EBITDA (calculated on a pro forma basis after giving effect to this clause (m)) for such period); plus
(n)
Fixed Charges of such Person for such period (including (x) net losses on any Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate, currency or commodities risk, (y) bank fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, plus amounts excluded from the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense” pursuant to clauses (t) through (z) in clause (1) thereof), to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(o)
Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense of such Person for such period to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(p)
the amount of any minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary; plus
(q)
realized foreign exchange losses resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

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(r)
the amount of expenses relating to payments made to option holders of the Company or any Parent Entity in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to equityholders of such Person or its Parent Entities, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were equityholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution, in each case to the extent permitted under this Indenture; plus
(s)
losses, expenses or charges (including all fees and expenses or charges related thereto) (i) from abandoned, closed, disposed or discontinued operations and any losses on disposal of abandoned, closed or discontinued operations and (ii) attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions (other than in the ordinary course of business) as determined in good faith; plus
(t)
Public Company Costs; plus
(u)
cost related to the implementation of operational and reporting systems and technology initiatives; plus
(v)
adjustments of the nature used in connection with the calculation of “Adjusted EBITDA” as set forth in footnote (1) of “Summary — Summary Combined Historical and Pro Forma Financial Data” contained in the Offering Circular applied in good faith to the extent such adjustments continue to be applicable during the period in which Consolidated EBITDA is being calculated; plus
(w)
the amount of loss on sale of assets in connection with a Receivables Facility; plus
(x)
to the extent not already included in Consolidated Net Income, proceeds of business interruption insurance (to the extent actually received and net of expenses incurred to obtain such proceeds, unless otherwise deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income); and
(2)    decreased (without duplication) by:
(a)
non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period; plus
(b)
any net income included in Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Topic 810.
There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired) to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired and not subsequently so disposed of, an “ Acquired Entity or Business ”), and the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each a “ Converted Restricted Subsidiary ”), based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring during such period but prior to such acquisition). For purposes of determining the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or

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asset so sold or disposed of, a “ Sold Entity or Business ”) and the Disposed EBITDA of any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period (each a “ Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary ”), based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring during such period but prior to such sale, transfer or disposition).
Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the sum of:
(1)    consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including (a) amortization of original issue discount or premium resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par (other than with respect to Indebtedness borrowed under the Credit Agreement in connection with the Transactions), (b) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers acceptances, (c) non-cash interest payments (but excluding any non-cash interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark to market valuation of any Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments pursuant to GAAP), (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, and (e) net payments, if any, pursuant to interest rate Hedging Obligations with respect to Indebtedness, and excluding (s) Receivables Fees; (t) penalties and interest relating to taxes, (u) any additional cash interest owing pursuant to any registration rights agreement, (v) accretion or accrual of discounted liabilities other than Indebtedness, (w) any expense resulting from the discounting of any Indebtedness in connection with the application of purchase accounting in connection with any acquisition, (x) amortization or write-off of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, debt discount or premium, terminated hedging obligations and other commissions, financing fees and expenses and original issue discount with respect to Indebtedness borrowed under the Credit Agreement in connection with the Transactions and, adjusted, to the extent included, to exclude any refunds or similar credits received in connection with the purchasing or procurement of goods or services under any purchasing card or similar program, (y) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees and (z) interest with respect to Indebtedness of any parent of such Person appearing upon the balance sheet of such Person solely by reason of push-down accounting under GAAP); plus
(2)    consolidated capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; less
(3)    interest income for such period.
For purposes of this definition, interest (i) on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP and (ii) shall be calculated in the reporting currency of such Person at the spot rate of exchange pursuant to GAAP on the date of determination as further increased or decreased by the fair value of foreign currency Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments (or portions thereof) entered into for the purpose of hedging currency risk related to the interest rate of any Indebtedness on such date of determination, regardless of whether such Swap Contracts or other instruments are recorded under hedge accounting principles in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Joint Venture ” of the Company means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity selected by the Company in its discretion (x) of which 50% or less of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by the Company, and (y) that is consolidated with the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Net Income ” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the net income (loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis on the basis of GAAP

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before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends and including the net income (loss) of Consolidated Joint Ventures in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000; provided , however , that there will not be included in such Consolidated Net Income, without duplication:
(1)    any extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or nonrecurring gain, loss, charge or expense (including Transaction Expenses) or any charges, expenses or reserves in respect of any restructuring, redundancy or severance expense or relocation costs, integration and facilities’ opening costs and other business optimization expenses and operating improvements (including related to new product introductions), restructuring charges, accruals or reserves (including restructuring and integration costs related to acquisitions after the Issue Date and adjustments to existing reserves), whether or not classified as restructuring expense on the consolidated financial statements, signing costs, retention or completion bonuses, transition costs, costs related to closure/consolidation of facilities, internal costs in respect of strategic initiatives and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans (including any settlement of pension liabilities), contract terminations and professional and consulting fees incurred with any of the foregoing;
(2)    the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles, including any impact resulting from an election by the Company to apply IFRS at any time following the Issue Date;
(3)    any costs associated with the Transactions, including any Transaction Expenses and any other charges, fees, costs or expenses associated with becoming a separate operating company;
(4)    any fees and expenses (including any transaction or retention bonus or similar payment) incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any acquisition, Investment, asset disposition, issuance or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Capital Stock, refinancing transaction or amendment or modification of any debt instrument (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Issue Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed) and any charges or non-recurring merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such transaction, in each case whether or not successful (including, for avoidance of doubt, the effects of expensing all transaction-related expenses in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Codification No. 805 and gains or losses associated with Financial Accounting Standards Codification No. 460);
(5)    all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness;
(6)    accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted (including any adjustment of estimated payouts on existing earn-outs) that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP, or changes as a result of adoption or modification of accounting policies;
(7)    any (i) non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards and any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions or on the re-valuation of any benefit plan obligation and (ii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts;
(8)    any net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not a Restricted Subsidiary (including any net income (loss) from investments recorded in such Person under the equity method of accounting) (other than up to $20,000,000 of net income (loss) of Consolidated Joint Ventures), except that the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed or that (as reasonably determined by an Officer of the Company) could have been distributed by such Person during such period to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution or return

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on investment (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution or return on investment to a Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (9) below);
(9)    solely for the purpose of determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 3.3(a)(iii)(B) hereof, any net income (loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Company and the Guarantors) if such Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to the Company or a Guarantor by operation of the terms of such Restricted Subsidiary’s articles, charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute or governmental rule or regulation applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary or its shareholders (other than (a) restrictions that have been waived or otherwise released, (b) restrictions pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Notes or this Indenture, and (c) restrictions specified in Section 3.4(b)(14)(i) ), except that the Company’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed or that could have been distributed by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend to another Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitation contained in this clause);
(10)    any gain (or loss), together with any related provisions for taxes on any such gain (or the tax effect of any such loss), realized upon the sale or other disposition of any asset (including pursuant to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) or disposed or discontinued operations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiaries which is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by an Officer or the Board of Directors of the Company);
(11)    any unrealized gains or losses in respect of any Hedging Obligations or any ineffectiveness recognized in earnings related to qualifying hedge transactions or the fair value of changes therein recognized in earnings for derivatives that do not qualify as hedge transactions, in each case, in respect of any Hedging Obligations;
(12)    any unrealized foreign currency translation increases or decreases or transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person, including those related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including any net loss or gain resulting from Hedging Obligations for currency exchange risk) or other obligations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses relating to translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies;
(13)    any unrealized or realized gain or loss due solely to fluctuations in currency values and the related tax effects, determined in accordance with GAAP;
(14)    any purchase accounting effects (including in relation to the Spin-Off), including, but not limited to, adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries), as a result of any consummated acquisition, or the amortization or write‑off of any amounts thereof (including any write‑off of in process research and development);
(15)    any goodwill or other intangible asset impairment charge, write-off or write-down and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to GAAP;
(16)    any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness or any Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments;

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(17)    any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from Hedging Obligations or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Topic 815 and related pronouncements or mark to market movement of other financial instruments pursuant to Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 825 and related pronouncements;
(18)    any non-cash expenses, accruals or reserves related to adjustments to historical tax exposures and any deferred tax expense associated with tax deductions or net operating losses arising as a result of the Transactions, or the release of any valuation allowances related to such item;
(19)    any non‑cash items in respect of (x) pension and other post retirement obligations, (y) environmental obligations and (z) litigation or other disputes in respect of events and exposures will be excluded from Consolidated Net Income; and
(20)    any cash payments in respect of (x) pension and other post retirement obligations, (y) environmental obligations and (z) litigation or other disputes will be deducted from Consolidated Net Income (but only to the extent not already reducing Consolidated Net Income in accordance with GAAP) and in each case of clauses (x) through (z), excluding any payments in respect of charges taken on or prior to the date of this Indenture.
In addition, to the extent not already included in the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall include (i) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted hereunder, or, so long as the Company has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by the applicable payor in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days) and (ii) to the extent covered by insurance (including business interruption insurance) and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Company has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption.
Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) the sum of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness secured by a Lien as of such date and (b) the Reserved Indebtedness Amount secured by a Lien as of such date to (y) LTM EBITDA.
Consolidated Total Indebtedness ” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness for borrowed money (excluding Indebtedness with respect to Cash Management Services and intercompany Indebtedness among the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries), plus (without duplication) (b) the aggregate principal amount of Capitalized Lease Obligations, Purchase Money Obligations and unreimbursed drawings under letters of credit of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, minus (c) the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents included in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recent fiscal period for which internal financial statements of the Company are available ( provided that, the cash proceeds of any proposed Incurrence of Indebtedness shall not be included in this clause (c) for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio, as applicable), with such pro forma adjustments as are consistent with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.” For the avoidance of doubt, “Consolidated Total Indebtedness” shall exclude Indebtedness in respect of any Receivables Facility. For purposes of calculating the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Total Indebtedness shall be calculated in the reporting currency of the Company at the spot rate of exchange pursuant to GAAP on the date of determination as further increased or decreased by the fair value of foreign currency Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments or portions thereof entered into for the purpose of hedging

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currency risk related to the principal amount of any Indebtedness on such date of determination, regardless of whether such Swap Contracts or other instruments are recorded under hedge accounting principles in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) the sum of (i) Consolidated Total Indebtedness and (ii) the Reserved Indebtedness Amount, each as of such date to (y) LTM EBITDA.
Contingent Obligations ” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person guaranteeing in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, any operating lease, dividend or other obligation that does not constitute Indebtedness (“ primary obligations ”) of any other Person (the “ primary obligor ”), including any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent:
(1)    to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor;
(2)    to advance or supply funds:
(a)    for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation; or
(b)    to maintain the working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor; or
(3)    to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof.
Controlled Investment Affiliate ” means, as to any Person, any other Person, which directly or indirectly is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person and is organized by such Person (or any Person controlling such Person) primarily for making direct or indirect equity or debt investments in the Company and/or other companies.
Covenant Suspension ” means, during any period of time following the issuance of the Notes, that (i) the Notes have achieved Investment Grade Status, and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture.
Credit Agreement ” means the credit facility to be entered into by and among the Company, as the borrower, Grace Construction Products Ltd. and Grace S.A./N.V., as European borrowers, the guarantors from time to time party thereto, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as administrative agent and collateral agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto, together with the related documents thereto (including the revolving loans thereunder, any letters of credit and reimbursement obligations related thereto, any Guarantees and security documents), as amended, extended, renewed, restated, refunded, replaced, refinanced, supplemented, modified or otherwise changed (in whole or in part, and without limitation as to amount, terms, conditions, covenants and other provisions) from time to time, and any one or more agreements (and related documents) governing Indebtedness, including indentures, incurred to refinance, substitute, supplement, replace or add to (including increasing the amount available for borrowing or adding or removing any Person as a borrower, issuer or guarantor thereunder, in whole or in part), the borrowings and commitments then outstanding or permitted to be outstanding under such Credit Agreement or one or more successors to the Credit Agreement or one or more new credit agreements.
Credit Facility ” means, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities (including the Credit Agreement), indentures or other arrangements, commercial paper facilities and overdraft facilities with banks, other financial institutions or investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, notes, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such institutions or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such institutions against such receivables), letters of credit or other Indebtedness, in each

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case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, refinanced, repaid, increased or extended in whole or in part from time to time (and whether in whole or in part and whether or not with the original administrative agent and lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other banks or institutions and whether provided under the original Credit Agreement or one or more other credit or other agreements, indentures, financing agreements or otherwise) and in each case including all agreements, instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with the foregoing (including any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any Guarantee and collateral agreement, patent and trademark security agreement, mortgages or letter of credit applications and other Guarantees, pledges, agreements, security agreements and collateral documents). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Credit Facility” shall include any agreement or instrument (1) changing the maturity of any Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (2) adding Subsidiaries of the Company as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder, (3) increasing the amount of Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder or (4) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof.
Cross‑License Agreement ” means an agreement to be entered into by and among the Company, W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn. and Grace GmbH & Co. KG, a wholly owned subsidiary of W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn., providing each party licenses under certain intellectual property assets owned by the other party, as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Custodian ” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
Default ” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default; provided that any Default that results solely from the taking of an action that would have been permitted but for the continuation of a previous Default will be deemed to be cured if such previous Default is cured prior to becoming an Event of Default.
Definitive Notes ” means certificated Notes.
Depositary ” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.3 hereof as the Depositary with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Indenture.
Designated Non‑Cash Consideration ” means the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Company) of non‑cash consideration received by the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Disposition that is so designated as Designated Non‑Cash Consideration pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent payment, redemption, retirement, sale or other disposition of such Designated Non‑Cash Consideration. A particular item of Designated Non‑Cash Consideration will no longer be considered to be outstanding when and to the extent it has been paid, redeemed or otherwise retired or sold or otherwise disposed of in compliance with Section 3.5 hereof.
Designated Preferred Stock ” means Preferred Stock of the Company or a Parent Entity (other than Disqualified Stock) that is issued for cash (other than to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Company or such Subsidiary) and that is designated as “Designated Preferred Stock” pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate of the Company at or prior to the issuance thereof, the Net Cash Proceeds of which are excluded from the calculation set forth in Section 3.3(a)(iii)(B) hereof.
Disinterested Director ” means, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company having no material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such Affiliate Transaction. A member of the Board of Directors of the Company shall be deemed not to have such a financial

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interest by reason of such member’s holding Capital Stock of the Company or any options, warrants or other rights in respect of such Capital Stock.
Disposed EBITDA ” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, as applicable, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, as applicable.
Disqualified Stock ” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event:
(1)    matures or is mandatorily redeemable for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise; or
(2)    is or may become (in accordance with its terms) upon the occurrence of certain events or otherwise redeemable or repurchasable for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock in whole or in part,
in each case on or prior to the earlier of (a) the Stated Maturity of the Notes or (b) the date on which there are no Notes outstanding; provided , however , that (i) only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date will be deemed to be Disqualified Stock and (ii) any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Company to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale (howsoever defined or referred to) shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if any such redemption or repurchase obligation is subject to compliance by the relevant Person with Section 3.3 hereof; provided , however , that if such Capital Stock is issued to any future, current or former employee, director, officer, manager or consultant (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members), of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any Parent Entity or any other entity in which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary has an Investment and is designated in good faith as an “affiliate” by the Board of Directors of the Company (or the compensation committee thereof) or any other plan for the benefit of current, former or future employees (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Company or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members), such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Company or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
Dollars ” or “ $ ” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.
Domestic Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person other than a Foreign Subsidiary.
DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company or any successor securities clearing agency.
Employee Matters Agreement ” an agreement to be entered into by and among the Company, Grace and W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn. to allocate certain liabilities and responsibilities relating to employment matters, employee compensation and benefits plans and programs, and other related matters, as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Equity Offering ” means a sale of Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent Entity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or through an Excluded Contribution) other than (a) offerings registered on Form S-8 (or any successor form) under the Securities Act or any similar offering in other jurisdictions or other securities of the Company or any Parent Entity and (b) issuances of Capital Stock to any Subsidiary of the Company.

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Euro ” means the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union.
Exchange Act ” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, as amended.
Excluded Contribution ” means Net Cash Proceeds or property or assets received by the Company as capital contributions to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company after the Issue Date or from the issuance or sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company, in each case, to the extent designated as an Excluded Contribution pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate of the Company.
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary ” means (i) any direct or indirect Foreign Subsidiary and (ii) any CFC.
Excluded Subsidiary ” means any (i) Excluded Foreign Subsidiary, (ii) Unrestricted Subsidiary, (iii) Immaterial Subsidiary, (iv) Captive Insurance Subsidiary, (v) Non-Profit Subsidiary, (vi) joint venture and (vii) subsidiary which is a special purpose entity.
fair market value ” may be conclusively established by means of an Officer’s Certificate or resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company setting out such fair market value as determined by such Officer or such Board of Directors in good faith.
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ” means, with respect to any Person on any determination date, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person for the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending immediately prior to such determination date (the “ reference period ”) for which internal consolidated financial statements are available to the Fixed Charges of such Person for the reference period. In the event that the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs, assumes, Guarantees, redeems, defeases, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) or issues or redeems Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock subsequent to the commencement of the reference period but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “ Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio Calculation Date ”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, assumption, Guarantee, redemption, defeasance, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, or such issuance or redemption of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period; provided , however , that for purposes of the pro forma calculation under Section 3.2(a) such calculation shall not give effect to any Indebtedness Incurred on such determination date pursuant to the provisions described in Section 3.2(b) (other than Section 3.2(b)(5)(ii) ).
For purposes of making the computation referred to above, any Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and disposed or discontinued operations that have been made by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, during the reference period or subsequent to the reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio Calculation Date shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and disposed or discontinued operations (and the change in any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in Consolidated EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the reference period. If since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged or amalgamated with or into the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or disposed or discontinued operation that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or disposed operation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable reference period.

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For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or chief accounting officer of the Company (including cost savings and synergies). If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire reference period (taking into account any Hedging Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness). Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. For purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed with a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the reference period except as set forth in the first paragraph of this definition. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Company may designate.
Fixed Charges ” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of:
(1)    Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for such Period;
(2)    all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person during such period; and
(3)    all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Stock during this period.
Foreign Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that is not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and any Subsidiary of such Subsidiary.
GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on the date of any calculation or determination required hereunder. Except as otherwise set forth in this Indenture, all ratios and calculations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture shall be computed in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date. At any time after the Issue Date, the Company may elect to establish that GAAP shall mean the GAAP as in effect on or prior to the date of such election; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable. At any time after the Issue Date, the Company may elect to apply IFRS accounting principles in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such election, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS (except as otherwise provided in this Indenture), including as to the ability of the Company to make an election pursuant to the previous sentence; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable; provided , further , that any calculation or determination in this Indenture that require the application of GAAP for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to the Company’s election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with GAAP; provided , further again , that the Company may only make such election if it also elects to report any subsequent financial reports required to be made by the Company, including pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and Section 3.10 hereof, in IFRS. The Company shall give notice of any such election made in accordance with this definition to the Trustee and the Holders.
Grace ” refers to W. R. Grace & Co.
Grace common stock ” refers to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Grace.
Grace Transitional License Agreement ” means an agreement to be entered into by and between the Company and W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn., wherein W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn. will provide a limited license to the Company under the Grace trademark for certain products until new brands for those products are phased in, as it

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may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Guarantee ” means, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person, including any such obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:
(1)    to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep‑well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take‑or‑pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or
(2)    entered into primarily for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part);
provided , however , that the term “Guarantee” will not include (x) endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and (y) standard contractual indemnities or product warranties provided in the ordinary course of business, and provided , further , that the amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be the lower of (i) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee is made and (ii) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee or, if such Guarantee is not an unconditional guarantee of the entire amount of the primary obligation and such maximum amount is not stated or determinable, the amount of such guaranteeing Person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by such Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guarantor ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that Guarantees the Notes, until such Note Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; provided , for the avoidance of doubt, that no Restricted Subsidiary that is a CFC shall be required to be a Guarantor of the Notes.
Hedging Obligations ” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract.
Holder ” means each Person in whose name the Notes are registered on the Registrar’s books, which shall initially be the respective nominee of DTC.
IFRS ” means the International Financial Reporting Standards, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board as in effect from time to time.
Immaterial Subsidiary ” means, at any date of determination, each Restricted Subsidiary that (i) has not guaranteed any other Indebtedness of the Company and (ii) has total assets of less than 5.0% of Total Assets and revenues of less than 5.0% of the total revenues of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and, together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries (as determined in accordance with GAAP), has total assets of less than 10.0% of Total Assets and revenues of less than 10.0% of the total revenues of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, in each case, measured at the end of the most recent fiscal period for which internal financial statements are available on a pro forma basis giving effect to any acquisitions or dispositions of companies, divisions or lines of business since such balance sheet date or the start of such four quarter period, as applicable, and on or prior to the date of acquisition of such Subsidiary.
Immediate Family Members ” means, with respect to any individual, such individual’s child, stepchild, grandchild or more remote descendant, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, qualified domestic partner, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law (including adoptive relationships) and any trust, partnership or other bona fide estate-planning vehicle the only beneficiaries of which are any of the

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foregoing individuals or any private foundation or fund that is controlled by any of the foregoing individuals or any donor-advised fund of which any such individual is the donor.
Incur ” means issue, create, assume, enter into any Guarantee of, incur, extend or otherwise become liable for; provided , however , that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) will be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and the terms “Incurred” and “Incurrence” have meanings correlative to the foregoing and any Indebtedness pursuant to any revolving credit or similar facility shall only be “Incurred” at the time any funds are borrowed thereunder.
Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication):
(1)    the principal of Indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;
(2)    the principal of obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;
(3)    all reimbursement obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments which support financial obligations which would otherwise become Indebtedness (the amount of such obligations being equal at any time to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such letters of credit or other instruments plus the aggregate amount of drawings thereunder that have not been reimbursed) (except to the extent such reimbursement obligations relate to trade payables and such obligations are satisfied within 30 days of Incurrence);
(4)    the principal component of all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property (except trade payables or similar obligations to trade creditors), which purchase price is due more than one year after the date of placing such property in service or taking final delivery and title thereto;
(5)    Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;
(6)    the principal component of all obligations, or liquidation preference, of such Person with respect to any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);
(7)    the principal component of all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; provided , however , that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of (a) the fair market value of such asset at such date of determination (as determined in good faith by the Company) and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Persons;
(8)    Guarantees by such Person of the principal component of Indebtedness of the type referred to in clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (9) of other Persons to the extent Guaranteed by such Person; and
(9)    to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, net obligations of such Person under Hedging Obligations (the amount of any such obligations to be equal at any time to the net payments under such agreement or arrangement giving rise to such obligation that would be payable by such Person at the termination of such agreement or arrangement);
with respect to clauses (1), (2), (4) and (5) above, if and to the extent that any of the foregoing Indebtedness (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided , that Indebtedness of any Parent

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Entity appearing upon the balance sheet of the Company solely by reason of push-down accounting under GAAP shall be excluded.
The term “Indebtedness” shall not include any lease, concession or license of property (or Guarantee thereof) which would be considered an operating lease under GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date, any prepayments of deposits received from clients or customers in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, or obligations under any license, permit or other approval (or Guarantees given in respect of such obligations) Incurred prior to the Issue Date or in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice.
The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any time in the case of a revolving credit or similar facility shall be the total amount of funds borrowed and then outstanding. The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date shall be (a) the accreted value thereof in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount and (b) the principal amount of Indebtedness, or liquidation preference thereof, in the case of any other Indebtedness. Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 815 and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding the above provisions, in no event shall the following constitute Indebtedness:
(i)    Contingent Obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, other than Guarantees or other assumptions of Indebtedness;
(ii)    Cash Management Services;
(iii)    any lease, concession or license of property (or Guarantee thereof) which would be considered an operating lease under GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date or any prepayments of deposits received from clients or customers in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(iv)    obligations under any license, permit or other approval (or Guarantees given in respect of such obligations) incurred prior to the Issue Date or in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(v)    in connection with the purchase by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of any business, any post‑closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of such business after the closing; provided , however , that, at the time of closing, the amount of any such payment is not determinable and, to the extent such payment thereafter becomes fixed and determined, the amount is paid in a timely manner;
(vi)    for the avoidance of doubt, any obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement or termination obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations or contributions or social security or wage Taxes, or surety bonds, performance bonds or similar obligations;
(vii)    Indebtedness of any Parent Entity appearing on the balance sheet of the Company solely by reason of push down accounting under GAAP;
(viii)    obligations under or in respect of Receivables Facilities;
(ix)    Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock); or

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(x)    amounts owed to dissenting stockholders in connection with, or as a result of, their exercise of appraisal rights and the settlement of any claims or action (whether actual, contingent or potential) with respect thereto (including any accrued interest).
Indenture ” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time.
Independent Financial Advisor ” means an accounting, appraisal, investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in Similar Businesses of nationally recognized standing; provided , however , that such firm or appraiser is not an Affiliate of the Company.
Initial Notes ” has the meaning ascribed to it in the second introductory paragraph of this Indenture.
Initial Purchasers ” means Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and PNC Capital Markets LLC.
Investment ” means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of advances, loans or other extensions of credit (other than advances or extensions of credit to customers, suppliers, directors, officers or employees of any Person in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, and excluding any debt or extension of credit represented by a bank deposit other than a time deposit) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or the Incurrence of a Guarantee of any obligation of, or any purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar instruments issued by, such other Persons and all other items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared on the basis of GAAP; provided , however , that endorsements of negotiable instruments and documents in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice will not be deemed to be an Investment. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary issues, sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital Stock of a Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect thereto, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, any Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person remaining after giving effect thereto will be deemed to be a new Investment at such time.
For purposes of Section 3.3 and Section 3.20 hereof:
(1)    “Investment” will include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in a Restricted Subsidiary to be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of such Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company will be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount (if positive) equal to (a) the Company’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation less (b) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets (as determined by the Company) of such Subsidiary at the time that such Subsidiary is so re‑designated a Restricted Subsidiary; and
(2)    any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be valued at its fair market value at the time of such transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the Company.
Investment Grade Securities ” means:
(1)    securities issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the United States or Canadian government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);
(2)    securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by a member of the European Union, or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);

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(3)    debt securities or debt instruments with a rating of “A‑” or higher from S&P or “A3” or higher by Moody’s or the equivalent of such rating by such rating organization or, if no rating of Moody’s or S&P then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any other Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization, but excluding any debt securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among the Company and its Subsidiaries; and
(4)    investments in any fund that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in clauses (1), (2) and (3) above which fund may also hold cash and Cash Equivalents pending investment or distribution.
Investment Grade Status ” shall occur when the Notes receive each of the following:
(1)    a rating of “BBB‑” or higher from S&P; and
(2)    a rating of “Baa3” or higher from Moody’s;
or the equivalent of such rating by such rating organization or, if no rating of Moody’s or S&P then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any other Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.
Issue Date ” means January 27, 2016.
Lien ” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien, hypothecation or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof); provided that in no event shall an operating lease to be deemed to constitute a Lien.
LTM EBITDA ” means Consolidated EBITDA of the Company measured for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which internal consolidated financial statements of the Company are available, in each case with such pro forma adjustments giving effect to such Indebtedness, acquisition or Investment, as applicable, since the start of such four quarter period and as are consistent with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”
Management Advances ” means loans or advances made to, or Guarantees with respect to loans or advances made to, directors, officers, employees or consultants of any Parent Entity, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary:
(1)    (a) in respect of travel, entertainment or moving related expenses Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or (b) for purposes of funding any such person’s purchase of Capital Stock (or similar obligations) of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity with (in the case of this sub‑clause (b)) the approval of the Board of Directors;
(2)    in respect of moving related expenses Incurred in connection with any closing or consolidation of any facility or office; or
(3)    not exceeding $10.0 million in the aggregate outstanding at any time.
Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any of its successors or assigns that is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.
Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization ” means a nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Rule 436 under the Securities Act.
Net Available Cash ” from an Asset Disposition means cash payments received (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise and net proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any securities received as consideration, but only as and when

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received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring person of Indebtedness or other obligations relating to the properties or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition or received in any other non‑cash form) therefrom, in each case net of:
(1)    all legal, accounting, investment banking, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses Incurred, and all Taxes paid, reasonably estimated to be actually payable or accrued as a liability under GAAP (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other Taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to the Company and after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing agreements), as a consequence of such Asset Disposition, including distributions for Related Taxes;
(2)    all payments made on any Indebtedness which is secured by any assets subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon such assets, or which by applicable law be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Disposition;
(3)    all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders (other than any Parent Entity, the Company or any of its respective Subsidiaries) in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Disposition;
(4)    the deduction of appropriate amounts required to be provided by the seller as a reserve, on the basis of GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Disposition; and
(5)    any funded escrow established pursuant to the documents evidencing any such sale or disposition to secure any indemnification obligations or adjustments to the purchase price associated with any such Asset Disposition.
Net Cash Proceeds ”, with respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock, means the cash proceeds of such issuance or sale net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually Incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net of Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable as a result of such issuance or sale (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other Taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to the Company and after taking into account any available tax credit or deductions and any tax sharing agreements, and including distributions for Related Taxes).
Non-Guarantor Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor.
Non‑Profit Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is qualified under Section 501(c) of the Code as a nonprofit corporation.
Non‑U.S. Person ” means a Person who is not a U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S).
Note Documents ” means the Notes (including Additional Notes), the Note Guarantees and this Indenture.
Notes ” has the meaning ascribed to it in the second introductory paragraph of this Indenture.
Notes Custodian ” means the custodian with respect to the Global Notes (as appointed by DTC), or any successor Person thereto and shall initially be the Trustee.
Obligations ” means any principal, interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for Post-Petition Interest is allowed in such proceedings), penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

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Offering Circular ” means the final offering circular, dated January 22, 2016, relating to the offering by the Company of $525.0 million principal amount of 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 and any future offering circular relating to Additional Notes.
Officer ” means, with respect to any Person, (1) the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer, any Managing Director, or the Secretary (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity, or (2) any other individual designated as an “Officer” for the purposes of this Indenture by the Board of Directors of such Person.
Officer’s Certificate ” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by one Officer of such Person.
Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or its Subsidiaries.
Outside Date ” means June 25, 2016, which date is the 150th day after the Issue Date.
Parent Entity ” means any direct or indirect parent of the Company.
Parent Entity Expenses ” means:
(1)    costs (including all professional fees and expenses) Incurred by any Parent Entity in connection with reporting obligations under or otherwise Incurred in connection with compliance with applicable laws, rules or regulations of any governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory body or stock exchange, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument relating to the Notes, the Guarantees or any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, including in respect of any reports filed or delivered with respect to the Securities Act, Exchange Act or the respective rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;
(2)    customary indemnification obligations of any Parent Entity owing to directors, officers, employees or other Persons under its articles, charter, by-laws, partnership agreement or other organizational documents or pursuant to written agreements with any such Person to the extent relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(3)    obligations of any Parent Entity in respect of director and officer insurance (including premiums therefor) to the extent relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(4)    (x) general corporate overhead expenses, including professional fees and expenses and (y) other operational expenses of any Parent Entity related to the ownership or operation of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(5)    expenses Incurred by any Parent Entity in connection with (i) any offering, sale, conversion or exchange of Capital Stock or Indebtedness and (ii) related to any compensation paid to officers, directors and employees; and
(6)    amounts to finance Investments that would otherwise be permitted to be made pursuant to Section 3.3 hereof if made by the Company; provided , that (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment, (B) such direct or indirect parent company shall, immediately following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Capital Stock) to be contributed to the capital of the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or (2) the merger, consolidation or amalgamation of the Person formed or acquired into the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent not prohibited by Section 4.1 hereof) in order to consummate such Investment, (C) such direct or indirect parent company and its Affiliates (other than the Company or a

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Restricted Subsidiary) receives no consideration or other payment in connection with such transaction except to the extent the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary could have given such consideration or made such payment in compliance with this Indenture and such consideration or other payment is included as a Restricted Payment under this Indenture, (D) any property received by the Company shall not increase amounts available for Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 3.3(a)(iii) and (E) such Investment shall be deemed to be made by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to another provision of Section 3.3 or pursuant to the definition of “ Permitted Investment .”
Pari Passu Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness of the Company which ranks equally in right of payment to the Notes or any Guarantee if such Guarantee ranks equally in right of payment to the Guarantees of the Notes.
Paying Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Note on behalf of the Company.
Permitted Asset Swap ” means the concurrent purchase and sale or exchange of assets used or useful in a Similar Business or a combination of such assets and cash, Cash Equivalents between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that any cash or Cash Equivalents received in excess of the value of any cash or Cash Equivalents sold or exchanged must be applied in accordance with Section 3.5 hereof.
Permitted Investment ” means (in each case, by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries):
(1)    Investments in (a) a Restricted Subsidiary (including the Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary) or the Company or (b) a Person (including the Capital Stock of any such Person) that will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary;
(2)    Investments in another Person if such Person is engaged in any Similar Business and as a result of such Investment such other Person is merged, amalgamated, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its assets to, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(3)    Investments in cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;
(4)    Investments in receivables owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary created or acquired in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(5)    Investments in payroll, travel and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(6)    Management Advances;
(7)    Investments received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary, or as a result of foreclosure, perfection or enforcement of any Lien, or in satisfaction of judgments or pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement including upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of a debtor or otherwise with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default;
(8)    Investments made as a result of the receipt of non‑cash consideration from a sale or other disposition of property or assets, including an Asset Disposition;
(9)    Investments existing or pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof; provided that the amount of any

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such Investment may not be increased except (a) as required by the terms of such Investment as in existence on the Issue Date or (b) as otherwise permitted under this Indenture;
(10)    Hedging Obligations, which transactions or obligations are Incurred in compliance with Section 3.2 hereof;
(11)    pledges or deposits with respect to leases or utilities provided to third parties in the ordinary course of business or Liens otherwise described in the definition of “Permitted Liens” or made in connection with Liens permitted under Section 3.6 hereof;
(12)    any Investment to the extent made using Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or Capital Stock of any Parent Entity as consideration;
(13)    any transaction to the extent constituting an Investment that is permitted and made in accordance with Section 3.8(b) hereof (except those described in Sections 3.8(b)(1) , (3) , (6) , (7) , (8) , (9) , (12) and (14) );
(14)    Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in any case, in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with this Indenture;
(15)    (i) Guarantees of Indebtedness not prohibited by Section 3.2 and (other than with respect to Indebtedness) guarantees, keepwells and similar arrangements in the ordinary course of business and (ii) performance guarantees with respect to obligations that are permitted by this Indenture;
(16)    Investments consisting of earnest money deposits required in connection with a purchase agreement, or letter of intent, or other acquisitions to the extent not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture;
(17)    Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Issue Date or of an entity merged or amalgamated into the Company or merged or amalgamated into or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation;
(18)    Investments consisting of licensing or contribution of intellectual property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons;
(19)    contributions to a “rabbi” trust for the benefit of employees or other grantor trust subject to claims of creditors in the case of a bankruptcy of the Company;
(20)    Investments in joint ventures and similar entities and Unrestricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate fair market value, when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause that are at the time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $60.0 million and 25.0% of LTM EBITDA at the time of such Investment (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) plus the amount of any distributions, dividends, payments or other returns in respect of such Investments (without duplication for purposes of Section 3.3 of any amounts applied pursuant to Section 3.3(a)(iii) ;
(21)    additional Investments having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (21) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $60.0 million and 25.0% of LTM EBITDA (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) plus the amount of any distributions, dividends, payments or other returns in respect of such Investments (without duplication for purposes of Section 3.3 of any amounts applied pursuant to Section 3.3(a)(iii) ); provided that if such

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Investment is in Capital Stock of a Person that subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed permitted under clause (1) or (2) above and shall not be included as having been made pursuant to this clause (21);
(22)    any Investment in a Similar Business having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $60.0 million and 25.0% of LTM EBITDA (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) plus the amount of any distributions, dividends, payments or other returns in respect of such Investments (without duplication for purposes of Section 3.3 of any amounts applied pursuant to Section 3.3(a)(iii) ); provided that if such Investment is in Capital Stock of a Person that subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed permitted under clause (1) or (2) above and shall not be included as having been made pursuant to this clause;
(23)    Investments relating to a Receivables Subsidiary that, in the good faith determination of the Company, are necessary or advisable to effect any Receivables Facility or any repurchase in connection therewith;
(24)    Investments to be made on or around the Issue Date in connection with the Transactions;
(25)    repurchases of Notes;
(26)    Investments by an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary not made in contemplation of such redesignation as described under Section 3.20 ; and
(27)     transactions entered into in order to consummate a Permitted Tax Restructuring.
Permitted Liens ” means, with respect to any Person:
(1)    Liens on assets or property of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor securing Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor;
(2)    pledges, deposits or Liens under workmen’s compensation laws, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance laws, social security laws or similar legislation, or insurance related obligations (including pledges or deposits securing liability to insurance carriers under insurance or self‑insurance arrangements), or in connection with bids, tenders, completion guarantees, contracts (other than for borrowed money) or leases, or to secure utilities, licenses, public or statutory obligations, or to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, government contracts and leases, statutory obligations, surety, stay, indemnity, judgment, customs, appeal or performance bonds, return-of-money bonds, performance and completion guarantees, bankers’ acceptance facilities (or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations), obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments that have been posted to support the same or as security for contested taxes or import or customs duties or for the payment of rent, or other obligations of like nature, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(3)    Liens with respect to outstanding motor vehicle fines and Liens imposed by law, including carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, construction contractors’ or other like Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more than 60 days or that are bonded or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

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(4)    Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges which are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or, if more than 60 days overdue, which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided that appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP (or other applicable accounting principles) have been made in respect thereof;
(5)    encumbrances, charges, ground leases, easements (including reciprocal easement agreements), survey exceptions, land use regulations, covenants, conditions, restrictions, encroachments, protrusions, by-law, regulation, zoning restrictions or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances or matters that would be disclosed in an accurate survey affecting real property) as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or to the ownership of their properties, including servicing agreements, development agreements, site plan agreements, subdivision agreements, facilities sharing agreements, cost sharing agreement and other agreements, which do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole);
(6)    Liens (a) on assets or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary securing Hedging Obligations or Cash Management Services permitted under this Indenture; (b) that are contractual rights of set-off or, in the case of clause (i) or (ii) below, other bankers’ Liens (i) relating to treasury, depository and cash management services or any automated clearing house transfers of funds in the ordinary course of business and not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any Subsidiary or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (c) on cash accounts securing Indebtedness incurred under Section 3.2(b)(8)(iii) with financial institutions; (d) encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice and not for speculative purposes; and/or (e) (i) of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the UCC on items in the course of collection and (ii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law or by operation of customary standard terms and conditions of the account keeping encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the maintenance of such accounts and (iii) arising under customary general terms of the account bank in relation to any bank account maintained with such bank and attaching only to such account and the products and proceeds thereof, which Liens, in any event, do not secure any Indebtedness;
(7)    leases, licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets (including real property and intellectual property rights), in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(8)    Liens securing or otherwise arising out of judgments, decrees, attachments, orders or awards not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as (a) any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment, decree, order or award have not been finally terminated, (b) the period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired or (c) no more than 60 days have passed after (i) such judgment, decree, order or award has become final or (ii) such period within which such proceedings may be initiated has expired;
(9)    Liens (i) on assets or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of securing Capitalized Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Obligations, or securing the payment of all or a part of the purchase price of, or securing other Indebtedness Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition, improvement or construction of, assets or property acquired or constructed in the ordinary course of business; provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens is otherwise permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture and (b) any such Liens may not

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extend to any assets or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than assets or property acquired, improved, constructed or leased with the proceeds of such Indebtedness and any improvements or accessions to such assets and property and (ii) on any interest or title of a licensor, sublicensor, lessor or sublessor under any Capitalized Lease Obligations or operating lease;
(10)    Liens perfected or evidenced by UCC financing statement filings (or similar filings in other applicable jurisdictions) regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, including precautionary UCC financing statements;
(11)    Liens existing on the Issue Date, excluding Liens securing the Credit Agreement;
(12)    Liens on property, other assets or shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or at the time the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary acquires such property, other assets or shares of stock, including any acquisition by means of a merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other business combination transaction with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) and any modifications, replacements, refinancings, restructurings, renewals or extensions thereof; provided, however, that such Liens are not created, Incurred or assumed in anticipation of or in connection with such other Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary (or such acquisition of such property, other assets or stock); provided, further, that such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property, other assets or stock (plus improvements, accession, proceeds or dividends or distributions in connection with the original property, other assets or stock) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which such Liens arose, could secure) the obligations to which such Liens relate;
(13)    Liens on assets or property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary securing Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary, or Liens in favor of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(14)    Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance Indebtedness that was previously so secured, and permitted to be secured under this Indenture; provided that any such Lien is limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure) the Indebtedness being refinanced;
(15)    (a) mortgages, liens, security interests, restrictions, encumbrances or any other matters of record that have been placed by any government, statutory or regulatory authority, developer, landlord or other third party on property over which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has easement rights or on any leased property and subordination or similar arrangements relating thereto and (b) any condemnation or eminent domain proceedings affecting any real property;
(16)    any encumbrance or restriction (including put and call arrangements) with respect to Capital Stock of any non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary or joint venture or similar arrangement pursuant to any organizational document, joint venture or similar agreement;
(17)    Liens on property or assets under construction (and related rights) in favor of a contractor or developer or arising from progress or partial payments by a third party relating to such property or assets;
(18)    Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, hire purchase, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(19)    Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred under Credit Facilities, including any letter of credit facility relating thereto, that was permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2(b)(1) ;

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(20)    Liens to secure Indebtedness permitted by Section 3.2(b)(5) ; provided that such Liens shall only be permitted if (x) such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property or assets, including Capital Stock (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof, or replacements of any thereof) acquired, or of any Person acquired or merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, in any transaction to which such Indebtedness relates and (y) on the date of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness after giving effect to such Incurrence, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio would equal or be less than the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio immediately prior to giving effect thereto;
(21)    Liens Incurred to secure Obligations in respect of any Indebtedness permitted by Section 3.2(b)(19) ; provided that only the equipment the acquisition of which is financed by such Indebtedness shall be encumbered by such Liens;
(22)    Liens to secure Indebtedness of any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary covering only the assets of such Subsidiary;
(23)    Liens on Capital Stock or other securities or assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that secure Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(24)    any security granted over the marketable securities portfolio described in clause (9) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents” in connection with the disposal thereof to a third party;
(25)    Liens on (i) goods the purchase price of which is financed by a documentary letter of credit issued for the account of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or Liens on bills of lading, drafts or other documents of title arising by operation of law or pursuant to the standard terms of agreements relating to letters of credit, bank guarantees and other similar instruments and (ii) specific items of inventory of other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;
(26)    Liens on equipment of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary granted in the ordinary course of business to clients or suppliers of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(27)    Liens on assets or securities deemed to arise in connection with and solely as a result of the execution, delivery or performance of contracts to sell such assets or securities if such sale is otherwise permitted by this Indenture;
(28)    Liens arising by operation of law or contract on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof to secure premiums thereunder, and Liens, pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for premiums or reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefits of) insurance carriers;
(29)    Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted under this Indenture;
(30)    Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to Permitted Investments to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment, and (ii) consisting of an agreement to sell any property in an asset sale permitted under Section 3.5 , in each case, solely to the extent such Investment or asset sale, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;
(31)    Liens securing Indebtedness and other obligations in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of $60.0 million and 6.0% of Total Assets at any one time outstanding, including any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

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(32)    Liens then existing with respect to assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary on the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary not made in contemplation of such redesignation pursuant to Section 3.20 ;
(33)    Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements permitted under Section 3.2 provided that such Liens do not extend to any assets other than those that are the subject of such repurchase agreement;
(34)    Liens on Receivables Assets incurred in connection with a Receivables Facility;
(35)    Settlement Liens;
(36)    rights of recapture of unused real property in favor of the seller of such property set forth in customary purchase agreements and related arrangements with any government, statutory or regulatory authority;
(37)     Liens arising by operation of law under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code in favor of a reclaiming seller of goods or buyer of goods;
(38)    Liens in the nature of the right of set‑off in favor of counterparties to contractual agreements with the Company or the Guarantors in the ordinary course of business;
(39)    security given to a public or private utility or government authority as required in the ordinary course of business;
(40)    any exclusive or non‑exclusive licenses granted under any intellectual property rights that do not secure or is not granted in connection with incurrence of Indebtedness;
(41)    the rights reserved to or vested in any Person or government, statutory or regulatory authority by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit held by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or by a statutory provision, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or periodic payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(42)    restrictive covenants affecting the use to which real property may be put;
(43)    Liens or covenants restricting or prohibiting access to or from lands abutting on controlled access highways or covenants affecting the use to which lands may be put; provided that such Liens or covenants do not interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; or
(44)    Liens arising in connection with any Permitted Tax Restructuring or any intercompany license agreements.
In the event that a Permitted Lien meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Permitted Liens (at the time of incurrence or at a later date), the Company in its sole discretion may divide, classify or from time to time reclassify all or any portion of such Permitted Lien in any manner that complies with this Indenture and such Permitted Lien shall be treated as having been made pursuant only to the clause or clauses of the definition of “Permitted Lien” to which such Permitted Lien has been classified or reclassified.
Permitted Tax Distribution ” means:
(a)    if and for so long as the Company is a member of a group filing a consolidated or combined tax return with any Parent Entity, any dividends or other distributions to fund any income Taxes for which such Parent Entity is liable up to an amount not to exceed the amount of any such Taxes that the

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Company and its Subsidiaries would have been required to pay on a separate company basis or on a consolidated basis calculated as if the Company and its Subsidiaries had paid Tax on a consolidated, combined, group, affiliated or unitary basis on behalf of an affiliated group consisting only of the Company and its Subsidiaries; and
(b)    for any taxable year (or portion thereof) ending after the Issue Date for which the Company is treated as a disregarded entity, partnership, or other flow-through entity for federal, state and/or local income Tax purposes, the payment of dividends or other distributions to the Company’s direct owner(s) to fund the income Tax liability of such owner(s) (or, if a direct owner is a disregarded entity, partnership or other flow-through entity for federal, state and/or local income tax purposes, of the indirect owner(s)) for such taxable year (or portion thereof) attributable to the operations and activities of the Company and its direct and indirect Subsidiaries, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the product of (x) the highest combined marginal federal and applicable state and/or local statutory Tax rate (after taking into account the deductibility of U.S. state and local income Tax for U.S. federal income Tax purposes) and (y) the taxable income of the Company for such taxable year (or portion thereof).
Permitted Tax Restructuring ” means one or more transactions pursuant to which the Capital Stock of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries is transferred to another Foreign Subsidiary in exchange for equity or debt of the transferee or as a capital contribution to the transferee; provided that none of the Subsidiaries that were not Excluded Subsidiaries prior to such transactions shall become Excluded Subsidiaries as a result thereof.
Person ” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint‑stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
Post-Petition Interest ” means any interest or entitlement to fees or expenses or other charges that accrue after the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
Predecessor Note ” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.11 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note.
Preferred Stock ,” as applied to the Capital Stock of any Person, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such Person.
Public Company Costs ” means, as to any Person, costs associated with, or in anticipation of, or preparation for, compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith and costs relating to compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act or any other comparable body of laws, rules or regulations, as companies with listed equity, directors’ compensation, fees and expense reimbursement, costs relating to investor relations, shareholder meetings and reports to shareholders, directors’ and officers’ insurance and other executive costs, legal and other professional fees, and listing fees, in each case to the extent arising solely by virtue of the listing of such Person’s equity securities on a national securities exchange.
Purchase Money Obligations ” means any Indebtedness Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition, leasing, construction or improvement of property (real or personal) or assets (including Capital Stock), and whether acquired through the direct acquisition of such property or assets or the acquisition of the Capital Stock of any Person owning such property or assets, or otherwise.
QIB ” means any “qualified institutional buyer” as such term is defined in Rule 144A.

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Receivables Assets ” means (a) any accounts receivable owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary subject to a Receivables Facility and the proceeds thereof and (b) all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights, guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, all records with respect to such accounts receivable and any other assets customarily transferred together with accounts receivable in connection with a non recourse accounts receivable factoring arrangement and which are sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged by the Company to a commercial bank or Affiliate thereof in connection with a Receivables Facility.
Receivables Facility ” means any of one or more receivables financing facilities (including for factoring, securitizations and sales transactions) as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated or refunded from time to time, the Obligations of which are non-recourse (except for Securitization Repurchase Obligations and customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities made in connection with such facilities) to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Receivables Subsidiary) pursuant to which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries sells its accounts receivable to either (a) a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or (b) a Receivables Subsidiary that in turn sells its accounts receivable to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary.
Receivables Fees ” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any accounts receivable or participation interest therein issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, any Receivables Facility.
Receivables Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary formed for the purpose of, and that solely engages only in one or more Receivables Facilities and other activities reasonably related thereto.
Refinance ” means refinance, refund, replace, renew, repay, modify, restate, defer, substitute, supplement, reissue, resell, extend or increase (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism) and the terms “ refinances, ” “ refinanced ” and “ refinancing ” as used for any purpose in this Indenture shall have a correlative meaning.
Refinancing Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness that is Incurred to refund, refinance, replace, exchange, renew, repay or extend (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism) any Indebtedness existing on the Issue Date or Incurred in compliance with this Indenture (including Indebtedness of the Company that refinances Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) including Indebtedness that refinances Refinancing Indebtedness; provided , however , that:
(1)    (a) such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred which is not less than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock being refunded or refinanced; and (b) to the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness refinances Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, such Refinancing Indebtedness is Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, respectively, and, in the case of Subordinated Indebtedness, is subordinated to the Notes on terms at least as favorable to the Holders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being refinanced;
(2)    Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include:
(i)    Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Subsidiary of the Company that is not the Company or a Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of the Company or a Guarantor; or
(ii)    Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

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(3)    such Refinancing Indebtedness has an aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding (plus fees and expenses, including any premium and defeasance costs) under the Indebtedness being Refinanced.
Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Credit Facility or any other Indebtedness may be Incurred within 180 days after the termination, discharge or repayment of any such Credit Facility or other Indebtedness.
Regulation S ” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Regulation S‑X ” means Regulation S‑X under the Securities Act.
Related Taxes ” means:
(1)    any Taxes, including sales, use, transfer, rental, ad valorem, value added, stamp, property, consumption, franchise, license, capital, registration, business, customs, net worth, gross receipts, excise, occupancy, intangibles or similar Taxes and other similar fees and expenses (other than (x) Taxes measured by income and (y) withholding Taxes), required to be paid ( provided such Taxes are in fact paid) by any Parent Entity by virtue of its:
(a)    being organized or having Capital Stock outstanding (but not by virtue of owning stock or other equity interests of any corporation or other entity other than, directly or indirectly, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries) or otherwise maintain its existence or good standing under applicable law;
(b)    being a holding company parent, directly or indirectly, of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(c)    receiving dividends from or other distributions in respect of the Capital Stock of, directly or indirectly, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; or
(d)    having made any payment in respect to any of the items for which the Company is permitted to make payments to any Parent Entity pursuant to Section 3.3 ; or
(2)    any Permitted Tax Distribution.
Restricted Investment ” means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.
Restricted Notes ” means Initial Notes and Additional Notes bearing one of the restrictive legends described in Section 2.1(d) .
Restricted Notes Legend ” means the legend set forth in Section 2.1(d)(1) .
Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Company other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
Reversion Date ” means, during any period of time during which the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to Sections 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.7 , 3.8 and 4.1(a)(3) (collectively, the “ Suspended Covenants ”) as a result of a Covenant Suspension, the date on which the Notes cease to have Investment Grade Status, and after which date the Suspended Covenants will thereafter be reinstated as if such covenants had never been suspended and such Suspended Covenants will be applicable pursuant to the terms of this Indenture (including in connection with performing any calculation or assessment to determine compliance with the terms of this Indenture).

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Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Investors Ratings Services or any of its successors or assigns that is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.
Sale and Leaseback Transaction ” means any arrangement providing for the leasing by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any real or tangible personal property, which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to a third Person in contemplation of such leasing.
SEC ” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.
Secured Indebtedness ” means any Indebtedness secured by a Lien. For the avoidance of doubt, Secured Indebtedness shall exclude Indebtedness in respect of any Receivables Facility.
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, as amended.
Securitization Repurchase Obligation ” means any obligation of a seller of Receivables Assets in a Receivables Facility to repurchase Receivables Assets arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, offset or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.
Separation and Distribution Agreement ” means the separation and distribution agreement to be entered into in connection with the Spin-Off, by and among the Company, Grace and W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn., setting forth the mechanics of the Spin-Off, certain organizational matters and other ongoing obligations of the Company, Grace and W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn., as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Settlement ” means the transfer of cash or other property with respect to any credit or debit card charge, check or other instrument, electronic funds transfer, or other type of paper-based or electronic payment, transfer, or charge transaction for which a Person acts as a processor, remitter, funds recipient or funds transmitter in the ordinary course of its business.
Settlement Asset ” means any cash, receivable or other property, including a Settlement Receivable, due or conveyed to a Person in consideration for a Settlement made or arranged, or to be made or arranged, by such Person or an Affiliate of such Person.
Settlement Indebtedness ” means any payment or reimbursement obligation in respect of a Settlement Payment.
Settlement Lien ” means any Lien relating to any Settlement or Settlement Indebtedness (and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the grant of a Lien in or other assignment of a Settlement Asset in consideration of a Settlement Payment, Liens securing intraday and overnight overdraft and automated clearing house exposure, and similar Liens).
Settlement Payment ” means the transfer, or contractual undertaking (including by automated clearing house transaction) to effect a transfer, of cash or other property to effect a Settlement.
Settlement Receivable ” means any general intangible, payment intangible, or instrument representing or reflecting an obligation to make payments to or for the benefit of a Person in consideration for a Settlement made or arranged, or to be made or arranged, by such Person.

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Significant Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1‑02 of Regulation S‑X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.
Similar Business ” means (a) any businesses, services or activities engaged in by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Associates on the Issue Date and (b) any businesses, services and activities engaged in by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Associates that are related, complementary, incidental, ancillary or similar to any of the foregoing or are extensions or developments of any thereof.
Spin‑Off ” means the distribution by Grace to the holders of Grace common stock on a pro rata basis all of the outstanding shares of the common stock of the Company, which at the time of the distribution will hold the business, assets and liabilities associated with GCP, as described in the Offering Circular under the caption “The Transactions — The Spin‑Off.”
Spin‑Off Effective Date ” means the effective date of the Spin‑Off.
Stated Maturity ” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision, but shall not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.
Subordinated Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any person, any Indebtedness (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) which is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written agreement.
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person:
(1)    any corporation, association, or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity) of which more than 50.0% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof; or
(2)    any partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity of which:
(a)    more than 50.0% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general or limited partnership interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise; and
(b)    such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity.
Swap Contract ” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity caps, commodity collars, commodity options, forward contracts, future contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, sell buy back and buy sell back agreements, and securities lending and borrowing agreements or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing),

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whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “ Master Agreement ”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
Taxes ” means all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, duties and withholdings and any charges of a similar nature (including interest, penalties and other liabilities with respect thereto) that are imposed by any government or other taxing authority.
Tax Sharing Agreement ” an agreement to be entered into in connection with the Spin‑Off, by and among Grace, W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn. and the Company, that will generally govern the parties’ respective rights, responsibilities and obligations after the distribution with respect to taxes (including taxes arising in the ordinary course of business and taxes, if any, incurred as a result of any failure of the distribution and certain related transactions to qualify under Sections 355 and certain other relevant provisions of the Code), tax attributes, the preparation and filing of tax returns, tax elections, tax contests, and certain other tax matters, as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
Total Assets ” means, as of any date, the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a pro forma basis in a manner consistent with the pro forma basis contained in the definition of “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”
Transaction Agreements ” means the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Employee Matters Agreement, Cross-License Agreement and Grace Transitional License Agreement, in each case, as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Transaction Expenses ” means any charges, fees or expenses (including all legal, accounting, advisory, financing‑related or other transaction‑related charges, fees, costs and expenses and any bonuses or success fee payments and amortization or write‑offs of debt issuance costs, deferred financing costs, premiums and prepayment penalties) incurred or paid by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions.
Transactions ” means, collectively, (a) the Spin‑Off and the other transactions contemplated thereby, including the entering into of the Transaction Agreements, (b) the issuance of the Notes, (c) the entering into of the Credit Agreement and related documents and the borrowings thereunder, (d) any other transactions defined as “Transactions” in the Offering Circular and (e) the payment of fees and expenses in connection with the foregoing, in each case, as described in the Offering Circular.
Transition Services Agreement ” an agreement to be entered into in connection with the Spin-Off between the Company and W. R. Grace & Co.‑Conn. and/or their respective subsidiaries, which will provide for, among other things, the provision of transitional services, as it may be amended, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with, or as not prohibited by, this Indenture.
Trust Officer ” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such Person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

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Trustee ” means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.
Uniform Commercial Code ” or “ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided , however , that at any time, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of a collateral agent’s security interest in any item or portion of the collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, at such time, in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or priority and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.
Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means:
(1)    any Subsidiary (other than the Company or any direct or indirect parent entity of the Company) of the Company that at the time of determination is an Unrestricted Subsidiary (as designated by the Company in the manner provided below); and
(2)    any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
The Company may designate any Subsidiary of the Company, respectively (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary or a Person becoming a Subsidiary through merger, consolidation or other business combination transaction, or Investment therein), to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary only if:
(1)    such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries does not own any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of, or own or hold any Lien on any property of, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated or otherwise an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and
(2)    such designation and the Investment of the Company in such Subsidiary complies with Section 3.3 hereof.
U.S. Government Obligations ” means securities that are (1) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (2) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally Guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuers thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligations evidenced by such depositary receipt.
Voting Stock ” of a Person means all classes of Capital Stock of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled to vote in the election of directors.
Weighted Average Life to Maturity ” means, when applied to any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as the case may be, at any date, the quotient obtained by dividing:
(1)    the sum of the products of the number of years from the date of determination to the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment, by

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(2)    the sum of all such payments.
Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary ” means a Domestic Subsidiary of the Company, all of the Capital Stock of which is owned by the Company or another Guarantor.
SECTION 1.2.     Other Definitions .
Term
Defined in
Section
Acceptable Commitment
3.5(a)(3)(ii)
Acquired Entity or Business
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Additional Restricted Notes
2.1(b)
Affiliate Transaction
3.8(a)
Agent Members
2.1(e)(2)
Approved Foreign Bank
“Cash Equivalents”
Asset Disposition Offer
3.5(b)
Authenticating Agent
2.2
Automatic Exchange
2.6(e)
Automatic Exchange Date
2.6(e)
Automatic Exchange Notice
2.6(e)
Automatic Exchange Notice Date
2.6(e)
Change of Control Offer
3.9(a)
Change of Control Payment
3.9(a)
Change of Control Payment Date
3.9(a)(2)
Clearstream
2.1(b)
Company Order
2.2
Converted Restricted Subsidiary
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Covenant Defeasance
8.3
Defaulted Interest
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Term
Defined in
Section
Euroclear
2.1(b)
Event of Default
6.1
Excess Proceeds
3.5(b)
Foreign Disposition
3.5(d)(i)
Global Notes
2.1(b)
Guaranteed Obligations
10.1
Increased Amount
3.6
Initial Agreement
3.4(b)(16)
Initial Default
6.1(b)
Initial Lien
3.6
Legal Defeasance
8.2
Legal Holiday
12.6
Mandatory Redemption Event
5.9(a)
Master Agreement
“Swap Contract”
Note Guarantees
10.1
Notes Register
2.3
Other Guarantee
10.2(b)(5)
payment default
6.1(a)(4)(A)
Permitted Payments
3.3(b)
primary obligations
“Contingent Obligations”
primary obligor
“Contingent Obligations”
protected purchaser
2.11
Redemption Date
5.7(a)
reference period
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”
Refunding Capital Stock
3.3(b)(2)

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Term
Defined in
Section
Registrar
2.3
Regulation S Global Note
2.1(b)
Regulation S Notes
2.1(b)
Resale Restriction Termination Date
2.6(b)
Reserved Indebtedness Amount
3.2(c)
Restricted Global Note
2.6(e)
Restricted Payment
3.3(a)
Restricted Period
2.1(b)
Rule 144A Global Note
2.1(b)
Rule 144A Notes
2.1(b)
Second Commitment
3.5(a)(3)(ii)
Sold Entity or Business
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Special Interest Payment Date
2.15(a)
Special Mandatory Redemption Notice
5.9(a)
Special Mandatory Redemption Price
5.9(a)
Special Record Date
2.15(a)
Successor Company
4.1(a)(1)
Suspended Covenants
“Reversion Date”
Suspension Period
3.21
Topic 810
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Topic 815
“Consolidated EBITDA”
Treasury Capital Stock
3.3(b)(2)
Unrestricted Global Note
2.6(e)

SECTION 1.3.     Rules of Construction . Unless the context otherwise requires:
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(2)    an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3)    “or” is not exclusive;
(4)    “including” means including without limitation;
(5)    words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;
(6)    “will” shall be interpreted to express a command;
(7)    the principal amount of any non‑interest bearing or other discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP;
(8)    the principal amount of any preferred stock shall be (i) the maximum liquidation value of such preferred stock or (ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase price with respect to such preferred stock, whichever is greater;
(9)    all amounts expressed in this Indenture or in any of the Notes in terms of money refer to the lawful currency of the United States of America;
(10)    the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(11)    unless otherwise specifically indicated, the term “consolidated” with respect to any Person refers to such Person consolidated with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and excludes from such consolidation any Unrestricted Subsidiary as if such Unrestricted Subsidiary were not an Affiliate of such Person.
ARTICLE II    

THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1.     Form, Dating and Terms .
(a)    The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof will be in an aggregate principal amount of $525,000,000. In addition, the Company may issue, from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, Additional Notes (as provided herein). Furthermore, Notes may be authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer, exchange or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.2 , 2.6 , 2.11 , 2.13 , 5.6 or 9.5 , in connection with an Asset Disposition Offer pursuant to Section 3.5 or in connection with a Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 3.9 .
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Company may not issue any Additional Notes, unless such issuance is in compliance with Section 3.2 .
With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in an Officer’s Certificate or one or more indentures supplemental hereto, the following information:
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(B)    the issue price and the issue date of such Additional Notes, including the date from which interest shall accrue; and
(C)    whether such Additional Notes shall be Restricted Notes.
In authenticating and delivering Additional Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel and Officer’s Certificate required by Section 12.2 , an Opinion of Counsel as to the due authorization, execution, delivery, validity and enforceability of such Additional Notes.
The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes shall be considered collectively as a single class for all purposes of this Indenture (other than special redemptions or offers to purchase related to a particular transaction or an escrow funding and specific to an issuance of Notes (including any special mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 5.9 )). Holders of the Initial Notes and the Additional Notes will vote and consent together on all matters to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent as one class, and none of the Holders of the Initial Notes or the Additional Notes shall have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent.
(b)    The Initial Notes are being offered and sold by the Company pursuant to a Purchase Agreement, dated January 22, 2016, among the Company, the guarantors named therein and Goldman, Sachs & Co., on behalf of itself and as representative for the several other Initial Purchasers. The Initial Notes and any Additional Notes (if issued as Restricted Notes) (the “ Additional Restricted Notes ”) will be resold initially only to (A) Persons they reasonably believe to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A and (B) Non‑U.S. Persons in reliance on Regulation S. Such Initial Notes and Additional Restricted Notes may thereafter be transferred to, among others, QIBs and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S, in each case, in accordance with the procedure described herein. Additional Notes offered after the date hereof may be offered and sold by the Company from time to time pursuant to one or more purchase agreements in accordance with applicable law.
Initial Notes and Additional Restricted Notes offered and sold to QIBs in the United States of America in reliance on Rule 144A (the “ Rule 144A Notes ”) shall be issued in the form of a permanent global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A , which is hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture, including appropriate legends as set forth in Section 2.1(d) (the “ Rule 144A Global Note ”), deposited with the Trustee, as Notes Custodian, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The Rule 144A Global Note may be represented by more than one certificate, if so required by DTC’s rules regarding the maximum principal amount to be represented by a single certificate. The aggregate principal amount of the Rule 144A Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for DTC or its nominee, as hereinafter provided.
Initial Notes and any Additional Restricted Notes offered and sold to non-U.S. Persons outside the United States of America (the “ Regulation S Notes ”) in reliance on Regulation S shall be issued in the form of a permanent global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A including appropriate legends as set forth in Section 2.1(d) (the “ Regulation S Global Note ”). Each Regulation S Global Note will be deposited upon issuance with, or on behalf of, the Trustee as Notes Custodian in the manner described in this Article II for credit to the respective accounts of the purchasers (or to such other accounts as they may direct), including, but not limited to, accounts at Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“ Euroclear ”) or Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (“ Clearstream ”). Prior to the 40th day after the later of the commencement of the offering of the Initial Notes and the Issue Date (such period through and including such 40th day, the “ Restricted Period ”), interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be transferred to non‑U.S. persons pursuant to Regulation S, unless exchanged for interests in a Global Note in accordance with the transfer and certification requirements described herein.
Investors may hold their interests in the Regulation S Global Note through organizations other than Euroclear or Clearstream that are participants in DTC’s system or directly through Euroclear or Clearstream, if they are participants in such systems, or indirectly through organizations which are participants in such systems. If such interests are held through Euroclear or Clearstream, Euroclear and Clearstream will hold such interests in the

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applicable Regulation S Global Note on behalf of their participants through customers’ securities accounts in their respective names on the books of their respective depositaries. Such depositaries, in turn, will hold such interests in the applicable Regulation S Global Note in customers’ securities accounts in the depositaries’ names on the books of DTC.
The Regulation S Global Note may be represented by more than one certificate, if so required by DTC’s rules regarding the maximum principal amount to be represented by a single certificate. The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for DTC or its nominee, as hereinafter provided.
The Rule 144A Global Note and the Regulation S Global Note are sometimes collectively herein referred to as the “ Global Notes .”
The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of Paying Agent designated by the Company maintained for such purpose (which shall initially be the office of the Trustee maintained for such purpose), or at such other office or agency of the Company as may be maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.3 ; provided , however , that, at the option of the Paying Agent, each installment of interest may be paid by (i) check mailed to addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear on the Notes Register or (ii) wire transfer to an account located in the United States maintained by the payee, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph. Payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by DTC. Payments in respect of Notes represented by Definitive Notes (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) held by a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by Definitive Notes will be made in accordance with the Notes Register, or by wire transfer to a Dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 15 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).
The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage, in addition to those set forth on Exhibit A and in Section 2.1(d) . The Company shall approve any notation, endorsement or legend on the Notes. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to be bound by such terms.
(c)     Denominations . The Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
(d)     Restrictive Legends . Unless and until (i) an Initial Note or an Additional Note issued as a Restricted Note is sold under an effective registration statement or (ii) the Company receives an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to it to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act:
(1)    the Rule 144A Global Note and the Regulation S Global Note shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:
THE NOTES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ SECURITIES ACT ”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION AS SET FORTH BELOW.

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BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“ RULE 144A ”)), OR (B) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION, (2) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “ RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE ”) THAT IS ONE YEAR (OR SUCH LONGER PERIOD AS IS REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH THE SECURITIES ACT) IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES, AND 40 DAYS IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THE NOTES (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH NOTES), ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S AND REGISTRAR’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE WRITTEN REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
IN THE CASE OF THE REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE: BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
BY ITS ACQUISITION OF THIS SECURITY THE HOLDER AND ANY SUBSEQUENT TRANSFEREE HEREOF WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) THE PURCHASER IS NOT ACQUIRING OR HOLDING SUCH NOTE OR AN INTEREST THEREIN WITH THE ASSETS OF (A) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA) THAT IS SUBJECT TO ERISA, (B) A “PLAN” DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “ CODE ”), (C) ANY ENTITY DEEMED TO HOLD “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING BY REASON OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN’S OR PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN SUCH ENTITY OR (D) A GOVERNMENTAL PLAN OR CHURCH PLAN SUBJECT TO SUCH PROVISIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO SUCH PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR THE CODE (COLLECTIVELY, “ SIMILAR LAWS ”) OR (II) THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF SUCH NOTE BY THE PURCHASER, THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD THAT IT HOLDS SUCH NOTE AND THE DISPOSITION OF SUCH NOTE OR AN INTEREST THEREIN WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON‑EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY UNDER ERISA OR A VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISIONS OF ANY APPLICABLE SIMILAR LAW.
(2)    Each Global Note, whether or not an Initial Note, shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW

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YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.
(e)     Book-Entry Provisions . (i) This Section 2.1(e) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with the Trustee, as Notes Custodian, and for which the applicable procedures of DTC shall govern.
(1)    Each Global Note initially shall (x) be registered in the name of DTC or the nominee of DTC, (y) be delivered to the Notes Custodian and (z) bear legends as set forth in Section 2.1(d) . Transfers of a Global Note (but not a beneficial interest therein) will be limited to transfers thereof in whole, but not in part, to DTC, its successors or its respective nominees, except as set forth in Section 2.1(e)(4) and 2.1(f) . If a beneficial interest in a Global Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Notes Custodian will (x) record a decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note being transferred or exchanged equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (y) record a like increase in the principal amount of the other Global Note. Any beneficial interest in one Global Note that is transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in another Global Note, or exchanged for an interest in another Global Note, will, upon transfer or exchange, cease to be an interest in such Global Note and become an interest in the other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject to all transfer and exchange restrictions, if any, and other procedures applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Note for as long as it remains such an interest.
(2)    Members of, or participants in, DTC (“ Agent Members ”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by DTC or by the Notes Custodian as the custodian of DTC or under such Global Note, and DTC may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by DTC or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of DTC governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.
(3)    In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.1(f) to beneficial owners who are required to hold Definitive Notes, the Notes Custodian shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more Definitive Notes of like tenor and amount.
(4)    In connection with the transfer of an entire Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to Section 2.1(f) , such Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to each beneficial owner identified by DTC in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations.

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(5)    The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
(6)    Any Holder of a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such Global Note, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Note may be effected only through a book‑entry system maintained by (i) the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent) or (ii) any holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Note, and that ownership of a beneficial interest in such Global Note shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.
(f)     Definitive Notes . Except as provided below, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes will not be entitled to receive Definitive Notes. Definitive Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note if (A) DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for such Global Note or DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, at a time when DTC is required to be so registered in order to act as depositary, and in each case a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice, (B) the Company in its sole discretion executes and deliver to the Trustee and Registrar an Officer’s Certificate stating that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable or (C) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a written request from DTC. In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in the second preceding sentence or in clause (A), (B) or (C) of the preceding sentence, the Company shall promptly make available to the Registrar a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes. In addition, any Note transferred to an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or evidencing a Note that has been acquired by an affiliate in a transaction or series of transactions not involving any public offering must, until one year after the last date on which either the Company or any affiliate of the Company was an owner of the Note, be in the form of a Definitive Note and bear the legend regarding transfer restrictions in Section 2.1(d) . If required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or regulation, beneficial owners may also obtain Definitive Notes in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note upon written request in accordance with DTC’s and the Registrar’s procedures.
(1)    Any Definitive Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.1(e) shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.6(d) , bear the applicable legend regarding transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Note set forth in Section 2.1(d) .
(2)    If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Trustee will (x) cancel such Definitive Note, (y) record an increase in the principal amount of such Global Note equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (z) in the event that such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to the transferring Holder a new Definitive Note representing the principal amount not so transferred.
(3)    If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for another Definitive Note, (x) the Trustee will cancel the Definitive Note being transferred or exchanged, (y) the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more new Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange to the transferee (in the case of a transfer) or the Holder of the canceled Definitive Note (in the case of an exchange), registered in the name of such transferee or Holder, as applicable, and (z) if such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, one or more Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the untransferred or unexchanged portion of the canceled Definitive Notes, registered in the name of the Holder thereof.
(4)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, in no event shall a Definitive Note be delivered upon exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note prior to the end of the Restricted Period.

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SECTION 2.2.     Execution and Authentication . One Officer shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature. If the Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.
A Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually authenticates the Note. The signature of the Trustee on a Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Note has been duly and validly authenticated and issued under this Indenture. A Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery: (1) Initial Notes for original issue on the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount of $525,000,000, (2) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Notes for original issue in an unlimited principal amount and (3)  under the circumstances set forth in Section 2.6(e) , Initial Notes in the form of an Unrestricted Global Note, in each case upon a written order of the Company signed by one Officer (the “ Company Order ”). Such Company Order shall specify whether the Notes will be in the form of Definitive Notes or Global Notes, the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be authenticated, the Holder of the Notes and whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes or Additional Notes.
The Trustee may appoint an agent (the “ Authenticating Agent ”) reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Notes. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Company. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, any such Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by the Authenticating Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.
In case the Company or any Guarantor, pursuant to Article IV or Section 10.2 , as applicable, shall be consolidated or merged with or into any other Person or shall convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the successor Person resulting from such consolidation, or surviving such merger, or into which the Company or any Guarantor shall have been merged, or the Person which shall have received a conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition as aforesaid, shall have executed an indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee pursuant to Article IV , any of the Notes authenticated or delivered prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition may (but shall not be required), from time to time, at the request of the successor Person, be exchanged for other Notes executed in the name of the successor Person with such changes in phraseology and form as may be appropriate to reflect such successor Person, but otherwise in substance of like tenor as the Notes surrendered for such exchange and of like principal amount; and the Trustee, upon the Company Order of the successor Person, shall authenticate and make available for delivery Notes as specified in such order for the purpose of such exchange. If Notes shall at any time be authenticated and delivered in any new name of a successor Person pursuant to this Section 2.2 in exchange or substitution for or upon registration of transfer of any Notes, such successor Person, at the option of the Holders but without expense to them, shall provide for the exchange of all Notes at the time outstanding for Notes authenticated and delivered in such new name.
SECTION 2.3.     Registrar and Paying Agent . The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “ Registrar ”) and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange (the “ Notes Register ”). The Company may have one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent and the term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of each such agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.7 . The Company or any Guarantor may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or transfer agent.

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The Company initially appoints DTC to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes. The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent for the Notes. The Company may change any Registrar or Paying Agent without prior notice to the Holders, but upon written notice to such Registrar or Paying Agent and to the Trustee; provided , however , that no such removal shall become effective until (i) acceptance of any appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement entered into by the Company and such successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee and the passage of any waiting or notice periods required by DTC procedures or (ii) written notification to the Trustee that the Trustee shall serve as Registrar or Paying Agent until the appointment of a successor in accordance with clause (i) above. The Registrar or Paying Agent may resign at any time upon written notice to the Company and the Trustee.
SECTION 2.4.     Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust . By no later than 11:00 a.m. (Eastern time) on the date on which any principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note is due and payable, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient in immediately available funds to pay such principal, premium or interest when due. The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Company or other obligors on the Notes), shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company or any Guarantor in making any such payment and shall during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment in respect of the Notes, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith deliver to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Notes together with a full accounting thereof. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds or assets disbursed by such Paying Agent. Upon complying with this Section 2.4 , the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee. Upon any bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding with respect to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.
SECTION 2.5.     Holder Lists . The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company, on its own behalf and on behalf of each of the Guarantors, shall furnish or cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders.
SECTION 2.6.     Transfer and Exchange .
(a)    A Holder may transfer a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) to another Person or exchange a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) for another Note or Notes of any authorized denomination by presenting to the Registrar a written request therefor stating the name of the proposed transferee or requesting such an exchange, accompanied by any certification, opinion or other document required by this Section 2.6 . The Registrar will promptly register any transfer or exchange that meets the requirements of this Section 2.6 by noting the same in the Notes Register maintained by the Registrar for the purpose, and no transfer or exchange will be effective until it is registered in such Notes Register. The transfer or exchange of any Note (or a beneficial interest therein) may only be made in accordance with this Section 2.6 and Section 2.1(e) and 2.1(f) , as applicable, and, in the case of a Global Note (or a beneficial interest therein), the applicable rules and procedures of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream. The Registrar shall refuse to register any requested transfer or exchange that does not comply with this paragraph.
(b)     Transfers of Rule 144A Notes . The following provisions shall apply with respect to any proposed registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note prior to the date that is one year after the later of the date of its original issue and the last date on which the Company or any Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Notes (or any predecessor thereto) (the “ Resale Restriction Termination Date ”):

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(1)    a registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a beneficial interest therein to a QIB shall be made upon the representation of the transferee in the form as set forth on the reverse of the Note that it is purchasing for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A; provided that no such written representation or other written certification shall be required in connection with the transfer of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee in the form of a beneficial interest in that Rule 144A Global Note in accordance with this Indenture and the applicable procedures of DTC;
(2)    [reserved]; and
(3)    a registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a beneficial interest therein to a Non‑U.S. Person shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.9 from the proposed transferee and the delivery of an Opinion of Counsel, certification and/or other information satisfactory to the Company.
(c)     Transfers of Regulation S Notes . The following provisions shall apply with respect to any proposed transfer of a Regulation S Note prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period:
(1)    a transfer of a Regulation S Note or a beneficial interest therein to a QIB shall be made upon the representation of the transferee, in the form of assignment on the reverse of the certificate, that it is purchasing the Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A;
(2)    [reserved]; and
(3)    a transfer of a Regulation S Note or a beneficial interest therein to a Non‑U.S. Person shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Section 2.9 hereof from the proposed transferee and receipt by the Registrar or its agent of an Opinion of Counsel, certification and/or other information satisfactory to the Company.
After the expiration of the Restricted Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Section 2.9 or any additional certification.
(d)     Restricted Notes Legend . Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes not bearing a Restricted Notes Legend, the Registrar shall deliver Notes that do not bear a Restricted Notes Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing a Restricted Notes Legend, the Registrar shall deliver only Notes that bear a Restricted Notes Legend unless (1)  an Initial Note is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement, (2) Initial Notes are being exchanged for Notes that do not bear the Restricted Notes Legend in accordance with Section 2.6(e) or (3) there is delivered to the Registrar an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act. Any Additional Notes sold in a registered offering shall not be required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

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(e)     Automatic Exchange from Global Note Bearing Restricted Notes Legend to Global Note Not Bearing Restricted Notes Legend . Upon the Company’s satisfaction that the Restricted Notes Legend shall no longer be required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act, beneficial interests in a Global Note bearing the Restricted Notes Legend (a “ Restricted Global Note ”) may be automatically exchanged into beneficial interests in a Global Note not bearing the Restricted Notes Legend (an “ Unrestricted Global Note ”) without any action required by or on behalf of the Holder (the “ Automatic Exchange ”) at any time on or after the date that is the 366th calendar day after (1) with respect to the Notes issued on the Issue Date, the Issue Date or (2) with respect to Additional Notes, if any, the issue date of such Additional Notes, or, in each case, if such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (the “ Automatic Exchange Date ”). Upon the Company’s satisfaction that the Restricted Notes Legend shall no longer be required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act, the Company shall (i) provide written notice to DTC and the Trustee at least fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the Automatic Exchange Date, instructing DTC to exchange all of the outstanding beneficial interests in a particular Restricted Global Note to the Unrestricted Global Note, which the Company shall have previously otherwise made eligible for exchange with DTC, (ii) provide prior written notice (the “ Automatic Exchange Notice ”) to each Holder at such Holder’s address appearing in the register of Holders at least fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the Automatic Exchange Date (the “ Automatic Exchange Notice Date ”), which notice must include (w) the Automatic Exchange Date, (x) the section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Automatic Exchange shall occur, (y) the “CUSIP” number of the Restricted Global Note from which such Holder’s beneficial interests will be transferred and (z) the “CUSIP” number of the Unrestricted Global Note into which such Holder’s beneficial interests will be transferred, and (iii) on or prior to the Automatic Exchange Date, deliver to the Trustee for authentication one or more Unrestricted Global Notes, duly executed by the Company and a Company Order requesting the Trustee to authenticate, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Restricted Global Notes to be exchanged into such Unrestricted Global Notes. At the Company’s written request on no less than five (5) calendar days’ notice prior to the Automatic Exchange Notice Date, the Trustee shall deliver, at the Company’s expense, the Automatic Exchange Notice to each Holder at such Holder’s address appearing in the register of Holders; provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee such Automatic Exchange Notice to be delivered to Holders.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.6(e) , during the fifteen (15) calendar day period prior to the Automatic Exchange Date, no transfers or exchanges other than pursuant to this Section 2.6(e) shall be permitted without the prior written consent of the Company. As a condition to any Automatic Exchange, the Company shall provide, and the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the Company to the effect that the Automatic Exchange shall be effected in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Notes Legend shall no longer be required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and that the aggregate principal amount of the particular Restricted Global Note is to be transferred to the particular Unrestricted Global Note by adjustment made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary to reflect the Automatic Exchange. Upon such exchange of beneficial interests pursuant to this Section 2.6(e) , the aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes shall be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, to reflect the relevant increase or decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note resulting from the applicable exchange. The Restricted Global Note from which beneficial interests are transferred pursuant to an Automatic Exchange shall be cancelled following the Automatic Exchange.
(f)     Retention of Written Communications . The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to Section 2.1 or this Section 2.6 . The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable prior written notice to the Registrar.
(g)     Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes . To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall, subject to the other terms and conditions of this Article II , execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Company’s and Registrar’s written request.
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payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.2 , 2.6 , 2.11 , 2.13 , 3.5 , 5.6 or 9.5 ).
The Company (and the Registrar) shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (A) for a period beginning (1) 15 calendar days before the sending of a notice of an offer to repurchase or redeem Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such sending or (2) 15 calendar days before an interest payment date and ending on such interest payment date or (B) called for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to paragraph 2 of the form of Notes attached hereto as Exhibit A ) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, including without limitation the transfer or exchange of such Note, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Any Definitive Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.1(f) shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.6(d) , bear the applicable legend regarding transfer restrictions applicable to the Definitive Note set forth in Section 2.1(d) .
All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
(h)     No Obligation of the Trustee . (1) Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have any responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in, DTC or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of DTC or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than DTC) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or purchase) or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Notes (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be DTC or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through DTC subject to the applicable rules and procedures of DTC. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by DTC with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.
Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among DTC participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. Neither the Trustee nor any of its agents shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by DTC.
SECTION 2.7.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 2.8.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 2.9.     Form of Certificate to be Delivered in Connection with Transfers Pursuant to Regulation S .
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GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Facsimile: (617) 234-7514
Attention: General Counsel
Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee
246 Goose Lane, Suite 105
Guilford, Connecticut 06347
Attention: GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Administrator
Facsimile: (203) 453-1183
Re:    GCP Applied Technologies Inc. (the “ Company ”)
9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “Notes”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed sale of $[________] aggregate principal amount of the Notes, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), and, accordingly, we represent that:
(a)    the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States;
(b)    either (i) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States or (ii) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated off‑shore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been pre‑arranged with a buyer in the United States;
(c)    no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(a)(2) or Rule 904(a)(2) of Regulation S, as applicable; and
(d)    the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
In addition, if the sale is made during a restricted period and the provisions of Rule 903(b)(2), Rule 903(b)(3) or Rule 904(b)(1) of Regulation S are applicable thereto, we confirm that such sale has been made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Rule 903(b)(2), Rule 903(b)(3) or Rule 904(b)(1), as the case may be.
We also hereby certify that we [are][are not] an Affiliate of the Company and, to our knowledge, the transferee of the Notes [is][is not] an Affiliate of the Company.
The Trustee and the Company are entitled to conclusively rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]

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By:             
    Authorized Signature

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SECTION 2.10.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 2.11.     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes .
If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the requirements of Section 8‑405 of the Uniform Commercial Code are met, such that the Holder (a) satisfies the Company and the Trustee that such Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken within a reasonable time after such Holder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Registrar has not registered a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Company and the Trustee prior to the Note being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8‑303 of the Uniform Commercial Code (a “ protected purchaser ”), (c) satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee and (d) provides an indemnity bond, as more fully described below; provided , however , if after the delivery of such replacement Note, a protected purchaser of the Note for which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment or registration such replaced Note, the Trustee and/or the Company shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note from the Person to whom it was issued and delivered or any Person taking therefrom, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Company or the Trustee in connection therewith. Such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the (i) Trustee to protect the Trustee and (ii) the Company to protect the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar, from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced, and, in the absence of notice to the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.11 , the Company may require that such Holder pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of counsel and of the Trustee) in connection therewith.
Subject to the proviso in the initial paragraph of this Section 2.11 , every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.11 , in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, any Guarantor (if applicable) and any other obligor upon the Notes, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 2.11 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.12.     Outstanding Notes . Notes outstanding at any time are all Notes authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those paid pursuant to Section 2.11 and those described in this Section 2.12 as not outstanding. A Note does not cease to be outstanding in the event the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Note; provided , however , that (i) for purposes of determining which are outstanding for consent or voting purposes hereunder, the provisions of Section 12.4 shall apply and (ii) in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making a determination whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Notes are present at a meeting of Holders of Notes for quorum purposes or have consented to or voted in favor of any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, amendment or modification hereunder, or relying upon any such quorum, consent or vote, only Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be held by the Company or an Affiliate of the Company shall not be considered outstanding.

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If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.11 (other than a mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement pursuant to Section 2.11 .
If the Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, on a Redemption Date or maturity date, money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest payable on that date with respect to the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, and the Paying Agent is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 2.13.     Temporary Notes . In the event that Definitive Notes are to be issued under the terms of this Indenture, until such Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form, and shall carry all rights, of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency maintained by the Company for that purpose and such exchange shall be without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor, one or more Definitive Notes representing an equal principal amount of Notes. Until so exchanged, the Holder of temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as a Holder of Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.14.     Cancellation . The Company may, at any time, deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and dispose of such Notes in accordance with its internal policies and customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act and the Trustee). If the Company or any Guarantor acquires any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.14 . The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for any reason other than in connection with a transfer or exchange.
At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by DTC to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Notes Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Notes Custodian, to reflect such reduction.
SECTION 2.15.     Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest . Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such payment at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.3 .
Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not paid when the same becomes due and payable and such nonpayment continues for a period of 30 days shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the regular record date, and such defaulted interest and (to the extent lawful) interest on such defaulted interest at the rate borne by the Notes (such defaulted interest and interest thereon herein collectively called “ Defaulted Interest ”) shall be paid by the Company, at its election, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

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(a)    The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date (as defined below) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date (not less than 30 days after such notice) of the proposed payment (the “ Special Interest Payment Date ”), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Section 2.15(a) . Thereupon the Company shall fix a record date (the “ Special Record Date ”) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which date shall be not more than 20 calendar days and not less than 15 calendar days prior to the Special Interest Payment Date and not less than 10 calendar days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such Special Record Date, and in the name and at the expense of the Company, the Trustee shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor to be given in the manner provided for in Section 12.1 , not less than 10 calendar days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor having been so given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid on the Special Interest Payment Date to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the provisions in Section 2.15(b) .
(b)    The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Section 2.15(b) , such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.15 , each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of, transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.
SECTION 2.16.     CUSIP and ISIN Numbers .
The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP and “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption or purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided , however , that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or purchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or purchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such CUSIP and ISIN numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP and ISIN numbers.
ARTICLE III    

COVENANTS
SECTION 3.1.     Payment of Notes . The Company shall promptly pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture. Principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if by 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due and the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

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The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Notes, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from principal or interest payments hereunder.
SECTION 3.2.     Limitation on Indebtedness .
(a)    The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness); provided , however , that (i) the Company and any of the Guarantors may Incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) and (ii) any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary may issue shares of Preferred Stock, if, in each case, on the date of such Incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto (including pro forma application of the proceeds thereof), the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is greater than 2.00 to 1.00.
(b)    The first paragraph of this covenant shall not prohibit the Incurrence of the following Indebtedness:
(1)    (X) Indebtedness Incurred under any Credit Facility by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances issued or created under any Credit Facility) and Guarantees in respect of such Indebtedness, up to an aggregate principal amount equal to the greater of (a) $650.0 million at any time outstanding and (b) the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries could incur such that the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio is equal to or less than 2.00 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis ( provided that, for purposes of determining the amount that may be Incurred under this clause (b), all Indebtedness incurred under this clause (b) shall be deemed to be secured by Liens) and (Y) any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Indebtedness permitted under this clause (1) or any portion thereof, which may include the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, accrued and unpaid interest, premiums (including, without limitation, tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including, without limitation, original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) Incurred in connection with such refinancing;
(2)    Guarantees by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary so long as the Incurrence of such Indebtedness or other obligations is not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture;
(3)    Indebtedness of the Company owing to and held by any Restricted Subsidiary or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to and held by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that:
(i)    any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; and
(ii)    any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary,
shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be;
(4)    Indebtedness represented by (i) the Notes (other than any Additional Notes), including any Guarantee thereof, (ii) any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clauses (1) and (3) above) outstanding on the Issue Date (plus Indebtedness under credit lines of Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries in an amount, at any time outstanding, not to exceed $75.0 million, less any such Indebtedness

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outstanding on the Issue Date) and any Guarantees thereof, (iii) Refinancing Indebtedness (including, with respect to the Notes, any Guarantee thereof) Incurred in respect of any Indebtedness described in this clause or clauses (5) or (9) of this Section 3.2(b) or Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2(a) , and (iv) Management Advances;
(5)    Indebtedness of (x) the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurred or issued to finance an acquisition or (y) Persons that are acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or merged into or consolidated with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; provided that such Indebtedness is in an aggregate amount not to exceed (a) the greater of $25.0 million and 10.0% of LTM EBITDA at any time outstanding plus (b) unlimited additional Indebtedness if after giving effect to such acquisition, merger or consolidation, either
(i)    the Company would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 3.2(a) ;
(ii)    either (a) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries would not be lower or (b) the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries would not be higher, in each case, than immediately prior to such acquisition, merger or consolidation; or
(iii)    such Indebtedness constitutes Acquired Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness Incurred in contemplation of the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary); provided , that, in the case of this clause (iii), the only obligors with respect to such Indebtedness shall be those Persons who were obligors of such Indebtedness prior to such acquisition, merger or consolidation;
(6)    Hedging Obligations (excluding Hedging Obligations entered into for speculative purposes);
(7)    Indebtedness (i) represented by Capitalized Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Obligations, in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (7) and then outstanding (and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof), does not exceed the greater of (x) $60.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Total Assets and (ii) arising out of Sale and Leaseback Transactions, the aggregate attributable value of which, when taken together with the aggregate attributable value of all Sale and Leaseback Transactions Incurred pursuant to this clause (ii) and then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (x) $60.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Total Assets;
(8)    Indebtedness in respect of (i) workers’ compensation claims, self‑insurance obligations, customer guarantees, performance, indemnity, surety, judgment, appeal, advance payment, customs, value added or other tax or other guarantees or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations and completion guarantees and warranties provided by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or relating to liabilities, obligations or guarantees Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (ii) the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; provided , however , that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five (5) Business Days of Incurrence; (iii) customer deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice from customers for goods or services purchased in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (iv) letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, guarantees or other similar instruments or obligations issued or relating to liabilities or obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (v) any customary treasury, depositary, cash management, automatic clearinghouse arrangements, overdraft protections, credit or debit card, purchase card, electronic funds transfer, cash

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pooling or netting or setting off arrangements or similar arrangements in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; and (vi) Settlement Indebtedness;
(9)    Indebtedness arising from agreements providing for guarantees, indemnification, obligations in respect of earn‑outs or other adjustments of purchase price or, in each case, similar obligations, in each case, Incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business or assets or Person or any Capital Stock of a Subsidiary (other than Guarantees of Indebtedness Incurred by any Person acquiring or disposing of such business or assets or such Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition or disposition); provided that the maximum liability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of all such Indebtedness in connection with a disposition shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds, including the fair market value of non‑cash proceeds (measured at the time received and without giving effect to any subsequent changes in value), actually received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;
(10)    Indebtedness in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (10) and then outstanding, will not exceed 100.0% of the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company from the issuance or sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary) of its Capital Stock or otherwise contributed to the equity (in each case, other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock, Designated Preferred Stock or an Excluded Contribution) of the Company, in each case, subsequent to the Issue Date and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided , however , that (i) any such Net Cash Proceeds that are so received or contributed shall not increase the amount available for making Restricted Payments to the extent the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries Incur Indebtedness in reliance thereon and (ii) any Net Cash Proceeds that are so received or contributed shall be excluded for purposes of Incurring Indebtedness pursuant to this clause (10) to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds or cash have been applied to make Restricted Payments;
(11)    Indebtedness of Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (a) $90.0 million and (b) 35.0% of LTM EBITDA at any time outstanding (and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof);
(12)    Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any current or former employee, director or consultant of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity (or permitted transferees, assigns, estates, or heirs of such employee, director or consultant), to finance the purchase or redemption of Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent Entity that is permitted by Section 3.3 ;
(13)    Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take‑or‑pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(14)    Indebtedness in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (14) and then outstanding (and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) will not exceed the greater of (a) $60.0 million and (b) 6.0% of Total Assets;
(15)    Indebtedness Incurred in respect of a Receivables Facility;
(16)    Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries arising pursuant to any Permitted Tax Restructuring;
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amount of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (17) and then outstanding (and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) will not exceed $50.0 million;
(18)    any obligation, or guaranty of any obligation, of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to reimburse or indemnify a Person extending credit to customers of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice for all or any portion of the amounts payable by such customers to the Person extending such credit;
(19)    Indebtedness to a customer to finance the acquisition of any equipment necessary to perform services for such customer; provided that the terms of such Indebtedness are consistent with those entered into with respect to similar Indebtedness prior to the Issue Date, including that (1) the repayment of such Indebtedness is conditional upon such customer ordering a specific volume of goods and (2) such Indebtedness does not bear interest or provide for scheduled amortization or maturity; and
(20)    obligations in respect of Disqualified Stock in an amount not to exceed $25.0 million outstanding at any time.
(c)    For purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount of any particular Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this Section 3.2 :
(1)    subject to clause (3) below, in the event that all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in Sections 3.2(a) or (b) , the Company, in its sole discretion, shall classify, and may from time to time reclassify, such item of Indebtedness and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in Section 3.2(a) or one of the clauses of Section 3.2(b) ;
(2)    additionally, all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness may later be reclassified as having been Incurred pursuant to any type of Indebtedness described in Section 3.2(a) or (b) so long as such Indebtedness is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to such provision and any related Liens are permitted to be Incurred at the time of reclassification;
(3)    all Indebtedness outstanding on the Issue Date under the Credit Agreement shall be deemed Incurred on the Issue Date under Section 3.2(b)(1) ;
(4)    in the case of any Refinancing Indebtedness, when measuring the outstanding amount of such Indebtedness such amount shall not include the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, accrued and unpaid interest, premiums (including, without limitation, tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including, without limitation, original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) Incurred in connection with such refinancing;
(5)    Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relating to, or Liens securing, Indebtedness that is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included;
(6)    if obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments are Incurred pursuant to any Credit Facility and are being treated as Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2(a) or any clause of Section 3.2(b) and the letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included;
(7)    the principal amount of any Disqualified Stock of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, will be equal to the greater of the maximum mandatory redemption or repurchase price (not including, in either case, any redemption or repurchase premium) or the liquidation preference thereof;

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(8)    Indebtedness permitted by this covenant need not be permitted solely by reference to one provision permitting such Indebtedness but may be permitted in part by one such provision and in part by one or more other provisions of this covenant permitting such Indebtedness;
(9)    in the event that the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary enters into or increases commitments under a revolving credit facility, the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, for borrowings and reborrowings thereunder (and including issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances thereunder) will, at the Company’s option as elected on the date the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, enters into or increases such commitments, either (a) be determined on the date of such revolving credit facility or such increase in commitments (assuming that the full amount thereof has been borrowed as of such date), and, if such Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, test is satisfied with respect thereto at such time, any borrowing or reborrowing thereunder (and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances thereunder) will be permitted under this covenant irrespective of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, at the time of any borrowing or reborrowing (or issuance or creation of letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances thereunder) (the committed amount permitted to be borrowed or reborrowed (and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances) on a date pursuant to the operation of this clause (a) shall be the “ Reserved Indebtedness Amount ” as of such date for purposes of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable) or (b) be determined on the date such amount is borrowed pursuant to any such facility or increased commitment;
(10)    in the event that the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (x) incurs Indebtedness to finance an acquisition or (y) assumes Indebtedness of Persons that are acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or merged into the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the date of determination of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, shall, at the option of the Company, be the date that a definitive agreement for such acquisition is entered into and the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) consistent with the definition of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio, as applicable, and, for the avoidance of doubt, (A) if any such ratios are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio (including due to fluctuations in the Consolidated EBITDA of the Company or the target company) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant acquisition, such ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether such acquisition and any related transactions are permitted hereunder and (B) such ratios shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such acquisition or related transactions; provided, further , that if the Company elects to have such determinations occur at the time of entry into such definitive agreement, (i) any such transaction shall be deemed to have occurred on the date the definitive agreement is entered into and to be outstanding thereafter for purposes of calculating any ratios under this Indenture after the date of such agreement and before the earlier of the date of consummation of such acquisition or the date such agreement is terminated or expires without consummation of such acquisition and (ii) to the extent any covenant baskets were utilized in satisfying any covenants, such baskets shall be deemed utilized until the earlier of the date of consummation of such acquisition or the date such agreement is terminated or expires without consummation of such acquisition, but any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for purposes of other incurrences of Indebtedness or Liens or making of Restricted Payments (not related to such acquisition) shall not reflect such acquisition until it has been consummated;
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covenant measured by reference to a percentage of LTM EBITDA at the time of Incurrence, if such refinancing would cause the percentage of LTM EBITDA restriction to be exceeded if calculated based on the percentage of LTM EBITDA on the date of such refinancing, such percentage of LTM EBITDA restriction shall not be deemed to be exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced, plus premiums (including tender premiums), defeasance, costs and fees in connection with such refinancing; and
(12)    the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount thereof will be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined on the basis of GAAP.
Accrual of interest, accrual of dividends, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness, the payment of dividends in the form of additional shares of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock or the reclassification of commitments or obligations not treated as Indebtedness due to a change in GAAP, will not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 3.2 .
If at any time an Unrestricted Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be Incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary as of such date (and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as of such date under this Section 3.2 , the Company shall be in default of this Section 3.2 ).
For purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the Dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit debt; provided , that if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed (a) the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced plus (b) the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, accrued and unpaid interest, premiums (including, without limitation, tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including, without limitation, original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) Incurred in connection with such refinancing.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3.2 , the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary may Incur pursuant to this Section 3.2 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies. The principal amount of any Indebtedness Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if Incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to any Indebtedness of the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee to the extent and in the same manner as such Indebtedness is subordinated to other Indebtedness of the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be; provided that for purposes of this Indenture, (1) unsecured Indebtedness shall not be treated as subordinated or junior to Secured Indebtedness merely because it is unsecured and (2) senior Indebtedness shall not be treated as subordinated or junior to any other senior Indebtedness merely because it has a junior priority with respect to the same collateral or is secured by different collateral or because it is guaranteed by different obligors.
SECTION 3.3.     Limitation on Restricted Payments .
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(1)    declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on or in respect of the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s Capital Stock (including, without limitation, any such payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) except:
(i)    dividends or distributions payable in Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase such Capital Stock; or
(ii)    dividends or distributions payable to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (and, in the case of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary making such dividend or distribution, to holders of its Capital Stock other than the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary on no more than a pro rata basis);
(iii)    [reserved];
(2)    purchase, repurchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent Entity held by Persons other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(3)    purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than (i) any such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case, due within one year of the date of purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement and (ii) any Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2(b)(3) ); or
(4)    make any Restricted Investment;
(any such dividend, distribution, purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, other acquisition, retirement or Restricted Investment referred to in clauses (1) through (4) are referred to herein as a “ Restricted Payment ”), if at the time the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment:
(i)    an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would immediately thereafter result therefrom);
(ii)    the Company is not able to Incur an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to Section 3.2(a) immediately after giving effect, on a pro forma basis, to such Restricted Payment; or
(iii)    the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date (and not returned or rescinded) (including Permitted Payments made pursuant to Sections 3.3(b)(1) (without duplication) and (10) , but excluding all other Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 3.3(b) ) would exceed the sum of (without duplication):
(A)    50.0% of Consolidated Net Income for the period (treated as one accounting period) from the first day of the first fiscal quarter after the Spin-Off Effective Date to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending prior to the date of such Restricted Payment for which internal consolidated financial statements of the Company are available (or, in the case such Consolidated Net Income is a deficit, minus 100.0% of such deficit);
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Capital Stock or as the result of a merger or consolidation with another Person subsequent to the Issue Date (other than in connection with the Spin-Off) or otherwise contributed to the equity (in each case other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company subsequent to the Issue Date (other than (x) cash or property or assets or marketable securities received from an issuance or sale of such Capital Stock to a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for the benefit of its employees to the extent funded by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (y) cash or property or assets or marketable securities to the extent that any Restricted Payment has been made from such proceeds in reliance on Section 3.3(b)(6) and (z) Excluded Contributions);
(C)    100.0% of the aggregate cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the issuance or sale (other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary subsequent to the Issue Date of any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock that has been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) plus , without duplication, the amount of any cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary upon such conversion or exchange;
(D)    100.0% of the aggregate amount received in cash and the fair market value of marketable securities or other property received by means of: (i) the sale or other disposition (other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) of Restricted Investments made by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repurchases and redemptions of such Restricted Investments from the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repayments of loans or advances, and releases of guarantees, which constitute Restricted Investments by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case after the Issue Date or (ii) the sale (other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) of the stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a distribution from an Unrestricted Subsidiary (other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment and will increase the amount available under the applicable clause of the definition of “ Permitted Investment ”) or a dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date; and
(E)    in the case of the redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or the merger or consolidation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary into the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date, the fair market value of the Investment in such Unrestricted Subsidiary (or the assets transferred) at the time of the redesignation of such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of such merger or consolidation or transfer of assets (after taking into consideration any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted Subsidiary so designated or merged or consolidated or Indebtedness associated with the assets so transferred), other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment or was made pursuant to Section 3.3(b)(17) and will increase the amount available under the applicable clause of the definition of “Permitted Investment” or Section 3.3(b)(17) , as the case may be;

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provided, however, that the calculation under the immediately preceding clauses (A) through (E) shall not include any amounts attributable to, or arising in connection with, the Spin-Off.
(b)    The foregoing provisions of Section 3.3(a) will not prohibit any of the following (collectively, “ Permitted Payments ”):
(1)    the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture or the redemption, repurchase or retirement of Indebtedness if, at the date of any redemption notice, such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture as if it were and is deemed at such time to be a Restricted Payment at the time of such notice;
(2)    (a) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Capital Stock (“ Treasury Capital Stock ”) or Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange (including any such exchange pursuant to the exercise of a conversion right or privilege in connection with which cash is paid in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares) for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) (“ Refunding Capital Stock ”) or a substantially concurrent contribution to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or through an Excluded Contribution) of the Company; provided , however , that to the extent so applied, the Net Cash Proceeds, or fair market value of property or assets or of marketable securities, from such sale of Capital Stock or such contribution will be excluded from Section 3.3(a)(iii) and (b) if immediately prior to the retirement of Treasury Capital Stock, the declaration and payment of dividends thereon was permitted under Section 3.3(b)(13) , the declaration and payment of dividends on the Refunding Capital Stock (other than Refunding Capital Stock the proceeds of which were used to redeem, repurchase, retire or otherwise acquire any Capital Stock of a Parent Entity) in an aggregate amount per year no greater than the aggregate amount of dividends per annum that were declarable and payable on such Treasury Capital Stock immediately prior to such retirement;
(3)    any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Refinancing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2 ;
(4)    any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Preferred Stock of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary made by exchange for or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of Preferred Stock of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that, in each case, is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 3.2 ;
(5)    any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary:
(i)    from Net Available Cash to the extent permitted under Section 3.5 , but only if the Company shall have first complied with the terms described under Section 3.5 and purchased all Notes tendered pursuant to any offer to repurchase all the Notes required thereby, prior to purchasing, repurchasing, redeeming, defeasing or otherwise acquiring or retiring such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; or
(ii)    to the extent required by the agreement governing such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, following the occurrence of (i) a Change of Control (or other similar event described therein as a “change of control”) or (ii) an Asset Disposition (or other similar event described therein as an “asset disposition” or “asset sale”) but only if the Company shall have first complied with Section 3.5 or Section 3.9 , as applicable, and purchased all Notes tendered pursuant to the offer to repurchase any Notes required thereby, prior to purchasing,

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repurchasing, redeeming, defeasing or otherwise acquiring or retiring such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; or
(iii)    consisting of Acquired Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness Incurred (A) to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or (B) otherwise in connection with or contemplation of such acquisition);
(6)    a Restricted Payment to pay for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company or of any Parent Entity held by any future, present or former employee, director or consultant of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or of any Parent Entity (or permitted transferees, assigns, estates, trusts or heirs of such employee, director or consultant) either pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or upon the termination of such employee, director or consultant’s employment or directorship; provided , however , that the aggregate Restricted Payments made under this clause (6) do not exceed $20.0 million in any calendar year (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years subject to a maximum of $40.0 million in any calendar year); provided further that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed:
(i)    the cash proceeds from the sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company and, to the extent contributed to the capital of the Company (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or an Excluded Contribution), Capital Stock of any Parent Entity, in each case to members of management, directors or consultants of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity that occurred after the Issue Date, to the extent the cash proceeds from the sale of such Capital Stock have not otherwise been applied to the payment of Restricted Payments by virtue of Section 3.3(a)(iii) ; plus
(ii)    the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date; less
(iii)    the amount of any Restricted Payments made in previous calendar years pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (6);
and provided further that cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from any future, present or former members of management, directors, employees or consultants of the Company or Restricted Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity in connection with a repurchase of Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent Entity will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Indenture;
(7)    the declaration and payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock, or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, Incurred in accordance with Section 3.2 ;
(8)    purchases, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances or other acquisitions or retirements of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options, warrants or other rights in respect thereof if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise price thereof;
(9)    dividends, loans, advances or distributions to any Parent Entity or other payments by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in amounts equal to the aggregate of (without duplication):
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(ii)    amounts constituting or to be used for purposes of making payments to the extent specified in Sections 3.8(b)(2) , (3) and (5) ;
(10)    the declaration and payment by the Company of dividends on the common stock or common equity interests of the Company or any Parent Entity (and any equivalent declaration and payment of a distribution of any security exchangeable for such common stock or common equity interests to the extent required by the terms of any such exchangeable securities), if after giving pro forma effect to the payment of any such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.75 to 1.00;
(11)    payments by the Company, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions to any Parent Entity to make payments, to holders of Capital Stock of the Company or any Parent Entity in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of such Capital Stock; provided , however , that any such payment, loan, advance, dividend or distribution shall not be for the purpose of evading any limitation of this covenant or otherwise to facilitate any dividend or other return of capital to the holders of such Capital Stock (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors);
(12)    Restricted Payments that are made with Excluded Contributions;
(13)    (i) the declaration and payment of dividends on Designated Preferred Stock of the Company issued after the Issue Date; (ii) the declaration and payment of dividends to a Parent Entity in an amount sufficient to allow the Parent Entity to pay dividends to holders of its Designated Preferred Stock issued after the Issue Date; and (iii) the declaration and payment of dividends on Refunding Capital Stock that is Preferred Stock; provided , however , that, in the case of clause  (ii), the amount of all dividends declared or paid pursuant to such clause shall not exceed the cash proceeds received by the Company or the aggregate amount contributed in cash to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or an Excluded Contribution) of the Company, from the issuance or sale of such Designated Preferred Stock; provided further , in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), that for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Designated Preferred Stock or declaration of such dividends on such Refunding Capital Stock, after giving effect to such payment on a pro forma basis the Company would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the test set forth in Section 3.2(a) ;
(14)    dividends or other distributions of Capital Stock of, or Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary by, Unrestricted Subsidiaries (unless the Unrestricted Subsidiary’s principal asset is cash or Cash Equivalents);
(15)    distributions or payments of Receivables Fees;
(16)    any Restricted Payment made pursuant to any Transaction Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Spin-Off and in connection with the other Transactions and any costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses) related thereto or used to fund amounts owed to Affiliates in connection with the Transactions (including dividends to any Parent Entity of the Company to permit payment by such Parent Entity of such amounts);
(17)    so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefrom), Restricted Payments (including loans or advances) in an aggregate amount outstanding at the time made not to exceed the greater of $50.0 million and 20.0% of LTM EBITDA at such time; and
(18)    mandatory redemptions of Disqualified Stock issued as a Restricted Payment or as consideration for a Permitted Investment.
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3.3(b)(1) through (18) , or is permitted pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) and/or one or more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investment,” the Company will be entitled to classify such Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) on the date of its payment or later reclassify (based on circumstances existing on the date of such reclassification) such Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this Section 3.3 , including as an Investment pursuant to one or more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investment.”
The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the fair market value on the date of such Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be paid, transferred or issued by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to such Restricted Payment. The fair market value of any cash Restricted Payment shall be its face amount, and the fair market value of any non‑cash Restricted Payment, property or assets other than cash shall be determined conclusively by the Company acting in good faith.
SECTION 3.4.     Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries .
(a)    The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:
(1)    pay dividends or make any other distributions in cash or otherwise on its Capital Stock or pay any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(2)    make any loans or advances to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; or
(3)    sell, lease or transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
provided that (x) the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock and (y) the subordination of (including the application of any standstill requirements to) loans or advances made to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed to constitute such an encumbrance or restriction.
(b)    The provisions of Section 3.4(a) shall not prohibit:
(1)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to (i) any Credit Facility or (ii) any other agreement or instrument, in each case, in effect at or entered into on the Issue Date;
(2)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees;
(3)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to applicable law, rule, regulation or order;
(4)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument of a Person or relating to any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of a Person, entered into on or before the date on which such Person was acquired by or merged, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or was designated as a Restricted Subsidiary or on which such agreement or instrument is assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets (other than Capital Stock or Indebtedness Incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was acquired by the Company or was merged, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or entered into in contemplation of or in connection with such transaction) and outstanding on such date; provided that, for the purposes of this clause (4), if another Person is the Successor Company, any Subsidiary thereof or

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agreement or instrument of such Person or any such Subsidiary shall be deemed acquired or assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary when such Person becomes the Successor Company;
(5)    any encumbrance or restriction: (i) that restricts in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license or similar contract or agreement, or the assignment or transfer of any lease, license or other contract or agreement; (ii) contained in mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements permitted under this Indenture or securing Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary permitted under this Indenture to the extent such encumbrances or restrictions restrict the transfer or encumbrance of the property or assets subject to such mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements; or (iii) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of real property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreements of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(6)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Purchase Money Obligations and Capitalized Lease Obligations permitted under this Indenture, in each case, that impose encumbrances or restrictions on the property so acquired;
(7)    any encumbrance or restriction imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition to a Person of all or substantially all the Capital Stock or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (or the property or assets that are subject to such restriction) pending the closing of such sale or disposition;
(8)    customary provisions in leases, licenses, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements and other similar agreements, organizational documents and instruments;
(9)    encumbrances or restrictions arising or existing by reason of applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order, or required by any regulatory authority;
(10)    any encumbrance or restriction on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(11)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Hedging Obligations;
(12)    other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of Foreign Subsidiaries permitted to be Incurred or issued subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 3.2 that impose restrictions solely on the Foreign Subsidiaries party thereto or their Subsidiaries;
(13)    restrictions created in connection with any Receivables Facility that, in the good faith determination of the Company, are necessary or advisable to effect such Receivables Facility;
(14)    any encumbrance or restriction arising pursuant to an agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 3.2 if the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such agreement or instrument taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Holders than (i) the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Credit Agreement, together with the security documents associated therewith as in effect on the Issue Date or (ii) in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Company) and where, in the case of clause(ii), either (A) the Company determines at the time of entry into such agreement or instrument that such encumbrances or restrictions will not adversely affect, in any material respect, the Company’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes or (B) such encumbrance or restriction applies only during the continuance of a default relating to such agreement or instrument;
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(16)    any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument effecting a refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to, or that otherwise refinances, an agreement or instrument referred to in clauses (1) to (15) of this Section 3.4(b) or this clause (16) (an “ Initial Agreement ”) or contained in any amendment, supplement or other modification to an agreement referred to in clauses (1) to (15) of this Section 3.4(b) or this clause (16); provided , however , that the encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such Restricted Subsidiary contained in any such agreement or instrument are no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders taken as a whole than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Initial Agreement or Initial Agreements to which such refinancing or amendment, supplement or other modification relates (as determined in good faith by the Company).
SECTION 3.5.     Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock .
(a)    The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Disposition unless:
(1)    the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise) at least equal to the fair market value (such fair market value to be determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset Disposition), as determined in good faith by the Company, of the shares and assets subject to such Asset Disposition (including, for the avoidance of doubt, if such Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap);
(2)    in any such Asset Disposition, or series of related Asset Dispositions (except to the extent the Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap), at least 75.0% of the consideration from such Asset Disposition, received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; and
(3)    an amount equal to 100.0% of the Net Available Cash from such Asset Disposition is applied:
(i)    to the extent the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, elects (or is required by the terms of any Indebtedness), (A) to prepay, repay or purchase any Indebtedness of a non-Guarantor or any Secured Indebtedness (in each case, other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary), including Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) within 450 days from the later of (a) the date of such Asset Disposition and (b) the receipt of such Net Available Cash; provided , however , that, in connection with any prepayment, repayment or purchase of Indebtedness pursuant to this clause (i), the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary will retire such Indebtedness and will cause the related commitment (if any) to be reduced in an amount equal to the principal amount so prepaid, repaid or purchased; or (B) to prepay, repay or purchase Pari Passu Indebtedness; provided further that, to the extent the Company redeems, repays or repurchases Pari Passu Indebtedness pursuant to this clause (B), the Company shall equally and ratably reduce Obligations under the Notes as provided under Section 5.7 , through open‑market purchases (to the extent such purchases are at or above 100.0% of the principal amount thereof) or by making an offer (in accordance with the procedures set forth below for an Asset Disposition Offer) to all Holders to purchase their Notes at 100.0% of the principal amount thereof, plus the amount of accrued but unpaid interest, if any, on the amount of Notes that would otherwise be prepaid; and
(ii)    to the extent the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary elects, to invest in or commit to invest in Additional Assets (including by means of an investment in Additional Assets by a Restricted Subsidiary equal to the amount of Net Available Cash received by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) within 450 days from the later of (A) the date of such Asset Disposition and (B) the receipt of such Net Available Cash; provided , however , that a binding

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agreement shall be treated as a permitted application of Net Available Cash from the date of such commitment with the good faith expectation that an amount equal to Net Available Cash will be applied to satisfy such commitment within 180 days of such commitment (an “ Acceptable Commitment ”) and, in the event of any Acceptable Commitment is later cancelled or terminated for any reason before such amount is applied in connection therewith, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary enters into another Acceptable Commitment (a “ Second Commitment ”) within 180 days of such cancellation or termination; provided further that if any Second Commitment is later cancelled or terminated for any reason before such amount is applied, then such Net Available Cash shall constitute Excess Proceeds;
provided that, pending the final application of the amount of any such Net Available Cash in accordance with clause (i) or clause (ii) above, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may temporarily reduce Indebtedness or otherwise use such Net Available Cash in any manner not prohibited by this Indenture.
(b)    The amount of any Net Available Cash from Asset Dispositions that is not applied or invested or committed to be applied or invested as provided in the preceding paragraph will be deemed to constitute “ Excess Proceeds ” under this Indenture. On the 451st day after the later of an Asset Disposition or the receipt of such Net Available Cash, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds under this Indenture exceeds $50.0 million, the Company will within 10 Business Days be required to make an offer (“ Asset Disposition Offer ”) to all Holders of Notes issued under this Indenture and, to the extent the Company elects, to all holders of other outstanding Pari Passu Indebtedness, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and any such Pari Passu Indebtedness to which the Asset Disposition Offer applies that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in respect of the Notes in an amount equal to 100.0% of the principal amount of the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness, in each case, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of purchase, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Indenture or the agreements governing the Pari Passu Indebtedness, as applicable, and, with respect to the Notes, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Company will deliver notice of such Asset Disposition Offer electronically or by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, the Paying Agent and each Holder of Notes at the address of such Holder appearing in the security register or otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Asset Disposition and offering to repurchase the Notes for the specified purchase price on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 15 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is delivered, pursuant to the procedures required by this Indenture and described in such notice. The Company may satisfy the foregoing obligations with respect to any Net Available Cash from an Asset Disposition by making an Asset Disposition Offer with respect to all Net Available Cash prior to the expiration of the relevant 450 days (or such longer period provided above) or with respect to any unapplied Excess Proceeds.
(c)    To the extent that the aggregate amount of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to an Asset Disposition Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Company may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of the Notes surrendered in any Asset Disposition Offer by Holders and other Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Company shall allocate the Excess Proceeds among the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness; provided that no Notes or other Pari Passu Indebtedness will be selected and purchased in an unauthorized denomination. Upon completion of any Asset Disposition Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero. Additionally, the Company may, at its option, make an Asset Disposition Offer using proceeds from any Asset Disposition at any time after the consummation of such Asset Disposition. Upon consummation or expiration of any Asset Disposition Offer, any remaining Net Available Cash shall not be deemed Excess Proceeds and the Company may use such Net Available Cash for any purpose not prohibited by this Indenture. To the extent that any portion of Net Available Cash payable in respect of the Notes is denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the amount thereof payable in respect of the Notes shall not exceed the net amount of funds in Dollars that is actually received by the Company upon converting such portion into Dollars.
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(i)    to the extent that any of or all the Net Available Cash of any Asset Disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (a “ Foreign Disposition ”) is (x) prohibited or delayed by applicable local law, (y) restricted by applicable organizational documents or any agreement or (z) subject to other onerous organizational or administrative impediments from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Available Cash so affected will not be required to be applied in compliance with this covenant, and such amounts may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law documents or agreements will not permit repatriation to the United States (the Company hereby agreeing to use reasonable efforts (as determined in the Company’s reasonable business judgment) to otherwise cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to within one year following the date on which the respective payment would otherwise have been required, promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law, applicable organizational impediments or other impediment to permit such repatriation), and if within one year following the date on which the respective payment would otherwise have been required such repatriation of any of such affected Net Available Cash is permitted under the applicable local law, applicable organizational impediment or other impediment, such repatriated Net Available Cash will be promptly (and in any event not later than five (5) Business Days after such repatriation could be made) applied (net of additional Taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) (whether or not such repatriation actually occurs) in compliance with this Section 3.5 ; and
(ii)    to the extent that the Company has determined in good faith that repatriation of any of or all the Net Available Cash of any Foreign Disposition would have an adverse Tax consequence (which for the avoidance of doubt, includes, but is not limited to, any prepayment whereby doing so the Company, any Subsidiary, or any of their respective Affiliates and/or equity owners would incur a tax liability, including a taxable dividend, deemed dividend pursuant to Code Section 956 or a withholding tax), the Net Available Cash so affected will not be required to be applied in accordance with this Section 3.5 . The non-application of any prepayment amounts as a consequence of the foregoing provisions will not, for the avoidance of doubt, constitute a Default or an Event of Default.
(e)    For the purposes of Section 3.5(a)(2) hereof, the following will be deemed to be cash:
(1)    the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities contingent or otherwise of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor) and the release of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such Asset Disposition;
(2)    securities, notes or other obligations received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of such Asset Disposition;
(3)    Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Asset Disposition, to the extent that the Company and each other Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of payment of such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition;
(4)    consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Company (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) received after the Issue Date from Persons who are not the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; and
(5)    any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Dispositions having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non‑Cash Consideration received pursuant to this covenant that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $20.0 million and 2.0% of Total Assets (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non‑Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value).

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(f)    To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws, rules or regulations, including Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws, rules and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations described in this Indenture by virtue thereof.
(g)    The provisions of this Indenture relative to the Company’s obligation to make an offer to repurchase the Notes as a result of an Asset Disposition may be waived or modified with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.
SECTION 3.6.     Limitation on Liens . The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, create, Incur or permit to exist any Lien (except Permitted Liens) (each, an “ Initial Lien ”) that secures obligations under any Indebtedness or any related guarantee, on any asset or property of the Company or any Guarantor, unless:
(1)    in the case of Liens securing Subordinated Indebtedness, the Notes and related Guarantees are secured by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such Liens; or
(2)    in all other cases, the Notes or the Guarantees are ratably secured or secured on a senior basis,
except that the foregoing shall not apply to any Liens securing the Notes and the related Guarantees.
Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the preceding sentence shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Initial Lien.
With respect to any Lien securing Indebtedness that was permitted to secure such Indebtedness at the time of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness. The “ Increased Amount ” of any Indebtedness shall mean any increase in the amount of such Indebtedness in connection with any accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, accretion of original issue discount or liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or increases in the value of property securing Indebtedness.
SECTION 3.7.     Limitation on Guarantees .
(a)    The Company shall not permit any of its Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (and Domestic Subsidiaries of the Company if such Domestic Subsidiaries guarantee, or are a co-issuer of, other capital markets debt securities of the Company or guarantee all or a portion of, or are a co-borrower with the Company under, the Credit Facility), other than a Guarantor, to guarantee the payment of any Indebtedness of the Company unless:
(1)    such Restricted Subsidiary within 60 days executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing for a Guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary, except that with respect to a guarantee of Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor, if such Indebtedness is by its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee, any such guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary with respect to such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to such Guarantee substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Guarantee of the Notes; and
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against the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary as a result of any payment by such Restricted Subsidiary under its Guarantee until payment in full of Obligations under this Indenture.
provided that this Section 3.7 shall not be applicable (i) to any guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that existed at the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, or (ii) in the event that the Guarantee of the Company’s obligations under the Notes or this Indenture by such Subsidiary would not be permitted under applicable law.
(b)    The Company may elect, in its sole discretion, to cause any Subsidiary that is not otherwise required to be a Guarantor to become a Guarantor, in which case, such Subsidiary shall not be required to comply with the 60-day period described in Section 3.7(a) .
(c)    If any Guarantor becomes an Immaterial Subsidiary, the Company shall have the right, by execution and delivery of a supplemental indenture to the Trustee, to cause such Immaterial Subsidiary to cease to be a Guarantor, subject to the requirement described in the first paragraph above that such Subsidiary shall be required to become a Guarantor if it ceases to be an Immaterial Subsidiary (except that if such Subsidiary has been properly designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary it shall not be so required to become a Guarantor or execute a supplemental indenture); provided , further , that such Immaterial Subsidiary shall not be permitted to Guarantee the Credit Agreement or other Indebtedness of the Company or the other Guarantors, unless it again becomes a Guarantor.
SECTION 3.8.     Limitation on Affiliate Transactions .
(a)    The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to enter into or conduct any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of the Company (an “ Affiliate Transaction ”) involving aggregate value in excess of $20.0 million, unless:
(1)    the terms of such Affiliate Transaction taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could be obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction or the execution of the agreement providing for such transaction in arm’s length dealings with a Person who is not such an Affiliate; and
(2)    in the event such Affiliate Transaction involves an aggregate value in excess of $40.0 million, the terms of such transaction have been approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors.
Any Affiliate Transaction shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements set forth in clause (2) of this Section 3.8(a) if such Affiliate Transaction is approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors, if any.
(b)    The provisions of Section 3.8(a) shall not apply to:
(1)    any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 3.3 , or any Permitted Investment;
(2)    any issuance or sale of Capital Stock, options, other equity‑related interests or other securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, or entering into, or maintenance of, any employment, consulting, collective bargaining or benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement, related trust or other similar agreement and other compensation arrangements, options, warrants or other rights to purchase Capital Stock of the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity, restricted stock plans, long‑term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans, participation plans or similar employee benefits or consultants’ plans (including valuation, health, insurance, deferred compensation, severance, retirement, savings or similar plans, programs or arrangements) or indemnities provided on behalf of officers, employees, directors or consultants approved

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by the Board of Directors of the Company, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(3)    any Management Advances and any waiver or transaction with respect thereto;
(4)    (a) any transaction between or among the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary (or entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction), or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) any merger or consolidation with any Parent Entity, provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Company or another Parent Entity with no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Company or another Parent Entity and such merger or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with this Indenture;
(5)    the payment of compensation, fees and reimbursement of expenses to, and customary indemnities (including under customary insurance policies) and employee benefit and pension expenses provided on behalf of, directors, officers, consultants or employees of the Company, any Parent Entity or any Restricted Subsidiary (whether directly or indirectly and including through any Controlled Investment Affiliate of such directors, officers or employees);
(6)    the entry into and performance of obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries under the terms of any transaction arising out of, and any payments pursuant to or for purposes of funding, any agreement or instrument in effect as of or on the Issue Date (or, if entered into in connection with the Spin-Off and not in effect on the Issue Date, as in effect on the Spin-Off Effective Date), as these agreements and instruments may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or refinanced from time to time in accordance with the other terms of this covenant or to the extent not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect;
(7)    any customary transaction with a Receivables Subsidiary including a Securitization Repurchase Obligation and sales of accounts receivable, or participations therein, in connection with any Receivables Facility;
(8)    transactions with customers, clients, joint venture partners, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, which are fair to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors or the senior management of the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary, or are on terms no less favorable than those that could reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party;
(9)    transactions with any other Person that is an Affiliate of the Company solely because the Company owns, directly or through a Restricted Subsidiary, an equity interest in, or controls, such Person;
(10)    issuances or sales of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Company or options, warrants or other rights to acquire such Capital Stock and the granting of registration and other customary rights in connection therewith or any contribution to capital of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(11)    any transactions (a) pursuant to the Transactions, the Transaction Agreements and any actions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, including the payment of all costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses) related to the Transactions, (b) with Grace or any of its Affiliates pursuant to the contracts or agreements described in the Offering Circular under the caption “Our Relationship with Grace Following the Spin-Off”, or (c) in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), any amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the original

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agreement or arrangement in existence on the Issue Date (or if such agreement or contract is not in effect on the Issue Date or in the case of the Transaction Agreements, their respective dates);
(12)    transactions in which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or meets the requirements of Section 3.8(a)(1) ;
(13)    the existence of, or the performance by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of its obligations under the terms of, any equityholders agreement (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreements related thereto) to which it is party as of the Issue Date and any similar agreement that it may enter into thereafter; provided , however , that the existence of, or the performance by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of its obligations under any future amendment to the equityholders’ agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date will only be permitted under this clause (13) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect;
(14)    any purchase by the Company’s Affiliates of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries the majority of which Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock is purchased by Persons who are not the Company’s Affiliates; provided that such purchases by the Company’s Affiliates are on the same terms as such purchases by such Persons who are not the Company’s Affiliates;
(15)    (i) investments by Affiliates in securities of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and payment of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Affiliates in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary generally to other non-affiliated third party investors on the same or more favorable terms and (ii) payments to Affiliates in respect of securities of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (i) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities;
(16)    payments by any Parent Entity, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any tax sharing agreements or other equity agreements in respect of Related Taxes among any such Parent Entity, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(17)    payments, Indebtedness and Disqualified Stock (and cancellation of any thereof) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and Preferred Stock (and cancellation of any thereof) of any Restricted Subsidiary to any future, current or former employee, director, officer, manager or consultant (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its direct or indirect parent companies pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement; and any employment agreements, stock option plans and other compensatory arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) that are, in each case, approved by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith;
(18)    employment and severance arrangements between the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries and their respective offers and employees in the ordinary course of business or entered into in connection with the Transactions;
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Subsidiary permitted under Section 3.5 or entered into with any Business Successor, in each case, that the Company determines in good faith is either fair to the Company or otherwise on customary terms for such type of arrangements in connection with similar transactions;
(20)    transactions entered into by an Unrestricted Subsidiary with an Affiliate prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary as described under the caption “—Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries;” and
(21)    any Permitted Tax Restructuring.
SECTION 3.9.     Change of Control .
(a)    If a Change of Control occurs, unless the Company has previously or substantially concurrently therewith delivered a redemption notice with respect to all of the outstanding Notes and all conditions to such redemption, other than the deposit of funds with the Trustee, have been satisfied as set forth under Section 5.7(a) or Section 5.7(d) , the Company shall make an offer to purchase all of the Notes pursuant to the offer (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) at a price in cash (the “ Change of Control Payment ”) equal to 101.0% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase; provided that if the repurchase date is after the record date but on or before the related interest payment date, then Holders of the Notes who hold as of the record date will receive interest on the repurchase date. Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company will deliver or cause to be delivered notice of such Change of Control Offer electronically or by first class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes at the address of such Holder appearing in the security register or otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, with the following information:
(1)    that a Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 3.9 , and that all Notes properly tendered pursuant to such Change of Control Offer will be accepted for payment by the Company;
(2)    the purchase price and the purchase date, which will be no earlier than 15 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is delivered (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”);
(3)    that any Note not properly tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest;
(4)    that unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer will cease to accrue interest, on the Change of Control Payment Date;
(5)    that Holders electing to have any Notes purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender such Notes, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of such Notes completed, to the Paying Agent specified in the notice at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date;
(6)    that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their tendered Notes and their election to require the Company to purchase such Notes; provided that the Paying Agent receives, not later than the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the expiration date of the Change of Control Offer, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder of the Notes, the principal amount of Notes tendered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its tendered Notes and its election to have such Notes purchased;
(7)    that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in part will be issued new Notes and such new Notes will be equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered. The

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unpurchased portion of the Notes must be equal to at least $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000;
(8)    if such notice is delivered prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control, stating that the Change of Control Offer is conditional on the occurrence of such Change of Control; and
(9)    the other instructions, as determined by the Company, consistent with this Section 3.9 , that a Holder must follow.
The Paying Agent will promptly deliver to each Holder of the Notes tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book‑entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each such new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Company will publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control Payment Date.
If the Change of Control Payment Date is on or after an interest record date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest will be paid on the repurchase date to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date.
(b)    On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company will, to the extent permitted by law,
(1)    accept for payment all Notes issued by it or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer,
(2)    deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the aggregate Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered, and
(3)    deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee stating that such Notes or portions thereof have been tendered to and purchased by the Company.
(c)    The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control if (x) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer or (y) a notice of redemption of all outstanding Notes has been given pursuant to Section 5.7 hereof unless and until there is a default in the payment of the redemption price on the applicable redemption date or the redemption is not consummated due to the failure of a condition precedent contained in the applicable redemption notice to be satisfied.
(d)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.9 , a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, conditional upon such Change of Control.
(e)    [Reserved]
(f)    While the Notes are in global form and the Company makes an offer to purchase all of the Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, a Holder may exercise its option to elect for the purchase of the Notes through the facilities of DTC, subject to its rules and regulations.
(g)    The Company will comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws, rules and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws or regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws, rules or regulations conflict with the provisions of this

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Indenture, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations described in this Indenture by virtue thereof.
SECTION 3.10.     Reports .
(a)    Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise report on an annual and quarterly basis on forms provided for such annual and quarterly reporting pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, from and after the Issue Date, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, within 15 days after the time periods specified below:
(1)    within 100 days (120 days in the case of the fiscal year containing the Issue Date) after the end of each fiscal year, all financial information that would be required to be contained in an annual report on Form 10-K, or any successor or comparable form, filed with the SEC, including a “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and a report on the annual financial statements by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm;
(2)    within 55 days (60 days in the case of the first three fiscal quarters after the Issue Date) after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, all financial information that would be required to be contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q, or any successor or comparable form, filed with the SEC; and
(3)    promptly after the occurrence of any of the following events, all current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K or any successor or comparable form (if the Company had been a reporting company under Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act); provided , that the foregoing shall not obligate the Company to make available (i) any information otherwise required to be included on a Form 8-K regarding the occurrence of any such events if the Company determines in its good faith judgment that such event that would otherwise be required to be disclosed is not material to the Holders of the Notes or the business, assets, operations, financial positions or prospects of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) a summary of the terms of, any employment or compensatory arrangement, agreement, plan or understanding between the Company (or any of its Subsidiaries) and any director, manager or executive officer of the Company (or any of its Subsidiaries) or (iii) copies of any agreements, financial statements or other items that would be required to be filed as exhibits to a current report on Form 8-K:
(A)    the entry into or termination of material agreements;
(B)    significant acquisitions or dispositions;
(C)    bankruptcy;
(D)    cross-default under direct material financial obligations;
(E)    a change in the Company’s certifying independent auditor;
(F)    the appointment or departure of directors or executive officers;
(G)    non-reliance on previously issued financial statements; and
(H)    change of control transactions,
in each case, in a manner that complies in all material respects with the requirements specified in such form, except as described above or below and subject to exceptions consistent with the presentation of information in the Offering Circular; provided , however , that the Company shall not be required to (i) comply with Regulation G under the Exchange Act or Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K with respect to any “non-GAAP” financial information contained

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therein, (ii) provide any information that is not otherwise similar to information currently included in the Offering Circular or (iii) provide separate financial statements or other information contemplated by Rule 3-09 or Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X, or in each case any successor provisions. In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not be required to (i) comply with Sections 302, 906 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or (ii) otherwise furnish any information, certificates or reports required by Items 307 or 308 of Regulation S-K. To the extent any such information is not so filed or furnished, as applicable, within the time periods specified above and such information is subsequently filed or furnished, as applicable, the Company will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations with respect thereto at such time and any Default with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been cured; provided that such cure shall not otherwise affect the rights of the Holders under Section 6.1 hereof if Holders of at least 30.0% in principal amount of the then total outstanding Notes have declared the principal, premium, if any, interest and any other monetary obligations on all the then outstanding Notes to be due and payable immediately and such declaration shall not have been rescinded or cancelled prior to such cure. In addition, to the extent not satisfied by the foregoing, the Company shall agree that, for so long as any Notes are outstanding, it shall furnish to Holders and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
(b)    If the Company has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries and such Unrestricted Subsidiaries hold in the aggregate more than 5.0% of the Total Assets of the Company, then the annual and quarterly financial information required by Section 3.10(a)(1) and (2) will include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes thereto, and in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Company.
(c)    Substantially concurrently with the furnishing or making such information available to the Trustee pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company shall also use its commercially reasonable efforts to post copies of such information required by the immediately preceding paragraph on a website (which may be nonpublic and may be maintained by the Company or a third party) to which access will be given to the Holders, prospective investors in the Notes (which prospective investors shall be limited to “qualified institutional buyers” within the meaning of Rule 144A of the Securities Act or non-U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) that certify their status as such to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company), and securities analysts and market making financial institutions that are, in the case of securities analysts and market making financial institutions, reasonably satisfactory to the Company. To the extent the Company determines in good faith that it cannot make such reports available in the manner described in the preceding sentence after the use of its commercially reasonable efforts, the Company shall furnish such reports to the Holders of the Notes, upon their request. The Company may condition the delivery of any such reports to such Holders, prospective investors in the Notes, and securities analysts and market making financial institutions on the agreement of such Persons to (i) treat all such reports (and the information contained therein) and information as confidential, (ii) not use such reports and the information contained therein for any purpose other than their investment or potential investment in the Notes and (iii) not publicly disclose any such reports (and the information contained therein) and information.
(d)    The Company will also hold quarterly conference calls for the Holders of Notes, prospective investors in the Notes and securities analysts and market making financial institutions, to discuss financial information for the previous quarter (it being understood that such quarterly conference call may be the same conference call as with the Company’s (or as applicable, any of any Parent Entity’s) equity investors and analysts). The conference call will be following the last day of each fiscal quarter of the Company and not later than ten (10) Business Days from the time that the Company distributes the financial information as set forth in the third preceding paragraph. No fewer than two days prior to the conference call, the Company will issue a press release announcing the time and date of such conference call and providing instructions for Holders, securities analysts and prospective investors and market making financial institutions to obtain access to such call.
(e)    The Company may satisfy its obligations pursuant to this Section 3.10 with respect to financial information relating to the Company by furnishing financial information relating to a Parent Entity; provided that the same is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the

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information relating to such Parent Entity (and other direct or indirect Parent Entities included in such information, if any), on the one hand, and the information relating to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand. For the avoidance of doubt, the consolidating information referred to in the proviso in the preceding sentence need not be audited.
(f)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Section 3.10 , if the Company or any Parent Entity of the Company has furnished to the Holders of Notes or filed with the SEC the reports described in the preceding paragraphs with respect to the Company or any Parent Entity, the Company shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.10 .
(g)    Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).
SECTION 3.11.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 3.12.     Maintenance of Office or Agency .
The Company will maintain an office or agency where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, where, if applicable, the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The corporate trust office of the Trustee, which initially shall be located at Wilmington Trust, National Association, 246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06347, Attention: GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Administrator, shall be such office or agency of the Company, unless the Company shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for one or more of such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders may be made or served at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations and surrenders.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind any such designation. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The office of the Trustee shall not be an office or agency of the Company for the purposes of service of legal process on the Company or any Guarantor.
SECTION 3.13.     Corporate Existence . Subject to, and as permitted under, Article IV , and the ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to convert (or similar action) to another form of legal entity under the laws of the jurisdiction under which the Company or such Subsidiary then exists, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its limited liability company existence, and the corporate, partnership or other similar existence of each of its Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company or any such Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve or keep the corporate, partnership or other existence of any of its Subsidiaries, if the Company shall determine that the preservation or keeping thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
SECTION 3.14.     Payment of Taxes . The Company will pay, and will cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all of its and their, as applicable, taxes, assessments, and governmental levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.
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SECTION 3.16.     Compliance Certificate . The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company an Officer’s Certificate, the signer of which shall be the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company, stating that in the course of the performance by the signer of his or her duties as an Officer of the Company he or she would normally have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default and whether or not the signer knows of any Default or Event of Default that occurred during the previous fiscal year; provided that no such Officer’s Certificate shall be required for any fiscal year ended prior to the Issue Date. If such Officer does have such knowledge, the certificate shall describe the Default or Event of Default, its status and the action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
SECTION 3.17.     Further Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Trustee or as necessary to comply with future developments or requirements, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.18.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 3.19.     Statement by Officers as to Default . The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the actions which the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
SECTION 3.20.     Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries . The Company may designate any Restricted Subsidiary to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if that designation would not cause a Default. If a Restricted Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate fair market value of all outstanding Investments owned by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be deemed to be an Investment made as of the time of the designation and will reduce the amount available for Restricted Payments as described in Section 3.3 or under one or more clauses of the definition of Permitted Investment, as determined by the Company. That designation will only be permitted if the Investment would be permitted at that time and if the Restricted Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Company may redesignate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if that redesignation would not cause a Default.
Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such designation complies with the preceding conditions and was permitted by Section 3.3 . If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary will be deemed to be Incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as of such date by Section 3.2 , the Company will be in default of such covenant.
The Company may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such designation will be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, and such designation will only be permitted if (1) such Indebtedness is permitted under Section 3.2 (including pursuant to clause 5(b) thereof treating such redesignation as an acquisition for the purpose of such clause), calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable reference period; and (2) no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation. Any such designation by the Company shall be evidenced to the Trustee by an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such designation complies with the preceding conditions.
SECTION 3.21.     Suspension of Certain Covenants on Achievement of Investment Grade Status . Following the first day the Notes have achieved Investment Grade Status and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, the beginning on that day and ending on a Reversion Date (such

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period a “ Suspension Period ”), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to Sections 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.7 , 3.8 and 4.1(a)(3) .
On the Reversion Date, all Indebtedness Incurred during the Suspension Period will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under Section 3.2(b)(4)(ii) . On and after the Reversion Date, all Liens created during the Suspension Period will be considered Permitted Liens. Calculations made after the Reversion Date of the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 3.3 will be made as though Section 3.3 had been in effect since the Issue Date and prior to, but not during, the Suspension Period. Accordingly, Restricted Payments made during the Suspension Period will not reduce the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 3.3(a) . On the Reversion Date, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero. Any Affiliate Transaction entered into after the Reversion Date pursuant to an agreement entered into during any Suspension Period will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under Section 3.8(b)(6 ). Any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to take any action described in Section 3.4(a)(1) through (3) that becomes effective during the Suspension Period will be deemed to have existed on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under Section 3.4(b)(1) . In addition, any future obligation to grant further Guarantees shall be released. All such further obligations to grant Guarantees shall be reinstated on the Reversion Date. As described above, however, no Default, Event of Default or breach of any kind shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of the Reversion Date occurring on the basis of any actions taken or the continuance of any circumstances resulting from actions taken or the performance of obligations under agreements entered into by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries during the Suspension Period (other than agreements to take actions after the Reversion Date that would not be permitted outside of the Suspension Period entered into in contemplation of the Reversion Date).
The Company, in an Officer’s Certificate, shall provide the Trustee notice of any Covenant Suspension or Reversion Date. The Trustee will have no obligation to (i) independently determine or verify if such events have occurred or (ii) make any determination regarding the impact of actions taken during the Suspension Period on the Company’s future compliance with its covenants. In addition, the Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the ratings of the Notes, shall not be deemed to have any knowledge of the ratings of the Notes and shall have no duty to notify Holders if the Notes achieve Investment Grade Status.
ARTICLE IV    

SUCCESSOR COMPANY; SUCCESSOR PERSON
SECTION 4.1.     Merger and Consolidation .
(a)    The Company will not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all its assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to any Person, unless:
(1)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “ Successor Company ”) will be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States, jurisdiction thereof, or the District of Columbia, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland or any other country that is a member of the European Union and the Successor Company (if not the Company) will expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture and if such Successor Company is not a corporation, a co‑obligor of the Notes is a corporation organized or existing under such laws;
(2)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the applicable Successor Company or any Subsidiary of the applicable Successor Company as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the applicable Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

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(3)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, either (a) the applicable Successor Company would be able to Incur at least an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to Section 3.2(a) hereof or (b) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries would not be lower than it was immediately prior to giving effect to such transaction; and
(4)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such supplemental indenture (if any) has been duly authorized, executed and delivered and is a legal, valid and binding agreement enforceable against the Successor Company; provided that in giving an Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate as to any matters of fact, including as to satisfaction of clauses (2) and (3) above.
(b)    [Reserved].
(c)    The Successor Company will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the Notes and this Indenture.
(d)    Notwithstanding the preceding clauses (a)(2), (a)(3) and (a)(4) (which do not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence), (i) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Company, (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to any other Restricted Subsidiary and (iii) the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may complete any Permitted Tax Restructuring. Notwithstanding the preceding clauses (a)(2) and (a)(3) (which do not apply to the transactions referred to in this sentence), the Company may consolidate or otherwise combine with or merge into an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of changing the legal domicile of the Company, reincorporating the Company in another jurisdiction, or changing the legal form of the Company.
(e)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Transactions and any other transactions entered into in connection with and for purposes of effecting the Spin-Off shall not be subject to this Section 4.1 .
(f)    The foregoing provisions (other than the requirements of clause (a)(2) of this Section 4.1 ) shall not apply to the creation of a new Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or to the transfer of assets among the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(g)    No Guarantor may:
(1)    consolidate with or merge with or into any Person; or
(2)    sell, convey, transfer or dispose of, all or substantially all its assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to, any Person; or
(3)    permit any Person to merge with or into such Guarantor, unless
(i)    the other Person is the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor or becomes a Guarantor concurrently with the transaction; or
(ii)    (A)    either (x) the Company or a Guarantor is the continuing Person or (y) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Guarantor under its Note Guarantee and this Indenture; and
(B)    immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default has occurred and is continuing; or

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(iii)    the transaction constitutes a sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger) of the Guarantor or the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Guarantor (in each case other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) otherwise permitted by this Indenture.
ARTICLE V    

REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 5.1.     Notices to Trustee . If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 5.7 hereof, it must furnish to the Trustee, at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth:
(1)    the clause of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur;
(2)    the redemption date;
(3)    the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed; and
(4)    the redemption price.
Any optional redemption referenced in such Officer’s Certificate may be cancelled by the Company at any time prior to notice of redemption being sent to any Holder and thereafter shall be null and void.
SECTION 5.2.     Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased . If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to Section 5.7 or purchased in an Asset Disposition Offer pursuant to Section 3.5 or a redemption pursuant to Section 5.9 , the Trustee will select Notes for redemption or purchase (a) if the Notes are in global form, on a pro rata basis or such similar method in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC and (b) if the Notes are in definitive form, on a pro rata basis (subject to adjustments to maintain the authorized Notes denomination requirements) except:
(1)    if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the Notes are listed; or
(2)    if otherwise required by law.
No Notes in an unauthorized denomination or of $2,000 in aggregate principal amount or less shall be redeemed in part. In the event of partial redemption, the particular Notes to be redeemed or purchased will be selected, unless otherwise provided herein, not less than 15 days nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption or purchase date by the Trustee from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption or purchase; provided that the Company shall provide the Trustee with sufficient notice of such partial redemption to enable the Trustee to select the Notes for partial redemption.
The Trustee will promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected for redemption or purchase and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption or purchase, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed or purchased. Notes and portions of Notes selected will be in amounts of $2,000 or whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed or purchased, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed or purchased. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption or purchase also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption or purchase.
SECTION 5.3.     Notice of Redemption . At least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company will send or cause to be sent, by electronic delivery or by first class mail postage prepaid, a notice of redemption to each Holder (with a copy to the Trustee) whose Notes are to be redeemed at the address of

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such Holder appearing in the Notes Register or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of DTC, except that redemption notices may be sent more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Articles VIII or XI hereof.
The notice will identify the Notes (including the CUSIP or ISIN number) to be redeemed and will state:
(1)    the redemption date;
(2)    the redemption price;
(3)    if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion will be issued upon cancellation of the original Note;
(4)    the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(5)    that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;
(6)    that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;
(7)    the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; and
(8)    that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes.
At the Company’s request, the Trustee will give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense; provided , however , that the Company has delivered to the Trustee, at least 20 days prior to the redemption date (or such shorter period as the Trustee may agree), an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the preceding paragraph.
Notice of any redemption of the Notes may, at the Company’s discretion, be given prior to the completion of a corporate transaction (including but not limited to an Equity Offering, an incurrence of Indebtedness, a Change of Control or other corporate transaction) and any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a related transaction. If such redemption or purchase is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption or purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed. In addition, the Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.
SECTION 5.4.    [Reserved]
SECTION 5.5.     Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price . Prior to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the redemption or purchase date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued interest on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased on that date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent will promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption or purchase price of, and accrued interest, on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased.

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If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the redemption or purchase date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption or purchase. If a Note is redeemed or purchased on or after an interest record date but on or prior to the related interest payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest up to the redemption date shall be paid on the redemption date to the Person in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business on such record date. If any Note called for redemption or purchase is not so paid upon surrender for redemption or purchase because of the failure of the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption or purchase date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 3.1 hereof.
SECTION 5.6.     Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part . Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the Company will issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee will authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Company a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered; provided , that each such new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
SECTION 5.7.     Optional Redemption .
(a)    At any time prior to February 1, 2019, the Company may redeem the Notes in whole or in part, at its option, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, at a redemption price (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) equal to 100.000% of the principal amount of Notes redeemed plus the relevant Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of redemption (the “ Redemption Date ”), subject to the rights of Holders of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
(b)    At any time and from time to time prior to February 1, 2019, the Company may, on one or more occasions, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, redeem up to 40.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes issued under this Indenture at a redemption price (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) equal to 109.5% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the applicable Redemption Date, subject to the right of Holders of record of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date, with the net cash proceeds received from one or more Equity Offerings; provided that not less than 50.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes initially issued under this Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding Notes held by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries); provided further that each such redemption occurs not later than 180 days after the date of closing of the related Equity Offering. The Trustee shall select the Notes to be purchased in the manner described under Sections 5.1 through 5.6 .
(c)    Except pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 5.7 or pursuant to Section 5.9 , the Notes will not be redeemable at the Company’s option prior to February 1, 2019.
(d)    At any time and from time to time on or after February 1, 2019, the Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) set forth in the table below, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to but excluding the applicable Redemption Date, subject to the right of Holders of record of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date, if redeemed during the twelve‑month period beginning on February 1 of each of the years indicated in the table below:

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Period
Percentage
2019
104.750%
2020
102.375%
2021 and thereafter
100.000%

(e)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with any tender offer for the Notes, including a Change of Control Offer or Asset Disposition Offer, if Holders of not less than 90.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in such tender offer and the Company, or any third party making such tender offer in lieu of the Company, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party shall have the right upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, given not more than 15 days following such purchase date to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the price offered to each other Holder in such tender offer plus, to the extent not included in the tender offer payment, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon, to but not including, the date of such redemption.
(f)    Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable Redemption Date.
(g)    Any redemption pursuant to this Section 5.7 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5.1 through 5.6 .
SECTION 5.8.     Mandatory Redemption . The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes, other than a special mandatory redemption as described in Section 5.9 ; provided however, that under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to offer to purchase Notes under Section 3.5 and Section 3.9 . The Company may at any time and from time to time purchase Notes in the open market or otherwise.
SECTION 5.9.     Special Mandatory Redemption .
(a)    If (1) the Spin-Off Effective Date has not occurred on or prior to the Outside Date or (2) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the Company has made a good faith judgment that the Spin-Off Effective Date will not occur on or prior to the Outside Date ((1) and (2), each a “ Mandatory Redemption Event ”), then the Company will be required to redeem all of the outstanding Initial Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the issue price of the Initial Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (provided that if the repurchase date is after the record date but on or before the related interest payment date, then Holders of the Notes who hold as of the record date will receive interest on the date the Notes are redeemed) (the “ Special Mandatory Redemption Price ”). Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article V , in the event of the occurrence of a Mandatory Redemption Event, the Company will deliver a notice of special mandatory redemption (a “ Special Mandatory Redemption Notice ”), or cause a Special Mandatory Redemption Notice to be provided to the Trustee for delivery, to the Holders of the Notes (with a copy to the Trustee if delivered by the Company) no later than the third Business Day following the occurrence of the Mandatory Redemption Event and will redeem the Notes no later than five (5) Business Days following the date of the Special Mandatory Redemption Notice (the date of redemption, “ Mandatory Redemption Date ”) pursuant to this Indenture.
(b)    If the Company delivers to the Holders of the Notes or provides to the Trustee a Special Mandatory Redemption Notice, the Company will, not later than the last Business Day immediately preceding the Mandatory Redemption Date, irrevocably transfer to the Trustee the amount necessary to pay the aggregate Special Mandatory Redemption Price.

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(c)    The provisions relating to the special mandatory redemption in this Section 5.9 may not be waived or modified without the consent of each Holder of then outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes).
(d)    Upon the Trustee’s written request, the Company shall confirm in writing whether the Spin-Off Effective Date has occurred.

ARTICLE VI    

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.1.     Events of Default .
(a)    Each of the following is an “ Event of Default ”:
(1)    default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, continued for 30 days;
(2)    default in the payment of the principal amount of or premium, if any, on any Note issued under this Indenture when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise;
(3)    failure by the Company or any Guarantor to comply for 60 days after written notice by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders or by the Holders of 30.0% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes with any agreement or obligation contained in this Indenture; provided that in the case of a failure to comply with this Indenture provisions described under Section 3.10 , such period of continuance of such default or breach shall be 270 days after written notice described in this clause (3) has been given;
(4)    default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or the payment of which is Guaranteed by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary) other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary whether such Indebtedness or Guarantee now exists, or is created after the date hereof, which default:
(A)    is caused by a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness, at its stated final maturity (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods provided in such Indebtedness) (“ payment default ”); or
(B)    results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its stated final maturity;
and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a payment default of principal at its stated final maturity (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods) or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates to $50.0 million or more at any one time outstanding;
(5)    failure by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries), would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $50.0 million other than any judgments covered by

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indemnities provided by, or insurance policies issued by, reputable and creditworthy companies, which final judgments remain unpaid, undischarged and unstayed for a period of more than 60 days after such judgment becomes final, and in the event such judgment is covered by insurance, an enforcement proceeding has been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or decree which is not promptly stayed;
(6)    any Note Guarantee by a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect, other than (x) in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, (y) a Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Note Guarantee, other than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture or upon release of such Note Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture or (z) in connection with the bankruptcy of a Guarantor, so long as the aggregate assets of such Guarantor and any other Guarantor whose Note Guarantee ceased or ceases to be in full force as a result of a bankruptcy are less than $50.0 million;
(7)    the Company or any Guarantor that is Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries), would constitute a Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(A)    commences a voluntary case or proceeding;
(B)    consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding;
(C)    consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for substantially all of its property;
(D)    makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
(E)    consents to or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it; or
(F)    takes any comparable action under any foreign laws relating to insolvency;
(8)    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
(A)    is for relief against the Company or any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken together as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Company, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, in an involuntary case;
(B)    appoints a Custodian of the Company, any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken together as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Company, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, for substantially all of its property;
(C)    orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company, any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken together as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Company, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary; or

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(D)    or any similar relief is granted under any foreign laws and the order, decree or relief remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days;
provided that a Default under clause (3), (4) or (5) above will not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders of 30.0% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes notify the Company of the Default and, with respect to clauses (3) and (5), the Company does not cure such Default within the time specified in clauses (3) and (5), as applicable, after receipt of such notice.
(b)    If a Default for a failure to report or failure to deliver a required certificate in connection with another default (the “ Initial Default ”) occurs, then at the time such Initial Default is cured, such Default for a failure to report or failure to deliver a required certificate in connection with another default that resulted solely because of that Initial Default shall also be cured without any further action.
(c)    Any Default or Event of Default for the failure to comply with the time periods prescribed in Section 3.10 hereof or otherwise to deliver any notice or certificate pursuant to any other provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to be cured upon the delivery of any such report required by such provision or such notice or certificate, as applicable, even though such delivery is not within the prescribed period specified in this Indenture.
SECTION 6.2.     Acceleration . If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default described in clauses (7) or (8) of Section 6.1(a) ) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by written notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 30.0% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such principal and accrued and unpaid interest, will be due and payable immediately.
In the event of any Event of Default specified in clause (4) of Section 6.1(a) , such Event of Default and all consequences thereof shall be annulled, waived and rescinded, automatically and without any action by the Trustee or the Holders, if within 30 days after such Event of Default arose:
(1)    (x)    the Indebtedness that gave rise to such Event of Default shall have been discharged in full; or
(y)    the holders thereof have rescinded or waived the acceleration, notice or action (as the case may be) giving rise to such Event of Default; or
(z)    if the default that is the basis for such Event of Default has been remedied or cured; and
(2)    the annulment of the acceleration of the Notes would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.
If an Event of Default described in clauses (7) or (8) of Section 6.1(a) with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, on all Notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders.
SECTION 6.3.     Other Remedies . If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the payment of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All available remedies are cumulative.

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SECTION 6.4.     Waiver of Past Defaults . The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by written notice to the Trustee may, on behalf of all of the Holders, (a) waive, by their consent (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under this Indenture except (i) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or interest, on a Note held by a non-consenting Holder or (ii) a Default or Event of Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.2 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected and (b) rescind any acceleration with respect to the Notes and its consequences if (1) such rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, (2) all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium, if any, interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration, (3) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, which has become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid, (4) the Company has paid the Trustee its compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances and (5) in the event of the cure or waiver of an Event of Default of the type described in clause (4) of Section 6.1(a) , the Trustee shall have received an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such Event of Default has been cured or waived. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is deemed cured, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any consequent right.
SECTION 6.5.     Control by Majority . The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or the Notes or, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2 , that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided , however , that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to taking any such action hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it against all fees, losses, liabilities and expenses (including attorney’s fees and expenses) that may be caused by taking or not taking such action.
SECTION 6.6.     Limitation on Suits . Subject to Section 6.7 , a Holder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Notes unless:
(1)    such Holder has previously given the Trustee written notice that an Event of Default is continuing;
(2)    Holders of at least 30.0% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes have requested in writing the Trustee to pursue the remedy;
(3)    such Holders have offered in writing and, if requested, provided to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense;
(4)    the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the written request and the offer of security or indemnity; and
(5)    Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes have not given the Trustee a written direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such request within such 60‑day period.
A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders).
SECTION 6.7.     Rights of Holders to Receive Payment . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture (including, without limitation, Section 6.6 ), the contractual right of any Holder to receive payment of

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interest on the Notes held by such Holder or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes after the due date therefor shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the amendment, supplement or modification in accordance with the terms of this Indenture of Articles III and IV and Sections 6.1(a)(3) , (4) , (5) and (6) and the related definitions shall be deemed not to impair the contractual right of any Holder to receive payments of principal of and interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Note).
SECTION 6.8.     Collection Suit by Trustee . If an Event of Default specified in clauses (1) or (2) of Section 6.1(a) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on any unpaid interest to the extent lawful) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.7 .
SECTION 6.9.     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company, its Subsidiaries or its or their respective creditors or properties and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may be entitled and empowered to participate as a member of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter and may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7 .
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.10.     Priorities .
(a)    If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
FIRST: to the Trustee for amounts due to it under Section 7.7 ;
SECOND: to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal of, or premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal of, or premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and
THIRD: to the Company, or to the extent the Trustee collects any amount for any Guarantor, to such Guarantor.
(b)    The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10 . At least 15 days before such record date, the Company shall send or cause to be sent to each Holder and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.
SECTION 6.11.     Undertaking for Costs . In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the

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party litigant. This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by the Company, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.7 or a suit by Holders of more than 10.0% in outstanding principal amount of the Notes.
ARTICLE VII    

TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1.     Duties of Trustee .
(a)    If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
(b)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1)    the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2)    in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates, opinions or orders furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture or the Notes, as the case may be. However, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture or the Notes, as the case may be (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).
(c)    The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1)    this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.1 ;
(2)    the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3)    the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.5 ; and
(4)    No provision of this Indenture or the Notes shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or thereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d)    Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.1 .
(e)    The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
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(g)    Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 7.1 .
SECTION 7.2.     Rights of Trustee . Subject to Section 7.1 :
(a)    The Trustee may conclusively rely on and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. The Trustee shall receive and retain financial reports and statements of the Company as provided herein, but shall have no duty to review or analyze such reports or statements to determine compliance with covenants or other obligations of the Company.
(b)    Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate and/or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c)    The Trustee may execute any of the trusts and powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
(d)    The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e)    The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion of counsel relating to this Indenture or the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder or under the Notes in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f)    The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default or whether any entity or group of entities constitutes a Significant Subsidiary unless a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default or of any such Significant Subsidiary is received by the Trustee at the corporate trust office of the Trustee specified in Section 3.12 , and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.
(g)    The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(h)    The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture or the Notes at the request, order or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.
(i)    The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any fact or matter unless such fact or matter is known to a Trust Officer of the Trustee.
(j)    Whenever in the administration of this Indenture or the Notes the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder or thereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officer’s Certificate.
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coupon or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine, during business hours and upon reasonable notice, the books, records and premises of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
(l)    The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.
(m)    The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture or the Notes.
(n)    In no event shall the Trustee be liable to any Person for special, punitive, indirect, consequential or incidental loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage.
(o)    Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be sufficient if signed by one Officer of the Company.
SECTION 7.3.     Individual Rights of Trustee . The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, Guarantors or their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Registrar, co‑registrar or co‑paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Section 7.10 . In addition, the Trustee shall be permitted to engage in transactions with the Company; provided , however , that if the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest, the Trustee must (i) eliminate such conflict within 90 days of acquiring such conflicting interest, (ii) apply to the SEC for permission to continue acting as Trustee or (iii) resign.
SECTION 7.4.     Trustee’s Disclaimer . The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes, shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee or any money paid to the Company pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.
SECTION 7.5.     Notice of Defaults . If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if a Trust Officer has actual knowledge thereof or is informed of such occurrence by the Company, the Trustee shall send electronically or by first class mail to each Holder at the address set forth in the Notes Register notice of the Default or Event of Default within 60 days after it is actually known to a Trust Officer or being notified by the Company. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the optional redemption or required repurchase provisions of such Note), the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long it in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Holders.
SECTION 7.6.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 7.7.     Compensation and Indemnity . The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its services hereunder and under the Notes as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out‑of‑pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including, but not limited to, costs of collection, costs of preparing reports, certificates and other documents, costs of preparation and mailing of notices to Holders. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the agents, counsel, accountants and experts of the

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Trustee. The Company shall indemnify the Trustee, its directors, officers, employees and agents against any and all loss, liability, damages, claims or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon the income of the Trustee) (including reasonable attorneys’ and agents’ fees and expenses) incurred by it without willful misconduct or gross negligence, as determined by a final nonappealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction, on its part in connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder and under the Notes, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture (including this Section 7.7 ) and the Notes and of defending itself against any claims (whether asserted by any Holder, the Company or otherwise). The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity of which it has received written notice. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall provide reasonable cooperation at the Company’s expense in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Company shall not be required to pay the fees and expenses of such separate counsel if it assumes the Trustee’s defense, and, in the reasonable judgment of outside counsel to the Trustee, there is no conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee in connection with such defense.
To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section 7.7 , the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Notes. Such lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. The Trustee’s respective right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.7 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or Indebtedness of the Company.
The Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.7 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and any resignation or removal of the Trustee under Section 7.8 . Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs fees, expenses or renders services after the occurrence of a Default specified in clause (7) or clause (8) of Section 6.1(a) , the fees and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 7.8.     Replacement of Trustee . The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company in writing not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the removed Trustee in writing not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such removal and may appoint a successor Trustee with the Company’s written consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. The Company shall remove the Trustee if:
(1)    the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;
(2)    the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(3)    a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or
(4)    the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed by the Company or by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee as described in the preceding paragraph, or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders. The retiring Trustee shall, at the expense of the Company, promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7 .

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If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or the Holders of at least 10.0% in principal amount of the Notes may petition, at the Company’s expense, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 , unless the Trustee’s duty to resign is stayed as provided in TIA Section 310(b), any Holder, who has been a bona fide holder of a Note for at least six months, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8 , the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee. The predecessor Trustee shall have no liability for any action or inaction of any successor Trustee.
SECTION 7.9.     Successor Trustee by Merger . If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall only apply to its successor or successors by merger, consolidation or conversion.
SECTION 7.10.     Eligibility; Disqualification . This Indenture shall always have a Trustee. The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.
SECTION 7.11.     [Reserved] .
SECTION 7.12.     Trustee’s Application for Instruction from the Company . Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date any Officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such Officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
ARTICLE VIII    

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.1.     Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance; Defeasance . The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have either Section 8.2 or 8.3 hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article VIII .
SECTION 8.2.     Legal Defeasance and Discharge . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.1 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.2 , the Company and each of the Guarantors will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.4 hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes (including the Guarantees) on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Legal Defeasance ”). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company

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and the Guarantors will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes (including the Guarantees), which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 8.5 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all of their other obligations under the Note Documents (and the Trustee, on written demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by the Company acknowledging the same) and to have cured all then existing Events of Default, except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:
(1)    the rights of Holders of Notes issued under this Indenture to receive payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, on the Notes when such payments are due solely out of the trust referred to in Section 8.4 hereof;
(2)    the Company’s obligations with respect to the Notes under Article II concerning issuing temporary Notes, registration of such Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and Section 3.12 hereof concerning the maintenance of an office or agency for payment and money for security payments held in trust;
(3)    the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Company’s or Guarantors’ obligations in connection therewith; and
(4)    this Article VIII with respect to provisions relating to Legal Defeasance.
SECTION 8.3.     Covenant Defeasance . Upon the Company’ exercise under Section 8.1 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.3 , the Company and each of the Guarantors will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.4 hereof, be released from each of their obligations under the covenants contained in Section 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 3.7 , 3.8 , 3.9 , 3.10 , 3.11 , 3.16 , 3.19 , 3.21 and Section 4.1 (except Section 4.1(a)(1) and (a)(2) ) hereof with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.4 hereof are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes and Guarantees, the Company and the Guarantors may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.1(a) hereof, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes and Guarantees will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.1 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.3 , subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.4 hereof, Sections 6.1(a)(3) (other than with respect to Section 4.1(a)(1) and (a)(2) ), 6.1(a)(4) , 6.1(a)(5) , 6.1(a)(6) , 6.1(a)(7) (with respect only to a Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that taken together would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), and 6.1(a)(8) (with respect only to a Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Guarantors that taken together would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) hereof shall not constitute Events of Default.
SECTION 8.4.     Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance . In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 8.2 or 8.3 hereof:
(1)    the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, due on the Notes issued under this Indenture on the stated maturity date or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether such Notes are being defeased to maturity or to a particular redemption date;

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(2)    in the case of Legal Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States confirming that, subject to customary assumptions and exclusions;
(A)    the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or
(B)    since the issuance of such Notes, there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law;
in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel in the United States shall confirm that, subject to customary assumptions and exclusions, the Holders, in their capacity as Holders of the Notes; will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax in the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;
(3)    in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States confirming that, subject to customary assumptions and exclusions, the Holders, in their capacity as Holders of the Notes, will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
(4)    no Default or Event of Default (other than that resulting from borrowing funds to be applied to make such deposit and the granting of Liens in connection therewith) shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;
(5)    such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under the Credit Facilities or any other material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which, the Company or any Guarantor is a party or by which the Company or any Guarantor is bound;
(6)    [reserved];
(7)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying, defrauding or preferring any creditors of the Company or any Guarantor or others; and
(8)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel in the United States (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to customary assumptions and exclusions) each stating that all conditions precedent provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, have been complied with.
SECTION 8.5.     Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions . Subject to Section 8.6 hereof, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 8.5 , the “ Trustee ”) pursuant to Section 8.4 hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
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and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.
Notwithstanding anything in this Article VIII to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the request of the Company any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 8.4 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 8.4(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
SECTION 8.6.     Repayment to the Company . Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium or interest on, any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on their written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person or (if then held by the Company) will be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note will thereafter be permitted to look only to the Company for payment thereof unless an abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, will thereupon cease; provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which will not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 8.7.     Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 8.2 or 8.3 hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or Governmental Authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s and the Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes and the Guarantees will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.2 or 8.3 hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.2 or 8.3 hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company make any payment of principal of, premium, or interest on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE IX    

AMENDMENTS
SECTION 9.1.     Without Consent of Holders . Notwithstanding Section 9.2 of this Indenture, the Company, any Guarantor (with respect to its Guarantee or this Indenture), if applicable, and the Trustee may amend, supplement or modify this Indenture, any Guarantee and the Notes without the consent of any Holder:
(1)    to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect, error or inconsistency, conform any provision to any provision under the heading “Description of Notes” in the Offering Circular or reduce the minimum denomination of the Notes;
(2)    to provide for the assumption by a successor Person of the obligations of the Company or a Guarantor under any Note Document;
(3)    to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;
(4)    to add to the covenants or provide for a Note Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

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(5)    to add additional events of default;
(6)    to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder of any series of debt securities, including the Notes, in any material respect;
(7)    to change or eliminate any provisions of this Indenture so long as there are no Holders entitled to the benefit of the provisions;
(8)    at the Company’s election, to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, if such qualification is required;
(9)    to make such provisions as necessary (as determined in good faith by the Company) for the issuance of Additional Notes;
(10)    to provide for any Restricted Subsidiary to provide a Note Guarantee in accordance with Section 3.2 , to add Guarantees with respect to the Notes, to add security to or for the benefit of the Notes, or to confirm and evidence the release, termination, discharge or retaking of any Guarantee or Lien with respect to or securing the Notes when such release, termination, discharge or retaking is provided for under this Indenture;
(11)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment under this Indenture of a successor Trustee pursuant to the requirements hereof or to provide for the accession by the Trustee to any Note Document;
(12)    to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Notes so long as any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of any Holder of such series of Notes or any other series of debt securities issued thereunder;
(13)    to prohibit the authentication and delivery of additional series of Notes;
(14)    to comply with the merger and consolidation provisions pursuant to this Indenture;
(15)    in the case of subordinated debt securities, to make any change to the provisions of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture relating to subordination that would limit or terminate the benefits available to any holder of senior Indebtedness under such provisions (but only if each such holder of senior Indebtedness under such provisions consents to such change); or
(16)    to make any amendment to the provisions of this Indenture relating to the transfer and legending of Notes as permitted by this Indenture, including, without limitation, to facilitate the issuance and administration of Notes; provided , however , that (i) compliance with this Indenture as so amended would not result in Notes being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any other applicable securities law and (ii) such amendment does not adversely affect the rights of Holders to transfer Notes in any material respect.
Subject to Section 9.2 , upon the request of the Company and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Sections 9.6 and 12.4 hereof, the Trustee will join with the Company and the Guarantors, if applicable, in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture unless such amended or supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but will not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental Indenture.
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notice publicly available by filing with the SEC. The failure to provide such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment or supplement under this Section 9.1 .
SECTION 9.2.     With Consent of Holders . Except as provided below in this Section 9.2 , the Company, the Guarantors, if applicable, and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture, any Guarantee and the Notes issued hereunder with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and issued under this Indenture, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes, and, subject to Sections 6.4 and 6.7 hereof, any existing Default or Event of Default (other than a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, except a payment default resulting from an acceleration that has been rescinded) or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes issued under this Indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of or tender offer or exchange offer for Notes). Section 2.12 hereof and Section 12.4 hereof shall determine which Notes are considered to be “outstanding” for the purposes of this Section 9.2 .
Upon the request of the Company and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Sections 9.6 and 12.4 hereof, the Trustee will join with the Company and the Guarantors, if applicable, in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture unless such amended or supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but will not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental Indenture.
Without the consent of each Holder of Notes affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not, with respect to any Notes issued thereunder and held by a nonconsenting Holder:
(1)    reduce the principal amount of such Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(2)    reduce the stated rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any such Note (other than provisions relating to Section 3.5 and Section 3.9 );
(3)    reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any such Note (other than provisions relating to Section 3.5 and Section 3.9 );
(4)    reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any such Note or change the time at which any such Note may be redeemed, in each case as set forth in Section 5.7 ;
(5)    make any such Note payable in currency other than that stated in such Note;
(6)    impair the contractual right of any Holder to receive payment of and interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the amendment, supplement or modification in accordance with the terms of this Indenture of Articles III and IV and Sections 6.1(a)(3) , (4) , (5) and (6) and the related definitions shall be deemed not to impair the contractual right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Note);
(7)    waive a Default or Event of Default with respect to the nonpayment of principal, premium or interest (except pursuant to a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Notes and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration); or

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(8)    make any change in the amendment or waiver provisions which require the Holders’ consent described in this Section 9.2 .
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Indenture to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. A consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Indenture by any Holder of the Notes given in connection with a tender or exchange of such Holder’s Notes will not be rendered invalid by such tender or exchange.
After an amendment or supplement under this Section 9.2 becomes effective, the Company shall provide to Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment or supplement, which the Company may do by making such notice publicly available by filing with the SEC. The failure to provide such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment or supplement.
SECTION 9.3.     Compliance with this Indenture . Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture, any Guarantee and the Notes will be set forth in an amended or supplemental indenture that complies with this Indenture as then in effect.
SECTION 9.4.     Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers . Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent or waiver is not made on any Note. However, any such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Note or portion of its Note if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective. An amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.
SECTION 9.5.     Notation on or Exchange of Notes . The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for all Notes may issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note will not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.6.     Trustee to Sign Amendments . The Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article IX if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. In executing any amended or supplemental indenture, the Trustee will be entitled to receive and (subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2 hereof) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 12.2 hereof, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and is valid, binding and enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.
ARTICLE X    

GUARANTEE

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SECTION 10.1.     Guarantee . Subject to the provisions of this Article X , each Guarantor hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (the “ Note Guarantees ”), as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor, to each Holder of the Notes, and the Trustee the full and punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes and all other obligations and liabilities of the Company under this Indenture (including without limitation interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Company or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for post‑filing or post‑petition interest is allowed in such proceeding and the obligations under Section 7.7 ), (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “ Guaranteed Obligations ”). Each Guarantor agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations will rank equally in right of payment with other Indebtedness of such Guarantor, except to the extent such other Indebtedness is subordinate to the Guaranteed Obligations, in which case the obligations of the Guarantors under the Guarantees will rank senior in right of payment to such other Indebtedness.
To evidence its Guarantee set forth in this Section 10.1 , each Guarantor hereby agrees that this Indenture shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer of such Guarantor.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Section 10.1 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Guarantee on the Notes.
If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Guarantee shall be valid nevertheless.
Each Guarantor further agrees (to the extent permitted by law) that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound under this Article X notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation.
Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the issuer of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Notes or the Guaranteed Obligations.
Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a Guarantee of payment when due (and not a Guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.
Except as set forth in Section 10.2 , the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than payment of the Guaranteed Obligations in full), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (a) the failure of any Holder to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or any other person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder for the Guaranteed Obligations; (e) the failure of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy against any other Guarantor; (f) any change in the ownership of the Company; (g) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (h) any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of such Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.
Each Guarantor agrees that its Guarantee herein shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Guaranteed Obligations or such Guarantor is released from its Guarantee in compliance with Section 10.2 , Article VIII or Article XI . Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of, premium, if any,

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interest on any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.
In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid amount of such Guaranteed Obligations then due and owing and (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations then due and owing (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) (including interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding relating to the Company or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for post‑filing or post‑petition interest is allowed in such proceeding).
Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between such Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in this Indenture for the purposes of its Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any such declaration of acceleration of such Guaranteed Obligations, such Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantor for the purposes of this Guarantee.
Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all fees, costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any rights under this Section 10.1 .
SECTION 10.2.     Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge .
(a)    Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal, foreign, state or provincial law and not otherwise being void or voidable under any similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.
(b)    Any Note Guarantee of a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon:
(1)    a sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger) of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor or the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Guarantor to a Person other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and as otherwise permitted by this Indenture;
(2)    the designation in accordance with this Indenture of the Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or the occurrence of any event after which the Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary;
(3)    defeasance or discharge of the Notes pursuant to Article VIII or Article XI ;
(4)    to the extent such Guarantor is not an Immaterial Subsidiary solely due to the operation of clause (i) of the definition of “Immaterial Subsidiary,” upon the release of the guarantee referred to in such clause;
(5)    such Guarantor being released from all of (i) its obligations under all of its Guarantees of payment by the Company of any Indebtedness of the Company under the Credit Agreement or (ii) in the case of a Note Guarantee made by a Guarantor (each, an “ Other Guarantee ”) as a result of its guarantee of other Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor pursuant to the Section 3.7 hereof, the relevant

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Indebtedness, except in the case of (i) or (ii), a release as a result of the payment under such Guarantee (it being understood that a release subject to a contingent reinstatement is still considered a release, and if any such Guarantee of such Guarantor under the Credit Agreement or any Other Guarantee is so reinstated, such Note Guarantee shall also be reinstated); or
(6)    upon the achievement of Investment Grade Status by the Notes; provided that such Note Guarantee shall be reinstated upon the Reversion Date.
SECTION 10.3.     Right of Contribution . Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that any Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made on the obligations under the Guarantees, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the Company or any other Guarantor who has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. The provisions of this Section 10.3 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of each Guarantor to the Trustee and the Holders and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the Trustee and the Holders for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor hereunder.
SECTION 10.4.     No Subrogation . Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by each Guarantor hereunder, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Trustee or any Holder against the Company or any other Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Trustee or any Holder for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Company or any other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Trustee and the Holders by the Company on account of the Guaranteed Obligations are paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Trustee and the Holders, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Trustee in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by such Guarantor to the Trustee, if required), to be applied against the Guaranteed Obligations.
ARTICLE XI    

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 11.1.     Satisfaction and Discharge . This Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to all Notes issued hereunder, when:
(a)    either:
(1)    all Notes that have been authenticated and delivered, except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust, have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(2)    all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable by reason of the making of a notice of redemption or otherwise or (ii) will become due and payable within one year at their Stated Maturity or (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee, in the name, and at the expense of the Company;
(b)    the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders, cash in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on such Notes not previously delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and interest to the date of deposit (in the case of Notes that have become due and payable), or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;

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(c)    no Default or Event of Default (other than that resulting from borrowing funds to be applied to make such deposit and the granting of Liens in connection therewith) with respect to this Indenture or the Notes issued hereunder shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit and such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under the Credit Facilities or any other material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any Guarantor is a party or by which the Company or any Guarantor is bound;
(d)    the Company or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by the Company under this Indenture; and
(e)    the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money in Dollars toward the payment of such Notes issued hereunder at maturity or the redemption date, as the case may be.
In addition, the Company shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the Company’s obligation to the Trustee in Section 7.7 hereof and, if money in Dollars has been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a)(2) of this Section 11.1 , the provisions of Sections 11.2 and 8.6 hereof will survive.
SECTION 11.2.     Application of Trust Money . Subject to the provisions of Section 8.6 hereof, all money in Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 11.1 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium) and interest for whose payment such money in Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money in Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 11.1 hereof by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or Governmental Authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s and any Guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 11.1 hereof; provided that if the Company has made any payment of principal of, premium or interest on, any Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE XII    

MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 12.1.     Notices . Any notice, request, direction, consent or communication made pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes shall be in writing and delivered in person, sent by facsimile, sent by electronic mail in pdf format, delivered by commercial courier service or mailed by first‑class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:
if to the Company or to any Guarantor:
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Facsimile: (617) 234-7514
Attention: General Counsel

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with a copy to:
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Ave
New York, New York 10022
Attention: Christian O. Nagler, Esq.
Facsimile: (212) 446‑4900
if to the Trustee, at its corporate trust office, which corporate trust office for purposes of this Indenture is at the date hereof located at:

Wilmington Trust, National Association
246 Goose Lane, Suite 105
Guilford, Connecticut 06347
Attention: GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Administrator
Facsimile: (203) 453-1183
The Company or the Trustee by written notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication to the Company or the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered or if delivered electronically, in pdf format; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and seven calendar days after mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until actually received by the addressee). Any notice or communication to the Trustee shall be deemed delivered upon receipt.
Any notice or communication sent to a Holder shall be mailed to the Holder at the Holder’s address as it appears in the Notes Register and shall be sufficiently given if so sent within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is sent in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it, except that notices to the Trustee shall be effective only upon receipt.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Note, where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption or purchase) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to DTC (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from DTC or its designee.
SECTION 12.2.     Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company or any of the Guarantors to the Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture, the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1)    an Officer’s Certificate in form satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 12.3 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been satisfied; and
(2)    an Opinion of Counsel in form satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 12.3 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been satisfied and all covenants have been complied with.
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(3)    a statement that the individual making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;
(4)    a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(5)    a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(6)    a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with.
In giving such Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely as to factual matters on an Officer’s Certificate or on certificates of public officials.
SECTION 12.4.     When Notes Disregarded . In determining whether the Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Company, any Guarantor or any Affiliate of them shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Also, subject to the foregoing, only Notes outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.
SECTION 12.5.     Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar . The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or at meetings of, Holders. The Registrar and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.
SECTION 12.6.     Legal Holidays . A “ Legal Holiday ” is a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are authorized or required to be closed in New York, New York or the state of the place of payment. If a payment date or a redemption date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period. If a regular record date is a Legal Holiday, the record date shall not be affected.
SECTION 12.7.     Governing Law . THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 12.8.     Jurisdiction . The Company and the Guarantors agree that any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or any Guarantor brought by any Holder or the Trustee arising out of or based upon this Indenture, the Guarantee or the Notes may be instituted in any state or Federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, and each of them irrevocably submits to the non‑exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or proceeding. The Company and the Guarantors irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to any suit, action, or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture, the Guarantee or the Notes, including such actions, suits or proceedings relating to securities laws of the United States of America or any state thereof, in such courts whether on the grounds of venue, residence or domicile or on the ground that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company and the Guarantors agree that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, are subject by a suit upon such judgment.
SECTION 12.9.     Waivers of Jury Trial . EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY

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LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
SECTION 12.10.     USA PATRIOT Act . The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
SECTION 12.11.     No Recourse Against Others . No director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company or any of its respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates, or such (other than the Company and the Guarantors), shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors under the Notes, the Guarantees or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
SECTION 12.12.     Successors . All agreements of the Company and each Guarantor in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.
SECTION 12.13.     Multiple Originals . The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
SECTION 12.14.     Table of Contents; Headings . The table of contents, cross‑reference table and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 12.15.     Force Majeure . In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services, it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable best efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
SECTION 12.16.     Severability . In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Indenture to be duly executed all as of the date and year first written above.
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:     /s/ Hudson La Force    
    Name: Hudson La Force    Title: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer


DAREX PUERTO RICO, INC.
GCP INTERNATIONAL INC.
DE NEEF CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS (US) INC.
By:     /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz    
    Name: Mark A. Shelnitz    Title: Vice President and Assistant Secretary
VERIFI LLC
By:     /s/ Thomas Petti    
    Name: Thomas Petti    Title: Chairman

[Signature Page to the Indenture]



WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:     /s/ Joseph P. O’Donnell    
    Name: Joseph P. O’Donnell
    Title: Vice President

[Signature Page to the Indenture]



SCHEDULE I

Guarantors

1.
Darex Puerto Rico, Inc., a Delaware corporation
2.
GCP International Inc., a Delaware corporation
3.
Verifi LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
4.
De Neef Construction Chemicals (US) Inc., a Texas corporation








EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF GLOBAL RESTRICTED NOTE]
[Applicable Restricted Notes Legend]
[Depository Legend, if applicable]
[OID Legend, if applicable]

No. [___]
Principal Amount $[___________] [as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto]
CUSIP NO. _________________________
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
9.500% Senior Notes due 2023
GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Company ”), promises to pay to [Cede & Co.], or its registered assigns, the principal sum of _______________ Dollars, [as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto], on February 1, 2023.
Interest Payment Dates: February 1 and August 1, commencing on August 1, 2016
Record Dates: January 15 and July 15
Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:             
    Name:
    Title:


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TRUSTEE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This Note is one of the 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 referred to in the within‑mentioned Indenture.
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:             
    Authorized signatory
Dated:         


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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE]
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
9.500% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2023
Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
1.     Interest
The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 9.500% per annum from January 27, 2016 until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears every February 1 and August 1 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”). Interest on the Notes shall accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance; provided , that the first Interest Payment Date shall be August 1, 2016. The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified herein, and it shall pay interest (including post‑petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace period) at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360‑day year comprised of twelve 30‑day months.
2.     Method of Payment
By no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the date on which any principal of, premium, if any, or interest, on any Note is due and payable, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient in immediately available funds to pay such principal, premium, interest when due. Interest on any Note which is payable, and is timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the preceding January 15 and July 15 at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Indenture. The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of Paying Agent or Registrar designated by the Company maintained for such purpose (which shall initially be the office of the Trustee maintained for such purpose), or at such other office or agency of the Company as may be maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Indenture; provided , however , that, at the option of the Paying Agent, each installment of interest may be paid by (i) check mailed to addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear on the Notes Register or (ii) wire transfer to an account located in the United States maintained by the payee, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph. Payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depository. Payments in respect of Notes represented by Definitive Notes (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) held by a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by Definitive Notes will be made in accordance with the Notes Register, or by wire transfer to a Dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 15 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion). If an Interest Payment Date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period. If a regular record date is a Legal Holiday, the record date shall not be affected.
3.     Paying Agent and Registrar
The Company initially appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association, the trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as Registrar and Paying Agent for the Notes. The Company may change any Registrar or Paying Agent without prior notice to the Holders. The Company or any Guarantor may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or transfer agent.
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The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of January 27, 2016 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the guarantors named therein and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and Holders are referred to the Indenture for a statement of those terms. In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Notes and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall control.
The Notes are senior obligations of the Company. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture is unlimited. This Note is one of the 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 referred to in the Indenture. The Notes include (i) $525,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 issued under the Indenture on January 27, 2016 (the “ Initial Notes ”) and (ii) if and when issued, additional Notes that may be issued from time to time under the Indenture subsequent to January 27, 2016 (the “ Additional Notes ”) as provided in Section 2.1(a) of the Indenture. The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes shall be considered collectively as a single class for all purposes of the Indenture; provided that the Additional Notes will not be issued with the same CUSIP as the existing Notes unless such Additional Notes are fungible with the existing Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the incurrence of indebtedness, the making of restricted payments, the sale of assets, the incurrence of certain liens, the making of payments for consents, the entering into of agreements that restrict distribution from restricted subsidiaries and the consummation of mergers and consolidations. The Indenture also imposes requirements with respect to the provision of financial information and the provision of guarantees of the Notes by certain subsidiaries.
5.     [Reserved]
6.     Guarantees
To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, interest (including post‑filing or post‑petition interest in any proceeding under Bankruptcy Law) on the Notes and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and the Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Notes and the Indenture, the Guarantor will unconditionally guarantee (and future guarantors, jointly and severally with the Guarantor, will fully and unconditionally Guarantee) such obligations on a senior basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
7.     Redemption
(a)    At any time prior to February 1, 2019, the Company may redeem the Notes in whole or in part, at its option, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, at a redemption price (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) equal to 100.0% of the principal amount of Notes redeemed plus the relevant Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, to but excluding the date of redemption (the “ Redemption Date ”), subject to the rights of Holders of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
(b)    At any time and from time to time prior to February 1, 2019, the Company may on one or more occasions, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, redeem up to 40.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes issued under this Indenture at a redemption price (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) equal to 109.5% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, thereon, if any, to but excluding the applicable Redemption Date, subject to the right of Holders of record of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date, with the net cash proceeds received from one or more Equity Offerings; provided that not less than 50% of the original aggregate principal amount of Notes initially issued under the Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding Notes held by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries); provided further that each such redemption occurs not later than 180 days after the date of closing of the related

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Equity Offering. The Trustee shall select the Notes to be purchased in the manner described under Sections 5.1 through 5.6 of the Indenture.
(c)    Except pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) of this paragraph 7 or pursuant to paragraph 8, the Notes will not be redeemable at the Company’s option prior to February 1, 2019.
(d)    At any time and from time to time on or after February 1, 2019, the Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed) set forth in the table below, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to but excluding the applicable Redemption Date, subject to the right of Holders of record of the Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date, if redeemed during the twelve‑month period beginning on February 1 of each of the years indicated in the table below:
Period
Percentage
2019
104.750
%
2020
102.375
%
2021 and thereafter
100.000
%

(e)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with any tender offer for the Notes, including a Change of Control Offer or Asset Disposition Offer, if Holders of not less than 90.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in such tender offer and the Company, or any third party making such tender offer in lieu of the Company, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party shall have the right upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes to the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register, given not more than 15 days following such purchase date to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the price offered to each other Holder in such tender offer plus, to the extent not included in the tender offer payment, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon, to but not including, the date of such redemption.
(f)    Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable Redemption Date.
(g)    Any redemption pursuant to this paragraph 7 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 5.1 through 5.6 of the Indenture.
Except as set forth in this paragraph 7, the Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes[, other than a special mandatory redemption as described in paragraph 8 below].
8.    [Special Mandatory Redemption.
(a)    If a Mandatory Redemption Event occurs, the Company will be required to redeem all of the outstanding Initial Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the issue price of the Initial Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date (provided that if the repurchase date is after the record date but on or before the related interest payment date, then Holders of the Notes who hold as of the record date will receive interest on the date the Notes are redeemed). In the event of the occurrence of a Mandatory Redemption Event, the Company will deliver a Special Mandatory Redemption Notice, or cause a Special Mandatory Redemption Notice to be provided to the Trustee for delivery, to the Holders of the Notes no later than the third (3rd) Business Day following the occurrence of the Mandatory Redemption Event and will redeem the Notes no later than five (5) Business Days following the date of the Special Mandatory Redemption Notice pursuant to the Indenture.

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(b)    The obligation to redeem the Initial Notes pursuant to a Mandatory Redemption Event may not be waived or modified without the consent of each Holder of then outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes).]
9.     Repurchase Provisions
If a Change of Control occurs, unless the Company has previously or substantially concurrently therewith delivered a redemption notice with respect to all the outstanding Notes and all conditions to such redemption, other than the deposit of funds with the Trustee have been satisfied, each Holder will have the right to require the Company to repurchase from each Holder all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101.0% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, to but excluding the date of purchase; provided that if the repurchase date is after the record date but on or before the related interest payment date, then Holders of the Notes who hold as of the record date will receive interest on the repurchase date.
Upon certain Asset Dispositions, the Company may be required to use the Excess Proceeds from such Asset Dispositions to offer to purchase the maximum aggregate principal amount of Notes (that is $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) and, at the Company’s option, Pari Passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100.0% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, to the date fixed for the closing of such offer, in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.5 and in Article V of the Indenture.
10.     Denominations; Transfer; Exchange
The Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form in minimum denominations of principal amount of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder may transfer or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (A) for a period beginning (1) 15 days before the mailing of a notice of an offer to repurchase or redeem Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing or (2) 15 days before an Interest Payment Date and ending on such Interest Payment Date or (B) called for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
11.     Persons Deemed Owners
The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
12.     Unclaimed Money
If money for the payment of principal, premium, if any, interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person to receive such money. After any such payment, Holders entitled to the money must look only to the Company and not to the Trustee for payment as general creditors unless an abandoned property law designates another person for payment.
13.     Discharge and Defeasance
Subject to certain exceptions and conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company at any time may terminate some or all of its obligations under the Notes and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal, premium, if any and interest on the Notes to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.
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Subject to certain exceptions contained in the Indenture, the Indenture, the Note Guarantees and the Notes may be amended, or a Default thereunder may be waived, with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes. Without notice to or the consent of any Holder, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes as provided in the Indenture.
15.     Defaults and Remedies
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or certain Guarantors) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 30.0% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Company and the Trustee may declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, and any other monetary obligations on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. Upon the effectiveness of such declaration, such principal, interest, and other monetary obligations will be due and payable immediately. If a bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or certain Guarantors occurs and is continuing, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest and any other monetary obligations on all the Notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. Under certain circumstances, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the Notes and its consequences.
16.     Trustee Dealings with the Company
Subject to certain limitations set forth in the Indenture, the Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, Guarantors or their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. In addition, the Trustee shall be permitted to engage in transactions with the Company; provided , however , that if the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest, the Trustee must (i) eliminate such conflict within 90 days of acquiring such conflicting interest, (ii) apply to the SEC for permission to continue acting as Trustee or (iii) resign.
17.     No Recourse Against Others
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, as such (other than the Company and the Guarantors), shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors under the Notes, the Guarantees or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
18.     Authentication
This Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent acting on its behalf) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.
19.     Abbreviations
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entirety), JT TEN (= joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= custodian) and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gift to Minors Act).
20.     CUSIP and ISIN Numbers
The Company has caused CUSIP and ISIN numbers, if applicable, to be printed on the Notes and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP and ISIN numbers, if applicable, in notices of redemption or purchase as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the

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Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption or purchase and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
21.     Governing Law
This Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Facsimile: (617) 234-7514
Attention: General Counsel

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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Note, fill in the form below:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
    
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
    
(Insert assignee’s social security or tax I.D. No.)
and irrevocably appoint ___________ agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date:    Your Signature:     
Signature Guarantee:         
(Signature must be guaranteed)
    
Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 17Ad‑15.
The undersigned hereby certifies that it £ is / £ is not an Affiliate of the Company and that, to its knowledge, the proposed transferee £ is / £ is not an Affiliate of the Company.
In connection with any transfer or exchange of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the date that is one year after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being:
CHECK ONE BOX BELOW:
(1)
£     acquired for the undersigned’s own account, without transfer; or
(2)
£     transferred to the Company; or
(3)
£     transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); or
(4)
£     transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or
(5)
£     transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
(6)
£     transferred pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided , however , that if box (5), (6) or (7) is checked, the Company may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in its sole discretion, such

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legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company may reasonably request to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, such as the exemption provided by Rule 144 under such Act.
         
Signature
Signature Guarantee:
              
(Signature must be guaranteed)    Signature
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 17Ad‑15.
TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF BOX (1) OR (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

Dated:

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTES
The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
Date of Exchange
Amount of decrease in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Note
Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease or increase
Signature of authorized signatory of Trustee or Notes Custodian
 
 
 
 
 


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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 3.5 or 3.9 of the Indenture, check either box:
Section 3.5 £      Section 3.9 £
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 3.5 or 3.9 of the Indenture, state the amount in principal amount (must be in denominations of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof): $___________________________________ and specify the denomination or denominations (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) of the Notes to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the within Note not being repurchased (in the absence of any such specification, one such Note will be issued for the portion not being repurchased): _________________.
Date: __________ Your Signature ____________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of the Note)
Signature Guarantee: _______________________________________________________________
(Signature must be guaranteed)
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 17Ad‑15.

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EXHIBIT B
Form of Supplemental Indenture to Add Guarantors
[                ] SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (this “ Supplemental Indenture ”) dated as of [                ], by and among the parties that are signatories hereto as Guarantors (the “ Guaranteeing Subsidiary ”), GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) under the Indenture referred to below.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, each of the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered an indenture dated as of January 27, 2016 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, the “ Indenture ”), providing for the issuance of an aggregate principal amount of $525.0 million of 9.500% Senior Notes due 2023 of the Company (the “ Notes ”);
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis with the other Guarantors, all of the Company’s Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture (the “ Guarantee ”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.1 of the Indenture, the Company and the Trustee are authorized to execute and deliver a supplemental indenture to add additional Guarantors, without the consent of any Holder;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Guaranteeing Subsidiary, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1.     Defined Terms . As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recitals hereto are used herein as therein defined. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.
ARTICLE II

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND; GUARANTEE
SECTION 2.1.     Agreement to be Bound . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby becomes a party to the Indenture as a Guarantor and as such will have all of the rights and be subject to all of the obligations and agreements of a Guarantor under the Indenture.
SECTION 2.2.     Guarantee . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees, on a joint and several basis with all the existing Guarantors, to fully, unconditionally and irrevocably Guarantee to each Holder of the Notes and the Trustee the Guaranteed Obligations pursuant to Article X of the Indenture on a senior basis.

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ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 3.1.     Notices . All notices and other communications to the Guarantor shall be given as provided in the Indenture to the Guarantor, at its address set forth below, with a copy to the Company as provided in the Indenture for notices to the Company.
[INSERT ADDRESS]
SECTION 3.2.     Merger and Consolidation . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into another Person (other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor or becomes a Guarantor concurrently with the transaction) except in accordance with Section 4.1(f) of the Indenture.
SECTION 3.3.     Release of Guarantee . This Guarantee shall be released in accordance with Section 10.2 of the Indenture.
SECTION 3.4.     Parties . Nothing expressed or mentioned herein is intended or shall be construed to give any Person, firm or corporation, other than the Holders and the Trustee, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture or any provision herein or therein contained.
SECTION 3.5.     Governing Law . This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 3.6.     Severability . In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.
SECTION 3.7.     Benefits Acknowledged . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary’s Guarantee is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to this Guarantee are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 3.8.     Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture . Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
SECTION 3.9.     The Trustee . The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or with respect to the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the other parties hereto.
SECTION 3.10.     Counterparts . The parties hereto may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
SECTION 3.11.     Execution and Delivery . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees that the Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of any such Guarantee.

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SECTION 3.12.     Headings . The headings of the Articles and the Sections in this Supplemental Indenture are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation of any provisions hereof.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:             
    Name:
    Title:
[GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARIES],
as a Guarantor
By:             
    Name:
    Title:



[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]



WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:             
    Name:
    Title:


[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit 10.1













TAX SHARING AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF JANUARY 27, 2016

BY AND AMONG

W. R. GRACE & CO.,

W. R. GRACE & CO.–CONN.
AND

GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.




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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Section 1.
Definition of Terms    1
Section 2.
Allocation of Tax Liabilities    11
Section 2.01
General Rule.    11
Section 2.02
Allocation of United States Federal Income Tax and Federal Other Tax    11
Section 2.03
Allocation of State Income and State Other Taxes    12
Section 2.04
Allocation of Foreign Taxes    12
Section 2.05
Certain Transaction and Other Taxes    13
Section 3.
Proration of Taxes for Straddle Periods    14
Section 4.
Preparation and Filing of Tax Returns.    14
Section 4.01
General    14
Section 4.02
Grace’s Responsibility    14
Section 4.03
GCP’s Responsibility    15
Section 4.04
Tax Accounting Practices    15
Section 4.05
Consolidated or Combined Tax Returns    16
Section 4.06
Right to Review Tax Returns.    16
Section 4.07
GCP Carrybacks and Claims for Refund    16
Section 4.08
Apportionment of Earnings and Profits and Tax Attributes    17
Section 5.
Tax Payments    17
Section 5.01
Payment of Taxes with Respect to Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns    17
Section 5.02
Payment of Taxes With Respect to Joint Returns    17
Section 5.03
Payment of Separate Company Taxes    18
Section 5.04
Indemnification Payments    18

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Section 6.
Tax Benefits    19
Section 6.01
Tax Benefits    19
Section 6.02
Grace and GCP Income Tax Deductions in Respect of Certain Equity Awards and Incentive Compensation    20
Section 7.
Tax-Free Status    20
Section 7.01
Tax Opinions/Rulings and Representation Letters    20
Section 7.02
Restrictions on GCP    21
Section 7.03
Restrictions on Grace    24
Section 7.04
Procedures Regarding Opinions and Rulings    24
Section 7.05
Liability for Tax-Related Losses    25
Section 7.06
Section 336(e) Election    27
Section 8.
Assistance and Cooperation    27
Section 8.01
Assistance and Cooperation    27
Section 8.02
Income Tax Return Information    29
Section 8.03
Reliance by Grace    29
Section 8.04
Reliance by GCP    29
Section 9.
Tax Records    30
Section 9.01
Retention of Tax Records    30
Section 9.02
Access to Tax Records    30
Section 10.
Tax Contests    30
Section 10.01
Notice    30
Section 10.02
Control of Tax Contests    31
Section 11.
Effective Date; Termination of Prior Intercompany Tax Allocation Agreements    32
Section 12.
Survival of Obligations    32
Section 13.
Treatment of Payments; Tax Gross Up    33

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Section 13.01
Treatment of Tax Indemnity and Tax Benefit Payments    33
Section 13.02
Tax Gross Up    33
Section 13.03
Interest Under This Agreement    33
Section 14.
Disagreements    34
Section 14.01
Interaction with Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.    34
Section 14.02
Dispute Resolution    34
Section 15.
Late Payments    34
Section 16.
Expenses    34
Section 17.
General Provisions    35
Section 17.01
Addresses and Notices    35
Section 17.02
Binding Effect    35
Section 17.03
Waiver    35
Section 17.04
Severability    36
Section 17.05
Authority    36
Section 17.06
Further Action    36
Section 17.07
Integration    36
Section 17.08
Construction    36
Section 17.09
No Double Recovery    36
Section 17.10
Counterparts    37
Section 17.11
Governing Law    37
Section 17.12
Jurisdiction    37
Section 17.13
Amendment    37
Section 17.14
GCP Subsidiaries    37
Section 17.15
Successors    37
Section 17.16
Injunctions    37

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TAX SHARING AGREEMENT
This TAX SHARING AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”) is entered into as of January 27, 2016, by and among W. R. Grace & Co., a Delaware corporation (“ Grace ”), W. R. Grace & Co.–Conn., a Connecticut corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Grace (“ Grace Conn ”) and GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Grace Conn (“ GCP ”) (Grace, Grace Conn and GCP sometimes collectively referred to herein as the “ Companies ” and, as the context requires, individually referred to herein as a “ Company ”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Grace Board has determined that it is in the best interests of Grace and its stockholders to create a new publicly traded company that will operate the GCP Business;
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the Grace Board has determined that it is appropriate and desirable to separate the GCP Business from the Grace Business (the “ Separation ”) and, following the Separation, to make a distribution, on a pro rata basis, to holders of Grace Shares on the Record Date of all the outstanding GCP Shares (the “ Distribution ”);
WHEREAS, GCP has been incorporated solely for these purposes and has not engaged in activities except in preparation for or in furtherance of the Separation and the Distribution;
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, Grace is the common parent of an affiliated group of corporations, including Grace Conn and GCP, which has elected to file consolidated Federal income tax returns;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement (as defined below), Grace, Grace Conn and GCP have agreed to separate the GCP Business from Grace by means of, among other actions, (i) the Contribution; (ii) the Internal Distribution; and (iii) the Distribution;
WHEREAS, as a result of the Distribution, GCP and its subsidiaries will cease to be members of the affiliated group (as that term is defined in Section 1504 of the Code) of which Grace is the common parent (the “Deconsolidation” ); and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to provide for and agree upon the allocation between the Companies of liabilities for Taxes arising prior to, as a result of, and subsequent to the Distribution, and to provide for and agree upon other matters relating to Taxes;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:
Section 1.          Definition of Terms . For purposes of this Agreement (including the recitals hereof), the following terms have the following meanings, and capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Separation and Distribution Agreement:





“Accounting Cutoff Date” means, with respect to GCP and any member of the GCP Group the Tax Items of which are included in the Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return, any date as of the end of which there is a closing of the financial accounting records for such entity.
“Active Trade or Business” means the active conduct (as defined in Section 355(b)(2) of the Code and the regulations thereunder) by GCP and its “separate affiliated group” (as defined in Section 355(b)(3)(B) of the Code) of the Construction Products Business and the Darex Packaging Business, in each case, as conducted immediately prior to the Distribution.
“Adjustment Request” means any formal or informal claim or request filed with any Tax Authority, or with any administrative agency or court, for the adjustment, refund, or credit of Taxes, including (a) any amended Tax Return claiming adjustment to the Taxes as reported on the Tax Return or, if applicable, as previously adjusted, (b) any claim for equitable recoupment or other offset, and (c) any claim for refund or credit of Taxes previously paid.
“Affiliate” means any entity that is directly or indirectly “controlled” by either the person in question or an Affiliate of such person. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. The term Affiliate shall refer to Affiliates of a person as determined immediately after the Distribution.
“Agreement” means this Tax Sharing Agreement.
“Board Certificate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.02(e) of this Agreement.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law to close in the United States or New York, New York.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Companies” and “Company” shall have the meaning provided in the first sentence of this Agreement.
“Construction Products Business” shall mean the production and sale of specialty construction chemicals and specialty building materials, both of which are supplied to the construction industry for use in large-scale residential, commercial and infrastructure projects.
“Contribution” means the transfer by Grace Conn directly to GCP, pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement, of certain GCP Assets in exchange for (i) the issuance by GCP to Grace Conn of GCP Shares, (ii) the assumption by GCP of certain GCP Liabilities and (iii) the distribution by GCP to Grace Conn of any cash.
“Controlling Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(f) of this Agreement.

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“Darex Packaging Business” shall mean the production and sale of Darex-branded products designed to enhance the shelf life of can and bottle contents, prevent metal corrosion, protect package contents from the influence of metal, reduce off-taste, and ensure proper adhesion of seals.
“Deconsolidation” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals.
“Deconsolidation Date” means the last date on which GCP qualifies as a member of the affiliated group (as defined in Section 1504 of the Code) of which Grace is the common parent.
“DGCL” means the Delaware General Corporation Law.
“Distribution” means the distribution of all the outstanding GCP Shares, on a pro rata basis, to holders of Grace Shares on the Record Date by Grace pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Due Date” means with respect to a Tax Return, the date (taking into account all valid extensions) on which such Tax Return is required to be filed under applicable Law.
“Employee Matters Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Federal Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by Subtitle A of the Code, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“Federal Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by the federal government of the United States of America (other than any Federal Income Taxes), and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term for purposes of Sections 355(d) and (e) of the Code.
Filing Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.05(d) of this Agreement.
“Final Determination” means the final resolution of liability for any Tax, which resolution may be for a specific issue or adjustment or for a Tax Period, (a) by IRS Form 870 or 870-AD (or any successor forms thereto), on the date of acceptance by or on behalf of the taxpayer, or by a comparable form under the laws of a State, local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction, except that a Form 870 or 870-AD or comparable form shall not constitute a Final Determination to the extent that it reserves (whether by its terms or by operation of law) the right of the taxpayer to file a claim for refund or the right of the Tax Authority to assert a further deficiency in respect of such issue or adjustment or for such Tax Period (as the case may be); (b) by a decision, judgment, decree, or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction, which has become final and unappealable; (c) by a closing agreement or accepted offer in compromise

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under Sections 7121 or 7122 of the Code, or a comparable agreement under the laws of a State, local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction; (d) by any allowance of a refund or credit in respect of an overpayment of Income Tax or Other Tax, but only after the expiration of all periods during which such refund may be recovered (including by way of offset) by the jurisdiction imposing such Income Tax or Other Tax; (e) by a final settlement resulting from a treaty-based competent authority determination; or (f) by any other final disposition, including by reason of the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or by mutual agreement of the parties.
“Foreign Spin-Off Distribution Date” means, in connection with any Foreign Spin-Off, the effective date of such Foreign Spin-Off.
“Foreign Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by any foreign country or any possession of the United States, or by any political subdivision of any foreign country or United States possession, which is an income tax as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.901-2, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“Foreign Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by any foreign country or any possession of the United States, or by any political subdivision of any foreign country or United States possession, other than any Foreign Income Taxes, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“Foreign Spin-Off” means any transaction that (a) occurred in 2015 or 2016 in anticipation of or in connection with the Separation or Distribution, (b) is intended by Grace to qualify under Section 355(a) of the Code and (c) pursuant to which one or more Foreign Subsidiaries of Grace or GCP is intended to be either the “controlled corporation” or the “distributing corporation” within the meaning of Section 355 of the Code.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State (excluding, for the absence of doubt, Puerto Rico) thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Tax” means any Foreign Income Taxes or Foreign Other Taxes.
“Foreign Transaction” means any transaction (a) that occurred in anticipation of or in connection with the Separation or Distribution and (b) in which one or more Foreign Subsidiaries of Grace or GCP is a transferor or a transferee of stock, securities or other property (and shall include, for the avoidance of doubt, any Foreign Spin-Off).
“GCP” shall have the meaning provided in the first sentence of this Agreement, and references herein to GCP shall include any entity treated as a successor to GCP.
“GCP Adjustment” means any proposed adjustment by a Tax Authority or claim for refund asserted in a Tax Contest to the extent GCP would be exclusively liable for any resulting Tax under this Agreement or exclusively entitled to receive any resulting Tax Benefit under this Agreement.
GCP Business ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

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“GCP Capital Stock ” means all classes or series of capital stock of GCP, including (i) the GCP Common Stock, (ii) all options, warrants and other rights to acquire such capital stock and (iii) all instruments properly treated as stock in GCP for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
“GCP Carryback” means any net operating loss, net capital loss, excess tax credit, or other similar Tax item of any member of the GCP Group which may or must be carried from one Tax Period to another prior Tax Period under the Code or other applicable Tax Law.
“GCP Common Stock” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“GCP Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return” means any United States federal Income Tax Return for the affiliated group (as that term is defined in Section 1504 of the Code) of which GCP is the common parent.
“GCP Group” means GCP and its Affiliates, as determined immediately after the Distribution.
“GCP Separate Return” means any Separate Return of GCP or any member of the GCP Group.
“Grace” shall have the meaning provided in the first sentence of this Agreement.
“Grace Adjustment” means any proposed adjustment by a Tax Authority or claim for refund asserted in a Tax Contest to the extent Grace would be exclusively liable for any resulting Tax under this Agreement or exclusively entitled to receive any resulting Tax Benefit under this Agreement.
“Grace Affiliated Group” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of “Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return.”
“Grace Business” shall have the meaning provided in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Grace Conn” shall have the meaning set forth in the first sentence of this agreement.
“Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return” means any United States Federal Income Tax Return for the affiliated group (as that term is defined in Section 1504 of the Code and the regulations thereunder) of which Grace is the common parent (the “ Grace Affiliated Group ”).
“Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Return” means a consolidated, combined or unitary or other similar Foreign Income Tax Return or any Foreign Income Tax Return with respect to any profit and/or loss sharing group, group payment or similar group or fiscal unity that actually includes, by election or otherwise, one or more members of the Grace Group together with one or more members of the GCP Group (but not, for the absence of doubt, United Kingdom companies claiming group relief).

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“Grace Group” means Grace and its Affiliates, excluding any entity that is a member of the GCP Group.
Grace Group Transaction Returns ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.04(b) of this Agreement.
“Grace Separate Return” means any Separate Return of Grace or any member of the Grace Group.
“Grace State Combined Income Tax Return” means a consolidated, combined or unitary State Income Tax Return that actually includes, by election or otherwise, one or more members of the Grace Group together with one or more members of the GCP Group.
“Group” means the Grace Group or the GCP Group, or both, as the context requires.
“Income Tax” means any Federal Income Tax, State Income Tax or Foreign Income Tax.
“Indemnitee” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.03 of this Agreement.
“Indemnitor” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.03 of this Agreement.
“Intended Foreign Tax Consequences” means the Foreign Tax consequences described in a memorandum or opinion of counsel provided to Grace (or an Affiliate thereof) with respect to the application of the laws of a foreign jurisdiction to a Foreign Transaction (including the utilized valuations relied upon at the time of the applicable transaction described in any such opinion).
“Internal Distribution” means the distribution by Grace Conn to Grace, in its capacity as the sole shareholder of Grace Conn, of all the outstanding GCP Shares pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Internal Restructuring” means (i) any internal restructuring (including by making or revoking any election under Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3) involving GCP and/or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) any direct or indirect contribution, sale or other transfer by GCP to any of its subsidiaries of any of the assets contributed or transferred to GCP as part of the Contribution or pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
IRS ” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Joint Return” shall mean any Return of a member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group that is not a Separate Return.
“Non-Controlling Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(f) of this Agreement.
“Notified Action” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(a) of this Agreement.
“Other Tax” means any Federal Other Tax, State Other Tax, or Foreign Other Tax.

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“Past Practices” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.04(a) of this Agreement.
“Payment Date” means (i) with respect to any Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return, the due date for any required installment of estimated taxes determined under Section 6655 of the Code, the due date (determined without regard to extensions) for filing the return determined under Section 6072 of the Code, and the date the return is filed, and (ii) with respect to any other Tax Return, the corresponding dates determined under the applicable Tax Law.
“Payor” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a) of this Agreement.
“Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization or a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof, without regard to whether any entity is treated as disregarded for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
“Post-Deconsolidation Period” means any Tax Period beginning after the Deconsolidation Date, and, in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period beginning the day after the Deconsolidation Date.
“Pre-Deconsolidation Period” means any Tax Period ending on or before the Deconsolidation Date, and, in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period ending on the Deconsolidation Date.
“Prime Rate” means the rate that Bloomberg displays as “Prime Rate by Country United States” at  www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/key-rates/ or on a Bloomberg terminal at PRIMBB Index.
“Privilege” means any privilege that may be asserted under applicable law, including, any privilege arising under or relating to the attorney-client relationship (including the attorney-client and work product privileges), the accountant-client privilege and any privilege relating to internal evaluation processes.
“Proposed Acquisition Transaction” means a transaction or series of transactions (or any “agreement,” “understanding” or “arrangement,” within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code and Treasury Regulation Section 1.355-7, or any other regulations promulgated thereunder, to enter into a transaction or series of transactions), whether such transaction is supported by GCP management or shareholders, is a hostile acquisition, or otherwise, as a result of which GCP would merge or consolidate with any other Person or as a result of which any Person or any group of Persons would (directly or indirectly) acquire, or have the right to acquire, from GCP and/or one or more holders of outstanding shares of GCP Capital Stock, a number of shares of GCP Capital Stock that would, when combined with any other changes in ownership of GCP Capital Stock pertinent for purposes of Section 355(e) of the Code, comprise 40% or more of (A) the value of all outstanding shares of stock of GCP as of the date of such transaction, or in the case of a series of transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series, or (B) the total combined voting power of all outstanding shares of voting stock of GCP as of the date of such transaction, or in the case of a series of transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Proposed Acquisition Transaction shall not include (A)

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the adoption by GCP of a shareholder rights plan or (B) issuances by GCP that satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to acquisitions in connection with a person’s performance of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of Treasury Regulation Section 1.355-7(d). For purposes of determining whether a transaction constitutes an indirect acquisition, any recapitalization resulting in a shift of voting power or any redemption of shares of stock shall be treated as an indirect acquisition of shares of stock by the non-exchanging shareholders. This definition and the application thereof is intended to monitor compliance with Section 355(e) of the Code and shall be interpreted accordingly. Any clarification of, or change in, the statute or regulations promulgated under Section 355(e) of the Code shall be incorporated in this definition and its interpretation.
“Representation Letters” means the representation letters and any other materials (including, without limitation, a Ruling Request and any related supplemental submissions to the IRS) delivered or deliverable by, or on behalf of, Grace, GCP and others in connection with the rendering by Tax Advisors, and/or the issuance by the IRS, of the Tax Opinions/Rulings.
“Required Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a) of this Agreement.
“Responsible Company” means, with respect to any Tax Return, the Company having responsibility for preparing and filing such Tax Return under this Agreement.
“Retention Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.01 of this Agreement.
“Ruling” means a private letter ruling (including a supplemental private letter ruling) issued by the IRS to Grace pertaining to or in connection with the Contribution, Internal Distribution and Distribution.
“Ruling Request” means any letter filed by Grace with the IRS requesting a ruling regarding certain tax consequences of the Transactions (including all attachments, exhibits, and other materials submitted with such ruling request letter) and any amendment or supplement to such ruling request letter.
“Section 336(e) Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.06.
“Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions that is not a Proposed Acquisition Transaction but would be a Proposed Acquisition Transaction if the percentage reflected in the definition of Proposed Acquisition Transaction were 25% instead of 40%.
“Separate Return” means (a) in the case of any Tax Return of any member of the GCP Group (including any consolidated, combined or unitary return), any such Tax Return that does not include any member of the Grace Group and (b) in the case of any Tax Return of any member of the Grace Group (including any consolidated, combined or unitary return), any such Tax Return that does not include any member of the GCP Group.
Separation ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

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“Separation and Distribution Agreement” means the Separation and Distribution Agreement, as amended from time to time, by and among Grace, Grace Conn and GCP dated January 27, 2016.
“State Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by any State of the United States (or by any political subdivision of any such State) or the District of Columbia, in each case, which is imposed on or measured by net income, including state and local franchise or similar Taxes measured by net income, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“State Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by any State of the United States (or by any political subdivision of any such State) or the District of Columbia, in each case, other than any State Income Taxes, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“State Tax” means any State Income Taxes or State Other Taxes.
“Straddle Period” means any Tax Period that begins on or before and ends after the Deconsolidation Date.
“Tax” or “Taxes” means any income, gross income, gross receipts, profits, capital stock, franchise, withholding, payroll, social security, workers compensation, unemployment, disability, property, ad valorem , stamp, excise, escheat, severance, occupation, service, sales, use, license, lease, transfer, import, export, value added, alternative minimum, estimated or other tax (including any fee, assessment, or other charge in the nature of or in lieu of any tax) imposed by any governmental entity or political subdivision thereof, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“Tax Advisor” means a United States tax counsel or accountant of recognized national standing.
“Tax Attribute” or “Attribute” shall mean a net operating loss, net capital loss, unused investment credit, unused foreign tax credit, excess charitable contribution, general business credit or any other Tax Item that could reduce a Tax.
“Tax Authority” means, with respect to any Tax, the governmental entity or political subdivision thereof that imposes such Tax, and the agency (if any) charged with the collection of such Tax for such entity or subdivision.
“Tax Benefit” means any refund, credit, or other reduction in otherwise required Tax payments.
“Tax Contest” means an audit, review, examination, or any other administrative or judicial proceeding with the purpose or effect of redetermining Taxes (including any administrative or judicial review of any claim for refund).

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“Tax Control” means the definition of “control” set forth in Section 368(c) of the Code (or in any successor statute or provision), as such definition may be amended from time to time.
“Tax-Free Status” means the qualification of: (1) the Contribution and Internal Distribution, taken together, (a) as a reorganization described in Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code and (b) as a transaction in which the stock distributed thereby is “qualified property” for purposes of Sections 355(d), 355(e) and 361(c) of the Code; and (2) the Distribution as a transaction (a) described in Section 355(a) of the Code, (b) in which the stock distributed thereby is “qualified property” for purposes of Sections 355(d), 355(e) and 361(c) of the Code, and (c) in which the holders of Grace Shares recognize no income or gain for U.S. federal income tax purposes pursuant to Section 355.
“Tax Item” means, with respect to any Income Tax, any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, credit, recapture of credit or any other item which increases or decreases Taxes paid or payable.
“Tax Law” means the law of any governmental entity or political subdivision thereof relating to any Tax.
“Tax Opinions/Rulings” means (i) the opinions of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and of Baker & McKenzie deliverable to Grace pertaining to or in connection with, and regarding the Federal Income Tax treatment of, the Contribution, the Internal Distribution, the Distribution and/or any Foreign Spin-Off and (ii) any Rulings.
“Tax Period” means, with respect to any Tax, the period for which the Tax is reported as provided under the Code or other applicable Tax Law.
“Tax Records” means any Tax Returns, Tax Return workpapers, documentation relating to any Tax Contests, and any other books of account or records (whether or not in written, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms and whether or not stored on electronic or any other medium) required to be maintained under the Code or other applicable Tax Laws or under any record retention agreement with any Tax Authority.
“Tax-Related Losses” means (i) all federal, state, local and foreign Taxes (including interest and penalties thereon) imposed (or that would be imposed) pursuant to any settlement, Final Determination, judgment or otherwise, (ii) all accounting, legal and other professional fees, and court costs incurred in connection with such Taxes, and (iii) all costs, expenses and damages associated with stockholder litigation or controversies and any amount paid by Grace (or any Grace Affiliate) or GCP (or any GCP Affiliate) in respect of the liability of shareholders, whether paid to shareholders or to the IRS or any other Tax Authority, in each case, resulting from (x) the failure of the Contribution, the Internal Distribution or the Distribution to have Tax-Free Status or (y) the failure of any Foreign Transaction to qualify under Section 355(a) (or, if applicable, Section 368(a)(1)(D)) of the Code (in the case of a Foreign Spin-Off) or to have its applicable Intended Foreign Tax Consequences.
“Tax Return” or “Return” means any report of Taxes due, any claim for refund of Taxes paid, any information return with respect to Taxes, or any other similar report, statement,

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questionnaire, declaration, or document filed or required to be filed under the Code or other Tax Law, including any attachments, exhibits, or other materials submitted with any of the foregoing, and including any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing.
“Transactions” means the Contribution, the Internal Distribution, the Distribution, the Foreign Transactions and the other transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Transfer Pricing Adjustment” shall mean any proposed or actual allocation, adjustment or imposition by a Tax Authority of any Tax Item (whether imputed or otherwise) between or among any member of the Grace Group in one taxing jurisdiction and any member of the GCP Group in a different taxing jurisdiction with respect to any intercompany transfer price in any period.
“Treasury Regulations” means the regulations promulgated from time to time under the Code as in effect for the relevant Tax Period.
“Unqualified Tax Opinion” means an unqualified “will” opinion of a Tax Advisor, which Tax Advisor is acceptable to Grace, on which Grace may rely to the effect that a transaction will not affect the Tax‑Free Status of (a) the Contribution and the Internal Distribution or (b) the Distribution; provided , that any tax opinion obtained in connection with a proposed acquisition of GCP Capital Stock entered into on or before the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date shall not qualify as an Unqualified Tax Opinion unless such tax opinion concludes that such proposed acquisition will not be treated as “part of a plan (or series of related transactions),” within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, that includes the Distribution or the Internal Distribution. Any such opinion must assume that the Contribution, Internal Distribution and Distribution would have qualified for Tax-Free Status if the transaction in question did not occur.
Section 2.               Allocation of Tax Liabilities .
Section 2.01          General Rule .
(a)           Grace Liability . Grace shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the GCP Group from and against any liability for, Taxes which are allocated to Grace under this Section 2.
(b)           GCP Liability . GCP shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Grace Group from and against any liability for, Taxes which are allocated to GCP under this Section 2.
Section 2.02           Allocation of United States Federal Income Tax and Federal Other Tax . Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.05, Federal Income Tax and Federal Other Tax shall be allocated as follows:
(a)           Allocation of Tax Relating to Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns. With respect to any Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return, Grace shall be

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responsible for any and all Federal Income Taxes due or required to be reported on any such Income Tax Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination).
(b)           Allocation of Tax Relating to Federal Separate Income Tax Returns. (i) Grace shall be responsible for any and all Federal Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (and any and all Federal Income Tax of Grace or any member of the Grace Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the GCP Group), including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all Federal Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (and any and all Federal Income Tax of GCP or any member of the GCP Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the Grace Group), including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination.
(c)           Allocation of Federal Other Tax . Grace shall be responsible for any and all Federal Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the Grace Group; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all Federal Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the GCP Group.
Section 2.03          Allocation of State Income and State Other Taxes. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.05, State Income Tax and State Other Tax shall be allocated as follows:
(a)           Allocation of Tax Relating to Grace State Combined Income Tax Returns. Grace shall be responsible for any and all State Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace State Combined Income Tax Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination).
(b)          Allocation of State Income Tax Relating to Separate Returns. (i) Grace shall be responsible for any and all State Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (and any and all State Income Tax of Grace or any member of the Grace Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the GCP Group), including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all State Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (and any and all State Income Tax of GCP or any member of the GCP Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the Grace Group), including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination.
(c)           Allocation of State Other Tax . Grace shall be responsible for any and all State Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the Grace Group; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all State Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (including any

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increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the GCP Group.
Section 2.04          Allocation of Foreign Taxes. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.05, Foreign Income Tax and Foreign Other Tax shall be allocated as follows:
(a)           Allocation of Tax Relating to Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Returns. Grace shall be responsible for any and all Foreign Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination).
(b)          Allocation of Foreign Income Tax Relating to Separate Returns. (i) Grace shall be responsible for any and all Foreign Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (and any and all Foreign Income Tax of Grace or any member of the Grace Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the GCP Group), including any increase in such Foreign Income Tax as a result of a Final Determination; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all Foreign Income Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (and any and all Foreign Income Tax of GCP or any member of the GCP Group imposed by way of withholding by a member of the Grace Group), including any increase in such Foreign Income Tax as a result of a Final Determination.
(c)           Allocation of Foreign Other Tax . Grace shall be responsible for any and all Foreign Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any Grace Separate Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the Grace Group; (ii) GCP shall be responsible for any and all Foreign Other Taxes due with respect to or required to be reported on any GCP Separate Return (including any increase in such Tax as a result of a Final Determination) or otherwise imposed on any member of the GCP Group.
Section 2.05           Certain Transaction and Other Taxes      .
(a)           GCP Liability . GCP shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Grace Group from and against any liability for:
(i)          Any stamp, sales and use, gross receipts, value-added or other transfer Taxes imposed by any Tax Authority on any member of the GCP Group (if such member is primarily liable for such Tax) on the transfers occurring pursuant to the Transactions;
(ii)          any Tax resulting from a breach by GCP of any representation or covenant in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement, any Representation Letter or any Tax Opinion/Ruling; and
(iii)          any Tax-Related Losses for which GCP is responsible pursuant to Section 7.05 of this Agreement.

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(b)           Grace Liability . Grace shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the GCP Group from and against any liability for:
(i)          Any stamp, sales and use, gross receipts, value-added or other transfer Taxes imposed by any Tax Authority on any member of the Grace Group (if such member is primarily liable for such Tax) on the transfers occurring pursuant to the Transactions;
(ii)          any Tax resulting from a breach by Grace of any representation or covenant in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement, any Representation Letter or any Tax Opinion/Ruling; and
(iii)          any Tax-Related Losses for which Grace is responsible pursuant to Section 7.05 of this Agreement.
Section 3.               Proration of Taxes for Straddle Periods.
(a)           General Method of Proration . In the case of any Straddle Period, Tax Items shall be apportioned between Pre-Deconsolidation Periods and Post-Deconsolidation Periods in accordance with the principles of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b) as reasonably interpreted and applied by the Companies. With respect to the Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return for the taxable year that includes the Distribution, no election shall be made under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b)(2)(ii) (relating to ratable allocation of a year’s items). If the Deconsolidation Date is not an Accounting Cutoff Date, the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b)(2)(iii) will be applied to ratably allocate the items (other than extraordinary items) for the month which includes the Deconsolidation Date.
(b)           Transactions Treated as Extraordinary Item . In determining the apportionment of Tax Items between Pre-Deconsolidation Periods and Post-Deconsolidation Periods, any Tax Items relating to the Transactions shall be treated as extraordinary items described in Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b)(2)(ii)(C) and shall (to the extent occurring on or prior to the Deconsolidation Date) be allocated to Pre-Deconsolidation Periods, and any Taxes related to such items shall be treated under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b)(2)(iv) as relating to such extraordinary item and shall (to the extent occurring on or prior to the Deconsolidation Date) be allocated to Pre-Deconsolidation Periods.
Section 4.               Preparation and Filing of Tax Returns.     
Section 4.01           General . Except as otherwise provided in this Section 4, Tax Returns shall be prepared and filed on or before their Due Date by the Person obligated to file such Tax Returns under the Code or applicable Tax Law. The Companies shall provide, and shall cause their Affiliates to provide, assistance and cooperation to one another in accordance with Section 8 with respect to the preparation and filing of Tax Returns, including by providing information required to be provided pursuant to Section 8.

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Section 4.02           Grace’s Responsibility. Grace has the exclusive obligation and right to prepare and file, or to cause to be prepared and filed:
(a)          Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns for any Tax Periods ending on, before or after the Deconsolidation Date;
(b)          Grace State Combined Income Tax Returns, Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Returns and any other Joint Returns which Grace reasonably determines are required to be filed (or which Grace chooses to be filed) by the Companies or any of their Affiliates for Tax Periods ending on, before or after the Deconsolidation Date; provided, however , that Grace shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide written notice of such determination to file such Grace State Combined Income Tax Returns, Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Returns or other Joint Returns to GCP if the immediately prior Tax Returns in such jurisdiction for such type of Tax were not filed on a consolidated, combined, unitary or other joint basis; and
(c)          Grace Separate Returns and GCP Separate Returns which Grace reasonably determines are required to be filed by the Companies or any of their Affiliates for Tax Periods ending on, before or after the Deconsolidation Date (limited, in the case of GCP Separate Returns, to such Returns for which the Due Date is on or before the Deconsolidation Date).
Section 4.03           GCP’s Responsibility . GCP shall prepare and file, or shall cause to be prepared and filed, all Tax Returns required to be filed by or with respect to members of the GCP Group other than those Tax Returns which Grace is required or entitled to prepare and file under Section 4.02. The Tax Returns required to be prepared and filed by GCP under this Section 4.03 shall include (a) any GCP Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return for Tax Periods ending after the Deconsolidation Date and (b) GCP Separate Returns for which the Due Date is after the Deconsolidation Date.
Section 4.04           Tax Accounting Practices.
(a)           General Rule . Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.04(b), with respect to any Tax Return that GCP has the obligation and right to prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, under Section 4.03, for any Pre-Deconsolidation Period or any Straddle Period (or any taxable period beginning after the Deconsolidation Date to the extent items reported on such Tax Return could reasonably be expected to affect items reported on any Tax Return that Grace has the obligation or right to prepare and file for any Pre-Deconsolidation Period or any Straddle Period), such Tax Return shall be prepared in accordance with past practices, accounting methods, elections or conventions ( “Past Practices” ) used with respect to the Tax Returns in question (unless there is no reasonable basis for the use of such Past Practices or unless there is no adverse effect to Grace), and to the extent any items are not covered by Past Practices (or in the event that there is no reasonable basis for the use of such Past Practices or there is no adverse effect to Grace), in accordance with reasonable Tax accounting practices selected by GCP. Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.04(b), Grace shall prepare any Tax

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Return which it has the obligation and right to prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, under Section 4.02, in accordance with reasonable Tax accounting practices selected by Grace.
(b)           Reporting of Transactions . The Tax treatment reported on any Tax Return of the Transactions shall be consistent with the treatment thereof in the Ruling Requests and the Tax Opinions/Rulings, unless there is no reasonable basis for such Tax treatment. The Tax treatment of the Transactions reported on any Tax Return for which GCP is the Responsible Company shall be consistent with that on any Tax Return filed or to be filed by Grace or any member of the Grace Group or caused or to be caused to be filed by Grace, in each case with respect to periods prior to the Distribution Date or with respect to Straddle Periods (“ Grace Group Transaction Returns ”), unless there is no reasonable basis for such Tax treatment. To the extent the Tax treatment relating to any aspect of the Transactions is not covered by the Ruling Requests, the Tax Opinions/Rulings or Grace Group Transaction Returns, the Companies shall report such Tax treatment on any and all Tax Returns in a manner that is consistent with Grace’s intention or determination with respect thereto.
Section 4.05           Consolidated or Combined Tax Returns . GCP will elect and join, and will cause its respective Affiliates to elect and join, in filing any Grace State Combined Income Tax Returns, Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Returns and any Joint Returns that Grace determines are required to be filed or that Grace chooses to file pursuant to Section 4.02(b). With respect to any GCP Separate Returns relating to any Tax Period (or portion thereof) ending on or prior to the Distribution Date, GCP will elect and join, and will cause its respective Affiliates to elect and join, in filing consolidated, unitary, combined, or other similar joint Tax Returns, to the extent each entity is eligible to join in such Tax Returns, if Grace reasonably determines that the filing of such Tax Returns is consistent with past reporting practices, or, in the absence of applicable past practices, will result in the minimization of the net present value of the aggregate Tax to the entities eligible to join in such Tax Returns.
Section 4.06           Right to Review Tax Returns.
(a)           General . The Responsible Company with respect to any Tax Return shall make such Tax Return (or the relevant portions thereof) and related workpapers available for review by the other Company, if requested, to the extent (i) such Tax Return relates to material Taxes for which the requesting party is or would reasonably be expected to be liable, (ii) the requesting party would reasonably be expected to be liable in whole or in part for any additional Taxes owing as a result of material adjustments to the amount of Taxes reported on such Tax Return, (iii) such Tax Return relates to Taxes for which the requesting party would reasonably be expected to have a claim for material Tax Benefits under this Agreement, (iv) reasonably necessary for the requesting party to confirm compliance with the terms of this Agreement or (v) such Tax Return is required by the requesting party to comply with its reporting obligations to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Responsible Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to make such Tax Return available for review as required under this paragraph sufficiently in advance of the Due Date of such Tax Return to provide the requesting party with a meaningful opportunity to analyze and comment on such Tax Return and shall use its reasonable best efforts to have such Tax Return modified before filing, taking into account the person responsible for payment of the Tax (if any) reported on such Tax Return and whether the amount

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of Tax liability with respect to such Tax Return is material. The Companies shall attempt in good faith to resolve any disagreement arising out of the review of such Tax Return.
(b)           Execution of Returns Prepared by Other Party . In the case of any Tax Return which is required to be prepared and filed by one Company under this Agreement and which is required by law to be signed by the other Company (or by its authorized representative), the Company which is legally required to sign such Tax Return shall not be required to sign such Tax Return under this Agreement if there is no reasonable basis for the Tax treatment of any item reported on the Tax Return or the Tax treatment of any item reported on the Tax Return should, in the opinion of a Tax advisor from a nationally recognized legal, accounting or professional tax services firm, subject the other Company (or its authorized representatives) to material penalties.
Section 4.07          GCP Carrybacks and Claims for Refund. GCP hereby agrees that, unless Grace consents in writing, (i) no Adjustment Request with respect to any Joint Return shall be filed and (ii) any available elections to waive the right to claim in any Pre-Deconsolidation Period with respect to any Joint Return any GCP Carryback arising in a Post-Deconsolidation Period shall be made, and no affirmative election shall be made to claim any such GCP Carryback; provided, however, that the parties agree that any such Adjustment Request shall be made with respect to any GCP Carryback related to U.S. federal or State Taxes, upon the reasonable request of GCP, if such GCP Carryback is necessary to prevent the loss of the federal and/or State Tax Benefit of such GCP Carryback (including, but not limited to, an Adjustment Request with respect to a GCP Carryback of a federal or State capital loss arising in a Post-Deconsolidation Period to a Pre-Deconsolidation Period) and such Adjustment Request, based on Grace’s sole determination, will cause no Tax detriment to Grace, the Grace Group or any member of the Grace Group. Any Adjustment Request which Grace consents to make under this Section 4.07 shall be prepared and filed by the Responsible Company for the Tax Return to be adjusted.
Section 4.08           Apportionment of Earnings and Profits and Tax Attributes. Grace shall be entitled in good faith to instruct GCP in writing of the portion, if any, of any earnings and profits, previously taxed earnings and profits, Tax Attribute, basis, overall foreign loss or any consolidated, combined, unitary or comingled attribute which Grace determines shall be allocated to, apportioned to or adjusted by the GCP Group under applicable law in connection with the Transactions. GCP and all members of the GCP Group shall prepare all Tax Returns in accordance with (and shall not take any Tax position that is inconsistent with) such written instructions. As soon as practicable after receipt of a written request from GCP, Grace shall provide copies of any studies, reports, and workpapers supporting the earnings and profits, previously taxed earnings and profits, basis, overall foreign loss and other Tax Attributes allocable to GCP. In the event of a subsequent adjustment to the earnings and profits, previously taxed earnings and profits, basis, overall foreign loss or any Tax Attributes determined by Grace pursuant to this Section 4.08, Grace or GCP, as the case may be, shall promptly notify the other Company in writing of such adjustment. For the absence of doubt, Grace shall not be liable to GCP or any member of the GCP Group for any failure of any determination under this Section 4.08 to be accurate under applicable law.

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Section 5.               Tax Payments.
Section 5.01          Payment of Taxes with Respect to Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns . Grace shall pay to the IRS any Tax due with respect to any Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return (including any Federal Income Tax due from the Grace Affiliated Group that is required to be paid as a result of an adjustment to a Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return).
Section 5.02           Payment of Taxes With Respect to Joint Returns. In the case of any Joint Return reflecting Taxes for which both Grace and GCP are responsible under Section 2:
(a)           Computation and Payment of Tax Due. At least three Business Days prior to any Payment Date for any Tax Return, the Responsible Company shall compute the amount of Tax required to be paid to the applicable Tax Authority (taking into account the requirements of Section 4.04 relating to consistent accounting practices, as applicable) with respect to such Tax Return on such Payment Date. The Responsible Company shall pay such amount to such Tax Authority on or before such Payment Date (and provide notice and proof of payment to the other Company).
(b)           Computation and Payment of Liability With Respect To Tax Due . Within 30 days following the earlier of (i) the Due Date for filing any such Tax Return (excluding any Tax Return with respect to payment of estimated Taxes or Taxes due with a request for extension of time to file) or (ii) the date on which such Tax Return is filed (excluding any Tax Return with respect to payment of estimated Taxes or Taxes due with a request for extension of time to file), if Grace is the Responsible Company, then GCP shall pay to Grace the amount allocable to the GCP Group under the provisions of Section 2, and if GCP is the Responsible Company, then Grace shall pay to GCP the amount allocable to the Grace Group under the provisions of Section 2, in each case, plus interest computed at the Prime Rate on the amount of the payment based on the number of days from the earlier of (i) the Due Date of the Tax Return or (ii) the date on which such Tax Return is filed, to the date of payment.
(c)           Adjustments Resulting in Underpayments . In the case of any adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination with respect to any such Tax Return, the Responsible Company shall pay to the applicable Tax Authority when due any additional Tax due with respect to such Return required to be paid as a result of such adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination. If the Responsible Company is Grace, Grace shall compute the amount attributable to the GCP Group in accordance with Section 2 and GCP shall pay to Grace any amount due to Grace (or, if the Responsible Company is GCP, GCP shall compute the amount attributable to the Grace Group in accordance with Section 2 and Grace shall pay to GCP any amount due to GCP) under Section 2 within 30 days following the later of (i) the date the additional Tax was paid by the Responsible Company or (ii) the date of receipt of a written notice and demand from the Responsible Company for payment of the amount due, accompanied by evidence of payment and a statement detailing the Taxes paid and describing in reasonable detail the particulars relating thereto. Any payments required under this Section 5.02(c) shall include interest computed at the Prime Rate based on the number of days from the date the

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additional Tax was paid by the Responsible Company to the date of the payment under this Section 5.02(c).
Section 5.03           Payment of Separate Company Taxes     . Each Company shall pay, or shall cause to be paid, to the applicable Tax Authority when due all Taxes owed by such Company or a member of such Company’s Group with respect to a Separate Return of Income Taxes and with respect to a Separate Return of Other Taxes.
Section 5.04           Indemnification Payments .
(a)          Subject to Sections 7.05(d) and 7.05(e), if any Company (the “ Payor ”) is required under applicable Tax Law to pay to a Tax Authority a Tax that another Company (the “ Required Party ”) is liable for under this Agreement, the Required Party shall reimburse the Payor within 30 days of delivery by the Payor to the Required Party of an invoice for the amount due, accompanied by evidence of payment and a statement detailing the Taxes paid and describing in reasonable detail the particulars relating thereto. The reimbursement shall include interest on the Tax payment computed at the Prime Rate based on the number of days from the date of the payment to the Tax Authority to the date of reimbursement under this Section 5.04.
(b)          All indemnification payments under this Agreement shall be made by Grace Conn directly to GCP and by GCP directly to Grace Conn, as applicable; provided, however, that if the Companies mutually agree with respect to any such indemnification payment, any member of the Grace Group, on the one hand, may make such indemnification payment to any member of the GCP Group, on the other hand, and vice versa.
Section 6.               Tax Benefits.
Section 6.01           Tax Benefits.
(a)           Except as set forth below, Grace shall be entitled to any refund (and any interest thereon received from the applicable Tax Authority) of Income Taxes and Other Taxes for which Grace is liable hereunder, GCP shall be entitled to any refund (and any interest thereon received from the applicable Tax Authority) of Income Taxes and Other Taxes for which GCP is liable hereunder and a Company (the first Company) receiving a refund to which another Company (the second Company) is entitled hereunder shall pay over such refund to the second Company within 30 days after such refund is received (together with interest computed at the Prime Rate based on the number of days from the date the refund was received to the date the refund was paid over). The second Company, upon the request of the first Company, shall promptly repay the first Company the amount paid over pursuant to the preceding sentence (together with any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Tax Authority) in the event that the first Company is required to repay such refund to such Tax Authority.
(b)           If a member of the GCP Group actually realizes in cash any Tax Benefit as a result of an adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination to any Taxes for which a member of the Grace Group is liable hereunder (or to the tax basis or any Tax Attribute of a member of the Grace Group) (a “ Grace Final Determination Adjustment ”) and such Tax Benefit would not have arisen but for such adjustment (determined on a “with and without” basis), or if a member

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of the Grace Group actually realizes in cash any Tax Benefit as a result of an adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination to any Taxes for which a member of the GCP Group is liable hereunder (or to the tax basis or any Tax Attribute of a member of the GCP Group) and such Tax Benefit would not have arisen but for such adjustment (determined on a “with and without” basis), GCP or Grace, as the case may be, shall make a payment to either Grace or GCP, as appropriate, within 30 days following such actual realization of the Tax Benefit, in an amount equal to such Tax Benefit actually realized in cash (including any Tax Benefit actually realized as a result of the payment), plus interest on such amount computed at the Prime Rate based on the number of days from the date of such actual realization of the Tax Benefit to the date of payment of such amount under this Section 6.01(b). In the case of a Grace Final Determination Adjustment, then, upon the written request of and at the expense of Grace, GCP shall (and, if applicable, shall cause the relevant member of the GCP Group to) amend any Tax Return thereof to the extent such amendment would result in a corresponding or correlative Tax Benefit (which shall include, without limitation, any step-up in tax basis).
(c)          No later than 30 days after a Tax Benefit described in Section 6.01(b) is actually realized in cash by a member of the Grace Group or a member of the GCP Group, Grace (if a member of the Grace Group actually realizes such Tax Benefit) or GCP (if a member of the GCP Group actually realizes such Tax Benefit) shall provide the other Company with a written calculation of the amount payable to such other Company by Grace or GCP pursuant to this Section 6. In the event that Grace or GCP disagrees with any such calculation described in this Section 6.01(c), Grace or GCP shall so notify the other Company in writing within 30 days of receiving the written calculation set forth above in this Section 6.01(c). Grace and GCP shall endeavor in good faith to resolve such disagreement, and, failing that, the amount payable under this Section 6 shall be determined in accordance with the disagreement resolution provisions of Section 14 as promptly as practicable.
(d)           GCP shall be entitled to any refund that is attributable to, and would not have arisen but for, a GCP Carryback pursuant to the proviso set forth in Section 4.07. Any such payment of such refund made by Grace to GCP pursuant to this Section 6.01(d) shall be recalculated in light of any Final Determination (or any other facts that may arise or come to light after such payment is made, such as a carryback of a Grace Group Tax Attribute to a Tax Period in respect of which such refund is received) that would affect the amount to which GCP is entitled, and an appropriate adjusting payment shall be made by GCP to Grace such that the aggregate amounts paid pursuant to this Section 6.01(d) equals such recalculated amount (with interest computed at the Prime Rate).
Section 6.02           Grace and GCP Income Tax Deductions in Respect of Certain Equity Awards and Incentive Compensation. To the extent permitted by applicable law, solely the member of the Group for which the relevant individual is employed at the time of the vesting, exercise, disqualifying disposition, payment or other relevant taxable event, as appropriate, in respect of the equity awards and other incentive compensation described in Article IV of the Employee Matters Agreement (or, if such individual is not then employed by a member of any Group, the Group member at which such individual was most recently employed) shall be entitled to claim any Income Tax deduction in respect of such equity awards and other incentive compensation on its respective Tax Return associated with such event.

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Section 7.          Tax-Free Status.
Section 7.01           Tax Opinions/Rulings and Representation Letters.
(a)           Each of GCP and Grace hereby represents and agrees that (A) it has read or will read the Representation Letters prior to the date submitted and (B) subject to any qualifications therein, all information, representations and covenants contained in such Representation Letters that concern or relate to such Company or any member of its Group are and will be true, correct and complete.
(b)          If any Representation Letters have not yet been submitted, GCP and Grace shall use their commercially reasonable efforts and shall cooperate in good faith to finalize the same as soon as possible and to cause the same to be submitted to the Tax Advisors, the IRS or such other governmental authorities as Grace shall deem necessary or desirable. GCP and Grace shall take such other commercially reasonable actions as may be necessary or desirable, to obtain any Tax Opinions/Rulings that have not yet been obtained.
(c)          GCP hereby represents and warrants that it has no plan or intention of taking any action, or failing to take any action (or causing or permitting any member of its Group to take or fail to take any action), in each case, from and after the date hereof, that could reasonably be expected to cause any representation or factual statement made in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Representation Letters, or any of the Ancillary Agreements to be untrue.
(d)          GCP hereby represents and warrants that, during the period beginning two years before the date of the consummation of the Internal Distribution and ending on the Distribution Date (and, in the case of each Foreign Spin-Off, during the two-year period ending on the relevant Foreign Spin-Off Distribution Date), there was no “agreement,” “understanding,” “arrangement,” “substantial negotiations” or “discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by any one or more officers or directors of any member of the GCP Group or by any other person or persons with the implicit or explicit permission of one or more of such officers or directors regarding an acquisition, directly or indirectly, of all or a significant portion of either the GCP Capital Stock (or any predecessor) or the stock of any Foreign Subsidiary (or any predecessor) involved in a Foreign-Spin-Off; provided , however , that no representation is made regarding any “agreement, understanding,” “arrangement,” “substantial negotiations” or “discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by any one or more officers or directors of Grace.
Section 7.02          Restrictions on GCP .  
(a)           GCP agrees that it will not take or fail to take, or cause or permit any GCP Affiliate to take or fail to take, any action where such action or failure to act would be inconsistent with or cause to be untrue any material, information, covenant or representation in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any of the Ancillary Agreements, any Representation Letters or any Tax Opinions/Rulings. GCP agrees that it will not take or fail to take, or permit any GCP Affiliate to take or fail to take, any action which prevents or could

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reasonably be expected to prevent (A) the Tax-Free Status (including, in the case of GCP, issuing any GCP Capital Stock that would prevent the Distribution from qualifying as a tax-free distribution within the meaning of Section 355 of the Code), (B) any transaction contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, to the extent such transaction is intended by Grace to be tax-free or tax-advantaged, from so qualifying, or (C) any Foreign Transaction from having the Intended Foreign Tax Consequences (it being agreed and understood that GCP shall not agree, and shall prevent any GCP Affiliate from agreeing, in any Tax Contest to any position that is inconsistent with the Tax treatment, as intended or determined by Grace, of the Transactions).
(b)          Pre-Distribution Period. During the period from the date hereof until the completion of the Distribution, GCP shall not take any action (including the issuance of GCP Capital Stock) or permit any GCP Affiliate to take any action if, as a result of taking such action, GCP could have a number of shares of GCP Capital Stock (computed on a fully diluted basis or otherwise) issued and outstanding, including by way of the exercise of stock options (whether or not such stock options are currently exercisable) or the issuance of restricted stock, that could cause Grace to cease to have Tax Control of GCP.
(c)          GCP agrees that, from the date hereof until the first day after the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date, it will (i) maintain its status as a company engaged in the Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code and (ii) not engage in any transaction that would result in it ceasing to be a company engaged in the Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code, in each case, taking into account Section 355(b)(3) of the Code.
(d)          GCP agrees that, from the date hereof until the first day after the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date, it will not (i) enter into any Proposed Acquisition Transaction or, to the extent GCP has the right to prohibit any Proposed Acquisition Transaction, permit any Proposed Acquisition Transaction to occur (whether by (a) redeeming rights under a shareholder rights plan, (b) finding a tender offer to be a “permitted offer” under any such plan or otherwise causing any such plan to be inapplicable or neutralized with respect to any Proposed Acquisition Transaction, or (c) approving any Proposed Acquisition Transaction, whether for purposes of Section 203 of the DGCL or any similar corporate statute, any “fair price” or other provision of GCP’s charter or bylaws or otherwise), (ii) merge or consolidate with any other Person or liquidate or partially liquidate, (iii) in a single transaction or series of transactions, sell or transfer (other than sales or transfers of inventory in the ordinary course of business) all or substantially all of the assets that were transferred, directly or indirectly, to GCP pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement or pursuant to the Contribution, or sell or transfer 60% or more of the gross assets of the Active Trade or Business or 60% or more of the consolidated gross assets of GCP and its Affiliates (such percentages to be measured based on fair market value as of the Distribution Date), (iv) redeem or otherwise repurchase (directly or through a GCP Affiliate) any GCP stock, or rights to acquire stock, except to the extent such repurchases satisfy Section 4.05(1)(b) of Revenue Procedure 96-30 (as in effect prior to the amendment of such Revenue Procedure by Revenue Procedure 2003-48), (v) amend its certificate of incorporation (or other organizational documents), or take any other action, whether through a stockholder vote or otherwise, affecting the voting rights of GCP Capital

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Stock (including, without limitation, through the conversion of one class of GCP Capital Stock into another class of GCP Capital Stock) or (vi) take any other action or actions (including any action or transaction that would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with any representation or covenant made in the Representation Letters or the Tax Opinions/Rulings (other than Representation Letters or Tax Opinions/Rulings, in each case, solely relating to the Foreign Spin-Offs)) which in the aggregate (and taking into account any other transactions described in this subparagraph (d)) would be reasonably likely to have the effect of causing or permitting one or more persons (whether or not acting in concert) to acquire directly or indirectly stock representing a Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest in GCP or otherwise jeopardize the Tax‑Free Status, unless, in each case, prior to taking any such action set forth in the foregoing clauses (i) through (vi), (A) GCP shall have requested that Grace obtain a Ruling in accordance with Section 7.04(b) and (d) of this Agreement to the effect that such transaction will not affect the Tax-Free Status and Grace shall have received such a Ruling in form and substance satisfactory to Grace in its sole and absolute discretion, which discretion shall be exercised in good faith solely to preserve the Tax-Free Status (and in determining whether a Ruling is satisfactory, Grace may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any underlying assumptions and management’s representations made in connection with such Ruling), or (B) GCP shall provide Grace with an Unqualified Tax Opinion in form and substance satisfactory to Grace in its sole and absolute discretion, which discretion shall be exercised in good faith solely to preserve the Tax-Free Status (and in determining whether an opinion is satisfactory, Grace may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any underlying assumptions and management’s representations if used as a basis for the opinion, and Grace may determine that no opinion would be acceptable to Grace) or (C) Grace shall have waived the requirement to obtain such Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion.
(e)           Certain Issuances of GCP Capital Stock . If GCP proposes to enter into any Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction or, to the extent GCP has the right to prohibit any Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction, proposes to permit any Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction to occur, in each case, during the period from the date hereof until the first day after the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date, GCP shall provide Grace, no later than ten days following the signing of any written agreement with respect to the Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction, with a written description of such transaction (including the type and amount of GCP Capital Stock to be issued in such transaction) and a certificate of the Board of Directors of GCP to the effect that the Section 7.02(e) Acquisition Transaction is not a Proposed Acquisition Transaction or any other transaction to which the requirements of Section 7.02(d) apply (a “Board Certificate” ).
(f)           GCP Internal Restructuring. GCP shall not engage in, cause or permit any Internal Restructuring during or with respect to any Tax Period (or portion thereof) ending on or prior to the Distribution Date without obtaining the prior written consent of Grace (such prior written consent not to be unreasonably withheld). GCP shall provide written notice to Grace describing any Internal Restructuring proposed to be taken during or with respect to any Tax Period (or portion thereof) beginning after the Distribution Date and ending on or prior to the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date and shall consult with Grace regarding any such proposed actions reasonably in advance of taking any such proposed actions and shall consider in good faith any comments from Grace relating thereto.

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(g           Distributions by Foreign GCP Subsidiaries. From and after the Distribution Date until January 1, 2017, GCP shall neither cause nor permit any foreign subsidiary of GCP to enter into any transaction or take any action that would be considered a distribution of property under Section 301(a) of the Code unless (a) such distribution is solely out of, and does not exceed, such subsidiary’s earnings and profits of the calendar year ending December 31, 2016, or (b) GCP has obtained the prior written consent of Grace (such prior written consent not to be unreasonably withheld).
(h)      Foreign Spin-Offs . GCP agrees that it will not take or fail to take, or permit any Affiliate of GCP to take or fail to take, any action which prevents or could reasonably be expected to prevent any Foreign Spin-Off from qualifying under Section 355(a) (or, if applicable, Section 368(a)(1)(D)) of the Code. GCP agrees that, from the date hereof until the first day after the two-year anniversary of the Foreign Spin-Off Distribution Date applicable to each Foreign Spin-Off: (1) none of its Foreign Subsidiaries will (i) merge or consolidate with any other Person or liquidate or partially liquidate, (ii) amend its certificate of incorporation (or other organizational documents), or amend its certificate of incorporation (or other organizational documents), or take any other action, whether through a stockholder vote or otherwise, affecting the voting rights of such Foreign Subsidiary (including, without limitation, through the conversion of one class of such Foreign Subsidiary’s stock into another class of stock), (iii) cease to maintain its status as engaged in the Active Trade or Business or (iv) engage in any transaction that results, or could reasonably be expected to result, in its ceasing to be engaged in the Active Trade or Business; and (2) GCP will not sell or transfer to an unrelated third party, or cause or permit any Affiliate of GCP to sell or transfer to an unrelated third party, the stock of any Foreign Subsidiary involved in a Foreign Spin-Off, in each case, in a manner that results, or could reasonably be expected to result, with respect to the applicable Foreign Spin-Off, in gain recognition under Section 355(e) of the Code or a breach of the continuity of interest requirement of Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-2(c)(1). With regard to any gain recognition agreement (as such term is used in Treasury Regulations Section 1.367(a)-8) that is in existence as of the Distribution Date or is filed after the Distribution Date but is retroactively effective to a date on or before the Distribution Date, GCP agrees that, during the five years following the Distribution, it shall not take any action (or cause any of its Affiliates to take any action), that qualifies as a “gain recognition event” for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.367(a)-8 or otherwise triggers gain under such gain recognition agreement.
Section 7.03           Restrictions on Grace. Grace agrees that it will not take or fail to take, or cause or permit any member of the Grace Group to take or fail to take, any action where such action or failure to act would be inconsistent with or cause to be untrue any material, information, covenant or representation in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any of the Ancillary Agreements, any Representation Letters or any Tax Opinions/Rulings. Grace agrees that it will not take or fail to take, or cause or permit any member of the Grace Group to take or fail to take, any action which prevents or could reasonably be expected to prevent (A) the Tax-Free Status or (B) any transaction contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, to the extent such transaction is intended by Grace as of the date hereof to be tax-free or tax-advantaged, from so qualifying; provided, however, that this Section 7.03 shall not be construed as obligating Grace to consummate the Distribution without the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions set forth in Section 3.3 of the Separation and Distribution

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Agreement nor shall it be construed as preventing Grace from terminating the Separation and Distribution Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1 thereof.
Section 7.04          Procedures Regarding Opinions and Rulings.
(a)          If GCP notifies Grace that it desires to take one of the actions described in clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 7.02(d) (a “Notified Action” ), Grace and GCP shall reasonably cooperate to attempt to obtain the Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion referred to in Section 7.02(d), unless Grace shall have waived the requirement to obtain such Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion.
(b)           Rulings or Unqualified Tax Opinions at GCP’s Request. Grace agrees that at the reasonable request of GCP pursuant to Section 7.02(d), Grace shall cooperate with GCP and use its reasonable best efforts to seek to obtain, as expeditiously as possible, a Ruling from the IRS or an Unqualified Tax Opinion for the purpose of permitting GCP to take the Notified Action. Further, in no event shall Grace be required to file any Ruling Request under this Section 7.04(b) unless GCP represents that (A) it has read the Ruling Request, and (B) all information and representations, if any, relating to any member of the GCP Group, contained in the Ruling Request documents are (subject to any qualifications therein) true, correct and complete. GCP shall reimburse Grace for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Grace Group in obtaining a Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion requested by GCP within ten Business Days after receiving an invoice from Grace therefor.
(c)           Rulings or Unqualified Tax Opinions at Grace’s Request . Grace shall have the right to obtain a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax Opinion at any time in its sole and absolute discretion. If Grace determines to obtain a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax Opinion, GCP shall (and shall cause each Affiliate of GCP to) cooperate with Grace and take any and all actions reasonably requested by Grace in connection with obtaining the Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion (including, without limitation, by making any representation or covenant or providing any materials or information requested by the IRS or Tax Advisor; provided that GCP shall not be required to make (or cause any Affiliate of GCP to make) any representation or covenant that is inconsistent with historical facts or as to future matters or events over which it has no control). Grace and GCP shall each bear its own costs and expenses in obtaining a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax Opinion requested by Grace.
(d)          GCP hereby agrees that Grace shall have sole and exclusive control over the process of obtaining any Ruling, and that only Grace shall apply for a Ruling. In connection with obtaining a Ruling pursuant to Section 7.04(b), (A) Grace shall keep GCP informed in a timely manner of all material actions taken or proposed to be taken by Grace in connection therewith; (B) Grace shall (1) reasonably in advance of the submission of any Ruling Request documents provide GCP with a draft copy thereof, (2) reasonably consider GCP’s comments on such draft copy, and (3) provide GCP with a final copy; and (C) Grace shall provide GCP with notice reasonably in advance of, and GCP shall have the right to attend, any formally scheduled meetings with the IRS (subject to the approval of the IRS) that relate to such Ruling. Neither GCP nor any GCP Affiliate directly or indirectly controlled by GCP shall seek any guidance from the IRS or any other Tax Authority (whether written, verbal or otherwise) at any time

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concerning the Contribution, the Internal Distribution or the Distribution (including the impact of any transaction on the Contribution, the Internal Distribution or the Distribution) or the Transactions.
Section 7.05           Liability for Tax-Related Losses.
(a)          Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement to the contrary, subject to Section 7.05(c), GCP shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless Grace and its Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors and employees from and against, one hundred percent (100%) of any Tax-Related Losses that are attributable to or result from any one or more of the following: (A) the acquisition (other than pursuant to the Contribution, the Foreign Transactions, the Internal Distribution or the Distribution) of all or a portion of GCP Capital Stock and/or its or its subsidiaries’ assets by any means whatsoever by any Person, (B) any “agreement,” “understanding,” “arrangement,” “substantial negotiations” or “discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by any one or more officers or directors of any member of the GCP Group or by any other person or persons with the implicit or explicit permission of one or more of such officers or directors regarding transactions or events that cause the Internal Distribution, the Distribution or any Foreign Spin-Off to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more Persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock of either GCP or any Subsidiary of GCP, in each case, representing a Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest therein, (C) any action or failure to act by GCP after the Distribution (including, without limitation, any amendment to GCP’s certificate of incorporation (or other organizational documents), whether through a stockholder vote or otherwise) affecting the voting rights of GCP stock (including, without limitation, through the conversion of one class of GCP Capital Stock into another class of GCP Capital Stock), (D) any act or failure to act by GCP or any member of the GCP Group described in Section 7.02 (regardless of whether such act or failure to act is covered by a Ruling, Unqualified Tax Opinion or waiver, as applicable, described in Section 7.02(d) or by a Board Certificate described in Section 7.02(e) or a consent described in Section 7.02(f) or (g)), or (E) any breach by GCP of its agreement and representations set forth in Section 7.01.
(b)          Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement to the contrary, subject to Section 7.05(c), Grace shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless GCP and its Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors and employees from and against, one hundred percent (100%) of any Tax-Related Losses that are attributable to, or result from any one or more of the following: (A) the acquisition (other than pursuant to the Transactions) of all or a portion of Grace’s stock and/or its or its subsidiaries’ assets (including any capital stock of Grace Conn) by any means whatsoever by any Person, (B) any “agreement,” “understanding,” “arrangement,” “substantial negotiations” or “discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by any one or more officers or directors of any member of the Grace Group or by any other person or persons with the implicit or explicit permission of one or more of such officers or directors regarding transactions or events that cause the Internal Distribution, the Distribution or any Foreign Spin-Off to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more Persons acquire directly or indirectly stock of either (I) Grace or Grace Conn or (II) any member of the Grace Group involved in a Foreign Spin-Off, in each case, representing a Fifty-Percent or Greater

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Interest therein, (C) any act or failure to act by Grace or a member of the Grace Group described in Section 7.03 or (D) any breach by Grace of its agreement and representations set forth in Section 7.01(a).
(c)           Notwithstanding anything in Section 7.05(b) or any other provision of this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement to the contrary:
(i)          with respect to (I) any Tax-Related Loss resulting from the application of Section 355(e) or Section 355(f) of the Code (other than as a result of an acquisition of a Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest in Grace, Grace Conn or any member of the Grace Group) and (II) any other Tax-Related Loss resulting (for the absence of doubt, in whole or in part) from an acquisition after the Distribution of any stock or assets of GCP or any GCP Affiliate (or, for the avoidance of doubt, any Foreign Subsidiary of GCP) by any means whatsoever by any Person or any action or failure to act by GCP affecting the voting rights of GCP stock or the stock of any GCP Affiliate (or, for the avoidance of doubt, the stock of any Foreign Subsidiary of GCP), GCP shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless Grace and its Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors and employees from and against, one hundred percent (100%) of such Tax-Related Loss; and
(ii)          for purposes of calculating the amount and timing of any Tax-Related Loss for which GCP is responsible under this Section 7.05, Tax-Related Losses shall be calculated by assuming that Grace, the Grace Affiliated Group and each member of the Grace Group (I) pay Tax at the highest marginal corporate Tax rates in effect in each relevant taxable year and (II) have no Tax Attributes in any relevant taxable year.
(d)          GCP shall pay Grace the amount of any Tax-Related Losses for which GCP is responsible under this Section 7.05: (A) in the case of Tax-Related Losses described in clause (i) of the definition of Tax-Related Losses, no later than ten Business Days prior to the Due Date of the Tax Return that Grace files, or causes to be filed, for the year of the Contribution, the Internal Distribution, the Distribution or the Foreign Spin-Off, as applicable (the “ Filing Date ”) ( provided that if such Tax-Related Losses arise pursuant to a Final Determination described in clause (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “Final Determination,” then GCP shall pay Grace no later than two Business Days after the date of such Final Determination with interest calculated at the Prime Rate plus two percent, compounded semiannually, from the date that is ten Business Days prior to the Filing Date through the date of such Final Determination (but not in duplication of interest charged by the applicable Tax Authority)) and (B) in the case of Tax-Related Losses described in clause (ii) or (iii) of the definition of Tax-Related Losses, no later than the later of (x) the date that is two Business Days after the date Grace pays such Tax-Related Losses and (y) the date that is five Business Days after GCP receives notification from Grace of the amount of such Tax-Related Losses due.
(e)      Grace shall calculate in good faith and notify GCP of the amount of any Tax-Related Losses for which GCP is responsible under this Section 7.05. Such calculation shall be binding on GCP absent manifest error. At GCP’s reasonable request, Grace shall make available to GCP the portion of any Tax Return or other documentation and related workpapers that are

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relevant to the determination of the Tax-Related Losses attributable to GCP pursuant to this Section 7.05 .
Section 7.06           Section 336(e) Election. If Grace determines, in its sole discretion, that a protective election under Section 336(e) of the Code (a “Section 336(e) Election” ) shall be made with respect to the Internal Distribution or the Distribution, GCP shall (and shall cause any relevant member of the GCP Group to) join with Grace or any relevant member of the Grace Group in the making of such election and shall take any action reasonably requested by Grace or that is otherwise necessary to give effect to such election (including making any other related election). If a Section 336(e) Election is made with respect to the Internal Distribution or the Distribution, then (a) in the event the Contribution, the Internal Distribution or the Distribution fails to have Tax-Free Status and Grace is not entitled to indemnification for the Tax-Related Losses arising from such failure, GCP shall pay over to Grace any Tax Benefit arising from the step-up in Tax basis resulting from the Section 336(e) Election within 30 days of GCP or any member of the GCP Group realizing such Tax Benefit in cash and (b) this Agreement shall be amended in such a manner as is determined by Grace in good faith to take into account such Section 336(e) Election.
Section 8.               Assistance and Cooperation.
Section 8.01           Assistance and Cooperation.
(a)          The Companies shall cooperate (and cause their respective Affiliates to cooperate) with each other and with each other’s agents, including accounting firms and legal counsel, in connection with Tax matters relating to the Companies and their Affiliates including (i) preparation and filing of Tax Returns, (ii) determining the liability for and amount of any Taxes due (including estimated Taxes) or the right to and amount of any refund of Taxes, (iii) examinations of Tax Returns, and (iv) any administrative or judicial proceeding in respect of Taxes assessed or proposed to be assessed. Such cooperation shall include making all information and documents in their possession relating to the other Company and its Affiliates available to such other Company as provided in Section 9. Each of the Companies shall also make available to the other, as reasonably requested and available, personnel (including officers, directors, employees and agents of the Companies or their respective Affiliates) responsible for preparing, maintaining, and interpreting information and documents relevant to Taxes, and personnel reasonably required as witnesses or for purposes of providing information or documents in connection with any administrative or judicial proceedings relating to Taxes. If (A) a member of the Grace Group, on the one hand, or a member of the GCP Group, on the other hand, suffers a Tax detriment as a result of a Transfer Pricing Adjustment and (B) the amount of such Tax detriment, in addition to the amount of any other Tax detriment(s) resulting from a Transfer Pricing Adjustment, is US$500,000 or more (or an equivalent foreign currency amount), then the Companies shall cooperate pursuant to this Section 8 to seek any relief from the relevant Tax Authority that may be available with respect to such Transfer Pricing Adjustment, and the Group whose member suffered the Tax detriment shall reimburse the other Group for all costs and expenses incurred by any of such other Group’s members in connection thereto.

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(b)          If, as a result of any Final Determination relating to a Transfer Pricing Adjustment with respect to any item reflected on any Tax Return of a member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, there is an increase in the Income Tax liability of any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, respectively, then, upon the reasonable written request of, and at the expense of, Grace or GCP, as applicable, GCP or Grace, as applicable, shall (and shall cause its respective Affiliates to) amend any Tax Returns of any member of the GCP Group or the Grace Group, as applicable, to the extent such amendment would result in a corresponding or correlative Tax Benefit for such member or its Group, and shall promptly pay over to the other Company (or its designated Subsidiary) any Tax Benefit actually realized as a result of such amendment; provided , however, that none of the Companies (nor any of their Affiliates) shall have any obligation to amend any Tax Return pursuant to this Section 8.01(b) (i) to the extent that doing so could reasonably be expected to have an adverse effect on such Company or any of its Affiliates that is material or (ii) if the increase in the Income Tax liability of the other Company (or its Affiliates), in the aggregate with respect to all such Final Determinations with such Tax Authority, is less than US$500,000 or an equivalent foreign currency amount. If a Company or one of its Affiliates pays over any amount pursuant to the preceding sentence and such Tax Benefit is subsequently disallowed or adjusted by a Tax Authority, the Companies shall promptly make appropriate payments (including in respect of any interest paid or imposed by any Tax Authority) to reflect such disallowance or adjustment. For purposes of determining whether the Grace Group, the GCP Group or a member thereof has suffered a Tax detriment or an increase in Income Tax liability for purposes of the last sentence of Section 8.01(a) or for purposes of this Section 8.01(b) (but, for the absence of doubt, not for purposes of determining whether any Tax Benefit has been actually realized for purposes of this Section 8.01(b)), the Tax detriment and the increase in Income Tax liability shall be calculated by assuming that the relevant entity or the Group of which it is a member, as applicable, (I) pays Tax at the highest marginal corporate Tax rates in effect in each relevant taxable year and (II) has no Tax Attributes in any relevant taxable year.
(c)          Any information or documents provided under this Section 8 or Section 9 shall be kept confidential by the Company receiving such information or documents, except as may otherwise be necessary in connection with the filing of Tax Returns or in connection with any Tax Contest. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other agreement, (i) neither Grace nor any Grace Affiliate shall be required to provide GCP or any GCP Affiliate or any other Person access to or copies of any information or procedures (including the proceedings of any Tax Contest) other than information or procedures that relate solely to GCP, the business or assets of GCP or any GCP Affiliate and (ii) in no event shall Grace or any Grace Affiliate be required to provide GCP, any GCP Affiliate or any other Person access to or copies of any information if such action could reasonably be expected to result in the waiver of any Privilege. In addition, in the event that Grace determines that the provision of any information to GCP or any GCP Affiliate could be commercially detrimental, violate any law or agreement or waive any Privilege, the parties shall use reasonable best efforts to permit compliance with its obligations under this Section 8 or Section 9 in a manner that avoids any such harm or consequence.
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by Grace or GCP pursuant to Section 8.01 or this Section 8.02. GCP and Grace acknowledge that failure to conform to the deadlines set forth herein or reasonable deadlines otherwise set by Grace or GCP could cause irreparable harm.
(a)          Each Company shall provide to the other Company information and documents relating to its Group required by the other Company to prepare Tax Returns. Any information or documents the Responsible Company requires to prepare such Tax Returns shall be provided in such form as the Responsible Company reasonably requests and in sufficient time for the Responsible Company to file such Tax Returns on a timely basis.
(b)          At GCP’s sole expense, GCP shall provide such information as is reasonably requested in writing by Grace in connection with the preparation of Tax Returns in accordance with the reasonable deadlines set forth in such written request.
(c)      At Grace’s sole expense, Grace shall provide such information as is reasonably requested in writing by GCP in connection with the preparation of Tax Returns in accordance with the reasonable deadlines set forth in such written request.
Section 8.03          Reliance by Grace. If any member of the GCP Group supplies information to a member of the Grace Group in connection with Taxes and an officer of a member of the Grace Group signs a statement or other document under penalties of perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the written request of such member of the Grace Group identifying the information being so relied upon, the chief financial officer of GCP (or any officer of GCP as designated by the chief financial officer of GCP) shall certify in writing that to his or her knowledge (based upon consultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is accurate and complete. GCP agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Grace Group and its directors, officers and employees from and against any fine, penalty, or other cost or expense of any kind attributable to a member of the GCP Group having supplied, pursuant to this Section 8, a member of the Grace Group with inaccurate or incomplete information in connection with Taxes.
Section 8.04          Reliance by GCP. If any member of the Grace Group supplies information to a member of the GCP Group in connection with Taxes and an officer of a member of the GCP Group signs a statement or other document under penalties of perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the written request of such member of the GCP Group identifying the information being so relied upon, the chief financial officer of Grace (or any officer of Grace as designated by the chief financial officer of Grace) shall certify in writing that to his or her knowledge (based upon consultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is accurate and complete. Grace agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member of the GCP Group and its directors, officers and employees from and against any fine, penalty, or other cost or expense of any kind attributable to a member of the Grace Group having supplied, pursuant to this Section 8, a member of the GCP Group with inaccurate or incomplete information in connection with Taxes.

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Section 9.               Tax Records.
Section 9.01           Retention of Tax Records . Each Company shall preserve and keep all Tax Records exclusively relating to the assets and activities of its Group for Pre-Deconsolidation Periods, and Grace shall preserve and keep all other Tax Records relating to Taxes of the Groups for Pre-Deconsolidation Tax Periods, for so long as the contents thereof may become material in the administration of any matter under the Code or other applicable Tax Law, but in any event until the later of (i) the expiration of any applicable statutes of limitations, or (ii) seven years after the Deconsolidation Date (such later date, the “ Retention Date ”). After the Retention Date, each Company may dispose of Tax Records pertaining to the assets or activities of the other Group only upon 90 days’ prior written notice to the other Group. If, prior to the Retention Date, a Company reasonably determines that any Tax Records which it would otherwise be required to preserve and keep under this Section 9 are no longer material in the administration of any matter under the Code or other applicable Tax Law, it may dispose of such Tax Records; provided , that if such Tax Records pertain to the assets or activities of the other Group, the Company shall provide such other Group with 90 days’ prior written notice. Any notice of an intent to dispose given pursuant to this Section 9.01 shall include a list of the Tax Records to be disposed of describing in reasonable detail each file, book, or other record accumulation being disposed. The notified Company shall have the opportunity, at its cost and expense, to copy or remove, within such 90-day period, all or any part of such Tax Records. If, at any time prior to the Retention Date, GCP determines to decommission or otherwise discontinue any computer program or information technology system used to access or store any Tax Records, then GCP may decommission or discontinue such program or system upon 90 days’ prior notice to Grace and Grace shall have the opportunity, at its cost and expense, to copy, within such 90-day period, all or any part of the underlying data relating to the Tax Records accessed by or stored on such program or system.
Section 9.02          Access to Tax Records      . The Companies and their respective Affiliates shall make available to each other for inspection and copying during normal business hours upon reasonable notice all Tax Records (and, for the avoidance of doubt, any pertinent underlying data accessed or stored on any computer program or information technology system) in their possession and shall permit the other Company and its Affiliates, authorized agents and representatives and any representative of a Tax Authority or other Tax auditor direct access during normal business hours upon reasonable notice to any computer program or information technology system used to access or store any Tax Records, in each case to the extent reasonably required by the other Company in connection with the preparation of Tax Returns or financial accounting statements, Tax Contests, or the resolution of items under this Agreement.
Section 10.           Tax Contests.
Section 10.01           Notice . Each of the Companies shall provide prompt notice to the other Company of any written communication from a Tax Authority regarding any pending or threatened Tax Contest or assessment related to Taxes of which it becomes aware related to Taxes for which it reasonably expects to be indemnified by the other Company hereunder. Such notice shall attach copies of the pertinent portion of any written communication from a Tax Authority and contain factual information (to the extent known) describing any asserted Tax

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liability in reasonable detail and shall be accompanied by copies of any notice and other documents received from any Tax Authority in respect of any such matters. If an indemnified party has knowledge of an asserted Tax liability with respect to a matter for which it is to be indemnified hereunder and such party fails to give the indemnifying party prompt notice of such asserted Tax liability, then such failure shall not relieve the indemnifying party of any obligation which it may have to the indemnified party under this Agreement except to the extent that the indemnifying party is actually prejudiced by such failure.
Section 10.02           Control of Tax Contests.
(a)           Separate Company Taxes. In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Separate Return, the Company having liability for the Tax shall have exclusive control over the Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax liability, subject to Section 10.02(f).
(b)           Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return. In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return, Grace shall have exclusive control over the Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax liability, subject to Section 10.02(f).
(c)           Grace State Combined Income Tax Return. In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Grace State Combined Income Tax Return, Grace shall have exclusive control over the Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax liability, subject to Section 10.02(f).
(d)           Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Return. In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Return, Grace shall have exclusive control over the Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax liability, subject to Section 10.02(f).
(e)          Joint Returns. In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Joint Return (other than any Grace Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return, any Grace State Combined Income Tax Return or any Grace Foreign Combined Income Tax Return), Grace shall have exclusive control over the Tax Contest (including exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax liability, subject to Section 10.02(f)), unless Grace provides GCP with written notice that GCP shall be the Controlling Party with respect to such Tax Contest.
(f)           Settlement Rights. The Controlling Party shall have the sole right to contest, litigate, compromise and settle any Tax Contest without obtaining the prior consent of the Non-Controlling Party. Unless waived by the parties in writing, in connection with any potential adjustment in a Tax Contest as a result of which adjustment the Non-Controlling Party may reasonably be expected to become liable to make any indemnification payment (or any payment under Section 6) to the Controlling Party under this Agreement: (i) the Controlling Party shall keep the Non-Controlling Party informed in a timely manner of all actions taken or proposed to be taken by the Controlling Party with respect to such potential adjustment in such Tax Contest; (ii) the Controlling Party shall provide the Non-Controlling Party copies of any

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written materials relating to such potential adjustment in such Tax Contest received from any Tax Authority; (iii) the Controlling Party shall timely provide the Non-Controlling Party with copies of any correspondence or filings submitted to any Tax Authority or judicial authority in connection with such potential adjustment in such Tax Contest; and (iv) the Controlling Party shall consult with the Non-Controlling Party and offer the Non-Controlling Party a reasonable opportunity to comment before submitting any written materials prepared or furnished in connection with such potential adjustment in such Tax Contest. The failure of the Controlling Party to take any action specified in the preceding sentence with respect to the Non-Controlling Party shall not relieve the Non-Controlling Party of any liability or obligation which it may have to the Controlling Party under this Agreement in respect of such adjustment, except to the extent that the Non-Controlling Party was actually harmed by such failure, and in no event shall such failure relieve the Non-Controlling Party from any other liability or obligation which it may have to the Controlling Party under this Agreement. In the case of any Tax Contest described in Section 10.02(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), “Controlling Party” means the Company entitled to control the Tax Contest under such Section and “Non-Controlling Party” means the other Company.
(g)          Power of Attorney. Each member of the GCP Group shall execute and deliver to Grace (or such member of the Grace Group as Grace shall designate) any power of attorney or other similar document reasonably requested by Grace (or such designee) in connection with any Tax Contest (as to which Grace is the Controlling Party) described in this Section 10. Each member of the Grace Group shall execute and deliver to GCP (or such member of the GCP Group as GCP shall designate) any power of attorney or other similar document reasonably requested by GCP (or such designee) in connection with any Tax Contest (as to which GCP is the Controlling Party) described in this Section 10.
Section 11.           Effective Date; Termination of Prior Intercompany Tax Allocation Agreements . This Agreement shall be effective as of the date hereof. As of the date hereof or on such other date (on or prior to the Distribution Date) as Grace may determine, (i) all prior intercompany Tax allocation agreements or arrangements solely between or among Grace and/or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and GCP and/or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, shall be terminated, and (ii) amounts due under such agreements as of the date hereof shall be settled. Upon such termination and settlement, no further payments by or to Grace or by or to GCP, with respect to such agreements shall be made, and all other rights and obligations resulting from such agreements between the Companies and their Affiliates shall cease at such time. Any payments pursuant to such agreements shall be disregarded for purposes of computing amounts due under this Agreement; provided that to the extent appropriate, as determined by Grace, payments made pursuant to such agreements shall be credited to GCP or Grace, respectively, in computing their respective obligations pursuant to this Agreement, in the event that such payments relate to a Tax liability that is the subject matter of this Agreement for a Tax Period that is the subject matter of this Agreement.
Section 12.           Survival of Obligations. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement shall be unconditional and absolute and shall remain in effect without limitation as to time.

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Section 13.           Treatment of Payments; Tax Gross Up.
Section 13.01           Treatment of Tax Indemnity and Tax Benefit Payments . In the absence of any change in Tax treatment under the Code or other applicable Tax Law, for all Income Tax purposes, the Companies agree to treat, and to cause their respective Affiliates to treat:
(a)          any indemnity payments made by a Company under this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement as distributions or capital contributions, as appropriate, occurring immediately before the Internal Distribution (but only to the extent the payment does not relate to a Tax allocated to the payor in accordance with Section 1552 of the Code or the regulations thereunder or Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-33(d) (or under corresponding principles of other applicable Tax Laws)) or as payments of an assumed or retained liability,
(b)          any payment of interest or State Income Taxes by or to a Tax Authority, as taxable or deductible, as the case may be, to the Company entitled under this Agreement to retain such payment or required under this Agreement to make such payment; and
(c)          any Tax Benefit payments made by a Company under Sections 6 or 8.01(b), as distributions or capital contributions, as appropriate, occurring immediately before the Internal Distribution (but only to the extent the payment does not relate to a Tax allocated to the payor in accordance with Section 1552 of the Code or the regulations thereunder or Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-33(d) (or under corresponding principles of other applicable Tax Laws)) or as payments of an assumed or retained liability.
Section 13.02           Tax Gross Up . If notwithstanding the manner in which payments described in Section 13.01(a) and (c) were reported, there is an adjustment to the Tax liability of a Company as a result of its receipt of a payment pursuant to this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement, such payment shall be appropriately adjusted so that the amount of such payment, reduced by the amount of all Income Taxes payable with respect to the receipt thereof (but taking into account all correlative Tax Benefits resulting from the payment of such Income Taxes), shall equal the amount of the payment which the Company receiving such payment would otherwise be entitled to receive. For purposes of this Section 13.02, the amount of any Income Taxes payable with respect to the receipt of a payment pursuant to this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall be calculated by assuming that the recipient or the Group of which it is a member, as applicable, (I) pays Tax at the highest marginal corporate Tax rates in effect in each relevant taxable year and (II) has no Tax Attributes in any relevant taxable year.
Section 13.03           Interest Under This Agreement . Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, to the extent one Company ( “Indemnitor” ) makes a payment of interest to another Company ( “Indemnitee” ) under this Agreement with respect to the period from the date that the Indemnitee made a payment of Tax to a Tax Authority to the date that the Indemnitor reimbursed the Indemnitee for such Tax payment, the interest payment shall be treated as interest expense to the Indemnitor (deductible to the extent provided by law) and as interest income by the Indemnitee (includible in income to the extent provided by law). The amount of the payment

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shall not be adjusted to take into account any associated Tax Benefit to the Indemnitor or increase in Tax to the Indemnitee.
Section 14.           Disagreements.
Section 14.01          Interaction with Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement . In the event of any dispute between any member of the Grace Group and any member of the GCP Group as to any matter covered by this Agreement, the Companies shall agree as to whether such dispute shall be governed by the procedures set forth in Section 14.02 of this Agreement or in Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement. If the Parties cannot agree within thirty (30) days from the time such dispute arises as to which procedure will govern such dispute, such disagreement shall be resolved pursuant to Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Section 14.02           Dispute Resolution. With respect to any dispute governed by this Section 14.02, the Companies shall appoint a nationally recognized “Big Four” independent public accounting firm (other than the current auditing firm of Grace or GCP) (the “ Accounting Firm ”) to resolve such dispute. The Companies shall cooperate in good faith in jointly selecting the Accounting Firm. In this regard, the Accounting Firm shall make determinations with respect to the disputed items based solely on representations made by Grace and GCP and their respective Representatives, and not by independent review, shall function only as an expert and not as an arbitrator and shall be required to make a determination in favor of one Company only. The Companies shall require the Accounting Firm to resolve all disputes no later than fifteen (15) days after the submission of such dispute to the Accounting Firm, but in no event later than the relevant Payment Date, and agree that all decisions by the Accounting Firm with respect thereto shall be final and conclusive and binding on the Companies. The Accounting Firm shall resolve all disputes in a manner consistent with this Agreement. To the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement, the Accounting Firm shall resolve all disputes in a manner consistent with the Past Practices of Grace and the members of the Grace Group, except as otherwise required by applicable Law. The Companies shall require the Accounting Firm to render all determinations in writing and to set forth, in reasonable detail, the basis for such determination. The fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm shall be paid by the non-prevailing Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 14, a Party may seek preliminary provisional or injunctive judicial relief with respect to any dispute under this Agreement without first complying with the procedures set forth in this Section 14 (or Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement) if such action is reasonably necessary to avoid irreparable damage.
Section 15.           Late Payments. Any amount owed by one party to another party under this Agreement which is not paid when due shall bear interest at the Prime Rate plus two percent, compounded semiannually, from the due date of the payment to the date paid. To the extent interest required to be paid under this Section 15 duplicates interest required to be paid under any other provision of this Agreement, interest shall be computed at the higher of the interest rate provided under this Section 15 or the interest rate provided under such other provision.

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Section 16.           Expenses . Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each party and its Affiliates shall bear their own expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of Tax Returns, Tax Contests, and other matters related to Taxes under the provisions of this Agreement.
Section 17.           General Provisions.
Section 17.01           Addresses and Notices . Each party giving any notice required or permitted under this Agreement will give the notice in writing and use one of the following methods of delivery to the party to be notified, at the address set forth below or another address of which the sending party has been notified in accordance with this Section 17.01: (a) personal delivery; (b) commercial overnight courier with a reasonable method of confirming delivery; or (c) pre-paid, United States of America certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Notice to a party is effective for purposes of this Agreement only if given as provided in this Section 17.01 and shall be deemed given on the date that the intended addressee actually receives the notice.
If to Grace :

W. R. Grace & Co.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland
Attention:  Director, Taxes



with a copy to:

W. R. Grace & Co.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland
Attention:  Chief Financial Officer

If to GCP :

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
666 Whitmore Avenue
Cambridge, MA 04120
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
 
with a copy to:

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
666 Whitmore Avenue
Cambridge, MA 04120
Attention: General Counsel

A party may change the address for receiving notices under this Agreement by providing written notice of the change of address to the other parties.
Section 17.02           Binding Effect . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and assigns. None of the parties hereto may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement without the express prior written consent of the other parties hereto.
Section 17.03          Waiver. The parties may waive a provision of this Agreement only by a writing signed by the party intended to be bound by the waiver. A party is not prevented from enforcing any right, remedy or condition in the party’s favor because of any failure or delay in exercising any right or remedy or in requiring satisfaction of any condition, except to the extent that the party specifically waives the same in writing. A written waiver given for one matter or occasion is effective only in that instance and only for the purpose stated. A waiver

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once given is not to be construed as a waiver for any other matter or occasion. Any enumeration of a party’s rights and remedies in this Agreement is not intended to be exclusive, and a party’s rights and remedies are intended to be cumulative to the extent permitted by law and include any rights and remedies authorized in law or in equity.
Section 17.04          Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement remain in full force, if the essential terms and conditions of this Agreement for each party remain valid, binding and enforceable.
Section 17.05           Authority. Each of the parties represents to the other that (a) it has the corporate or other requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, (b) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action, (c) it has duly and validly executed and delivered this Agreement, and (d) this Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general equity principles.
Section 17.06           Further Action      . The parties shall execute and deliver all documents, provide all information, and take or refrain from taking action as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement, including the execution and delivery to the other parties and their Affiliates and representatives of such powers of attorney or other authorizing documentation as is reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection with Tax Contests (or portions thereof) under the control of such other parties in accordance with Section 10.
Section 17.07           Integration . This Agreement, together with any exhibits and schedules appended hereto, constitutes the final agreement between the parties, and is the complete and exclusive statement of the parties’ agreement on the matters contained herein. All prior and contemporaneous negotiations and agreements between the parties with respect to the matters contained herein are superseded by this Agreement, as applicable. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Agreement and the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any other agreements relating to the transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, with respect to matters addressed herein, the provisions of this Agreement shall control.
Section 17.08           Construction . The language in all parts of this Agreement shall in all cases be construed according to its fair meaning and shall not be strictly construed for or against any party. The captions, titles and headings included in this Agreement are for convenience only, and do not affect this Agreement’s construction or interpretation. Unless otherwise indicated, all “Section” references in this Agreement are to sections of this Agreement. This Agreement shall be deemed to be the joint work product of the parties hereto and any rule of construction that a document shall be interpreted or construed against a drafter of such document shall not be applicable.

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Section 17.09           No Double Recovery . No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to provide an indemnity or other recovery for any costs, damages, or other amounts for which the damaged party has been fully compensated under any other provision of this Agreement or under any other agreement or action at law or equity. Unless expressly required in this Agreement, a party shall not be required to exhaust all remedies available under other agreements or at law or equity before recovering under the remedies provided in this Agreement.
Section 17.10           Counterparts. The parties may execute this Agreement in multiple counterparts, each of which constitutes an original as against the party that signed it, and all of which together constitute one agreement. This Agreement is effective upon delivery of one executed counterpart from each party to the other party. The signatures of the parties need not appear on the same counterpart. The delivery of signed counterparts by facsimile or email transmission that includes a copy of the sending party’s signature is as effective as signing and delivering the counterpart in person.
Section 17.11           Governing Law. The internal laws of the State of Delaware (without reference to its principles of conflicts of law) govern the construction, interpretation and other matters arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and any exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto (whether arising in contract, tort, equity or otherwise).
Section 17.12          Jurisdiction. If any dispute arises out of or in connection with this Agreement, except as expressly contemplated by another provision of this Agreement, the parties irrevocably (and the parties will cause each other member of their respective Group to irrevocably) (a) consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of federal and state courts located in Delaware, (b) waive any objection to that choice of forum based on venue or to the effect that the forum is not convenient, and (c) WAIVE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL OR ADJUDICATION BY JURY.
Section 17.13           Amendment. The parties may amend this Agreement only by a written agreement signed by each party to be bound by the amendment and that identifies itself as an amendment to this Agreement.
Section 17.14           GCP Subsidiaries . If, at any time, GCP acquires or creates one or more subsidiaries that are includable in the GCP Group (or that would be so includable if membership in the GCP Group were measured after such acquisition or creation), they shall be subject to this Agreement and all references to the GCP Group herein shall thereafter include a reference to such subsidiaries.
Section 17.15           Successors . This Agreement shall be binding on and inure to the benefit of any successor by merger, acquisition of assets, or otherwise, to any of the parties hereto (including but not limited to any successor of Grace, Grace Conn or GCP succeeding to the Tax attributes thereof under Section 381 of the Code), to the same extent as if such successor had been an original party to this Agreement.
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accordance with its specific terms or were otherwise breached. The parties hereto shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of the provisions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any court having jurisdiction, such remedy being in addition to any other remedy to which they may be entitled at law or in equity.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has caused this Agreement to be executed on its behalf by a duly authorized officer on the date first set forth above.



Grace
GCP"
W. R. GRACE & CO.
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:   /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz                               
By:   /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz                               
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz
Title: Vice President and Secretary
Title: Vice President and Assistant Secretary
 
 
Grace Conn
 
W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.
 
By:   /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz                               
 
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz
 
Title: Vice President and Secretary
 




























[Signature Page to Tax Sharing Agreement]

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Exhibit 10.2

EMPLOYEE MATTERS AGREEMENT
BY AND AMONG
W. R. GRACE & CO.,
W. R. GRACE & CO.—CONN.,
AND
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
DATED AS OF JANUARY 27, 2016


    




TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS    1
Section 1.01. Definitions    1
Section 1.02. Interpretation    10
ARTICLE II GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR ALLOCATION OF LIABILITIES    10
Section 2.01. General Principles    10
Section 2.02. Service Credit    12
Section 2.03. Benefit Plans    12
Section 2.04. Individual Agreements    14
Section 2.05. Collective Bargaining    14
Section 2.06. Non-U.S. Regulatory Compliance    14
ARTICLE III ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEES    14
Section 3.01. Active Employees    14
Section 3.02. No-Hire and Nonsolicitation    16
ARTICLE IV EQUITY, BONUS, AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION    17
Section 4.01. Generally    17
Section 4.02. Equity Awards    17
Section 4.03. Bonus Plans    25
Section 4.04. Executive Benefit Plans    26
Section 4.05. Director Compensation    26
ARTICLE V QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS    26
Section 5.01. GCP U.S. Pension Plans    26
Section 5.02. GCP Retained Pension Plans    29
Section 5.03. Grace Retained Pension Plans    29
Section 5.04. GCP Savings Plan    29
Section 5.05. GCP Canadian Pension Plan    30

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Section 5.06. GCP UK Pension Plan    31
Section 5.07. GCP Brazilian Savings Plan    32
ARTICLE VI NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS    32
Section 6.01. GCP SERP    32
Section 6.02. GCP Replacement Plan    32
Section 6.03. Participation; Distributions    33
ARTICLE VII WELFARE BENEFIT PLANS    33
Section 7.01. Welfare Plans    33
Section 7.02. COBRA and HIPAA    34
Section 7.03. Vacation, Holidays and Leaves of Absence    35
Section 7.04. Severance and Unemployment Compensation    35
Section 7.05. Workers’ Compensation    35
Section 7.06. Insurance Contracts    35
Section 7.07. Third-Party Vendors    36
ARTICLE VIII NON-U.S. EMPLOYEES    36
ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS    36
Section 9.01. Employee Records    36
Section 9.02. Preservation of Rights to Amend    37
Section 9.03. Fiduciary Matters    37
Section 9.04. Further Assurances    38
Section 9.05. Counterparts; Entire Agreement; Corporate Power    38
Section 9.06. Governing Law    38
Section 9.07. Assignability    39
Section 9.08. Third-Party Beneficiaries    39
Section 9.09. Notices    39
Section 9.10. Severability    40

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Section 9.11. Force Majeure    40
Section 9.12. No Set-Off    41
Section 9.13. Headings    41
Section 9.14. Survival of Covenants    41
Section 9.15. Waivers of Default    41
Section 9.16. Dispute Resolution    41
Section 9.17. Specific Performance    41
Section 9.18. Amendments    41
Section 9.19. Interpretation    41
Section 9.20. Mutual Drafting    42

Schedules

Schedule 1.01(a)    Former Employees
Schedule 1.01(b)    Retained Non-U.S. Pension Plans
Schedule 1.01(c)    Welfare Plans
Schedule 2.05        Collective Bargaining Agreements – U.S. and Canada
    

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EMPLOYEE MATTERS AGREEMENT
THIS EMPLOYEE MATTERS AGREEMENT, dated as of January 27, 2016 (this “ Agreement ”), is by and among W. R. Grace & Co., a Delaware corporation (“ Grace ”), W. R. Grace & Co.—Conn., a Connecticut corporation (“ Grace Conn ”), and GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ GCP ”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Article I or ascribed to them in the Separation and Distribution Agreement (as defined below).
R E C I T A L S:
WHEREAS, the board of directors of Grace (the “ Grace Board ”) has determined that it is in the best interests of Grace and its stockholders to create a new publicly traded company that will operate the GCP Business;
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the Grace Board has determined that it is appropriate and desirable to separate the GCP Business from the Grace Business (the “ Separation ”) and, following the Separation, make a distribution, on a pro rata basis, to holders of Grace Shares on the Record Date of all the outstanding GCP Shares (the “ Distribution ”);
WHEREAS, in order to effectuate the Separation and the Distribution, Grace, Grace Conn, and GCP have entered into that certain Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016 (the “ Separation and Distribution Agreement ”); and
WHEREAS, in addition to the matters addressed by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Parties desire to enter into this Agreement to set forth the terms and conditions of certain employment, compensation, and benefit matters.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:





Article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01.      Definitions . For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below.
Adjusted Grace Awards ” shall mean, collectively, Adjusted Grace Options, Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Units, Adjusted Grace Performance Based Units, Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Awards, and Adjusted Grace Deferred Share Awards.
Adjusted Grace Deferred Share Award ” shall mean a Grace Deferred Share Award, adjusted as of the Effective Time in accordance with Section 4.02(f) .
Adjusted Grace Option ” shall mean a Grace Option, adjusted as of the Effective Time in accordance with Section 4.02(a) .
Adjusted Grace Performance Based Unit ” shall mean a Grace Performance Based Unit, adjusted as of the Effective Time in accordance with Section 4.02(c) .
Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Award ” shall mean a new Grace Restricted Stock Award issued as a replacement for a Grace Restricted Stock Award outstanding immediately prior to the Record Date in accordance with Section 4.02(e) .
Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit ” shall mean (a) a Grace Performance Based Unit, adjusted as of the Effective Time in accordance with Section 4.02(b) ; and (b) a Grace Restricted Stock Unit, adjusted as of the Effective Time in accordance with Section 4.02(d) .
Affiliate ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include all Schedules hereto and all amendments, modifications, and changes hereto entered into pursuant to Section 9.18 .
Ancillary Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Assets ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Benefit Plan ” shall mean any contract, agreement, policy, practice, program, plan, trust, commitment, or arrangement providing for benefits, perquisites, or compensation of any nature from an employer to any Employee, or to any family member, dependent, or beneficiary of any such Employee, including pension plans, thrift plans, supplemental pension plans, and welfare plans, and contracts, agreements, policies, practices, programs, plans, trusts, commitments, and arrangements providing for terms of employment, fringe benefits, severance benefits, change in control protections or benefits, travel, life, accidental death and dismemberment, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, travel reimbursement, vacation, sick, personal or bereavement

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days, leaves of absences, and holidays; provided , however , the term “Benefit Plan” does not include any government-sponsored benefits, such as workers’ compensation, unemployment, or any similar plans, programs, or policies.
Brazil Savings Continuation Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.07 .
Canadian Pension Plan Approval Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.05(c) .
Canadian Pension Plan Effective Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.05(b) .
COBRA ” shall mean the U.S. Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as codified at Section 601 et seq . of ERISA and at Section 4980B of the Code.
Code ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Delayed Transfer Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(ii) .
Delayed Transfer Employees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(ii) .
Delayed Transfer Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(ii) .
Distribution ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
Distribution Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Distribution Ratio ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Effective Time ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Employee ” shall mean any Grace Group Employee or GCP Group Employee.
ERISA ” shall mean the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Exchange Act ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
FICA ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(e) .
Force Majeure ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

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Former Employees ” shall mean Former Grace Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees.
Former GCP Group Employee ” shall mean (a) any individual who is a former employee of Grace or any of its former Subsidiaries as of the Effective Time whose most recent employment with Grace was with a member of the GCP Group or the GCP Business, and (b) each individual whose most recent employment with Grace was with an entity set forth on Schedule 1.01(a)(i) , in each case, excluding (c) each individual who is identified on Schedule 1.01(a)(ii) and (d) each individual whose most recent employment with Grace was with an entity set forth on Schedule 1.01(a)(iii) .
Former Grace Group Employee ” shall mean (a) any individual who is a former employee of the Grace Group as of the Effective Time and who is not a Former GCP Group Employee, including (b) any individual who is identified on Schedule 1.01(a)(ii) and (c) any individual whose most recent employment with Grace was with an entity set forth on Schedule 1.01(a)(iii) , but excluding (d) any individual whose most recent employment with Grace was with an entity set forth on Schedule 1.01(a)(i) .
FUTA ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(e) .
GCP ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
GCP Awards ” shall mean, collectively, GCP Options, GCP Performance Based Unit, GCP Restricted Stock Units, and GCP Performance Based Units.
GCP Benefit Plan ” shall mean any Benefit Plan established, sponsored, maintained, or contributed to by a member of the GCP Group as of or after the Effective Time.
GCP Board ” shall mean the Board of Directors of GCP.
GCP Bonus Plans ” shall mean any annual or short-term incentive compensation plan, program, or policy sponsored or maintained by GCP immediately following the Effective Time, including the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Executive Annual Incentive Compensation Plan and the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Annual Incentive Compensation Plan.
GCP Brazilian Savings Plan ” shall mean the Retirement Plan II, a defined contribution plan sponsored through and administered by Banco Bredesco.
GCP Business ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Canadian Pension Plan ” shall mean the Retirement Pension Plan for Employees of GCP Canada (registered in Ontario).
GCP Delayed Transfer Employees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(ii) .

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GCP Designees ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Equity Plan ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. 2016 Stock Incentive Plan.
GCP Excess Liability Insurance Policy ” shall mean the excess liability insurance policy established by GCP for selected members of senior management.
GCP Executive Salary Protection Plan ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Executive Salary Protection Plan.
GCP Executive Severance Plan ” shall mean the GCP severance plan that covers elected corporate executive officers who directly report to the Chief Executive Officer of GCP.
GCP Group ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Group Employees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(i) .
GCP HSA ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(c) .
GCP Liabilities ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Nonqualified Plan ” shall mean the GCP SERP.
GCP Non-Union Hourly Pension Plan ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Chemical Group (Hourly Employees) Plan.
GCP Option ” shall mean an option to purchase GCP Shares granted by GCP pursuant to the GCP Equity Plan in accordance with Section 4.02(a) .
GCP Pension Plans ” shall mean the GCP U.S. Pension Plans, the GCP Canadian Pension Plan, the GCP Retained Pension Plans, the GCP Savings Plan, and the GCP Nonqualified Plan.
GCP Pension Trust ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.01(a) .
GCP Performance Based Unit ” shall mean a performance based unit granted pursuant to the GCP Equity Plan in accordance with Section 4.02(c) .
GCP Ratio ” shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing the Grace Pre-Distribution Stock Value by the GCP Stock Value.
GCP Replacement Policy ” shall mean the S&I Plan Replacement Payment Policy to be adopted by GCP.

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GCP Restricted Stock Unit ” shall mean a restricted stock unit granted pursuant to the GCP Equity Plan in accordance with Section 4.02(b) or Section 4.02(d) .
GCP Retained Non-U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the plans set forth in Schedule 1.01(b)(i) .
GCP Retained Pension Plans ” shall mean the GCP Retained U.S. Pension Plans and the GCP Retained Non-U.S. Pension Plans.
GCP Retained U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the Retirement Plan of W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Chemical Group (Cambridge Plant), the Retirement Plan of W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Chemical Group (North Bergen), and the Retirement Plan of W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Chemical Group (Chicago Dewey & Almy Plant).
GCP Salaried Pension Plan ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees.
GCP Savings Plan ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Savings & Investment Plan.
GCP SERP ” shall mean the GCP Applied Technologies Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.
GCP Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Stock Value ” shall mean the closing share price of GCP Shares on the NYSE on the first trading day following the Distribution Date.
GCP Transferred Employee ” shall mean any GCP Group Employee (including any GCP Delayed Transfer Employee) who participates in any Benefit Plan maintained in the U.S.
GCP U.K. Pension Plan ” shall mean the Grace UK Pension Plan, a defined benefit plan sponsored by W. R. Grace Ltd. (a member of the GCP Group) in the United Kingdom.
GCP U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the GCP Salaried Pension Plan and the GCP Non-Union Hourly Pension Plan.
GCP Welfare Plans ” shall mean the Welfare Plans established, sponsored, maintained, or contributed to by any member of the GCP Group for the benefit of GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees, including each Welfare Plan listed in Schedule 1.01(c)(i) .
Governmental Authority ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

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Grace Awards ” shall mean, collectively, Grace Options, Grace Performance Based Units, Grace Restricted Stock Units, Grace Restricted Stock Awards, and Grace Deferred Share Awards.
Grace Benefit Plan ” shall mean any Benefit Plan established, sponsored, or maintained by Grace or any of its Subsidiaries immediately prior to the Effective Time, excluding any GCP Benefit Plan.
Grace Board ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
Grace Bonus Plans ” shall mean any annual or short-term incentive compensation plan, program, or policy sponsored or maintained by Grace immediately prior to the Effective Time, including the W. R. Grace & Co. Executive Annual Incentive Compensation Plan, the W. R. Grace & Co. Annual Incentive Compensation Plan, and the W. R. Grace & Co. Sales Incentive Plan.
Grace Business ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace Canadian Pension Plan ” shall mean the Retirement Pension Plan for Employees of Grace Canada, Inc. (registered in Québec).
Grace Compensation Committee ” shall mean the Compensation Committee of the Grace Board.
Grace Conn ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
Grace Deferred Share Award ” shall mean a deferred share award outstanding under any Grace Equity Plan.
Grace Delayed Transfer Employees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(ii) .
Grace Equity Plan ” shall mean any equity compensation plan sponsored or maintained by Grace immediately prior to the Effective Time, including the W. R. Grace & Co. 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, the W. R. Grace & Co. 1997 Stock Plan for Nonemployee Directors, the W. R. Grace & Co. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, the W. R. Grace & Co. 2011 Stock Incentive Plan, and the W. R. Grace & Co. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan.
Grace Group ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace Group Employees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a)(i) .
Grace HSA ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(c) .

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Grace Liabilities ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace Nonqualified Plan ” shall mean the Grace SERP.
Grace Non-Union Hourly Pension Plan ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co. Retirement Plan for Non-Union Employees of Subsidiary Corporations.
Grace Option ” shall mean an option to purchase Grace Shares granted pursuant to a Grace Equity Plan that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Grace Pension Plans ” shall mean the Grace U.S. Pension Plans, the Grace Canadian Pension Plan, the Grace Retained Pension Plans, the Grace Savings Plan, and the Grace Nonqualified Plan.
Grace Pension Trust ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co. Master Retirement Trust.
Grace Performance Based Unit ” shall mean a performance based unit granted pursuant to a Grace Equity Plan that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Grace Post-Distribution Stock Value ” shall mean the closing per share price of Grace Shares on the NYSE on the first trading day following the Distribution Date.
Grace Pre-Distribution Stock Value ” shall mean the closing per share price of Grace Shares trading “regular way with due bills” on the NYSE on the Distribution Date.
Grace Ratio ” shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing the Grace Pre-Distribution Stock Value by the Grace Post-Distribution Stock Value.
Grace Restricted Stock Award ” shall mean a restricted stock award granted pursuant to a Grace Equity Plan that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Record Date.
Grace Restricted Stock Unit ” shall mean a restricted stock unit granted pursuant to a Grace Equity Plan that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Grace Retained Non-U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the plans set forth in Schedule 1.01(b)(ii) .
Grace Retained Pension Plans ” shall mean the Grace Retained U.S. Pension Plans and the Grace Retained Non-U.S. Pension Plans.
Grace Retained U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Retirement Plan for Hourly Employees of Curtis Bay Plant, the W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Retirement Plan for Hourly Employees of Lake Charles Plant, the W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn Retirement Plan for Hourly Employees-Tennessee, and the W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn Retirement Plan for Hourly Employees of Former Du Pont Plan in East Chicago, Indiana.

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Grace Salaried Pension Plan ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co. Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees.
Grace Savings Plan ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co. Savings & Investment Plan.
Grace SERP ” shall mean the W. R. Grace & Co. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.
Grace Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace U.S. Pension Plans ” shall mean the Grace Salaried Pension Plan and the Grace Non-Union Hourly Pension Plan.
Grace Welfare Plan ” shall mean any Welfare Plan established, sponsored, maintained, or contributed to by Grace or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of Employees or Former Employees, including each Welfare Plan listed in Schedule 1.01(c)(ii) , but excluding any GCP Welfare Plan.
HIPAA ” shall mean the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Individual Agreement ” shall mean any individual (a) employment contract, (b) retention, severance, or change of control agreement, (c) expatriate (including any international assignee) contract or agreement (including agreements and obligations regarding repatriation, relocation, equalization of taxes, and living standards in the host country), or (d) other agreement containing restrictive covenants (including confidentiality, noncompetition, and nonsolicitation provisions) between a member of the Grace Group and a GCP Group Employee, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Internal Distribution ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
IRS ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Law ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Liabilities ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
NYSE ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Party ” shall mean a party to this Agreement.
Person ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Providing Party ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.02(b) .

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QDRO ” shall mean a qualified domestic relations order within the meaning of Section 206(d) of ERISA and Section 414(p) of the Code.
Québec Pensions Regulator ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.05(b) .
Record Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Requesting Party ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.02(b) .
Restricted Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.02(a) .
Securities Act ” shall mean the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Separation ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
Separation and Distribution Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
Stock Plan Administrator ” shall mean E*TRADE Financial Corporate Services, Inc.
Subsidiary ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Transfer Effective Time ” shall mean 12:00 a.m., New York City time, on January 1, 2016.
Transferred Account Balances ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(d) .
Transferred Director ” shall mean any GCP nonemployee director as of the Effective Time who served on the Grace Board immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Transition Services Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
U.K. Pension Continuation Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.06 .
U.K. Pension Employee Contributions ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.06 .
U.K. Pension Employer Contributions ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.06 .
U.S. ” shall mean the United States of America.
Value Factor ” shall mean the quotient of (a) the Grace Pre-Distribution Stock Value divided by (b) the sum of (i) the Grace Post-Distribution Stock Value plus (ii) the product of (A) the GCP Stock Value multiplied by (B) the Distribution Ratio.

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Welfare Plan ” shall mean any “welfare plan” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) or a “cafeteria plan” under Section 125 of the Code, and any benefits offered thereunder, and any other plan offering health benefits (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, mental health, substance abuse, and retiree health), disability benefits, or life, accidental death and dismemberment, and business travel insurance, pre-tax premium conversion benefits, dependent care assistance programs, employee assistance programs, paid time-off programs, contribution funding toward a health savings account, flexible spending accounts, or cashable credits.
Section 1.02.     Interpretation.      Section 10.16 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference.
ARTICLE II     
GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR ALLOCATION OF LIABILITIES
Section 2.01.     General Principles .
(a) Acceptance and Assumption of GCP Liabilities . On or prior to the Transfer Effective Time, but in any case prior to the Internal Distribution, GCP and the applicable GCP Designees shall accept, assume, and agree to faithfully perform, discharge, and fulfill all of the Liabilities referenced herein, in accordance with their respective terms (each of which shall be considered a GCP Liability), regardless of when or where such Liabilities arose or arise, or whether the facts on which they are based occurred prior to or subsequent to the Transfer Effective Time, regardless of where or against whom such Liabilities are asserted or determined (including any Liabilities arising out of claims made by Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, Employees, Former Employees, agents, Subsidiaries, or Affiliates against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group) or whether asserted or determined prior to the date hereof, and regardless of whether arising from or alleged to arise from negligence, recklessness, violation of Law, fraud, or misrepresentation by any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, or any of their respective directors, officers, Employees, Former Employees, agents, Subsidiaries, or Affiliates:
(i) any and all wages, salaries, incentive compensation (as the same may be modified by this Agreement), equity compensation (as the same may be modified by this Agreement), commissions, bonuses, and any other employee compensation or benefits payable to or on behalf of any GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees after the Transfer Effective Time, without regard to when such wages, salaries, incentive compensation, equity compensation, commissions, bonuses, or other employee compensation or benefits are or may have been awarded or earned;
(ii) any and all Liabilities whatsoever with respect to claims made by or with respect to any GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees in connection with any Benefit Plan not retained or assumed by any member of the Grace Group pursuant to this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any Ancillary Agreement; and
(iii) any and all Liabilities expressly assumed or retained by any member of the GCP Group pursuant to this Agreement.
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the Grace Group designated by Grace shall accept, assume, and agree to faithfully perform, discharge, and fulfill all of the Liabilities referenced herein, in accordance with their respective terms (each of which shall be considered a Grace Liability), regardless of when or where such Liabilities arose or arise, or whether the facts on which they are based occurred prior to or subsequent to the Transfer Effective Time, regardless of where or against whom such Liabilities are asserted or determined (including any Liabilities arising out of claims made by Grace’s or GCP’s respective directors, officers, Employees, Former Employees, agents, Subsidiaries, or Affiliates against any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group) or whether asserted or determined prior to the date hereof, and regardless of whether arising from or alleged to arise from negligence, recklessness, violation of Law, fraud, or misrepresentation by any member of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, or any of their respective directors, officers, Employees, Former Employees, agents, Subsidiaries, or Affiliates:
(i) any and all wages, salaries, incentive compensation (as the same may be modified by this Agreement), equity compensation (as the same may be modified by this Agreement), commissions, bonuses, and any other employee compensation or benefits payable to or on behalf of any Grace Group Employees and Former Grace Group Employees after the Transfer Effective Time, without regard to when such wages, salaries, incentive compensation, equity compensation, commissions, bonuses, or other employee compensation or benefits are or may have been awarded or earned;
(ii) any and all Liabilities whatsoever with respect to claims made by or with respect to any Grace Group Employees or Former Grace Group Employees in connection with any Benefit Plan not retained or assumed by any member of the GCP Group pursuant to this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any Ancillary Agreement; and
(iii) any and all Liabilities expressly assumed or retained by any member of the Grace Group pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) Unaddressed Liabilities. To the extent that this Agreement does not address particular Liabilities under any Benefit Plan and the Parties later determine that they should be allocated in connection with the Distribution, the Parties shall agree in good faith on the allocation, taking into account the handling of comparable Liabilities under this Agreement.

Section 2.02.      Service Credit.
(a) Service for Eligibility, Vesting, and Benefit Purposes . The GCP Benefit Plans shall, and GCP shall cause each member of the GCP Group to, recognize each GCP Group Employee’s and each Former GCP Group Employee’s full service with Grace or any of its Subsidiaries or predecessor entities at or before the Effective Time, to the same extent that such service was credited by Grace for similar purposes prior to the Effective Time as if such full service had been performed for a member of the GCP Group, for purposes of eligibility, vesting, and determination of level of benefits under any such GCP Benefit Plan.
(b) Evidence of Prior Service . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to Section 3.02 and applicable Law, upon reasonable request by either Party (the “ Requesting Party ”), the other Party (the “ Providing Party ”) will provide to the Requesting Party copies of any records available to the Providing Party to document the service, plan participation, and membership of Former Employees of the Providing Party who are then

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Employees of the Requesting Party, and will, upon reasonable request, cooperate with the Requesting Party to resolve any discrepancies and use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any missing data for purposes of determining benefit eligibility, participation, vesting, and calculation of benefits with respect to any such Employee.
Section 2.03.     Benefit Plans .
(a) Establishment of Plans . Before the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause an applicable member of the GCP Group to, adopt Benefit Plans (and related trusts, if applicable), with terms comparable (or such other standard as is specified in this Agreement with respect to any particular Benefit Plan) to those of the corresponding Grace Benefit Plans; provided , however , that GCP may limit participation in any such GCP Benefit Plan to GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees who participated or were eligible to participate in the corresponding Grace Benefit Plan immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time.
(b) Information and Operation . Grace shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide GCP with information describing each Grace Benefit Plan election made by a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee that may have application to GCP Benefit Plans from and after the Transfer Effective Time, and GCP shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to administer the GCP Benefit Plans using those elections. Each Party shall, upon reasonable request, provide the other Party and the other Party’s respective Affiliates, agents, and vendors all information reasonably necessary to the other Party’s operation or administration of its Benefit Plans.
(c) No Duplication or Acceleration of Benefits. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any Ancillary Agreement, no participant in any GCP Benefit Plan or Grace Benefit Plan shall receive service credit or benefits to the extent that receipt of such service credit or benefits would result in duplication of benefits provided to such participant by the corresponding Grace Benefit Plan or GCP Benefit Plan, respectively, or any other plan, program, or arrangement sponsored or maintained by a member of the Grace Group or GCP Group, respectively. Furthermore, unless expressly provided for in this Agreement, in the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or in any Ancillary Agreement, or required by applicable Law, no provision in this Agreement shall be construed to create any right to accelerate vesting or entitlements under any compensation or Benefit Plan, program, or arrangement sponsored or maintained by a member of the Grace Group or member of the GCP Group on the part of any Employee or Former Employee.
(d) No Expansion of Participation . Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, as otherwise determined or agreed to by Grace and GCP, as required by applicable Law, or as explicitly set forth in a GCP Benefit Plan or Grace Benefit Plan, (i) a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee shall be entitled to participate in the GCP Benefit Plans at the Transfer Effective Time only to the extent that such GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee was entitled to participate in the corresponding Grace Benefit Plan as in effect immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time (to the extent that such GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee does not participate in the respective GCP Benefit Plan immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time) and (ii) a Grace Group Employee or Former Grace Group Employee shall be entitled to participate in the Grace Benefit Plans at the Transfer Effective Time only to the extent that such Grace Group Employee or Former Grace

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Group Employee was entitled to participate in the corresponding GCP Benefit Plan as in effect immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time (to the extent that such Grace Group Employee or Former Grace Group Employee does not participate in the respective Grace Benefit Plan immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time), it being understood that this Agreement does not expand (A) the number of GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees entitled to participate in any GCP Benefit Plan, (B) the number of Grace Group Employees or Former Grace Group Employees entitled to participate in any Grace Benefit Plan, (C) the participation rights of GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees in any GCP Benefit Plans beyond the rights of such GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees under the corresponding Grace Benefit Plans, or (D) the participation rights of Grace Group Employees or Former Grace Group Employees in any Grace Benefit Plans beyond the rights of such Grace Group Employees or Former Grace Group Employees under the corresponding GCP Benefit Plans, in each case, after the Transfer Effective Time.
(e) Transition Services . The Parties acknowledge that the Grace Group or the GCP Group may provide administrative services for certain of the other Party’s compensation and benefit programs for a transitional period under the terms of the Transition Services Agreement. The Parties agree to enter into a business associate agreement (if required by HIPAA or other applicable health information privacy Laws) in connection with such Transition Services Agreement.
(f) Beneficiaries . References to Grace Group Employees, Former Grace Group Employees, GCP Group Employees, Former GCP Group Employees, and nonemployee directors of either Grace or GCP (including Transferred Directors), shall be deemed to refer to their beneficiaries, dependents, survivors, and alternate payees, as applicable.
Section 2.04.      Individual Agreements .
(a) Assignment by Grace . To the extent necessary, Grace shall assign, or cause an applicable member of the Grace Group to assign, to GCP or another member of the GCP Group, as designated by GCP, all Individual Agreements, with such assignment to be effective as of the Transfer Effective Time; provided , however , that to the extent that assignment of any such Individual Agreement is not permitted by the terms of such agreement or by applicable Law, effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, each member of the GCP Group shall be considered to be a successor to each member of the Grace Group for purposes of, and a third-party beneficiary with respect to, such Individual Agreement, such that each member of the GCP Group shall enjoy all of the rights and benefits under such agreement (including rights and benefits as a third-party beneficiary), with respect to the business operations of the GCP Group; and provided , further , that in no event shall Grace be permitted to enforce any Individual Agreement (including any agreement containing noncompetition or nonsolicitation covenants) against a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee for action taken in such individual’s capacity as a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee.
(b) Assumption by GCP. Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall assume and honor, or shall cause a member of the GCP Group to assume and honor, any agreement to which any GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee is a party with any member of the Grace Group, including any Individual Agreement.
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GCP Group to (a) assume all collective bargaining agreements (including any national, sector, or local collective bargaining agreement) that cover GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees, including the collective bargaining agreements set forth in Schedule 2.05 , and the Liabilities arising under any such collective bargaining agreements, and (b) join any industrial, employer, or similar association or federation if membership is required for the relevant collective bargaining agreement to continue to apply.
Section 2.06.      Non-U.S. Regulatory Compliance . Grace shall have the authority to adjust the treatment described in this Agreement with respect to GCP Group Employees who are located outside of the U.S. in order to ensure compliance with the applicable laws or regulations of countries outside of the U.S. or to preserve the tax benefits provided under local tax law or regulation before the Distribution.
ARTICLE III     
ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEES
Section 3.01. Active Employees .
(a) Assignment and Transfer of Employees.
(i) Generally . Effective no later than immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time and except as otherwise agreed by the Parties, (A) the applicable member of the Grace Group shall have taken such actions as are necessary to ensure that each individual who is intended to be an employee of the GCP Group as of immediately after the Transfer Effective Time (including any such individual who is not actively working as of the Transfer Effective Time as a result of an illness, injury, or leave of absence approved by the Chief Human Resources Officer of Grace or otherwise taken in accordance with applicable Law) (collectively, the “ GCP Group Employees ”) is employed by a member of the GCP Group as of immediately after the Transfer Effective Time, and (B) the applicable member of the Grace Group shall have taken such actions as are necessary to ensure that each individual who is intended to be an employee of the Grace Group as of immediately after the Transfer Effective Time (including any such individual who is not actively working as of the Transfer Effective Time as a result of an illness, injury, or leave of absence approved by the Chief Human Resources Officer of Grace or otherwise taken in accordance with applicable Law) and any other individual employed by the Grace Group as of the Transfer Effective Time who is not a GCP Group Employee (collectively, the “ Grace Group Employees ”) is employed by a member of the Grace Group as of immediately after the Transfer Effective Time. Each of the Parties agrees to execute, and to seek to have the applicable Employees execute, such documentation, if any, as may be necessary to reflect such assignment and/or transfer.
(ii) Delayed Transfer Employees . Notwithstanding Section 3.01(a)(i) , the Parties acknowledge and agree that (A) there may be a limited number of Grace Group Employees whose employment may, within the 18-month period following the Transfer Effective Time (the “ Delayed Transfer Period ”), be directly transferred from the Grace Group to the GCP Group (“ GCP Delayed Transfer Employees ”), and (B) there may be a limited number of GCP Group Employees whose employment may, within the Delayed Transfer Period, be directly transferred from the GCP Group to the Grace Group (“ Grace Delayed Transfer Employees ” and together with the GCP Delayed Transfer Employees, the “ Delayed Transfer Employees ”), in each case, as mutually agreed between the Chief Human Resources Officer of Grace and the Chief Human Resources Officer of GCP. Upon the effective date of any such transfer of employment

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(a “ Delayed Transfer Date ”), any Delayed Transfer Employee shall be treated, for all purposes under this Agreement as if such Delayed Transfer Employee had been a GCP Group Employee or Grace Group Employee, respectively, as of the Transfer Effective Time, other than with respect to any Grace Awards held by any Delayed Transfer Employee as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, which awards shall be adjusted in the manner applicable to Grace Group Employees (in the case of GCP Delayed Transfer Employees) or GCP Group Employees (in the case of Grace Delayed Transfer Employees) as of the Effective Time in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.02 , and shall not be required under this Agreement to be adjusted further upon the Delayed Transfer Date.
(b) At-Will Status. Nothing in this Agreement shall create any obligation on the part of any member of the Grace Group or any member of the GCP Group to (i) continue the employment of any Employee or permit the return from a leave of absence for any period after the date of this Agreement (except as required by applicable Law) or (ii) change the employment status of any Employee from “at-will,” to the extent that such Employee is an “at-will” employee under applicable Law.
(c) Severance. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Distribution and the assignment, transfer, or continuation of the employment of Employees as contemplated by this Section 3.01 shall not be deemed an involuntary termination of employment entitling any GCP Group Employee or Grace Group Employee to severance payments or benefits except as required by applicable Law.
(d) No Change of Control or Change in Control. The Parties acknowledge and agree that neither the consummation of the Distribution nor any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any other Ancillary Agreement shall be deemed a “change of control,” “change in control,” or term of similar import for purposes of any Benefit Plan sponsored or maintained by any member of the Grace Group or member of the GCP Group.
(e) Payroll and Related Taxes. With respect to any GCP Group Employee or group of GCP Group Employees, the Parties shall, or shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to, (i) treat GCP (or the applicable member of the GCP Group) as a “successor employer” and Grace (or the applicable member of the Grace Group) as a “predecessor,” within the meaning of Sections 3121(a)(1) and 3306(b)(1) of the Code, for purposes of taxes imposed under the U.S. Federal Insurance Contributions Act, as amended (“ FICA ”), or the U.S. Federal Unemployment Tax Act, as amended (“ FUTA ”), (ii) cooperate with each other to avoid, to the extent possible, the restart of FICA and FUTA upon or following the Effective Time with respect to each such GCP Group Employee for the tax year during which the Effective Time occurs, and (iii) use commercially reasonably efforts to implement the alternate procedure described in Section 5 of Revenue Procedure 2004-53; provided , however , that, to the extent that GCP (or the applicable member of the GCP Group) cannot be treated as a “successor employer” to Grace (or the applicable member of the Grace Group) within the meaning of Sections 3121(a)(1) and 3306(b)(1) of the Code with respect to any GCP Group Employee or group of GCP Group Employees, GCP will (A) be responsible for all payroll obligations, tax withholding, and reporting obligations regarding such GCP Group Employees for the taxable year commencing on January 1, 2016 and (B) furnish a Form W-2 or similar earnings statement to all such GCP Group Employees for such taxable year. The Parties also shall take, or shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to take, such reasonable actions as are necessary to minimize any adverse social tax

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impact on Grace, GCP, and the Employees in jurisdictions other than the U.S., of the Separation, the Distribution, and any change in employment relationship caused by the Separation and Distribution.
(f) Immigration . From and after the Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause its applicable Subsidiary to, continue to process and support green card or similar applications that are in process in respect of GCP Group Employees identified in the schedule previously provided to GCP by Grace.
Section 3.02.      No-Hire and Nonsolicitation .
(a) No-Hire. Each Party agrees that, for a period of 18 months following the Distribution Date (the “ Restricted Period ”), such Party shall not, and shall cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates not to, without the prior written consent of the Chief Human Resources Officer of the other Party, directly or indirectly hire as an employee or an independent contractor any individual who is a Grace Group Employee, in the case of GCP, or a GCP Group Employee, in the case of Grace.
(b) Nonsolicitation . Each Party agrees that, during the Restricted Period, such Party shall not, and shall cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates not to, without prior written consent of the Chief Human Resources Officer of the other Party, either directly or indirectly and whether on its own behalf or in service or on behalf of others, solicit, aid, induce, or encourage any individual who is a Grace Group Employee, in the case of GCP, or a GCP Group Employee, in the case of Grace, to leave his or her employment.
(c) Limited Exceptions . Notwithstanding Section 3.02(a) and Section 3.02(b) , this Section 3.02 shall not prohibit (i) generalized solicitations that are not directed to specific Persons or Employees of the other Party, (ii) the solicitation and hiring of a Person whose employment was involuntarily terminated by the other Party, or (iii) the solicitation and hiring of a Person after receipt by the soliciting Party (in advance of any solicitation or, in the case of a response to a general solicitation as permitted under clause (i) above, in advance of any subsequent solicitation in connection with the recruiting process) of the express written consent of the Chief Human Resources Officer of the Party that employs the Person who is to be solicited and/or hired. Except as provided in clause (ii) above with respect to involuntary terminations, without regard to the use of the term “Employee” or “employs,” the restrictions under this Section 3.02 shall be applicable to (A) Grace Group Employees whose employment terminates after the Effective Time, and (B) GCP Group Employees whose employment terminates after the Effective Time, in each case, until the date that is six months after such Employee’s last date of employment with Grace or GCP, as applicable. The restrictions under this Section 3.02 shall not apply to Former Grace Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees whose most recent employment with Grace and its Subsidiaries was terminated prior to the Effective Time.
ARTICLE IV     
Equity, Bonus, and Executive Compensation
Section 4.01.     Generally . Each Grace Award granted that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be adjusted as described below; provided , however , that, effective immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Grace Compensation Committee may provide for different adjustments with respect to some or all Grace Awards to the extent that the Grace Compensation Committee deems such adjustments necessary and appropriate. Any

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adjustments made by the Grace Compensation Committee pursuant to the foregoing sentence shall be deemed incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth below and shall be binding on the Parties and their respective Affiliates. Before the Effective Time, the GCP Equity Plan shall be established, with such terms as are necessary to permit the implementation of the provisions of Section 4.02 .

Section 4.02.      Equity Awards .
(a) Stock Options . Each Grace Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted as of the Effective Time into either or both an Adjusted Grace Option or a GCP Option as described below:
(i) Stock Options Granted Prior to January 1, 2015 Held by Current Employees . Each Grace Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time that (x) was granted prior to January 1, 2015 and (y) is held by a Grace Group Employee or a GCP Group Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into both an Adjusted Grace Option and a GCP Option and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting and expiration) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(a)(i) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time:
(A) the number of Grace Shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Value Factor;
(B) the number of GCP Shares subject to such GCP Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Distribution Ratio multiplied by (3) the Value Factor;
(C) the per share exercise price of such Adjusted Grace Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the quotient of (1) the per share exercise price of the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (2) the Grace Ratio; and
(D) the per share exercise price of such GCP Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the quotient of (1) the per share exercise price of the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (2) the GCP Ratio.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.02(a)(i) , the exercise price, the number of Grace Shares and GCP Shares subject to each Adjusted Grace Option and GCP Option, respectively, and the terms and conditions of exercise of such options shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
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January 1, 2015 and is held by a Grace Group Employee or (y) is held by a Former Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Option, and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting and expiration) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(a)(ii) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time:
(A) the number of Grace Shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio; and
(B) the per share exercise price of such Adjusted Grace Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the quotient of (1) the per share exercise price of the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (2) the Grace Ratio.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.02(a)(ii) , the exercise price, the number of Grace Shares subject to each Adjusted Grace Option, and the terms and conditions of exercise of such options shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
(iii) Stock Options Granted On or After January 1, 2015 Held by GCP Group Employees . Each Grace Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time that was granted on or after January 1, 2015 and is held by a GCP Group Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into a GCP Option, and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting and expiration) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(a)(ii) and Section 4.02(h) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time:
(A) the number of GCP Shares subject to such GCP Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the GCP Ratio; and
(B) the per share exercise price of such GCP Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the quotient of (1) the per share exercise price of the corresponding Grace Option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (2) the GCP Ratio.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.02(a)(iii) , the exercise price, the number of GCP Shares subject to each GCP Option, and the terms and conditions of exercise of such options shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.

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(b) 2014 Performance Based Units . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2014 and 2015 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted as of the Effective Time into either or both an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit and a GCP Restricted Stock Unit as described below:
(i) 2014 Performance Based Units Held by Current Employees . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2014 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held by a Grace Group Employee or a GCP Group Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit and a GCP Restricted Stock Unit, and each such unit shall be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(b)(i) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that:
(A) payment, if any, shall be made in Grace Shares (with respect to Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Units that are stock settled) and GCP Shares (with respect to GCP Restricted Stock Units that are stock settled);
(B) the performance condition applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be determined to be satisfied (and the number of Grace Shares subject to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be established) as follows: (1) based on actual performance relative to the applicable performance targets for the portion of the applicable performance period through and including December 31, 2015, and (2) based on the deemed achievement of the applicable performance targets at 100% performance for the portion of the applicable performance period following December 31, 2015; and thereafter, the performance conditions with respect to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall no longer apply and the vesting of such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be subject to continued employment through the end of the applicable performance period (or any earlier or later date required under the terms of the Grace Performance Based Unit in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time);
(C) the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit shall be equal to the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Performance Based Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to Section 4.02(b)(i)(B) ); and
(D) the number of shares subject to such GCP Restricted Stock Unit shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the Grace Performance Based Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to Section 4.02(b)(i)(B) ) multiplied by (2) the Distribution Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(ii) 2014 Performance Based Units Held by Former Employees; Performance Based Units Granted in 2015 . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2014 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held by a Former Employee, and each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2015 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit, and each such unit shall be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit

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prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(b)(ii) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that:
(A) the performance condition applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be determined to be satisfied (and the number of Grace Shares subject to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be established) as follows: (1) based on actual performance relative to the applicable performance targets for the portion of the applicable performance period through and including December 31, 2015, and (2) based on the deemed achievement of the applicable performance targets at 100% performance for the portion of the applicable performance period following December 31, 2015; and thereafter, the performance condition with respect to such Grace Performance Based Unit shall no longer apply and such Grace Performance Based Unit shall be settled at the end of the applicable performance period (or any earlier or later date required under the terms of the Grace Performance Based Unit in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time); and
(B) the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Performance Based Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to Section 4.02(b)(ii)(A) ) multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(c) 2013 Performance Based Units . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2013 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted as of the Effective Time into either an Adjusted Grace Performance Based Unit or a GCP Performance Based Unit as described below:
(i) 2013 Performance Based Units Held by Grace Group Employees and Former Employees . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2013 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held by either a Grace Group Employee or a Former Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Performance Based Unit, and each such unit shall be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(c)(i) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Performance Based Unit shall be equal to the product of (A) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Performance Based Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(ii) 2013 Performance Based Units Held by GCP Group Employees . Each Grace Performance Based Unit granted in 2013 that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held by a GCP Group Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into a GCP Performance Based Unit, and each such unit shall be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Performance Based Unit prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(c)(ii) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that:
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(B) the determination of performance with respect to such GCP Performance Based Unit shall be made by the Grace Compensation Committee in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice, based on the performance of Grace through December 31, 2015; and
(C) the number of shares subject to such GCP Performance Based Unit shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the Grace Performance Based Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the GCP Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(d) Restricted Stock Units . Each Grace Restricted Stock Unit that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted as of the Effective Time into either an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit or a GCP Restricted Stock Unit as described below:
(i) Restricted Stock Units Held by Grace Group Employees and Former Employees . Each Grace Restricted Stock Unit that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held either by a Grace Group Employee or by a Former Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit, and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(d)(i) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Unit shall be equal to the product of (A) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(ii) Restricted Stock Units Held by GCP Group Employees . Each Grace Restricted Stock Unit that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and that is held by a GCP Group Employee shall be converted as of the Effective Time into a GCP Restricted Stock Unit, and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(d)(ii) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that from and after the Effective Time the number of shares subject to such GCP Restricted Stock Unit shall be equal to the product of (A) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the GCP Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(e) Director Restricted Stock . Each Grace Restricted Stock Award that is outstanding immediately prior to the Record Date shall be cancelled immediately prior to the Record Date and replaced with an Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Award immediately following the Effective Time, which Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Award shall be subject to the same terms and conditions (including with respect to vesting) after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Restricted Stock Award immediately prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(e) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Award shall be equal to the product of (A) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Restricted Stock Award immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share. The holder of the Adjusted Grace Restricted Stock Award described in this Section 4.02(e) shall not be entitled to receive the GCP Shares to which such holder would

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otherwise have been entitled with respect to the cancelled Grace Shares as a stockholder at the Record Date, but shall be entitled to the cash dividends on the Grace Restricted Stock Award accrued but unpaid at the Effective Time subject to substantially the same terms, vesting conditions, and other restrictions, if any, that were applicable to such accrued but unpaid cash dividends at the Effective Time.
(f) Deferred Share Awards. Each Grace Deferred Share Award that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted as of the Effective Time into an Adjusted Grace Deferred Share Award, and each such share shall be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as were applicable to such Grace Deferred Share Award prior to the Effective Time (except as otherwise provided herein, including in this Section 4.02(f) and Section 4.02(g) ); provided , however , that the number of shares subject to such Adjusted Grace Deferred Share Award shall be equal to the product of (1) the number of Grace Shares subject to the corresponding Grace Deferred Share Award immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by (2) the Grace Ratio, rounded to the nearest whole share.
(g) Miscellaneous Award Terms . With respect to Adjusted Grace Awards and GCP Awards, (i) employment with or service to the Grace Group shall be treated as employment with and service to GCP with respect to GCP Awards held by Grace Group Employees or Grace nonemployee directors, and (ii) employment with or service to the GCP Group shall be treated as employment with or service to Grace with respect to Adjusted Grace Awards held by GCP Group Employees or Transferred Directors. In addition, none of the Separation, the Distribution, or any employment transfer described in Section 3.01 shall constitute a termination of employment for any Employee for purposes of any Adjusted Grace Award or any GCP Award. After the Effective Time, for any award adjusted under this Section 4.02 , any reference to a “change in control,” “change of control,” or similar definition in an award agreement, employment agreement, or Grace Equity Plan applicable to such award (A) with respect to Adjusted Grace Awards, shall be deemed to refer to a “change in control,” “change of control,” or similar definition as set forth in the applicable award agreement, employment agreement, or Grace Equity Plan, and (B) with respect to GCP Awards, shall be deemed to refer to a “Change in Control” as defined in the GCP Equity Plan.
(h) Tax Reporting and Withholding.
(i) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 4.02(h) , after the Effective Time, Adjusted Grace Awards, regardless of by whom held, shall be settled by Grace, and GCP Awards, regardless of by whom held, shall be settled by GCP.
(ii) Unless otherwise required by applicable Laws, GCP shall be responsible for all income, payroll, fringe benefit, social insurance, payment on account, or other taxes related to or otherwise owed on income of GCP Group Employees, Former GCP Group Employees, or Transferred Directors related to GCP Awards or Adjusted Grace Awards, and Grace shall be responsible for all income, payroll, fringe benefit, social insurance, payment on account, or other taxes related to or otherwise owed on income of Grace Group Employees, Former Grace Group Employees, or individuals who are or were Grace nonemployee directors (other than Transferred Directors) related to GCP Awards or Adjusted Grace Awards. Unless otherwise required by applicable Laws, upon the vesting or settlement of GCP Awards, GCP shall be solely responsible for ensuring the satisfaction of all applicable tax withholding requirements and employer tax on behalf of each GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee and for ensuring the collection and remittance of any employee withholding taxes to

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the Grace Group with respect to each Grace Group Employee or Former Grace Group Employee (with Grace Group being responsible for remittance of any applicable employee withholding taxes and payment and remittance of the applicable employer taxes relating to Grace Group Employees and Former Grace Group Employees to the applicable Governmental Authority). Unless otherwise required by applicable Laws, upon the vesting or settlement of Adjusted Grace Awards, Grace shall be solely responsible for ensuring the satisfaction of all applicable tax withholding requirements on behalf of each Grace Group Employee or Former Grace Group Employee and for ensuring the collection and remittance of any employee withholding taxes to the GCP Group with respect to each GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee (with GCP Group being responsible for remittance of any applicable employee withholding taxes and payment and remittance of the applicable employer taxes relating to GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees to the applicable Governmental Authority). Unless otherwise required by applicable Laws, following the Effective Time, Grace shall be responsible for all income tax reporting in respect of Adjusted Grace Awards and GCP Awards held by Grace Group Employees, Former Employees, and individuals who are or were Grace nonemployee directors (other than Transferred Directors), and GCP will be responsible for all income tax reporting in respect of Adjusted Grace Awards and GCP Awards held by GCP Group Employees and Transferred Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent necessary (and permissible) to effectuate the foregoing, either Grace or GCP may act as agent for the other Party by remitting amounts withheld in relation to GCP Awards or Adjusted Grace Awards to the applicable Governmental Authority.
(iii) GCP shall be responsible for the settlement of cash dividend equivalents on any Adjusted Grace Awards or GCP Awards held by a GCP Group Employee or Transferred Director. Prior to the date any such settlement is due, Grace shall pay GCP in cash amounts required to settle any dividend equivalents with respect to Adjusted Grace Awards. Grace shall be responsible for the settlement of cash dividends equivalents on any Adjusted Grace Awards or GCP Awards held by a Grace Group Employee, Former Employee, or nonemployee director of Grace. Prior to the date any such settlement is due, GCP shall pay Grace in cash amounts required to settle any dividend equivalents accrued following the Effective Time with respect to GCP Awards.
(iv) Following the Effective Time, if any Adjusted Grace Award held by a GCP Group Employee, Former Employee, or Transferred Director shall fail to become vested, such Adjusted Grace Award shall be forfeited to Grace, and if any GCP Award held by a Grace Group Employee or nonemployee director of Grace shall fail to become vested, such GCP Award shall be forfeited to GCP.
(i) Cooperation. Each of the Parties shall establish an appropriate administration system in order to administer, in an orderly manner, (i) exercises of vested Adjusted Grace Options and GCP Options, (ii) the vesting and forfeiture of unvested Adjusted Grace Awards and GCP Awards, and (iii) the withholding, reporting, and employer tax requirements with respect to all awards. Each of the Parties shall work together to unify and consolidate all indicative data and payroll and employment information on regular timetables and make certain that each applicable Person’s data and records in respect of such awards are correct and updated on a timely basis. The foregoing shall include employment status and information required for vesting and forfeiture of awards and tax withholding/remittance, compliance with trading windows, and compliance with the requirements of the Exchange Act and other applicable Laws.

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Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.02(i) , each Party agrees that, without the written consent of the Chief Human Resources Officer of the other Party, such Party shall, during the two-year period commencing on the Distribution Date, continue to engage the Stock Plan Administrator as its third-party administrator for Grace Awards, in the case of Grace, and GCP Awards, in the case of GCP. No Party shall charge another Party a fee for such cooperation, unless otherwise agreed.
(j) Registration and Other Regulatory Requirements . GCP agrees to file Forms S-1, S-3, and S-8 registration statements with respect to, and to cause to be registered pursuant to the Securities Act, the GCP Shares authorized for issuance under the GCP Equity Plan, as required pursuant to the Securities Act. The Parties shall take such additional actions as are deemed necessary or advisable to effectuate the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.02(j) , including compliance with securities Laws and other legal requirements associated with equity compensation awards in affected non-U.S. jurisdictions. Grace agrees to facilitate the adoption and approval of the GCP Equity Plan consistent with the requirements of Treasury Regulations Section 1.162-27(f)(4)(iii).

Section 4.03.      Bonus Plans .
(a) Establishment of GCP Bonus Plans . Before the Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause another member of the GCP Group to, establish the GCP Bonus Plans.
(b) 2015 Annual Bonus . Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, the Liability in respect of bonus awards allocable to GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees under the Grace Bonus Plans in respect of 2015 shall be assumed by the GCP Group based on the accrual for such Employees as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time. Grace and GCP shall pay the amounts awarded to their respective Employees no later than March 15, 2016 (in the case of Employees located in the U.S.) or March 31, 2016 (in the case of Employees located outside the U.S.), except as otherwise determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of such Employee’s employer.
(c) Allocation of Liabilities. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, (i) the Grace Group shall be solely responsible for funding, paying, and discharging all obligations relating to any annual incentive bonus awards under any Grace annual incentive plan or other short-term compensation plan with respect to payments earned before, as of, or after the Transfer Effective Time to Grace Group Employees or Former Grace Group Employees, and no member of the GCP Group shall have any obligations with respect thereto; and (ii) the GCP Group shall be solely responsible for funding, paying, and discharging all obligations relating to any annual incentive bonus awards under any GCP Group annual incentive plan or other short-term incentive compensation plan with respect to payments earned before, as of, or after the Transfer Effective Time to GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees, and no member of the Grace Group shall have any obligations with respect thereto.

Section 4.04.      Executive Benefit Plans . Before the Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause another member of the GCP Group to, establish the GCP Executive Severance Plan, the GCP Executive Salary Protection Plan, the GCP Excess Liability Insurance Policy, and the GCP Replacement Policy.

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Section 4.05     Director Compensation .
(a) Establishment of GCP Compensation Program for Nonemployee Directors . Before the Effective Time, GCP shall establish the GCP compensation program for nonemployee directors, with substantially the same terms as of immediately prior to the Effective Time as the Grace compensation program for nonemployee directors.
(b) Allocation of Directors’ Compensation. Grace shall be responsible for the payment of any fees for service on the Grace Board that are earned at, before, or after the Effective Time, and GCP shall not have any responsibility for any such payments. With respect to any GCP nonemployee director, GCP shall be responsible for the payment of any fees for service on the GCP Board that are earned at any time after the Effective Time and Grace shall not have any responsibility for any such payments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GCP shall commence paying quarterly cash retainers to GCP nonemployee directors in respect of the quarter in which the Effective Time occurs. Grace Awards held by nonemployee directors as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be treated as described in Section 4.02 .

ARTICLE V
QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS
Section 5.01.     GCP U.S. Pension Plans .
(a) Establishment of GCP U.S. Pension Plans . Before the Internal Distribution, GCP shall establish the GCP Salaried Pension Plan and the GCP Non-Union Hourly Pension Plan. As soon as practicable after the Internal Distribution and upon receipt by Grace of (i) a copy of each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans; (ii) confirmation that the GCP Board (or its authorized committee or other delegate) has approved the adoption of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans and any related trust(s) (the “ GCP Pension Trust ”) and the assumption by the GCP U.S. Pension Plans of the Liabilities described in Section 5.01(b) ; and (iii) either (A) a favorable determination letter issued by the IRS with respect to each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans and the GCP Pension Trust, or (B) an opinion of counsel, which counsel and opinion are reasonably satisfactory to Grace, with respect to the qualified status of each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans under Section 401(a) of the Code and the tax-exempt status of the GCP Pension Trust under Section 501(a) of the Code, Grace shall direct the trustee of the Grace Pension Trust to transfer assets of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans to the GCP Pension Trust in the amounts described in Section 5.01(b) .
(b) Assumption of Liabilities; ERISA Section 4044 Transfer .
(i) Grace U.S. Pension Plans . As of the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall cause each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans to assume Liabilities under the corresponding Grace U.S. Pension Plan for GCP Group Employees, and shall cause the GCP Pension Trust to accept Assets with respect to such assumed Liabilities (including Assets and Liabilities in respect of beneficiaries and/or alternate payees). The Grace Pension Trust shall transfer such Assets to the GCP Pension Trust and, upon completion of such Asset transfer, each such Grace U.S. Pension Plan and the Grace Group shall be relieved of such Liabilities.
(ii) Transfer of Assets . The amount of Assets (whether in cash or kind, as determined by Grace) to be transferred from the Grace Pension Trust to the GCP Pension Trust in respect of the assumption of Liabilities by GCP under Section 5.01(b)(i) shall be determined as of the Distribution Date in accordance with, and shall comply with, Section 414(l) of the Code and Section 4044 of ERISA. Assumptions used to determine the value (or amount) of the Assets to be transferred shall be the safe harbor assumptions specified for valuing benefits in trusteed plans under

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Department of Labor Regulations Section 4044.51-57 and, to the extent not so specified, shall be based on the assumptions used in the annual valuation report to determine minimum funding requirements most recently prepared before the transfer by the actuary for each of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans. The transfer amounts described above shall be credited or debited, as applicable, with a pro rata share of the actual investment earnings or losses allocable to the transfer amount for the period between the Distribution Date and an assessment date set by Grace that is as close as practicable, taking into account the timing and reporting of valuation of Assets in the Grace Pension Trust, to the date upon which Assets equal in value to the transfer amount are actually transferred from the Grace Pension Trust to the GCP Pension Trust. During the time before such transfer, benefits for GCP Group Employees who terminate employment with the GCP Group shall be paid from the Grace Pension Trust. The ultimate transfer amount shall be reduced by the amount of these benefits and credited or debited by the actual investment earnings or losses from the payment date to the assessment date set by Grace above. In addition, during this period, GCP shall be responsible for a pro rata share of trustee and administration fees attributable to the Assets of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans that remain in the Grace Pension Trust. The funding balances in each of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans shall be divided between the applicable Grace U.S. Pension Plan and the corresponding GCP U.S. Pension Plan based on the guidance provided in Revenue Rulings 81-212 and 86-47.
(c) GCP U.S. Pension Plan Provisions . Each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans shall provide that:
(i) GCP Group Employees shall (A) be eligible to participate in the applicable GCP U.S. Pension Plan as of the Transfer Effective Time to the extent that they were eligible to participate in the corresponding Grace U.S. Pension Plan as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time, and (B) receive credit for vesting, eligibility, and benefit service for all service credited for those purposes under the corresponding Grace U.S. Pension Plan as of the Transfer Effective Time as if that service had been rendered to GCP;
(ii) the compensation paid by the Grace Group to a GCP Group Employee that is recognized under the applicable Grace U.S. Pension Plan as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time shall be credited and recognized for all applicable purposes under the corresponding GCP U.S. Pension Plan as though it were compensation from the GCP Group;
(iii) the accrued benefit of each GCP Group Employee under the applicable Grace U.S. Pension Plan as of the Transfer Effective Time shall be payable under the corresponding GCP U.S. Pension Plan at the time and in a form that would have been permitted under such Grace U.S. Pension Plan as in effect as of the Transfer Effective Time, with employment by the Grace Group before the Transfer Effective Time treated as employment by the GCP Group under such GCP U.S. Pension Plan for purposes of determining eligibility for optional forms of benefit, early retirement benefits, or other benefit forms; and
(iv) each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans shall assume and honor the terms of all QDROs in effect under the corresponding Grace U.S. Pension Plan as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time with respect to GCP Group Employees.
(d) Determination Letter Request . GCP shall submit an application to the IRS as soon as practicable after the Effective Time (but no later than the last day of the applicable remedial amendment period as defined in applicable Code provisions) requesting a determination letter regarding the qualified status of each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans under Section 401(a) of the Code and the tax-exempt status of its related trust under Section 501(a) of the Code as of the Distribution Date and shall make any amendments reasonably requested by the IRS to receive such a favorable determination letter.
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Group Employees, and (ii) no GCP Group Employees shall accrue any benefits under the Grace U.S. Pension Plans. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, GCP Group Employees shall cease to be participants in each of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans, effective as of the Transfer Effective Time.
(f) Plan Fiduciaries . For all periods after the Transfer Effective Time, the Parties agree that the applicable fiduciaries of each of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans and each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans, respectively, shall have the authority with respect to the Grace U.S. Pension Plans and the GCP U.S. Pension Plans, respectively, to determine the plan investments and such other matters as are within the scope of their duties under ERISA and the terms of the applicable plan documents.
(g) No Loss of Unvested Benefits; No Distributions . The transfer of any GCP Group Employee’s employment to the GCP Group shall not result in the loss of that GCP Group Employee’s unvested accrued benefits (if any) under the applicable Grace U.S. Pension Plan, which benefit Liability shall be assumed under the corresponding GCP U.S. Pension Plan as provided herein. No GCP Group Employee shall be entitled to a distribution of his or her benefit under the Grace U.S. Pension Plans or the GCP U.S. Pension Plans as a result of such transfer of employment.
(h) Delayed Transfer Employees . Prior to the Transfer Effective Time, Grace and GCP shall take all actions as are necessary (including amending the Grace U.S. Pension Plans and GCP U.S. Pension Plans) to provide that each GCP Delayed Transfer Employee shall continue to accrue benefits under the applicable Grace U.S. Pension Plan and each Grace Delayed Transfer Employee shall continue to accrue benefits under the applicable GCP U.S. Pension Plan based on continuous service with either the Grace Group or the GCP Group, as applicable, during the Delayed Transfer Period. Following the Delayed Transfer Period, (i) GCP shall cause each of the GCP U.S. Pension Plans to assume Liabilities under the corresponding Grace U.S. Pension Plan for GCP Delayed Transfer Employees accrued during the Delayed Transfer Period, and shall cause the GCP Pension Trust to accept Assets with respect to such assumed Liabilities (including Assets and Liabilities in respect of beneficiaries and/or alternate payees) and (ii) Grace shall cause each of the Grace U.S. Pension Plans to assume Liabilities under the corresponding GCP U.S. Pension Plan for Grace Delayed Transfer Employees accrued during the Delayed Transfer Period, and shall cause the Grace Pension Trust to accept Assets with respect to such assumed Liabilities (including Assets and Liabilities in respect of beneficiaries and/or alternate payees). The Grace Pension Trust shall transfer the Assets described in clause (i) to the GCP Pension Trust and, upon completion of such Asset transfer, each such Grace U.S. Pension Plan and the Grace Group shall be relieved of the Liabilities described in clause (i). The GCP Pension Trust shall transfer such Assets described in clause (ii) to the Grace Pension Trust and, upon completion of such Asset transfer, each such GCP U.S. Pension Plan and the GCP Group shall be relieved of the Liabilities described in clause (ii). The amount of Assets (whether in cash or kind, as determined by Grace) to be transferred from the Grace Pension Trust to the GCP Pension Trust or from the GCP Pension Trust to the Grace Pension Trust in respect of the assumption of Liabilities by GCP or Grace, as applicable, under this Section 5.01(h) shall be determined in accordance with the process set forth in Section 5.01(b)(ii) .

Section 5.02.     GCP Retained Pension Plans . As of the Transfer Effective Time, the GCP Group shall retain (or assume to the extent necessary) sponsorship of the GCP Retained Pension Plans, and, from and after the Transfer Effective Time, all Assets and Liabilities thereunder shall be Assets and Liabilities of the GCP Group.

Section 5.03.     Grace Retained Pension Plans . As of the Transfer Effective Time, the Grace Group shall retain (or assume to the extent necessary) sponsorship of the Grace Retained Pension Plans, and, from and after the Transfer Effective Time, all Assets and Liabilities thereunder shall be the Assets and Liabilities of the Grace Group.


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Section 5.04.     GCP Savings Plan .
(a) Establishment of Plan. Before the Internal Distribution, GCP shall establish the GCP Savings Plan. Before the Internal Distribution, GCP shall provide Grace with (i) a copy of the GCP Savings Plan; (ii) confirmation that the GCP Board (or its authorized committee or other delegate) has approved the adoption of the GCP Savings Plan and the related trust(s) and the assumption by the GCP Savings Plan of the Liabilities described in Section 5.04(b) ; and (iii) either (A) a favorable determination letter issued by the IRS with respect to the GCP Savings Plan and its related trust or (B) an opinion of counsel, which counsel and opinion are reasonably satisfactory to Grace, with respect to the qualified status of the GCP Savings Plan under Section 401(a) of the Code and the tax-exempt status of its related trust under Section 501(a) of the Code.
(b) Transfer of Account Balances . Not later than 30 days following the Distribution Date (or such later time as mutually agreed by the Parties), Grace shall cause the trustee of the Grace Savings Plan to transfer from the trust(s) that forms a part of the Grace Savings Plan to the trust(s) that forms a part of the GCP Savings Plan the account balances of the GCP Group Employees under the Grace Savings Plan, determined as of the date of the transfer. Such transfers shall be made in kind, including promissory notes evidencing the transfer of outstanding loans. Any Asset and Liability transfers pursuant to this Section 5.04(b) shall comply in all respects with Sections 414(l) and 411(d)(6) of the Code.
(c) GCP Savings Plan Provisions . The GCP Savings Plan shall provide that:
(i) GCP Group Employees shall (A) be eligible to participate in the GCP Savings Plan as of the Transfer Effective Time to the extent that they were eligible to participate in the Grace Savings Plan as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time, and (B) receive credit for all service credited for that purpose under the Grace Savings Plan as of immediately prior to the Distribution as if that service had been rendered to GCP; and
(ii) the account balance of each GCP Group Employee under the Grace Savings Plan as of the date of the transfer of Assets from the Grace Savings Plan (including any outstanding promissory notes) shall be credited to such individual’s account balance under the GCP Savings Plan.
(d) Determination Letter Request . GCP shall submit an application to the IRS as soon as practicable after the Effective Time (but no later than the last day of the applicable remedial amendment period as defined in applicable Code provisions) requesting a determination letter regarding the qualified status of the GCP Savings Plan under Sections 401(a) and 401(k) of the Code and the tax-exempt status of its related trust under Section 501(a) of the Code and shall make any amendments reasonably requested by the IRS to receive such a favorable determination letter.
(e) Grace Savings Plan after Transfer Effective Time . From and after the Transfer Effective Time, (i) the Grace Savings Plan shall continue to be responsible for Liabilities in respect of Grace Group Employees, Former Grace Group Employees, and Former GCP Group Employees, and (ii) no GCP Group Employees shall accrue any benefits under the Grace Savings Plan. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, GCP Group Employees shall cease to be participants in the Grace Savings Plan effective as of the Transfer Effective Time.
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Savings Plan, respectively, to determine the investment alternatives, the terms and conditions with respect to those investment alternatives, and such other matters as are within the scope of their duties under ERISA and the terms of the applicable plan documents.
(g) No Loss of Unvested Benefits; No Distributions . The transfer of any GCP Group Employee’s employment to the GCP Group will not result in loss of that GCP Group Employee’s unvested benefits (if any) under the Grace Savings Plan, which benefit Liability will be assumed under the GCP Savings Plan as provided herein. No GCP Group Employee shall be entitled to a distribution of his or her benefit under the Grace Savings Plan or GCP Savings Plan as a result of such transfer of employment.

Section 5.05.     GCP Canadian Pension Plan .
(a) Establishment of the GCP Canadian Pension Plan . Before the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall establish the GCP Canadian Pension Plan.
(b) Preparation of Split Report . Following November 1, 2015 (the “ Canadian Pension Plan Effective Date ”) but on or prior to December 31, 2015, the actuary for the Grace Canadian Pension Plan shall prepare and file a split report with the Régie des rentes du Québec (the “ Québec Pensions Regulator ”) documenting the Assets and Liabilities in respect of GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees as of the Canadian Pension Plan Effective Date to be transferred from the Grace Canadian Pension Plan to the GCP Canadian Pension Plan.
(c) Assumption of Liabilities; Transfer of Assets . Promptly following the date on which the Québec Pensions Regulator approves the split report (the “ Canadian Pension Plan Approval Date ”), GCP shall, and shall cause the GCP Canadian Pension Plan to, assume all Liabilities under the Grace Canadian Pension Plan for the benefit of GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees and their respective beneficiaries and/or alternate payees as determined as of the Canadian Pension Plan Effective Date, and shall cause the trust for the GCP Canadian Pension Plan to accept Assets with respect to such assumed Liabilities (including Assets and Liabilities in respect of beneficiaries and/or alternate payees). The trust for the Grace Canadian Pension Plan shall transfer such Assets to the trust for the GCP Canadian Pension Plan and, upon completion of such Asset transfer, the Grace Canadian Pension Plan and the Grace Group shall be relieved of such Liabilities. During the time before such transfer of Assets, benefits for GCP Group Employees who terminate employment with the GCP Group shall be paid from the Grace Canadian Pension Plan. Grace shall retain all Assets and Liabilities under the Grace Canadian Pension Plan for the benefits for Grace Group Employees and Former Grace Group Employees and their respective beneficiaries and/or alternate payees. From and after the Canadian Pension Plan Approval Date, GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees shall cease to be participants in the Grace Canadian Pension Plan.

Section 5.06.     GCP UK Pension Plan . GCP shall continue to sponsor the GCP U.K. Pension Plan following the Distribution Date, and GCP Group Employees who participated in such plan prior to the Distribution Date shall continue to participate in such plan on and after the Distribution Date. In addition, Grace and GCP shall take all actions as are necessary to provide that Grace Group Employees who actively participated in the GCP U.K. Pension Plan may continue active participation in the GCP U.K. Pension Plan after the Distribution Date for a period that shall extend until the last day of the calendar month in which the date that is 18 calendar months following the Distribution Date occurs (unless this arrangement is terminated

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earlier in accordance with the provisions below) (the “ U.K. Pension Continuation Period ”), under the same terms and conditions as applicable to such Grace Group Employees immediately prior to the Distribution Date, including the continuation of (a) employee contributions to that GCP U.K. Pension Plan by such Grace Group Employees (“ U.K. Pension Employee Contributions ”) and (b) employer contributions (including employer matching contributions) to the GCP U.K. Pension Plan on behalf of such Grace Group Employees (“ U.K. Pension Employer Contributions ”), in each case, as applicable immediately before the Distribution Date. Grace shall make the appropriate U.K. Pension Employee Contributions and U.K. Pension Employer Contributions directly to the GCP U.K. Pension Plan in a timely manner during the U.K. Pension Continuation Period. Grace may terminate the U.K. Pension Continuation Period earlier than the expiration of the period specified above upon no less than 90 days’ notice to GCP and the trustees of the GCP U.K. Pension Plan, but only with the permission of GCP and such trustees, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed. Upon the termination (or expiration) of the U.K. Pension Continuation Period, Grace shall pay any additional contributions required by Law as a result of such termination (or expiration) and the withdrawal of Grace Group Employees from the GCP U.K. Pension Plan. Neither Grace nor GCP shall make any changes to the GCP U.K. Pension Plan during the U.K. Continuation Period that would affect the terms of participation of the other Party’s employees in the GCP U.K. Pension Plan or the contributions or costs related to such participation, without the written permission of an authorized officer of the other Party.

Section 5.07.     GCP Brazilian Savings Plan . GCP shall continue to sponsor the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan following the Distribution Date. Grace and GCP shall take all actions as are necessary to provide for Grace Group Employees who participated in the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan immediately prior to the Distribution Date to continue to participate in the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan as of and following the Distribution Date on the same terms and conditions as applicable to such Grace Group Employees prior to the Distribution Date for a period commencing on the Effective Time and ending on the earlier of (a) the date that a separate replacement plan is established by Grace for such Grace Group Employees, and (b) the date that is the last day of the month in which the date that is 18 months following the Distribution Date occurs (the “ Brazil Savings Continuation Period ”). Grace shall be responsible for making all contributions applicable to such Grace Group Employees during the Brazil Savings Continuation Period directly to the administrator of the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan, as calculated by such administrator. Neither Grace nor GCP shall make any changes to the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan during the Brazil Savings Continuation Period that would affect the terms of participation of the other Party’s employees in the GCP Brazilian Savings Plan or the contributions or costs related to such participation, without the written permission of an authorized officer of the other Party.

ARTICLE VI
NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS
Section 6.01.     GCP SERP .
(a) Establishment of the GCP SERP . Before the Internal Distribution, GCP shall establish the GCP SERP.

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(b) Assumption of Liabilities from Grace . As of the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall, and shall cause the GCP SERP to, assume all Liabilities under the Grace SERP for the benefits of GCP Group Employees and their respective beneficiaries and/or alternate payees determined as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time, and the Grace Group and the Grace SERP shall be relieved of all Liabilities for those benefits. Grace shall retain all Liabilities under the Grace SERP for the benefits for Grace Group Employees and Former Employees and their respective beneficiaries and/or alternate payees. From and after the Transfer Effective Time, GCP Group Employees shall cease to be participants in the Grace SERP.

Section 6.02.     Participation; Distributions . The Parties acknowledge that none of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any other Ancillary Agreement will trigger a payment or distribution of compensation under any of the Grace Nonqualified Plan or GCP Nonqualified Plan for any participant and, consequently, that the payment or distribution of any compensation to which such participant is entitled under any of the Grace Nonqualified Plan or GCP Nonqualified Plan will occur upon such participant’s separation from service from the GCP Group or at such other time as provided in the applicable GCP Nonqualified Plan or participant’s deferral election.
ARTICLE VII
WELFARE BENEFIT PLANS
Section 7.01.     Welfare Plans .
(a) Establishment of GCP Welfare Plans . Before the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause the applicable member of the GCP Group to, establish the GCP Welfare Plans.
(b) Waiver of Conditions; Benefit Maximums . GCP shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the GCP Welfare Plans to:
(i) with respect to initial enrollment as of January 1, 2016, waive (A) all limitations as to preexisting conditions, exclusions, and service conditions with respect to participation and coverage requirements applicable to any GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee, other than limitations that were in effect with respect to the GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee under the applicable Grace Welfare Plan as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time, and (B) any waiting period limitation or evidence of insurability requirement applicable to a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee other than limitations or requirements that were in effect with respect to such GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee under the applicable Grace Welfare Plans as of immediately prior to the Transfer Effective Time; and
(ii) take into account (A) with respect to aggregate annual, lifetime, or similar maximum benefits available under the GCP Welfare Plans, a GCP Group Employee’s or Former GCP Group Employee’s prior claim experience under the Grace Welfare Plans and any Benefit Plan that provides leave benefits; and (B) any eligible expenses incurred by a GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee and his or her covered dependents during the portion of the plan year of the applicable Grace Welfare Plan ending as of the Transfer Effective Time to be taken into account under such GCP Welfare Plan for purposes of satisfying all deductible, coinsurance, and maximum out-of-pocket requirements applicable to such GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee and his or her covered dependents for the applicable plan year to the same extent as such expenses were taken into account by Grace for similar purposes prior to the Transfer Effective Time as if such amounts had been paid in accordance with such GCP Welfare Plan.
(c) Health Savings Accounts . Before the Transfer Effective Time, GCP shall, or shall cause a member of the GCP Group to, establish a GCP Welfare Plan that will provide health savings account benefits to GCP Group Employees on and after the Transfer Effective Time (a “ GCP HSA ”). It is the intention of the Parties that all activity under a GCP Group Employee’s health savings

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account under a Grace Welfare Plan (a “ Grace HSA ”) for the year in which the Transfer Effective Time occurs be treated instead as activity under the corresponding account under the GCP HSA, such that (i) any period of participation by a GCP Group Employee in a Grace HSA during the year in which the Transfer Effective Time occurs will be deemed a period when such GCP Group Employee participated in the corresponding GCP HSA; (ii) all expenses incurred during such period will be deemed incurred while such GCP Group Employee’s coverage was in effect under the corresponding GCP HSA; and (iii) all elections and reimbursements made with respect to such period under the Grace HSA will be deemed to have been made with respect to the corresponding GCP HSA.
(d) Flexible Spending Accounts . The Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that as of the Transfer Effective Time any health or dependent care flexible spending accounts of GCP Group Employees (whether positive or negative) (the “ Transferred Account Balances ”) under Grace Welfare Plans are transferred, as soon as practicable after the Transfer Effective Time, from the Grace Welfare Plans to the corresponding GCP Welfare Plans. Such GCP Welfare Plans shall assume responsibility as of the Transfer Effective Time for all outstanding health or dependent care claims under the corresponding Grace Welfare Plans of each GCP Group Employee for the year in which the Transfer Effective Time occurs and shall assume and agree to perform the obligations of the corresponding Grace Welfare Plans from and after the Transfer Effective Time. As soon as practicable after the Transfer Effective Time, and in any event within 30 days after the amount of the Transferred Account Balances is determined or such later date as mutually agreed upon by the Parties, Grace shall pay GCP the net aggregate amount of the Transferred Account Balances, if such amount is positive, and GCP shall pay Grace the net aggregate amount of the Transferred Account Balances, if such amount is negative.
(e) Allocation of Welfare Assets and Liabilities . Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, the GCP Group shall assume all Liabilities relating to, arising out of, or resulting from health and welfare coverage or claims incurred by or on behalf of GCP Group Employees or Former GCP Group Employees or their covered dependents under the Grace Welfare Plans or GCP Welfare Plans before, at, or after the Transfer Effective Time. No Grace Welfare Plan shall provide coverage to any GCP Group Employee or Former GCP Group Employee after the Transfer Effective Time.
Section 7.02.     COBRA and HIPAA . The Grace Group shall continue to be responsible for complying with, and providing coverage pursuant to, the health care continuation requirements of COBRA, the certificate of creditable coverage requirements of HIPAA, and the corresponding provisions of the Grace Welfare Plans with respect to any Grace Group Employees and any Former Grace Group Employees (and their covered dependents) who incur a qualifying event under COBRA before, as of, or after the Transfer Effective Time. Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, the GCP Group shall assume responsibility for complying with, and providing coverage pursuant to, the health care continuation requirements of COBRA, the certificate of creditable coverage requirements of HIPAA, and the corresponding provisions of the GCP Welfare Plans with respect to any GCP Group Employees and any Former GCP Group Employees (and their covered dependents) who incur a qualifying event or loss of coverage under the Grace Welfare Plans and/or the GCP Welfare Plans before, as of, or after the Transfer Effective Time. The Parties agree that the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall not constitute a COBRA qualifying event for any purpose of COBRA.
Section 7.03.     Vacation, Holidays and Leaves of Absence . Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, the GCP Group shall assume all Liabilities of the Grace Group with respect to vacation, holiday, annual leave, or other leave of absence, and required payments related thereto, for each GCP Group Employee. The Grace Group shall retain all Liabilities with respect to vacation, holiday, annual leave or other leave of absence, and required payments related thereto, for each Grace Group Employee.

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Section 7.04.     Severance and Unemployment Compensation . Effective as of the Transfer Effective Time, the GCP Group shall assume any and all Liabilities to, or relating to, GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees in respect of severance and unemployment compensation, regardless of whether the event giving rise to the Liability occurred before, at, or after the Transfer Effective Time. The Grace Group shall be responsible for any and all Liabilities to, or relating to, Grace Group Employees and Former Grace Group Employees in respect of severance and unemployment compensation, regardless of whether the event giving rise to the Liability occurred before, at or after the Transfer Effective Time.
Section 7.05.     Workers’ Compensation . With respect to claims for workers’ compensation in the U.S., (a) the GCP Group shall be responsible for claims in respect of GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees, whether occurring before, at, or after the Transfer Effective Time, and (b) the Grace Group shall be responsible for all claims in respect of Grace Group Employees and Former Grace Group Employees, whether occurring before, at, or after the Transfer Effective Time. The treatment of workers’ compensation claims by GCP with respect to Grace insurance policies shall be governed by Section 5.1 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement. The Parties acknowledge that any workers’ compensation policy in effect prior to the Transfer Effective Time shall be available, pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof, for claims in respect of GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees occurring before the Transfer Effective Time. The obligation to pay deductibles, retrospective premium payments, or other forms of reimbursement to the insurer shall be governed by Section 5.1 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Section 7.06.     Insurance Contracts . To the extent that any Grace Welfare Plan is funded through the purchase of an insurance contract or is subject to any stop-loss contract, the Parties shall cooperate and use their commercially reasonable efforts to replicate such insurance contracts for GCP (except to the extent that changes are required under applicable state insurance Laws or filings by the respective insurers) and to maintain any pricing discounts or other preferential terms for both Grace and GCP for a reasonable term. Neither Party shall be liable for failure to obtain such insurance contracts, pricing discounts, or other preferential terms for the other Party. Each Party shall be responsible for any additional premiums, charges, or administrative fees that such Party may incur pursuant to this Section 7.06 .
Section 7.07.     Third-Party Vendors . Except as provided below, to the extent that any Grace Welfare Plan is administered by a third-party vendor, the Parties shall cooperate and use their commercially reasonable efforts to replicate any contract with such third-party vendor for GCP and to maintain any pricing discounts or other preferential terms for both Grace and GCP for a reasonable term. Neither Party shall be liable for failure to obtain such pricing discounts or other preferential terms for the other Party. Each Party shall be responsible for any additional premiums, charges, or administrative fees that such Party may incur pursuant to this Section 7.07 .

ARTICLE VIII
NON-U.S. EMPLOYEES
GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees who are residents outside of the U.S. or otherwise are subject to non-U.S. Law and their related benefits and Liabilities shall be treated in the same manner as the GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees, respectively, who are residents of the U.S. and are not subject to non-U.S. Law; provided , however , that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, all actions taken with respect to non-U.S. Employees or U.S. Employees working in non-U.S. jurisdictions shall be subject to and accomplished in accordance with applicable Law in the custom of the applicable jurisdictions.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Section 9.01.     Employee Records .
(a) Sharing of Information. Subject to any limitations imposed by applicable Law, Grace and GCP (acting directly or through members of the Grace Group or the GCP Group, respectively) shall provide to the other and their respective authorized agents and vendors all information necessary for the Parties to perform their respective duties under this Agreement.
(b) Transfer of Personnel Records and Authorization . Subject to any limitation imposed by applicable Law and to the extent that it has not done so before the Transfer Effective Time, Grace shall transfer to GCP any and all employment records (including any Form I-9, Form W-2, or other IRS forms) with respect to GCP Group Employees and Former GCP Group Employees and other records reasonably required by GCP to enable GCP properly to carry out its obligations under this Agreement. Such transfer of records generally shall occur as soon as administratively practicable at or after the Transfer Effective Time. Each Party will permit the other Party reasonable access to Employee records to the extent reasonably necessary for such accessing Party to carry out its obligations hereunder.
(c) Access to Records. To the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any applicable privacy protection Laws or regulations, reasonable access to Employee-related records after the Effective Time will be provided to members of the Grace Group and members of the GCP Group pursuant to the terms and conditions of Article VI of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
(d) Maintenance of Records. With respect to retaining, destroying, transferring, sharing, copying, and permitting access to all Employee-related information, Grace and GCP shall comply with all applicable Laws, regulations, and internal policies, and shall indemnify and hold harmless each other from and against any and all Liability, claims, actions, and damages that arise from a failure (by the indemnifying Party or its Subsidiaries or their respective agents) to so comply with all applicable Laws, regulations, and internal policies applicable to such information.
(e) Cooperation. Each Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate and work together to unify, consolidate, and share (to the extent permissible under applicable privacy/data protection or other applicable Laws) all relevant documents, resolutions, government filings, data, payroll, employment, and benefit plan information on regular timetables and cooperate as needed with respect to (i) any litigation with respect to any employee benefit plan, policy, or arrangement contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) efforts to seek a determination letter, private letter ruling, or advisory opinion from the IRS or U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of any employee benefit plan, policy, or arrangement contemplated by this Agreement, and (iii) any filings that are required to be made or supplemented to the IRS, U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, U.S. Department of Labor, or any other Governmental Authority; provided , however , that requests for cooperation must be reasonable and not interfere with daily business operations.
(f) Confidentiality. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, all confidential records and data relating to Employees to be shared or transferred pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to Section 6.9 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement and the requirements of applicable Law.
Section 9.02.     Preservation of Rights to Amend . The rights of each member of the Grace Group and each member of the GCP Group to amend, waive, or terminate any plan, arrangement, agreement, program, or policy referred to herein shall not be limited in any way by this Agreement.
Section 9.03.     Fiduciary Matters . Grace and GCP each acknowledges that actions required to be taken pursuant to this Agreement may be subject to fiduciary duties or standards of conduct under ERISA or other applicable Law, and no Party shall be deemed to be in violation of this Agreement if it fails to comply with any provisions hereof based upon its good faith determination (as supported by advice from counsel experienced in such matters) that to do so would violate such a fiduciary duty or

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standard. Each Party shall be responsible for taking such actions as are deemed necessary and appropriate to comply with its own fiduciary responsibilities and shall fully release and indemnify the other Party for any Liabilities caused by the failure to satisfy any such responsibility.
Section 9.04.     Further Assurances . Each Party hereto shall take, or cause to be taken, any and all reasonable actions, including the execution, acknowledgment, filing, and delivery of any and all documents and instruments that any other Party hereto may reasonably request in order to effect the intent and purpose of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.
Section 9.05.     Counterparts; Entire Agreement; Corporate Power .
(a) This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the Parties and delivered to the other Party.
(b) This Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, and the Ancillary Agreements and the Exhibits, Schedules, and appendices hereto and thereto contain the entire agreement among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all previous agreements, negotiations, discussions, writings, understandings, commitments and conversations with respect to such subject matter, and there are no agreements or understandings among the Parties other than those set forth or referred to herein or therein. Grace represents on behalf of itself and each of its Subsidiaries, and GCP represents on behalf of itself and each of its Subsidiaries, as follows:
(i) each such Person has the requisite corporate or other power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and
(ii) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of it enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof.
(c) Each Party acknowledges that it and the other Parties is executing this Agreement by facsimile, stamp, or mechanical signature, and that delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement (whether executed by manual, stamp, or mechanical signature) by facsimile or by email in portable document format (PDF) shall be effective as delivery of such executed counterpart of this Agreement. Each Party expressly adopts and confirms each such facsimile, stamp, or mechanical signature (regardless of whether delivered in person, by mail, by courier, by facsimile, or by email in portable document format (PDF)) made in its respective name as if it were a manual signature delivered in person, agrees that it will not assert that any such signature or delivery is not adequate to bind such Party to the same extent as if it were signed manually and delivered in person and agrees that, at the reasonable request of the other Parties at any time, it will as promptly as reasonably practicable cause this Agreement to be manually executed (any such execution to be as of the date of the initial date thereof) and delivered in person, by mail, or by courier.
Section 9.06.     Governing Law . This Agreement (and any claims or disputes arising out of or related hereto or to the transactions contemplated hereby or to the inducement of any Party to enter herein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct, or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute, or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware, irrespective of the choice of laws principles of the State of Delaware, including all matters of validity, construction, effect, enforceability, performance, and remedies.
Section 9.07.     Assignability . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns; provided , however , that none of the Parties may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement without the express prior written consent of the other Parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such consent shall be required for the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (except as may be otherwise provided in any such Ancillary Agreement) in whole ( i.e. , the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and all Ancillary

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Agreements all at the same time) in connection with a change of control of a Party so long as the resulting, surviving, or transferee Person assumes all the obligations of the relevant Party thereto by operation of Law or pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the other Parties. Nothing herein is intended to, or shall be construed to, prohibit any Party or any member of its group from being party to or undertaking a change of control.
Section 9.08.     Third-Party Beneficiaries . Except for the indemnification rights under the Separation and Distribution Agreement of any Grace Indemnitee or GCP Indemnitee in their respective capacities as such, (a) the provisions of this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, and each Ancillary Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Parties and any other parties thereto, and are not intended to confer upon any Person except the Parties (and such other parties) any rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder; and (b) there are no third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any Ancillary Agreement, and neither this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, nor any Ancillary Agreement shall provide any third person with any remedy, claim, Liability, reimbursement, claim of action, or other right in excess of those existing without reference to this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or any Ancillary Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to amend any employee benefit plan or affect the applicable plan sponsor’s right to amend or terminate any employee benefit plan pursuant to the terms of such plan. The provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Parties, and no current or former Employee, officer, director, or independent contractor or any other individual associated therewith shall be regarded for any purpose as a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement.
Section 9.09.     Notices . All notices, requests, claims, demands, or other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given or made (and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made upon receipt) by delivery in person or by overnight courier service to the respective Parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified in a notice given in accordance with this Section 9.09 ):
If to Grace or Grace Conn, to:
W. R. Grace & Co.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21044
Attention: General Counsel
with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention:     Andrew R. Brownstein
Gregory E. Ostling
If to GCP, to:
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Attention:    General Counsel
with a copy (prior to the Effective Time) (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street

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New York, New York 10019
Attention:     Andrew R. Brownstein
Gregory E. Ostling
Any Party may, by notice to the other Parties, change the address to which such notices are to be given.
Section 9.10.     Severability . If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof to any Person or circumstance is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions hereof, or the application of such provision to Persons or circumstances or in jurisdictions other than those as to which it has been held invalid or unenforceable, shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated thereby. Upon such determination, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon such a suitable and equitable provision to effect the original intent of the Parties.
Section 9.11.     Force Majeure . No Party shall be deemed in default of this Agreement or, unless otherwise expressly provided therein, any Ancillary Agreement for any delay or failure to fulfill any obligation (other than a payment obligation) hereunder or thereunder so long as and to the extent to which any delay or failure in the fulfillment of such obligation is prevented, frustrated, hindered, or delayed as a consequence of circumstances of Force Majeure. In the event of any such excused delay, the time for performance of such obligations (other than a payment obligation) shall be extended for a period equal to the time lost by reason of the delay. A Party claiming the benefit of this provision shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the occurrence of any such event, (a) provide written notice to the other Party of the nature and extent of any such Force Majeure condition, and (b) use commercially reasonable efforts to remove any such causes and resume performance under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, as applicable, as soon as reasonably practicable.
Section 9.12.     No Set-Off . Except as otherwise mutually agreed to in writing by the Parties, neither Grace nor GCP nor any member of either such Party’s Group shall have any right of set-off or other similar rights with respect to (a) any amounts received pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or (b) any other amounts claimed to be owed to the other Party or any member of its Group arising out of this Agreement.
Section 9.13.     Headings . The article, section, and paragraph headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
Section 9.14.     Survival of Covenants . Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the covenants, representations, and warranties contained in this Agreement, and Liability for the breach of any obligations contained herein, shall survive the Separation and the Distribution and shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 9.15.     Waivers of Default . Waiver by a Party of any default by any other Party of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Party of any subsequent or other default, nor shall it prejudice the rights of the other Party. No failure or delay by any Party in exercising any right, power, or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof prejudice any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power, or privilege.
Section 9.16.     Dispute Resolution . The dispute resolution procedures set forth in Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall apply to any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement.
Section 9.17.     Specific Performance . Subject to Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement, in the event of any actual or threatened default in, or breach of, any of the terms, conditions, and provisions of this Agreement, the Party that is, or is to be, thereby aggrieved shall

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have the right to specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief in respect of its rights under this Agreement, in addition to any and all other rights and remedies at law or in equity, and all such rights and remedies shall be cumulative. The Parties agree that the remedies at law for any breach or threatened breach, including monetary damages, are inadequate compensation for any loss and that any defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate is waived. Any requirements for the securing or posting of any bond with such remedy are waived by each of the Parties.
Section 9.18.     Amendments . No provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed waived, amended, supplemented, or modified by a Party, unless such waiver, amendment, supplement, or modification is in writing and signed by the authorized representative of the Party against whom it is sought to enforce such waiver, amendment, supplement, or modification.
Section 9.19.     Interpretation . In this Agreement, (a) words in the singular shall be deemed to include the plural and vice versa and words of one gender shall be deemed to include the other genders as the context requires; (b) the terms “hereof,” “herein,” and “herewith,” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole (including all of the Schedules, Exhibits, and Appendices hereto) and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; (c) Article, Section, Schedule, Exhibit, and Appendix references are to the Articles, Sections, Schedules, Exhibits, and Appendices to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; (d) unless otherwise stated, all references to any agreement shall be deemed to include the exhibits, schedules, and annexes to such agreement; (e) the word “including” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall mean “including, without limitation,” unless otherwise specified; (f) the word “or” shall not be exclusive; (g) unless otherwise specified in a particular case, the word “days” refers to calendar days; (h) references to “business day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law to close in the U.S. or New York, New York; (i) references herein to this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement or such other agreement as of the date on which it is executed and as it may be amended, modified or supplemented thereafter, unless otherwise specified; and (j) unless expressly stated to the contrary in this Agreement, all references to “the date hereof,” “the date of this Agreement,” “hereby,” and “hereupon” and words of similar import shall all be references to January 27, 2016.
Section 9.20.     Mutual Drafting . This Agreement shall be deemed to be the joint work product of the Parties and any rule of construction that a document shall be interpreted or construed against a drafter of such document shall not be applicable.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives.
W. R. GRACE & CO.

By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Name:    Mark A. Shelnitz
Title:    Vice President and Secretary
W. R. GRACE & CO.—CONN.

By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Name:    Mark A. Shelnitz
Title:    Vice President and Secretary

GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.

By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Name:    Mark A. Shelnitz
Title:    Vice President and Assistant Secretary






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Exhibit 10.3



FORM OF
TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
W. R. GRACE & CO.—CONN.
AND
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
DATED AS OF
JANUARY 27, 2016




    




TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
DEFINITIONS    1
Section 1.01. Definitions    1
Article II SERVICES    6
Section 2.01. Services    6
Section 2.02. Performance of Services    6
Section 2.03. Charges for Services    7
Section 2.04. Reimbursement for Out-of-Pocket Costs and Expenses    7
Section 2.05. Changes in the Performance of Services    8
Section 2.06. Transitional Nature of Services    8
Section 2.07. Subcontracting    8
Article III OTHER ARRANGEMENTS    9
Section 3.01. Access    9
Article IV BILLING; TAXES    10
Section 4.01. Procedure    10
Section 4.02. Late Payments    11
Section 4.03. Taxes    11
Section 4.04. No Set-Off    11
Article V TERM AND TERMINATION    11
Section 5.01. Term    11
Section 5.02. Early Termination    11
Section 5.03. Interdependencies    12
Section 5.04. Effect of Termination    12
Section 5.05. Information Transmission    13
Article VI CONFIDENTIALITY; PROTECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS    13
Section 6.01. Grace Conn and GCP Obligations    13
Section 6.02. No Release; Return or Destruction    13
Section 6.03. Privacy and Data Protection Laws    14
Section 6.04. Protective Arrangements    14
Article VII LIMITED LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION    14
Section 7.01. Limitations on Liability    14

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Section 7.02. Obligation to Re-Perform; Liabilities    15
Section 7.03. Third-Party Claims    15
Section 7.04. Provider Indemnity    16
Section 7.05. Indemnification Procedures    16
Article VIII MISCELLANEOUS    16
Section 8.01. Mutual Cooperation    16
Section 8.02. Further Assurances    16
Section 8.03. Audit Assistance    16
Section 8.04. Title to Intellectual Property    17
Section 8.05. Independent Contractors    17
Section 8.06. Counterparts; Entire Agreement; Corporate Power    17
Section 8.07. Governing Law    18
Section 8.08. Assignability    18
Section 8.09. Third-Party Beneficiaries    19
Section 8.10. Notices    19
Section 8.11. Severability    20
Section 8.12. Force Majeure    20
Section 8.13. Headings    20
Section 8.14. Survival of Covenants    20
Section 8.15. Waivers of Default    20
Section 8.16. Dispute Resolution    21
Section 8.17. Specific Performance    21
Section 8.18. Amendments    21
Section 8.19. Interpretation    22
Section 8.20. Mutual Drafting    22




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TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT
This TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT, dated as of January 27, 2016 (this “ Agreement ”), is by and between W. R. Grace & Co.—Conn., a Connecticut corporation (“ Grace Conn ”), and GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ GCP ”).
R E C I T A L S:
WHEREAS, the board of directors (the “ Grace Board ”) of W. R. Grace & Co., a Delaware corporation (“ Grace ”), has determined that it is in the best interests of Grace and its stockholders to create a new publicly traded company that will operate the GCP Business;
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the Grace Board has determined that it is appropriate and desirable to separate the GCP Business from the Grace Business (the “ Separation ”) and, following the Separation, make a distribution, on a pro rata basis, to holders of Grace Shares on the Record Date of all the outstanding GCP Shares (the “ Distribution ”);
WHEREAS, in order to effectuate the Separation and the Distribution, Grace, GCP and Grace Conn, have entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2016 (the “ Separation and Distribution Agreement ”); and
WHEREAS, in order to facilitate and provide for an orderly transition in connection with the Separation and the Distribution, the Parties desire to enter into this Agreement to set forth the terms and conditions pursuant to which each of the Parties shall provide Services to the other Party for a transitional period.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:





Article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01.      Definitions . For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Action ” shall mean any demand, action, claim, dispute, suit, countersuit, arbitration, inquiry, subpoena, proceeding or investigation of any nature (whether criminal, civil, legislative, administrative, regulatory, prosecutorial or otherwise) by or before any federal, state, local, foreign or international Governmental Authority or any arbitration or mediation tribunal.
Affiliate ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
Ancillary Agreements ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Baseline Charge ” for a Service at any time shall mean the aggregate Charge for such Service reflected (or deemed reflected) at such time on Schedule 1 , applied for the period from the Distribution Date through the end of the Service Period for such Service (assuming no early termination pursuant to Section 5.02 ).
Charge ” and “ Charges ” have the meaning set forth in Section 2.03 .
Confidential Information ” shall mean all Information that is either confidential or proprietary and disclosed pursuant to a Service. For the avoidance of doubt, Confidential Information hereunder shall not apply to Information disclosed under the Cross License Agreement.
Contemplated Third Party Service ” shall mean a Service (or portion thereof) contemplated as of the date hereof by the Parties to be provided by or through one or more third-party service providers (for example, the contemplated engagement of third-party consultants in connection with the provision of IT Services hereunder).
Cross License Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Dispute ” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.16(a) .
Distribution ” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Distribution Date ” shall mean the date of the consummation of the Distribution, which shall be determined by the Grace Board in its sole and absolute discretion.
Effective Time ” shall mean 6:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Distribution Date.

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Force Majeure ” shall mean, with respect to a Party, an event or circumstance beyond the reasonable control of such Party (or any Person acting on its behalf) which (a) does not arise or result from the fault or negligence of such Party (or any Person acting on its behalf) and (b) by its nature would not reasonably have been foreseen by such Party (or such Person), or, if it would reasonably have been foreseen, was unavoidable, and includes acts of God, acts of civil or military authority, embargoes, epidemics, war, riots, insurrections, fires, explosions, earthquakes, floods, unusually severe weather conditions, labor problems or unavailability of parts, or, in the case of computer systems, any failure in electrical or air conditioning equipment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither of the following shall be deemed an event of Force Majeure: (i) the receipt by a Party of an unsolicited takeover offer or other acquisition proposal, even if unforeseen or unavoidable, and such Party’s response thereto and (ii) the inability to obtain sufficient funds needed for the performance of a Party’s obligations hereunder.
GCP ” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
GCP Business ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
GCP Shares ” shall mean the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of GCP.
Governmental Authority ” shall mean any nation or government, any state, municipality or other political subdivision thereof, and any entity, body, agency, commission, department, board, bureau, court, tribunal or other instrumentality, whether federal, state, local, domestic, foreign or multinational, exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory, administrative or other similar functions of, or pertaining to, government and any executive official thereof.
Grace ” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Grace Board ” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Grace Business ” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Grace Conn ” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
Grace Shares ” shall mean the common shares of Grace.
Incremental Third Party Costs ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b) .
Information ” shall mean information, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, in written, oral, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms, stored in any medium, including studies, reports, records, books, contracts, instruments, surveys, discoveries, ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, designs, specifications, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, models, prototypes, samples, flow charts, data, computer data, disks, diskettes, tapes, computer programs or other software, marketing plans, customer names, communications by or to attorneys (including attorney-

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client privileged communications), memos and other materials prepared by attorneys or under their direction (including attorney work product), and other technical, financial, employee or business information or data.
Interest Payment ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.02 .
Law ” shall mean any national, supranational, federal, state, provincial, local or similar law (including common law), statute, code, order, ordinance, rule, regulation, treaty (including any income tax treaty), license, permit, authorization, approval, consent, decree, injunction, binding judicial or administrative interpretation or other requirement, in each case, enacted, promulgated, issued or entered by a Governmental Authority.
Level of Service ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.02(a) .
Liabilities ” shall mean all debts, guarantees, assurances, commitments, liabilities, responsibilities, Losses, remediation, deficiencies, damages, fines, penalties, settlements, sanctions, costs, expenses, interest and obligations of any nature or kind, whether accrued or fixed, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, accrued or not accrued, asserted or unasserted, liquidated or unliquidated, foreseen or unforeseen, known or unknown, reserved or unreserved, or determined or determinable, including those arising under any Law, claim (including any Third-Party Claim), demand, Action, or order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, stipulation, determination or award entered by or with any Governmental Authority or arbitration tribunal, and those arising under any contract, agreement, obligation, indenture, instrument, lease, promise, arrangement, release, warranty, commitment or undertaking, or any fines, damages or equitable relief that is imposed, in each case, including all costs and expenses relating thereto.
Losses ” shall mean actual losses (including any diminution in value), costs, damages, penalties and expenses (including legal and accounting fees and expenses and costs of investigation and litigation), whether or not involving a Third-Party Claim.
Minimum Service Period ” for a Service shall mean the period set forth on Schedule 1 opposite such Service under the column titled “Minimum Service Period”.
Out-of-Pocket Recoverable Cost ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04 .
Parties ” shall mean the parties to this Agreement.
" Payment Agreement " has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02 .
Person ” shall mean an individual, a general or limited partnership, a corporation, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability entity, any other entity and any Governmental Authority.
Provider ” shall mean, with respect to any Service, the Party identified on Schedule 1 hereto as the “Provider” of such Service (wherein “New Grace” refers to Grace Conn, “New GCP” refers to GCP, and “New GCP Korea” and “New GCP Japan” refer to GCP through certain subsidiaries of GCP).

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Provider Indemnitees ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03 .
Recipient ” shall mean, with respect to any Service, the Party receiving such Service hereunder.
Recipient Indemnitees ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04 .
Record Date ” shall mean the close of business on the date to be determined by the Grace Board as the record date for determining holders of Grace Shares entitled to receive GCP Shares pursuant to the Distribution.
Representatives ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any of such Person’s directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants, advisors, accountants, attorneys or other representatives.
Separation ” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Separation and Distribution Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Service Baseline Period ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.02(a) .
Service Period ” for any Service shall mean the period commencing on the Distribution Date and ending on the earlier of (a) the date that a Party terminates the provision of such Service pursuant to Section 5.02 and (b) the end of the period set forth on Schedule 1 opposite such Service under the column titled “Full Service Period”.
Services ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01 .
Subsidiary ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, joint venture or partnership of which such Person (a) beneficially owns, either directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of (i) the total combined voting power of all classes of voting securities, (ii) the total combined equity interests or (iii) the capital or profit interests, in the case of a partnership, or (b) otherwise has the power to vote, either directly or indirectly, sufficient securities to elect a majority of the board of directors or similar governing body.
Tax ” has the meaning set forth in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Tax Sharing Agreement ” shall mean the Tax Sharing Agreement to be entered into by and between Grace, GCP, and Grace Conn, and/or their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Separation, the Distribution and the other transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Taxing Authority ” has the meaning set forth in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Termination Charges ” shall mean, with respect to the termination of any Service pursuant to Section 5.02(a)(i) , the sum of (a) any and all costs, fees and expenses (other than any severance or retention costs) payable by the Provider of such Service to a Third Party principally

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because of the early termination of such Service; provided , however , that the Provider shall use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize any costs, fees or expenses payable to any Third Party in connection with such early termination of such Service; and (b) any additional severance and retention costs, if any, because of the early termination of such Service that the Provider of such terminated Service incurs to employees who had been retained primarily to provide such terminated Service (it being agreed that the costs set forth in this clause (b) shall only be the amount, if any, in excess of the severance and retention costs that such Provider would have paid to such employees if the Service had been provided for the full period during which such Service would have been provided hereunder but for such early termination).
Third Party ” shall mean any Person other than the Parties or any of their Affiliates.
Third-Party Claim ” shall mean any Action commenced by any Third Party against any Party or any of its Affiliates.
ARTICLE II     
SERVICES
Section 2.01.      Services . Commencing as of the Effective Time, the Provider agrees to provide, or to cause one or more of its Subsidiaries to provide, to the Recipient, or any Subsidiary of the Recipient, the applicable services (the “ Services ”) set forth on Schedule 1 hereto. For avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require the Provider to perform any services other than those set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.
Section 2.02.      Performance of Services .
(a)      The Provider shall perform, or shall cause one or more of its Subsidiaries to perform (directly, through one or more of its Subsidiaries, or through a third-party service provider in accordance herewith ) all Services to be provided by the Provider in a manner that is based on its past practice and that is substantially similar in all material respects to the analogous services provided by or on behalf of Grace Conn or any of its Subsidiaries to Grace Conn or its applicable functional group or Subsidiary (a “ Level of Service ”) during calendar year 2015 (the “ Service Baseline Period ”).
(b)      Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Provider to perform or cause to be performed any Service to the extent that the manner of such performance would constitute a violation of any applicable Law or any contract or agreement with a Third Party existing as of the Effective Time. If the Provider is or becomes aware of any potential violation on the part of the Provider, the Provider shall use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly advise the Recipient of such potential violation, and the Provider and the Recipient will mutually seek an alternative that addresses such potential violation. The Parties agree to cooperate in good faith and use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any necessary Third Party consents required under any existing contract or agreement with a Third Party to allow the Provider to perform, or cause to be performed, all Services to be provided by the Provider hereunder in accordance with the standards set forth in this Section 2.02 . Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Parties, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (if any) incurred by any Party or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with obtaining

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any such Third Party consent that is required to allow the Provider to perform or cause to be performed such Services shall be divided proportionately between the Provider and the Recipient in accordance with such Parties’ respective utilization of such Services at such time. If, with respect to a Service, the Parties, despite the use of such commercially reasonable efforts, are unable to obtain a required Third Party consent, or the performance of such Service by the Provider would constitute a violation of any applicable Law, the Provider shall have no obligation whatsoever to perform or cause to be performed such Service.
(c)      The Provider shall not be obligated to perform or to cause to be performed any Service in a manner that is materially more burdensome (with respect to service quality or quantity) than the applicable Level of Service during the Service Baseline Period. If the Recipient requests that the Provider perform or cause to be performed any Service that exceeds the Level of Service during the Service Baseline Period (which request shall be given by providing to the Provider a Change Request Notice in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A), then the Parties shall engage in good faith discussions and negotiations to determine the feasibility of and the appropriate terms and conditions relating to, the performance of such higher-level Service. If the Parties determine that the Provider shall provide the requested higher Level of Service, then such higher Level of Service shall be documented in a written amendment to this Agreement signed by the Parties. Each amended section of Schedule 1 hereto, as agreed to in writing by the Parties, shall be deemed part of this Agreement as of the date of such written amendment and the Level of Service increases set forth in such written amendment shall be deemed a part of the “Services” provided under this Agreement, in each case subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(d)      (i) Neither the Provider nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to perform or to cause to be performed any of the Services for the benefit of any Person other than the Recipient and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION 2.02 OR SECTION 7.04 , EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ALL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS, THAT THE RECIPIENT ASSUMES ALL RISK AND LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO ITS USE OF AND RELIANCE UPON THE SERVICES, AND THAT THE PROVIDER MAKES NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND GRANTS NO OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, EITHER IN FACT OR BY OPERATION OF LAW, BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES. EACH PARTY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY OTHER WARRANTIES, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OR EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE OR THE NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES.
(e)      Each Party shall be responsible for its own compliance with any and all Laws applicable to its performance under this Agreement. No Party shall take any action knowingly in violation of any such applicable Law that results in Liability being imposed on the other Party.
Section 2.03.      Charges for Services . Subject to the specific terms of this Agreement, the compensation to be received by the Provider for each Service provided hereunder will be the fees or charges set forth on or calculated in the manner set forth on Schedule 1 (or any sub-schedule)

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relating to the particular Service, subject only to any escalation, reduction or other modifications provided for on Schedule 1 or elsewhere in this Agreement (including Section 2.07 ). In consideration for the provision of a Service, the Recipient or its Subsidiaries receiving such Service shall pay to the Provider (or its designee) in the manner set forth in Article IV below, the fee or charge for such Service as set forth in or calculated in the manner set forth on Schedule 1 (as it may be amended or deemed amended pursuant to Section 2.02(c) or Section 2.07 ) (each, a “ Charge ” and, collectively, the “ Charges ”). The Provider shall provide the Recipient with an invoice for Charges along with reasonable documentation (and any additional documentation reasonably requested by the Recipient, promptly following such request, to the extent that such documentation is in the Provider’s or its Subsidiaries’ possession or control) to support the calculation of such Charges.
Section 2.04.      Reimbursement for Out-of-Pocket Costs and Expenses . In addition to any increase to a Charge contemplated by Section 2.02(c) , Section 2.07(b) or Section 2.07(c) , the Recipient shall reimburse the Provider for reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Provider or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with providing the Services (including reasonable travel-related expenses) to the extent that such costs and expenses are not included in the Charges for such Services (an “ Out-of-Pocket Recoverable Cost ”); provided , however , that any such Out-of-Pocket Recoverable Cost in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), in the aggregate, that is not consistent with historical practice between the Parties for any Service (including business travel and related expenses) shall require advance written approval of the Recipient. Any authorized travel-related expenses incurred in performing the Services shall be incurred and charged to the Recipient in accordance with the Provider’s then-applicable business travel policies.
Section 2.05.      Changes in the Performance of Services . Subject to the performance standards for Services set forth in Sections 2.02(a) , 2.02(b) and 2.02(c) , the Provider may make changes (including as contemplated by Section 2.07(b) , if applicable) from time to time in the manner of performing the Services (a) except in the case of changes contemplated by Section 2.07(b) , if the Provider is making similar changes in performing analogous services for itself and (b) if the Provider furnishes to the Recipient reasonable prior written notice (in content and timing) of such changes. No such change shall materially adversely affect the timeliness or quality of, or (except as otherwise provided herein) the Charges for, the applicable Service. If (i) any such change by the Provider reasonably requires the Recipient to incur incremental costs and expenses (excluding any change to the applicable Charge contemplated by Section 2.07 ) in order to continue to receive and utilize the applicable Services in the same manner as the Recipient was receiving and utilizing such Service prior to such change and (ii) the aggregate amount of such incremental costs and expenses in respect of such Service for the remainder of the applicable Service Period exceeds 5% of the Baseline Charge for such Service, then the Provider shall be required to reimburse the Recipient for all such reasonable incremental costs and expenses. Upon request, the Recipient shall provide the Provider with reasonable documentation, including any additional documentation reasonably requested by the Provider to the extent such documentation is in the Recipient’s or its Subsidiaries’ possession or control, to support the calculation of such increase in costs and expenses.
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efforts to effectuate a smooth transition of the Services from the Provider to the Recipient (or its designee).
Section 2.07.      Subcontracting . (a) A Provider may hire or engage one or more Third Parties to perform any or all of its obligations under this Agreement (including to provide Contemplated Third Party Services); provided , however , that (i) such Provider shall use the same degree of care (but at least reasonable care) in selecting each such Third Party as it would if such Third Party was being retained to provide similar services to the Provider and (ii) such Provider shall in all cases remain primarily responsible for all of its obligations under this Agreement with respect to the scope of the Services, the performance standard for Services set forth in Sections 2.02(a) , 2.02(b) and 2.02(c) and the content of the Services provided to the Recipient. Subject to the confidentiality provisions set forth in Article VI , each Party shall, and shall cause its respective Affiliates to, provide, upon ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice from the other Party, any Information within such Party’s or its Affiliates’ possession that the requesting Party reasonably requests in connection with any Services being provided to such requesting Party by a Third Party, including any applicable invoices, agreements documenting the arrangements between such Third Party and the Provider and other supporting documentation; provided , that each Party shall be permitted to make no more than one such request during any calendar quarter.
(b)    In the event that, pursuant to Section 2.07(a) , a Provider determines to hire or engage one or more Third Parties to perform a Service (or portion thereof) that is not a Contemplated Third Party Service, the Charge for such Service shall upon written notice from the Provider to the Recipient be increased (and Schedule 1 shall, upon such notice, be deemed amended to so reflect) by the amount of the incremental cost and expense, if any, incurred directly or indirectly by the Provider in connection with providing the applicable Service (or portion thereof) through such Third Party(s) (such incremental costs, the “ Incremental Third Party Costs ”); provided , that any such increase to the Charge for such Service shall require the consent of the Recipient (not to unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) (x) in the event the aggregate amount of Incremental Third Party Costs in respect of such Service for the remainder of the applicable Service Period would exceed the greater of (1) 30% of the Baseline Charge for such Service and (2) $50,000 or (y) to the extent the aggregate amount of the Incremental Third Party Costs for the remainder of the applicable Service Period together with all other Incremental Third Party Costs for which the Recipient has theretofore become responsible under this Section 2.07 exceeds (A) $500,000, in the case Grace is the Provider, or (B) $200,000 in the case GCP is the Provider.
(c)    Except in respect of costs and expenses the subject of Section 2.07(b) (which shall be governed by such Section 2.07(b) ), the Charge for a Service (including Contemplated Third Party Services) shall upon written notice from the Provider to the Recipient be increased (and Schedule 1 shall, upon such notice, be deemed amended to so reflect) by the amount of any incremental costs and expenses incurred directly or indirectly by the Provider in connection with providing such Service (or portion thereof) resulting from the inaccuracy of any of the assumptions upon which the Parties developed the Charges set forth as of the date hereof on Schedule 1 .


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ARTICLE III     
OTHER ARRANGEMENTS
Section 3.01.      Access .
(a)      GCP shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, allow Grace Conn and its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives reasonable access to the facilities of GCP and its Subsidiaries that is necessary for Grace Conn and its Subsidiaries to fulfill their obligations under this Agreement. In addition to the foregoing right of access, GCP shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, afford Grace Conn, its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives, upon reasonable advance written notice, reasonable access during normal business hours to the facilities, Information, systems, infrastructure and personnel of GCP and its Subsidiaries as reasonably necessary for Grace Conn to verify the adequacy of internal controls over information technology, reporting of financial data and related processes employed in connection with the Services being provided by GCP or its Subsidiaries, including in connection with verifying compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; provided that (i) such access shall not unreasonably interfere with any of the business or operations of GCP or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) in the event that GCP determines that providing such access could be commercially detrimental, violate any applicable Law or agreement or waive any attorney-client privilege, then the Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to permit such access in a manner that avoids each such harm and consequence. Grace Conn agrees that all of its and its Subsidiaries’ employees shall, and that it shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its Representatives’ employees to, when on the property of GCP or its Subsidiaries, or when given access to any facilities, Information, systems, infrastructure or personnel of GCP or its Subsidiaries, conform to the policies and procedures of GCP and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, concerning health, safety, conduct and security which are made known or provided to Grace Conn from time to time.
(b)      Grace Conn shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, allow GCP and its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives reasonable access to the facilities of Grace Conn and its Subsidiaries that is necessary for GCP and its Subsidiaries to fulfill their obligations under this Agreement. In addition to the foregoing right of access, Grace Conn shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, afford GCP, its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives, upon reasonable advance written notice, reasonable access during normal business hours to the facilities, Information, systems, infrastructure and personnel of Grace Conn and its Subsidiaries as reasonably necessary for GCP to verify the adequacy of internal controls over information technology, reporting of financial data and related processes employed in connection with the Services being provided by Grace Conn or its Subsidiaries, including in connection with verifying compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; provided that (i) such access shall not unreasonably interfere with any of the business or operations of Grace Conn or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) in the event that Grace Conn determines that providing such access could be commercially detrimental, violate any applicable Law or agreement or waive any attorney-client privilege, then the Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to permit such access in a manner that avoids each such harm and consequence. GCP agrees that all of its and its Subsidiaries’ employees shall, and that it shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its Representatives’ employees to, when on the property of Grace Conn or its Subsidiaries, or when given access to any facilities, Information, systems,

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infrastructure or personnel of Grace Conn or its Subsidiaries, conform to the policies and procedures of Grace Conn and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, concerning health, safety, conduct and security which are made known or provided to GCP from time to time.
ARTICLE IV     
BILLING; TAXES
Section 4.01.      Procedure . Charges for the Services shall be charged to and payable by the Recipient. Amounts payable pursuant to this Agreement shall be paid by wire transfer (or such other method of payment as may be agreed between the Parties from time to time) to the Provider (as directed by the Provider), on a monthly basis in the case of recurring fees, which amounts shall be due within thirty (30) days of the Recipient’s receipt of each such invoice, including reasonable documentation pursuant to Section 2.03 . Except as may otherwise be provided on Schedule 1 (or any sub-subschedule), all amounts due and payable hereunder shall be invoiced and paid in U.S. dollars.
Section 4.02.      Late Payments . Charges not paid when due pursuant to this Agreement (and any amounts billed or otherwise invoiced or demanded and properly payable that are not paid within fifteen (15) days of the receipt of such bill, invoice or other demand) shall accrue interest at a rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate plus 5% or the maximum rate under applicable Law, whichever is lower (the “ Interest Payment ”).
Section 4.03.      Taxes . Without limiting any provisions of this Agreement, the Recipient shall bear any and all Taxes and other similar charges (and any related interest and penalties) imposed on, or payable with respect to, any fees or charges, including any Charges, payable by it pursuant to this Agreement, including all sales, use, value-added, and similar Taxes, but excluding Taxes based on the Provider’s net income. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the previous sentence or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Recipient shall be entitled to withhold from any payments to the Provider any such Taxes that the Recipient is required by applicable Law to withhold and shall pay such Taxes to the applicable Taxing Authority.
Section 4.04.      No Set-Off . Except as mutually agreed to in writing by the Parties, no Party or any of its Affiliates shall have any right of set-off or other similar rights with respect to (a) any amounts received pursuant to this Agreement or (b) any other amounts claimed to be owed to the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries arising out of this Agreement.
ARTICLE V     
TERM AND TERMINATION
Section 5.01.      Term . This Agreement shall commence at the Effective Time and shall terminate upon the earlier to occur of (a) the last date on which either Party is obligated to provide any Service to the other Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (b) the mutual written agreement of the Parties to terminate this Agreement in its entirety; and (c) the date that is the eighteen-month anniversary of the Distribution Date. Unless otherwise terminated pursuant to Section 5.02 , this Agreement shall terminate with respect to each Service as of the close of business on the last day of the Service Period for such Service. The Parties may, by written consent executed

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at least ten (10) days prior to the last day of the Service Period for any individual Service, extend the Service Period for such Service on a month-to-month basis for a period not to exceed the eighteen-month anniversary of the Distribution Date. To the extent that the Provider’s ability to provide a Service is dependent on the continuation of a specified Service, the Provider’s obligation to provide such dependent Service shall terminate automatically with the termination of such supporting Service.
Section 5.02.      Early Termination .
(a)      Without prejudice to the Recipient’s rights with respect to Force Majeure, the Recipient may from time to time terminate this Agreement with respect to the entirety of any individual Service but not a portion thereof:
(i)      subsequent to the end of the Minimum Service Period for such Service, for any reason or no reason, upon the giving of at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Provider of such Service; provided , however , that any such termination (x) may only be effective as of the last day of a month and (y) shall be subject to the obligation to pay any applicable Termination Charges pursuant to Section 5.04 ; or
(ii)      if the Provider of such Service has failed to perform any of its material obligations under this Agreement with respect to such Service, and such failure shall continue to be uncured for a period of at least thirty (30) days after receipt by the Provider of written notice of such failure from the Recipient; provided , however , that any such termination may only be effective as of the last day of a month; and provided , further , that the Recipient shall not be entitled to terminate this Agreement with respect to the applicable Service if, as of the end of such period, there remains a good-faith Dispute between the Parties (undertaken in accordance with the terms of Section 8.16 ) as to whether the Provider has cured the applicable breach.
(b)      The Provider may terminate this Agreement with respect to any individual Service, but not a portion thereof, at any time upon prior written notice to the Recipient if the Recipient has failed to perform any of its material obligations under this Agreement relating to such Service, including making payment of Charges for such Service when due, and such failure shall continue to be uncured for a period of at least thirty (30) days after receipt by the Recipient of a written notice of such failure from the Provider; provided , however , that any such termination may only be effective as of the last day of a month; and provided , further , that the Provider shall not be entitled to terminate this Agreement with respect to the applicable Service if, as of the end of such period, there remains a good-faith Dispute between the Parties (undertaken in accordance with the terms of Section 8.16 ) as to whether the Recipient has cured the applicable breach.
Section 5.03.      Interdependencies . The Parties acknowledge and agree that (a) there may be interdependencies among the Services being provided under this Agreement; (b) upon the request of either Party, the Parties shall cooperate and act in good faith to determine whether (i) any such interdependencies exist with respect to the particular Service that a Party is seeking to terminate pursuant to Section 5.02 and (ii) in the case of such termination, the Provider’s ability to provide a particular Service in accordance with this Agreement would be materially and adversely affected

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by such termination of another Service; and (c) in the event that the Parties have determined that such interdependencies exist (and, in the case of such termination that the Provider’s ability to provide a particular Service in accordance with this Agreement would be materially and adversely affected by such termination), the Parties shall negotiate in good faith to amend Schedule 1 hereto with respect to such termination of such impacted Service, which amendment shall be consistent with the terms of comparable Services.
Section 5.04.      Effect of Termination . Upon the termination of any Service pursuant to this Agreement, the Provider of the terminated Service shall have no further obligation to provide the terminated Service, and the Recipient of such Service shall have no obligation to pay any future Charges relating to such Service; provided , however , that the Recipient shall remain obligated to the Provider for (a) the Charges owed and payable in respect of Services provided prior to the effective date of termination for such Service, and (b) any applicable Termination Charges (which, in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), shall be payable only in the event that the Recipient terminates any Service pursuant to Section 5.02(a)(i) ). In connection with the termination of any Service, the provisions of this Agreement not relating solely to such terminated Service shall survive any such termination, and in connection with a termination of this Agreement, (i) Article I , this Article V , Article VII and Article IX , and Liability for all due and unpaid Charges, and Termination Charges shall continue to survive indefinitely, and (ii) all confidentiality obligations hereunder shall survive until the end of the applicable period set forth in Section 6.01 .
Section 5.05.      Information Transmission . The Provider, on behalf of itself and its respective Subsidiaries, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide or make available, or cause to be provided or made available, to the Recipient, in accordance with Section 6.1 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any Information received or computed by the Provider for the benefit of the Recipient concerning the relevant Service during the Service Period; provided , however , that, except as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Parties (a) the Provider shall not have any obligation to provide, or cause to be provided, Information in any non-standard format, (b) the Provider and its Subsidiaries shall be reimbursed for their reasonable costs in accordance with Section 6.3 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement for creating, gathering, copying, transporting and otherwise providing such Information, and (c) the Provider shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain any such Information in accordance with Section 6.4 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
ARTICLE VI     
CONFIDENTIALITY; PROTECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS
Section 6.01.      Grace Conn and GCP Obligations . Subject to Section 6.04 , until the five (5)-year anniversary of the date of the termination of this Agreement in its entirety, each of Grace Conn and GCP agrees, on behalf of itself and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries, to hold, and to cause its respective Representatives to hold, in strict confidence, with at least the same degree of care that applies to Grace Conn’s Confidential Information pursuant to policies in effect as of the Effective Time, all Confidential Information concerning the other Party or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses that is either in its possession (including Confidential Information in its possession prior to the date hereof) or furnished by such other Party or such other Party’s Subsidiaries

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or their respective Representatives at any time pursuant to this Agreement, and shall not use any such Confidential Information other than for its performance of this Agreement and such other purposes as may be expressly permitted hereunder, except , in each case, to the extent that such Confidential Information has been (a) in, or later becomes part of, the public domain or generally available to the public, other than as a result of a disclosure by such Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Representatives in violation of this Agreement; (b) later lawfully acquired from other sources by such Party or any of its Subsidiaries, which sources are not themselves bound by a confidentiality obligation or other contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation of confidentiality with respect to such Confidential Information; or (c) independently developed or generated without reference to or use of the Confidential Information of the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries. If any Confidential Information of a Party or any of its Subsidiaries is disclosed to the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with providing the Services, then such disclosed Confidential Information shall be used only as required to perform such Services.
Section 6.02.      No Release; Return or Destruction . Each Party agrees (a) not to release or disclose, or permit to be released or disclosed, any Confidential Information of the other Party addressed in Section 6.01 to any other Person, except its Representatives or Affiliates who need to know such Confidential Information in their capacities as such (whom shall be advised of their obligations hereunder with respect to such Confidential Information) and except in compliance with Section 6.04 , and (b) to use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain such Confidential Information in accordance with Section 6.9 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, when any such Confidential Information is no longer needed for a Service hereunder or the purposes contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, this Agreement or any other Ancillary Agreements, each Party will promptly after request of the other Party either return to the other Party all such Confidential Information in a tangible form (including all copies thereof and all notes, extracts or summaries based thereon) or notify the other Party in writing that it has destroyed such information (and such copies thereof and such notes, extracts or summaries based thereon).
Section 6.03.      Privacy and Data Protection Laws . Each Party shall comply with all applicable state, federal and foreign privacy and data protection Laws that are or that may in the future be applicable to the provision of the Services under this Agreement.
Section 6.04.      Protective Arrangements . In the event that a Party or any of its Subsidiaries either determines on the advice of its counsel that it is required to disclose any information pursuant to applicable Law or receives any request or demand under lawful process or from any Governmental Authority to disclose or provide information of the other Party (or any of its Subsidiaries) that is subject to the confidentiality provisions hereof, such Party shall notify the other Party (to the extent legally permitted) as promptly as practicable under the circumstances prior to disclosing or providing such information and shall cooperate, at the expense of the other Party, in seeking any appropriate protective order requested by the other Party. In the event that such other Party fails to receive such appropriate protective order in a timely manner and the Party receiving the request or demand reasonably determines that its failure to disclose or provide such information shall actually prejudice the Party receiving the request or demand, then the Party that received such request or demand may thereafter disclose or provide information to the extent required by such Law (as so advised by its

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counsel) or by lawful process or such Governmental Authority, and the disclosing Party shall promptly provide the other Party with a copy of the information so disclosed, in the same form and format so disclosed, together with a list of all Persons to whom such information was disclosed, in each case to the extent legally permitted.

ARTICLE VII     
LIMITED LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION
Section 7.01.      Limitations on Liability .
(a)      SUBJECT TO SECTION 7.02 , THE LIABILITIES OF THE PROVIDER AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES, FOR THE SALE, DELIVERY, PROVISION OR USE OF ANY INDIVIDUAL SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED 25% OF THE AGGREGATE CHARGES PAID AND PAYABLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT TO SUCH PROVIDER BY THE RECIPIENT IN RESPECT OF SUCH SERVICE, PROVIDED THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE TOTAL LIABILITIES OF THE PROVIDER AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES, COLLECTIVELY, UNDER THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY ACT OR FAILURE TO ACT IN CONNECTION HEREWITH (INCLUDING THE PERFORMANCE OR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT), OR FROM THE SALE, DELIVERY, PROVISION OR USE OF ANY SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER OR CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY) OR OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT EXCEED $3,000,000.00.
(b)      IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY, ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, REMOTE, SPECULATIVE OR SIMILAR DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF COMPENSATORY DAMAGES OF THE OTHER PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT (OTHER THAN ANY SUCH LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO A THIRD-PARTY CLAIM), AND EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES ANY CLAIM FOR SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE.
(c)      The limitations in Section 7.01(a) and Section 7.01(b) shall not apply in respect of any Liability arising out of or in connection with (i) either Party’s Liability for breaches of confidentiality under Article VI , (ii) either Party’s obligations under Section 7.03 , or (iii) the gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud of or by the Party to be charged.
Section 7.02.      Obligation to Re-Perform; Liabilities . In the event of any breach of this Agreement by the Provider with respect to the provision of any Services (with respect to which the Provider can reasonably be expected to re-perform in a commercially reasonable manner), the Provider shall (a) promptly correct in all material respects such error, defect or breach or re-perform in all material respects such Services at the request of the Recipient and at the sole cost and expense of the Provider and (b) subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.01 , reimburse the Recipient and its Subsidiaries and Representatives for Liabilities attributable to such breach by the Provider.

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The remedy set forth in this Section 7.02 shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of the Recipient for any such breach of this Agreement; provided , however , that the foregoing shall not prohibit the Recipient from exercising its right to terminate this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02(a)(ii) . Any request for re-performance in accordance with this Section 7.02 by the Recipient must be in writing and specify in reasonable detail the particular error, defect or breach, and such request must be made no more than one month from the later of (x) the date on which such breach occurred and (y) the date on which such breach was reasonably discovered by the Recipient.
Section 7.03.      Third-Party Claims . In addition to (but not in duplication of) its other indemnification obligations (if any) under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, this Agreement or any other Ancillary Agreement, the Recipient shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Provider, its Subsidiaries and each of their respective Representatives, and each of the successors and assigns of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “ Provider Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all claims of Third Parties relating to, arising out of or resulting from the Provider’s furnishing or failing to furnish the Services provided for in this Agreement, other than (a) Third Party Claims arising out of the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud of any Provider Indemnitee and (b) as set forth in Section 2.02(b) .
Section 7.04.      Provider Indemnity . In addition to (but not in duplication of) its other indemnification obligations (if any) under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, this Agreement or any other Ancillary Agreement, the Provider shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Recipient, its Subsidiaries and each of their respective Representatives, and each of the successors and assigns of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “ Recipient Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the sale, delivery, provision or use of any Services provided by such Provider hereunder, but only to the extent that such Liability relates to, arises out of or results from the Provider’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud.
Section 7.05.      Indemnification Procedures . The procedures for indemnification set forth in Sections 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall govern claims for indemnification under this Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII     
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 8.01.      Mutual Cooperation . Each Party shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, cooperate with the other Party and its Subsidiaries in connection with the performance of the Services hereunder; provided , however , that such cooperation shall not unreasonably disrupt the normal operations of such Party or its Subsidiaries; and, provided , further , that this Section 8.01 shall not require such Party to incur any out-of-pocket costs or expenses unless and except as expressly provided in this Agreement or otherwise agreed to in writing by the Parties.
Section 8.02.      Further Assurances . Each Party shall take, or cause to be taken, any and all reasonable actions, including the execution, acknowledgment, filing and delivery of any and all documents and instruments that any other Party may reasonably request in order to effect the intent

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and purpose of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting the foregoing, upon the request of either Party, the other Party shall enter into, or shall cause its
applicable Subsidiaries to enter into, such additional agreement(s) (a “ Payment Agreement ”) as
may be reasonably necessary to implement the Parties’ obligations with respect to effecting
payment and reimbursement pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04 . For the avoidance of doubt, any
such Payment Agreement shall merely memorialize the provision and receipt of Services
pursuant to this Agreement and shall be subject to (i) the same covenants, terms and conditions
as this Agreement and (ii) the provisions with respect to dispute resolution, indemnification and
limitations on liability set forth in Articles VI and VII .

Section 8.03.      Audit Assistance . Each of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries are or may be subject to regulation and audit by a Governmental Authority (including a Taxing Authority), standards organizations, customers or other parties to contracts with such Parties or their respective Subsidiaries under applicable Law, standards or contract provisions. If a Governmental Authority, standards organization, customer or other party to a contract with a Party or its Subsidiary exercises its right to examine or audit such Party’s or its Subsidiary’s books, records, documents or accounting practices and procedures pursuant to such applicable Law, standards or contract provisions, and such examination or audit relates to the Services, then the other Party shall provide, at the sole cost and expense of the requesting Party, all assistance reasonably requested by the Party that is subject to the examination or audit in responding to such examination or audits or requests for Information, to the extent that such assistance or Information is within the reasonable control of the cooperating Party and is related to the Services.
Section 8.04.      Title to Intellectual Property . Except as expressly provided for under the terms of this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement or the Cross License Agreement, the Recipient acknowledges that it shall acquire no right, title or interest (including any license rights or rights of use) in any intellectual property which is owned or licensed by the Provider, by reason of the provision of the Services hereunder. The Recipient shall not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notices that appear on any intellectual property owned or licensed by the Provider, and the Recipient shall reproduce any such notices on any and all copies thereof. The Recipient shall not attempt to decompile, translate, reverse engineer or make excessive copies of any intellectual property owned or licensed by the Provider, and the Recipient shall promptly notify the Provider of any such attempt, regardless of whether by the Recipient or any Third Party, of which the Recipient becomes aware.
Section 8.05.      Independent Contractors . The Parties each acknowledge and agree that they are separate entities, each of which has entered into this Agreement for independent business reasons. The relationships of the Parties hereunder are those of independent contractors and nothing contained herein shall be deemed to create a joint venture, partnership or any other relationship between the Parties. Employees performing services hereunder do so on behalf of, under the direction of, and as employees of, the Provider, and the Recipient shall have no right, power or authority to direct such employees.

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Section 8.06.      Counterparts; Entire Agreement; Corporate Power .
(a)      This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the Parties and delivered to the other Party.
(b)      This Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and the Exhibits, Schedules and appendices hereto and thereto contain the entire agreement between the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all previous agreements, negotiations, discussions, writings, understandings, commitments and conversations with respect to such subject matter, and there are no agreements or understandings between the Parties other than those set forth or referred to herein or therein.
(c)      Grace Conn represents on behalf of itself and, to the extent applicable, each of its Subsidiaries, and GCP represents on behalf of itself and, to the extent applicable, each of its Subsidiaries, as follows:
(i)      each such Person has the requisite corporate or other power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and
(ii)      this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of it enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof, except as the same may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and general equitable principles, regardless of whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in law or in equity.
(d)      Each Party acknowledges and agrees that delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement (whether executed by manual, stamp or mechanical signature) by facsimile or by email in portable document format (PDF) shall be effective as delivery of such executed counterpart of this Agreement. Each Party expressly adopts and confirms each such facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature (regardless of whether delivered in person, by mail, by courier, by facsimile or by email in portable document format (PDF)) made in its respective name as if it were a manual signature delivered in person, agrees that it will not assert that any such signature or delivery is not adequate to bind such Party to the same extent as if it were signed manually and delivered in person and agrees that, at the reasonable request of the other Party at any time, it will as promptly as reasonably practicable cause this Agreement to be manually executed (any such execution to be as of the date of the initial date thereof) and delivered in person, by mail or by courier.
(e)      Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of the Tax Sharing Agreement, the provisions of the Tax Sharing Agreement shall control over the inconsistent provisions of this Agreement as to matters specifically addressed in the Tax Sharing Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the Tax Sharing Agreement shall govern all matters

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(including any indemnities and payments among the parties and each other member of their respective Groups and the allocation of any rights and obligations pursuant to agreements entered into with Third Parties) relating to Taxes or otherwise specifically addressed in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
(f)     In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this
Agreement and the provisions of a Payment Agreement, this Agreement shall govern, except to
the extent the parties expressly agree otherwise in a Payment Agreement.

Section 8.07.      Governing Law . This Agreement (and any claims or disputes arising out of or related hereto or to the transactions contemplated hereby or to the inducement of any Party to enter herein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware, irrespective of the choice of Laws principles of the State of Delaware, including all matters of validity, construction, effect, enforceability, performance and remedies.
Section 8.08.      Assignability . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns; provided , however , that neither Party may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement without the express prior written consent of the other Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such consent shall be required for the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, this Agreement and the other Ancillary Agreements in whole ( i.e. , the assignment of a Party’s rights and obligations under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, this Agreement and all the other Ancillary Agreements all at the same time) in connection with a change of control of a Party so long as the resulting, surviving or transferee Person assumes all the obligations of the relevant party thereto by operation of Law or pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the other Party. Nothing herein is intended to, or shall be construed to, prohibit either Party or any of its Subsidiaries from being party to or undertaking a change of control.
Section 8.09.      Third-Party Beneficiaries . Except as provided in Article VII with respect to the Provider Indemnitees in their capacities as such, (a) the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Parties and are not intended to confer upon any other Person except the Parties any rights or remedies hereunder; and (b) there are no other third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement and this Agreement shall not provide any other Third Party with any remedy, claim, Liability, reimbursement, claim of action or other right in excess of those existing without reference to this Agreement.
Section 8.10.      Notices . All notices, requests, claims, demands or other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given or made (and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made upon receipt) by delivery in person or by overnight courier service, to the respective Parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified in a notice given in accordance with this Section 8.10 ):
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W. R. Grace & Co.
7500 Grace Drive

Columbia, Maryland 21044
Attention:    General Counsel
with a copy to:

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention:    Andrew R. Brownstein

    Gregory E. Ostling
If to GCP, to:

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Attention:    General Counsel
with a copy (prior to the Effective Time) to:

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention:    Andrew R. Brownstein

    Gregory E. Ostling
Any Party may, by notice to the other Party, change the address to which such notices are to be given.
Section 8.11.      Severability . If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof to any Person or circumstance is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions hereof, or the application of such provision to Persons or circumstances or in jurisdictions other than those as to which it has been held invalid or unenforceable, shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated thereby. Upon such determination, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon such a suitable and equitable provision to effect the original intent of the Parties.
Section 8.12.      Force Majeure . No Party shall be deemed in default of this Agreement for any delay or failure to fulfill any obligation hereunder (other than the obligation to pay money) so long as and to the extent to which any delay or failure in the fulfillment of such obligations is prevented, frustrated, hindered or delayed as a consequence of circumstances of Force Majeure. In the event of any such excused delay, the time for performance of such obligations (other than a payment obligation) shall be extended for a period equal to the time lost by reason of the delay unless this Agreement has previously been terminated under Article V or under this Section 8.12 .

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A Party claiming the benefit of this provision shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the occurrence of any such Force Majeure, (a) provide written notice to the other Party of the nature and extent of such Force Majeure; and (b) use commercially reasonable efforts to remove any such causes and resume performance under this Agreement as soon as reasonably practicable (and in no event later than the date that the affected Party resumes providing analogous services to, or otherwise resumes analogous performance under any other agreement for, itself, its Affiliates or any Third Party) unless this Agreement has previously been terminated under Article V or this Section 8.12 . The Recipient shall be (i) relieved of the obligation to pay Charges for the affected Service(s) throughout the duration of such Force Majeure and (ii) entitled to permanently terminate such Service(s) if the delay or failure in providing such Services because of a Force Majeure shall continue to exist for more than thirty (30) consecutive days (it being understood that the Recipient shall not be required to provide any advance notice of such termination to the Provider).
Section 8.13.      Headings . The Article, Section and Paragraph headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
Section 8.14.      Survival of Covenants . Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the covenants, representations and warranties and other agreements contained in this Agreement, and Liability for the breach of any obligations contained herein, shall survive the Effective Time and shall remain in full force and effect thereafter.
Section 8.15.      Waivers of Default . Waiver by any Party of any default by the other Party of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Party of any subsequent or other default, nor shall it prejudice any other rights of the waiving Party. No failure or delay by any Party in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof prejudice any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
Section 8.16.      Dispute Resolution .
(a)      In the event of any controversy, dispute or claim (a “ Dispute ”) arising out of or relating to any Party’s rights or obligations under this Agreement (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise), calculation or allocation of the costs of any Service or otherwise arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement (including the interpretation or validity of this Agreement), such Dispute shall be resolved in accordance with the dispute resolution process referred to in Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
(b)      In any Dispute regarding the amount of a Charge or a Termination Charge, if such Dispute is finally resolved pursuant to the dispute resolution process set forth or referred to in Section 8.16(a) and it is determined that the Charge or the Termination Charge, as applicable, that the Provider has invoiced the Recipient, and that the Recipient has paid to the Provider, is greater or less than the amount that the Charge or the Termination Charge, as applicable, should have been, then (i) if it is determined that the Recipient has overpaid the Charge or the Termination Charge, as applicable, the Provider shall within fifteen (15) business days after such determination reimburse the Recipient an amount of cash equal to such overpayment, plus the Interest Payment,

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accruing from the date of payment by the Recipient to the time of reimbursement by the Provider; and (ii) if it is determined that the Recipient has underpaid the Charge or the Termination Charge, as applicable, the Recipient shall within fifteen (15) business days after such determination reimburse the Provider an amount of cash equal to such underpayment, plus the Interest Payment, accruing from the date such payment originally should have been made by the Recipient to the time of payment by the Recipient.
Section 8.17.      Specific Performance . Subject to Section 8.16 , in the event of any actual or threatened default in, or breach of, any of the terms, conditions and provisions of this Agreement, the Party or Parties who are, or are to be, thereby aggrieved shall have the right to specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief (on an interim or permanent basis) in respect of its rights or their rights under this Agreement, in addition to any and all other rights and remedies at law or in equity, and all such rights and remedies shall be cumulative. The Parties agree that the remedies at law for any breach or threatened breach, including monetary damages, may be inadequate compensation for any loss and that any defense in any Action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate is waived. Any requirements for the securing or posting of any bond with such remedy are hereby waived by each of the Parties. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Parties shall continue to provide Services and honor all other commitments under this Agreement during the course of dispute resolution pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.16 and this Section 8.17 with respect to all matters not subject to such Dispute; provided , however , that this obligation shall only exist during the term of this Agreement.
Section 8.18.      Amendments . No provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall be deemed waived, amended, supplemented or modified by a Party, unless such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification is in writing and signed by the authorized representative of the Party against whom it is sought to enforce such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification.
Section 8.19.      Interpretation . In this Agreement, (a) words in the singular shall be deemed to include the plural and vice versa and words of one gender shall be deemed to include the other genders as the context requires; (b) the terms “hereof,” “herein,” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole (including all of the Schedules, Annexes and Exhibits hereto) and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; (c) Article, Section, Exhibit, Annex and Schedule references are to the Articles, Sections, Exhibits, Annexes and Schedules to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; (d) unless otherwise stated, all references to any agreement shall be deemed to include the exhibits, schedules and annexes to such agreement; (e) the word “including” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall mean “including, without limitation,” unless otherwise specified; (f) the word “or” shall not be exclusive; (g) unless otherwise specified in a particular case, the word “days” refers to calendar days; (h) references to “business day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law to close in the United States or New York, New York; (i) references herein to this Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement or such other agreement as of the date on which it is executed and as it may be amended, modified or supplemented thereafter, unless otherwise specified; and (j) unless expressly stated to the contrary in this Agreement, all

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references to “the date hereof,” “the date of this Agreement,” “hereby” and “hereupon” and words of similar import shall all be references to January 27, 2016.
Section 8.20.      Mutual Drafting . This Agreement shall be deemed to be the joint work product of the Parties and any rule of construction that a document shall be interpreted or construed against a drafter of such document shall not be applicable to this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives.
W. R. GRACE & CO.—CONN.
By:
/s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz
Title: Vice President and Secretary
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
By:
/s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Name: Mark A. Shelnitz
Title: Vice President and Assistant Secretary


[Signature Page to Transition Services Agreement]
Exhibit 10.4


Contract No.:RAM1506.18
CROSS LICENSE AGREEMENT
Among
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.,

W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.,
And
Grace GmbH & Co. KG,
THIS AGREEMENT (hereinafter “Agreement”) dated January 27, 2016, (hereinafter “Effective Date”) is by and among

GCP Applied Technologies Inc. , a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, USA having an office at 62 Whittemore Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140-1623 (hereinafter referred to as “GCP”);

W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN. , a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Connecticut, USA having an office at 7500 Grace Drive, Columbia, Maryland 21044, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Grace-Conn”); and

Grace GmbH & Co. KG , a corporation organized under the laws of Germany, having offices at In der Hollerhecke 1, Worms, D-67547, Germany (hereinafter referred to as “Grace-CoKG”), said Grace-CoKG being an Affiliate (defined hereinafter) of Grace-Conn;

said Grace-Conn and Grace-CoKG, individually or collectively, being referred to herein as “Grace” as the context in which the term is used implies.

WITNESSETH THAT:

WHEREAS, Grace is engaged in the manufacture and sale of a wide variety of chemical and industrial products in a number of different fields;


    
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WHEREAS, it has been publicly announced that W. R. Grace & Co., the parent company of Grace-Conn, has approved a plan to separate the businesses of Grace-Conn into two independent, publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries;

WHEREAS, the effective date of said separation is expected to be on or about February 3, 2016;

WHEREAS, after the separation, Grace and its subsidiaries will continue to own and operate businesses in the Materials Technologies Field (defined hereinafter) and the Catalyst Technologies Field (defined hereinafter); said businesses collectively being referred to as the Grace Business (defined hereinafter);

WHEREAS, after the separation, GCP and its subsidiaries will operate businesses in the Construction Technologies Field (defined hereinafter), Packaging Technologies Field (defined hereinafter), and Sodasorb Technologies Field (defined hereinafter); said businesses collectively being referred to as the GCP Business (defined hereinafter);

WHEREAS, pursuant to the separation, Grace-Conn and its Affiliates have assigned or will have assigned all intellectual property that was used primarily in or primarily held for use in the GCP Business on or prior to the Effective Date;

WHEREAS, after the separation, GCP will own certain Intellectual Property (defined hereinafter) that may have continued applicability in the Grace Business, particularly silica containing materials employed in the engineered materials segment of the Materials Technologies Field;

WHEREAS, after the separation, Grace will own certain Intellectual Property that may have continued applicability in the GCP Business, particularly silica containing materials employed in the specialty construction segment of the GCP Business.;

WHEREAS, it is the purpose of this Agreement for each Party to license the other Party under their respective Intellectual Property to the extent and only to the extent such Intellectual Property was exploited by the respective GCP Business and Grace Business prior to separation.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants hereinafter set forth, the Parties agree as follows:


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1.0     DEFINITIONS

As used herein, the terms hereinafter defined shall have only the meaning specified therefor:    

1.01
“Affiliate” of any specified person shall mean a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the specified person. The term “control” with respect to an Affiliate (including “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of said person, whether through ownership of Voting Securities, by contract, or otherwise. The term “person” means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, or any other business entity.

1.02
“Background Information” shall mean GCP Background Information or Grace Background Information, as applicable.

1.03
“Background Patent Rights” shall mean GCP Background Patent Rights or Grace Background Patent Rights, as applicable.

1.04
"Confidential Information" with respect to a designated Party (“Disclosing Party”), shall mean any and all Background Information of the Disclosing Party made available and disclosed by it, directly or indirectly, to the other Party (“Receiving Party”) pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, except:
(a)
Background Information which at the time of disclosure is in the public domain;
(b)
Background Information which after disclosure is published or otherwise becomes part of the public domain through no fault of the Receiving Party (but only after it becomes part of the public domain);
(c)
Background Information which the Receiving Party can show was in its possession at the time of disclosure hereunder and which the Receiving Party, without breach of any obligation, is free to disclose to others;
(d)
Background Information which is received by the Receiving Party after the time of disclosure hereunder from a third party who did not acquire it, directly or indirectly, from the Disclosing Party under any obligation of confidence

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and which the Receiving Party without breach of any obligation is free to disclose to others;
(e)
Background Information which is disclosed in a non-confidential manner by the Receiving Party under operation of, or pursuant to, any law, governmental regulation, or court or administrative order or subpoena, provided said Receiving Party first gives the Disclosing Party notice and uses all reasonable efforts to secure confidential protection of such Background Information; or
(f)
Background Information which is independently developed by an employee or employees of the Receiving Party or its Affiliates who at the time of such independent development did not have access to Background Information disclosed hereunder.
For the purposes of this definition, specific disclosures made by a Disclosing Party to a Receiving Party hereunder, e.g. 640°-650°F., shall not be deemed, as to the Receiving Party, to be within the foregoing exceptions merely because they are embraced by general disclosures, e.g. 600-700°F., in the public domain or in the possession of the Receiving Party. In addition, any combination of features disclosed by a Disclosing Party to a Receiving Party hereunder shall not be deemed, as to the Receiving Party, to be within the foregoing exceptions merely because individual features are separately in the public domain or in the possession of the Receiving Party, but only if the combination itself and its principle of operation are in the public domain or in the possession of the Receiving Party.

1.05
“Construction Product” shall mean any one or more products developed and sold for use in improving or facilitating one or more of the performance, durability, weather-resistance, mechanical strength, stability, fire resistance, health, hygiene, and/or environmental safety, efficiency, accessibility, noise protection, energy usage, economics, and/or heat retention, of at least one of residential, commercial, multi-family, health-care, environmental, industrial, institutional, nautical, aeronautical, civil engineering, or oil and/or gas well, construction works, including but not limited to, properties of cement and/or concrete.

1.06
“Copyrights" shall mean all rights in works of authorship, expressions, designs and design registrations, whether or not copyrightable, including copyrights, author, performer, moral and neighboring rights, and all registrations, applications for registration, and renewals for any of the foregoing.

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1.07
“Effective Date” shall mean the date appearing at the beginning of this Agreement.

1.08
Field Definitions:
(a)
“GCP Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services, or equipment relating to or used with the Construction Technologies Field, Packaging Technologies Field, or Sodasorb Technologies Field, wherein:
(i)
“Construction Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with one or more Construction Products such as for example:
(A)
specialty construction chemicals such as cementitious compositions and additives and admixtures therefor, including cement additives (e.g., grinding additives, quality improvers, chromium (IV) reducers, pack set inhibitors, and silica products) used in the manufacture of Portland cement and/or other cements, and/or limestone, gypsum, supplemental cementitious materials such as fly ash and granulated blast furnace slag, and mixtures of any of the foregoing; and admixtures to improve one or more properties of cement, mortar, masonry, shotcrete, and/or concrete (or other hydratable cementitious materials), such as compressive strength enhancers, set-accelerators, set-retarders, water-reducers (e.g., plasticizers, superplasticizers), fibers, shrink-reducers, microsilicas, corrosion inhibitors, water-proofing agents, form coatings, form release agents, sealers, and surface retarders, air management systems (including air entrainers, air detrainers, surfactants, etc.), bond strength enhancers, crack control additives, pigments and colorants, and the like; agents for treating aggregates used in construction such as clay-mitigating agents or sand treatment chemicals (e.g., clay-inerting agents for improving dosage efficiency of chemical additives or admixtures when used in clay-bearing aggregates such as sand or crush stone), and chemicals for drilling muds, and the like;

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(B)
specialty building materials such as:
(I)
fireproofing compositions and materials such as sprayable or trowel-applied fireproofing compositions, firestop articles, and heat insulative barriers; and waterproofing membranes and liquids such as preformed waterproofing laminates, roofing underlayments, strips, tapes, flashings, house wraps, primers, coatings, sealants, mastics, water stops, soil filters, soil retention systems, and drainage members e;
(II)
structural adhesives, mastics, primers, tie coating layers, barrier coating layers, laminates, and civil engineering materials incorporating any of the foregoing;
(III)
grouts and mortars (including bagged or injectable), grout wall systems, and lightweight concrete or cementitious foam or foaming materials for making cementitious building materials and components therefore;
(IV)
building envelope materials (including weather-proofing barrier materials and membranes, house wrap, air barriers, vapor barriers, vapor permeable air barriers and coatings, roofing barrier systems, root barrier layers for green roofs, etc.);
(C)
equipment, used in building, repairing, strengthening, or protecting
(I)
residential or commercial buildings; and
(II)
civil engineering structures such as roads, bridges, shipping docks, loading platforms, railroads, subways, dams, tunnels, and the like;
(D)
equipment for transporting, monitoring, sensing, mixing, delivering, metering, pumping, applying, analyzing, testing, spraying, injecting, and/or dispensing any of the cementitious materials (e.g., concrete or other cementitious mixes, aggregates), specialty construction chemicals, or specialty building materials described above;

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(E)
conversion of biomass materials or byproducts obtained from processes which convert biomass (e.g., crude glycerin byproducts from biodiesel fuel production) into components for use in Construction Products; and
(F)
components of any of the above (including hardware, software, computer systems, and business methods relative to any of the above).

(ii)
“Packaging Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with containers such for example as:
(A)
container closures (e.g., crowns, caps, can ends, lug caps, drum covers, pail covers etc.);
(B)
sealant and coating compositions for rigid, semi-rigid, and flexible containers and/or closures (e.g., interior and exterior coatings, films, and other surface coverings, quality preservation materials for such containers/closures, lubricants, cements, solders, drawing aids, cleaning aids and equipment to apply such materials);
(C)
additives, other chemicals and polymeric master batches thereof that functionalize the container products included in Section 1.05(a)(ii) (A) and (B)above, including, but not limited to, oxygen and moisture scavengers and shelf life enhancing additives; and
(D)
machine parts for ageing packing equipments.

(iii)
“Sodasorb Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with carbon dioxide adsorbents used in anesthesiology, medical rebreathing devices and other applications and related website information for the aforesaid goods.

(b)
“Grace Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used within the Catalyst Technologies Field, or Materials Technologies Field, wherein:

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(i)
"Catalyst Technologies Field" shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with catalysts, catalyst supports, or components thereof such as for example :
(A)
inorganic oxide or metal containing materials, compositions, or additives, adapted for various uses, including:
(I)
catalysts for the refining of hydrocarbon and other convertible feedstocks, e.g., biomass, in the chemical and petrochemical industries, including but not limited to cracking catalysts, hydroprocessing catalysts, fluid cracking catalysts, gasoline sulfur reduction catalysts, hydrogenation catalysts,
(II)
olefin polymerization catalysts including polyethylene and polypropylene catalysts and components thereof;
(III)
specialty catalysts including dehydrogenation /hydrogenation catalysts;
(IV)
pollution and emission control additives for the petroleum refining industry (e.g., SOX, NOX, H2S, and CO control catalysts);
(V)
additives for modifying or affecting petroleum, chemical and petrochemical processes (e.g., olefins, octane enhancement and combustion promoter additives);
(VI)
additives for plastics;
(VII)
catalyst supports and components of catalysts;
(B)
the design, operation, and maintenance of chemical plants, and related software, for the manufacture of olefin-based polymers and/or copolymers, including those based on propylene;
(C)
polymers produced by the chemical plants in (B), and additives and other materials utilized in the manufacture of such polymers;
(D)
metals reclamation from spent catalysts;
(E)
carbon credit trading (e.g., purchases, sales, or donations of credits to meet individual, corporate, or institutional (e.g., governmental bodies, educational institutions, or non-profit organizations) goals for environmental quality, or to meet the requirements of environmental or energy policy regulations);
(F)
products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with:

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(I)    converting biomass or petroleum feedstocks into chemicals and fuels including products used in bio-separations (e.g., biomass separations), and bio-catalysis;
(II)    catalysts for converting gas to liquids (e.g., in Fischer Tropsch processes) and catalysts for converting coal to useful chemical intermediates and products (e.g., olefins); and
(III)    methanol to olefins (MTO) catalysts.

(ii)
"Materials Technologies Field" shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with products, processes, services, or equipment relating to or used with engineered materials, analytical devices and associated consumables, pharmaceutical compounds components thereof, excipients and reference standards therefore, such for example as :
(A)
silica containing materials, compositions, or additives, adapted for various uses, including adsorbents, absorbents, flatting agents, thickeners, molecular sieves, anti-blocking agents useful in the petroleum, petrochemical, construction, and plastics industries, coatings, food and beverage, detergents, tires, castings, electronics, digital media, investment casting, cosmetic, paper, medical, and personal hygiene;
(B)
particulate, monolithic or fluidic organic or inorganic separation medias, including, polymeric supports, gas chromatography stationary phases, reversed phase, normal phase, ion exchange, gel permeation, ion exclusion, size exclusion, chiral, affinity, hydrophobic interaction and hydrophilic interaction, medias, and the like;
(C)
gas chromatography capillary, gas chromatography packed, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, capillary zone electrophoresis, supercritical fluid, Flash chromatography and solid phase extraction columns; analytical, preparative and process columns; thin layer chromatography and electrophoresis plates; and the like;
(D)
preparative, process and analytical instrumentation including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, flash chromatography, and solid phase extraction systems, pumps, sample injection systems,

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heaters, recyclers, degassers, detectors, evaporative light scattering detectors, fraction collectors, gas generators, data systems, software, and the like;
(E)
preparative, process, analytical and sample preparative ancillary equipment including valves, tubing, fittings, syringes, filters, reagents, standards, maintenance parts, and the like;
(F)
certified reference standards for forensic, clinical and pharmaceutical industries;
(G)
mesoporous, silica–based, multifunctional excipients manufactured in compliance with appropriate regional laws and guidelines for products used in food and pharmaceutical applications;
(H)
pharmaceutical intermediates, i.e., amino acid derivatives (natural & unnatural), peptide fragments, and chiral intermediates for pharmaceutical applications;
(I)
products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with materials, compositions, or additives adapted for drug delivery; and
(J)
components of any of the above.


1.09
"GCP Background Information" shall mean Information which is within the GCP Technologies Field that is :
(a)
owned or controlled by GCP (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others); and
(b)
disclosed to or possessed by Grace pursuant to Grace’s conduct of the Grace Business prior to separation; and
(c)
developed (conceived or reduced to practice) or acquired by (pursuant to separation) GCP on or before the Effective Date.

1.010
"GCP Background Patent Rights" shall mean Patents of any country of the world which are:
(a)
owned or controlled (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others) by GCP; and
(b)
cover inventions that are (i) within GCP Background Information, and (ii) developed (i.e. conceived or reduced to practice) or acquired (pursuant to separation) by GCP on or before the Effective Date.

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1.011
“GCP Business” shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with the business (including such activities as engineering, technical and support services, research and development, manufacture (including tolling), purchase, sale, marketing, distribution, use, lease, or licensing, associated with a property, product, process, service, or equipment) relating to the GCP Technologies Field as conducted by Grace-Conn and its Affiliates during the one year period prior to the Effective Date.

1.012
“GCP Intellectual Property” shall mean intellectual property included in one of the following categories, that is owned or controlled (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others) by GCP on the Effective Date, and that is used in, necessary, or useful for the conduct of the Grace Business:
(a)
GCP Background Information and GCP Background Patent Rights;
(b)
Copyrights; and
(c)
Software Rights.

1.013
"Grace Background Information" shall mean Information which is within the Grace Technologies Field that is :
(a)
owned or controlled by Grace (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others); and
(b)
disclosed to or possessed by GCP pursuant to its conduct of the GCP Business prior to separation; and
(c)
developed (conceived or reduced to practice), or acquired by Grace, on or before the Effective Date.

1.014
"Grace Background Patent Rights" shall mean Patents of any country of the world which are:
(a)
owned or controlled (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others) by Grace; and
(b)
cover inventions that are (i) within Grace Background Information, and (ii) developed (i.e. conceived or reduced to practice) or acquired by Grace on or before the Effective Date.

1.015
“Grace Business" shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with the business (including such activities as engineering, technical and support services,

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research and development, manufacture (including tolling), purchase, sale, marketing, distribution, use, lease, or licensing, associated with any property, product, process, service, or equipment) relating to the Grace Technologies Field as conducted by Grace-Conn and its Affiliates during the one year period prior to the Effective Date.

1.016
“Grace Intellectual Property” shall mean intellectual property included in one of the following categories, that is owned or controlled (in the sense of having the right to license without accounting to others) by Grace on the Effective Date, and that is used in, necessary, or useful for the conduct of the GCP Business:
(a)
Grace Background Information and Grace Background Patent Rights;
(b)
Copyrights; and
(c)
Software Rights;

1.017
"Information" shall mean information and things, such as all technical, financial and business information, and all tangible (e.g. communicated or acquired in writing, texts, sketches, drawings, blueprints, photographs, charts, tables, projects, translations, plans or any other form) and intangible (e.g., communicated or acquired orally, electronically, through audiovisual means, electronic media, observation or examination) embodiments thereof of any kind whatsoever, including by way of example but without limitation, trade secret information or know-how, formulations, financial documents, financial statements, accounting documents, financial type reports, including audit reports, findings, studies, forecasts, client lists, personnel plans, marketing and advertising plans and strategies, financial and accounting plans and information, projections or budgets, formulas, opinions, material applications, catalyst chemistry, market information, manufacturing conditions and methods, machinery, reactor designs, process technologies, laboratory analyses and techniques, samples, sample preparation methods, information embodied in samples, software, information embodied in software, analytical methods, researcher identity, technical data, operational data, engineering data, technical specifications, including physical, compositional and performance specifications, equipment specifications, equipment uses, product or process applications, identity of products and/or processes that are patented, and developments in relation thereto, patent specification information in relation thereto, information on new products and services being researched or developed, or the presentation, features, performance, utility or functioning of the same, and any and all other information

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and material which relates in any way to a business or affairs of a party and the like of every kind.

1.018
"Party" shall mean Grace-Conn, Grace-CoKG, and/or GCP, as the context in which the term is used implies, provided that in provisions that speak as if there were only two parties, e.g., "either Party", "other Party", "non-defaulting Party" and like phrases, then Party shall be deemed to refer to GCP, on the one hand, and Grace-Conn and Grace-CoKG, on the other hand.

1.019
"Patents" shall mean all United States and foreign patents (including but not limited to patents of importation, improvement, or addition, utility models, and inventors certificates), patent applications, patent disclosures, memoranda of inventions, including all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in part, substitutions, or extensions of any of the foregoing.

1.020
“Software Rights” shall mean all rights in software and firmware, including data files, source code, object code, application programming interfaces, architecture, files, records, schematics, computerized databases and other related specifications and documentation.

1.021
"Representatives" of a Party shall mean Affiliates of that Party, and its and their directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants, consultants, financial advisors and other representatives.

1.022
“Voting Securities” of a person means securities having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other governing body of such person, irrespective of whether or not at the time securities of any other class or classes of such person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency.

2.0     INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSE

2.01
Subject to all the terms and provisions of this Agreement, Grace agrees to grant and hereby grants to GCP, a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except as provided herein), royalty free right and license under Grace Intellectual Property for the sole purpose of conducting the GCP Business. GCP may extend this license to an Affiliate

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(provided that such Affiliate(s) do not conduct business within the Grace Business) to the extent necessary for the Affiliate to conduct the GCP Business (but any such extension shall terminate in the event such person ceases to be an Affiliate of GCP).

2.02
GCP shall have the non-exclusive right to grant sub-licenses of the rights received hereunder to any third party except that any sub-licensee of GCP shall not have the right to (a) grant further sub-licenses, other than the right to sub-license customers to use and sell products made pursuant to conducting the GCP Business, and (b) enforce any licensed Patent Rights. For avoidance of doubt, any sub-license granted by GCP hereunder is limited to sub-licensee’s activities within the GCP Business. Neither GCP nor its sub-licensee shall extend the sub-license to (i) a customer or an Affiliate with respect to conducting activities outside the GCP Business or with respect to conducting activities competing with Grace in the Grace Business. All sub-licenses will be in writing and GCP will deliver to Grace a true copy of each sub-license within thirty (30) days after it is executed.

2.03    Grace reserves to itself and its Affiliates all rights granted hereunder.

2.04
GCP acknowledges and agrees that the Grace Intellectual Property shall remain the exclusive property of Grace and that GCP shall have and hold no right or interest of any kind therein, apart from that which is specifically set forth in this Agreement. GCP shall make no attempt in any country to obtain additional or further patent or copyright protection for the Grace Intellectual Property, without prior permission in writing from Grace.

2.05
GCP agrees to grant and hereby grants a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty free, non-transferrable (except as provided hereunder) license to Grace, under GCP Intellectual Property for the sole purpose of conducting the Grace Business. Grace may extend this license to an Affiliate (provided that such Affiliate(s) do not conduct business within the GCP Business) to the extent necessary for the Affiliate to conduct the Grace Business (but any such extension shall terminate in the event such person ceases to be an Affiliate of Grace).

2.06
Grace shall have the non-exclusive right to grant sub-licenses of the rights received hereunder to any third party except that any sub-licensee of Grace shall not have the right to (a) grant further sub-licenses, other than the right to sub-license customers to use and sell products made pursuant to conducting the Grace Business, and (b) enforce any licensed Patent Rights. For avoidance of doubt, any sub-license granted by Grace hereunder is

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limited to sub-licensee’s activities within the Grace Business. Neither Grace nor its sub-licensee shall extend the sub-license to a customer or an Affiliate with respect to conducting activities outside the Grace Business or with respect to conducting activities competing with GCP in the GCP Business. All sub-licenses will be in writing and Grace will deliver to GCP a true copy of each sub-license within thirty (30) days after it is executed.

2.07    GCP reserves to itself and its Affiliates all rights granted hereunder.

2.08
Grace acknowledges and agrees that the GCP Intellectual Property shall remain the exclusive property of GCP and that Grace shall have and hold no right or interest of any kind therein, apart from that which is specifically set forth in this Agreement. Grace shall make no attempt in any country to obtain additional or further patent or copyright protection for the GCP Intellectual Property, without prior permission in writing from GCP.

2.09
Each Party shall have sole discretion in prosecuting and maintaining its Background Patent Rights in the respective patent offices around the world, including the discretion to amend, abandon, disclaim, and dedicate individual application claims to the public, as well as the sole discretionary right to allow to lapse or to abandon issued patents included in its Background Patent Rights without accounting to the other Party.

2.010
To the extent that individuals employed by one Party after separation are inventors on Background Patent Rights owned by the other Party after separation, the non-owning Party agrees to execute such documents, and provide such assistance as may be as is reasonably required in carrying out the filing, prosecution, or enforcement of the other Party’s Background Patent Rights. All expenses for filing, maintaining, and enforcing such Background Patent Rights shall be paid solely by the owning Party, and all compensation received from the enforcement of such Background Patent Rights shall be retained soley by the owning Party.

3.0     TERM AND TERMINATION

3.01
Subject to all of the provisions of this Article 3, this Agreement shall become effective on the Effective Date and, unless sooner terminated in accordance with the provisions herein, this Agreement shall expire the earlier of 20 years after the Effective Date or the date of last expiration of any patent included in the Background Patent Rights licensed hereunder. Following such expiration, each Party will be deemed to have a paid-up, irrevocable, fully

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transferrable non-exclusive license to use the Background Information of the other Party solely within its respective GCP Business or Grace Business.

4.0     TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY

4.01
As a result of the relationship between Grace and GCP prior to separation, each Party acknowledges that it is already in possession of Background Information licensed to it hereunder from the other Party and no further disclosure thereof is needed to enable either Party to conduct their respective Grace Business or GCP Business.

5.0     IMPROVEMENTS

5.01
Neither Party is under an obligation to notify or license the other Party to improvements made by a respective Party licensee to Background Information of a respective Party licensor.

6.0     INDEMNIFICATION

6.01
GCP’s indemnity obligations hereunder to Grace or any Affiliate of Grace, and Grace’s indemnity obligations hereunder to GCP or any Affiliate of GCP, in each case shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the Separation and Distribution Agreement entered into by and among W. R. Grace & Co., Grace-Conn and GCP (the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”) on the Effective Date or as otherwise entered in connection with this Agreement.

7.0     CONFIDENTIALITY


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7.01
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Receiving Party shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to:
(a)
treat and maintain Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party as confidential;
(b)
not disclose Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party to any third party (other than any third party that is a sub-licensee in accordance with Article 2, or potential customers, sub-contractors and materials or component suppliers that are otherwise bound by terms of secrecy and confidentiality at least as stringent as the terms and limitations of this Agreement);
(c)
use Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party only for the purposes of exercising rights or fulfilling obligations under this Agreement (including, in connection with the granting of any sublicenses to other parties in accordance with Article 2, or potential customers, sub-contractors and materials or component suppliers that are otherwise bound by terms of secrecy and confidentiality at least as stringent as the terms and limitations of this Agreement) or as authorized in writing by the Disclosing Party, and not for any other purpose; and
(d)
not include Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party in any patent, patent application or other public document.

7.02
The obligations set forth in Section 7.01 shall expire or terminate twenty (20) years after the Effective Date; provided, that nothing herein shall relieve any Party from any breach of this Agreement occurring prior to the end of such obligation period.


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7.03
For purposes of this Agreement, GCP will be deemed the Disclosing Party (and Grace will be the Receiving Party) of GCP Background Information licensed hereunder, and Grace will be deemed the Disclosing Party (and GCP will be the Receiving Party) of Grace Background Information licensed hereunder. Neither Party’s possession of the other Party’s Background Information prior to separation, and thereafter, shall in any way diminish the status of such party as Receiving Party, or the status of such information as Confidential Information with respect to the Receiving Party’s confidentiality obligations pursuant to this Article 7. For example, possession prior to separation by GCP of Grace Confidential Information does not disqualify GCP as a Receiving Party or the obligations of confidentiality and restricted use associated therewith. Simarily, prior possession by GCP before separation of Grace Confidential Information does not qualify as an exception under subpart (c) of Section 1.02 (Confidential Information definition), unless the cause of such possession after the date hereof arises from one of the other exceptions to Section 1.02 (e.g., such Background Information enters the public domain).

7.04
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 7, a Party may (a) disclose Confidential Information to its Representatives; (b) disclose Confidential Information to the other Party’s Representatives; and (c) receive Confidential Information of the other Party through its Representatives, in each case, to the extent (i) reasonably necessary for the performance of this Agreement; and (ii) its Representatives agree to be bound by the terms of this Article 7 as if they were parties hereto. Each Party shall be responsible for, and hereby assumes all liability for Damages (as defined hereinabove at Section 6.03) related to, or arising out of, any failure of its Representatives, and potential customers, sub-contractors and materials or component suppliers, to comply with the terms of this Article 7 and hereby agrees to take, at its sole expense, all reasonable measures (including court proceedings) to restrain its Representatives and its sub-licensees, potential customers, sub-contractors and materials or component suppliers, from prohibited or unauthorized disclosure or use of the other Party’s Confidential Information.

8.0     PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

8.01
Each Party shall use all reasonable and proper efforts and means to comply with prevailing laws and regulations, of the countries in which the rights licensed hereunder are exploited. Neither Party shall commit any act which will in any way prejudice or injure the business or goodwill of the other Party.


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9.0     ACTIONS RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT

9.01
Each Party shall notify the other Party of any misappropriation by a third party of the other Party’s Background Information, of any infringement by a third party of the other Party’s Background Patent Rights, or of any tortious action by a third party which relates to or affects any of the rights or obligations set forth in this Agreement, in each case promptly upon such Party becoming aware of such action. In the event of any such action, the Party owning the Background Information or Background Patent Rights shall have the sole right, but not the obligation, at its own expense and with the right to all recoveries, to take appropriate legal measures to quiet such action. The owning Party shall have sole and complete discretion in determining and/or undertaking all matters relating to enforcement of its Background Information and Background Patent Rights. Notwithstanding the exclusive right of the owning Party to bring suit, the Parties will consult together as to the best course to pursue in connection with the above or other legal proceeding, and if deemed advantageous in the owning Party’s sole judgment, such proceeding may be brought in the name of the Parties jointly.

10.0     DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

10.01
Neither Party makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied:
(a)
that the use or sub-license of its Background Information will not infringe patent or other rights of third parties; or
(b)
with respect to safety, quality, efficacy, fitness for a particular purpose, or merchantability of its Background Information used or sublicensed by the other Party.

11.0     COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS

11.01
Each Party shall do all things necessary to comply with applicable governmental and municipal regulations, laws and requirements as they pertain to license agreements and arrangements or any part thereof to the end that this Agreement will be fully effective and controlling according to its terms.

12.0     NOTICES


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12.01
Any notice, request, demand or other communication under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be given (and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt) by delivery in person, by standard form of telecommunications (fax, email, telex and in the case of email, such notice shall be deemed effective only if receipt is confirmed by telephone or return email), by courier, or by registered or certified mail, postage pre-paid, return receipt requested, at the address of the Parties as set forth below, or such other address of which a Party may notify the other Party in accordance with this paragraph 12.01.

If to GRACE:     W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21044
Attention: Corporate Secretary
Fax: 410-531-4545
Email: Mark.Shelnitz@grace.com

If to GCP:         GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02140-1623
Attention: Corporate Secretary
Email: Jack.Kapples@gcpat.com

If to Grace-CoKG :    Grace GmbH & Co. KG
In der Hollerhecke 1,
Worms, D-67547, Germany
Attention: Peter Stampp
Fax: +49 6241 403 1804
Email: peter.stampp@grace.com

12.02
Any Party may change the address to which notices are to be sent by notifying the other Party hereto in writing in due manner as hereinabove provided.

13.0     ASSIGNMENTS AND EXTENSIONS

13.01
Each Party reserves the right to assign all or part of its rights, title and interest in this Agreement and all or part of its rights, privileges, immunities, liabilities and obligations hereunder to: (a) any Affiliate of that Party, for so long as such entity remains an Affiliate or

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(b) any successor in interest to that Party’s business operating wholly or partly within its respective GCP Technologies Field or Grace Technologies Field, and (c) any purchaser of any Party’s plant operating within the respective GCP Technologies Field or Grace Technologies Field pursuant to the grants made hereunder.

13.02
Except as permitted in paragraph 13.01 above, this Agreement and the rights and obligations obtained hereunder may not be assigned by any Party, unless express written consent is given to such assignment by both GCP and Grace, and any assignments made contrary to this paragraph 13.02 shall be void ab initio . For avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this paragraph 13.02 only apply to this Agreement and the rights and obligations obtained hereunder, and shall not apply nor prohibit assignment of a Party’s Intellecutal Property to a third party provided the assignee or transferee of such Intellectual Property agrees to the terms and conditions hereunder with respect to the license grants and confidentiality obligations hereunder.

13.03
With respect to a Party’s right to extend this Agreement to any of its Affiliates under Section 2.01 or 2.05, all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, except the right to extend, shall apply to each such Affiliate to which this license has been extended to the same extent as they apply to the extending Party, and the operations of such Affiliates shall be deemed to be the operations of the extending Party hereunder and the extending Party shall account therefor and be primarily responsible for the performance by such Affiliate of all of its obligations hereunder.

14.0     CONTROLLING LAW

14.01
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without recourse to any conflict or choice of laws principles.

15.0     GENERAL PROVISIONS

15.01
Entire Agreement : This Agreement, together with the Separation and Distribution Agreement by and among W. R. Grace & Co., Grace-Conn and GCP and the ancillary agreements referred to therein, set forth the entire agreement and understanding of the Parties in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby and supersedes all other prior agreements, arrangements and understandings related to the subject matter.


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15.02
Binding Effect : All of the terms, covenants, representations, warranties, and conditions of this Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

15.03
Amendment and Waiver : This Agreement may be amended, modified, superseded or cancelled, and any of the terms, covenants, representations, warranties or conditions hereof may be waived, only by a written instrument executed by all the Parties, and in the case of a waiver, by the Party waiving compliance. The failure of any Party at any time or times to require performance of any provisions hereof shall in no manner affect its right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver by any Party of any condition, or of the breach of any term, covenant, representation or warranty contained in this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances, shall be deemed to be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any such condition or breach, or a waiver of any other condition or of the breach of any other term, covenant, representation, or warranty of this Agreement.

15.04
Paragraph, Section and Article Headings : The paragraph, Section and Article headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only, and shall not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

15.05
Executed Counterparts : This Agreement may be signed in separate counterparts with an inked handwritten signature, each of which counterparts when so executed and delivered in hard copy form as executed, shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute a fully executed instrument, e.g., partially executed signature pages may be detached from the counterparts and attached to a single copy of this Agreement to physically form one document. In addition, fully executed instruments, in counterpart or non-counterpart format, bearing one or more, or all signatures that have been converted to electronic format (e.g., PDF) and thereafter fixed in a tangible copy before or after being electronically transmitted (e.g., by fax or e-Mail) shall be effective in all respects and treated the same as original hand written signatures placed on hard copies. It is contemplated, although not required, that each Party will provide each other Party with a hard copy counterpart inked original of its signatory so that all parties will have at least counterpart inked original hard copy signatures of all signatories.

15.06
Export Control : Each Party agrees to abide by any restrictions or conditions respecting the export or re-export of the other Party’s Confidential Information disclosed or possessed hereunder which is subject to export control under the Export Administration Regulations

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of the United States Department of Commerce, or export control regulations of other United States Government agencies including the Department of State and Department of Treasury. Each Party agrees that it will not export other Party’s Confidential Information, or the direct product thereof, directly or indirectly, to any countries to which such export is now or hereafter becomes illegal under any such regulations.

15.07
Further Assurances : Each of the parties hereto agrees to take such measures, perform such acts, and execute such documents as may be reasonably requested by the other Party in furtherance of the provisions and intentions of this Agreement.

15.08
Survival : In the event of any termination of this Agreement, the following obligations shall continue in full force and effect: the Indemnification obligations pursuant to Article 6, and the Confidentiality obligations pursuant to Article 7.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first set forth above.

GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
 
 
 
 
By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
Mark A. Shelnitz
Mark A. Shelnitz
Vice President and Assistant Secretary
Vice President and Secretary
 
 
Date: January 27, 2016
Date: January 27, 2016
 
 
 
 
Grace GmbH & Co. KG
 
 
 
By: /s/ Robin Pearce
 
Robin Pearce
 
Managing Director
 
 
 
Date: January 26, 2016
 



    
[Signature Page to Cross License Agreement]
Exhibit 10.5


GRACE TRANSITIONAL LICENSE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT dated January 27, 2016, (Effective Date) is by and between
W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Connecticut, USA having an office at 7500 Grace Drive, Columbia, Maryland 21044, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Grace”), and GCP Applied Technologies Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, USA, having an office at 7500 Grace Drive, Columbia, Maryland 21044, USA, and, after the separation described herein below, having an office at 62 Whittemore Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (hereinafter referred to as “GCP”).

WITNESSETH THAT:

WHEREAS, Grace is engaged in the manufacture and sale of a wide variety of chemical and industrial products in a number of different fields;
WHEREAS, W. R. Grace & Co., the parent company of Grace, has approved a plan to separate the businesses of Grace into two independent, publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries;
WHEREAS, the effective date of said separation is February 3, 2016;
WHEREAS, after the separation, Grace and its subsidiaries will continue to own and operate businesses in the Materials Technologies Field (defined hereinafter), Incubator Technologies Field (defined hereinafter) and the Catalyst Technologies Field (defined hereinafter); said businesses collectively being referred to as the Grace Business (defined hereinafter);
WHEREAS, after the separation, GCP and its subsidiaries will operate businesses in the Construction Technologies Field (defined hereinafter), Container Technologies Field (defined hereinafter), and Sodasorb® Technologies Field (defined hereinafter); said businesses collectively being referred to as the GCP Business (defined hereinafter);
WHEREAS, pursuant to the separation, Grace and its Affiliates (hereinafter defined) have assigned to GCP all intellectual property that was used primarily in or primarily held for use in the GCP Business pursuant to the separation;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the separation, Grace has not assigned or transferred any ownership rights in the Grace name, logos, marks, color and font style schemes, slogans, taglines and other Grace uses in business and unit names as well as in domain names (“Grace Marks” defined hereinafter) to GCP;
WHEREAS, prior to the separation, Grace used the Grace Marks in the GCP Business on products, packaging for the products, and in product documentation, advertising and other print media as well as in associated services for the products;
WHEREAS, while GCP will be transitioning from uses of the Grace Marks to new trade names, trademarks and domain names which do not bear the Grace name, GCP will need to continue use of the Grace Marks being used at the time of the separation in the GCP Business for a period of time in order to continue its business transition to non-Grace-bearing marks and to exhaust its existing inventories of products

    




and other materials bearing one or more of the Grace Marks in a manner consistent with its reasonably practicable “phase-out” use periods as will be set forth herein; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, Grace hereby grants and GCP hereby receives a license to use the Grace Marks in the GCP Business, in accordance with the terms and conditions as will be set forth herein.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants hereinafter set forth, the parties agree as follows:

1.0     DEFINITIONS

As used herein, the terms hereinafter defined shall have only the meaning specified therefor:    
1.01
“Affiliate” of any specified person shall mean a person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the specified person. The term “control” with respect to an Affiliate (including “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of said person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. The term “person” means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, or any other business or organization entity, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
1.02
“Change of Control” shall mean the consummation of (A) any transaction or series of related transactions (i) pursuant to which any person or group (within the meaning Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange of 1934, as amended) becomes the direct or indirect, beneficial or record holders of shares or other equity interests representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate ordinary voting power of GCP or (ii) which constitutes or results in the sale or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of GCP or (B) a reorganization, merger, consolidation or other corporate transaction involving GCP, in each case, with respect to which the stockholders of GCP immediately prior to such transaction do not, immediately after the transaction, own fifty (50%) percent or more of the combined voting power of the corporation or other entity resulting from such transaction.
1.03
“Construction Products” shall mean any one or more products developed and sold for use in improving or facilitating one or more of the mechanical strength, stability, fire, health, hygiene, and/or environmental safety, efficiency, accessibility, noise protection, energy usage, economics, and/or heat retention, of at least one of residential, commercial, multi-family, health-care, environmental, industrial, institutional, nautical, aeronautical, civil engineering, or oil well, construction works, including but not limited to, properties of cement, mortar, masonry, shotcrete, concrete, or other cementitious compositions.
1.04
“Effective Date” shall mean the date appearing at the beginning of this Agreement.
1.05
Field Definitions:

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(a)
“GCP Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services, or equipment relating to or used with the Construction Technologies Field, Packaging Technologies Field, or Sodasorb® Technologies Field, wherein:
(i)
“Construction Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with one or more Construction Products such as for example:
(A)
specialty construction chemicals such as cementitious compositions and additives and admixtures therefor, including cement additives (e.g., grinding additives, quality improvers, chromium (IV) reducers, pack set inhibitors, and silica products) used in the manufacture of Portland cement and/or other cements, and/or, limestone, gypsum, supplemental cementitious materials such as fly ash and granulated blast furnace slag, and mixtures of any of the foregoing; and admixtures to improve one or more properties of cement, mortar, masonry, shotcrete and concrete (or other hydratable cementitious materials), such as compressive strength enhancers, set-accelerators, set-retarders, water-reducers (e.g., plasticizers, superplasticizers), fibers, shrink-reducers, microsilicas, corrosion inhibitors, water-proofing agents, form coatings, form release agents, sealers, and surface retarders, air management systems (including air entrainers, air detrainers, surfactants, etc.), bond strength enhancers, crack control additives, pigments and colorants and the like; agents for treating aggregates used in construction such as clay-mitigating agents or sand treatment chemicals (e.g., clay-inerting agents for improving dosage efficiency of chemical additives or admixtures when used in clay-bearing aggregates such as sand or crush stone), and chemicals for drilling muds, and the like);
(B)
specialty building materials such as:
(I)
fireproofing compositions and materials such as sprayable or trowel-applied fireproofing compositions, firestop articles, and heat insulative barriers; and waterproofing membranes and liquids such as preformed waterproofing laminates, roofing underlayments, strips, tapes, flashings, house wraps, primers, coatings, sealants, mastics, water stops, soil filters, soil retention systems, and drainage members;

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(II)
structural adhesives, mastics, primers, tie coating layers, barrier coating layers, laminates, and civil engineering materials incorporating any of the foregoing;
(III)
grouts and mortars (including bagged or injectable), grout wall systems, and lightweight concrete or cementitious foam or foaming materials for making cementitious building materials and components therefore;
(IV)
building envelope materials (including weather-proofing barrier materials and membranes, house wrap, air barriers, vapor barriers, vapor permeable air barriers and coatings, roofing barrier systems, root barrier layers for green roofs, etc.);
(C)
equipment, used in building, repairing, strengthening, or protecting
(I)
residential or commercial buildings; and
(II)
civil engineering structures such as roads, bridges, shipping docks, loading platforms, railroads, subways, dams, tunnels, and the like;
(D)
equipment for transporting, monitoring sensing, mixing, delivering, metering, pumping, applying, analyzing, testing, spraying, injecting, and/or dispensing any of the cementitious materials (e.g., concrete or other cementitious mixes, aggregates), specialty construction chemicals, or specialty building materials described above;
(E)
conversion of biomass materials or byproducts obtained from processes which convert biomass (e.g., crude glycerin byproducts from biodiesel fuel production) into components for use in Construction Products; and
(F)
components of any of the above (including hardware, software, computer systems, and business methods relative to any of the above).
(ii)
“Packaging Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with containers such for example as:
(A)
container closures (e.g., crowns, caps, can ends, lug caps, drum covers, pail covers etc.);
(B)
sealant and coating compositions for rigid, semi-rigid, and flexible containers and/or closures (e.g., interior and exterior coatings, films, and other surface coverings, quality preservation materials for such containers/closures, lubricants, cements, solders, drawing aids, cleaning aids and equipment to apply such materials);

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(C)
additives, other chemicals and polymeric master batches thereof that functionalize the container products included in Section 1.05(a)(ii) (A) and (B)above, including, but not limited to, oxygen and moisture scavengers and shelf life enhancing additives; and
(D)
machine parts for ageing packing equipments;.
(iii)
“Sodasorb® Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with carbon dioxide adsorbents used in anesthesiology, medical rebreathing devices and other applications and related website information for the aforesaid goods.
(b)
“Grace Technologies Field” shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used within the Catalyst Technologies Field or Materials Technologies Field, wherein:
(i)
"Catalyst Technologies Field" shall mean products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with catalysts, catalyst supports, or components thereof such as for example:
(A)
inorganic oxide or metal containing materials, compositions, or additives, adapted for various uses, including:
(I)
catalysts for the refining of hydrocarbon and other convertible feedstocks, e.g., biomass, in the chemical and petrochemical industries, including but not limited to cracking catalysts, hydroprocessing catalysts, fluid cracking catalysts, gasoline sulfur reduction catalysts, hydrogenation catalysts,
(II)
olefin polymerization catalysts including polyethylene and polypropylene catalysts and components thereof;
(III)
specialty catalysts including dehydrogenation /hydrogenation catalysts;
(IV)
pollution and emission control additives for the petroleum refining industry (e.g., SOX, NOX, H2S, and CO control catalysts);
(V)
additives for modifying or affecting petroleum, chemical and petrochemical processes (e.g., olefins, octane enhancement and combustion promoter additives);
(VI)
additives for plastics;
(VII)
catalyst supports and components of catalysts;
(B)
the design, operation, and maintenance of chemical plants, and related software, for the manufacture of olefin-based polymers and/or copolymers, including those based on propylene;
(C)
polymers produced by the chemical plants in (B), and additives and other materials utilized in the manufacture of such polymers;
(D)
metals reclamation from spent catalysts;

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(E)
carbon credit trading (e.g., purchases, sales, or donations of credits to meet individual, corporate, or institutional (e.g., governmental bodies, educational institutions, or non-profit organizations) goals for environmental quality, or to meet the requirements of environmental or energy policy regulations);
(F)
products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with:
(I)    converting biomass or petroleum feedstocks into chemicals and fuels including products used in bio-separations (e.g., biomass separations), and bio-catalysis;
(II)    catalysts for converting gas to liquids (e.g., in Fischer Tropsch processes) and catalysts for converting coal to useful chemical intermediates and products (e.g., olefins); and
(III)    methanol to olefins (MTO) catalysts.
(ii)
"Materials Technologies Field" shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with products, processes, services, or equipment relating to or used with engineered materials, analytical devices and associated consumables, pharmaceutical compounds components thereof, excipients and reference standards therefore, such for example as :
(A)
silica containing materials, compositions, or additives, adapted for various uses, including adsorbents, absorbents flatting agents, thickeners, molecular sieves, anti-blocking agents useful in the petroleum, petrochemical, construction, and plastics industries, coatings, food and beverage, detergents, tires, castings, electronics, digital media, investment casting, cosmetic, paper, medical, and personal hygiene;
(B)
particulate, monolithic or fluidic organic or inorganic separation medias, including, polymeric supports, gas chromatography stationary phases, reversed phase, normal phase, ion exchange, gel permeation, ion exclusion, size exclusion, chiral, affinity, hydrophobic interaction and hydrophilic interaction, medias, and the like;
(C)
gas chromatography capillary, gas chromatography packed, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, capillary zone electrophoresis, supercritical fluid, Flash chromatography and solid phase extraction columns; analytical, preparative and process columns; thin layer chromatography and electrophoresis plates; and the like;
(D)
preparative, process and analytical instrumentation including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, flash chromatography, and solid phase extraction systems, pumps, sample injection systems, heaters, recyclers, degassers, detectors, evaporative light scattering detectors, fraction collectors, gas generators, data systems, software, and the like;

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(E)
preparative, process, analytical and sample preparative ancillary equipment including valves, tubing, fittings, syringes, filters, reagents, standards, maintenance parts, and the like;
(F)
certified reference standards for forensic, clinical and pharmaceutical industries;
(G)
mesoporous, silica–based, multifunctional excipients manufactured in compliance with appropriate regional laws and guidelines for products used in food and pharmaceutical applications;
(H)
pharmaceutical intermediates, i.e., amino acid derivatives (natural & unnatural), peptide fragments, and chiral intermediates for pharmaceutical applications; (I)    products, processes, services or equipment relating to or used with
materials, compositions, or additives adapted for drug delivery; and
(J)
components of any of the above.

1.06
“GCP Business” shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with the business (including such activities as engineering, technical and support services, research and development, manufacture (including tolling), purchase, sale, marketing, distribution, use, lease, or licensing, associated with a property, product, process, service, or equipment) relating to the GCP Technologies Field as conducted by Grace and its Affiliates prior to the Effective Date.
1.07
“Grace Business" shall mean activities associated directly or indirectly with the business (including such activities as engineering, technical and support services, research and development, manufacture (including tolling), purchase, sale, marketing, distribution, use, lease, or licensing, associated with any property, product, process, service, or equipment) relating to the Grace Technologies Field as conducted by Grace and its Affiliates prior to the Effective Date.
1.08
"Information" shall mean information and things, such as all technical, financial and business information, and all tangible (e.g. communicated or acquired in writing, texts, sketches, drawings, blueprints, photographs, charts, tables, projects, translations, plans or any other form) and intangible (e.g., communicated or acquired orally, electronically, through audiovisual means, electronic media, observation or examination) embodiments thereof of any kind whatsoever, including by way of example but without limitation, trade secret information or know-how, formulations, financial documents, financial statements, accounting documents, financial type reports, including audit reports, findings, studies, forecasts, client lists, personnel plans, marketing and advertising plans and strategies, financial and accounting plans and information, projections or budgets, formulas, opinions, material applications, catalyst chemistry, market information, manufacturing conditions and methods, machinery, reactor designs, process technologies, laboratory analyses and techniques, samples, sample preparation methods, information embodied in samples, software, information embodied in software, analytical methods, researcher identity, technical data, operational data, engineering data, technical specifications, including physical, compositional and performance specifications, equipment

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specifications, equipment uses, product or process applications, identity of products and/or processes that are patented, and developments in relation thereto, patent specification information in relation thereto, information on new products and services being researched or developed, or the presentation, features, performance, utility or functioning of the same, and any and all other information and material which relates in any way to a business or affairs of a party and the like of every kind.
1.09
“Grace Marks” (which are the subject of the license grant under this Agreement) shall mean and refer to trademarks containing the word GRACE, and any and all logos, marks, color and font style schemes, slogans, taglines, uses in business and unit names as well as in domain names, foreign language equivalents, foreign language character or font marks and transliterations, and all other indications of origin which include GRACE or Grace and any name similar to GRACE whether registered, applied for, renewed, or unregistered, and the goodwill embodied therein or associated with Grace, whether Grace appears alone or appears in connection with another (non-Grace) word, mark, logo, color and font style scheme, slogan, tagline, use in a business or unit name as well as in a domain name and any other indication of origin.
1.010
“Marketing Materials” shall mean all advertising and marketing materials, including but not limited to packaging, tags, labels, advertising, signage, vehicle lettering, marketing, promotions, displays, display fixtures, instructions, technical sheets, user guides, data sheets, warranties, websites and other materials of any and all types, and in written, digital or any other format, associated with products, services or domain names within the GCP Business that are marked with any of the Grace Marks or any marks and names similar thereto used and in existence at the time of the separation.
1.011
“Phase-Out Period” shall mean the period of time prescribed in Section 2.06 to transition from uses of the Grace Marks to new trade names, trademarks and domain names which do not bear the Grace name or Grace corporate slogan or tagline with or without the Grace name contained therein (e.g., where “Grace” is replaced by “GCP” or other non-Grace term). Obligations with respect to the Phase-Out Period are provided in Sections 2.07 and 2.08 below.
1.012
"Representatives" of a party hereto shall mean Affiliates of that party, and its and their directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants, consultants, financial advisors and other representatives.
 
2.0     TRADEMARK LICENSE

2.01
Subject to the terms, conditions and limitations of this Agreement, Grace hereby grants to GCP a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive right and license to use the Grace Marks solely during the relevant Phase-Out Period Terms (as defined in Section 2.06 below) in connection with the GCP Business, so long as GCP shall comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. GCP shall use the Grace Marks only in a manner in conformity with the practices of the GCP Business prior to the Effective Date, and only in a manner that does not harm or disparage Grace or its respective Affiliates or the reputation or goodwill in connection with GRACE. It is agreed and understood by the

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parties hereto that no right or license is granted by this Agreement to use any other trade name, trademark or service mark owned by Grace except as expressly provided by this Section 2.01.
2.02
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, GCP is not permitted to make new uses of the Grace Marks or use the Grace Marks in new stylized or logo forms, or in different color or font schemes than used prior to the Effective Date.
2.03
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, GCP is not permitted to use the Grace Marks in connection with any fields of use outside of the GCP Business.
2.04
Domain Names. The Phase-Out Period shall apply to domain names and registrations bearing the Grace Marks that are active and in use at the time of the separation. Such uses will roll-over or divert to the new GCP website and/or other GCP domain names, as requested by GCP. For those domain names bearing the Grace Marks that are not active at the Effective Date, GCP will not use them, and they will not be renewed or maintained by GCP. For those domain names and registrations bearing any Grace Mark obtained prior to the separation and in use, GCP acknowledges and agrees that it shall transfer control thereof (and to the extent relevant, ownership thereof) to Grace as soon as it is practicable.
2.05
The license shall include the right to grant to GCP’s Affiliates sub-licenses to phase-out uses of the licensed Grace Marks in connection with the GCP Business, provided that such Affiliate(s) do not conduct business within the Grace Business (but any such sublicense shall terminate in the event such person ceases to be an Affiliate of GCP). All the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall apply to each such Affiliate to which this license has been sublicensed to the same extent as they apply to GCP, the operations of such Affiliates shall be deemed to be the operations of GCP hereunder, and GCP shall account therefor and be primarily responsible for the performance by such Affiliate of all of its obligations hereunder. In addition, to the extent GCP has become a party to an agreement as result of the separation, or otherwise is as of the Effective Date a party to any agreement, in either case which provides a third party a license or right to use a Grace Mark in connection with a business arrangement with GCP, GCP will take all reasonable steps to cause such third party to cease its use of the Grace Marks as soon as practical, the period of time for ceasing such use not to exceed two years. The license granted under this Agreement shall not be sub-licensable except as set forth in this Section 2.05.
2.06
Phase-out Period Terms. The license grant of Section 2.01 shall remain in force during a particular Phase-Out Period which shall extend for all those uses on or with goods and services and Marketing Materials bearing the Grace Marks and existing at the time of the separation, for two (2) years (hereinafter “Term 1”) except that for the uses of GRACE in connection with ICE & WATER SHIELD, ICE & WATER SHIELD HT, GRACE ULTRA and GRACE SELECT only, GCP shall be permitted a phase-out period of up to ten (10) years from the Effective Date (hereinafter “Term 2”; and Term 1 and Term 2 hereinafter collectively being referred to as “Terms” and individually as a “Term”), unless earlier terminated in accordance with the other provisions of this Agreement.

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2.07
Throughout the relevant Terms as set forth in Section 2.06, GCP will diligently work to secure any known legal, governmental and regulatory approval requirements needed to cease all use of the relevant Grace Marks by the end of the respective Terms.
2.08
In order to avoid confusing or misleading the public and customers about the relationship between the parties after the Effective Date, as well to avoid confusing or misleading the public and customers as to the source of GCP’s goods, GCP shall make commercially reasonable efforts to revise its Marketing Materials to remove all uses of, and references to, the Grace Marks and those references which would otherwise identify Grace as a company related to or affiliated with GCP during the relevant Phase-Out Period Terms. Such efforts will be in good faith. The period of time in which GCP shall complete such revisions shall be on a product-by-product basis in accordance with the Terms set forth in Section 2.06, and shall correspond to time periods commercially and reasonably necessary to exhaust existing inventories of such products and other materials bearing one or more of the Grace Marks. The periods of time shall also be that commercially and reasonably necessary for GCP to continue the current goodwill associated with the GCP Business as of the Effective Date, while generating and transitioning to a distinctive goodwill under the GCP name, or otherwise under another brand other than that associated with the Grace Marks. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the periods of time for such transitions shall not in any event exceed the relevant Phase-Out Period Terms as set forth in Section 2.06.
2.09
GCP shall provide Grace with annual updates regarding the status of the phase-out of its use of the Grace Marks, and GCP shall provide Grace a summary report at the end of the respective Phase-Out Period Terms 1 and 2 (as set forth in Section 2.06) which provides confirmation that all use of the Grace Marks relevant for that Term has ceased.
2.010
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.01 above:
(a)
GCP may terminate its rights to use the licensed Grace Marks at any time prior to the expiration of the relevant Phase-Out Period upon thirty (30) days' written notice to Grace.
(b)
Grace may terminate the license grant of Section 2.01 and this Agreement (provided that no such termination shall relieve GCP for any breach prior to such termination) if GCP materially breaches any of its obligations under this Agreement. Grace’s termination of this Agreement and such license grant shall be effective sixty (60) days after written notice to GCP regarding the alleged material breach in detail sufficient for GCP to identify the alleged material breach and of Grace’s intent to terminate the license in accordance with this Section 2.010, and GCP shall have a sixty (60) day period after actual receipt of such written notice under this Section within which to remedy the alleged material breach.
(c)
Grace may immediately terminate the license grant of Section 2.01 and this Agreement (provided that no such termination shall relieve GCP for any breach prior to such termination) if GCP assigns, transfers or sublicenses its rights under the licensed Grace Mark in any manner, except (in the case of a sublicense) as expressly permitted by Section 2.05, or if there has occurred a Change of Control.

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2.011
In the event of any termination of GCP's right to use the Grace Marks pursuant to clause (b) or (c) of Section 2.010, GCP shall immediately cease all use of Grace Marks and use of any other trademark or service mark containing a term that is confusingly similar to the Grace Marks; provided, however, that GCP shall be permitted to continue the use of the Grace Marks for a reasonable period of time not to exceed three (3) months from such termination solely in connection with those GCP Business products and product literature and labels that are in inventory and in use on the effective date of such termination.
2.012
Upon the expiration of the relevant Phase-Out Period Terms as defined in Section 2.06, the license grants set forth in Section 2.01 shall terminate immediately and GCP shall immediately cease all uses of the licensed Grace Marks relevant to the expired Term (and use of any other name or word that is confusingly similar to the Grace Marks relevant to the expired Term). For the avoidance of doubt, the expiration of Term 1 (other than from termination due to a material breach by GCP of this Agreement) does not terminate the license under which GCP may use GRACE in connection with any of ICE & WATER SHIELD, ICE & WATER SHIELD HT, GRACE ULTRA and GRACE SELECT during the Phase-Out Period of Term 2 as set forth in Section 2.06.

3.0 OWNERSHIP OF THE LICENSED GRACE MARKS

3.01
GCP acknowledges Grace’s right, title and interest in and to the Grace Marks and the valuable goodwill associated with the use of the Grace name individually and within any combination in Grace Marks. GCP shall not represent in any manner that it has ownership in the Grace Marks. GCP acknowledges that use of the Grace Marks shall not create any ownership, rights, title or interest in GCP relative to the Grace Marks, but that all goodwill relative to the Grace Marks used by GCP shall inure to the sole benefit of Grace. Except as expressly permitted herein, GCP acknowledges that it will not (and it will not permit any of its Affiliates to) during the term of this Agreement or anytime thereafter use, register or apply for registration of the Grace Marks, or any other mark or domain name confusingly similar to the Grace Marks, anywhere in the world.
3.02
GCP shall not, during the term of this Agreement or thereafter, attack Grace’s or its Affiliates’ title to or in the Grace Marks, the validity of the Grace trademark, or any registration thereof, or oppose any effort by Grace or its Affiliates to register any of the Grace Marks or any confusingly similar variations or formatives thereof anywhere in the world.
3.03
Maintenance and Procurement of Trademark Registrations . Grace shall be solely and exclusively responsible in its sole discretion for all procurement, registration and maintenance of the Grace Marks. Grace shall renew all Grace Marks in its sole discretion. In the event that Grace elects not to renew any Grace Marks used in the GCP Business during the term of this Agreement, Grace will provide GCP no less than ninety (90) days’ written notice of its intention not to renew, and the cost of renewal, and GCP shall have the right, but not the obligation, to instruct Grace to renew, and Grace shall renew at GCP’s expense.

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3.04
Except as otherwise provided herein, GCP shall not register or seek to register as a trademark any Grace Mark, or similar mark, name or domain, without the prior written consent of Grace. If such consent is given, all costs in registering and maintaining such mark, name or domain (“New Grace Mark”), shall be borne solely by GCP; and any such New Grace Marks shall be subject to the rights of Grace and obligations of GCP as set forth above in Sections 3.01-3.03 and elsewhere in this Agreement. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Grace and GCP at the time of filing the New Grace Mark, such mark, name or domain, will be used for the benefit of Grace, and all right, title and interest in and to such mark, name or domain, including any application or registration thereon and the goodwill associated with such mark, name or domain, shall be owned by Grace.
3.05
Enforcement. GCP shall inform Grace of any infringement of the Grace Marks in the GCP Business, or a third party application or registration of a mark that is confusingly similar to a Grace Mark that comes to its attention at any time during the applicable Terms of this Agreement as set forth in Section 2.06 and which infringement or third party application or registration relates to and conflicts with the GCP Business. In the event of such a notice from GCP, Grace shall, in its sole discretion, have the exclusive right to sue in its own name for any infringement of the Grace Marks or take any other enforcement action, such as an opposition or cancellation proceeding, Grace deems necessary or appropriate under the circumstances. GCP will reasonably cooperate with and assist Grace with any such action that Grace decides to take. The parties agree that they have a community of interest with respect to enforcing the Grace Marks within the GCP Business during the relevant Phase-Out Period Terms defined in Section 2.06. Unless otherwise mutually agreed, GCP shall be solely responsible for all expenses and shall reimburse Grace for any and all reasonable expenses incurred by Grace with respect to investigating, negotiating, or litigating any enforcement action, or settlement thereof, through to completion, resolution, decision or settlement taken under this Section 3.05 with respect to any infringement, opposition, cancellation or other cause of action substantially related to a Grace Mark activity in the GCP Business arising or continuing during the relevant Term as defined in Section 2.06. For avoidance of doubt, GCP shall not be responsible for expenses associated with investigating, negotiating, or litigating any enforcement action, or settlement thereof, with respect to any infringement, opposition, cancellation or other cause of action substantially related to a Grace Mark that was not initiated at the request of GCP. In the event Grace decides not to sue, oppose or seek to cancel, or to pursue an enforcement pursuant to a notice by GCP hereunder, GCP may elect to pursue such enforcement at its sole discretion and expense. Grace will reasonably cooperate with and assist GCP, at GCP expense, with any such action that GCP decides to take. GCP shall not enter into any settlement agreement, license or other restriction of any type affecting the Grace Marks without Grace’s prior written consent. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that nothing in this Agreement prevents or diminishes GCP’s ability to enforce its own trademark rights relative to separate marks that, if used in combination with the Grace name, would otherwise be deemed a “Grace Mark.” For example, it is understood that GCP has sole ownership rights to the “Ice & Water Shield®” trademark and does not require permission from Grace to take actions against third parties who infringe the “Ice & Water Shield®” trademark, alone, and where the third party mark does not

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contain the Grace name or mark, or any name or mark similar to the Grace name or mark. GCP shall inform and cooperate with Grace before taking any actions against a third party who is infringing “Ice & Water Shield” in connection with the third party also infringing a Grace Mark.
3.06
The GCP Business products and services which bear the Grace Marks shall be manufactured, packaged, labeled, sold and offered in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations within the country in which they are offered. Failure to correct any violation of these laws and regulations shall be considered a material breach of this Agreement.
3.07
GCP shall display the Grace Marks only in accordance with the laws and regulations that are applicable within the applicable country in which the product is offered.
3.08
Quality Control . GCP acknowledges that the Grace Marks are extremely valuable and must continue to be associated only with high-quality goods and services in order to maintain their value. Any GCP products manufactured, sold or distributed, or services offered under the Grace Marks must be of substantially the same quality as relevant products sold and services offered by the GCP Business as of the Effective Date to comply with the quality standards of this Agreement. GCP agrees to cooperate and comply with all such reasonable quality control measures requested by Grace. The manner of use of, and appropriate markings and notices for, the Grace Marks in or on labels, packaging, documentation, advertisements and the like shall be of substantially the same quality as used by the GCP Business as of the Effective Date and shall be approved by Grace prior to use by GCP, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.09
GCP agrees that Grace shall have the right during the term of this Agreement to ascertain that GCP is complying with the provisions of this Agreement. GCP shall, upon reasonable prior written notice, provide Grace or its authorized representatives, with access to GCP's relevant premises and operations, during normal business hours, for the purpose of inspection and sample gathering reasonably necessary to ascertain proper compliance with this Agreement.
3.10
GCP shall use appropriate registration symbol, markings and notices with the Grace Marks to indicate that they are registered and/or the Grace trademark is owned by Grace and used under license.

4.0
INDEMNIFICATION

4.01
GCP’s indemnity obligations hereunder to Grace or any affiliate of Grace, and Grace’s indemnity obligations hereunder to GCP or any affiliate of GCP, in each case shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the Separation and Distribution Agreement entered into by and among W. R. Grace & Co., Grace and GCP (the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”) on the Effective Date or as otherwise entered in connection with this Agreement.
5.0     DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

5.01
Grace does not make any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, that GCP’s use of the Grace Marks will not infringe trademarks or other rights of third parties.

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6.0     COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS

6.01
Each party hereto shall do all things necessary to comply with applicable governmental and municipal regulations, laws and requirements as they pertain to license agreements and arrangements or any part thereof to the end that this Agreement will be fully effective and controlling according to its terms.

7.0     NOTICES

7.01
Any notice, request, demand or other communication under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be given (and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt) by delivery in person, by standard form of telecommunications, by courier, or by registered or certified mail, postage pre-paid, return receipt requested, at the address of the parties as set forth below, or such other address of which a party may notify the other party in accordance with this Section 7.01.

If to GRACE:     W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
7500 Grace Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21044
Attention: CEO
Attention: Corporate Secretary
Fax: 410-531-4783

With a copy to General Counsel at the address above

If to GCP:         GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
62 Whittemore Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02140-1623
Attention: CEO
Attention: Corporate Secretary
            

With a copy to General Counsel at the address above

7.02
Any party may change the address to which notices are to be sent by notifying the other party hereto in writing in due manner as hereinabove provided.

8.0     ASSIGNMENTS AND EXTENSIONS


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8.01
This Agreement and the rights and obligations obtained hereunder may not be assigned by GCP, whether by operation of law or otherwise, unless express written consent is given to such assignment by Grace, and any assignments made contrary to this Section 8.01 shall be void ab initio . Grace may assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement and nothing in this Agreement prohibits Grace from expanding uses of its Grace Marks outside of the GCP Business during the Phase-Out Period.

9.0     CONTROLLING LAW

9.01
This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York without recourse to any conflict or choice of law principles..

10.0     GENERAL PROVISIONS

10.01
Entire Agreement . This Agreement and the agreements referenced herein set forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby and supersedes all other prior agreements, arrangements and understandings related to the subject matter. No representation, warranty, promise, inducement or statement of intention pertaining to the license granted hereunder has been made by Grace or GCP which is not embodied in this Agreement. Neither Grace nor GCP shall be bound by or liable for any alleged representation, warranty, promise, inducement or statement of intention not so set forth.
10.02
No Relationship Created . Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed or construed to create any partnership or joint venture between Grace and GCP, nor shall the execution, completion and implementation of this Agreement confer on either party any power to bind or impose any obligations on the other party or any third parties or to pledge the credit of the other party.
10.03
Binding Effect . All of the terms, covenants, representations, warranties, and conditions of this Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
10.04
Amendment and Waiver . This Agreement may be amended, modified, superseded or cancelled, and any of the terms, covenants, representations, warranties or conditions hereof may be waived, only by a written instrument executed by authorized officers of the parties, and, in the case of a waiver, by an authorized officer of the party waiving compliance. The failure of either party at any time or times to require performance of any provisions hereof shall in no manner affect its right at a later time to enforce the same. No waiver by either party of any condition, or of the breach of any term, covenant, representation or warranty contained in this Agreement, whether by conduct or otherwise, in any one or more instances, shall be deemed to be construed as a further or continuing waiver of any such condition or breach, or a waiver of any other condition or of the breach of any other term, covenant, representation, or warranty of this Agreement.

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10.05
Paragraph, Section and Article Headings . The paragraph, Section and Article headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only, and shall not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
10.06
Executed Counterparts . This Agreement may be signed in separate counterparts with an inked handwritten signature, each of which counterparts when so executed and delivered in hard copy form as executed, shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute a fully executed instrument, e.g., partially executed signature pages may be detached from the counterparts and attached to a single copy of this Agreement to physically form one document. In addition, fully executed instruments, in counterpart or non-counterpart format, bearing one or more, or all signatures that have been converted to electronic format (e.g., PDF) and thereafter fixed in a tangible copy before or after being electronically transmitted (e.g., by fax or e-Mail) shall be effective in all respects and treated the same as original hand written signatures placed on hard copies. It is contemplated, although not required, that each party will provide the other party with a hard copy counterpart inked original of its signatory so that all parties will have at least counterpart inked original hard copy signatures of all signatories.
10.07
Further Assurances . Each of the parties hereto agrees to take such measures, perform such acts, and execute such documents as may be reasonably requested by the other party in furtherance of the provisions and intentions of this Agreement.
10.08
Survival . In the event of any termination of this Agreement, the Indemnification obligations pursuant to Article 4 shall continue in full force and effect.


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Exhibit 10.5


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first set forth above.

W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.
GCP APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
 
 
 
 
By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
By: /s/ Mark A. Shelnitz
 
 
Title: Vice President and Secretary
Title: Vice President and Assistant Secretary
 
 
Date: January 27, 2016
Date: January 27, 2016
 
 
 
 


    
[Signature Page to Grace Transitional License Agreement]