united states

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 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): October 1, 2020

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   001-38823   82-2538002
(State or Other Jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
of Incorporation)       Identification No.)

 

1202 BMC Drive, Suite 100    
Cedar Park, TX   78613
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

 

(833) 495-4466

(Registrant’s telephone number,
including area code)

 

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligations of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
   
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240-13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share   HYLN   New York Stock Exchange
Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share   HYLN WS   New York Stock Exchange

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b–2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b–2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company ☒

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

 

Due to the large number of events reported under the specified items of Form 8-K, this Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed in two parts. An amendment to this Form 8-K is being submitted for filing on the same date to include additional matters under Items 5.03 and 5.05 of Form 8-K.

 

On October 1, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (f/k/a Tortoise Acquisition Corp. (“TortoiseCorp”)), consummated the previously announced merger (the “Closing”) pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated June 18, 2020 (the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among the TortoiseCorp, SHLL Merger Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TortoiseCorp incorporated in the State of Delaware (“Merger Sub”), and Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Legacy Hyliion”).

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Business Combination Agreement, a business combination between TortoiseCorp and Legacy Hyliion was effected through the merger of Merger Sub with and into Legacy Hyliion, with Legacy Hyliion surviving as the surviving company and as a wholly owned subsidiary of TortoiseCorp (the “Merger” and, collectively with the other transactions described in the Business Combination Agreement, the “Business Combination”). On the Closing Date, the registrant changed its name from Tortoise Acquisition Corp. to Hyliion Holdings Corp.

 

Immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), each share of Legacy Hyliion preferred stock (“Legacy Hyliion Preferred Stock”) that was issued and outstanding was automatically converted into a share of Legacy Hyliion common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Legacy Hyliion Common Stock”), such that each converted share of Legacy Hyliion Preferred Stock was no longer outstanding and ceased to exist, and each holder of Legacy Hyliion Preferred Stock thereafter ceased to have any rights with respect to such securities.

 

Also immediately prior to the Effective Time, the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due on Legacy Hyliion’s outstanding convertible notes (“Legacy Hyliion Convertible Notes”) immediately prior to the Effective Time were automatically converted into shares of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock in accordance with the terms of such Legacy Hyliion Convertible Notes, and such converted Legacy Hyliion Convertible Notes were no longer outstanding and ceased to exist, and any liens securing obligations under the Legacy Hyliion Convertible Notes were released.

 

At the Effective Time, each share of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock was converted into and exchanged for 1.45720232 shares (the “Exchange Ratio”) of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”).

 

At the Effective Time, all shares of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock and Legacy Hyliion Preferred Stock held in the treasury of Legacy Hyliion were canceled without any conversion thereof and no payment or distribution was made with respect thereto.

 

At the Effective Time, each share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time was converted into and exchanged for one validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock.

 

Each Legacy Hyliion option that was outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, was converted into an option to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock (such option, an “Exchanged Option”) equal to the product (rounded up or down to the nearest whole number, with a fraction of 0.5 rounded up) of (i) the number of shares of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock subject to such Legacy Hyliion option immediately prior to the Effective Time and (ii) the Exchange Ratio, at an exercise price per share (rounded up or down to the nearest whole cent, with a fraction of $0.005 rounded up) equal to (A) the exercise price per share of such Legacy Hyliion option immediately prior to the Effective Time, divided by (B) the Exchange Ratio. Except as specifically provided in the Business Combination Agreement, following the Effective Time, each Exchanged Option will continue to be governed by the same terms and conditions (including vesting and exercisability terms) as were applicable to the corresponding former Legacy Hyliion option immediately prior to the Effective Time.

 

No certificates or scrip or shares representing fractional shares of Common Stock were issued upon the exchange of Legacy Hyliion Common Stock. Any fractional shares were rounded up or down to the nearest whole share of Common Stock, with a fraction of 0.5 rounded up. No cash settlements were made with respect to fractional shares eliminated by such rounding.

 

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Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, each share of TortoiseCorp’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), converted into one share of TortoiseCorp’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), at the Closing. After the Closing and following the effectiveness of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, each share of Class A Common Stock was automatically reclassified, redesignated and changed into one validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock, without any further action by the Company or any stockholder thereof.

 

A description of the Business Combination and the terms of the Business Combination Agreement are included in the Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-38823) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 8, 2020 (the “Proxy Statement”) in the section entitled “Proposal No. 1—The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 88 of the Proxy Statement.

 

On October 1, 2020, a number of purchasers (each, a “Subscriber”) purchased from the Company an aggregate of 30,750,000 shares of Common Stock (the “PIPE Shares”), for a purchase price of $10.00 per share and an aggregate purchase price of $307,500,000, pursuant to separate subscription agreements (each, a “Subscription Agreement”) entered into effective as of June 18, 2020. Pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, the Company gave certain registration rights to the Subscribers with respect to the PIPE Shares. The sale of PIPE Shares was consummated concurrently with the Closing. A description of the Subscription Agreements is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Summary of the Proxy Statement” beginning on page 13 of the Proxy Statement.

 

On October 1, 2020, Atlas Point Energy Infrastructure Fund, LLC (“Atlas Point Fund”) purchased 1,750,000 TortoiseCorp units (consisting of one share of Common Stock and one half of one Warrant, the “TortoiseCorp Units”), consisting of 1,750,000 shares of Common Stock and Warrants to purchase 875,000 shares of Common Stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $17,500,000, and transferred 894,375 shares of Common Stock to TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC (formerly known as “Tortoise Borrower LLC” and hereinafter referred to as “Tortoise Borrower”) pursuant to the Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement, dated February 6, 2019 (“Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement”), as amended by the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement, dated June 18, 2020 (“First Amendment to the Forward Purchase Agreement”) (as amended, “Forward Purchase Agreement”). A description of the Forward Purchase Agreement is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Summary of the Proxy Statement” beginning on page 13 of the Proxy Statement.

 

The foregoing description of each of the Business Combination Agreement, the Subscription Agreements and the Forward Purchase Agreement is a summary only and is qualified in their entirety by the full text of the Business Combination Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1, the Subscription Agreements, a copy of the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, the Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2 and the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Registration Rights Agreement

 

In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement (the “Transactions”), on October 1, 2020, the Company, certain persons and entities holding securities of the Company and certain persons and entities receiving Common Stock pursuant to the Merger entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). The terms of the Registration Rights Agreement are described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Proposal No. 1—The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 88 of the Proxy Statement.

 

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The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.4 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Lock-Up Agreements

 

In connection with the Transactions, on October 1, 2020, the Company and certain stockholders of Legacy Hyliion and executives of the Company (the “Legacy Holders”) entered into a Lock-Up Agreement (each, a “Lock-Up Agreement”). The terms of the Lock-Up Agreements provide for the Common Stock held by the Legacy Holders as of immediately after the Effective Time to be locked-up for a period of 180 days after the Closing Date, subject to certain exceptions. Thomas Healy also agreed not to transfer more than 10% of the number of shares of Common Stock held by him immediately after the Effective Time, or issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase shares of Common Stock held by him immediately after the Effective Time, until two years after the Closing Date.

 

The foregoing description of the Lock-Up Agreements is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the form of Lock-Up Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.5 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The foregoing description of the Lock-Up Agreement by and between the Company and Mr. Healy is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Lock-Up Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.6 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Indemnification Agreements

 

In connection with the Transactions, on October 1, 2020, the Company entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and executive officers. These indemnification agreements require the Company to indemnify its directors and executive officers for certain expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or executive officer in any action or proceeding arising out of their services as one of the Company’s directors or executive officers or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at the Company’s request.

 

The foregoing description of the indemnification agreements is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the form of indemnification agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

 

At a special meeting of stockholders held on September 28, 2020 (the “Special Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved the Business Combination. The Business Combination was completed on October 1, 2020.

 

As of the Closing Date and following the completion of the Business Combination, the Company had the following outstanding securities:

 

approximately 153,901,829 shares of Common Stock; and

 

approximately 19,185,641 warrants, each exercisable for one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share (the “Warrants”).

 

FORM 10 INFORMATION

 

Prior to the Closing, the Company was a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) with no operations, formed as a vehicle to effect a business combination with one or more operating businesses. After the Closing, the Company became a holding company whose only assets consist of equity interests in Legacy Hyliion.

 

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

The Company makes forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K and in documents incorporated herein by reference. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in or incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K, regarding the Company’s future financial performance, as well as the Company’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues, and losses, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. When used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” the negative of such terms and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, assumptions, hopes, beliefs, intentions and strategies regarding future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events. The Company cautions you that these forward-looking statements are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of the Company, incident to its business.

 

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K and in any document incorporated herein by reference should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any subsequent date, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

 

As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, the Company’s actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include:

 

the Company’s ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth profitably following the Closing;

 

costs related to the Business Combination;

 

changes in applicable laws or regulations;

 

the outcome of any legal proceedings against the Company;

 

the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business;

 

the ability for the Company to convert early trial deployments in truck fleets into meaningful orders or additional deployments in the future;

 

the ability of the Company to complete the sales of Hyliion trucks under future purchase orders to Agility Logistics Cargo Transport Co. under the existing binding pre-order, which includes testing and performance requirements and termination rights and may be difficult to enforce;

 

the potential that certain of the Company’s collaboration partnerships are terminated or do not materialize into definitive contractual relationships;

 

the ability of the Company to successfully engage target customers and enter into binding purchase orders for the sale of Hyliion trucks;

 

the Company’s strategy, future operations, estimated financial position, revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans;

 

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the ability of the Company to execute its business model, including market acceptance of its planned products and services;

 

the Company’s ability to scale in a cost-effective manner;

 

the ability for the Company to address, over time, a meaningful portion of the total addressable market for hybrid and fully electric trucks;

 

the Company’s expectations regarding its ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection and not infringe on the rights of others;

 

the Company’s need for funds through commercialization and production following the business combination and future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash;

 

the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, industry or competitive factors; and

 

other risks and uncertainties set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 29 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Business and Properties

 

The business and properties of TortoiseCorp and Legacy Hyliion prior to the Business Combination are described in the Proxy Statement in the sections entitled “Information About TortoiseCorp” beginning on page 178 and “Information About Hyliion” beginning on page 154 of the Proxy Statement, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Risk Factors

 

The risks associated with the Company’s business are described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 29 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Selected Historical Financial Information

 

The selected historical consolidated financial information and other data for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 for Legacy Hyliion is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Selected Historical Financial Information of Hyliion” beginning on page 26 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Unaudited Condensed Financial Statements

 

The unaudited condensed financial statements as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2020 of Legacy Hyliion have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and pursuant to the regulations of the SEC and are included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-40 of the Proxy Statement, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the historical audited financial statements of Legacy Hyliion as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 and the related notes included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-54 of the Proxy Statement, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2020, and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019 and the six months ended June 30, 2020, are included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information” beginning on page 72 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Directors and Executive Officers

 

Information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers after the Closing is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the sections entitled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 194 and “Executive Compensation” beginning on page 189 of the Proxy Statement, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Directors

 

Effective as of the Effective Time, in connection with the Business Combination, the size of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) was increased from five to seven members. Each of Andrew J. Orekar, Frank M. Semple, Sidney L. Tassin, Vincent T. Cubbage and Stephen Pang resigned as directors of the Company effective as of the Effective Time. Effective as of the Effective Time, Thomas Healy, Andrew H. Card, Jr., Vincent T. Cubbage, Howard Jenkins, Edward Olkkola, Stephen Pang and Robert M. Knight, Jr. were appointed to serve as directors on the Board.

 

Messrs. Cubbage and Healy were appointed to serve as Class I directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders; Messrs. Card, Jenkins and Pang were appointed to serve as Class II directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders; and Messrs. Olkkola and Knight were appointed to serve as Class III directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders. Biographical information for these individuals is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 194 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Independence of Directors

 

The Board has determined that each of the directors of the Company other than Mr. Healy qualifies as an independent director, as defined under the listing rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE listing rules”), and that the Board consists of a majority of “independent directors,” as defined under the rules of the SEC and NYSE listing rules relating to director independence requirements.

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

Effective as of as of the Effective Time, the standing committees of the Board consist of an audit committee (the “Audit Committee”), a compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”) and a nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”). Each of the committees reports to the Board.

 

Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board appointed Messrs. Card, Pang and Knight to serve on the Audit Committee, with Mr. Knight as chair of the Audit Committee. The Board appointed Messrs. Card, Cubbage and Jenkins to serve on the Compensation Committee, with Mr. Jenkins as chair of the Compensation Committee. The Board appointed Messrs. Cubbage, Jenkins and Olkkola to serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, with Mr. Cubbage as chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

 

Executive Officers

 

Effective as of the Effective Time, in connection with the Business Combination, the Board appointed Thomas Healy to serve as Chief Executive Officer, Greg Van de Vere to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Patrick Sexton to serve as Chief Technology Officer. Each of Vincent T. Cubbage, Stephen Pang, Steven C. Schnitzer and Darrell Brock, Jr. resigned as the President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and Vice President, Business Development, respectively, effective as of the Effective Time. Biographical information for the new executive officers are set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 194 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Director Compensation

 

Information with respect to the compensation of the Company’s directors is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the sections entitled “Executive Compensation” beginning on page 189 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Executive Compensation

 

Information with respect to the compensation of Company’s executive officers is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the sections entitled “Executive Compensation” beginning on page 189 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The foregoing description of the compensation of the Company’s executive officers is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the employment agreements of Messrs. Healy, Van de Vere and Sexton, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6, Exhibit 10.7 and Exhibit 10.8, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

 

The following table sets forth information known to the Company regarding the beneficial ownership of the Common Stock as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the Closing, by:

 

each person who is known by the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Common Stock;

 

each current named executive officer and director of the Company; and

 

all current executive officers and directors of the Company, as a group.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the SEC, which generally provide that a person has beneficial ownership of a security if he, she or it possesses sole or shared voting or investment power over that security, including options and Warrants that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days.

 

The beneficial ownership percentages set forth in the table below are based on approximately 153,901,829 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of the Closing Date and do not take into account the issuance of any shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of Warrants to purchase up to approximately 19,185,641 shares of Common Stock that remain outstanding.

  

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Unless otherwise noted in the footnotes to the following table, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons and entities named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to their beneficially owned Common Stock.

 

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner

  Number of Shares
of
Common Stock
Beneficially Owned
    Percentage of
Outstanding
Common Stock
%
 
Directors and Named Executive Officers:            
Thomas Healy     34,972,856       22.7 %
Greg Van de Vere(1)     618,691       *  
Patrick Sexton(2)     68,306       *  
Andrew H. Card, Jr.           *  
Vincent T. Cubbage(3)     37,500       *  
Howard Jenkins(4)     16,656,790       10.8 %
Edward Olkkola(5)     2,531,894       1.6 %
Stephen Pang(6)     7,500       *  
Robert M. Knight, Jr.           *  
Directors and Executive Officers as a Group (9 Individuals)     54,893,537       35.7 %
                 
Five Percent Holders:                
Axioma Ventures, LLC(5)     16,656,790       10.8 %
FJ Management Inc.(7)     8,328,499       5.4 %
TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC(8)(9)     11,994,163       7.8 %

 

 

* Less than one percent.

 

(1) Consists of 22,149 shares of Common Stock and 596,542 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options within 60 days of the Closing.

 

(2) Consists of 68,306 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options within 60 days of the Closing.

 

(3) Consists of 25,000 shares of Common Stock and 12,500 shares of Common Stock underlying the public Warrants that become exercisable 30 days after the Closing.

 

(4) Consists of shares of Common Stock held of record by Axioma Ventures, LLC (“Axioma Ventures”).  The sole member of Axioma Ventures is Axioma Holdings, LLC (“Axioma Holdings”) and the managers of Axioma Ventures are Alexander H. Jenkins and Kiran Lingam. The sole manager of Axioma Holdings is Axioma Management, LLC (“Axioma Management”). Howard M. Jenkins, Alexander H. Jenkins and Kiran Lingam are managers of Axioma Management. Each of Axioma Holdings, Axioma Management, Howard M. Jenkins, Alexander H. Jenkins and Kiran Lingam therefore may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares of Common Stock held of record by Axioma Ventures. The address of Axioma Ventures and each of its control persons is 601 South Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606.

 

(5) Consists of (a) 821,610 shares of Common Stock and 1,543,723 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options within 60 days of the Closing, each owned by Mr. Olkkola and (b) 166,560 shares of Common Stock held by Mr. Olkkola’s wife, over which she has sole voting and investment power.

 

(6) Consists of 5,000 shares of Common Stock and 2,500 shares of Common Stock underlying the public Warrants that become exercisable 30 days after the Closing.

 

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(7) The address of the business office of the reporting person is 185 South State Street, Penthouse, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

 

(8) Tortoise Sponsor LLC (“Sponsor”) is the record holder of 4,439,605 shares of Common Stock. Tortoise Borrower is the managing member of Sponsor. Tortoise Borrower is the record holder of 6,660,183 private placement Warrants and received 894,375 shares of Common Stock transferred from Atlas Point Fund at Closing. TortoiseEcofin Parent Holdco LLC (formerly known as “Tortoise Parent Holdco LLC”) is the sole member of Tortoise Borrower and TortoiseEcofin Investments, LLC (formerly known as “Tortoise Investments, LLC”) is the sole member of TortoiseEcofin Parent Holdco LLC. TortoiseEcofin Investments, LLC is controlled by a board of directors, which consists of Jeffrey Lovell, Robert M. Belke, Brad Armstrong, H. Kevin Birzer, Gary P. Henson and Brad Hilsabeck. Accordingly, the members of the board of directors of TortoiseEcofin Investments, LLC may be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of the securities held directly by Sponsor and Tortoise Borrower. In addition, Vincent T. Cubbage and Stephen Pang are members of Sponsor. Mr. Cubbage and Mr. Pang have no voting or dispositive power over such securities and hereby disclaim beneficial ownership of such securities.

 

(9) Consists of 4,439,605 shares of Common Stock held directly by Sponsor, 6,660,183 shares of Common Stock underlying the private placement Warrants that become exercisable 30 days after the Closing and 894,375 shares of Common Stock transferred by Atlas Point Fund to Tortoise Borrower in connection with the Closing pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement.

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

The certain relationships and related party transactions of the Company are described in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” beginning on page 220 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Information about legal proceedings is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section “Information About Hyliion” beginning on page 154 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters

 

Market Information and Holders

 

The Common Stock, the Warrants and the TortoiseCorp Units were historically quoted on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “SHLL,” “SHLL WS” and “SHLL.U,” respectively. At the Effective Time, the TortoiseCorp Units automatically separated into the component securities and, as a result, no longer trade as a separate security. On October 1, 2020, the Common Stock and Warrants began trading on The New York Stock Exchange under the new trading symbols “HYLN” and “HYLN WS,” respectively.

 

As of the Closing Date and following the completion of the Business Combination, the Company had approximately 153,901,829 shares of the Common Stock issued and outstanding held of record by 99 holders, and approximately 19,185,641 Warrants outstanding held of record by 3 holders.

 

Dividends

 

The Company has not paid any cash dividends on the Common Stock to date. The Company may retain future earnings, if any, for future operations, expansion and debt repayment and has no current plans to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of the Board and will depend on, among other things, the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that the Board may deem relevant. In addition, the Company’s ability to pay dividends may be limited by covenants of any existing and future outstanding indebtedness the Company or its subsidiaries incur. The Company does not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of the Common Stock in the foreseeable future.

 

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Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered

 

Common Stock

 

A description of the Common Stock is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Description of Securities” beginning on page 202 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Warrants

 

A description of the Company’s Warrants is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Description of Securities” beginning on page 202 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

Information about indemnification of the Company’s directors and officers is set forth in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 194 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference. The disclosure set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the section entitled “Indemnification Agreements” is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

 

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

The information set forth in Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.

 

The securities issued in connection with the Business Combination Agreement, Subscription Agreements and Forward Purchase Agreement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

The issuance of Class A Common Stock upon automatic conversion of Class B Common Stock at the Closing has not been registered under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act.

 

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

 

The information set forth in Item 5.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 4.01 Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

 

On October 1, 2020, after the recommendation of the Audit Committee of the Board, the Board approved the engagement of Grant Thornton LLP (“Grant Thornton”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2020. Grant Thornton served as the independent registered public accounting firm of Legacy Hyliion prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, WithumSmith+Brown, PC (“Withum”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the Business Combination, was informed on October 1, 2020 that it would be replaced by Grant Thornton as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm following completion of the Company’s review of the quarter ended September 30, 2020, which consists only of the accounts of the pre-Business Combination special purpose acquisition company, TortoiseCorp.

 

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Withum’s report of independent registered public accounting firm, dated March 20, 2020, on the Company’s balance sheets as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2019 and for the period from November 7, 2018 (inception) to December 31, 2018, and the related notes to the financial statements (collectively, the “financial statements”) did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles other than the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern due to Company’s obligation to either complete a business combination by the close of business on March 4, 2021, or cease all operations except for the purpose of winding down and liquidating.

 

During the period from November 7, 2018 (inception) to December 31, 2019 and the subsequent period through October 1, 2020, there were no: (i) disagreements with Withum on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosures or audited scope or procedures, which disagreements if not resolved to Withum’s satisfaction would have caused Withum to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report or (ii) reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

 

During the period from November 7, 2018 (inception) to December 31, 2018, and the interim period through October 1, 2020, the Company did not consult Grant Thornton with respect to either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by Grant Thornton that Grant Thornton concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act and the related instructions to Item 304 of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act, or a reportable event, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act.

 

The Company has provided Withum with a copy of the disclosures made by the Company in this Item 4.01 in response to Item 304(a) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act and has requested that Withum furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees with the statements made by the registrant in this Item 4.01 in response to Item 304(a) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. A letter from Withum is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1.

 

Item 5.01 Changes in Control of the Registrant.

 

The information set forth in the section entitled “Introductory Note” and in the section entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

The information set forth in the sections entitled “Directors and Executive Officers” and “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan

 

At the Special Meeting, the stockholders of the Company considered and approved the Hyliion Holdings Corp. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”). The 2020 Plan was previously approved, subject to stockholder approval, by the Board on September 7, 2020. The 2020 Plan became effective immediately upon the Closing.

 

A description of the 2020 Plan is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Proposal No. 6—The 2020 Plan Proposal” beginning on page 128 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the 2020 Plan is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the 2020 Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.06 Change in Shell Company Status.

 

As a result of the Merger, which fulfilled the definition of a business combination as required by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as in effect immediately prior to the Closing, the Company ceased to be a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) as of the Closing. A description of the Business Combination and the terms of the Business Combination Agreement are included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Proposal No. 1—The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 88 of the Proxy Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(a)       Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired.

 

The unaudited condensed financial statements of Legacy Hyliion as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-40 of the Proxy Statement and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

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The historical audited financial statements of Legacy Hyliion as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-54 of the Proxy Statement and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-2 of the Proxy Statement and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The historical audited financial statements of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement beginning on page F-23 of the Proxy Statement and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2019 is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information” beginning on page 72 of the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2020 is included in the Proxy Statement in the section entitled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information” beginning on page 72 of the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
2.1+   Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated June 18, 2020, by and among TortoiseCorp., Merger Sub and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 19, 2020).
3.1   Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated October 1, 2020.
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, dated October 1, 2020.
4.1   Form of Common Stock Certificate of the Company.
4.2   Form of Warrant Certificate of the Company.
4.3   Warrant Agreement, dated February 27, 2019, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 5, 2019).
4.4   Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 1, 2020, by and among the Company and certain stockholders of the Company.
4.5   Form of Lock-Up Agreement.
4.6   Lock-Up Agreement, dated October 1, 2020, by and between the Company and Thomas Healy.
10.1   Form of Subscription Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 19, 2020).
10.2   Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 15, 2019).
10.3   First Amendment to Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 19, 2020).
10.4#   Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between the Company and its directors and officers.
10.5#   Hyliion Holdings Corp. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan.
10.6#  

Offer Letter, dated August 3, 2017, by and between Hyliion Inc. and Thomas Healy.

10.7#  

Executive Employment Agreement, dated March 29, 2019, by and between Hyliion Inc. and Greg Van de Vere.

10.8#  

Offer Letter, dated May 22, 2019, by and between Hyliion Inc. and Patrick Sexton.

10.9   Lease Agreement, dated February 5, 2018, by and between IGX Brushy Creek, LLC and Hyliion Inc.
16.1   Letter from WithumSmith+Brown, PC to the SEC, dated October 1, 2020.

 

+ The schedules and exhibits to this agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule and/or exhibit will be furnished to the SEC upon request.

 

# Indicates management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: October 7, 2020

 

  HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.
     
  By: /s/ Greg Van de Vere
    Greg Van de Vere
    Chief Financial Officer

 

 

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Exhibit 3.1

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
TORTOISE ACQUISITION CORP.

 

Vincent T. Cubbage hereby certifies that:

 

ONE: The name of this company is Tortoise Acquisition Corp. and the date of filing the original Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation with the Secretary of State of Delaware was November 7, 2018.

 

TWO: Vincent T. Cubbage is the duly elected and acting Chief Executive Officer of Tortoise Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

THREE: The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation is hereby amended and restated to read as follows:

 

I.

 

The name of this corporation is Hyliion Holdings Corp. (the “Company”).

 

II.

 

The address of the Company’s registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Drive, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

III.

 

The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”).

 

IV.

 

A. The Company is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares which the Company is authorized to issue is 260,000,000 shares. 250,000,000 shares shall be Common Stock, each having a par value of one-hundredth of one cent ($0.0001). 10,000,000 shares shall be Preferred Stock, each having a par value of one-hundredth of one cent ($0.0001).

 

B. Effective immediately upon the filing and effectiveness of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Effective Time”), each one share of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), that was issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall automatically be reclassified, redesignated and changed into (a) one validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), without any further action by the Company or any stockholder thereof. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Class A Common Stock (each, a “Prior Certificate”) shall, until surrendered to the Company in exchange for a certificate representing the same number of shares of Common Stock, automatically represent that number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Class A Common Stock represented by the Prior Certificate shall have been reclassified and redesignated.

 

 

 

  

C. The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) is hereby expressly authorized to provide for the issue of all or any number of the shares of the Preferred Stock in one or more series, and to fix the number of shares and to determine or alter for each such series, such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designation, preferences, and relative, participating, optional, or other rights and such qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated and expressed in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of such shares and as may be permitted by the DGCL. The Board of Directors is also expressly authorized to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series subsequent to the issuance of shares of that series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding. In case the number of shares of any series shall be decreased in accordance with the foregoing sentence, the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status that they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the stock of the Company entitled to vote thereon, without a separate vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock, or of any series thereof, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to the terms of any certificate of designation filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock.

 

D. Each outstanding share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders of the Company for their vote; provided, however, that, except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together as a class with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon by law or pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock).

 

V.

 

For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Company, and in further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Company, of its directors and of its stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided that:

 

A.

 

1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Company shall be vested in the Board of Directors. The number of directors which shall constitute the Board of Directors shall be fixed exclusively by resolutions adopted by a majority of the authorized number of directors constituting the Board of Directors.

 

2. BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, the Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible and designated Class I, Class II and Class III. The Board of Directors is authorized to assign members of the Board of Directors already in office to Class I, Class II or Class III. The term of the initial Class I Directors shall expire at the first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company following the effectiveness of this Amended and Restated Certificate; the term of the initial Class II Directors shall expire at the second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company following the effectiveness of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate; and the term of the initial Class III Directors shall expire at the third annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company following the effectiveness of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate. At each succeeding annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company, beginning with the first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company following the effectiveness of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, successors to the class of directors whose term expires at that annual meeting shall be elected for a three-year term or until the election and qualification of their respective successors in office, subject to their earlier death, resignation or removal. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, if the number of directors is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned by the Board among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director.

  

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, each director shall serve until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

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3. REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Subject to any limitations imposed by applicable law, any individual director or directors may be removed with cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally at an election of directors.

 

4. VACANCIES. Subject to any limitations imposed by applicable law and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other causes and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors, shall, unless the Board of Directors determines by resolution that any such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by the stockholders and except as otherwise provided by applicable law, be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, and not by the stockholders. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the director for which the vacancy was created or occurred and until such director’s successor shall have been elected and qualified.

 

B.

 

1. BYLAW AMENDMENTS. The Board of Directors is expressly empowered to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Company. Any adoption, amendment or repeal of the Bylaws of the Company by the Board of Directors shall require the approval of a majority of the authorized number of directors. The stockholders shall also have power to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Company; provided, however, that, in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of stock of the Company required by law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, such action by stockholders shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.

 

2. The directors of the Company need not be elected by written ballot unless the Bylaws so provide.

 

3. No action shall be taken by the stockholders of the Company except at an annual or special meeting of stockholders called in accordance with the Bylaws, and no action shall be taken by the stockholders by written consent or electronic transmission.

 

4. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Company shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Company.

 

VI.

 

A. The liability of the directors for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

B. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company is authorized to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) directors, officers and agents of the Company (and any other persons to which applicable law permits the Company to provide indemnification) through Bylaw provisions, agreements with such agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by such applicable law. If applicable law is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article VI to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director to the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as so amended.

 

C. Any repeal or modification of this Article VI shall only be prospective and shall not affect the rights or protections or increase the liability of any director under this Article VI in effect at the time of the alleged occurrence of any act or omission to act giving rise to liability or indemnification.

 

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VII.

 

A. Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall (or, if and only if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware lacks subject matter jurisdiction, any state court located within the State of Delaware or, if and only if all such state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware), to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be the sole and exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law: (A) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company; (B) any action or proceeding (including any class action) asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Company to the Company or the Company’s stockholders; (C) any action or proceeding (including any class action) asserting a claim against the Company or any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Company arising out of or pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company (as each may be amended from time to time); (D) any action or proceeding (including any class action) to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company (including any right, obligation or remedy thereunder); (E) any action or proceeding as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware; or (F) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any director, officer or other employee of the Company governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the court’s having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants. This Article VII shall not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

 

B. Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

C. Any person or entity purchasing, holding, owning or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Company shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article VII.

 

VIII.

 

A. The Company reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, except as provided in paragraph B. of this Article VIII, and all rights conferred upon the stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

 

B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of the holders of any particular class or series of the Company required by law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or any certificate of designation filed with respect to a series of Preferred Stock, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to alter, amend or repeal Articles V, VI, VII and VIII.

 

* * * *

 

FOUR: This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly approved by the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

FIVE: This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was approved by the holders of the requisite number of shares of the Company. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL by the stockholders of the Company.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed on this 1st day of October, 2020.

 

  TORTOISE ACQUISITION CORP.
   

/s/ Vincent T. Cubbage

Vincent T. Cubbage

  Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

Hyliion Holdings Corp.
(A DELAWARE CORPORATION)

 

October 1, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Page

   
ARTICLE I Offices 1
   
Section 1. Registered Office 1
Section 2. Other Offices 1
   
ARTICLE II Corporate Seal 1
   
Section 3. Corporate Seal 1
   
ARTICLE III Stockholders’ Meetings 1
   
Section 4. Place of Meetings 1
Section 5. Annual Meetings 2
Section 6. Special Meetings 6
Section 7. Notice of Meetings 7
Section 8. Quorum 7
Section 9. Adjournment and Notice of Adjourned Meetings 8
Section 10. Voting Rights 8
Section 11. Joint Owners of Stock 8
Section 12. List of Stockholders 8
Section 13. Action Without Meeting 9
Section 14. Organization 9
   
ARTICLE IV Directors 9
   
Section 15. Number and Term of Office 9
Section 16. Powers 10
Section 17. Classes of Directors 10
Section 18. Vacancies 10
Section 19. Resignation 11
Section 20. Removal 11
Section 21. Meetings. 11
Section 22. Quorum and Voting. 12
Section 23. Action Without Meeting 12
Section 24. Fees and Compensation 12
Section 25. Committees 13
Section 26. Duties of Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Lead Independent Director 14
Section 27. Organization 14

 

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Table of Contents

(continued)

 

 

Page

   
ARTICLE V Officers 15
   
Section 28. Officers Designated 15
Section 29. Tenure and Duties of Officers 15
Section 30. Delegation of Authority 16
Section 31. Resignations 17
Section 32. Removal 17
   
ARTICLE VI Execution Of Corporate Instruments And Voting Of Securities Owned By The Corporation 17
   
Section 33. Execution of Corporate Instruments 17
Section 34. Voting of Securities Owned By the Corporation 17
   
ARTICLE VII Shares Of Stock 18
   
Section 35. Form and Execution of Certificates 18
Section 36. Lost Certificates 18
Section 37. Transfers. 18
Section 38. Fixing Record Dates 19
Section 39. Registered Stockholders 19
   
ARTICLE VIII Other Securities Of The Corporation 19
   
Section 40. Execution of Other Securities 19
   
ARTICLE IX Dividends 20
   
Section 41. Declaration of Dividends 20
Section 42. Dividend Reserve 20
   
ARTICLE X Fiscal Year 20
   
Section 43. Fiscal Year 20
   
ARTICLE XI Indemnification 20
   
Section 44. Indemnification of Directors, Executive Officers, Other Officers, Employees and Other Agents 20
   
ARTICLE XII Notices 24
   
Section 45. Notices 24
   
ARTICLE XIII Amendments 25
   
Section 46. Amendments 25
   
ARTICLE XIV Loans To Officers 25
   
Section 47. Loans to Officers 25

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

Hyliion holdings corp.
(A DELAWARE CORPORATION)

 

October 1, 2020

 

ARTICLE I

Offices

 

Section 1. Registered Office. The registered office of Hyliion Holdings Corp. (the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware shall be Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.

 

Section 2. Other Offices. The Corporation shall also have and maintain an office or principal place of business at such place as may be fixed by the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”), and may also have offices at such other places, both within and without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the Corporation may require.

 

ARTICLE II

Corporate Seal

 

Section 3. Corporate Seal. The Board of Directors may adopt a corporate seal. If adopted, the corporate seal shall consist of a die bearing the name of the Corporation and the inscription, “Corporate Seal-Delaware.” Said seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.

 

ARTICLE III

Stockholders’ Meetings

 

Section 4. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as provided under the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”).

 

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Section 5. Annual Meetings.

 

(a) The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, for the purpose of election of directors and for such other business as may properly come before it, shall be held on such date and at such time as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders: (i) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting of stockholders (with respect to business other than nominations); (ii) brought specifically by or at the direction of the Board of Directors; or (iii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving the stockholder’s notice provided for in Section 5(b) below, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complied with the notice procedures set forth in Section 5. For the avoidance of doubt, clause (iii) above shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations and submit other business (other than matters properly included in the Corporation’s notice of meeting of stockholders and proxy statement under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1934 Act”)) before an annual meeting of stockholders.

 

(b) At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as is a proper matter for stockholder action under Delaware law and as shall have been properly brought before the meeting.

 

(i) For nominations for the election to the Board of Directors to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of Section 5(a) of these Amended and Restated Bylaws (these “Bylaws”), the stockholder must deliver written notice to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation on a timely basis as set forth in Section 5(b)(iii) and must update and supplement such written notice on a timely basis as set forth in Section 5(c). Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth: (A) as to each nominee such stockholder proposes to nominate at the meeting: (1) the name, age, business address and residence address of such nominee; (2) the principal occupation or employment of such nominee; (3) the class and number of shares of each class of capital stock of the Corporation which are owned of record and beneficially by such nominee; (4) the date or dates on which such shares were acquired and the investment intent of such acquisition; (5) a statement whether such nominee, if elected, intends to tender, promptly following such person’s failure to receive the required vote for election or re-election at the next meeting at which such person would face election or re-election, an irrevocable resignation effective upon acceptance of such resignation by the Board of Directors; and (6) such other information concerning such nominee as would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement soliciting proxies for the election of such nominee as a director in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or that is otherwise required to be disclosed pursuant to Section 14 of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); and (B) the information required by Section 5(b)(iv). The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the Corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such proposed nominee.

 

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(ii) Other than proposals sought to be included in the Corporation’s proxy materials pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the 1934 Act, for business other than nominations for the election to the Board of Directors to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of Section 5(a) of these Bylaws, the stockholder must deliver written notice to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation on a timely basis as set forth in Section 5(b)(iii), and must update and supplement such written notice on a timely basis as set forth in Section 5(c). Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth: (A) as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, and any material interest (including any anticipated benefit of such business to any Proponent (as defined below) other than solely as a result of its ownership of the Corporation’s capital stock, that is material to any Proponent individually, or to the Proponents in the aggregate) in such business of any Proponent; and (B) the information required by Section 5(b)(iv).

 

(iii) To be timely, the written notice required by Section 5(b)(i) or 5(b)(ii) must be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that, subject to the last sentence of this Section 5(b)(iii), in the event that no annual meeting was held during the preceding year or the date of the annual meeting is advanced more than thirty (30) days prior to or delayed by more than thirty (30) days after the anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the closing of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. In no event shall an adjournment or a postponement of an annual meeting for which notice has been given, or the public announcement thereof has been made, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

(iv) The written notice required by Section 5(b)(i) or 5(b)(ii) shall also set forth, as of the date of the notice and as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (each, a “Proponent” and collectively, the “Proponents”): (A) the name and address of each Proponent, as they appear on the Corporation’s books; (B) the class, series and number of shares of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by each Proponent; (C) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether oral or in writing) with respect to such nomination or proposal between or among any Proponent and any of its affiliates or associates, and any others (including their names) acting in concert, or otherwise under the agreement, arrangement or understanding, with any of the foregoing; (D) a representation that the Proponents are holders of record or beneficial owners, as the case may be, of shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting and intend to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person or persons specified in the notice (with respect to a notice under Section 5(b)(i)) or to propose the business that is specified in the notice (with respect to a notice under Section 5(b)(ii)); (E) a representation as to whether the Proponents intend to deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of a sufficient number of holders of the Corporation’s voting shares to elect such nominee or nominees (with respect to a notice under Section 5(b)(i)) or to carry such proposal (with respect to a notice under Section 5(b)(ii)); (F) to the extent known by any Proponent, the name and address of any other stockholder supporting the proposal on the date of such stockholder’s notice; and (G) a description of all Derivative Transactions (as defined below) by each Proponent during the previous twelve (12) month period, including the date of the transactions and the class, series and number of securities involved in, and the material economic terms of, such Derivative Transactions.

 

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(c) A stockholder providing written notice required by Section 5(b)(i) or (ii) shall update and supplement such notice in writing, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice is true and correct in all material respects as of (i) the record date for the meeting and (ii) the date that is five (5) business days prior to the meeting and, in the event of any adjournment or postponement thereof, five (5) business days prior to such adjourned or postponed meeting. In the case of an update and supplement pursuant to clause (i) of this Section 5(c), such update and supplement shall be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for the meeting. In the case of an update and supplement pursuant to clause (ii) of this Section 5(c), such update and supplement shall be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than two (2) business days prior to the date for the meeting, and, in the event of any adjournment or postponement thereof, two (2) business days prior to such adjourned or postponed meeting.

 

(d) Notwithstanding anything in Section 5(b)(iii) to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors in an Expiring Class (as defined below) is increased and there is no public announcement of the appointment of a director to such class, or, if no appointment was made, of the vacancy in such class, by the Corporation at least ten (10) days before the last day a stockholder may deliver a notice of nomination in accordance with Section 5(b)(iii), a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 5 and which complies with the requirements in Section 5(b)(i), other than the timing requirements in Section 5(b)(iii), shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions in such Expiring Class created by such increase, if it shall be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation. For purposes of this section, an “Expiring Class” shall mean a class of directors whose term shall expire at the next annual meeting of stockholders.

 

(e) A person shall not be eligible for election or re-election as a director unless the person is nominated either in accordance with clause (ii) of Section 5(a), or in accordance with clause (iii) of Section 5(a). Except as otherwise required by law, the chairperson of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made, or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, or the Proponent does not act in accordance with the representations in Sections 5(b)(iv)(D) and 5(b)(iv)(E), to declare that such proposal or nomination shall not be presented for stockholder action at the meeting and shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such nominations or such business may have been solicited or received.

 

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(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 5, in order to include information with respect to a stockholder proposal in the proxy statement and form of proxy for a stockholders’ meeting, a stockholder must also comply with all applicable requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder. Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the 1934 Act; provided, however, that any references in these Bylaws to the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to proposals and/or nominations to be considered pursuant to Section 5(a)(iii) of these Bylaws.

 

(g) For purposes of Sections 5 and 6,

 

(i) affiliates” and “associates” shall have the meanings set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”).

 

(ii) Derivative Transaction” means any agreement, arrangement, interest or understanding entered into by, or on behalf or for the benefit of, any Proponent or any of its affiliates or associates, whether record or beneficial:

 

(w) the value of which is derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares or other securities of the Corporation,

 

(x)  which otherwise provides any direct or indirect opportunity to gain or share in any gain derived from a change in the value of securities of the Corporation,

 

(y) the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss, manage risk or benefit of security value or price changes, or

 

(z) which provides the right to vote or increase or decrease the voting power of, such Proponent, or any of its affiliates or associates, with respect to any securities of the Corporation,

 

which agreement, arrangement, interest or understanding may include, without limitation, any option, warrant, debt position, note, bond, convertible security, swap, stock appreciation right, short position, profit interest, hedge, right to dividends, voting agreement, performance-related fee or arrangement to borrow or lend shares (whether or not subject to payment, settlement, exercise or conversion in any such class or series), and any proportionate interest of such Proponent in the securities of the Corporation held by any general or limited partnership, or any limited liability company, of which such Proponent is, directly or indirectly, a general partner or managing member.

 

(iii) public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press, Business Wire, GlobeNewswire or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act.

 

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Section 6. Special Meetings.

 

(a) Special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called, for any purpose as is a proper matter for stockholder action under Delaware law, by (i) the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, (ii) the Chief Executive Officer or the President if the Chairperson of the Board of Directors is unavailable, or (iii) the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the total number of authorized directors (whether or not there exist any vacancies in previously authorized directorships at the time any such resolution is presented to the Board of Directors for adoption).

 

(b) The Board of Directors shall determine the time and place, if any, of such special meeting. Upon determination of the time and place, if any, of the meeting, the Secretary of the Corporation shall cause a notice of meeting to be given to the stockholders entitled to vote, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of these Bylaws. No business may be transacted at such special meeting other than specified in the notice of meeting.

 

(c) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected (i) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (ii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving notice provided for in this paragraph, who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and who delivers written notice to the Secretary of the Corporation setting forth the information required by Section 5(b)(i). In the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board of Directors, any such stockholder of record may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting, if written notice setting forth the information required by Section 5(b)(i) of these Bylaws shall be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting. The stockholder shall also update and supplement such information as required under Section 5(c). In no event shall an adjournment or a postponement of a special meeting for which notice has been given, or the public announcement thereof has been made, commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 6, a stockholder must also comply with all applicable requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to matters set forth in this Section 6. Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the 1934 Act; provided, however, that any references in these Bylaws to the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to nominations for the election to the Board of Directors to be considered pursuant to Section 6(c) of these Bylaws.

 

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Section 7. Notice of Meetings. Except as otherwise provided by law, notice, given in writing or by electronic transmission, of each meeting of stockholders shall be given not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting, such notice to specify the place, if any, date and hour, in the case of special meetings, the purpose or purposes of the meeting, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at any such meeting. If mailed, notice is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. Notice of the time, place, if any, and purpose of any meeting of stockholders may be waived in writing, signed by the person entitled to notice thereof, or by electronic transmission by such person, either before or after such meeting, and will be waived by any stockholder by his or her attendance thereat in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or by proxy, except when the stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Any stockholder so waiving notice of such meeting shall be bound by the proceedings of any such meeting in all respects as if due notice thereof had been given.

 

Section 8. Quorum. At all meetings of stockholders, except where otherwise provided by statute or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, or by these Bylaws, the presence, in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or by proxy duly authorized, of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In the absence of a quorum, any meeting of stockholders may be adjourned, from time to time, either by the chairperson of the meeting or by vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares represented thereat, but no other business shall be transacted at such meeting. The stockholders present at a duly called or convened meeting, at which a quorum is present, may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum. Except as otherwise provided by statute or by applicable stock exchange rules, or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, in all matters other than the election of directors, the affirmative vote of the majority of voting power of the shares present in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote generally on the subject matter shall be the act of the stockholders. Except as otherwise provided by statute or by applicable stock exchange rules, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote generally on the election of directors. Where a separate vote by a class or classes or series is required, except where otherwise provided by the statute, or by applicable stock exchange rules, or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or classes or series, present in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy duly authorized, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter. Except where otherwise provided by statute or by applicable stock exchange rules or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the affirmative vote of the majority (plurality, in the case of the election of directors) of shares of such class or classes or series present in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy at the meeting shall be the act of such class or classes or series.

 

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Section 9. Adjournment and Notice of Adjourned Meetings. Any meeting of stockholders, whether annual or special, may be adjourned from time to time either by the chairperson of the meeting or by the vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares present in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy at the meeting. When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, if any, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place, if any, thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

Section 10. Voting Rights. For the purpose of determining those stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders, except as otherwise provided by law, only persons in whose names shares stand on the stock records of the Corporation on the record date, as provided in Section 12 of these Bylaws, shall be entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders. Every person entitled to vote shall have the right to do so either in person, by remote communication, if applicable, or by an agent or agents authorized by a proxy granted in accordance with Delaware law. An agent so appointed need not be a stockholder. No proxy shall be voted after three (3) years from its date of creation unless the proxy provides for a longer period.

 

Section 11. Joint Owners of Stock. If shares or other securities having voting power stand of record in the names of two (2) or more persons, whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, tenants by the entirety, or otherwise, or if two (2) or more persons have the same fiduciary relationship respecting the same shares, unless the Secretary of the Corporation is given written notice to the contrary and is furnished with a copy of the instrument or order appointing them or creating the relationship wherein it is so provided, their acts with respect to voting shall have the following effect: (a) if only one (1) votes, his or her act binds all; (b) if more than one (1) votes, the act of the majority so voting binds all; (c) if more than one (1) votes, but the vote is evenly split on any particular matter, each faction may vote the securities in question proportionally, or may apply to the Delaware Court of Chancery for relief as provided in the DGCL, Section 217(b). If the instrument filed with the Secretary of the Corporation shows that any such tenancy is held in unequal interests, a majority or even-split for the purpose of subsection (c) of Section 11 shall be a majority or even-split in interest.

 

Section 12. List of Stockholders. The Secretary of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten (10) days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at said meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the address of each stockholder and the number and class of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (b) during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. The list shall be open to examination of any stockholder during the time of the meeting as provided by law.

 

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Section 13. Action Without Meeting. No action shall be taken by the stockholders except at an annual or special meeting of stockholders called in accordance with these Bylaws, and no action shall be taken by the stockholders by written consent or by electronic transmission.

 

Section 14. Organization.

 

(a) At every meeting of stockholders, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, or, if a Chairperson has not been appointed or is absent, the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving or is absent, the President, or, if the President is absent, a chairperson of the meeting chosen by a majority in interest of the stockholders entitled to vote, present in person or by proxy, shall act as chairperson. The Chairperson of the Board may appoint the Chief Executive Officer as chairperson of the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation, or, in his or her absence, an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or other officer or other person directed to do so by the chairperson of the meeting, shall act as secretary of the meeting.

 

(b) The Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be entitled to make such rules or regulations for the conduct of meetings of stockholders as it shall deem necessary, appropriate or convenient. Subject to such rules and regulations of the Board of Directors, if any, the chairperson of the meeting shall have the right and authority to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairperson, are necessary, appropriate or convenient for the proper conduct of the meeting, including, without limitation, establishing an agenda or order of business for the meeting, rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present, limitations on participation in such meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation and their duly authorized and constituted proxies and such other persons as the chairperson shall permit, restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof, limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants and regulation of the opening and closing of the polls for balloting on matters which are to be voted on by ballot. The date and time of the opening and closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at the meeting shall be announced at the meeting. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board of Directors or the chairperson of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with rules of parliamentary procedure.

 

ARTICLE IV

Directors

 

Section 15. Number and Term of Office. The authorized number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed in accordance with the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. If for any cause, the directors shall not have been elected at an annual meeting, they may be elected as soon thereafter as convenient at a special meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose in the manner provided in these Bylaws.

 

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Section 16. Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise provided by statute or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

 

Section 17. Classes of Directors. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, following the adoption of these Bylaws, the directors shall be divided into three classes designated as Class I, Class II and Class III, respectively. The Board of Directors is authorized to assign members of the Board of Directors already in office to such classes at the time the classification becomes effective. At the first annual meeting of stockholders following the adoption of these Bylaws, the term of office of the Class I directors shall expire and Class I directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At the second annual meeting of stockholders following the adoption of these Bylaws, the term of office of the Class II directors shall expire and Class II directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At the third annual meeting of stockholders following the adoption of these Bylaws, the term of office of the Class III directors shall expire and Class III directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At each succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, directors shall be elected for a full term of three years to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 17, each director shall serve until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

Section 18. Vacancies. Unless otherwise provided in the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or as otherwise provided by applicable law, any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other causes and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors shall, unless the Board of Directors determines by resolution that any such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by stockholders, be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, or by a sole remaining director, and not by the stockholders, provided, however, that whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the provisions of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such class or classes or series shall, unless the Board of Directors determines by resolution that any such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by stockholders, be filled by a majority of the directors elected by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected, and not by the stockholders. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the director for which the vacancy was created or occurred and until such director’s successor shall have been elected and qualified. A vacancy in the Board of Directors shall be deemed to exist under this Bylaw in the case of the death, removal or resignation of any director.

 

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Section 19. Resignation. Any director may resign at any time by delivering his or her notice in writing or by electronic transmission to the Secretary of the Corporation, such resignation to specify whether it will be effective at a particular time. If no such specification is made, the resignation shall be deemed effective at the time of delivery of the resignation to the Secretary of the Corporation. When one or more directors shall resign from the Board of Directors, effective at a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office for the unexpired portion of the term of the director whose place shall be vacated and until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

 

Section 20. Removal. Subject to any limitation imposed by law, any individual director or directors may be removed with cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally at an election of directors, voting together as a single class.

 

Section 21. Meetings.

 

(a) Regular Meetings. Unless otherwise restricted by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at any time or date and at any place within or without the State of Delaware which has been designated by the Board of Directors and publicized among all directors, either orally or in writing, by telephone, including a voice-messaging system or other system designed to record and communicate messages, facsimile, telegraph or telex, or by electronic mail or other electronic means. No further notice shall be required for regular meetings of the Board of Directors.

 

(b) Special Meetings. Unless otherwise restricted by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at any time and place within or without the State of Delaware whenever called by the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or a majority of the total number of authorized directors.

 

(c) Meetings by Electronic Communications Equipment. Any member of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may participate in a meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

(d) Notice of Special Meetings. Notice of the time and place of all special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be orally or in writing, by telephone, including a voice messaging system or other system or technology designed to record and communicate messages, facsimile, telegraph or telex, or by electronic mail or other electronic means, during normal business hours, at least twenty-four (24) hours before the date and time of the meeting. If notice is sent by U.S. mail, it shall be sent by first class mail, charges prepaid, at least three (3) days before the date of the meeting. Notice of any meeting may be waived in writing, or by electronic transmission, at any time before or after the meeting and will be waived by any director by attendance thereat, except when the director attends the meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

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(e) Waiver of Notice. The transaction of all business at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or any committee thereof, however called or noticed, or wherever held, shall be as valid as though it had been transacted at a meeting duly held after regular call and notice, if a quorum be present and if, either before or after the meeting, each of the directors not present who did not receive notice shall sign a written waiver of notice or shall waive notice by electronic transmission. All such waivers shall be filed with the corporate records or made a part of the minutes of the meeting.

 

Section 22. Quorum and Voting.

 

(a) Unless the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation requires a greater number, and except with respect to questions related to indemnification arising under Section 44 for which a quorum shall be one-third of the exact number of directors fixed from time to time, a quorum of the Board of Directors shall consist of a majority of the exact number of directors fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors in accordance with the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation; provided, however, at any meeting whether a quorum be present or otherwise, a majority of the directors present may adjourn from time to time until the time fixed for the next regular meeting of the Board of Directors, without notice other than by announcement at the meeting.

 

(b) At each meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present, all questions and business shall be determined by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present, unless a different vote be required by law, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws.

 

Section 23. Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and such writing or writings or transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

 

Section 24. Fees and Compensation. Directors shall be entitled to such compensation for their services as may be approved by the Board of Directors, including, if so approved, by resolution of the Board of Directors, a fixed sum and expenses of attendance, if any, for attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors and at any meeting of a committee of the Board of Directors. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity as an officer, agent, employee, or otherwise and receiving compensation therefor.

 

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Section 25. Committees.

 

(a) Executive Committee. The Board of Directors may designate an Executive Committee to consist of one (1) or more members of the Board of Directors. The Executive Committee, to the extent permitted by law and provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to (i) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter (other than the election or removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any Bylaw of the Corporation.

 

(b) Other Committees. The Board of Directors may, from time to time, designate such other committees as may be permitted by law. Such other committees designated by the Board of Directors shall consist of one (1) or more members of the Board of Directors and shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be prescribed by the resolution or resolutions creating such committees, but in no event shall any such committee have the power or authority in reference to (i) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter (other than the election or removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any Bylaw of the Corporation.

 

(c) Term. The Board of Directors, subject to any requirements of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock and the provisions of subsections (a) or (b) of this Section 25, may at any time increase or decrease the number of members of a committee or terminate the existence of a committee. The membership of a committee member shall terminate on the date of his or her death or voluntary resignation from the committee or from the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may at any time for any reason remove any individual committee member and the Board of Directors may fill any committee vacancy created by death, resignation, removal or increase in the number of members of the committee. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee, and, in addition, in the absence or disqualification of any member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

 

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(d) Meetings. Unless the Board of Directors shall otherwise provide, regular meetings of the Executive Committee or any other committee designated pursuant to this Section 25 shall be held at such times and places as are determined by the Board of Directors, or by any such committee, and when notice thereof has been given to each member of such committee, no further notice of such regular meetings need be given thereafter. Special meetings of any such committee may be held at any place which has been determined from time to time by such committee, and may be called by any director who is a member of such committee, upon notice to the members of such committee of the time and place of such special meeting given in the manner provided for the giving of notice to members of the Board of Directors of the time and place of special meetings of the Board of Directors. Notice of any special meeting of any committee may be waived in writing or by electronic transmission at any time before or after the meeting and will be waived by any director by attendance thereat, except when the director attends such special meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors in the resolutions authorizing the creation of the committee, a majority of the authorized number of members of any such committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the act of a majority of those present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee. Unless the Board of Directors shall otherwise provide, each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board of Directors conducts its business pursuant to Article IV of these Bylaws.

 

Section 26. Duties of Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Lead Independent Director.

 

(a) The Chairperson of the Board of Directors, if appointed and when present, shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors. The Chairperson of the Board of Directors shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers, as the Board of Directors shall designate from time to time.

 

(b) The Chairperson of the Board of Directors, or if the Chairperson is not an independent director, one of the independent directors, may be designated by the Board of Directors as lead independent director to serve until replaced by the Board of Directors (“Lead Independent Director”). The Lead Independent Director will perform such other duties as may be established or delegated by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 27. Organization. At every meeting of the directors, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, or, if a Chairperson has not been appointed or is absent, the Lead Independent Director, or if the Lead Independent Director has not been appointed or is absent, the Chief Executive Officer (if a director), or, if the Chief Executive Officer is absent, the President (if a director), or if the President is absent, the most senior Vice President (if a director), or, in the absence of any such person, a chairperson of the meeting chosen by a majority of the directors present, shall preside over the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation, or in his or her absence, any Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or other officer, director or other person directed to do so by the person presiding over the meeting, shall act as secretary of the meeting.

 

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ARTICLE V

Officers

 

Section 28. Officers Designated. The officers of the Corporation shall include, if and when designated by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, one or more Vice Presidents, the Secretary, the Chief Financial Officer and the Treasurer. The Board of Directors may also appoint one or more Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers and such other officers and agents with such powers and duties as it shall deem necessary. The Board of Directors may assign such additional titles to one or more of the officers as it shall deem appropriate. Any one person may hold any number of offices of the Corporation at any one time unless specifically prohibited therefrom by law. The salaries and other compensation of the officers of the Corporation shall be fixed by or in the manner designated by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 29. Tenure and Duties of Officers.

 

(a) General. All officers shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors and until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, unless sooner removed. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time by the Board of Directors. If the office of any officer becomes vacant for any reason, the vacancy may be filled by the Board of Directors.

 

(b) Duties of Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and at all meetings of the Board of Directors (if a director), unless the Chairperson of the Board of Directors or the Lead Independent Director has been appointed and is present. Unless an officer has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, the President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction and control of the business and officers of the Corporation. To the extent that a Chief Executive Officer has been appointed and no President has been appointed, all references in these Bylaws to the President shall be deemed references to the Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers, as the Board of Directors shall designate from time to time.

 

(c) Duties of President. The President shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and at all meetings of the Board of Directors (if a director), unless the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, the Lead Independent Director or the Chief Executive Officer has been appointed and is present. Unless another officer has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, the President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction and control of the business and officers of the Corporation. The President shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers, as the Board of Directors shall designate from time to time.

 

(d) Duties of Vice Presidents. A Vice President may assume and perform the duties of the President in the absence or disability of the President or whenever the office of President is vacant. A Vice President shall perform other duties commonly incident to their office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or, if the Chief Executive Officer has not been appointed or is absent, the President shall designate from time to time.

 

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(e) Duties of Secretary. The Secretary of the Corporation shall attend all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors and shall record all acts and proceedings thereof in the minute book of the Corporation. The Secretary of the Corporation shall give notice in conformity with these Bylaws of all meetings of the stockholders and of all meetings of the Board of Directors and any committee thereof requiring notice. The Secretary of the Corporation shall perform all other duties provided for in these Bylaws and other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers, as the Board of Directors shall designate from time to time. The Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President may direct any Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or other officer to assume and perform the duties of the Secretary in the absence or disability of the Secretary, and each Assistant Secretary of the Corporation shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President shall designate from time to time.

 

(f) Duties of Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer shall keep or cause to be kept the books of account of the Corporation in a thorough and proper manner and shall render statements of the financial affairs of the Corporation in such form and as often as required by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive officer is then serving, the President. The Chief Financial Officer, subject to the order of the Board of Directors, shall have the custody of all funds and securities of the Corporation. The Chief Financial Officer shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President shall designate from time to time. To the extent that a Chief Financial Officer has been appointed and no Treasurer has been appointed, all references in these Bylaws to the Treasurer shall be deemed references to the Chief Financial Officer. The President may direct the Treasurer, if any, or any Assistant Treasurer, or the controller or any assistant controller to assume and perform the duties of the Chief Financial Officer in the absence or disability of the Chief Financial Officer, and each Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer and each controller and assistant controller shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President shall designate from time to time.

 

(g) Duties of Treasurer. Unless another officer has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation, the Treasurer shall be the chief financial officer of the Corporation and shall keep or cause to be kept the books of account of the Corporation in a thorough and proper manner and shall render statements of the financial affairs of the Corporation in such form and as often as required by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President, and, subject to the order of the Board of Directors, shall have the custody of all funds and securities of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall perform other duties commonly incident to the office and shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President and the Chief Financial Officer (if not Treasurer) shall designate from time to time.

 

Section 30. Delegation of Authority. The Board of Directors may from time to time delegate the powers or duties of any officer to any other officer or agent, notwithstanding any provision hereof.

 

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Section 31. Resignations. Any officer may resign at any time by giving notice in writing or by electronic transmission to the Board of Directors or to the Chief Executive Officer, or if no Chief Executive Officer is then serving, the President or to the Secretary of the Corporation. Any such resignation shall be effective when received by the person or persons to whom such notice is given, unless a later time is specified therein, in which event the resignation shall become effective at such later time. Unless otherwise specified in such notice, the acceptance of any such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation shall be without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Corporation under any contract with the resigning officer.

 

Section 32. Removal. Any officer may be removed from office at any time, either with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors in office at the time, or by the unanimous written consent of the directors in office at the time, or by any committee or by the Chief Executive Officer or by other superior officers upon whom such power of removal may have been conferred by the Board of Directors.

 

ARTICLE VI

Execution Of Corporate Instruments And Voting Of Securities Owned By The Corporation

 

Section 33. Execution of Corporate Instruments. The Board of Directors may, in its discretion, determine the method and designate the signatory officer or officers, or other person or persons, to execute on behalf of the Corporation any corporate instrument or document, or to sign on behalf of the Corporation the corporate name without limitation, or to enter into contracts on behalf of the Corporation, except where otherwise provided by law or these Bylaws, and such execution or signature shall be binding upon the Corporation.

 

All checks and drafts drawn on banks or other depositaries on funds to the credit of the Corporation or in special accounts of the Corporation shall be signed by such person or persons as the Board of Directors shall authorize so to do.

 

Unless authorized or ratified by the Board of Directors or within the agency power of an officer, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind the Corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it liable for any purpose or for any amount.

 

Section 34. Voting of Securities Owned By the Corporation. All stock and other securities of other Corporations owned or held by the Corporation for itself, or for other parties in any capacity, shall be voted, and all proxies with respect thereto shall be executed, by the person authorized so to do by resolution of the Board of Directors, or, in the absence of such authorization, by the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice President.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Shares Of Stock

 

Section 35. Form and Execution of Certificates. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, or shall be uncertificated if so provided by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors. Certificates for the shares of stock, if any, shall be in such form as is consistent with the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. Every holder of stock in the Corporation represented by certificate shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by or in the name of the Corporation by any two authorized officers of the Corporation, including but not limited to, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Corporation. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be facsimiles. In case any officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue.

 

Section 36. Lost Certificates. A new certificate or certificates shall be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. The Corporation may require, as a condition precedent to the issuance of a new certificate or certificates, the owner of such lost, stolen, or destroyed certificate or certificates, or the owner’s legal representative, to agree to indemnify the Corporation in such manner as it shall require or to give the Corporation a surety bond in such form and amount as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed.

 

Section 37. Transfers.

 

(a) Transfers of record of shares of stock of the Corporation shall be made only upon its books by the holders thereof, in person or by attorney duly authorized, and, in the case of stock represented by certificate, upon the surrender of a properly endorsed certificate or certificates for a like number of shares.

 

(b) The Corporation shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes of stock of the Corporation to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL.

 

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Section 38. Fixing Record Dates.

 

(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall, subject to applicable law, not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

(b) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than sixty (60) days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

Section 39. Registered Stockholders. The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.

 

ARTICLE VIII

Other Securities Of The Corporation

 

Section 40. Execution of Other Securities. All bonds, debentures and other corporate securities of the Corporation, other than stock certificates (covered in Section 35), may be signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President, or such other person as may be authorized by the Board of Directors, and if such securities require it, the corporate seal may be impressed thereon or a facsimile of such seal may be imprinted thereon and attested by the signature of the Secretary of the Corporation or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, or the Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer; provided, however, that where any such bond, debenture or other corporate security shall be authenticated by the manual signature, or where permissible facsimile signature, of a trustee under an indenture pursuant to which such bond, debenture or other corporate security shall be issued, the signatures of the persons signing and attesting the corporate seal on such bond, debenture or other corporate security may be the imprinted facsimile of the signatures of such persons. Interest coupons appertaining to any such bond, debenture or other corporate security, authenticated by a trustee as aforesaid, shall be signed by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Corporation or such other person as may be authorized by the Board of Directors, or bear imprinted thereon the facsimile signature of such person. In case any officer who shall have signed or attested any bond, debenture or other corporate security, or whose facsimile signature shall appear thereon or on any such interest coupon, shall have ceased to be such officer before the bond, debenture or other corporate security so signed or attested shall have been delivered, such bond, debenture or other corporate security nevertheless may be adopted by the Corporation and issued and delivered as though the person who signed the same or whose facsimile signature shall have been used thereon had not ceased to be such officer of the Corporation.

 

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ARTICLE IX

Dividends

 

Section 41. Declaration of Dividends. Dividends upon the capital stock of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law, if any, may be declared by the Board of Directors pursuant to law at any regular or special meeting. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the capital stock, subject to the provisions of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law.

 

Section 42. Dividend Reserve. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the Board of Directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for such other purpose as the Board of Directors shall think conducive to the interests of the Corporation, and the Board of Directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

 

ARTICLE X

Fiscal Year

 

Section 43. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

ARTICLE XI

Indemnification

 

Section 44. Indemnification of Directors, Executive Officers, Other Officers, Employees and Other Agents.

 

(a) Directors and Executive Officers. The Corporation shall indemnify its directors and executive officers (for the purposes of this Article XI, “executive officers” shall have the meaning defined in Rule 3b-7 promulgated under the 1934 Act) to the extent not prohibited by the DGCL or any other applicable law; provided, however, that the Corporation may modify the extent of such indemnification by individual contracts with its directors and executive officers; and, provided, further, that the Corporation shall not be required to indemnify any director or executive officer in connection with any proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless (i) such indemnification is expressly required to be made by law, (ii) the proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, (iii) such indemnification is provided by the Corporation, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Corporation under the DGCL or any other applicable law or (iv) such indemnification is required to be made under subsection (d).

 

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(b) Other Officers, Employees and Other Agents. The Corporation shall have power to indemnify its other officers, employees and other agents as set forth in the DGCL or any other applicable law. The Board of Directors shall have the power to delegate the determination of whether indemnification shall be given to any such person except executive officers to such officers or other persons as the Board of Directors shall determine.

 

(c) Expenses. The Corporation shall advance to any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or executive officer, of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or executive officer of another Corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, prior to the final disposition of the proceeding, promptly following request therefor, all expenses incurred by any director or executive officer in connection with such proceeding provided, however, that if the DGCL requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by a director or executive officer in his or her capacity as a director or executive officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this section or otherwise.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise determined pursuant to paragraph (e) of this section, no advance shall be made by the Corporation to an executive officer of the Corporation (except by reason of the fact that such executive officer is or was a director of the Corporation in which event this paragraph shall not apply) in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, if a determination is reasonably and promptly made (i) by a majority vote of directors who were not parties to the proceeding, even if not a quorum, or (ii) by a committee of such directors designated by a majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (iii) if there are no such directors, or such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, that the facts known to the decision-making party at the time such determination is made demonstrate clearly and convincingly that such person acted in bad faith or in a manner that such person did not believe to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation.

 

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(d) Enforcement. Without the necessity of entering into an express contract, all rights to indemnification and advances to directors and executive officers under this Bylaw shall be deemed to be contractual rights and be effective to the same extent and as if provided for in a contract between the Corporation and the director or executive officer. Any right to indemnification or advances granted by this section to a director or executive officer shall be enforceable by or on behalf of the person holding such right in any court of competent jurisdiction if (i) the claim for indemnification or advances is denied, in whole or in part, or (ii) no disposition of such claim is made within ninety (90) days of request therefor. To the extent permitted by law, the claimant in such enforcement action, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting the claim. In connection with any claim for indemnification, the Corporation shall be entitled to raise as a defense to any such action that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct that make it permissible under the DGCL or any other applicable law for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed. In connection with any claim by an executive officer of the Corporation (except in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that such executive officer is or was a director of the Corporation) for advances, the Corporation shall be entitled to raise a defense as to any such action clear and convincing evidence that such person acted in bad faith or in a manner that such person did not believe to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, or with respect to any criminal action or proceeding that such person acted without reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was lawful. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL or any other applicable law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct. In any suit brought by a director or executive officer to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, the burden of proving that the director or executive officer is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this section or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.

 

(e) Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights conferred on any person by this Bylaw shall not be exclusive of any other right which such person may have or hereafter acquire under any applicable statute, provision of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding office. The Corporation is specifically authorized to enter into individual contracts with any or all of its directors, officers, employees or agents respecting indemnification and advances, to the fullest extent not prohibited by the DGCL, or by any other applicable law.

 

(f) Survival of Rights. The rights conferred on any person by this Bylaw shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or other agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

 

(g) Insurance. To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL or any other applicable law, the Corporation, upon approval by the Board of Directors, may purchase insurance on behalf of any person required or permitted to be indemnified pursuant to this section.

 

(h) Amendments. Any repeal or modification of this section shall only be prospective and shall not affect the rights under this Bylaw in effect at the time of the alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that is the cause of any proceeding against any agent of the Corporation.

 

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(i) Saving Clause. If this Bylaw or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify each director and executive officer to the full extent not prohibited by any applicable portion of this section that shall not have been invalidated, or by any other applicable law. If this section shall be invalid due to the application of the indemnification provisions of another jurisdiction, then the Corporation shall indemnify each director and executive officer to the full extent under any other applicable law.

 

(j) Certain Definitions. For the purposes of this Bylaw, the following definitions shall apply:

 

(i) The term “proceeding” shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, the investigation, preparation, prosecution, defense, settlement, arbitration and appeal of, and the giving of testimony in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative.

 

(ii) The term “expenses” shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, court costs, attorneys’ fees, witness fees, fines, amounts paid in settlement or judgment and any other costs and expenses of any nature or kind incurred in connection with any proceeding.

 

(iii) The term the “Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting Corporation, any constituent Corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another Corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this section with respect to the resulting or surviving Corporation as he would have with respect to such constituent Corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

(iv) References to a “director,” “executive officer,” “officer,” “employee,” or “agent” of the Corporation shall include, without limitation, situations where such person is serving at the request of the Corporation as, respectively, a director, executive officer, officer, employee, trustee or agent of another Corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

 

(v) References to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this section.

 

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ARTICLE XII

Notices

 

Section 45. Notices.

 

(a) Notice to Stockholders. Written notice to stockholders of stockholder meetings shall be given as provided in Section 7 herein. Without limiting the manner by which notice may otherwise be given effectively to stockholders under any agreement or contract with such stockholder, and except as otherwise required by law, written notice to stockholders for purposes other than stockholder meetings may be sent by U.S. mail or nationally recognized overnight courier, or by facsimile, telegraph or telex or by electronic mail or other electronic means.

 

(b) Notice to Directors. Any notice required to be given to any director may be given by the method stated in subsection (a), or as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, with notice other than one which is delivered personally to be sent to such address as such director shall have filed in writing with the Secretary of the Corporation, or, in the absence of such filing, to the last known address of such director.

 

(c) Affidavit of Mailing. An affidavit of mailing, executed by a duly authorized and competent employee of the Corporation or its transfer agent appointed with respect to the class of stock affected, or other agent, specifying the name and address or the names and addresses of the stockholder or stockholders, or director or directors, to whom any such notice or notices was or were given, and the time and method of giving the same, shall in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained.

 

(d) Methods of Notice. It shall not be necessary that the same method of giving notice be employed in respect of all recipients of notice, but one permissible method may be employed in respect of any one or more, and any other permissible method or methods may be employed in respect of any other or others.

 

(e) Notice to Person With Whom Communication is Unlawful. Whenever notice is required to be given, under any provision of law or of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Corporation, to any person with whom communication is unlawful, the giving of such notice to such person shall not be required and there shall be no duty to apply to any governmental authority or agency for a license or permit to give such notice to such person. Any action or meeting which shall be taken or held without notice to any such person with whom communication is unlawful shall have the same force and effect as if such notice had been duly given. In the event that the action taken by the Corporation is such as to require the filing of a certificate under any provision of the DGCL, the certificate shall state, if such is the fact and if notice is required, that notice was given to all persons entitled to receive notice except such persons with whom communication is unlawful.

 

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(f) Notice to Stockholders Sharing an Address. Except as otherwise prohibited under DGCL, any notice given under the provisions of DGCL, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws shall be effective if given by a single written notice to stockholders who share an address if consented to by the stockholders at that address to whom such notice is given. Such consent shall have been deemed to have been given if such stockholder fails to object in writing to the Corporation within sixty (60) days of having been given notice by the Corporation of its intention to send the single notice. Any consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE XIII

Amendments

 

Section 46. Amendments. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 44(h) of these Bylaws or the provisions of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors is expressly empowered to adopt, amend or repeal these Bylaws of the Corporation. Any adoption, amendment or repeal of these Bylaws of the Corporation by the Board of Directors shall require the approval of a majority of the authorized number of directors. The stockholders also shall have power to adopt, amend or repeal these Bylaws of the Corporation; provided, however, that, in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of stock of the Corporation required by law or by the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, such action by stockholders shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.

 

ARTICLE XIV

Loans To Officers

 

Section 47. Loans to Officers. Except as otherwise prohibited by applicable law, the Corporation may lend money to, or guarantee any obligation of, or otherwise assist any officer or other employee of the Corporation or of its subsidiaries, including any officer or employee who is a director of the Corporation or its subsidiaries, whenever, in the judgment of the Board of Directors, such loan, guarantee or assistance may reasonably be expected to benefit the Corporation. The loan, guarantee or other assistance may be with or without interest and may be unsecured, or secured in such manner as the Board of Directors shall approve, including, without limitation, a pledge of shares of stock of the Corporation. Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to deny, limit or restrict the powers of guaranty or warranty of the Corporation at common law or under any statute.

 

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

[Form of Common Stock Certificate]

 

NUMBER

 

C-

 

 

SHARES

SEE REVERSE FOR

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP 449109 107

 

HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
COMMON STOCK

 

This Certifies that

 

is the owner of

 

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE OF $0.0001 OF

 

HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.
(THE “CORPORATION”)

 

transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed.

 

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar.

 

Witness the seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

 

 

Secretary [Corporate Seal]
Delaware
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.

 

The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Corporation and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented thereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issue of securities (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the Corporation), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents. The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM as tenants in common   UNIF GIFT MIN ACT                      Custodian                           
TEN ENT as tenants by the entireties            (Cust)                              (Minor)
JT TEN as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common      

under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

                                                                   

                          (State)

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

For value received,                      hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

 

 

(PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER(S) OF ASSIGNEE(S))

 

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES), INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE(S))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

______________________ Shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints

 

______________________ Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

     
    NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.
     
Signature(s) Guaranteed:    
     
By:                                 
THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST 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 SEC RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE)) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.2

 

[Form of Warrant Certificate]

 

[FACE]

 

Number

 

Warrants

 

____________________

 

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO
THE EXPIRATION OF THE EXERCISE PERIOD PROVIDED FOR
IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DESCRIBED BELOW

 

HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.

Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Delaware

 

CUSIP 449109 115

 

Warrant Certificate

 

This Warrant Certificate certifies that           , or registered assigns, is the registered holder of            warrant(s) evidenced hereby (the “Warrants” and each, a “Warrant”) to purchase shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). Each Warrant entitles the holder, upon exercise during the period set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below, to receive from the Company that number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock as set forth below, at the exercise price (the “Exercise Price”) as determined pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, payable by certified or official bank check payable to the Company (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent referred to below, subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

 

Each Warrant is initially exercisable for one fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

 

The initial Exercise Price is equal to $11.50 per share. The Exercise Price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

 

Subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrants may be exercised only during the Exercise Period and to the extent not exercised by the end of such Exercise Period, such Warrants shall become void.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

 

This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent, as such term is used in the Warrant Agreement.

 

This Warrant Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

 

 

  HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.
   
  By:  
  Name:                          
  Title:  
   
  CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER
& TRUST COMPANY
as Warrant Agent
   
  By:  
  Name:   
  Title:  

 

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[Form of Warrant Certificate]

 

[Reverse]

 

The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants entitling the holder on exercise to receive shares of Common Stock and are issued or to be issued pursuant to a Warrant Agreement dated as of           , 2019 (the “Warrant Agreement”), duly executed and delivered by the Company to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agent”), which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the holders (the words “holders” or “holder” meaning the Registered Holders or Registered Holder, respectively) of the Warrants. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the holder hereof upon written request to the Company. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

 

Warrants may be exercised at any time during the Exercise Period set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The holder of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may exercise them by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the form of election to purchase set forth hereon properly completed and executed, together with payment of the Exercise Price as specified in the Warrant Agreement (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent. In the event that upon any exercise of Warrants evidenced hereby the number of Warrants exercised shall be less than the total number of Warrants evidenced hereby, there shall be issued to the holder hereof or his, her or its assignee, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants not exercised.

 

Notwithstanding anything else in this Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Agreement, no Warrant may be exercised unless at the time of exercise (i) a registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock to be issued upon exercise is effective under the Securities Act and (ii) a prospectus thereunder relating to the shares of Common Stock is current, except through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement.

 

The Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants set forth on the face hereof may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. If, upon exercise of a Warrant, the holder thereof would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the holder of the Warrant.

 

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent by the Registered Holder thereof in person or by legal representative or attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

 

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder(s) hereof as the absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any holder hereof to any rights of a stockholder of the Company.

 

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Election to Purchase

 

(To Be Executed Upon Exercise of Warrant)

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to receive            shares of Common Stock and herewith tenders payment for such shares of Common Stock to the order of Hyliion Holdings Corp. (the “Company”) in the amount of $           in accordance with the terms hereof. The undersigned requests that a certificate for such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of           , whose address is            and that such shares of Common Stock be delivered to            whose address is           . If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of           , whose address is            and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to           , whose address is           .

 

In the event that the Warrant has been called for redemption by the Company pursuant to Section 6 of the Warrant Agreement and the Company has required cashless exercise pursuant to Section 6.3 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(b) and Section 6.3 of the Warrant Agreement.

 

In the event that the Warrant is a Private Placement Warrant that is to be exercised on a “cashless” basis pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement.

 

In the event that the Warrant is to be exercised on a “cashless” basis pursuant to Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement.

 

In the event that the Warrant (as such term is defined in the Warrant Agreement) may be exercised, to the extent allowed by the Warrant Agreement, through cashless exercise (i) the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for would be determined in accordance with the relevant section of the Warrant Agreement which allows for such cashless exercise and (ii) the holder hereof shall complete the following: The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, through the cashless exercise provisions of the Warrant Agreement, to receive shares of Common Stock. If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder (after giving effect to the cashless exercise), the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of           , whose address is            and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to           , whose address is           .

 

[signature page follows]

 

4

 

 

Date:

 

   
  (Signature)
   
   
   
   
  (Address)
   
   
  (Tax Identification Number)

 

Signature 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 SEC RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE)) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED.  

 

 

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Exhibit 4.4

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of October 1, 2020, is made and entered into by and among Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation f/k/a Tortoise Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”), Tortoise Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Tortoise Borrower”), and the undersigned parties listed under Holder on the signature pages hereto (each such party, together with the Sponsor, Tortoise Borrower and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 of this Agreement, a “Holder” and collectively the “Holders”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, on February 27, 2019, the Company, the Sponsor, Atlas Point Energy Infrastructure Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Atlas Point”), Tortoise Borrower and certain other security holders named therein entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement (the “Existing Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company granted the Sponsor, Atlas Point, Tortoise Borrower and such other holders named therein certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company;

 

WHEREAS, on June 18, 2020, the Company, SHLL Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), and Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Hyliion”), entered into that certain Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into Hyliion on or about the date hereof, with Hyliion surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Business Combination”);

 

WHEREAS, after the closing of the Business Combination, the Holders will own shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and Tortoise Borrower will own warrants to purchase 6,660,183 shares of Common Stock (the “Private Placement Warrants”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and the Holders desire to amend and restate the Existing Registration Rights Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company, as set forth in this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

Article 1
DEFINITIONS

 

1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this Article 1 shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:

 

Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the Chief Executive Officer or principal financial officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

 

 

 

Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Atlas Point” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Board” shall mean the board of directors of the Company.

 

Business Combination” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Stock” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Company” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Demanding Holder” shall mean, any Initial Holder or group of Initial Holders, that together elects to dispose of Registrable Securities having an aggregate value of at least $25 million, at the time of the Underwritten Demand, under a Registration Statement pursuant to an Underwritten Offering.

 

Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning given in subsection 3.1.1.

 

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Existing Registration Rights Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Form S-3” shall mean Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration statement that may be available at such time.

 

Holder Indemnified Persons” shall have the meaning given in subsection 4.1.1.

 

Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Hyliion” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Initial Holders” shall mean the Sponsor, Tortoise Borrower, Andrew J. Orekar, Frank M. Semple, Sidney L. Tassin, Vincent T. Cubbage, Stephen Pang, Steven C. Schnitzer, Darrell Brock, Evan Zimmer and Ed Russell.

 

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Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.4.

 

Merger Sub” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading.

 

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.1.

 

Private Placement Warrants” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, as supplemented by any and all prospectus supplements and as amended by any and all post-effective amendments and including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.

 

Registrable Security” shall mean (a) the Private Placement Warrants (including any shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any such Private Placement Warrants), (b) any outstanding share of Common Stock or any other equity security (including the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any other equity security) of the Company held by a Holder as of the date of this Agreement, which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include shares of Common Stock received by a Holder on or after the date hereof as a distribution from the Sponsor in connection with its liquidation and dissolution, (c) any equity securities (including the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any such equity security) of the Company issuable upon conversion of any working capital loans in an amount up to $1,500,000 made to the Company by a Holder and (d) any other equity security of the Company issued or issuable with respect to any such share of Common Stock by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or reorganization; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Securities, such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when: (A) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such securities shall have been sold, transferred, disposed of or exchanged in accordance with such Registration Statement; (B) such securities shall have been otherwise transferred, new certificates for such securities not bearing a legend restricting further transfer shall have been delivered by the Company and subsequent public distribution of such securities shall not require registration under the Securities Act; (C) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding; or (D) such securities may be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission) (but with no volume or other restrictions or limitations).

 

Registration” shall mean a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or similar document in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any such registration statement having become effective by the Commission.

 

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Registration Expenses” shall mean the out-of-pocket expenses of a Registration, including, without limitation, the following:

 

(a) all registration and filing fees (including fees with respect to filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) and any securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed;

 

(b) fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

 

(c) printing, messenger, telephone and delivery expenses;

 

(d) reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

 

(e) reasonable fees and disbursements of all independent registered public accountants of the Company incurred specifically in connection with such Registration; and

 

(f) reasonable fees and expenses of one (1) legal counsel selected by the Demanding Holders initiating a Underwritten Demand to be registered for offer and sale in the applicable Registration or Underwritten Offering.

 

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement under the Securities Act that covers the Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus included in such registration statement, amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registration statement and all exhibits to and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

 

Requesting Holder” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

 

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

 

Shelf Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

 

Sponsor” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Tortoise Borrower” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Underwriter” shall mean a securities dealer who purchases any Registrable Securities as principal in an Underwritten Offering and not as part of such dealer’s market-making activities.

 

Underwritten Demand” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

 

Underwritten Offering” shall mean a Registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an Underwriter in a firm commitment underwriting for distribution to the public.

 

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Article 2
REGISTRATIONS

 

2.1 Registration.

 

2.1.1 Shelf Registration. The Company agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days after the consummation of the Business Combination, the Company will file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a Registration Statement registering the resale of the Registrable Securities (a “Shelf Registration”). The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective by the Commission as soon as reasonably practicable after the initial filing of the Registration Statement in accordance with Section 3.1 of this Agreement.

 

2.1.2 Effective Registration. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 2.1.1 above or any other part of this Agreement, a Registration pursuant to a Shelf Registration shall not count as a Registration unless and until (i) the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to a Registration pursuant to a Shelf Registration has become effective by the Commission and (ii) the Company has complied with all of its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto. Subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, the Company shall effect any Shelf Registration on such appropriate registration form of the Commission (x) as shall be selected by the Company and (y) as shall permit the resale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders. If at any time a Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 2.1.1 is effective and a Holder provides written notice to the Company that it intends to effect an offering of all or part of the Registrable Securities included on such Registration Statement, the Company will amend or supplement such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to enable such offering to take place in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

2.1.3 Underwritten Offering. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.1.4 and Section 2.3 hereof, any Demanding Holder may make a written demand for an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 2.1.1 (an “Underwritten Demand”). The Company shall, within ten (10) days of the Company’s receipt of the Underwritten Demand, notify, in writing, all other Holders of such demand, and each Holder who thereafter wishes to include all or a portion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand (each such Holder that includes all or a portion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Offering, a “Requesting Holder”) shall so notify the Company, in writing, within two (2) days (one (1) day if such offering is an overnight or bought Underwritten Offering) after the receipt by the Holder of the notice from the Company. Upon receipt by the Company of any such written notification from a Requesting Holder(s), such Requesting Holder(s) shall be entitled to have their Registrable Securities included in the Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand. All such Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through an Underwritten Offering under this subsection 2.1.3 shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering by the Demanding Holders initiating the Underwritten Offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company is not obligated to effect more than an aggregate of three (3) Underwritten Offerings pursuant to this subsection 2.1.3 and is not obligated to effect an Underwritten Offering pursuant to this subsection 2.1.3 within ninety (90) days after the closing of an Underwritten Offering.

 

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2.1.4 Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Underwritten Demand, in good faith, advises the Company, the Demanding Holders, the Requesting Holders and other persons or entities holding Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company that the Company is obligated to include pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities (if any) in writing that the dollar amount or number of Registrable Securities or other equity securities of the Company requested to be included in such Underwritten Offering exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number of equity securities of the Company that can be sold in the Underwritten Offering without adversely affecting the proposed offering price, the timing, the distribution method or the probability of success of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of such securities, as applicable, the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, as follows: (i) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) has requested be included in such Underwritten Offering and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and Requesting Holders have requested be included in such Underwritten Offering (such proportion is referred to herein as “Pro Rata”)) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company that the Company desires to sell and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company held by other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to include pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

2.2 Piggyback Registration.

 

2.2.1 Piggyback Rights. If the Company proposes to (i) file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering of equity securities of the Company, or securities or other obligations exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into equity securities of the Company, for its own account or for the account of stockholders of the Company, other than a Registration Statement (A) filed in connection with any employee stock option or other benefit plan, (B) for an exchange offer or offering of securities solely to the Company’s existing stockholders, (C) for an offering of debt that is convertible into equity securities of the Company or (D) for a dividend reinvestment plan, or (ii) consummate an Underwritten Offering for its own account or for the account of stockholders of the Company, then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed action to all of the Holders as soon as practicable (but in the case of filing a Registration Statement, not less than ten (10) days before the anticipated filing date of such Registration Statement), which notice shall (x) describe the amount and type of securities to be included, the intended method(s) of distribution and the name of the proposed managing Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, and (y) offer to all of the Holders the opportunity to register the sale of such number of Registrable Securities as such Holders may request in writing within (a) five (5) days in the case of filing a Registration Statement and (b) two (2) days in the case of an Underwritten Offering (unless such offering is an overnight or bought Underwritten Offering, then one (1) day), in each case after receipt of such written notice (such Registration a “Piggyback Registration”). The Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be included in such Piggyback Registration and shall use its best efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering to permit the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to this subsection 2.2.1 to be included in a Piggyback Registration on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such Piggyback Registration and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. All such Holders proposing to include Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering under this subsection 2.2.1 shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering by the Company.

 

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2.2.2 Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering that is to be a Piggyback Registration, in good faith, advises the Company and the Holders of Registrable Securities participating in the Piggyback Registration in writing that the dollar amount or number of shares of the equity securities of the Company that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the shares of equity securities of the Company, if any, as to which Registration or Underwritten Offering has been demanded pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities hereunder, (ii) the Registrable Securities as to which Registration or Underwritten Offering has been requested pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof and (iii) the shares of equity securities of the Company, if any, as to which Registration or Underwritten Offering has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

 

(a) If the Registration or Underwritten Offering is undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration or Underwritten Offering (A) first, the Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to subsection 2.2.1 hereof, Pro Rata, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company, if any, as to which Registration or Underwritten Offering has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggyback registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; or

 

(b) If the Registration or Underwritten Offering is pursuant to a request by persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall include in any such Registration or Underwritten Offering (A) first, Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company, if any, of such requesting persons or entities, other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to subsection 2.2.1, Pro Rata, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (D) fourth, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A)(B) and (C), Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company for the account of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

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2.2.3 Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right to withdraw from a Piggyback Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of his, her or its intention to withdraw from such Piggyback Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to such Piggyback Registration. The Company (whether on its own good faith determination or as the result of a request for withdrawal by persons pursuant to separate written contractual obligations) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in connection with a Piggyback Registration at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.2.3.

 

2.2.4 Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, any Registration or Underwritten Offering effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as an Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand effected under Section 2.1 hereof.

 

2.3 Restrictions on Registration Rights. If (A) the Holders have requested an Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand and the Company and the Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of underwriters to firmly underwrite the offer; or (B) the Holders have requested an Underwritten Offering pursuant to an Underwritten Demand and in the good faith judgment of the Board such Registration or Underwritten Offering would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes as a result that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement or the undertaking of such Underwritten Offering at such time, then in each case the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed or to undertake such Underwritten Offering in the near future and that it is therefore essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement or undertaking of such Underwritten Offering. In such event, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing or offering for a period of not more than thirty (30) days; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any twelve (12)-month period.

 

Article 3
COMPANY PROCEDURES

 

3.1 General Procedures. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof, and pursuant thereto the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible and to the extent applicable:

 

3.1.1 prepare and file with the Commission within thirty (30) days after the consummation of the Business Combination a Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective, including filing a replacement Registration Statement, if necessary, until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or are no longer outstanding (such period, the “Effectiveness Period”);

 

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3.1.2 prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and such supplements to the Prospectus, as may be reasonably requested by the Demanding Holders or any Underwriter or as may be required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company or by the Securities Act or rules and regulations thereunder to keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are sold in accordance with the intended plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus or are no longer outstanding;

 

3.1.3 prior to filing a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriters, if any, and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or Underwritten Offering, and such Holders’ legal counsel, copies of such Registration Statement as proposed to be filed, each amendment and supplement to such Registration Statement (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the Prospectus (including each preliminary Prospectus) and such other documents as the Underwriters and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or the legal counsel for any such Holders may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holders; provided, that the Company will not have any obligation to provide any document pursuant to this clause that is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system;

 

3.1.4 prior to any Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, use its best efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement under such securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in light of their intended plan of distribution) may request and (ii) take such action necessary to cause such Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or advisable to enable the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify or take any action to which it would be subject to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then otherwise so subject;

 

3.1.5 cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed;

 

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3.1.6 provide a transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, and registrar for all such Registrable Securities no later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

 

3.1.7 advise each seller of such Registrable Securities, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such stop order should be issued;

 

3.1.8 during the Effectiveness Period, furnish a conformed copy of each filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document that is to be incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement or Prospectus, promptly after such filing of such documents with the Commission to each seller of such Registrable Securities or its counsel; provided, that the Company will not have any obligation to provide any document pursuant to this clause that is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system;

 

3.1.9 notify the Holders at any time when a Prospectus relating to such Registration Statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes a Misstatement, and then to correct such Misstatement as set forth in Section 3.4 hereof;

 

3.1.10 permit a representative of the Holders, the Underwriters, if any, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter to participate, at each such person’s own expense, in the preparation of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with the Registration; provided, however, that such representatives or Underwriters enter into a confidentiality agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information;

 

3.1.11 obtain a comfort letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Offering, in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by comfort letters as the managing Underwriter may reasonably request, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

 

3.1.12 on the date the Registrable Securities are delivered for sale pursuant to such Registration, obtain an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the placement agent or sales agent, if any, and the Underwriters, if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the placement agent, sales agent, or Underwriter may reasonably request and as are customarily included in such opinions and negative assurance letters, and reasonably satisfactory to such placement agent, sales agent or Underwriter;

 

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3.1.13 in the event of any Underwritten Offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter of such offering;

 

3.1.14 make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the Registration Statement which satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission);

 

3.1.15 use its reasonable efforts to make available senior executives of the Company to participate in customary “road show” presentations that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter in any Underwritten Offering; and

 

3.1.16 otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Holders, in connection with such Registration.

 

3.2 Registration Expenses. The Registration Expenses in respect of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company. It is acknowledged by the Holders that the Holders shall bear all incremental selling expenses relating to the sale of Registrable Securities, such as Underwriters’ commissions and discounts, brokerage fees, Underwriter marketing costs and, other than as set forth in the definition of “Registration Expenses,” all reasonable fees and expenses of any legal counsel representing the Holders.

 

3.3 Requirements for Participation in Underwritten Offerings. No person or entity may participate in any Underwritten Offering for equity securities of the Company pursuant to a Registration initiated by the Company hereunder unless such person or entity (i) agrees to sell such person’s or entity’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

 

3.4 Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure. Upon receipt of written notice from the Company that a Registration Statement or Prospectus contains a Misstatement, each of the Holders shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities until he, she or it has received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus correcting the Misstatement (it being understood that the Company hereby covenants to prepare and file such supplement or amendment as soon as practicable after the time of such notice), or until he, she or it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed. If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration or Underwritten Offering at any time would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or would require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time, but in no event more than thirty (30) days, determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose. In the event the Company exercises its rights under the preceding sentences in this Section 3.4, the Holders agree to suspend, immediately upon their receipt of the notices referred to in this Section 3.4, their use of the Prospectus relating to any Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised its rights under this Section 3.4.

 

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3.5 Reporting Obligations. As long as any Holder shall own Registrable Securities, the Company, at all times while it shall be a reporting company under the Exchange Act, covenants to file timely (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company further covenants that it shall take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell shares of Registrable Securities held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission), including providing any legal opinions. Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written certification of a duly authorized officer as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

 

Article 4
INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

 

4.1 Indemnification.

 

4.1.1 The Company agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, each Holder of Registrable Securities, its officers and directors and each person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) (collectively, the “Holder Indemnified Persons”) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and inclusive of all reasonable attorneys’ fees arising out of the enforcement of each such persons’ rights under this Section 4.1) resulting from any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder Indemnified Person specifically for use therein.

 

4.1.2 In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such Holder shall furnish to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus and, to the extent permitted by law, shall, severally and not jointly, indemnify the Company, its directors and officers and agents and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and inclusive of all reasonable attorneys’ fees arising out of the enforcement of each such persons’ rights under this Section 4.1) resulting from any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, but only to the extent that the same are made in reliance on and in conformity with information relating to the Holder so furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for use therein. In no event shall the liability of any selling Holder hereunder be greater in amount than the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement giving rise to such indemnification obligation.

 

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4.1.3 Any person entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not materially prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim or there may be reasonable defenses available to the indemnified party that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

4.1.4 The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities.

 

4.1.5 If the indemnification provided under Section 4.1 is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall to the extent permitted by law contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by a court of law by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by such indemnifying party or such indemnified party and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action; provided, however, that the liability of any Holder under this subsection 4.1.5 shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder in such offering giving rise to such liability. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in subsections 4.1.14.1.2 and 4.1.3 above, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection 4.1.5 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation, which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this subsection 4.1.5. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this subsection 4.1.5 from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

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Article 5
MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1 Notices. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be in writing and given by (i) deposit in the United States mail, addressed to the party to be notified, postage prepaid and registered or certified with return receipt requested, (ii) delivery in person or by courier service providing evidence of delivery or (iii) transmission by hand delivery, telecopy, telegram, facsimile or email. Each notice or communication that is mailed, delivered or transmitted in the manner described above shall be deemed sufficiently given, served, sent, and received, in the case of mailed notices, on the third (3rd) business day following the date on which it is mailed, in the case of notices delivered by courier service, hand delivery, telecopy or telegram, at such time as it is delivered to the addressee (with the delivery receipt or the affidavit of messenger) or at such time as delivery is refused by the addressee upon presentation, and in the case of notices delivered by facsimile or email, at such time as it is successfully transmitted to the addressee. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to: 1202 BMC Drive, Cedar Park, TX 78613, or by email at: thomas@hyliion.com if to the Sponsor or Tortoise Borrower, to: 5100 W. 115th Place, Leawood, KS 66211, or by email at: JKruske@tortoiseadvisors.com, and, if to any other Holder, to the address of such Holder as it appears in the applicable register for the Registrable Securities or such other address as may be designated in writing by such Holder (including on the signature pages hereto). Any party may change its address for notice at any time and from time to time by written notice to the other parties hereto, and such change of address shall become effective thirty (30) days after delivery of such notice as provided in this Section 5.1.

 

5.2 Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

 

5.2.1 This Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company in whole or in part.

 

5.2.2 This Agreement and the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and its successors.

 

5.2.3 This Agreement shall not confer any rights or benefits on any persons that are not parties hereto, other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement and Section 5.2 hereof.

 

5.2.4 No assignment by any party hereto of such party’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder shall be binding upon or obligate the Company unless and until the Company shall have received (i) written notice of such assignment as provided in Section 5.1 hereof and (ii) the written agreement of the assignee, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement (which may be accomplished by an addendum or certificate of joinder to this Agreement). Any transfer or assignment made other than as provided in this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.

 

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5.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts (including facsimile or PDF counterparts), each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which need be produced.

 

5.4 Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO AGREEMENTS AMONG NEW YORK RESIDENTS ENTERED INTO AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION.

 

5.5 Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders of at least a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities at the time in question, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in his, her or its capacity as a holder of the shares of capital stock of the Company, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

 

5.6 Other Registration Rights. The Company represents and warrants that no person, other than (a) a Holder of Registrable Securities, (b) the parties to those certain Subscription Agreements, dated as of June 18, 2020, by and between the Company and certain investors, and (c) Atlas Point Energy Infrastructure Fund, LLC, pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 6, 2019, as amended, by and among the Company, the Sponsor and Atlas Point Energy Infrastructure Fund, LLC, has any right to require the Company to register any securities of the Company for sale or to include such securities of the Company in any Registration filed by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or for the account of any other person. Further, the Company represents and warrants that this Agreement supersedes any other registration rights agreement or agreement with similar terms and conditions and in the event of a conflict between any such agreement or agreements and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail.

 

5.7 Term. This Agreement shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) the tenth (10th) anniversary of the date of this Agreement and (ii) the date as of which the Holders cease to hold any Registrable Securities. The provisions of Article 4 shall survive any termination.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

  COMPANY:
   
  HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.,
  a Delaware corporation
   
  By: /s/ Thomas Healy
  Name:  Thomas Healy
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  HOLDERS:
   
  TORTOISE SPONSOR LLC,
  a Delaware limited liability company
   
  By: TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC (f/k/a Tortoise
  Borrower LLC), Managing Member
         
  By: /s/ Michelle Johnston
  Name:  Michelle Johnston
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  TORTOISEECOFIN BORROWER LLC,
  a Delaware limited liability company
   
  By: /s/ Michelle Johnston
  Name:  Michelle Johnston
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Andrew J. Orekar
  Andrew J. Orekar
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Andrew J. Orekar
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Frank M. Semple
  Frank M. Semple
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Frank M. Semple
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Sidney L. Tassin
  Sidney L. Tassin
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Sidney L. Tassin
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Vincent T. Cubbage
  Vincent T. Cubbage
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Vincent T. Cubbage
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Stephen Pang
  Stephen Pang
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Stephen Pang
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Steven C. Schnitzer
  Steven C. Schnitzer
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Steven C. Schnitzer
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Darrell Brock
  Darrell Brock
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Darrell Brock
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Evan Zimmer
  Evan Zimmer
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Evan Zimmer
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Ed Russell
  Ed Russell
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Ed Russell
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Thomas Healy
  Thomas Healy
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Thomas Healy
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Edward Olkkola
  Edward Olkkola
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Edward Olkkola
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Jeanne Olkkola
  Jeanne Olkkola
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Jeanne Olkkola
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Howard Jenkins
  Howard Jenkins
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Howard Jenkins
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Patrick Sexton
  Patrick Sexton
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Howard Jenkins
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  AXIOMA VENTURES, LLC
   
  By: Axioma Holdings, LLC
  Its: Sole Member
  By: Axioma Management, LLC
  Its: Manager
   
  By: /s/ Howard Jenkins
  Name:  Howard Jenkins
  Title: Manager
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Howard Jenkins
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  COLLE CAPITAL PARTNERS I, L.P.
   
  By: /s/ Victoria Grace
  Name:  Victoria Grace
  Title: Authorized Person
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Victoria Grace
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  COLLE HLN ASSOCIATES LLC
   
  By: /s/ Victoria Grace
  Name:  Victoria Grace
  Title: Authorized Person
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Victoria Grace
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  CONCORD PARTNERS LLC
   
  By: /s/ David Douglas
  Name:  David Douglas
  Title: Vice President and Corporate Secretary
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: David Douglas
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  CRA FUND II LLC
   
  By: Berkshire Partners LLC
  Its: Manager
   
  By: /s/ Daniel P. Carbonneau
  Name:  Daniel P. Carbonneau
  Title: Authorized Signatory
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Daniel P. Carbonneau
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  DANA LIMITED
   
  By: /s/ Timothy Kraus
  Name:  Timothy Kraus
  Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: General Counsel
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ David Douglas
  David Douglas
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: David Douglas
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  DOUGCAP, LLC
   
  By: /s/ Steven Douglas
  Name:  Steven Douglas
  Title: Managing Member
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Steven Douglas
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  FJ MANGEMENT INC.
   
  By: /s/ Richard L. Bozzelli
  Name:  Richard L. Bozzelli
  Title: Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Richard L. Bozzelli
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  /s/ Greg Van de Vere
  Greg Van de Vere
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Greg Van de Vere
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  HYL INVESTORS, LP
   
  By: /s/ Steven Douglas
  Name:  Steven Douglas
  Title: Managing Member
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Steven Douglas
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  NEW ERA CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P.
   
  By: /s/ Gideon Argov
  Name:  Gideon Argov
  Title: General Partner
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Gideon Argov
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  ROTUNDA ENTERPRISES, LLC
   
  By: /s/ Steven Douglas
  Name:  Steven Douglas
  Title: Managing Member
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Steven Douglas
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
   
  By: /s/ Hans Lidforss
  Name:  Hans Lidforss
  Title: SVP, Chief Strategy &
Corporate Development Officer
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Hans Lidforss
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

  SUMITOMO CORPORATION OF AMERICAS
   
  By: /s/ Tatsuo Ishibashi
  Name:  Tatsuo Ishibashi
  Title: Head of Auto Manufacturing Unit &
General Manager of Detroit Office
   
  Address for notice:
   
  *
  Attention: Harumi Cassetta
  Electronic Mail: *

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.5

 

October 1, 2020

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp.

1202 BMC Drive

Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

Re: Lock-Up Agreement

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This letter (this “Letter Agreement”) is being delivered to you in accordance with the Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “BCA”) entered into by and among Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation f/k/a Tortoise Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”), SHLL Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), and Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Hyliion”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will be merged with and into Hyliion on or about the date hereof (the “Merger”), with Hyliion surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

In order to induce the Company to proceed with the Merger and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned (the “Securityholder”) hereby agrees with the Company as follows:

 

1. Subject to the exceptions set forth herein, the Securityholder agrees not to, without the prior written consent of the board of directors of the Company, (i) sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder, any shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (“Class A Common Stock”) held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, any shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any of such shares of Class A Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii) (the actions specified in clauses (i)-(iii), collectively, “Transfer”) until 180 days after the closing date of the Merger (the “Lock-up”).

 

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2. The restrictions set forth in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:

 

(i) in the case of an entity, Transfers to a stockholder, partner, member or affiliate of such entity;

 

(ii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by gift to members of the individual’s immediate family (as defined below) or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of one of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization;

 

(iii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual;

 

(iv) in the case of an individual, Transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order;

 

(v) in the case of an entity, Transfers by virtue of the laws of the state of the entity’s organization and the entity’s organizational documents upon dissolution of the entity;

 

(vi) transactions relating to Class A Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock acquired in open market transactions after the effective time of the Merger, provided that no such transaction is required to be, or is, publicly announced (whether on Form 4, Form 5 or otherwise, other than a required filing on Schedule 13F, 13G or 13G/A) during the Lock-Up;

 

(vii) the exercise of any options or warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock (which exercises may be effected on a cashless basis to the extent the instruments representing such options or warrants permit exercises on a cashless basis);

 

(viii) Transfers to the Company to satisfy tax withholding obligations pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans or arrangements;

 

(ix) Transfers to the Company pursuant to any contractual arrangement in effect at the effective time of the Merger that provides for the repurchase by the Company or forfeiture of the Securityholder’s Class A Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock in connection with the termination of the Securityholder’s service to the Company;

 

(x) the entry, by the Securityholder, at any time after the effective time of the Merger, of any trading plan providing for the sale of Class A Common Stock by the Securityholder, which trading plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act, provided, however, that such plan does not provide for, or permit, the sale of any Class A Common Stock during the Lock-Up and no public announcement or filing is voluntarily made or required regarding such plan during the Lock-Up;

 

(xi) transactions in the event of completion of a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s securityholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property; and

 

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(xii) transactions to satisfy any U.S. federal, state, or local income tax obligations of the Securityholder (or its direct or indirect owners) arising from a change in the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Regulations”) after the date on which the BCA was executed by the parties, and such change prevents the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” pursuant to Section 368 of the Code (and the Merger does not qualify for similar tax-free treatment pursuant to any successor or other provision of the Code or Regulations taking into account such changes).

 

provided, however, that (A) in the case of clauses (i) through (v), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement, in substantially the form of this Letter Agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the Securityholder and not to the immediate family of the transferee), agreeing to be bound by these Transfer restrictions. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

3. This Letter Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby. This Letter Agreement may not be changed, amended, modified or waived (other than to correct a typographical error) as to any particular provision, except by a written instrument executed by all parties hereto.

 

4. No party hereto may assign either this Letter Agreement or any of its rights, interests or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the other party. Any purported assignment in violation of this paragraph shall be void and ineffectual and shall not operate to transfer or assign any interest or title to the purported assignee. This Letter Agreement shall be binding on the Securityholder and each of its respective successors, heirs and assigns and permitted transferees.

 

5. This Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The parties hereto (i) all agree that any action, proceeding, claim or dispute arising out of, or relating in any way to, this Letter Agreement shall be brought and enforced in any Delaware Chancery Court, and irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction and venue, which jurisdiction and venue shall be exclusive and (ii) waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and venue or that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

 

6. This Letter Agreement shall terminate on the expiration of the Lock-up.

 

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  Very truly yours,
   
   
  (Name of Securityholder – Please Print)
   
   
  (Signature)
   
   
  (Name of Signatory if Securityholder is an entity – Please Print)
   
   
  (Title of Signatory if Securityholder is an entity – Please Print)

 

  Address:    
     
     
     
     

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.6

 

October, 1 2020

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp.

1202 BMC Drive

Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

Re: Lock-Up Agreement

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This letter (this “Letter Agreement”) is being delivered to you in accordance with the Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “BCA”) entered into by and among Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation f/k/a Tortoise Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”), SHLL Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”), and Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Hyliion”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will be merged with and into Hyliion on or about the date hereof (the “Merger”), with Hyliion surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

In order to induce the Company to proceed with the Merger and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned (the “Securityholder”) hereby agrees with the Company as follows:

 

1. Subject to the exceptions set forth herein, the Securityholder agrees not to, without the prior written consent of the board of directors of the Company, (i) sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder, any shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (“Class A Common Stock”) held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, any shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any of such shares of Class A Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii) (the actions specified in clauses (i)-(iii), collectively, “Transfer”) until 180 days after the closing date of the Merger (the “Lock-up”). Thereafter, until two (2) years after the closing date of the Merger (the “Extended Lock-Up”), subject to the exceptions set forth herein, the Securityholder agrees not to Transfer more than 10% of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, or issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger.

 

 

 

 

2. The restrictions set forth in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:

 

(i) in the case of an entity, Transfers to a stockholder, partner, member or affiliate of such entity;

 

(ii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by gift to members of the individual’s immediate family (as defined below) or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of one of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization;

 

(iii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual;

 

(iv) in the case of an individual, Transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order;

 

(v) in the case of an entity, Transfers by virtue of the laws of the state of the entity’s organization and the entity’s organizational documents upon dissolution of the entity;

 

(vi) transactions relating to Class A Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock acquired in open market transactions after the effective time of the Merger, provided that no such transaction is required to be, or is, publicly announced (whether on Form 4, Form 5 or otherwise, other than a required filing on Schedule 13F, 13G or 13G/A) during the Lock-Up;

 

(vii) the exercise of any options or warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock (which exercises may be effected on a cashless basis to the extent the instruments representing such options or warrants permit exercises on a cashless basis);

 

(viii) Transfers to the Company to satisfy tax withholding obligations pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans or arrangements;

 

(ix) Transfers to the Company pursuant to any contractual arrangement in effect at the effective time of the Merger that provides for the repurchase by the Company or forfeiture of the Securityholder’s Class A Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Common Stock in connection with the termination of the Securityholder’s service to the Company;

 

(x) the entry, by the Securityholder, at any time after the effective time of the Merger, of any trading plan providing for the sale of Class A Common Stock by the Securityholder, which trading plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act, provided, however, that such plan does not provide for, or permit, the sale of any Class A Common Stock during the Lock-Up or more than 10% of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Securityholder immediately after the effective time of the Merger, or issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock held by it immediately after the effective time of the Merger, during the Extended Lock-Up and no public announcement or filing is voluntarily made or required regarding such plan during the Lock-Up;

 

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(xi) transactions in the event of completion of a liquidation, merger, stock exchange or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s securityholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property; and

 

(xii) transactions to satisfy any U.S. federal, state, or local income tax obligations of the Securityholder (or its direct or indirect owners) arising from a change in the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Regulations”) after the date on which the BCA was executed by the parties, and such change prevents the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” pursuant to Section 368 of the Code (and the Merger does not qualify for similar tax-free treatment pursuant to any successor or other provision of the Code or Regulations taking into account such changes).

 

provided, however, that (A) in the case of clauses (i) through (v), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement, in substantially the form of this Letter Agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the Securityholder and not to the immediate family of the transferee), agreeing to be bound by these Transfer restrictions. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

3. This Letter Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby. This Letter Agreement may not be changed, amended, modified or waived (other than to correct a typographical error) as to any particular provision, except by a written instrument executed by all parties hereto.

 

4. No party hereto may assign either this Letter Agreement or any of its rights, interests or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the other party. Any purported assignment in violation of this paragraph shall be void and ineffectual and shall not operate to transfer or assign any interest or title to the purported assignee. This Letter Agreement shall be binding on the Securityholder and each of its respective successors, heirs and assigns and permitted transferees.

 

5. This Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The parties hereto (i) all agree that any action, proceeding, claim or dispute arising out of, or relating in any way to, this Letter Agreement shall be brought and enforced in any Delaware Chancery Court, and irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction and venue, which jurisdiction and venue shall be exclusive and (ii) waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and venue or that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

 

6. This Letter Agreement shall terminate on the expiration of the Lock-up and the Extended Lock-Up.

 

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  Very truly yours,
   
  THOMAS HEALY
   
  /s/ Thomas Healy
  (Signature)
     
  Address:  1202 BMC Drive
    Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

 

 

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Exhibit 10.4

 

INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

THIS INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of October 1, 2020, by and between HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [___] (“Indemnitee”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, highly competent persons have become more reluctant to serve publicly-held corporations as directors or officers unless they are provided with adequate protection through insurance or adequate indemnification against inordinate risks of claims and actions against them arising out of their service to and activities on behalf of such corporations;

 

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) has determined that, in order to attract and retain qualified individuals as directors and officers, the Company will attempt to maintain on an ongoing basis, at its sole expense, liability insurance to protect such persons serving the Company and its subsidiaries from certain liabilities. Although the furnishing of such insurance has been a customary and widespread practice among United States-based corporations and other business enterprises, the Company believes that, given current market conditions and trends, such insurance may be available to it in the future only at higher premiums and with more exclusions. At the same time, directors and officers are being increasingly subjected to expensive and time-consuming litigation. The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) and the bylaws (the “Bylaws”) of the Company require indemnification of the officers and directors of the Company. Indemnitee may also be entitled to indemnification pursuant to applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). The Charter, Bylaws and the DGCL expressly provide that the indemnification provisions set forth therein are not exclusive, and thereby contemplate that contracts may be entered into between the Company and members of the board of directors, officers and other persons with respect to indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration, advancement and reimbursement rights;

 

WHEREAS, the uncertainties relating to such insurance and to indemnification have increased the difficulty of attracting and retaining such persons;

 

WHEREAS, the Board has determined that the increased difficulty in attracting and retaining such persons is detrimental to the best interests of the Company’s stockholders and that the Company should act to assure such persons that there will be increased certainty of such protection in the future;

 

WHEREAS, it is reasonable, prudent and necessary for the Company contractually to obligate itself to indemnify, hold harmless, exonerate and to advance Expenses on behalf of such persons to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law so that they will serve or continue to serve the Company free from undue concern that they will not be so protected against liabilities;

 

WHEREAS, this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the Charter and Bylaws and any resolutions adopted pursuant thereto, and shall not be deemed a substitute therefor, nor to diminish or abrogate any rights of Indemnitee thereunder; and

 

WHEREAS, Indemnitee may not be willing to serve as an officer or director without adequate protection, and the Company desires Indemnitee to serve in such capacity. Indemnitee is willing to serve or continue to serve for or on behalf of the Company on the condition that Indemnitee be so indemnified.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

1. SERVICES TO THE COMPANY. In consideration of the Company’s covenants and obligations hereunder, Indemnitee will serve or continue to serve as an officer, director or key employee of the Company for so long as Indemnitee is duly elected or appointed or until Indemnitee tenders Indemnitee’s resignation or until Indemnitee is removed. The foregoing notwithstanding, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect after Indemnitee has ceased to serve as a director or officer of the Company, as provided in Section 17. This Agreement, however, shall not impose any obligation on Indemnitee or the Company to continue Indemnitee’s service to the Company beyond any period otherwise required by law or by other agreements or commitments of the parties, if any.

 

 

 

2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Agreement:

 

(a) References to “agent” shall mean any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company or other person authorized by the Company to act for the Company, to include such person serving in such capacity as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or other official of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise at the request of, for the convenience of, or to represent the interests of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company.

 

(b) The terms “Beneficial Owner” and “Beneficial Ownership” shall have the meanings set forth in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act (as defined below) as in effect on the date hereof.

 

(c) A “Change in Control” shall be deemed to occur upon the earliest to occur after the date of this Agreement of any of the following events:

 

(i) Acquisition of Stock by Third Party. Other than Thomas Healy, any Person (as defined below) is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, unless (1) the change in the relative Beneficial Ownership of the Company’s securities by any Person results solely from a reduction in the aggregate number of outstanding shares of securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, or (2) such acquisition was approved in advance by the Continuing Directors (as defined below) and such acquisition would not constitute a Change in Control under part (iii) of this definition;

 

(ii) Change in Board of Directors. Individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board, and any new director whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two thirds of the directors then still in office who were directors on the date hereof or whose election for nomination for election was previously so approved (collectively, the “Continuing Directors”), cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board;

 

(iii) Corporate Transactions. The effective date of a reorganization, merger, asset acquisition, stock (or other equity interest) purchase or exchange, consolidation or other business combination involving the Company (a “Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination: (1) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the Beneficial Owners of securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more Subsidiaries (as defined below)) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership immediately prior to such Business Combination, of the securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors; (2) other than an affiliate of Thomas Healy, no Person (excluding any corporation resulting from such Business Combination) is the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the surviving corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination; and (3) at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were Continuing Directors at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board of Directors, providing for such Business Combination;

 

(iv) Liquidation. The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement or series of agreements for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than factoring the Company’s current receivables or escrows due (or, if such stockholder approval is not required, the decision by the Board to proceed with such a liquidation, sale or disposition in one transaction or a series of related transactions); or

 

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(v) Other Events. There occurs any other event of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A (or any successor rule) (or a response to any similar item on any similar schedule or form) promulgated under the Exchange Act (as defined below), whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirement.

 

(d) “Corporate Status” describes the status of a person who is or was a director, officer, trustee, general partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of the Company or of any other Enterprise (as defined below) which such person is or was Serving at the Request of the Company.

 

(e) “Delaware Court” shall mean the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

 

(f) “Disinterested Director” shall mean a director of the Company who is not and was not a party to the Proceeding (as defined below) in respect of which indemnification is sought by Indemnitee.

 

(g) “Enterprise” shall mean the Company and any other corporation, constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger to which the Company (or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries) is a party, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which Indemnitee is or was Serving at the Request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, manager, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent.

 

(h) “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(i) “Expenses” shall include all reasonable direct and indirect costs, fees and expenses of any type or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, all reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts, witness fees, travel expenses, fees of private investigators and professional advisors, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees, fax transmission charges, secretarial services and all other disbursements, obligations or expenses in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, settlement or appeal of, or otherwise participating in, a Proceeding (as defined below), including reasonable compensation for time spent by Indemnitee for which he or she is not otherwise compensated by the Company or any third party. “Expenses” also shall include expenses incurred in connection with any appeal resulting from any Proceeding (as defined below), including without limitation the principal, premium, security for, and other costs relating to any cost bond, supersedeas bond, or other appeal bond or its equivalent. “Expenses,” however, shall not include amounts paid in settlement by Indemnitee or the amount of judgments or Fines against Indemnitee.

 

(j) “Fines” shall include all fines, including without limitation any excise tax assessed on Indemnitee with respect to any employee benefit plan and any fines imposed on Indemnitee by any governmental authority.

 

(k) “Independent Counsel” shall mean a law firm or a member of a law firm with significant experience in matters of corporation law and that neither presently is, nor in the past five years has been, retained to represent: (i) the Company or Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party (other than with respect to matters concerning Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnification agreements) or (ii) any other party to the Proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Counsel” shall not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or Indemnitee in an action to determine Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement.

 

(l) “Person” shall have the meaning as set forth in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof; provided, however, that “Person” shall exclude: (i) the Company; (ii) any Subsidiaries (as defined below) of the Company; (iii) any employment benefit plan of the Company or of a Subsidiary (as defined below) of the Company or of any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company; and (iv) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or of a Subsidiary (as defined below) of the Company or of a corporation owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.

 

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(m) “Proceeding” shall include any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, mediation, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, investigation, inquiry, administrative hearing or any other actual, threatened or completed proceeding, whether brought in the right of the Company or otherwise and whether of a civil (including intentional or unintentional tort claims), criminal, administrative, legislative or investigative nature, in which Indemnitee was, is, will or might be involved as a party, potential party, non-party witness or otherwise by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, by reason of any action (or failure to act) taken by Indemnitee or of any action (or failure to act) on Indemnitee’s part while acting as a director or officer of the Company, or by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was Serving at the Request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise, in each case whether or not serving in such capacity at the time any liability or Expense is incurred for which indemnification, reimbursement or advancement of Expenses can be provided under this Agreement.

 

(n) “Serving at the Request of the Company” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Company” as referred to in this Agreement.

 

(o) “Subsidiary,” with respect to any Person, shall mean any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other entity of which a majority of the voting power of the voting equity securities or equity interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by that Person.

 

3. INDEMNITY IN THIRD-PARTY PROCEEDINGS. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3 if Indemnitee was, is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (as a witness, deponent or otherwise) in any Proceeding, other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status. Pursuant to this Section 3, Indemnitee shall be indemnified, held harmless and exonerated against all Expenses, judgments, liabilities, Fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such Expenses, judgments, Fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually, and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of a criminal Proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful.

 

4. INDEMNITY IN PROCEEDINGS BY OR IN THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4 if Indemnitee was, is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (as a witness, deponent or otherwise) in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status. Pursuant to this Section 4, Indemnitee shall be indemnified, held harmless and exonerated against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration for Expenses shall be made under this Section 4 in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been finally adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable to the Company, unless and only to the extent that any court in which the Proceeding was brought or the Delaware Court shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification, to be held harmless or to exoneration.

 

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5. INDEMNIFICATION FOR EXPENSES OF A PARTY WHO IS WHOLLY OR PARTLY SUCCESSFUL. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (other than the provisions of Section 27 hereof), to the extent that Indemnitee was or is, by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, a party to (or a participant in) and is successful, on the merits or otherwise, in any Proceeding or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, in whole or in part, the Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection therewith. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding but is successful, on the merits or otherwise, as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in such Proceeding, the Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with each successfully resolved claim, issue or matter. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding, the Company also shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee against all Expenses reasonably incurred in connection with a claim, issue or matter related to any claim, issue or matter on which Indemnitee was successful. For purposes of this Section 5 and without limitation, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in such a Proceeding by dismissal, with or without prejudice, shall be deemed to be a successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.

 

6. INDEMNIFICATION FOR EXPENSES OF A WITNESS. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (other than the provisions of Section 27 hereof), to the extent that Indemnitee is, by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, a witness or deponent in any Proceeding to which Indemnitee was or is not a party or threatened to be made a party, Indemnitee shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be indemnified, held harmless and exonerated against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection therewith.

 

7. CONTRIBUTION IN THE EVENT OF JOINT LIABILITY.

 

(a) To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, if the indemnification, hold harmless and/or exoneration rights provided for in this Agreement are unavailable to Indemnitee in whole or in part for any reason whatsoever, the Company, in lieu of indemnifying, holding harmless or exonerating Indemnitee, shall pay, in the first instance, the entire amount incurred by Indemnitee, whether for judgments, liabilities, Fines, penalties, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement and/or for Expenses, in connection with any Proceeding without requiring Indemnitee to contribute to such payment, and the Company hereby waives and relinquishes any right of contribution it may have at any time against Indemnitee.

 

(b) The Company shall not enter into any settlement of any Proceeding in which the Company is jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding) unless such settlement provides for a full and final release of all claims asserted against Indemnitee.

 

(c) The Company hereby agrees to fully indemnify, hold harmless and exonerate Indemnitee from any claims for contribution which may be brought by officers, directors or employees of the Company other than Indemnitee who may be jointly liable with Indemnitee.

 

8. EXCLUSIONS. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated under this Agreement to make any indemnification, advance of Expenses, hold harmless or exoneration payment in connection with any claim made against Indemnitee:

 

(a) for which payment has actually been received by or on behalf of Indemnitee under any insurance policy, contract, agreement or other indemnity or advancement provision or otherwise, except (i) with respect to any excess beyond the amount actually received under any insurance policy, contract, agreement, other indemnity or advancement provision or otherwise and (ii) as provided in Section 9 hereof;

 

(b) for an accounting of profits made from the purchase and sale (or sale and purchase) by Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act (or any successor rule) or similar provisions of state statutory law or common law; or

 

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(c) except as otherwise provided in Sections 14(f)-(g) hereof, prior to a Change in Control, in connection with any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee, including any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee against the Company or its directors, officers, employees or other indemnitees, unless (i) the Board authorized the Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) prior to its initiation or (ii) the Company provides the indemnification, advance of Expenses, hold harmless or exoneration payment, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under applicable law. Indemnitee shall seek payments or advances from the Company only to the extent that such payments or advances are unavailable from any insurance policy of the Company covering Indemnitee.

 

9. INDEMNITOR OF FIRST RESORT. The Company hereby acknowledges that Indemnitee may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of Expenses and/or insurance provided by one or more Persons with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated (collectively, the “Alternative Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to Indemnitee are primary and any obligation of the Alternative Indemnitors to advance Expenses or to provide indemnification for the same Expenses or liabilities incurred by Indemnitee are secondary), (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of Expenses incurred by Indemnitee and shall be liable for the full amount of all Expenses, judgments, penalties, Fines and amounts paid in settlement to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms of this Agreement and the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company (or any other agreement between the Company and Indemnitee), without regard to any rights Indemnitee may have against the Alternative Indemnitors, and, (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Alternative Indemnitors from any and all claims against the Alternative Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof. The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Alternative Indemnitors on behalf of Indemnitee with respect to any claim for which Indemnitee has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing and the Alternative Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee against the Company. The Company and Indemnitee agree that the Alternative Indemnitors are express third party beneficiaries of the terms of this Section 9.

 

10. ADVANCES OF EXPENSES; DEFENSE OF CLAIM.

 

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary (other than the provisions of Section 27 hereof), and to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law, the Company shall pay the Expenses incurred by Indemnitee (or reasonably expected by Indemnitee to be incurred by Indemnitee within three (3) months) in connection with any Proceeding within ten (10) days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements requesting such advances from time to time, prior to the final disposition of any Proceeding. Advances shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be unsecured and interest free. Advances shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be made without regard to Indemnitee’s ability to repay the Expenses and without regard to Indemnitee’s ultimate entitlement to be indemnified, held harmless or exonerated under the other provisions of this Agreement. Advances shall include any and all reasonable Expenses incurred pursuing a Proceeding to enforce this right of advancement, including Expenses incurred preparing and forwarding statements to the Company to support the advances claimed. To the fullest extent required by applicable law, such payments of Expenses in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding shall be made only upon the Company’s receipt of an undertaking, by or on behalf of Indemnitee, to repay the advanced amounts to the extent that it is ultimately determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, held harmless or exonerated by the Company under the provisions of this Agreement, the Charter, the Bylaws, applicable law or otherwise. This Section 10(a) shall not apply to any claim made by Indemnitee for which an indemnification, advance of Expenses, hold harmless or exoneration payment is excluded pursuant to Section 8.

 

(b) The Company will be entitled to participate in the Proceeding at its own expense.

 

(c) The Company shall not settle any action, claim or Proceeding (in whole or in part) which would impose any Expense, judgment, liability, Fine, penalty or limitation on Indemnitee without Indemnitee’s prior written consent.

 

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1. PROCEDURE FOR NOTIFICATION AND APPLICATION FOR INDEMNIFICATION.

 

(a) Indemnitee agrees to promptly notify the Company in writing upon being served with any summons, citation, subpoena, complaint, indictment, information or other document relating to any Proceeding, claim, issue or matter therein which may be subject to indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration rights, or advancement of Expenses covered hereunder. The failure of Indemnitee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of any obligation which it may have to Indemnitee under this Agreement, or otherwise.

 

(b) Indemnitee may deliver to the Company a written application to indemnify, hold harmless or exonerate Indemnitee in accordance with this Agreement. Such application(s) may be delivered from time to time and at such time(s) as Indemnitee deems appropriate in Indemnitee’s sole discretion. Following such a written application for indemnification by Indemnitee, Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be determined according to Section 12(a) of this Agreement.

 

12. PROCEDURE UPON APPLICATION FOR INDEMNIFICATION.

 

(a) A determination, if required by applicable law, with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be made in the specific case by one of the following methods, which shall be at the election of Indemnitee: (i) by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors, even though less than a quorum of the Board or (ii) if there are no Disinterested Directors or if the Disinterested Directors so direct, by Independent Counsel in a written opinion to the Board, a copy of which shall be delivered to Indemnitee. The Company will promptly advise Indemnitee in writing with respect to any determination that Indemnitee is or is not entitled to indemnification, including a description of any reason or basis for which indemnification has been denied. If it is so determined that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, payment to Indemnitee shall be made within ten (10) days after such determination. Indemnitee shall reasonably cooperate with the person, persons or entity making such determination with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification, including providing to such person, persons or entity upon reasonable advance request any documentation or information which is not privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure and which is reasonably available to Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to such determination. Any costs or Expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) incurred by Indemnitee in so cooperating with the person, persons or entity making such determination shall be borne by the Company (irrespective of the determination as to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification) and the Company hereby agrees to indemnify and to hold Indemnitee harmless therefrom.

 

(b) In the event the determination of entitlement to indemnification is to be made by Independent Counsel pursuant to Section 12(a) hereof, the Independent Counsel shall be selected as provided in this Section 12(b). The Independent Counsel shall be selected by Indemnitee (unless Indemnitee shall request that such selection be made by the Board), and Indemnitee shall give written notice to the Company advising it of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected and certifying that the Independent Counsel so selected meets the requirements of “Independent Counsel” as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement. If the Independent Counsel is selected by the Board, the Company shall give written notice to Indemnitee advising Indemnitee of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected and certifying that the Independent Counsel so selected meets the requirements of “Independent Counsel” as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement. In either event, Indemnitee or the Company, as the case may be, may, within ten (10) days after such written notice of selection shall have been received, deliver to the Company or to Indemnitee, as the case may be, a written objection to such selection; provided, however, that such objection may be asserted only on the ground that the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirements of “Independent Counsel” as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement, and the objection shall set forth with particularity the factual basis of such assertion. Absent a proper and timely objection, the person or law firm so selected shall act as Independent Counsel. If such written objection is so made and substantiated, the Independent Counsel so selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until such objection is withdrawn or a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that such objection is without merit. If, within twenty (20) days after submission by Indemnitee of a written request for indemnification pursuant to Section 11(b) hereof, no Independent Counsel shall have been selected and not objected to, either the Company or Indemnitee may petition the Delaware Court for resolution of any objection which shall have been made by the Company or Indemnitee to the other’s selection of Independent Counsel and/or for the appointment as Independent Counsel of a person selected by the Delaware Court, and the person with respect to whom all objections are so resolved or the person so appointed shall act as Independent Counsel under Section 12(a) hereof. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to Section 14(a) of this Agreement, Independent Counsel shall be discharged and relieved of any further responsibility in such capacity (subject to the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing).

 

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(c) The Company agrees to pay the reasonable fees and expenses of Independent Counsel and to fully indemnify and hold harmless such Independent Counsel against any and all Expenses, claims, liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or such Independent Counsel’s engagement pursuant hereto.

 

13. PRESUMPTIONS AND EFFECT OF CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS.

 

(a) In making a determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification hereunder, the person, persons or entity making such determination shall presume that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under this Agreement if Indemnitee has submitted a request for indemnification in accordance with Section 11(b) of this Agreement, and the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption in connection with the making by any person, persons or entity of any determination contrary to that presumption. Neither the failure of the Company (including by the Disinterested Directors or Independent Counsel) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of any action pursuant to this Agreement that indemnification is proper in the circumstances because Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct, nor an actual determination by the Company (including by the Disinterested Directors or Independent Counsel) that Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct.

 

(b) If the person, persons or entity empowered or selected under Section 12 of this Agreement to determine whether Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification shall not have made a determination within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of the request therefor, the requisite determination of entitlement to indemnification shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be deemed to have been made and Indemnitee shall be entitled to such indemnification, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification, or (ii) a final judicial determination that any or all such indemnification is expressly prohibited under applicable law; provided, however, that such thirty-day period may be extended for a reasonable time, not to exceed an additional fifteen (15) days, if the person, persons or entity making the determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification in good faith requires such additional time for the obtaining or evaluating of documentation and/or information relating thereto.

 

(c) The termination of any Proceeding or of any claim, issue or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement) of itself adversely affect the right of Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful.

 

(d) For purposes of any determination of good faith, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in good faith if Indemnitee’s action is based on the records or books of account of the Enterprise, including financial statements, or on information supplied to Indemnitee by the directors, managers or officers of the Enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Enterprise, the Board, any committee of the Board or any director, trustee, general partner, manager or managing member of the Enterprise, or on information or records given or reports made to the Enterprise, the Board, any committee of the Board or any director, trustee, general partner, manager or managing member of the Enterprise, by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected by the Enterprise, the Board, any committee of the Board or any director, trustee, general partner, manager or managing member of the Enterprise. The provisions of this Section 13(d) shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the other circumstances in which Indemnitee may be deemed or found to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Agreement.

 

(e) The knowledge and/or actions, or failure to act, of any other director, officer, trustee, partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, agent or employee of the Enterprise shall not be imputed to Indemnitee for purposes of determining the right to indemnification under this Agreement.

 

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14. REMEDIES OF INDEMNITEE.

 

(a) In the event that (i) a determination is made pursuant to Section 12 of this Agreement that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement, (ii) advancement of Expenses is not timely made pursuant to Section 10 of this Agreement, (iii) no determination of entitlement to indemnification shall have been made pursuant to Section 12(a) of this Agreement within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of the request for indemnification, (iv) payment of indemnification is not made pursuant to Section 5, 6 or the last sentence of Section 12(a) of this Agreement within ten (10) days after receipt by the Company of a written request therefor, (v) a contribution payment is not made in a timely manner pursuant to Section 7 of this Agreement, (vi) payment of indemnification pursuant to Section 3 or 4 of this Agreement is not made within ten (10) days after a determination has been made that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification or (vii) payment to Indemnitee pursuant to any hold harmless or exoneration rights under this Agreement or otherwise is not made in accordance with this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to an adjudication by the Delaware Court to such indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration, contribution or advancement rights. Alternatively, Indemnitee, at Indemnitee’s option, may seek an award in arbitration to be conducted by a single arbitrator pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Except as set forth herein, the provisions of Delaware law (without regard to its conflict of laws rules) shall apply to any such arbitration. The Company shall not oppose Indemnitee’s right to seek any such adjudication or award in arbitration.

 

(b) In the event that a determination shall have been made pursuant to Section 12(a) of this Agreement that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification, any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14 shall be conducted in all respects as a de novo trial, or arbitration, on the merits and Indemnitee shall not be prejudiced by reason of that adverse determination.

 

(c) In any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14, Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to be indemnified, held harmless, exonerated and to receive advancement of Expenses under this Agreement and the Company shall have the burden of proving Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, held harmless, exonerated and to receive advancement of Expenses, as the case may be, and the Company may not refer to or introduce into evidence any determination pursuant to Section 12(a) of this Agreement adverse to Indemnitee for any purpose. If Indemnitee commences a judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to this Section 14, Indemnitee shall not be required to reimburse the Company for any advances pursuant to Section 10 until a final determination is made with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification (as to which all rights of appeal have been exhausted or lapsed).

 

(d) If a determination shall have been made pursuant to Section 12(a) of this Agreement that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company shall be bound by such determination in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification, or (ii) a prohibition of such indemnification under applicable law.

 

(e) The Company shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14 that the procedures and presumptions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable and shall stipulate in any such court or before any such arbitrator that the Company is bound by all the provisions of this Agreement.

 

(f) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by law against all Expenses and, if requested by Indemnitee, shall (within ten (10) days after the Company’s receipt of such written request) pay to Indemnitee, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, such Expenses which are incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any judicial proceeding or arbitration brought by Indemnitee: (i) to enforce Indemnitee’s rights under, or to recover damages for breach of, this Agreement or any other indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration, advancement or contribution agreement or provision of the Charter or the Bylaws now or hereafter in effect; or (ii) for recovery or advances under any insurance policy maintained by any person for the benefit of Indemnitee, regardless of the outcome and whether Indemnitee ultimately is determined to be entitled to such indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration right, advancement, contribution or insurance recovery, as the case may be (unless such judicial proceeding or arbitration was not brought by Indemnitee in good faith).

 

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(g) Interest shall be paid by the Company to Indemnitee at the legal rate under Delaware law for amounts which the Company indemnifies, holds harmless or exonerates, or advances, or is obliged to indemnify, hold harmless or exonerate or advance for the period commencing with the date on which Indemnitee requests indemnification, to be held harmless, exonerated, contribution, reimbursement or advancement of any Expenses and ending with the date on which such payment is made to Indemnitee by the Company.

 

15. SECURITY. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, to the extent requested by Indemnitee and approved by the Board, the Company may at any time and from time to time provide security to Indemnitee for the Company’s obligations hereunder through an irrevocable bank line of credit, funded trust or other collateral. Any such security, once provided to Indemnitee, may not be revoked or released without the prior written consent of Indemnitee.

 

16. NON-EXCLUSIVITY; SURVIVAL OF RIGHTS; INSURANCE; SUBROGATION.

 

(a) The rights of Indemnitee as provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which Indemnitee may at any time be entitled under applicable law, the Charter, the Bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders or a resolution of directors, or otherwise. No amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement or of any provision hereof shall limit or restrict any right of Indemnitee under this Agreement in respect of any Proceeding (regardless of when such Proceeding is first threatened, commenced or completed) or claim, issue or matter therein arising out of, or related to, any action taken or omitted by such Indemnitee in Indemnitee’s Corporate Status prior to such amendment, alteration or repeal. To the extent that a change in applicable law, whether by statute or judicial decision, permits greater indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration rights or advancement of Expenses than would be afforded currently under the Charter, the Bylaws or this Agreement, it is the intent of the parties hereto that Indemnitee shall enjoy by this Agreement the greater benefits so afforded by such change. No right or remedy herein conferred is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every other right and remedy shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other right or remedy.

 

(b) The DGCL, the Charter and the Bylaws permit the Company to purchase and maintain insurance or furnish similar protection or make other arrangements including, but not limited to, providing a trust fund, letter of credit, or surety bond (“Indemnification Arrangements”) on behalf of Indemnitee against any liability asserted against Indemnitee or incurred by or on behalf of Indemnitee or in such capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or arising out of Indemnitee’s status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify Indemnitee against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement or under the DGCL, as it may then be in effect. The purchase, establishment and maintenance of any such Indemnification Arrangement shall not in any way limit or affect the rights and obligations of the Company or of Indemnitee under this Agreement except as expressly provided herein, and the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and Indemnitee shall not in any way limit or affect the rights and obligations of the Company or the other party or parties thereto under any such Indemnification Arrangement.

 

(c) To the extent that the Company maintains an insurance policy or policies providing liability insurance for directors, officers, trustees, partners, managers, managing members, fiduciaries, employees or agents of the Company or of any other Enterprise which such person is or was Serving at the Request of the Company, Indemnitee shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the maximum extent of the coverage available for any such director, officer, trustee, partner, managers, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent under such policy or policies. If, at the time the Company receives notice from any source of a Proceeding as to which Indemnitee is a party or a participant (as a witness, deponent or otherwise), the Company has director and officer liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of such Proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.

 

(d) In the event of any payment under this Agreement, the Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all papers required and take all action necessary to secure such rights, including execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Company to bring suit to enforce such rights.

 

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(e) The Company’s obligation to indemnify, hold harmless, exonerate or advance Expenses hereunder to Indemnitee who is or was Serving at the Request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise shall be reduced by any amount Indemnitee has actually received as indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration payments or advancement of Expenses from such Enterprise. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, (i) Indemnitee shall have no obligation to reduce, offset, allocate, pursue or apportion any indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration, advancement, contribution or insurance coverage among multiple parties possessing such duties to Indemnitee prior to the Company’s satisfaction and performance of all its obligations under this Agreement and (ii) the Company shall perform fully its obligations under this Agreement without regard to whether Indemnitee holds, may pursue or has pursued any indemnification, advancement, hold harmless, exoneration, contribution or insurance coverage rights against any person or entity other than the Company.

 

17. DURATION OF AGREEMENT. All agreements and obligations of the Company contained herein shall continue during the period Indemnitee serves as a director or officer of the Company or as a director, officer, trustee, partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other Enterprise which Indemnitee is Serving at the Request of the Company and shall continue thereafter so long as Indemnitee shall be subject to any possible Proceeding (including any rights of appeal thereto and any Proceeding commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 14 of this Agreement) by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, whether or not Indemnitee is acting in any such capacity at the time any liability or Expense is incurred for which indemnification or advancement can be provided under this Agreement.

 

18. SEVERABILITY. If any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, each portion of any Section, paragraph or sentence of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law; (b) such provision or provisions shall be deemed reformed to the extent necessary to conform to applicable law and to give the maximum effect to the intent of the parties hereto; and (c) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, each portion of any Section, paragraph or sentence of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested thereby.

 

19. ENFORCEMENT AND BINDING EFFECT.

 

(a) The Company expressly confirms and agrees that it has entered into this Agreement and assumed the obligations imposed on it hereby in order to induce Indemnitee to serve as a director, officer or key employee of the Company, and the Company acknowledges that Indemnitee is relying upon this Agreement in serving as a director, officer or key employee of the Company.

 

(b) Without limiting any of the rights of Indemnitee under the Charter or Bylaws as they may be amended from time to time, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral, written and implied, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

(c) The indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration and advancement of Expenses rights provided by or granted pursuant to this Agreement shall be binding upon and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns (including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company), shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer employee or agent of the Company or a director, officer, trustee, general partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise at the Company’s request, and shall inure to the benefit of Indemnitee and Indemnitee’s spouse, assigns, heirs, devisees, executors and administrators and other legal representatives.

 

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(d) The Company shall require and cause any successor (whether direct or indirect by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all, substantially all or a substantial part of the business and/or assets of the Company, by written agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Indemnitee, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place.

 

(e) The Company and Indemnitee agree herein that a monetary remedy for breach of this Agreement, at some later date, may be inadequate, impracticable and difficult to prove, and further agree that such breach may cause Indemnitee irreparable harm. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree that Indemnitee may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, enforce this Agreement by seeking, among other things, injunctive relief and/or specific performance hereof, without any necessity of showing actual damage or irreparable harm and that by seeking injunctive relief and/or specific performance, Indemnitee shall not be precluded from seeking or obtaining any other relief to which Indemnitee may be entitled. The Company and Indemnitee further agree that Indemnitee shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be entitled to such specific performance and injunctive relief, including temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions and permanent injunctions, without the necessity of posting bonds or other undertaking in connection therewith. The Company acknowledges that in the absence of a waiver, a bond or undertaking may be required of Indemnitee by a court of competent jurisdiction. The Company hereby waives any such requirement of such a bond or undertaking to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

20. MODIFICATION AND WAIVER. No supplement, modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by the Company and Indemnitee. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions of this Agreement nor shall any waiver constitute a continuing waiver.

 

21. NOTICES. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) if delivered by hand and receipted for by the party to whom said notice or other communication shall have been directed, or (b) mailed by certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, on the third (3rd) business day after the date on which it is so mailed:

 

(i) If to Indemnitee, at the address indicated on the signature page of this Agreement, or such other address as Indemnitee shall provide in writing to the Company.

 

(ii) If to the Company, to:

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp.
1202 BMC Drive, Suite 100

Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

or to any other address as may have been furnished to Indemnitee in writing by the Company.

 

22. APPLICABLE LAW AND CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. This Agreement and the legal relations among the parties shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Except with respect to any arbitration commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 14(a) of this Agreement, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company and Indemnitee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally: (a) agree that any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be brought only in the Delaware Court and not in any other state or federal court in the United States of America or any court in any other country; (b) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court for purposes of any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement; (c) waive any objection to the laying of venue of any such action or proceeding in the Delaware Court; and (d) waive, and agree not to plead or to make, any claim that any such action or proceeding brought in the Delaware Court has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum, or is subject (in whole or in part) to a jury trial. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the parties hereby agree that the mailing of process and other papers in connection with any such action or proceeding in the manner provided by Section 21 or in such other manner as may be permitted by law, shall be valid and sufficient service thereof.

 

23. IDENTICAL COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (including by electronic delivery of a counterpart in pdf format), each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.

 

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24. MISCELLANEOUS. Use of the masculine pronoun shall be deemed to include usage of the feminine pronoun where appropriate and vice versa. The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction thereof.

 

25. PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS. No legal action shall be brought and no cause of action shall be asserted by or in the right of the Company against Indemnitee, Indemnitee’s spouse, heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives after the expiration of two (2) years from the date of accrual of such cause of action, and any claim or cause of action of the Company shall be extinguished and deemed released unless asserted by the timely filing of a legal action within such two-year period; provided, however, that if any shorter period of limitations is otherwise applicable to any such cause of action such shorter period shall govern.

 

26. ADDITIONAL ACTS. If for the validation of any of the provisions in this Agreement any act, resolution, approval or other procedure is required to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company undertakes to cause such act, resolution, approval or other procedure to be affected or adopted in a manner that will enable the Company to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement.

 

27. WAIVER OF CLAIMS TO TRUST ACCOUNT. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Indemnitee hereby agrees that it does not have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind (each, a “Claim”) in or to any monies in the trust account established in connection with the Company’s initial public offering for the benefit of the Company and holders of shares issued in such offering, and hereby waives any Claim it may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any services provided to the Company and will not seek recourse against such trust account for any reason whatsoever. Accordingly, Indemnitee acknowledges and agrees that any indemnification provided hereto will only be able to be satisfied by the Company if (i) the Company has sufficient funds outside of the trust account to satisfy its obligations hereunder or (ii) the Company consummates a Business Combination.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indemnification Agreement to be signed as of the day and year first above written.

 

  HYLIION HOLDINGS CORP.
     
  By: /s/ Thomas Healy
  Name: Thomas Healy
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Indemnification Agreement]

 

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  INDEMNITEE
     
  By:                        
  Name:  
  Address:

 

[Signature Page to Indemnification Agreement]

 

 

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Exhibit 10.5

 

Hyliion Holdings Corp.

2020 Equity Incentive Plan

 

Adopted by the Board of Directors: September 7, 2020

Approved by the Stockholders: September 28, 2020

 

1. General.

 

(a) Plan Purpose. The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to secure and retain the services of Employees, Directors and Consultants, to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and any Affiliate and to provide a means by which such persons may be given an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Common Stock through the granting of Awards.

 

(b) Available Awards. The Plan provides for the grant of the following Awards: (i) Incentive Stock Options; (ii) Nonstatutory Stock Options; (iii) SARs; (iv) Restricted Stock Awards; (v) RSU Awards; (vi) Performance Awards; and (vii) Other Awards.

 

(c) Adoption Date; Effective Date. The Plan will come into existence on the Adoption Date, but no Award may be granted prior to the Effective Date.

 

2. Shares Subject to the Plan.

 

(a) Share Reserve. Subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 2(c) and any adjustments as necessary to implement any Capitalization Adjustments, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to Awards will not exceed 12,200,000 shares.

 

(b) Aggregate Incentive Stock Option Limit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 2(a) and subject to any adjustments as necessary to implement any Capitalization Adjustments, the aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options is 12,200,000 shares.

 

(c) Share Reserve Operation.

 

(i) Limit Applies to Common Stock Issued Pursuant to Awards. For clarity, the Share Reserve is a limit on the number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to Awards and does not limit the granting of Awards, except that the Company will keep available at all times the number of shares of Common Stock reasonably required to satisfy its obligations to issue shares pursuant to such Awards. Shares may be issued in connection with a merger or acquisition as permitted by, as applicable, Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c), NYSE Listed Company Manual Section 303A.08, NYSE American Company Guide Section 711 or other applicable rule, and such issuance will not reduce the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan.

 

(ii) Actions that Do Not Constitute Issuance of Common Stock and Do Not Reduce Share Reserve. The following actions do not result in an issuance of shares under the Plan and accordingly do not reduce the number of shares subject to the Share Reserve and available for issuance under the Plan: (1) the expiration or termination of any portion of an Award without the shares covered by such portion of the Award having been issued, (2) the settlement of any portion of an Award in cash (i.e., the Participant receives cash rather than Common Stock), (3) the withholding of shares that would otherwise be issued by the Company to satisfy the exercise, strike or purchase price of an Award; or (4) the withholding of shares that would otherwise be issued by the Company to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an Award.

 

 

 

 

(iii) Reversion of Previously Issued Shares of Common Stock to Share Reserve. The following shares of Common Stock previously issued pursuant to an Award and accordingly initially deducted from the Share Reserve will be added back to the Share Reserve and again become available for issuance under the Plan: (1) any shares that are forfeited back to or repurchased by the Company because of a failure to meet a contingency or condition required for the vesting of such shares; (2) any shares that are reacquired by the Company to satisfy the exercise, strike or purchase price of an Award; and (3) any shares that are reacquired by the Company to satisfy a tax withholding obligation in connection with an Award.

 

3. Eligibility and Limitations.

 

(a) Eligible Award Recipients. Subject to the terms of the Plan, Employees, Directors and Consultants are eligible to receive Awards; provided, however, that, any such individual must be an “employee” of the Company or any of its parents or subsidiaries within the meaning of General Instruction A.1(a) to Form S-8 if such individual is granted an Award that may be settled in Common Stock.

 

(b) Specific Award Limitations.

 

(i) Limitations on Incentive Stock Option Recipients. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees of the Company or a “parent corporation” or “subsidiary corporation” thereof (as such terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f) of the Code).

 

(ii) Incentive Stock Option $100,000 Limitation. To the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined at the time of grant) of Common Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by any Optionholder during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any Affiliates) exceeds $100,000 (or such other limit established in the Code) or otherwise does not comply with the rules governing Incentive Stock Options, the Options or portions thereof that exceed such limit (according to the order in which they were granted) or otherwise do not comply with such rules will be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options, notwithstanding any contrary provision of the applicable Option Agreement(s).

 

(iii) Limitations on Incentive Stock Options Granted to Ten Percent Stockholders. A Ten Percent Stockholder may not be granted an Incentive Stock Option unless (i) the exercise price of such Option is at least 110% of the Fair Market Value on the date of grant of such Option and (ii) the Option is not exercisable after the expiration of five years from the date of grant of such Option.

 

(iv) Limitations on Nonstatutory Stock Options and SARs. Nonstatutory Stock Options and SARs may not be granted to Employees, Directors and Consultants who are providing Continuous Service only to any “parent” of the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 405) unless the stock underlying such Awards is treated as “service recipient stock” under Section 409A because the Awards are granted pursuant to a corporate transaction (such as a spin off transaction) or unless such Awards otherwise comply with the distribution requirements of Section 409A.

 

(c) Aggregate Incentive Stock Option Limit. The aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options is the number of shares specified in Section 2(b).

 

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(d) Non-Employee Director Compensation Limit. The aggregate value of all compensation granted or paid, as applicable, to any individual for service as a Non-Employee Director with respect to any calendar year, including Awards granted and cash fees paid by the Company to such Non-Employee Director, will not exceed (i) $675,000 in total value or (ii) in the event such Non-Employee Director is first appointed or elected to the Board during such calendar year, $900,000 in total value, in each case calculating the value of any equity awards based on the grant date fair value of such equity awards for financial reporting purposes. 

 

(e) Minimum Vesting Conditions. The Board or Plan Administrator, as applicable, may impose such restrictions on or conditions to the vesting (and/or exercisability with respect to an Option or SAR) as it determines, subject to a minimum vesting period for any Award of one year from the date of grant; provided, however, that vesting may be accelerated (in whole or in part) upon the occurrence of a Change in Control or a qualifying separation from service, as set forth in the Plan or the individual Award Agreement; and provided further, however, that up to 5% of the share reserve set forth in Section 2(a) above may be subject to Awards that do not meet such vesting (and, if applicable, exercisability) requirements, so long as such Awards are granted by the Board or Compensation Committee and not any designee of either the Board or Compensation Committee. Except as otherwise provided in the Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate, vesting of Awards will cease upon termination of the Participant’s Continuous Service.

 

4. Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.

 

Each Option and SAR will have such terms and conditions as determined by the Board. Each Option will be designated in writing as an Incentive Stock Option or Nonstatutory Stock Option at the time of grant; provided, however, that if an Option is not so designated, then such Option will be a Nonstatutory Stock Option, and the shares purchased upon exercise of each type of Option will be separately accounted for. Each SAR will be denominated in shares of Common Stock equivalents. The terms and conditions of separate Options and SARs need not be identical; provided, however, that each Option Agreement and SAR Agreement will conform (through incorporation of provisions hereof by reference in the Award Agreement or otherwise) to the substance of each of the following provisions:

 

(a) Term. Subject to Section 3(b) regarding Ten Percent Stockholders, no Option or SAR will be exercisable after the expiration of ten years from the date of grant of such Award or such shorter period specified in the Award Agreement.

 

(b) Exercise or Strike Price. Subject to Section 3(b) regarding Ten Percent Stockholders, the exercise or strike price of each Option or SAR will not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value on the date of grant of such Award. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option or SAR may be granted with an exercise or strike price lower than 100% of the Fair Market Value on the date of grant of such Award if such Award is granted pursuant to an assumption of or substitution for another option or stock appreciation right pursuant to a Change in Control and in a manner consistent with the provisions of Sections 409A and, if applicable, 424(a) of the Code.

 

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(c) Exercise Procedure and Payment of Exercise Price for Options. In order to exercise an Option, the Participant must provide notice of exercise to the Plan Administrator in accordance with the procedures specified in the Option Agreement or otherwise provided by the Company. The Board has the authority to grant Options that do not permit all of the following methods of payment (or otherwise restrict the ability to use certain methods) and to grant Options that require the consent of the Company to utilize a particular method of payment. The exercise price of an Option may be paid, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law and as determined by the Board, by one or more of the following methods of payment to the extent set forth in the Option Agreement:

 

(i) by cash or check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company;

 

(ii) pursuant to a “cashless exercise” program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board that, prior to the issuance of the Common Stock subject to the Option, results in either the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company or the receipt of irrevocable instructions to pay the exercise price to the Company from the sales proceeds;

 

(iii) by delivery to the Company (either by actual delivery or attestation) of shares of Common Stock that are already owned by the Participant free and clear of any liens, claims, encumbrances or security interests, with a Fair Market Value on the date of exercise that does not exceed the exercise price, provided that (1) at the time of exercise the Common Stock is publicly traded, (2) any remaining balance of the exercise price not satisfied by such delivery is paid by the Participant in cash or other permitted form of payment, (3) such delivery would not violate any Applicable Law or agreement restricting the redemption of the Common Stock, (4) any certificated shares are endorsed or accompanied by an executed assignment separate from certificate, and (5) such shares have been held by the Participant for any minimum period necessary to avoid adverse accounting treatment as a result of such delivery;

 

(iv) if the Option is a Nonstatutory Stock Option, by a “net exercise” arrangement pursuant to which the Company will reduce the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise by the largest whole number of shares with a Fair Market Value on the date of exercise that does not exceed the exercise price, provided that (1) such shares used to pay the exercise price will not be exercisable thereafter and (2) any remaining balance of the exercise price not satisfied by such net exercise is paid by the Participant in cash or other permitted form of payment; or

 

(v) in any other form of consideration that may be acceptable to the Board and permissible under Applicable Law.

 

(d) Exercise Procedure and Payment of Appreciation Distribution for SARs. In order to exercise any SAR, the Participant must provide notice of exercise to the Plan Administrator in accordance with the SAR Agreement. The appreciation distribution payable to a Participant upon the exercise of a SAR will not be greater than an amount equal to the excess of (i) the aggregate Fair Market Value on the date of exercise of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Common Stock equivalents that are vested and being exercised under such SAR, over (ii) the strike price of such SAR. Such appreciation distribution may be paid to the Participant in the form of Common Stock or cash (or any combination of Common Stock and cash) or in any other form of payment, as determined by the Board and specified in the SAR Agreement.

 

(e) Transferability. Options and SARs may not be transferred to third party financial institutions for value. The Board may impose such additional limitations on the transferability of an Option or SAR as it determines. In the absence of any such determination by the Board, the following restrictions on the transferability of Options and SARs will apply, provided that except as explicitly provided herein, neither an Option nor a SAR may be transferred for consideration and provided, further, that if an Option is an Incentive Stock Option, such Option may be deemed to be a Nonstatutory Stock Option as a result of such transfer:

 

(i) Restrictions on Transfer. An Option or SAR will not be transferable, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and will be exercisable during the lifetime of the Participant only by the Participant; provided, however, that the Board may permit transfer of an Option or SAR in a manner that is not prohibited by applicable tax and securities laws upon the Participant’s request, including to a trust if the Participant is considered to be the sole beneficial owner of such trust (as determined under Section 671 of the Code and applicable state law) while such Option or SAR is held in such trust, provided that the Participant and the trustee enter into a transfer and other agreements required by the Company.

 

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(ii) Domestic Relations Orders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the execution of transfer documentation in a format acceptable to the Company and subject to the approval of the Board or a duly authorized Officer, an Option or SAR may be transferred pursuant to a domestic relations order.

 

(f) Termination of Continuous Service for Cause. Except as explicitly otherwise provided in the Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate, if a Participant’s Continuous Service is terminated for Cause, the Participant’s Options and SARs will terminate and be forfeited immediately upon such termination of Continuous Service, and the Participant will be prohibited from exercising any portion (including any vested portion) of such Awards on and after the date of such termination of Continuous Service and the Participant will have no further right, title or interest in such forfeited Award, the shares of Common Stock subject to the forfeited Award, or any consideration in respect of the forfeited Award.

 

(g) Post-Termination Exercise Period Following Termination of Continuous Service for Reasons Other than Cause. Subject to Section 4(i), if a Participant’s Continuous Service terminates for any reason other than for Cause, the Participant may exercise his or her Option or SAR to the extent vested, but only within the following period of time or, if applicable, such other period of time provided in the Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate; provided, however, that in no event may such Award be exercised after the expiration of its maximum term (as set forth in Section 4(a)):

 

(i) three months following the date of such termination if such termination is a termination without Cause (other than any termination due to the Participant’s Disability or death);

 

(ii) 12 months following the date of such termination if such termination is due to the Participant’s Disability;

 

(iii) 18 months following the date of such termination if such termination is due to the Participant’s death; or

 

(iv) 18 months following the date of the Participant’s death if such death occurs following the date of such termination but during the period such Award is otherwise exercisable (as provided in (i) or (ii) above).

 

Following the date of such termination, to the extent the Participant does not exercise such Award within the applicable Post-Termination Exercise Period (or, if earlier, prior to the expiration of the maximum term of such Award), such unexercised portion of the Award will terminate, and the Participant will have no further right, title or interest in terminated Award, the shares of Common Stock subject to the terminated Award, or any consideration in respect of the terminated Award.

 

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(h) Restrictions on Exercise; Extension of Exercisability. A Participant may not exercise an Option or SAR at any time that the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon such exercise would violate Applicable Law. Except as otherwise provided in the Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate, if a Participant’s Continuous Service terminates for any reason other than for Cause and, at any time during the last thirty days of the applicable Post-Termination Exercise Period: (i) the exercise of the Participant’s Option or SAR would be prohibited solely because the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon such exercise would violate Applicable Law, or (ii) the immediate sale of any shares of Common Stock issued upon such exercise would violate the Company’s Trading Policy, then the applicable Post-Termination Exercise Period will be extended to the last day of the calendar month that commences following the date the Award would otherwise expire, with an additional extension of the exercise period to the last day of the next calendar month to apply if any of the foregoing restrictions apply at any time during such extended exercise period, generally without limitation as to the maximum permitted number of extensions); provided, however, that in no event may such Award be exercised after the expiration of its maximum term (as set forth in Section 4(a)).

 

(i) Non-Exempt Employees. No Option or SAR, whether or not vested, granted to an Employee who is a non-exempt employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, will be first exercisable for any shares of Common Stock until at least six months following the date of grant of such Award. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in accordance with the provisions of the Worker Economic Opportunity Act, any vested portion of such Award may be exercised earlier than six months following the date of grant of such Award in the event of (i) such Participant’s death or Disability, (ii) a Change in Control in which such Award is not assumed, continued or substituted, (iii) a Change in Control, or (iv) such Participant’s retirement (as such term may be defined in the Award Agreement or another applicable agreement or, in the absence of any such definition, in accordance with the Company’s then current employment policies and guidelines). This Section 4(j) is intended to operate so that any income derived by a non-exempt employee in connection with the exercise or vesting of an Option or SAR will be exempt from his or her regular rate of pay.

 

(j) Whole Shares. Options and SARs may be exercised only with respect to whole shares of Common Stock or their equivalents.

 

5. Awards Other Than Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.

 

(a) Restricted Stock Awards and RSU Awards. Each Restricted Stock Award and RSU Award will have such terms and conditions as determined by the Board; provided, however, that each Restricted Stock Award Agreement and RSU Award Agreement will conform (through incorporation of the provisions hereof by reference in the Award Agreement or otherwise) to the substance of each of the following provisions:

 

(i) Form of Award.

 

(1) RSAs: To the extent consistent with the Company’s Bylaws, at the Board’s election, shares of Common Stock subject to a Restricted Stock Award may be (i) held in book entry form subject to the Company’s instructions until such shares become vested or any other restrictions lapse, or (ii) evidenced by a certificate, which certificate will be held in such form and manner as determined by the Board. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, a Participant will have voting and other rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to any shares subject to a Restricted Stock Award.

 

(2) RSUs: An RSU Award represents a Participant’s right to be issued on a future date the number of shares of Common Stock that is equal to the number of restricted stock units subject to the RSU Award, or the cash equivalent thereof. As a holder of an RSU Award, a Participant is an unsecured creditor of the Company with respect to the Company’s unfunded obligation, if any, to issue shares of Common Stock in settlement of such Award and nothing contained in the Plan or any RSU Agreement, and no action taken pursuant to its provisions, will create or be construed to create a trust of any kind or a fiduciary relationship between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate or any other person. A Participant will not have voting or any other rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to any RSU Award (unless and until shares are actually issued in settlement of a vested RSU Award).

 

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(ii) Consideration.

 

(1) RSA: A Restricted Stock Award may be granted in consideration for (A) cash or check, bank draft or money order payable to the Company, (B) services to the Company or an Affiliate, or (C) any other form of consideration as the Board may determine and permissible under Applicable Law.

 

(2) RSU: Unless otherwise determined by the Board at the time of grant, an RSU Award will be granted in consideration for the Participant’s services to the Company or an Affiliate, such that the Participant will not be required to make any payment to the Company (other than such services) with respect to the grant or vesting of the RSU Award, or the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to the RSU Award. If, at the time of grant, the Board determines that any consideration must be paid by the Participant (in a form other than the Participant’s services to the Company or an Affiliate) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock in settlement of the RSU Award, such consideration may be paid in any form of consideration as the Board may determine and permissible under Applicable Law.

 

(iii) Termination of Continuous Service. Except as otherwise provided in the Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate, if a Participant’s Continuous Service terminates for any reason, (i) the Company may receive through a forfeiture condition or a repurchase right any or all of the shares of Common Stock held by the Participant under his or her Restricted Stock Award that have not vested as of the date of such termination as set forth in the Restricted Stock Award Agreement and (ii) any portion of his or her RSU Award that has not vested will be forfeited upon such termination and the Participant will have no further right, title or interest in the RSU Award, the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the RSU Award, or any consideration in respect of the RSU Award.

 

(iv) Dividends and Dividend Equivalents. Dividends or dividend equivalents may be paid or credited, as applicable, with respect to any shares of Common Stock subject to a Restricted Stock Award or RSU Award, as determined by the Board and specified in the Award Agreement).

 

(v) Settlement of RSU Awards. An RSU Award may be settled by the issuance of shares of Common Stock or cash (or any combination thereof) or in any other form of payment, as determined by the Board and specified in the RSU Award Agreement. At the time of grant, the Board may determine to impose such restrictions or conditions that delay such delivery to a date following the vesting of the RSU Award, provided that any such delay in settlement will be in compliance with Section 9(m).

 

(b) Performance Awards. With respect to any Performance Award, the length of any Performance Period, the Performance Goals to be achieved during the Performance Period, the other terms and conditions of such Award, and the measure of whether and to what degree such Performance Goals have been attained will be determined by the Board.

 

(c) Other Awards. Other Awards may be granted either alone or in addition to Awards provided for under Section 4 and the preceding provisions of this Section 5. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board will have sole and complete discretion to determine the persons to whom and the time or times at which such Other Awards will be granted, the number of shares of Common Stock (or the cash equivalent thereof) to be granted pursuant to such Other Awards and all other terms and conditions of such Other Awards.

 

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6. Adjustments upon Changes in Common Stock; Other Corporate Events.

 

(a) Capitalization Adjustments. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board shall appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of shares of Common Stock subject to the Plan and the maximum number of shares by which the Share Reserve may annually increase pursuant to Section 2.(a), (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of shares that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options pursuant to Section 2.(a), and (iii) the class(es) and number of securities and exercise price, strike price or purchase price of Common Stock subject to outstanding Awards. The Board shall make such adjustments, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no fractional shares or rights for fractional shares of Common Stock shall be created in order to implement any Capitalization Adjustment. The Board shall determine an equivalent benefit for any fractional shares or fractional shares that might be created by the adjustments referred to in the preceding provisions of this Section.

 

(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. Except as otherwise provided in the Award Agreement, in the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, all outstanding Awards (other than Awards consisting of vested and outstanding shares of Common Stock not subject to a forfeiture condition or the Company’s right of repurchase) will terminate immediately prior to the completion of such dissolution or liquidation, and the shares of Common Stock subject to the Company’s repurchase rights or subject to a forfeiture condition may be repurchased or reacquired by the Company notwithstanding the fact that the holder of such Award is providing Continuous Service, provided, however, that the Board may determine to cause some or all Awards to become fully vested, exercisable and/or no longer subject to repurchase or forfeiture (to the extent such Awards have not previously expired or terminated) before the dissolution or liquidation is completed but contingent on its completion.

 

(c) Change in Control. The following provisions will apply to Awards in the event of a Change in Control except as set forth in Section 11, and unless otherwise provided in the instrument evidencing the Award or any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant or unless otherwise expressly provided by the Board at the time of grant of an Award. In the event of a Change in Control, the Board shall take one or more of the following actions with respect to Awards, contingent upon the closing or completion of the Change in Control:

 

(i) arrange for the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporation’s parent company) to assume or continue the Award or to substitute a similar award for the Award (including, but not limited to, an award to acquire the same consideration paid to the stockholders of the Company pursuant to the Change in Control);

 

(ii) arrange for the assignment of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company in respect of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Award to the surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporation’s parent company);

 

(iii) accelerate the vesting, in whole or in part, of the Award (and, if applicable, the time at which the Award may be exercised) to a date prior to the effective time of such Change in Control as the Board shall determine (or, if the Board shall not determine such a date, to the date that is five days prior to the effective date of the Change in Control), with such Award terminating if not exercised (if applicable) at or prior to the effective time of the Change in Control;

 

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(iv) arrange for the lapse, in whole or in part, of any reacquisition or repurchase rights held by the Company with respect to the Award;

 

(v) cancel or arrange for the cancellation of the Award, to the extent not vested or not exercised prior to the effective time of the Change in Control, in exchange for such cash consideration, if any, as the Board, in its sole discretion, may consider appropriate; or

 

(vi) make a payment, in such form as may be determined by the Board equal to the excess, if any, of (A) the value of the property the Participant would have received upon the exercise of the Award immediately prior to the effective time of the Change in Control, over (B) any exercise price payable by such holder in connection with such exercise.  For clarity, this payment may be zero ($0) if the value of the property is equal to or less than the exercise price.  Payments under this provision may be delayed to the same extent that payment of consideration to the holders of Common Stock in connection with the Change in Control is delayed as a result of escrows, earn outs, holdbacks or other contingencies.

 

The Board need not take the same action or actions with respect to all Awards or portions thereof or with respect to all Participants.

 

(d) Appointment of Stockholder Representative. As a condition to the receipt of an Award under this Plan, a Participant will be deemed to have agreed that the Award will be subject to the terms of any agreement governing a Change in Control involving the Company, including, without limitation, a provision for the appointment of a stockholder representative that is authorized to act on the Participant’s behalf with respect to any escrow, indemnities and any contingent consideration.

 

(e) No Restriction on Right to Undertake Transactions. The grant of any Award under the Plan and the issuance of shares pursuant to any Award does not affect or restrict in any way the right or power of the Company or the stockholders of the Company to make or authorize any adjustment, recapitalization, reorganization or other change in the Company’s capital structure or its business, any merger or consolidation of the Company, any issue of stock or of options, rights or options to purchase stock or of bonds, debentures, preferred or prior preference stocks whose rights are superior to or affect the Common Stock or the rights thereof or which are convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock, or the dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or any sale or transfer of all or any part of its assets or business, or any other corporate act or proceeding, whether of a similar character or otherwise.

 

7. Administration.

 

(a) Administration by Board. The Board will administer the Plan unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in subsection (c) below.

 

(b) Powers of Board. The Board will have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

 

(i) To determine from time to time: (1) which of the persons eligible under the Plan will be granted Awards; (2) when and how each Award will be granted; (3) what type or combination of types of Award will be granted; (4) the provisions of each Award granted (which need not be identical), including the time or times when a person will be permitted to receive an issuance of Common Stock or other payment pursuant to an Award; (5) the number of shares of Common Stock or cash equivalent with respect to which an Award will be granted to each such person; (6) the Fair Market Value applicable to an Award; and (7) the terms of any Performance Award that is not valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, the Common Stock, including the amount of cash payment or other property that may be earned and the timing of payment.

 

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(ii) To construe and interpret the Plan and Awards granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan or in any Award Agreement, in a manner and to the extent it deems necessary or expedient to make the Plan or Award fully effective.

 

(iii) To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Awards granted under it.

 

(iv) To accelerate the time at which an Award may first be exercised or the time during which an Award or any part thereof will vest, notwithstanding the provisions in the Award Agreement stating the time at which it may first be exercised or the time during which it will vest.

 

(v) To prohibit the exercise of any Option, SAR or other exercisable Award during a period of up to 30 days prior to the consummation of any pending stock dividend, stock split, combination or exchange of shares, merger, consolidation or other distribution (other than normal cash dividends) of Company assets to stockholders, or any other change affecting the shares of Common Stock or the share price of the Common Stock including any Change in Control, for reasons of administrative convenience.

 

(vi) To suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Suspension or termination of the Plan will not Materially Impair rights and obligations under any Award granted while the Plan is in effect except with the written consent of the affected Participant.

 

(vii) To amend the Plan in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable; provided, however, that stockholder approval will be required for any amendment to the extent required by Applicable Law. Except as provided above, rights under any Award granted before amendment of the Plan will not be Materially Impaired by any amendment of the Plan unless (1) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (2) such Participant consents in writing.

 

(viii) To submit any amendment to the Plan for stockholder approval.

 

(ix) To approve forms of Award Agreements for use under the Plan and to amend the terms of any one or more Awards, including, but not limited to, amendments to provide terms more favorable to the Participant than previously provided in the Award Agreement, subject to any specified limits in the Plan that are not subject to Board discretion; provided however, that, a Participant’s rights under any Award will not be Materially Impaired by any such amendment unless (1) the Company requests the consent of the affected Participant, and (2) such Participant consents in writing.

 

(x) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and that are not in conflict with the provisions of the Plan or Awards.

 

(xi) To adopt such procedures and sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit and facilitate participation in the Plan by, or take advantage of specific tax treatment for Awards granted to, Employees, Directors or Consultants who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States (provided that Board approval will not be necessary for immaterial modifications to the Plan or any Award Agreement to ensure or facilitate compliance with the laws of the relevant foreign jurisdiction).

 

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(xii) To effect, at any time and from time to time, subject to the consent of any Participant whose Award is Materially Impaired by such action, (1) the reduction of the exercise price (or strike price) of any outstanding Option or SAR; (2) the cancellation of any outstanding Option or SAR and the grant in substitution therefor of (A) a new Option, SAR, Restricted Stock Award, RSU Award or Other Award, under the Plan or another equity plan of the Company, covering the same or a different number of shares of Common Stock, (B) cash and/or (C) other valuable consideration (as determined by the Board); or (3) any other action that is treated as a repricing under generally accepted accounting principles; provided, however, that any such action that constitutes a repricing under then-applicable stock exchange rules and listing standards shall be subject to the approval of the Company’s stockholders.

 

(c) Delegation to Committee.

 

(i) General. The Board may delegate some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, subject to Section 7(c)(ii) below. If administration of the Plan is delegated to a Committee, the Committee will have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to another Committee or a subcommittee of the Committee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references in this Plan to the Board will thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. Each Committee may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with Committee or subcommittee to which it has delegated its authority hereunder and may, at any time, revest in such Committee some or all of the powers previously delegated. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with any Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated.

 

(ii) Rule 16b-3 Compliance. To the extent an Award is intended to qualify for the exemption from Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act that is available under Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act, the Award will be granted by the Board or a Committee that consists solely of two or more Non-Employee Directors, as determined under Rule 16b-3(b)(3) of the Exchange Act and thereafter any action establishing or modifying the terms of the Award will be approved by the Board or a Committee meeting such requirements to the extent necessary for such exemption to remain available.

 

(d) Effect of Board’s Decision. All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board or any Committee in good faith will not be subject to review by any person and will be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.

 

(e) Delegation to an Officer. The Board or any Committee may delegate to one or more Officers the authority to do one or both of the following (i) designate Employees who are not Officers to be recipients of Options and SARs (and, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, other types of Awards) and, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the terms thereof, and (ii) determine the number of shares of Common Stock to be subject to such Awards granted to such Employees; provided, however, that the resolutions or charter adopted by the Board or any Committee evidencing such delegation will specify the total number of shares of Common Stock that may be subject to the Awards granted by such Officer and that such Officer may not grant an Award to himself or herself. Any such Awards will be granted on the applicable form of Award Agreement most recently approved for use by the Board or the Committee, unless otherwise provided in the resolutions approving the delegation authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, neither the Board nor any Committee may delegate to an Officer who is acting solely in the capacity of an Officer (and not also as a Director) the authority to determine the Fair Market Value.

 

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8. Tax Withholding

 

(a) Withholding Authorization. As a condition to acceptance of any Award under the Plan, a Participant authorizes withholding from payroll and any other amounts payable to such Participant, and otherwise agree to make adequate provision for (including), any sums required to satisfy any U.S. federal, state, local and/or foreign tax or social insurance contribution withholding obligations of the Company or an Affiliate, if any, which arise in connection with the exercise, vesting or settlement of such Award, as applicable. Accordingly, a Participant may not be able to exercise an Award even though the Award is vested, and the Company shall have no obligation to issue shares of Common Stock subject to an Award, unless and until such obligations are satisfied.

 

(b) Satisfaction of Withholding Obligation. To the extent permitted by the terms of an Award Agreement, the Company may, in its sole discretion, satisfy any U.S. federal, state, local and/or foreign tax or social insurance withholding obligation relating to an Award by any of the following means or by a combination of such means: (i) causing the Participant to tender a cash payment; (ii) withholding shares of Common Stock from the shares of Common Stock issued or otherwise issuable to the Participant in connection with the Award; (iii) withholding cash from an Award settled in cash; (iv) withholding payment from any amounts otherwise payable to the Participant; (v) by allowing a Participant to effectuate a “cashless exercise” pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board, or (vi) by such other method as may be set forth in the Award Agreement.

 

(c) No Obligation to Notify or Minimize Taxes; No Liability to Claims. Except as required by Applicable Law the Company has no duty or obligation to any Participant to advise such holder as to the time or manner of exercising such Award. Furthermore, the Company has no duty or obligation to warn or otherwise advise such holder of a pending termination or expiration of an Award or a possible period in which the Award may not be exercised. The Company has no duty or obligation to minimize the tax consequences of an Award to the holder of such Award and will not be liable to any holder of an Award for any adverse tax consequences to such holder in connection with an Award. As a condition to accepting an Award under the Plan, each Participant (i) agrees to not make any claim against the Company, or any of its Officers, Directors, Employees or Affiliates related to tax liabilities arising from such Award or other Company compensation and (ii) acknowledges that such Participant was advised to consult with his or her own personal tax, financial and other legal advisors regarding the tax consequences of the Award and has either done so or knowingly and voluntarily declined to do so. Additionally, each Participant acknowledges any Option or SAR granted under the Plan is exempt from Section 409A only if the exercise or strike price is at least equal to the “fair market value” of the Common Stock on the date of grant as determined by the Internal Revenue Service and there is no other impermissible deferral of compensation associated with the Award. Additionally, as a condition to accepting an Option or SAR granted under the Plan, each Participant agrees not make any claim against the Company, or any of its Officers, Directors, Employees or Affiliates in the event that the Internal Revenue Service asserts that such exercise price or strike price is less than the “fair market value” of the Common Stock on the date of grant as subsequently determined by the Internal Revenue Service.

 

(d) Withholding Indemnification. As a condition to accepting an Award under the Plan, in the event that the amount of the Company’s and/or its Affiliate’s withholding obligation in connection with such Award was greater than the amount actually withheld by the Company and/or its Affiliates, each Participant agrees to indemnify and hold the Company and/or its Affiliates harmless from any failure by the Company and/or its Affiliates to withhold the proper amount.

 

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9. Miscellaneous.

 

(a) Source of Shares. The stock issuable under the Plan will be shares of authorized but unissued or reacquired Common Stock, including shares repurchased by the Company on the open market or otherwise.

 

(b) Use of Proceeds from Sales of Common Stock. Proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock pursuant to Awards will constitute general funds of the Company.

 

(c) Corporate Action Constituting Grant of Awards. Corporate action constituting a grant by the Company of an Award to any Participant will be deemed completed as of the date of such corporate action, unless otherwise determined by the Board, regardless of when the instrument, certificate, or letter evidencing the Award is communicated to, or actually received or accepted by, the Participant. In the event that the corporate records (e.g., Board consents, resolutions or minutes) documenting the corporate action approving the grant contain terms (e.g., exercise price, vesting schedule or number of shares) that are inconsistent with those in the Award Agreement or related grant documents as a result of a clerical error in the Award Agreement or related grant documents, the corporate records will control and the Participant will have no legally binding right to the incorrect term in the Award Agreement or related grant documents.

 

(d) Stockholder Rights. No Participant will be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares of Common Stock subject to such Award unless and until (i) such Participant has satisfied all requirements for exercise of the Award pursuant to its terms, if applicable, and (ii) the issuance of the Common Stock subject to such Award is reflected in the records of the Company.

 

(e) No Employment or Other Service Rights. Nothing in the Plan, any Award Agreement or any other instrument executed thereunder or in connection with any Award granted pursuant thereto will confer upon any Participant any right to continue to serve the Company or an Affiliate in the capacity in effect at the time the Award was granted or affect the right of the Company or an Affiliate to terminate at will and without regard to any future vesting opportunity that a Participant may have with respect to any Award (i) the employment of an Employee with or without notice and with or without cause, (ii) the service of a Consultant pursuant to the terms of such Consultant’s agreement with the Company or an Affiliate, or (iii) the service of a Director pursuant to the Bylaws of the Company or an Affiliate, and any applicable provisions of the corporate law of the state or foreign jurisdiction in which the Company or the Affiliate is incorporated, as the case may be. Further, nothing in the Plan, any Award Agreement or any other instrument executed thereunder or in connection with any Award will constitute any promise or commitment by the Company or an Affiliate regarding the fact or nature of future positions, future work assignments, future compensation or any other term or condition of employment or service or confer any right or benefit under the Award or the Plan unless such right or benefit has specifically accrued under the terms of the Award Agreement and/or Plan.

 

(f) Change in Time Commitment. In the event a Participant’s regular level of time commitment in the performance of his or her services for the Company and any Affiliates is reduced (for example, and without limitation, if the Participant is an Employee of the Company and the Employee has a change in status from a full-time Employee to a part-time Employee or takes an extended leave of absence) after the date of grant of any Award to the Participant, the Board may determine, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, to (i) make a corresponding reduction in the number of shares or cash amount subject to any portion of such Award that is scheduled to vest or become payable after the date of such change in time commitment, and (ii) in lieu of or in combination with such a reduction, extend the vesting or payment schedule applicable to such Award. In the event of any such reduction, the Participant will have no right with respect to any portion of the Award that is so reduced or extended.

 

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(g) Execution of Additional Documents. As a condition to accepting an Award under the Plan, the Participant agrees to execute any additional documents or instruments necessary or desirable, as determined in the Plan Administrator’s sole discretion, to carry out the purposes or intent of the Award, or facilitate compliance with securities and/or other regulatory requirements, in each case at the Plan Administrator’s request.

 

(h) Electronic Delivery and Participation. Any reference herein or in an Award Agreement to a “written” agreement or document will include any agreement or document delivered electronically, filed publicly at www.sec.gov (or any successor website thereto) or posted on the Company’s intranet (or other shared electronic medium controlled by the Company to which the Participant has access). By accepting any Award the Participant consents to receive documents by electronic delivery and to participate in the Plan through any on-line electronic system established and maintained by the Plan Administrator or another third party selected by the Plan Administrator. The form of delivery of any Common Stock (e.g., a stock certificate or electronic entry evidencing such shares) shall be determined by the Company.

 

(i) Clawback/Recovery. All Awards granted under the Plan will be subject to recoupment in accordance with any clawback policy that the Company is required to adopt pursuant to the listing standards of any national securities exchange or association on which the Company’s securities are listed or as is otherwise required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act or other Applicable Law and any clawback policy that the Company otherwise adopts, to the extent applicable and permissible under Applicable Law. In addition, the Board may impose such other clawback, recovery or recoupment provisions in an Award Agreement as the Board determines necessary or appropriate, including but not limited to a reacquisition right in respect of previously acquired shares of Common Stock or other cash or property upon the occurrence of Cause. No recovery of compensation under such a clawback policy will be an event giving rise to a Participant’s right to voluntary terminate employment upon a “resignation for good reason,” or for a “constructive termination” or any similar term under any plan of or agreement with the Company.

 

(j) Securities Law Compliance. A Participant will not be issued any shares in respect of an Award unless either (i) the shares are registered under the Securities Act; or (ii) the Company has determined that such issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Each Award also must comply with other Applicable Law governing the Award, and a Participant will not receive such shares if the Company determines that such receipt would not be in material compliance with Applicable Law.

 

(k) Transfer or Assignment of Awards; Issued Shares. Except as expressly provided in the Plan or the form of Award Agreement, Awards granted under the Plan may not be transferred or assigned by the Participant. After the vested shares subject to an Award have been issued, or in the case of Restricted Stock and similar awards, after the issued shares have vested, the holder of such shares is free to assign, hypothecate, donate, encumber or otherwise dispose of any interest in such shares provided that any such actions are in compliance with the provisions herein, the terms of the Trading Policy and Applicable Law.

 

(l) Effect on Other Employee Benefit Plans. The value of any Award granted under the Plan, as determined upon grant, vesting or settlement, shall not be included as compensation, earnings, salaries, or other similar terms used when calculating any Participant’s benefits under any employee benefit plan sponsored by the Company or any Affiliate, except as such plan otherwise expressly provides. The Company expressly reserves its rights to amend, modify, or terminate any of the Company’s or any Affiliate’s employee benefit plans.

 

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(m) Deferrals. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Board, in its sole discretion, may determine that the delivery of Common Stock or the payment of cash, upon the exercise, vesting or settlement of all or a portion of any Award may be deferred and may also establish programs and procedures for deferral elections to be made by Participants. Deferrals by will be made in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A.

 

(n) Section 409A. Unless otherwise expressly provided for in an Award Agreement, the Plan and Award Agreements will be interpreted to the greatest extent possible in a manner that makes the Plan and the Awards granted hereunder exempt from Section 409A, and, to the extent not so exempt, in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A. If the Board determines that any Award granted hereunder is not exempt from and is therefore subject to Section 409A, the Award Agreement evidencing such Award will incorporate the terms and conditions necessary to avoid the consequences specified in Section 409A(a)(1) of the Code, and to the extent an Award Agreement is silent on terms necessary for compliance, such terms are hereby incorporated by reference into the Award Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Plan (and unless the Award Agreement specifically provides otherwise), if the shares of Common Stock are publicly traded, and if a Participant holding an Award that constitutes “deferred compensation” under Section 409A is a “specified employee” for purposes of Section 409A, no distribution or payment of any amount that is due because of a “separation from service” (as defined in Section 409A without regard to alternative definitions thereunder) will be issued or paid before the date that is six months and one day following the date of such Participant’s “separation from service” or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s death, unless such distribution or payment can be made in a manner that complies with Section 409A, and any amounts so deferred will be paid in a lump sum on the day after such six month period elapses, with the balance paid thereafter on the original schedule.

 

(o) Choice of Law. This Plan and any controversy arising out of or relating to this Plan shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law principles that would result in any application of any law other than the law of the State of Delaware.

 

10. Covenants of the Company.

 

(a) Compliance with Law. The Company will seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency, as may be deemed to be necessary, having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Awards and to issue and sell shares of Common Stock upon exercise or vesting of the Awards; provided, however, that this undertaking will not require the Company to register under the Securities Act the Plan, any Award or any Common Stock issued or issuable pursuant to any such Award. If, after reasonable efforts and at a reasonable cost, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary or advisable for the lawful issuance and sale of Common Stock under the Plan, the Company will be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell Common Stock upon exercise or vesting of such Awards unless and until such authority is obtained. A Participant is not eligible for the grant of an Award or the subsequent issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the Award if such grant or issuance would be in violation of any Applicable Law.

 

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11. Additional Rules for Awards Subject to Section 409A.

 

(a) Application. Unless the provisions of this Section 11 of the Plan are expressly superseded by the provisions in the form of Award Agreement, the provisions of this Section 11 shall apply and shall supersede anything to the contrary set forth in the Award Agreement for a Non-Exempt Award.

 

(b) Non-Exempt Awards Subject to Non-Exempt Severance Arrangements. To the extent a Non-Exempt Award is subject to Section 409A due to application of a Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement, the following provisions of this subsection (b) apply.

 

(i) If the Non-Exempt Award vests in the ordinary course during the Participant’s Continuous Service in accordance with the vesting schedule set forth in the Award Agreement, and does not accelerate vesting under the terms of a Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement, in no event will the shares be issued in respect of such Non-Exempt Award any later than the later of: (i) December 31st of the calendar year that includes the applicable vesting date, or (ii) the 60th day that follows the applicable vesting date.

 

(ii) If vesting of the Non-Exempt Award accelerates under the terms of a Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement in connection with the Participant’s Separation from Service, and such vesting acceleration provisions were in effect as of the date of grant of the Non-Exempt Award and, therefore, are part of the terms of such Non-Exempt Award as of the date of grant, then the shares will be earlier issued in settlement of such Non-Exempt Award upon the Participant’s Separation from Service in accordance with the terms of the Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement, but in no event later than the 60th day that follows the date of the Participant’s Separation from Service. However, if at the time the shares would otherwise be issued the Participant is subject to the distribution limitations contained in Section 409A applicable to “specified employees,” as defined in Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code, such shares shall not be issued before the date that is six months following the date of such Participant’s Separation from Service, or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s death that occurs within such six month period.

 

(iii) If vesting of a Non-Exempt Award accelerates under the terms of a Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement in connection with a Participant’s Separation from Service, and such vesting acceleration provisions were not in effect as of the date of grant of the Non-Exempt Award and, therefore, are not a part of the terms of such Non-Exempt Award on the date of grant, then such acceleration of vesting of the Non-Exempt Award shall not accelerate the issuance date of the shares, but the shares shall instead be issued on the same schedule as set forth in the Award Agreement as if they had vested in the ordinary course during the Participant’s Continuous Service, notwithstanding the vesting acceleration of the Non-Exempt Award. Such issuance schedule is intended to satisfy the requirements of payment on a specified date or pursuant to a fixed schedule, as provided under Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-3(a)(4).

 

12. Severability.

 

If all or any part of the Plan or any Award Agreement is declared by any court or governmental authority to be unlawful or invalid, such unlawfulness or invalidity shall not invalidate any portion of the Plan or such Award Agreement not declared to be unlawful or invalid. Any Section of the Plan or any Award Agreement (or part of such a Section) so declared to be unlawful or invalid shall, if possible, be construed in a manner which will give effect to the terms of such Section or part of a Section to the fullest extent possible while remaining lawful and valid.

 

13. Termination of the Plan.

 

The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No Incentive Stock Options may be granted after the tenth anniversary of the earlier of: (i) the Adoption Date, or (ii) the date the Plan is approved by the Company’s stockholders. No Awards may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

 

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14. Definitions.

 

As used in the Plan, the following definitions apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:

 

(a) Acquiring Entity” means the surviving or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) in connection with a Change in Control.

 

(b) Adoption Date” means the date the Plan is first approved by the Board or Compensation Committee.

 

(c) Affiliate” means, at the time of determination, any “parent” or “subsidiary” of the Company as such terms are defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act. The Board may determine the time or times at which “parent” or “subsidiary” status is determined within the foregoing definition.

 

(d) Applicable Law” means shall mean any applicable securities, federal, state, foreign, material local or municipal or other law, statute, constitution, principle of common law, resolution, ordinance, code, edict, decree, rule, listing rule, regulation, judicial decision, ruling or requirement issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Body (including under the authority of any applicable self-regulating organization such as the Nasdaq Stock Market, New York Stock Exchange, or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).

 

(e) Award” means any right to receive Common Stock, cash or other property granted under the Plan (including an Incentive Stock Option, a Nonstatutory Stock Option, a Restricted Stock Award, an RSU Award, a SAR, a Performance Award or any Other Award).

 

(f) Award Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a Participant evidencing the terms and conditions of an Award. The Award Agreement may also include a separate Grant Notice and an agreement containing a written summary of the general terms and conditions applicable to the Award and which may be provided to a Participant along with the Grant Notice.

 

(g) Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company (or its designee). Any decision or determination made by the Board shall be a decision or determination that is made in the sole discretion of the Board (or its designee), and such decision or determination shall be final and binding on all Participants

 

(h) Capitalization Adjustment” means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Common Stock subject to the Plan or subject to any Award after the Effective Date without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or any similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company will not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.

 

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(i) Cause” has the meaning ascribed to such term in any written agreement between the Participant and the Company defining such term and, in the absence of such agreement, such term means, with respect to a Participant, the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) such Participant’s conviction of any felony or any misdemeanor involving fraud or embezzlement; (ii) such Participant’s attempted commission of, or participation in, a fraud or act of dishonesty against the Company; (iii) such Participant’s intentional, material violation of any contract or agreement between the Participant and the Company or of any statutory duty owed to the Company; (iv)  such Participant’s unauthorized use or disclosure of the Company’s confidential information or trade secrets; (v) the refusal or willful omission by such Participant to perform any duties required of the Participant, which continues after a period of thirty (30) days following the Participant’s receipt of notice from the Company that it deems such conduct Cause for termination of employment; or (vi) such Participant’s gross misconduct. The determination that a termination of the Participant’s Continuous Service is either for Cause or without Cause will be made by the Board with respect to Participants who are executive officers of the Company and by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer with respect to Participants who are not executive officers of the Company. Any determination by the Company that the Continuous Service of a Participant was terminated with or without Cause for the purposes of outstanding Awards held by such Participant will have no effect upon any determination of the rights or obligations of the Company or such Participant for any other purpose.

 

(j) Change in Control” means the occurrence, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events; provided, however, to the extent necessary to avoid adverse personal income tax consequences to the Participant in connection with an Award, a Change in Control must also constitute a change in the ownership or effective control of the Company, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Company’s assets, as provided in Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) (without regard to any alternative definition thereunder):

 

(i) any Exchange Act Person becomes the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities other than by virtue of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur (A) on account of the acquisition of securities of the Company directly from the Company, (B) on account of the acquisition of securities of the Company by an investor, any affiliate thereof or any other Exchange Act Person that acquires the Company’s securities in a transaction or series of related transactions the primary purpose of which is to obtain financing for the Company through the issuance of equity securities, or (C) solely because the level of Ownership held by any Exchange Act Person (the “Subject Person”) exceeds the designated percentage threshold of the outstanding voting securities as a result of a repurchase or other acquisition of voting securities by the Company reducing the number of shares outstanding, provided that if a Change in Control would occur (but for the operation of this sentence) as a result of the acquisition of voting securities by the Company, and after such share acquisition, the Subject Person becomes the Owner of any additional voting securities that, assuming the repurchase or other acquisition had not occurred, increases the percentage of the then outstanding voting securities Owned by the Subject Person over the designated percentage threshold, then a Change in Control shall be deemed to occur;

 

(ii) there is consummated a merger, consolidation or similar transaction involving (directly or indirectly) the Company and, immediately after the consummation of such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, the stockholders of the Company immediately prior thereto do not Own, directly or indirectly, either (A) outstanding voting securities representing more than 50% of the combined outstanding voting power of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction or (B) more than 50% of the combined outstanding voting power of the parent of the surviving Entity in such merger, consolidation or similar transaction, in each case in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such transaction;

 

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(iii) there occurs a complete dissolution or liquidation of the Company, except for a liquidation into a parent corporation;

 

(iv) there is consummated a sale, lease, exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than a sale, lease, license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries to an Entity, more than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are Owned by stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of the outstanding voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such sale, lease, license or other disposition; or

 

(v) individuals who, on the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, are members of the Board (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board; provided, however, that if the appointment or election (or nomination for election) of any new Board member was approved or recommended by a majority vote of the members of the Incumbent Board then still in office, such new member shall, for purposes of this Plan, be considered as a member of the Incumbent Board.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Plan, (A) the term Change in Control shall not include a sale of assets, merger or other transaction effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of the Company, and (B) the definition of Change in Control (or any analogous term) in an individual written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant shall supersede the foregoing definition with respect to Awards subject to such agreement; provided, however, that if no definition of Change in Control or any analogous term is set forth in such an individual written agreement, the foregoing definition shall apply.

 

(k) Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any applicable regulations and guidance thereunder.

 

(l) Committee” means the Compensation Committee and any other committee of one or more Directors to whom authority has been delegated by the Board or Compensation Committee in accordance with the Plan.

 

(m) Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company.

 

(n) Company” means Hyliion Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

(o) Compensation Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the Board.

 

(p) Consultant” means any person, including an advisor, who is (i) engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render consulting or advisory services and is compensated for such services, or (ii) serving as a member of the board of directors of an Affiliate and is compensated for such services. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such service, will not cause a Director to be considered a “Consultant” for purposes of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a person is treated as a Consultant under this Plan only if a Form S-8 Registration Statement under the Securities Act is available to register either the offer or the sale of the Company’s securities to such person.

 

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(q) Continuous Service” means that the Participant’s service with the Company or an Affiliate, whether as an Employee, Director or Consultant, is not interrupted or terminated. A change in the capacity in which the Participant renders service to the Company or an Affiliate as an Employee, Director or Consultant or a change in the Entity for which the Participant renders such service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Participant’s service with the Company or an Affiliate, will not terminate a Participant’s Continuous Service; provided, however, that if the Entity for which a Participant is rendering services ceases to qualify as an Affiliate, as determined by the Board, such Participant’s Continuous Service will be considered to have terminated on the date such Entity ceases to qualify as an Affiliate. For example, a change in status from an Employee of the Company to a Consultant of an Affiliate or to a Director will not constitute an interruption of Continuous Service. To the extent permitted by law, the Board or the chief executive officer of the Company, in that party’s sole discretion, may determine whether Continuous Service will be considered interrupted in the case of (i) any leave of absence approved by the Board or chief executive officer, including sick leave, military leave or any other personal leave, or (ii) transfers between the Company, an Affiliate, or their successors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a leave of absence will be treated as Continuous Service for purposes of vesting in an Award only to such extent as may be provided in the Company’s leave of absence policy, in the written terms of any leave of absence agreement or policy applicable to the Participant, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, to the extent required for exemption from or compliance with Section 409A, the determination of whether there has been a termination of Continuous Service will be made, and such term will be construed, in a manner that is consistent with the definition of “separation from service” as defined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h) (without regard to any alternative definition thereunder).

 

(r) Director” means a member of the Board.

 

(s) determineor determined” means as determined by the Board or the Committee (or its designee) in its sole discretion.

 

(t) Disability” means, with respect to a Participant, such Participant is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as provided in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code, and will be determined by the Board on the basis of such medical evidence as the Board deems warranted under the circumstances.

 

(u) Effective Date” means [●], 2020.

 

(v) Employee” means any person employed by the Company or an Affiliate. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, will not cause a Director to be considered an “Employee” for purposes of the Plan.

 

(w) Employer” means the Company or the Affiliate of the Company that employs the Participant.

 

(x) Entity” means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity.

 

(y) Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(z) Exchange Act Person” means any natural person, Entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), except that “Exchange Act Person” will not include (i) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to a registered public offering of such securities, (iv) an Entity Owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their Ownership of stock of the Company; or (v) any natural person, Entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act) that, as of the Effective Date, is the Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities.

 

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(aa) Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, unless otherwise determined by the Board, the value of the Common Stock (as determined on a per share or aggregate basis, as applicable) determined as follows:

 

(i) If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or traded on any established market, the Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price for such stock as quoted on such exchange or market (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Common Stock) on the date of determination, as reported in a source the Board deems reliable.

 

(ii) If there is no closing sales price for the Common Stock on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value will be the closing selling price on the last preceding date for which such quotation exists.

 

(iii) In the absence of such markets for the Common Stock, or if otherwise determined by the Board, the Fair Market Value will be determined by the Board in good faith and in a manner that complies with Sections 409A and 422 of the Code.

 

(bb) Governmental Body” means any: (a) nation, state, commonwealth, province, territory, county, municipality, district or other jurisdiction of any nature; (b) federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other government; (c) governmental or regulatory body, or quasi-governmental body of any nature (including any governmental division, department, administrative agency or bureau, commission, authority, instrumentality, official, ministry, fund, foundation, center, organization, unit, body or Entity and any court or other tribunal, and for the avoidance of doubt, any Tax authority) or other body exercising similar powers or authority; or (d) self-regulatory organization (including the Nasdaq Stock Market, New York Stock Exchange, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).

 

(cc) Grant Notice” means a notice provided to a Participant that he or she has been granted an Award under the Plan and which includes the name of the Participant, the type of Award, the date of grant of the Award, number of shares of Common Stock subject to the Award or potential cash payment right, (if any), the vesting schedule for the Award (if any) and other key terms applicable to the Award.

 

(dd) Incentive Stock Option” means an option granted pursuant to Section 4 of the Plan that is intended to be, and qualifies as, an “incentive stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.

 

(ee) Materially Impair” means any amendment to the terms of the Award that materially adversely affects the Participant’s rights under the Award. A Participant’s rights under an Award will not be deemed to have been Materially Impaired by any such amendment if the Board, in its sole discretion, determines that the amendment, taken as a whole, does not materially impair the Participant’s rights. For example, the following types of amendments to the terms of an Award do not Materially Impair the Participant’s rights under the Award: (i) imposition of reasonable restrictions on the minimum number of shares subject to an Option that may be exercised, (ii) to maintain the qualified status of the Award as an Incentive Stock Option under Section 422 of the Code; (iii) to change the terms of an Incentive Stock Option in a manner that disqualifies, impairs or otherwise affects the qualified status of the Award as an Incentive Stock Option under Section 422 of the Code; (iv) to clarify the manner of exemption from, or to bring the Award into compliance with or qualify it for an exemption from, Section 409A; or (v) to comply with other Applicable Laws.

 

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(ff) Non-Employee Director” means a Director who either (i) is not a current employee or officer of the Company or an Affiliate, does not receive compensation, either directly or indirectly, from the Company or an Affiliate for services rendered as a consultant or in any capacity other than as a Director (except for an amount as to which disclosure would not be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act (“Regulation S-K”)), does not possess an interest in any other transaction for which disclosure would be required under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and is not engaged in a business relationship for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Item 404(b) of Regulation S-K; or (ii) is otherwise considered a “non-employee director” for purposes of Rule 16b-3.

 

(gg) Non-Exempt Award” means any Award that is subject to, and not exempt from, Section 409A, including as the result of (i) a deferral of the issuance of the shares subject to the Award which is elected by the Participant or imposed by the Company or (ii) the terms of any Non-Exempt Severance Agreement.

 

(hh) Non-Exempt Director Award” means a Non-Exempt Award granted to a Participant who was a Director but not an Employee on the applicable grant date.

 

(ii) “Non-Exempt Severance Arrangement” means a severance arrangement or other agreement between the Participant and the Company that provides for acceleration of vesting of an Award and issuance of the shares in respect of such Award upon the Participant’s termination of employment or separation from service (as such term is defined in Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code (and without regard to any alternative definition thereunder) (“Separation from Service”) and such severance benefit does not satisfy the requirements for an exemption from application of Section 409A provided under Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(b)(4), 1.409A-1(b)(9) or otherwise.

 

(jj) Nonstatutory Stock Option” means any option granted pursuant to Section 4 of the Plan that does not qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.

 

(kk) Officer” means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

(ll) Option” means an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option to purchase shares of Common Stock granted pursuant to the Plan.

 

(mm) Option Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and the Optionholder evidencing the terms and conditions of the Option grant. The Option Agreement includes any Grant Notice for the Option and any additional agreement containing a written summary of the general terms and conditions applicable to the Option and which may be provided to a Participant along with the Grant Notice. Each Option Agreement will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

(nn) Optionholder” means a person to whom an Option is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Option.

 

(oo) Other Award” means an award valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, Common Stock, including the appreciation in value thereof (e.g., options or stock rights with an exercise price or strike price less than 100% of the Fair Market Value at the time of grant) that is not an Incentive Stock Options, Nonstatutory Stock Option, SAR, Restricted Stock Award, RSU Award or Performance Award.

 

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(pp) Other Award Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of an Other Award evidencing the terms and conditions of an Other Award grant. Each Other Award Agreement will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

(qq) Own,” “Owned,” “Owner,” “Ownership” means that a person or Entity will be deemed to “Own,” to have “Owned,” to be the “Owner” of, or to have acquired “Ownership” of securities if such person or Entity, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting, with respect to such securities.

 

(rr) Participant” means an Employee, Director or Consultant to whom an Award is granted pursuant to the Plan or, if applicable, such other person who holds an outstanding Award.

 

(ss) Performance Award” means an Award that may vest or may be exercised or a cash award that may vest or become earned and paid contingent upon the attainment during a Performance Period of certain Performance Goals and which is granted under the terms and conditions of Section 5.(b) pursuant to such terms as are approved by the Board. In addition, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law and set forth in the applicable Award Agreement, the Board may determine that cash or other property may be used in payment of Performance Awards.

 

(tt) Performance Criteria” means the one or more criteria that the Board will select for purposes of establishing the Performance Goals for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish such Performance Goals may be, but is not required to be, based on any one of, or combination of, the following as determined by the Board: earnings (including earnings per share and net earnings); earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation; earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; total stockholder return; return on equity or average stockholder’s equity; return on assets, investment, or capital employed; stock price; margin (including gross margin); income (before or after taxes); operating income; operating income after taxes; pre-tax profit; operating cash flow; sales or revenue targets; increases in revenue or product revenue; expenses and cost reduction goals; improvement in or attainment of working capital levels; economic value added (or an equivalent metric); market share; cash flow; cash flow per share; share price performance; debt reduction; customer satisfaction; stockholders’ equity; capital expenditures; debt levels; operating profit or net operating profit; workforce diversity; growth of net income or operating income; billings; financing; regulatory milestones; stockholder liquidity; corporate governance and compliance; intellectual property; personnel matters; progress of internal research; progress of partnered programs; partner satisfaction; budget management; partner or collaborator achievements; internal controls, including those related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; investor relations, analysts and communication; implementation or completion of projects or processes; employee retention; number of users, including unique users; strategic partnerships or transactions (including in-licensing and out-licensing of intellectual property); establishing relationships with respect to the marketing, distribution and sale of the Company’s products; supply chain achievements; co-development, co-marketing, profit sharing, joint venture or other similar arrangements; individual performance goals; corporate development and planning goals; and other measures of performance selected by the Board or Committee.

 

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(uu) Performance Goals” means, for a Performance Period, the one or more goals established by the Board for the Performance Period. Performance Goals may be based on a Company-wide basis, with respect to one or more business units, divisions, Affiliates, or business segments, and in either absolute terms or relative to the performance of one or more comparable companies or the performance of one or more relevant indices. Unless specified otherwise by the Board (i) in the Award Agreement at the time the Award is granted or (ii) in such other document setting forth the Performance Goals at the time the Performance Goals are established, the Board will appropriately make adjustments in the method of calculating the attainment of Performance Goals for a Performance Period, which shall include the following actions: (1) exclude restructuring and/or other nonrecurring charges; (2) exclude exchange rate effects; (3) exclude the effects of changes to generally accepted accounting principles; (4) exclude the effects of any statutory adjustments to corporate tax rates; (5) exclude the effects of items that are “unusual” in nature or occur “infrequently” as determined under generally accepted accounting principles; (6) exclude the dilutive effects of acquisitions or joint ventures; (7) assume that any business divested by the Company achieved performance objectives at targeted levels during the balance of a Performance Period following such divestiture; (8) exclude the effect of any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company by reason of any stock dividend or split, stock repurchase, reorganization, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, combination or exchange of shares or other similar corporate change, or any distributions to common stockholders other than regular cash dividends; (9) exclude the effects of stock based compensation and the award of bonuses under the Company’s bonus plans; (10) exclude costs incurred in connection with potential acquisitions or divestitures that are required to be expensed under generally accepted accounting principles; and (11) exclude the goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges that are required to be recorded under generally accepted accounting principles. In addition, the Board retains the discretion to reduce or eliminate the compensation or economic benefit due upon attainment of Performance Goals and to define the manner of calculating the Performance Criteria it selects to use for such Performance Period. Partial achievement of the specified criteria may result in the payment or vesting corresponding to the degree of achievement as specified in the Award Agreement or the written terms of a Performance Cash Award.

 

(vv) Performance Period” means the period of time selected by the Board over which the attainment of one or more Performance Goals will be measured for the purpose of determining a Participant’s right to vesting or exercise of an Award. Performance Periods may be of varying and overlapping duration, at the sole discretion of the Board.

 

(ww) Plan” means this Hyliion Holdings Corp. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

(xx) Plan Administrator” means the person, persons, and/or third-party administrator designated by the Company to administer the day-to-day operations of the Plan and the Company’s other equity incentive programs.

 

(yy) Post-Termination Exercise Period” means the period following termination of a Participant’s Continuous Service within which an Option or SAR is exercisable, as specified in Section 4(h).

 

(zz) Prospectus” means the document containing the Plan information specified in Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

 

(aaa) Restricted Stock Award” or “RSA” means an Award of shares of Common Stock which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 5.(a).

 

(bbb) Restricted Stock Award Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a Restricted Stock Award evidencing the terms and conditions of a Restricted Stock Award grant. The Restricted Stock Award Agreement includes any Grant Notice for the Restricted Stock Award and any agreement containing a written summary of the general terms and conditions applicable to the Restricted Stock Award and which may be provided to a Participant along with the Grant Notice. Each Restricted Stock Award Agreement will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

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(ccc) RSU Award” or “RSU” means an Award of restricted stock units representing the right to receive an issuance of shares of Common Stock which is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 5.(a).

 

(ddd) RSU Award Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of an RSU Award evidencing the terms and conditions of an RSU Award. The RSU Award Agreement includes any Grant Notice for the RSU Award and any agreement containing a written summary of the general terms and conditions applicable to the RSU Award and which may be provided to a Participant along with the Grant Notice. Each RSU Award Agreement will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

(eee) Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect from time to time.

 

(fff) Rule 405” means Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

(ggg) Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code and the regulations and other guidance thereunder.

 

(hhh) Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(iii) Share Reserve” means the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan as set forth in Section 2(a).

 

(jjj) Stock Appreciation Right” or “SAR” means a right to receive the appreciation on Common Stock that is granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 4.

 

(kkk) SAR Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a holder of a SAR evidencing the terms and conditions of a SAR grant. The SAR Agreement includes any Grant Notice for the SAR and any agreement containing a written summary of the general terms and conditions applicable to the SAR and which may be provided to a Participant along with the Grant Notice. Each SAR Agreement will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

(lll) Subsidiary” means, with respect to the Company, (i) any corporation of which more than 50% of the outstanding Common Stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, stock of any other class or classes of such corporation will have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, Owned by the Company, and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or other entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than 50%.

 

(mmm) Ten Percent Stockholder” means a person who Owns (or is deemed to Own pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) stock possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Affiliate.

 

(nnn) Trading Policy” means the Company’s policy permitting certain individuals to sell Company shares only during certain “window” periods and/or otherwise restricts the ability of certain individuals to transfer or encumber Company shares, as in effect from time to time.

 

 

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Exhibit 10.6

 

 

August 3, 2017

 

Mr. Thomas Healy

1967 Eastern Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA

15147

 

Dear Thomas:

 

Hyliion Inc. (Hyliion or the Company) is pleased to confirm the terms under which you are employed in your position of Chief Executive Officer reporting to the Hyliion Board of Directors.

 

Compensation 

Your compensation package includes the following:

 

1. Your salary will be $10,000.00 per pay period (equivalent to an annualized rate of $240,000.00), for the current and next calendar years, and thereafter will be subject to adjustment as determined by the Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee thereof.

 

2. There are twenty-four pay periods in the calendar year. Pay dates are on the 15th and the last day of every month.

 

3. You are eligible to participate in Hyliion’s benefits as described in Hyliion’s then-current benefit plan documentation. Health insurance benefits will commence on the first of the month following notification to Hyliion by you of your election of such health insurance benefits. Any questions regarding Hyliion’s policy, benefits administration or eligibility should be directed to Beth Rodak, Benefits Administrator: 412-327-0324 or beth@hyliion.com.

 

4. You may be eligible for an annual bonus, which would be based upon certain criteria and/or milestones established by the Board of Directors for the applicable year. Further, your eligibility to receive any bonus payment will be contingent upon your continued employment by the Company through the applicable bonus payment date.

 

Severance 

If you are let go by the Company for any reason other than for the existence of cause (i.e., violence, theft, fraudulent activities, harassment), as determined by the Board of Directors, the Company agrees to pay you six months of severance at the rate of your current base monthly salary plus COBRA insurance premiums at the time of termination. Payment is payable in regular pay periods over the six months unless you secure a position with the same or higher base salary within the six month time frame, then payments will cease. If base salary is less than what was paid to you by Hyliion, the company would only be responsible for the difference.

   

1967 Eastern Ave ● Pittsburgh PA ● Tel: (412) 704-6568

www.hyliion.com

 

 

 

 

 

Confidentiality, Non-Compete and Proprietary Information 

As an employee of Hyliion, all proprietary information and inventions remain the property of Hyliion. By signing this letter, you agree that all work you perform (whether before or after the date of this letter) for Hyliion is on a “work for hire” basis, and you assign and transfer, and will assign and transfer, to Hyliion and its successors and assigns all of your right, title and interest, including but not limited to, all patents, patent applications, trademarks and trademark applications, copyrights and copyright applications, and other intellectual property rights in all countries and territories worldwide and under any international conventions, in and to all Developments that: (a) relate to Hyliion’s business or any of Hyliion’s products or services; (b) result from tasks assigned to you by Hyliion; or (c) result from the use of personal property (whether tangible or intangible) owned, leased or contracted for by Hyliion. Upon reasonable notice and in exchange for payment of any expenses thereafter reasonably incurred, you will assist Hyliion in the protection of Hyliion’s worldwide right, title and interest in and to Developments, including the execution of all formal assignment, application and registration documents requested by Hyliion. As used in this letter, “Developments” means all inventions, discoveries, designs, developments, methods, modifications, improvements, processes, algorithms, databases, computer programs, formulae, techniques, trade secrets, conceptions, graphics or images, audio or visual works, and other works of authorship, whether or not patentable or copyrightable.

 

You are required to sign Hyliion’s Confidentiality, Non-Compete, Proprietary and Inventions Assignment Agreement as a condition of employment.

 

Conflict of Interest 

You are expected to be entering into employment with Hyliion without constraint by any prior employment, consulting agreement or relationship. You are expected to be without possession of confidential information arising out of prior employment, which in your best judgment, would be utilized in conjunction with your employment with Hyliion.

 

Employment At-Will 

We hope that your employment with Hyliion will be mutually beneficial. In accepting our offer of employment, you certify your understanding that your employment will be on an at-will basis, and that neither you nor Hyliion has entered into a contract regarding the terms or the duration of your employment. Nothing in this letter should be construed as a guarantee of employment. All employees are considered “at-will” and are free to resign at any time just as Hyliion reserves the right to change your work assignment or compensation, or to terminate your employment at any time, with or without cause or advance notice.

 

Indemnification and D&O Insurance 

You will be provided indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation (as amended and/or restated from time to time) and Bylaws, including, if applicable, any directors and officers and errors and omissions insurance policies, with such indemnification to be on terms determined by the board of directors or any of its authorized committees, but on terms no less favorable than the most favorable terms provided to any other Company executive, officer, director or stockholder.

 

Reimbursement of Business Expenses 

The Company will promptly reimburse you for all necessary and reasonable business expenses advanced by you upon receipt from you of receipts for such expenses.

 

[Signature page follows.]

 

1967 Eastern Ave ● Pittsburgh PA ● Tel: (412) 704-6568

www.hyliion.com

 

 

 

 

  Hyllion Inc.
   
  /s/ Edward Olkkola
  Edward Olkkola, Board of Directors

 

Acknowledged:    
     
/s/ Thomas Healy   8/3/17
Thomas Healy   Date

 

 

1967 Eastern Ave ● Pittsburgh PA ● Tel: (412) 704-6568

www.hyliion.com

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.7

 

Hyliion Inc.

 

EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is effective as of March 29, 2019 by and between Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Greg Van de Vere (“Executive”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Company designs hybrid drive systems for Class 8 Semi Tractors and related and derivative products; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company desires to retain Executive in his position as Chief Financial Officer, and Executive desires to remain in this position with the Company, subject to the terms, conditions and covenants hereinafter set forth.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Executive hereby agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 

1.1 Term of Employment. Executive’s employment under this Agreement shall continue until terminated pursuant to Section 3.1 herein (the “Employment Term”).

 

1.2 Title and Position. During the Employment Term, Executive shall hold the position of Chief Financial Officer. Executive’s responsibilities shall include such duties and responsibilities as are consistent with Executive’s position as Chief Financial Officer, and Executive shall perform such other reasonable duties and responsibilities as are in the best interests of the Company, as are consistent with Executive’s position and as may be reasonably assigned to Executive by the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and/or the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”).

 

1.3 Activities and Duties During Employment.

 

(a) During the Employment Term, Executive shall devote Executive’s full business time, attention, skill and energy to the business and affairs of the Company and, to the extent reasonably necessary to discharge the responsibilities reasonably assigned to the Executive hereunder, to use the Executive’s reasonable best efforts to perform faithfully and efficiently such responsibilities in a diligent, trustworthy and business-like manner so as to advance the interests of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive shall be permitted to devote a reasonable amount of time and effort to (i) providing service to, or serving on governing boards of, civic and charitable organizations, (ii) serving as an advisory board member of other companies or corporations, and (iii) personally investing and managing personal and family investments; but in each case, only to the extent that any of the activities described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), individually or as a whole, do not (A) require or involve the active participation of Executive in the management of any corporation, partnership or other entity which might unreasonably interfere with the execution of Executive’s duties hereunder, (B) include any ownership interest in any customer or vendor of the Company unless approved by written resolution of the Board, or (C) otherwise violate any provision of this Agreement.

 

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(b) Executive represents and warrants that Executive is free to maintain his employment with the Company, and that Executive has no prior or other commitments or obligations of any kind to anyone else or any entity that would hinder or interfere with Executive’s obligations hereunder or the exercise of Executive’s best efforts as an employee of the Company.

 

ARTICLE II COMPENSATION

 

2.1 Base Salary. The Company shall pay Executive a base salary (“Base Salary”) during the Employment Term. Until such time as the Board may reasonably determine that certain product quality and product development objectives have been achieved, (the “85% Salary Period”), the Company shall pay Executive a semi-monthly base salary of $7,968.75 (on an annualized basis, $191,250). At such point as the Board may reasonably determine that the product quality and product development objectives have been achieved, and for the remainder of the Employment Term (the “Full Salary Period”), the Company shall pay Executive a semi-monthly Base Salary of $9,375.00 (on an annualized basis, $225,000). The Base Salary shall not be reduced without the prior written consent of Executive. During the Employment Term, the Board may consider in its sole discretion sequential increases in Executive’s Base Salary. If Executive’s Base Salary is increased pursuant to the foregoing, the increased amount shall become the “Base Salary” for purposes of this Agreement.

 

2.2 Reimbursement of Expenses. The Company shall reimburse Executive for all reasonable expenses incurred by Executive while performing Executive’s duties under this Agreement, subject to the Company’s policies requiring corroborating documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Company.

 

2.3 Withholding and Deductions. All compensation payable to Executive pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to such withholding and deductions by the Company as required by law.

 

2.4 Health Care and Benefit Plans. During the Employment Term, Executive shall be eligible to participate in all health care and 401(K) benefit programs normally available to other employees of the Company (subject to all applicable eligibility and contribution policies and rules), as may be in effect from time to time, including such insurance programs as may be implemented by the Company.

 

ARTICLE III TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT

 

3.1 Employment At Will. Executive’s employment by the Company is at-will, and either Executive or the Company may terminate Executive’s employment with the Company, subject to the following:

 

(a) The Company may terminate Executive’s employment at any time and for any reason, with or without cause, by giving written notice of such termination to Executive, designating an immediate or future termination date.

 

(b) Executive may terminate his employment by giving the Company thirty (30) days prior written notice of termination (such thirty day notice period, the “Termination Notice Period”). Upon such notice, the Company may, at its option, (i) make Executive’s termination effective immediately, (ii) require Executive to continue to perform Executive’s duties hereunder during the Termination Notice Period, with or without restrictions on Executive’s activities, and/or (iii) accept Executive’s notice of termination as Executive’s resignation from the Company at any time during the Termination Notice Period. In any such case, the Company shall pay Executive’s Base Salary under Section 2.1 and benefits under Section 2.4 to Executive through the end of the Termination Notice Period.

 

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(c) This Agreement also will terminate immediately without any notice upon Executive’s death or Permanent Disability. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section 3.1(c), the Company shall have no further obligation hereunder or otherwise with respect to Executive except payment of Executive’s Base Salary under Section 2.1 and benefits under Section 2.4 that have accrued through the date of termination.

 

(d) The Company shall not be obligated to provide Executive with any compensation or benefits beyond Executive’s termination date, other than as required in Section 3.2 and by law.

 

3.2 Rights Upon Termination.

 

(a) Any other provision of this Agreement notwithstanding, subsections (b) and (c) below shall not apply unless and until Executive has executed (and does not revoke) a full and complete general release of all claims in a form provided by the Company and acceptable by the Executive by the thirtieth (30th) day

 

(the “Deadline”) after Executive’s termination of employment (“Separation”). In addition, subsections (b) and (c) of this Section 3.2 are conditioned upon Executive continuing to comply with all of the restrictive covenants set forth in Article IV of this Agreement and satisfying Executive’s post-termination obligations under Article V of this Agreement. Executive’s failure to fully satisfy any of the foregoing conditions shall nullify all of Executive’s rights under Subsections 3.2(b) and (c) below.

 

(b) If (A) the Company terminates Executive’s employment for any reason other than (i) Cause, or (ii) death or Permanent Disability, or (iii) in conjunction with a Change in Control (as defined below), or (B) Executive terminates his Employment for Good Reason within sixty (60) days after the occurrence of the event constituting the basis for Good Reason (as defined below) and after giving notice (as explained below) then, in addition to the amounts payable in accordance with other provisions of this Agreement, the Company will pay Executive severance pay at a rate equal to the Full Salary Period Base Salary for a period of six (6) months following Separation. Such severance pay will be paid in accordance with the

 

Company’s standard payroll procedures on the Company’s payroll dates, commencing with the first payroll date following Executive’s execution of the release described in subsection (a) above, and will be subject to all applicable withholdings. During this severance period, Executive shall be eligible to participate in all Company employee benefit plans and the Company will continue to contribute towards the employee benefit plans as if Executive were still employed except that the Company will not be required to fund a 401(k) matching contribution or a 401(k) safe harbor contribution. At the Company’s option, subject to Executive’s written notice of acceptance, such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld, the Company may remit a lump sum payment to Executive in such amount as to provide an equivalent after-tax, after-out-of-pocket-expenses proceeds amount to Executive in lieu of all or a portion of the severance pay and benefits.

 

(c) If subsection (b) above applies, vesting of outstanding stock options held by Executive shall be accelerated so that all unvested stock options shall be fully vested as of the date of Separation.

  

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(d) For purpose of this Section 3.2:

 

Cause” shall mean: (i) any material breach by Executive of this Agreement or any other written agreement between Executive and the Company, if such breach has not been cured by Executive within 15 days of receiving written notice thereof from the Company (if such breach is capable of being cured); (ii) any material failure by Executive to comply with the Company’s written policies or rules, as they may be in effect from time to time during the Employment Term, if such failure causes material harm to the Company and has not been cured by Executive within 15 days of receiving written notice thereof from the Company (if such breach is capable of being cured); (iii) any negligence, willful misconduct or any failure by Executive to materially comply with the reasonable and lawful instructions from the Board made within the scope of the Board’s authority in a manner that is detrimental to the Company and which has not been cured by Executive within ten (10) days of receiving written notice thereof from the Company (if capable of being cured); (iv) commission, conviction of, or a plea of “guilty” or “no contest” to, a felony under the laws of the United States or any State by Executive if such felony (a) involves a claim of moral turpitude, dishonesty, breach of trust or unethical business conduct, (b) impairs Executive’s ability to perform services for the Company (in the Company’s reasonable judgment), or (c) results in a material loss to the Company or material damage to the reputation of the Company (in the Company’s reasonable judgment); (v) Executive’s commission of any theft, embezzlement, fraud, or act of material and intentional dishonesty; or (vi) any reckless or negligent misconduct by Executive resulting in a material loss to the Company or material damage to the reputation of the Company.

 

Good Reason” shall mean (i) a material reduction in Executive’s job position, responsibilities or duties, provided that neither a mere change in title alone nor reassignment to a position that is substantially similar to the position held by Executive prior to the reassignment shall constitute a material reduction in job responsibilities; (ii) without Executive’s prior written consent, the Company requires Executive to relocate to a facility or location more than thirty (30) miles away from the location at which Executive was working immediately prior to the required relocation; or (iii) a reduction of more than ten percent (10%) in Executive’s then-current Base Salary except in the case of an across the board salary reduction plan instituted by the Board as a cost saving measure which is applicable to all executives of the Company (which, for purposes of this provision, shall mean all employees holding a Vice President or C-level title at the time of the salary reduction). The Executive’s termination of employment shall not be for Good Reason unless he has provided written notice to the Company of the existence of the circumstances providing grounds for termination for Good Reason, the Company has had at least thirty (30) days from the date on which such notice is provided to cure such circumstances, if capable of being cured, and no such cure has been made.

 

Permanent Disability” shall mean Executive’s inability to perform the essential functions of his position with or without reasonable accommodation for a period of 120 consecutive days because of the Executive’s physical or mental impairment.

 

3.3 Rights Upon a Change in Control.

 

A “Change in Control” shall be deemed to be occasioned by, and to include, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions, (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the issued and outstanding ownership securities of the Company by another person or entity by means of any transaction (including, without limitation, any stock acquisition, reorganization, merger or consolidation), (b) a sale or any other similar disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, (c) the grant of an exclusive license of all or substantially all of the Company’s intellectual property, (d) a merger, consolidation, reorganization or recapitalization of the Company with or into another entity in which the shareholders of the Company who held at least a majority of the ownership securities or voting rights of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or recapitalization hold less than a majority of the ownership securities or voting rights of the surviving entity.

 

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“Net Stock Option Proceeds” shall be deemed to be that pre-tax value that Executive will receive, or could have received, should he choose not to exercise his vested stock options, through exercise of his stock options upon a Change in Control.

 

Upon a Change in Control, Executive shall receive the following pre-tax bonus amounts:

 

$250,000 if the acquisition price is not sufficient to provide for the Company’s preferred shareholders to recover their original share purchase amount plus any accrued but unpaid dividends (as such dividends are defined as the “Preferred Preference Amount” in the Amended and Restated Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 29, 2017 and as may be defined in subsequent preferred stock offerings) as of the date of the Change in Control.

 

$500,000 less Net Stock Option Proceeds if the acquisition price is sufficient to provide for the Company’s preferred shareholders to recover their original share purchase amount plus any accrued but unpaid dividends but less than $50,000,000.

 

$750,000 less Net Stock Option Proceeds if the acquisition price is greater than $49,999,999 but less than $100,000,000.

 

$1,000,000 less Net Stock Option Proceeds if the acquisition price is greater than $99,999,999 but less than $150,000,000.

 

$1,250,000 less Net Stock Option Proceeds if the acquisition price is $150,000,000 or greater.

 

In each case, the acquisition price to be used to determine the bonus amount shall be grossed up if an existing shareholder effects the Change in Control by purchasing the portion of the Company’s ownership securities not already held by the acquirer or that percentage of the Company’s assets not already effectively owned by the acquirer in accordance with the following formula. Acquisition price / percent of the Company or assets acquired = grossed up acquisition price.

 

Further, upon a Change in Control, vesting of outstanding stock options held by Executive shall be accelerated so that all unvested stock options shall be fully vested immediately prior to the Change in Control date.

 

ARTICLE IV EXCLUSIVITY OF SERVICES AND RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

 

4.1 Executive’s Acknowledgment. Executive agrees and acknowledges that, to ensure that the Company retains the value and goodwill of the Business, Executive must not use any Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined), special knowledge of the Business, or the Company’s relationships with its customers, suppliers, channel partners, vendors and employees, all of which Executive has and will continue to gain access to through his employment with the Company, other than in furtherance of the Executive’s legitimate job duties. Executive further acknowledges that:

 

(a) the Company is and will continue to be engaged in the Business;

 

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(b) the Business is highly competitive and the services to be performed by Executive for the Company are unique and worldwide in geographic scope;

 

(c) Executive will occupy a position of trust and confidence with the Company and possesses and will continue to acquire an intimate knowledge of Confidential Information, including trade secrets of the

 

Company and the Company’s relationships with its customers, suppliers, channel partners, vendors and employees;

 

(d) the agreements and covenants contained in this Article IV are essential to protect the Company, the Confidential Information, trade secrets of the Company (as defined in the Uniform Trade Secret Act in the form adopted in the State of Texas) and the goodwill of the Business and are being entered into in consideration for the various rights being granted to Executive under this Agreement;

 

(e) the Company would be irreparably damaged if Executive were to disclose the Confidential Information or provide services to any person or entity in violation of the provisions of this Agreement;

 

(f) Executive acknowledges and agrees that the consideration he has and will receive hereunder, as well as the consideration he has or will receive by virtue of the grant of options, is adequate consideration to support the covenants and restrictions imposed by this Article IV;

 

(g) the scope and duration of the covenants set forth in this Article IV are reasonably designed to protect a protectable interest of the Company and are not excessive in light of the circumstances; and

 

(h) Executive has the means to support himself and his dependents other than by engaging in activities prohibited by this Article IV.

 

4.2 Confidential Information, Inventions, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition. The Executive acknowledges that he has executed a Proprietary Information, Inventions Assignment, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement (“PIIA”) with the Company on August 16, 2017 and that the terms of the PIIA are incorporated into this Agreement by reference.

 

4.3 Equitable Modification. If any court of competent jurisdiction shall deem any provision in this Article IV too restrictive, the other provisions shall stand, and the court shall modify the unduly restrictive provision to the point of greatest restriction permissible by law.

 

4.4 Remedies. The Company and Executive agree that the damages that will accrue to the Company by reason of Executive’s failure to observe any of his obligations under this Article IV cannot be measured solely in money. Therefore, if the Company shall institute any action or proceeding to enforce such provisions, Executive waives the claim or defense that there is an adequate remedy at law and agrees in any such action or proceeding not to (i) interpose the claim or defense that such remedy exists at law, or

 

(ii) require the Company to show that monetary damages cannot be measured or to post any bond. Without limiting any other remedies that may be available to the Company, Executive hereby specifically affirms the appropriateness of injunctive or other equitable relief in any such action. Executive also acknowledges that the remedies afforded the Company pursuant to this Section 4.4 are not exclusive, nor shall they preclude the Company from seeking or receiving any other relief, including, without limitation, any form of monetary or other equitable relief.

 

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ARTICLE V POST-TERMINATION OBLIGATIONS

 

5.1 Return of Company Materials. No later than three (3) business days following the termination of Executive’s employment for any reason, Executive shall return to the Company all company property that is then in Executive’s possession, custody or control, including, without limitation, all keys, access cards, credit cards, computer hardware and software, documents, records, policies, marketing information, design information, specifications and plans, data base information and lists, and any other property or information that Executive has or had relating to the Company (whether those materials are in paper or computer-stored form), and including, but not limited to, any documents containing, summarizing, or describing any Confidential Information.

 

5.2 Executive Assistance. During the Employment Term, Executive shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish the Company with such information as may be in Executive’s possession or control, and cooperate with the Company in connection with any litigation, claim, or other dispute in which the Company or any of its affiliates is or may become a party. The Company shall reimburse Executive for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Executive in fulfilling Executive’s obligations under this Section 5.2. If Company requires cooperation or assistance from Executive for any reason after the expiration of the Employment Term, Executive shall use reasonable efforts to provide such cooperation provided that (i) such cooperation does not conflict with any then-existing employment or consulting relationships of Executive, and (ii) Executive shall be compensated for his time at the rate of $150 per hour.

 

ARTICLE VI MISCELLANEOUS

 

6.1 Notices. Any notices, consents or other communications required or permitted to be sent or given hereunder by either party shall, in every case, be in writing and shall be deemed properly served if (a) delivered personally, (b) sent by registered or certified mail, in all such cases with first class postage prepaid, return receipt requested, (c) delivered to a nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) sent by facsimile or electronic transmission (with a copy sent by first-class mail) to the other party at the addresses set forth below:

 

If to Executive:

Greg Van de Vere

10234 Matoca Way

Austin, TX 78726

 

If to Company:

Hyliion Inc.

Attn: Thomas Healy

1202 BMC Drive, Suite 100

Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

Or such other address as may hereafter be specified by notice given by either party to the other party. Date of service of any such notice shall be the date such notice is personally delivered, two (2) business days after the date of mailing if sent certified or registered mail, one (1) business day after the date of delivery to the overnight courier service if sent by overnight courier, one (1) business day after the date of the email when sent by e-mail between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Central Time or two (2) business days after the date of the email when sent by email after 5:00 P.M. Central Time. Executive shall promptly notify the Company of any change in his address set forth in this Section 6.1.

 

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6.2 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. In the case of the Company, the successors and permitted assigns hereunder shall include, without limitation, any affiliate of the Company as well as the successors in interest to the Company or any such affiliate (whether by merger, liquidation (including successive mergers or liquidations) or otherwise). This Agreement or any right or interest hereunder is one of personal service and may not be assigned by Executive. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person other than the parties and successors and assigns permitted by this Section 6.2 any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

 

6.3 Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement and the Recitals contain the entire understanding of the parties hereto with regard to the terms of Executive’s employment, and supersede all prior agreements, understandings or letters of intent with regard to the employment relationship between the parties hereto except that the PIIA referenced in Section 4.2 above and any stock option grants shall not be affected by this Agreement. This Agreement shall not be amended, modified or supplemented except by a written instrument signed by each of the parties hereto.

 

6.4 Interpretation. Article titles and section headings contained herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be a part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

6.5 Expenses. Each party hereto will pay all costs and expenses incident to its negotiation and preparation of this Agreement and to its performance and compliance with all agreements and conditions contained herein on its part to be performed or complied with, including the fees, expenses and disbursements of its counsel and accountants.

 

6.6 Waivers. Any term or provision of this Agreement may be waived, or the time for its performance may be extended, by the party or parties entitled to the benefit thereof. Any such waiver shall be validly and sufficiently authorized for the purposes of this Agreement if, as to any party, it is authorized in writing by an authorized representative of such party. The failure of any party hereto to enforce at any time any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed to be a waiver of such provision, nor in any way to affect the validity of this Agreement or any part hereof or the right of any party thereafter to enforce each and every such provision. No waiver of any breach of this Agreement shall be held to constitute a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.

 

6.7 Partial Invalidity. Wherever possible, each provision hereof shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but in case any one or more of the provisions contained herein shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent, but only to the extent, of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without invalidating the remainder of such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision or provisions or any other provisions hereof, unless such a construction would be unreasonable.

 

6.8 Tax Matters. Executive acknowledges that no representative or agent of the Company has provided him with any tax advice of any nature, and Executive has had the opportunity to consult with his own legal, tax and financial advisor(s) as to tax and related matters concerning the compensation to be received under this Agreement.

 

6.9 Offset. To the extent permitted by law, and to the extent that such action will not result in the imposition of additional taxes, interest or penalties pursuant to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the Company may offset any amounts Executive owes it pursuant to this Agreement or any other written agreement, note or other instrument relating to indebtedness for borrowed money to which Executive is a party or pursuant to any other liability or obligation by which Executive is bound against any amounts it owes Executive hereunder.

 

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6.10 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (including by facsimile or electronic transmission), each of which shall be considered an original instrument, but all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement.

 

6.11 Delivery by Electronic Transmission. This Agreement and any amendments hereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of electronic transmission, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. At the request of any party hereto, each other party hereto shall re-execute original forms thereof and deliver them to the other party. No party hereto shall raise the use of electronic transmission to deliver a signature, or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of electronic transmission, as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract and each such party forever waives any such defense.

 

6.12 Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law principles. For the purposes of any suit, action, or other proceeding arising out of this Agreement or with respect to Executive’s employment hereunder, the Parties hereto agree to: (i) submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal or state courts located in Austin, TX; (ii) unconditionally waive any objection to venue in such jurisdiction, and agree not to plead or claim forum non conveniens; and (iii) waive their respective rights to a jury trial of any and such claims and causes of action.

 

6.13 Construction. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by Executive and the Company to express their mutual intent, and no rule of strict construction will be applied against Executive or the Company.

 

6.14 Section 409A. The provisions of this Agreement will be construed in favor of either being exempt from or complying with any applicable requirements of Section 409A (“Section 409A”) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, each as necessary to prevent the imposition of any adverse consequences contemplated by Section 409A.

 

6.15 Indemnification and Insurance. The Company shall provide Executive reasonable and customary indemnification on the same terms and conditions it indemnifies Board members and other executive officers as provided in its Certificate of Incorporation as in effect on the Commencement Date. The Company shall purchase and maintain directors and officers liability insurance at such levels as the Board deems appropriate and providing coverage for the acts and omissions of Executive during the Employment Term and reasonable post-employment tail coverage. Executive shall be treated consistently with the Board with respect to such insurance coverage.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

Hyliion Inc.  
     
By: /s/ Thomas Healy  
Name:  Thomas Healy  
Title: CEO  
     
Executive  
  /s/ Greg Van de Vere  
  Greg Van de Vere  

 

 

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Exhibit 10.8

 

1202 BMC Dr. Cedar Park, TX 78613

 

May 22, 2019

 

Patrick Sexton

 

Dear Patrick:

 

On behalf of Hyliion Inc. (the Company”), we are pleased to offer you the full-time position of Vice President of Hardware. In your role as Vice President of Hardware, you will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer and perform such duties as are normally associated with this position and such other duties as are assigned to you from time to time. Outlined below are the major elements of our offer:

 

1.  Your initial base salary, to be paid in accordance with the Company’s standard practices, will be $7,708.33 semi-monthly ($185,000.00 on an annualized basis), less standard federal and state payroll and other withholding requirements.

 

2.  The Company will reimburse you in accordance with standard Company practices for all reasonable business expenses such as travel and incidental supplies after verification of appropriate documentation.

 

3.  Subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of the Company (the Board”) and your continued service at the time of such Board approval, you will be granted a stock option (the Option”) to purchase 150,000 shares of the Common Stock of the Company in accordance with the Hyliion Inc. 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan”) and standard related option documents. It is a condition to your receipt and exercise of the Option that you execute such standard option related documents. The Option will vest as follows: 25% of the shares will vest immediately as of the first (1st) year anniversary of your hire date, and the remaining 75% of the shares will then vest in equal quarterly installments thereafter over the next twelve (12) quarters, such that the Option will be 100% vested and exercisable as of the fourth (4th) year anniversary of the date of grant, subject to continuous employment with the Company on such dates as set forth in the related option documents. The Option shall be an Incentive Stock Option to the extent permissible under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code and have an exercise price equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock of the Company on the date of grant of the Option, as determined by the Board in its sole discretion.

 

4.  Your employment is subject to the Company’s personnel policies and procedures as they may be interpreted, adopted, revised or deleted from time to time in the Company’s sole discretion. You will be eligible to participate in all benefit programs the Company makes available to its employees generally, on the terms and conditions of those plans.

 

5.  Your employment with the Company will be “at-will”. This means that either you or the Company may terminate your employment at any time for any reason.

 

 

 

 

6. This offer is contingent on: (a) your executing the attached Proprietary Information, Inventions Assignment, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement (“Proprietary Information Agreement”), and (b) your satisfying the eligibility requirements for employment in the United States. As required by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, you must provide the Company, within three (3) days of your hire date, documentation of employment eligibility in the United States and picture identification, including an appropriate work visa, if applicable. A list of approved documents that are acceptable as verification of employment eligibility under the Act are listed on page two of the I-9 form. Please bring the appropriate documentation on your first day of employment.

 

By signing this letter, you are representing that you have full authority to accept this position and perform the duties of the position without conflict with any other obligations and that you are not involved in any situation that might create, or appear to create, a conflict of interest with respect to your loyalty to or duties for the Company. You specifically warrant that you are not subject to an employment agreement or restrictive covenant preventing full performance of your duties to the Company. You agree not to bring to the Company or use in the performance of your responsibilities at the Company any materials or documents of a former employer that are not generally available to the public, unless you have obtained express written authorization from the former employer for their possession and use. You also agree to honor all obligations to former employers during your employment with the Company.

 

By signing this letter, you acknowledge that the terms described in this letter, together with the enclosed Proprietary Information Agreement, set forth the entire understanding between us and supersede any prior representations or agreements, whether written or oral; there are no terms, conditions, representations, warranties or covenants other than those contained herein. No term or provision of this letter may be amended, waived, released, discharged or modified except in writing, signed by you and an authorized officer of the Company, except that the Company may, in its sole discretion, adjust salaries, incentive compensation, stock plans, benefits, job titles, locations, duties, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.

 

Your expected start date is June 6, 2019 or sooner. Please confirm acceptance of this offer by returning this letter and the enclosed Proprietary Information Agreement to me with your dated signature on or before May 28, 2019.

 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I am confident that you will make a key contribution to the Company’s success and look forward to welcoming you onto our team.

 

Sincerely,

 

Thomas J. Healy

Chief Executive Officer

Hyliion Inc.

 

Enclosures:   Proprietary Information, Inventions Assignment, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement

 

Employee Signature:   /s/ Patrick Sexton   30 May 2019

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.9

 

INDUSTRIAL LEASE
MULTI-TENANT

 

THIS LEASE AGREEMENT (“Lease”) is entered into as of the February 5, 2018, by and between Landlord and Tenant.

 

Key Definitions

 

The following words and phrases are defined as follows:

 

Landlord: The “Landlord” referenced in this Lease shall mean IGX Brushy Creek, LLC, a Texas limited liability company.

 

Tenant: The “Tenant” referenced in this Lease shall mean Hyliion Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

Notices: The names and address of the “Landlord” and “Tenant” referenced in this Lease shall be the following:

 

Landlord: IGX Brushy Creek, LLC
  6592 Guada Coma Dr.
  Schertz, Texas 78154
   
Tenant: Hyliion Inc.
  1967 Eastern Ave., #2
  Verona, PA 15147

 

Term: The “Term” as referenced in this Lease shall mean a period of eighty-seven (87) months, starting on the Commencement Date and ending on the Termination Date, subject to the renewal rights contained in Exhibit “E” attached hereto.

 

Renewal Term: The “Renewal Term” is for one term for five (5) years at the market rate then in effect for comparable properties, but in no case less than the Base Rent paid during the immediately preceding Term, as provided on Exhibit “E” attached hereto.

 

Premises Delivery: Subject to Unavoidable Delays (as defined in Section 29.12 below) and Tenant Delays (as defined in Exhibit “B” attached hereto), Landlord shall deliver the Premises to Tenant with Landlord’s Work substantially complete so that Tenant may commence the Tenant Improvements (the “Delivery Condition”), within one hundred twenty (120) days after the date Tenant receives the building permit from the City of Cedar Park required for Landlord to commence and complete Landlord’s Work (the “Building Permit”) (as provided in Exhibit “B” attached hereto). The date the Premises are actually delivered to Tenant in the Delivery Condition shall be the “Premises Delivery Date.” In the event the Premises Delivery Date has not occurred by December 31, 2018 subject to any Tenant Delays or Unavoidable Delays, and so long as Tenant received the Building Permit on or before July 1, 2018 or otherwise would have timely received it “but for” any Unavoidable Delays or any delay caused solely by the Landlord, then Tenant shall have the right to terminate this Lease immediately upon the delivery of written notice to Landlord.

 

Commencement Date: The “Commencement Date” shall be thirty (30) days following the Premises Delivery Date, less any Tenant Delays, and shall be the date Rent commences to accrue.

 

Termination Date: The “Termination Date” referenced in this Lease shall mean the last day of the eighty-seventh (87th) full month following the Commencement Date.

 

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Premises: The “Premises” as referenced in this Lease shall mean approximately 83,470 square feet of office, warehouse, and distribution space within the Building as indicated in Exhibit “A-1”.

 

Building: The “Building” as referenced in this Lease is Building 2 within the Project.

 

Project: The “Project” as referenced in this Lease means the property commonly known as Brushy Creek Corporate Center and located at 1200 BMC Drive, Cedar Park, Texas 78613, and having approximately 231,180 sq. ft. of rentable area on the land more particularly described on Exhibit “A”.

 

Permitted Uses: The “Permitted Uses” for the Premises referenced in this Lease shall mean the following uses: operation of an office, warehouse, research lab, testing lab and distribution center, and any other lawful uses.

 

Base Rent (monthly): The “Base Rent” referenced in this Lease means the dollar amount to be paid by Tenant to Landlord according to the dates on the schedule below:

 

Months   Annual Rent per
Square Foot
    Square Footage to be
used for Base Rent
    Base Rent (monthly)  
*1-3   $ 12.60       *41,735   $ 43,821.75  
4-12   $ 12.60       *41,735   $ 43,821.75  
13-24   $ 12.98       83,470     $ 90,286.72  
25-36   $ 13.37       83,470     $ 92,999.49  
37-48   $ 13.77       83,470     $ 95,781.83  
49-60   $ 14.18       83,470     $ 98,633.72  
61-72   $ 14.61       83,470     $ 101,624.73  
73-84   $ 15.05       83,470     $ 104,685.29  
85-87   $ 15.50       83,470     $ 107,815.42  

 

*Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Lease, so long as Tenant is not in default under this Lease beyond any applicable cure periods, (i) during months 1-3 of the Term, the monthly installment of Base Rent only shall be abated, and (ii) during months 1-1,2 of the Term, the square footage used to calculate Base Rent shall be 41,735 square feet (which is half of the actual square footage of the Premises); provided, however, that both of such abatement shall not include Tenant’s obligation to pay Additional Expenses, and Tenant shall be required to pay all of the Additional Expenses on the entire square footage of the Premises during the entire Term. If there is an Event of Default (as defined herein) that continues beyond any applicable cure period, then Landlord shall be entitled to recover all Base Rent (under (i) and (ii) above) that was abated, as provided herein.

 

Additional Expenses (monthly): The “Additional Expenses” referenced in this Lease means the sum of the Real Property Taxes, Insurance and Common Area Services costs (defined below) which are initially estimated to be $12,103.15 per month.

 

Total Rent: The estimated initial “Total Rent” referenced in this Lease shall be the sum of Base Rent and Additional Expenses.

 

Prepaid Rental: The “Prepaid Rental” referenced in this Lease shall mean an amount equal to $55,924.90, which is an estimate of the Base Rent and Additional Expenses owed by Tenant for the first full month of the Term in which Base Rent is due. Such Prepaid Rental shall be due and payable upon execution of this Lease.

 

Security Deposit: The “Security Deposit” referenced in this Lease shall mean an amount equal to the estimate of the last month’s gross rental amount of $119,918.57.

 

Exhibits: The “Exhibits” referenced in this Lease shall be the following:

 

  Exhibit A Project Legal Description
  Exhibit A-1 Premises and Site Plan
  Exhibit B Work Letter
  Exhibit C Rules and Regulations
  Exhibit D Security Guidelines for Commercial Building Occupants
  Exhibit E Renewal Term

 

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INDUSTRIAL LEASE

 

1. Premises. Landlord leases to Tenant and Tenant leases from Landlord the Premises. Landlord also grants to Tenant the non-exclusive right to use the designated parking areas, and common service drives appurtenant to the Premises. Except to the extent modified herein and subject to the completion of the work described on Exhibit “B” attached hereto, and except for the presence of any latent defects or Hazardous Substances existing on, in, under or about the Premises, Building, or the Project, the Premises are being leased “AS IS”, with Tenant accepting all defects, if any; and Landlord makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied, with respect to the Premises (without limitation, Landlord makes no warranty as to the habitability, fitness or suitability of the Premises for a particular purpose nor as to the absence of any toxic or otherwise hazardous substances except as expressly set forth in this Lease). This Paragraph 1 is subject to any contrary requirements under applicable law; however, in this regard Tenant acknowledges that it has been given the opportunity to inspect the Project and to have qualified experts inspect the Project prior to the execution of this Lease. Notwithstanding anything in this Lease to the contrary, as of the Premises Delivery Date, Landlord represents and warrants to Tenant that (a) to Landlord’s knowledge, there are no Hazardous Substances existing on, in, under or about the Premises, Building, or the Project, and (b) the Premises, Building, Project, and Landlord’s Work shall be in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, statutes, codes, rules, regulations, orders, permits and other restrictions applicable thereto, including without limitation, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, and the Texas Accessibility Standards, as amended, and all Environmental Laws.

 

2. Term. The term of this Lease shall be for a period of time known as the Term starting on the Commencement Date and ending on the Termination Date. Upon the Premises Delivery Date, the Tenant shall be entitled to access the Premises for the purpose of performing and installing Tenant’s Improvements, subject to the terms of this Lease. Tenant shall maintain all required insurance prior to its occupancy, but Tenant shall not be liable for payment of Rent until the Commencement Date.

 

3. Base Rent. Commencing on the Commencement Date, Tenant, throughout the Term, and without prior notice or demand, shall pay to Landlord, in advance, at the address set out above or at such place or places as Landlord may from time to time direct, Total Rent on the first day of each month in lawful money of the United States of America. Total Rent for any partial month shall be prorated using the percentage which the number of days in such partial month bears to the total number of days in said month. The covenant of Tenant to pay Rent hereunder is and shall be deemed a separate and individual covenant, and Tenant shall have no right to deduction or setoff whatsoever, except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Lease.

 

(a) Base Rent and Tenant’s pro rata share of Additional Expenses (collectively, “Rent”) shall be due on the first (1st) day of each calendar month and shall be deemed delinquent if not paid by the fifth (5th) day of such month. If any Rent is not received by Landlord in full on or before the fifth (5th) day of each month, Tenant shall pay a late charge of five percent (5%) of the unpaid Rent. Such late payment charges are due immediately when incurred.

 

(b) Payment of Rent, and all sums due to Landlord hereunder, shall be by check or may be wired to an account designated by Landlord or Landlord’s agent and shall be payable to Landlord. Tenant shall pay all applicable bank charges incurred by Landlord, plus $35.00 for each returned check. In addition, if Landlord does not receive any installment of Rent, or any portion thereof, or any other sum due hereunder, within thirty (30) days after the date the same is due, or if Tenant fails to pay any other sum which at any time becomes due to Landlord under any provision of. this Lease as and when the same becomes due hereunder, then, in any such event, Tenant shall pay Landlord interest on such overdue amounts from the due date thereof until paid at an annual rate (the “Past Due Rate”) which equals the lesser of (i) eighteen percent (18%) per annum, or (ii) the highest rate then permitted by law.

 

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(c) Payment of Rent, and any other sums due hereunder, by Tenant shall be an independent covenant. In the event Tenant has net timely paid Rent, or any other sums due hereunder, for a period of more than two (2) occasions in any calendar year; or in the event of a returned check for insufficient funds or no account, Landlord may thereafter require that all Rent, and other sums due hereunder, be paid when due by cashier’s check, certified check, or money order, without prior notice.

 

4. Permitted Use.

 

4.1 Premises. The Premises may be used and occupied only for the Permitted Use and for no other purpose or purposes without Landlord’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Tenant shall be entitled to access the Premises 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week. Tenant shall promptly comply with all governmental laws, ordinances, orders and regulations and reasonable Landlord’s rules affecting the Premises and their cleanliness, safety, occupation and use. Tenant, Tenant’s employees and invited guests will not perform any act or carry on any practices that may injure the Building or unreasonably disturb the rights, comforts or conveniences of persons at adjoining premises. Tenant may not store any trash, equipment, vehicles, merchandise or materials on any outside parking areas or loading areas specifically designated as Common Areas of ingress and egress or in designated parking area for adjacent tenants. Tenant will provide sanitary receptacles for any and all trash, rubbish or discarded merchandise; provided, however, that Tenant shall be permitted reasonable use of communal dumpsters located on the Project for ordinary office refuse, if provided by and as designated by Landlord. Such receptacles will be emptied, as required, to maintain the Premises in a clean and sanitary fashion. All such expenses of trash storage and removal which are exclusive to Tenant, will be borne by Tenant. Landlord, as part of the Common Area Services, shall be responsible for the removal of trash located in any communal dumpsters. Vehicles owned or operated by or for Tenant,. Tenant’s employees, agents or invitees may be parked only in those areas designated by Landlord as set forth on the Site Plan attached hereto as Exhibit “A-1”.

 

4.2 Increase in Insurance Premiums. No use shall be made or permitted to be made of the Premises by Tenant or acts done by Tenant which increase the cost of Landlord’s insurance as provided for in Paragraph 15 of this Lease. In the event that any such use or act is performed or permitted by Tenant, Tenant will pay to Landlord promptly upon demand the amount of any such increase in Landlord’s insurance costs. Tenant will not, in any event, permit or perform any use or act within the Premises which will cause the cancellation of any insurance policy concerning the Premises or the contents thereof and agrees to indemnify Landlord against all claims or actions for loss which result from any such act of cancellation.

 

4.3 Special Uses. Notwithstanding anything in the Lease or any rules or regulations to the contrary, Tenant shall have the right to (a) have a storage container located in the parking lot area of the Premises in a location mutually determined by Landlord and Tenant and reflected on the Plans attached as Exhibit “B-1”; and (b) bring dogs upon the Premises, which shall, when outside of the office portion of the Premises, be leashed or contained in a fenced area mutually approved by Landlord and Tenant in writing and reflected on the Plans attached as Exhibit “B-1”. In connection with the foregoing right, Tenant shall hold harmless, indemnify and defend Landlord and Landlord’s management company and their employees, agents, owners, directors and officers against all claims, demands and actions for loss, liability, damage, cost and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from injury or death to any person on the Project and damage to property on the Project caused by the act or omission of any dog or person controlling such dog, or dog-related incident. Tenant represents and warrants that Tenant’s insurance includes coverage for any dog-related incident. Additionally, Landlord reserves the right to require Tenant to provide additional cleaning of the Premises, or charge Tenant for such cleaning, related to the presence of dogs on the Premises. Landlord retains the right to prohibit any dog that is noisy, aggressive, or considered a nuisance by Landlord or any other tenant on the Project. Tenant agrees that Landlord would not permit Tenant to bring dogs on the Premises without the foregoing agreements, restrictions, and limitations.

 

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5. Security Deposit. Tenant has deposited with Landlord the Security Deposit as security for the full performance of all the provisions of this Lease. The Security Deposit shall not be considered as the first or last rental payment due under the Lease. If at any time during the Term hereof, or the Term as it may be extended, Tenant shall be in default in payment of Rent or any other sum due Landlord as additional rent beyond any applicable notice and cure period, Landlord may apply all or a part of the Security Deposit for such payment without notice to Tenant. Should Landlord be required to use all or a part of the Security Deposit, Tenant, upon demand from Landlord, shall immediately replenish the funds so expended to maintain the Security Deposit at the amount stated hereinabove. Landlord may also apply all or a part of the Security Deposit to clean or repair damages to the Premises by Tenant which Tenant does not otherwise clean or repair as required by this Lease. If Tenant is not in default at the termination of this Lease, Landlord shall return the remaining amount of the Security Deposit to Tenant within sixty (60) days from the date of termination. Landlord shall not be required to keep the Security Deposit separate from its general funds, and Tenant shall not be entitled to interest on the Security Deposit.

 

6. Acceptance of the Premises. Subject to the completion of the work described on Exhibit “B” attached hereto, and except for any latent defects, Tenant acknowledges that it has reasonably inspected the Premises and to Tenant’s actual knowledge there are no known defects in the Premises and common areas surrounding the Premises that are vital to the use of the Premises for their intended commercial purpose as defined in Paragraph 4.1. Landlord shall pay for the cost of the Certificate of Occupancy for the Premises.

 

7. Utilities.

 

7.1 Responsibility. Landlord’s responsibility with respect to water, wastewater, and electrical utility services hereunder shall be limited to the connection of service lines and meters to the Premises as required to reasonably service the Premises. Landlord shall have the responsibility to maintain unexposed water, wastewater and electrical utility services through such service lines, and Tenant shall be required to maintain all other utilities within the Premises. Additionally, Tenant shall contract directly for its own electricity and telephone services. Tenant shall not in any event be relieved of any of Tenant’s obligations under this Lease by reason of Tenant’s failure or inability to maintain any such service.

 

7.2 Payment. Tenant shall pay as Additional Expenses hereunder, its pro-rata share of all utility expenses as defined below for the Project in addition to any amounts due from any submeter directly connected to the Premises or used in association with common area expenses. Utility expense shall include all water, sewer, wastewater, heat, electricity, telephone, sewage and other materials and services which may be furnished to or used in or about the Premises during the Term. Tenant shall pay all actual costs occasioned, by such equipment of high utility consumption as reasonably determined by Landlord, including, without limitation, utility charges and the cost of installing, servicing and maintaining any special or additional inside or outside wiring or lines, meters or submeters, transformers, poles or the cost of any other equipment necessary to increase the amount or type of utilities available to the Premises which Tenant requires. Tenant shall, at its sole cost and expense, procure any and all necessary permits, licenses or other authorizations required for the lawful and proper installation and maintenance upon the Premises of all wires, pipes, conduits, tubes and other equipment and appliances for use in the supply of all utilities and services to and upon the Premises which Landlord is not otherwise obligated to provide. In the event of significantly disproportionate use of common meter services by Tenant, Landlord reserves the right to allocate the cost of same to Tenant on a reasonably specific basis.

 

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7.3 Electrical Supply. In the event Tenant desires electric power in excess of the existing condition within the Premises or available from Landlord (“Additional Electrical Supply”), Tenant may, at its own expense, elect to make direct arrangements to obtain such Additional Electric Supply directly, if feasible. Landlord makes no representations or warranties regarding such arrangements (including their feasibility), but agrees to cooperate with Tenant reasonably and in good faith in this regard. The plans and specifications for any new vault or transformer space (including, but not limited to, the location of such space within the Building, which shall be initially designated by mutual agreement of Landlord and Tenant, provided that Landlord is willing to make such apace available) and for any transformer, related equipment, facilities or connections to provide the Additional Electrical Supply, shall be subject to Landlord’s prior written approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Tenant agrees to pay all bills for such direct electrical service when due and shall pay a reasonable rental as established by Landlord in its good faith, but sole, discretion for any new vault or transformer space used by Tenant to provide the Additional Electrical Supply. The initial transformer to be installed by Tenant as described above, and any subsequent transformers and other electrical equipment which Tenant elects to install to provide Additional Electrical Supply to the Premises, shall sometimes be referred to herein collectively as the “Electrical Equipment.” Notwithstanding anything in this Lease to the contrary, commencing on the earlier to occur of (i) the date which is the twenty-fourth (24th) month of the Term, and (ii) the date upon which Tenant has placed ninety percent (90%) of its trade equipment in the Premises, Landlord shall have the right to meter and test Tenant’s connected peak amperage load used at the Premises, and in the event that over a thirty (30) day period, Landlord’s metering and testing procedures demonstrate that Tenant is not utilizing on a daily average business day basis, all of the amps initially reserved by Tenant in this Subsection (d), Landlord may reclaim up to seventy-five percent (75%) of any amperage Landlord reasonably determines through such process is being unused by Tenant. In addition, Tenant shall bear the cost of replacement of lamps, starters and ballasts for lighting fixtures within the Premises.

 

8. Additional Expenses.

 

8.1 Pro Rata Share. Tenant shall also be obligated to pay to Landlord, Tenant’s pro rata share of Common Area Services costs, Real Property Taxes and Insurance, such share being the percentage that the square foot area of the Premises bears to the total square foot area of the building(s) comprising the Project. The Real Property Taxes, Insurance and Common Area Services costs are herein called the “Additional Expenses”. Tenant’s estimated pro-rata share is 36.11%. If the Project size increases or decreases, Tenant’s pro-rata share shall be adjusted accordingly. The total square foot area of the buildings comprising the Project at the time of the execution of the Lease is approximately 231,180 sq. ft.

 

8.2 Real Property Tax. “Real Property Tax” as used herein shall be deemed to mean property tax, consulting and attorneys’ fees, and taxes and assessments (including but not limited to real property taxes and assessments or taxes and assessments imposed in lieu thereof), licenses and levies of every kind or character, whether general, special, ordinary or extraordinary, which may be taxed, charged, levied or imposed by the municipality or other governmental authority (state, local or federal) upon or against the Premises, the leasehold estate created, or which may arise out of the use and operation by Tenant of the Premises, or which may be imposed against the Project as a whole. Real Property Tax does not, however, include Landlord’s federal or state or local income, franchise, inheritance, gift, estate, rollback, rent, or margin taxes, or any other tax based on revenues of the Landlord. If the Project is not separately assessed, Tenant’s share of the Real Property Taxes payable by Tenant shall bear the same relationship as the square footage of the Premises bears to the total square footage of the building(s) comprising the Project.

 

8.3 Insurance. “Insurance” as used herein shall include Landlord’s insurance as provided for in Paragraph 15.5 hereof.

 

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8.4 Common Area Services. “Common Area Services” costs shall include: cleaning of appurtenant streets, parking areas and service areas; replacement of exterior Iighting fixtures and bulbs; window washing; exterior pest extermination control; property management fees paid by Landlord (which shall not exceed 3% of the gross revenues of the Project); salary allocations for maintenance personnel; restriping of parking areas; re-surfacing of parking area; exterior water, cleaning and maintaining landscaped areas; maintenance costs other than those associated with Landlord’s duties as defined in Paragraph 9.1; and routine maintenance and inspection of fire protection systems as required by Landlord and/or governmental authorities. Landlord and Tenant expressly agree that all services to be performed by Landlord, including maintenance, repairs and property management of the Premises and the common area surrounding the Premises, exclusively involve the exercise of professional judgment by Landlord and Landlord’s agents. Notwithstanding anything in this Lease to the contrary, Insurance and Common Area Services costs shall not include any of the following:

 

(1) costs of original construction of the Project or any expansion, remodeling or renovation thereof, whether mandated by law or otherwise including, without limitation, costs of (i) correcting defective conditions in the Buildings of the Project resulting from defects in or inadequacy of the initial design or construction of the same, or (ii) correcting code violations, or (iii) fines or citations in connection with any of the foregoing;

 

(2) without limiting the generality of other exclusions contained herein, capital expenditures (i.e. expenditures which, in the customary course of maintenance practice for industrial buildings similar in type and location to that of the Project, do not recur annually). Subsequent to the fifth Lease Year of the Term, only the following capital expenditures shall be permitted, all of which must be commercially reasonable in amount: (a) capital expenditures that reduce Common Area Services costs (but not to exceed the amount of any savings); (b) the depreciation (but not interest thereon) of the cost of parking lot resurfacing, calculated on a straight line basis over a useful life of not less than seven (7) years; (c) depreciation (but not interest thereon) of the cost of replacement of HVAC equipment serving the common areas, calculated on a straight line basis over a useful life of not less than ten (10) years, and (d) costs of equipment (or rentals therefor) directly used in the performance of maintenance functions calculated on a straight line basis over a useful life of the item in question but not less than ten (10) years;

 

(3) costs of replacing, repairing, or restoring the Project, or any portion thereof, in the event of (i) a casualty of any type, regardless of whether insurable or uninsurable, insured or uninsured and regardless of whether any costs (or deficiencies) result from deductibles or self-insured retention; or (ii) the exercise of the power of eminent domain;

 

(4) any costs or expenses associated with the investigation, monitoring, removal, cleanup or remediation of any Hazardous Substances (as herein defined) from the Project, any restoration in connection therewith or compliance with any Environmental Laws (as herein defined);

 

(5) principal and/or interest payments on any financing for the Project or any portion thereof or .rental under any ground lease or other underlying lease;

 

(6) reserves for anticipated future expenses which would be incurred subsequent to the then current accounting year;

 

(7) the cost of performing repairs to individual tenant spaces (including the Premises) pursuant to Landlord’s obligations to repair under this Lease and other tenants’ leases;

 

(8) legal fees, leasing commissions, advertising expenses, audit fees and other costs incurred in connection with the development, leasing or operation of the Project, or in connection with negotiations or disputes with tenants, occupants or prospective tenants or occupants or third parties, or legal fees incurred in connection with this Lease.

 

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(9) any and all other costs associated with the operation of the business of Landlord as distinguished from the costs of maintenance of the common areas. Such excluded items shall specifically include, but shall not be limited to, formation of the Landlord entity, internal accounting and legal matters including, but not limited to, preparation of tax returns and financial statements and gathering of data therefor, costs of selling, syndication, financing, mortgaging or hypothecating any of Landlord’s interest in the Project or any portion thereof, salaries and bonuses of officers and executives of Landlord and compensation paid to clerks, attendants or other persons (except as otherwise provided herein) and costs of any disputes between Landlord and its employees;

 

(10) Contributions to Common Area Costs by tenants or occupants whose space is permitted by the provisions of this Lease to be excluded from the denominator of the Tenant’s proportionate share fraction.

 

8.5 Payment of Additional Expenses. For each month during the Term of this Lease, Tenant shall pay one-twelfth (1/12th) of its proportionate share of the estimated annual amount of Additional Expenses and common water and sewer charges at the same time and same place as the payment of Base Rent for each month. The amount of the annual Additional Expense estimates shall be determined by Landlord, such estimates to be subject to adjustment from time to time upon written notice to Tenant. Upon determination by Landlord of the actual Additional Expenses, a cash adjustment shall be made between Landlord and Tenant within thirty (30) days after request by either party if the sum of the additional amounts for taxes, insurance and the actual amount for Common Area Services differs from the total estimated monthly payments which Tenant has paid to Landlord.

 

8.6 Cap on Additional Expenses. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, beginning January 1 following the first calendar year after the Commencement Date, Tenant’s pro rata share of Controllable Additional Expenses (as defined herein) for the Project for any calendar year shall not increase by more than five percent (5%) of Tenant’s pro rata share of Controllable Additional Expenses for the Project for the previous calendar year. “Uncontrollable Additional Expenses” shall mean: (a) all Real Property Tax, taxes, assessments, excises, tax levies, fees and all governmental charges, whether general or special of every character in respect of the Project or rental payments from tenants which may be assessed or be a lien upon Landlord’s interest in the Project, the Project or any rent therefrom, or any occupancy, operation, use or possession of, sales from or activity conducted on or in connection with the Project; all sales taxes on rental payments; and the reasonable costs and expenses of contesting the validity or amount of any such taxes, assessments, fees and charges; (b) Insurance and insurance premiums incurred by Landlord in connection with the Project, including, without limitation, premiums for fire/hazard, extended coverage, boiler, sprinkler, public liability, property damage, earthquake and other insurance applicable to the Project and/or its improvements; (e) water, sewer, electrical and other utility charges for the Project; and (d) necessary capital expenditures permitted by this Lease. “Controllable Additional Expenses” shall mean all Additional Expenses other than Uncontrollable Additional Expenses.

 

8.7 Personal Property. Tenant shall pay, before delinquency, any and all taxes, assessments, licenses, fees and public charges levied, assessed or imposed and which become payable during the Term upon Tenant’s fixtures, furniture, appliances and personal property installed or located in or about the Premises.

 

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8.8 Records; Right to Audit. Landlord, for a period of ninety (90) days after its demand for payment, shall make available to Tenant during reasonable business hours after reasonable notice, for inspection and copying, all records of Landlord relating to the Real Property Taxes, Insurance or Common Area Services payments made by Tenant. Landlord shall keep good and accurate books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles concerning the operation, maintenance and repairs of the Common Area Services. Tenant or its designated agent shall have the right at its own cost and expense to audit and/or inspect Landlord’s records to determine the amount of Common Area Services costs applicable with respect to the Premises, Building or the Project using the most current figures then available to Landlord. Tenant shall give Landlord not less than thirty (30) days’ written notice of its intention to conduct any such audit. If such audit discloses that the amount payable by Tenant as Common Area Services costs has been overstated, Tenant’s obligation for Common Area Services costs shall be recalculated and Landlord shall rebate to Tenant the overcharge or, at Tenant’s election, Tenant may offset the amount of the overcharge against Common Area Services costs thereafter becoming due. If such audit reveals an overpayment of Common Area Services costs of five percent (5%) or more is owed to Tenant as a result of such audit, Landlord shall promptly pay Tenant the reasonable cost of said audit.

 

9. Maintenance and Repairs.

 

9.1 Landlord’s Duties. In addition to Landlord’s responsibilities contained in Paragraph 7.1 above, Landlord, at its sole cost and expense, shall maintain in a good state of repair and in “water tight” condition the roof and exterior walls (excluding glass windows and doors) and all structural portions of the roof, exterior walls (excluding glass windows and doors), floors and foundations of the Premises, except for any repairs caused by the negligent acts or omissions of Tenant, Tenant’s agents, employees or invitees. All requests for repairs or maintenance that are the responsibility of Landlord hereunder must be made to Landlord in writing, and Landlord shall have a reasonable time within which to perform such repairs or maintenance. If Landlord fails to make such repairs within a reasonable time, then Tenant may notify Landlord in writing of the need for such repairs, and if such repairs are not made within seven (7) days after the date of Tenant’s letter, Tenant may proceed to make such repairs and deduct the reasonable and documented costs of such repairs from the amount of Base Rent next coming due. In the event of a bona fide emergency where immediate action is required, no prior notice from Tenant shall be required but Tenant shall attempt to notify Landlord as soon as reasonably practical under the circumstances.

 

9.2 Tenant’s Duties. Tenant, at its sole cost and expense, shall provide interior pest extermination services and shall maintain in a clean and sanitary condition and in a good state of repair all other portions of the Premises, including, but in no way limited to, all plumbing, wiring, glazing, interior and exterior windows, interior and exterior doors, floors, ceilings, interior walls and the interior surface of exterior walls, all fixtures, fire protection systems, equipment and signs, except for repairs caused by the negligent acts or omissions of Landlord and its agents. Tenant shall assume the responsibility for repairs and replacement of heating and air conditioning systems (the “HVAC”) servicing the Premises. Without limiting the generality of the immediately preceding sentence: (a) Tenant shall replace all filters in the HVAC systems as recommended by the manufacturer’s specifications; and (b) Tenant shall have the entire heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment maintained by a qualified or licensed HVAC contractor, as required, but at least quarterly. Tenant shall provide Landlord with a copy of the invoice or report from the company engaged for maintenance of the HVAC, giving evidence that the system has been properly maintained. If Landlord has not received from Tenant within thirty (30) days of the end of each quarter, a copy of the invoice or report, then Landlord shall have the right to have the HVAC inspected and/or maintained if required by a company to be selected by Landlord. Landlord shall bill Tenant for the cost of this inspection and/or maintenance, which shall be paid within ten (10) days of receipt of Landlord’s invoice. Landlord covenants and agrees that Tenant shall have the full benefit of any warranty applicable to the HVAC or any other items for which Tenant is responsible to maintain under this Lease.

 

9.3 Parking Lot Damage. Tenant shall not be permitted to dump or drain any garbage, waste water, refuse, liquids or any other materials directly onto the parking lot surface within the Project without the prior written consent of Landlord. Tenant shall also be responsible for any damage to the parking lot caused by vehicles and equipment utilized in connection with Tenant’s use of the Premises.

 

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9.4 Failure to Perform. In the event Tenant fails to maintain the Premises pursuant to the above provisions, Landlord shall give Tenant notice to do such acts as are reasonably required to so maintain the Premises. In the event Tenant fails to promptly commence such work and diligently pursue it to completion, then Landlord shall have the right to do such acts and expend such funds at the expense of Tenant as are reasonably required to perform such work. Any amount so expended by Landlord shall be paid by Tenant promptly after demand or deducted by Landlord from the Security Deposit. Landlord shall have no liability to Tenant for any damage, inconvenience, or interference with the use of the Premises by Tenant as a result of performing any such work.

 

9.5 Condition at End of Term. Upon the termination of this Lease or upon the expiration of the Term, Tenant shall surrender the Premises in the same condition as received, normal wear and tear and damage by earthquake, act of God or the elements alone or other casualty excepted. Specifically, Tenant agrees to reasonably clean such surfaces of dirt, grease, paint, tire marks or other discoloration prior to surrendering the Premises to Landlord upon the termination of this Lease. Tenant’s duties hereunder shall include the duty to clean the Premises and to deliver the current keys to Landlord. Failure to do so shall constitute a failure to perform under Paragraph 9.4 above. This Paragraph 9.5 shall be applicable to any construction items that Landlord may approve of in writing during the Term.

 

10. Alterations. Excluding the work to be performed under Exhibit “B” attached hereto, • Tenant shall not make or permit to be made any alterations or changes in or additions to the exterior or structural interior of the Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, except for non-structural alterations which do not exceed $25,000 in any single instance, which shall not require the consent of the Landlord. If Tenant is not in default hereunder, Tenant shall, unless otherwise specifically waived in writing by Landlord prior to the expiration of this Lease or any extension thereof, remove all trade fixtures, equipment and improvements which Tenant has placed in the Premises, and repair all damages to the Premises caused by such removal and restore the Premises to their original condition (the condition existing as of the Commencement Date) as provided in Paragraph 9.5 above. All remaining alterations, additions, improvements and fixtures shall remain upon and be surrendered with the Premises and become the property of Landlord at the termination of this Lease, unless Landlord requests their removal, in which event Tenant, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, shall remove the same and restore the Premises to its original condition at Tenant’s expense, provided that Landlord notifies Tenant in writing of such removal requirement of such alterations, additions, improvements or fixtures.

 

11. Liens. Tenant shall keep the Premises, and any building of which the Premises is a part, free and clear of any liens arising out of work performed or caused to be performed by Tenant and shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend Landlord from any liens and encumbrances arising out of any work performed or materials furnished by or at the direction of Tenant. In the event any lien is filed, Tenant shall do all acts necessary to discharge or bond over such lien within thirty (30) days of filing; or, if Tenant desires to contest any lien, then Tenant shall deposit with Landlord such security as Landlord shall reasonably demand to ensure the payment of the lien claim. In the event Tenant shall fail to pay or bond over any lien claim when due or shall fail to deposit the security with Landlord, then Landlord shall have the right to expend all sums reasonably necessary to discharge the lien claim, and Tenant shall pay promptly after demand all sums expended by Landlord in discharging any lien, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.

 

12. Entry. Landlord and its agents shall have the right at any reasonable time to enter upon the Premises upon no less than 24-hours’ prior written notice for the purposes of inspection, construction, serving or posting notices, showing to a prospective purchaser or tenant (within the last 6 months of the Term), or making any changes or alterations or repairs which Landlord shall deem reasonably necessary for the protection, improvement or preservation of the Premises or the building of which the Premises are a part, or for any lawful purpose. At any time within one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the expiration of the Term of the Lease, Landlord may place on the Premises any usual or ordinary “For Lease” signs.

 

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13. Assignment and Subletting. Except for a Permitted Transfer described below, Tenant shall not assign, pledge or encumber this Lease, or sublet the whole or any part of the Premises without the prior written consent of Landlord, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed. This prohibition against assigning or subletting shall be construed to include a prohibition against any assignment or subletting by operation of law. In the event any assignment or subletting of this Lease is made with or without Landlord’s consent, Tenant shall nevertheless remain liable for the performance of all of the terms, conditions and covenants of this Lease. Tenant shall promptly remit to Landlord all sums which Tenant receives as the result of any such subletting or assignment in excess of the fixed rental payments to Landlord required hereunder, whether or not such subletting or assignment is consented to by Landlord. Any assignment or subletting without the prior written consent of Landlord shall be void and constitute a breach of the Lease and shall, at the option of the Landlord, terminate the Lease. No consent to any assignment, voluntarily or by operation of law, of this Lease or any subletting of said Premises shall be deemed to be a consent to any subsequent assignment or subletting. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Lease, Tenant may assign this Lease without the approval or consent of Landlord and without charge to: (a) any entity resulting from a merger, reorganization or consolidation of or with Tenant, (b) any entity succeeding to the business of Tenant and acquiring substantially all of the assets of Tenant or a majority of the equity interests of Tenant, or (c) any entity controlled, controlling or under common control with Tenant, provided that: (i) Tenant shall not then be in default under this Lease beyond expiration of any applicable notice, grace or cure period, (ii) in each instance, the succeeding entity shall assume in writing all of the obligations of this Lease on the part of Tenant, and (iii) Tenant provides Landlord with (a) a copy of the instrument effectuating such transfer or subletting, and (b) reasonable evidence supporting the basis on which such transfer or subletting does not require Landlord’s prior written consent (each a “Permitted Transfer”). Such assignment or transfer shall in no manner relieve Tenant of any of the obligations undertaken by it under this Lease.

 

14. Indemnification.

 

14.1 Tenant’s Obligation. During the Term, Tenant shall hold harmless, indemnify and defend Landlord and Landlord’s management company and their employees, agents, owners, directors and officers against all claims, demands and actions for loss, liability, damage, cost and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from (i) injury or death to any person on the Premises and damage to property on the Premises caused by the act or omission of any person, or (ii) injury or death to any person on the Project and damage to property on the Project caused by the act or omission of Tenant or any employees, agents, owners, directors, or officers of Tenant, excepting from both (i) and (ii) above in this Section 14.1, any loss or damage caused by an act or omission of Landlord and/or Landlord’s management company, or any employees, agents, owners, directors or officers of any of the foregoing.

 

14.2 Landlord’s Obligation. Landlord shall hold harmless, indemnify and defend Tenant, its employees, agents, owners, directors and officers against all claims, demands and actions for loss, liability, damage, cost and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from injury or death to any person outside of the Premises and damage to property outside of the Premises caused by the willful act or negligence of Landlord, its employees, agents, owners, directors or officers while in, upon, or connected in any way with the Project during the term.

 

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15. Insurance Coverage.

 

15.1 Tenant’s Insurance Requirements. Tenant shall purchase, at its own expense, and maintain during the entire Term of this Lease and any extension Terms, insurance coverage as follows:

 

(a) Property Insurance. Property insurance covering risks of direct physical loss, including, but not limited to, loss occasioned by fire, extended coverage perils, leakage or overflow of domestic water appliances (including automatic sprinkler systems), and theft, covering the replacement cost of all of the personal property, fixtures and all leasehold improvements in or about the Premises (herein “Tenant’s Personal Property”). This insurance must be written on an “all risk” or “special form” policy form and must include an agreed-amount endorsement for no less than one hundred percent (100%) of the full replacement cost of the leasehold improvements in the Premises (new, without deduction or depreciation), must be written in amounts of coverage that meet any coinsurance requirements of the policy or policies, and must include vandalism and malicious mischief coverage and sprinkler coverage. This policy must be endorsed and the Certificate of Insurance must show:

 

Waiver of Subrogation in favor of Landlord.

 

Waiver of Subrogation in favor of Building’s Managing Agent.

 

Additional Insured Endorsement in favor of Landlord.

 

Additional Insured Endorsement in favor of Building’s Managing Agent.

 

(b) Commercial General Liability. Commercial general liability insurance on an occurrence form providing for bodily injury, property damage, independent contractors, products liability and completed operations, broad form contractual liability, broad form property damage and explosion, collapse and underground hazards, including liability coverage for Tenant’s invitees for any act or omission which may occur by or to any invitee in the Project, with limits of liability of:

 

$2,000,000 General Aggregate (per location)

 

$1,000,000 Products and Completed Operations Aggregate

 

$1,000,000 Personal and Advertising Injury Limit

 

$2,000,000 Each Occurrence

 

$50,000 Eire Damage

 

$5,000 Medical Expense

 

This policy must be endorsed and the Certificate of Insurance must show:

 

Waiver of Subrogation in favor of Landlord.

 

Waiver of Subrogation in favor of Building’s Managing Agent.

 

Additional Insured Endorsement in favor of Landlord.

 

Additional Insured Endorsement in favor of Building’s Managing Agent.

 

(c) Worker’s Compensation. Statutory worker’s compensation and employers’ liability coverage at limits of:

 

$500,000 Each Accident

 

$500,000 Each Employee by Disease

 

$500,000 Policy Limit by Disease

 

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(d) Umbrella Liability. Umbrella liability in an amount of at least $1,000,000 per occurrence.

 

15.2 Policy Requirements.

 

(a) Insurance policies required by this Lease shall:

 

(i) Be issued by insurance companies licensed to do business in the State of Texas, with general policyholder’s ratings of at least A and a financial rating of at least XI in the most current “Best Key Rating Guide” available on the date hereof; if the ‘Best’s” ratings are changed or discontinued, the parties shall agree to an equivalent method of rating insurance companies;

 

(ii) Provide that the insurance may not be cancelled or not renewed or materially reduced in the scope or amount of coverage unless thirty (30) days’ prior written notice is given to Landlord;

 

(iii) Have deductibles not greater than $10,000 (or such greater amount with the prior written consent of Landlord, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed);

 

(iv) Be primary insurance for all claims under such insurance and must provide that any insurance carried by Landlord or Landlord’s manager is strictly excess, secondary and noncontributing with any insurance carried by Tenant; and

 

(v) Be maintained during the entire Term and any Renewal Terms.

 

(b) By the Commencement Date and at least five (5) business days prior to each renewal of its insurance policies, Tenant’s insurance producer shall deliver certificates of insurance directly to Landlord, and not through Tenant. The certificate shall specify amounts, types of coverage, all additional insured endorsements, all loss payee endorsements, all mortgagee clauses, and all waivers of subrogation, and the insurance criteria listed in Section 15.2(a), above. The policies shall be renewed or replaced and maintained by the Tenant as herein provided.

 

(c) In the event Tenant fails to procure, maintain, and/or pay for the insurance required by this Lease, at the times and for the duration specified in this Lease, Landlord shall have the right (but not the obligation), at any time and from time to time, and without notice, to procure such insurance and/or pay the premiums for such insurance, in the event that Landlord procures such insurance or pays such premiums, Tenant shall repay Landlord, immediately upon demand by Landlord, as additional rent, all sums so paid by Landlord together with interest thereon and any costs or expenses incurred by Landlord in connection therewith, without prejudice to any other rights and remedies of the Landlord under this Lease, but Tenant will nevertheless be in default hereunder (such failure to be deemed an Event of Default) until Landlord is fully reimbursed for all such costs.

 

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15.3 Legal Use and Violations of Insurance Coverage. Tenant covenants and agrees with Landlord not to occupy or use, or permit any portion of the Premises to be occupied for any business or purpose which is unlawful, disreputable, or deemed to be extra-hazardous on account of fire, or permit anything to be done which would in any way increase the rate of fire or liability or any other insurance coverage on the Building and/or its contents. If Tenant does anything, or permits anything to be done, on the Premises which may or does cause the rate of fire or other insurance on the Premises or on other property of Landlord or of others within the Building to be increased beyond the rate which would otherwise have been from time to time applicable to the Premises or any other portion of the Project absent such action by Tenant, Tenant will have thirty (30) days after receipt of written notice from Landlord to remedy such conditions, and if it fails to do so, Tenant will pay, as additional rent, the amount of any such increase within ten (10) days after Landlord’s written demand. However, if Tenant takes any such action without the prior written consent of Landlord, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, such action shall constitute an Event of Default hereunder irrespective of whether Tenant pays such increase in insurance costs (after expiration of the notice and cure periods set out in Section 16 below).

 

15.4 Blanket Policy. Any insurance required of Tenant under this Lease may be furnished by Tenant under a `Blanket Policy” carried by it. Such Blanket Policy shall contain an endorsement that names Landlord as an additional insured, references the Premises, guarantees a minimum limit available for the Premises equal to the insurance amounts required in this Lease, and otherwise satisfy each and every policy requirement required for the insurance policies to be provided by Tenant as provided herein.

 

15.5 Landlord’s Insurance. Landlord shall, during the Term, insure the Project on a replacement cost basis in such amounts as Landlord may deem reasonably appropriate in its sole discretion, and the cost of such insurance shall be an Additional Expense hereunder. Landlord does not undertake any responsibility to insure any leasehold improvements. Landlord will, upon written request, provide Tenant with copies of insurance certificates for any such coverage.

 

15.6 Waiver of Claims and Subrogation.

 

(a) All insurance policies (other than worker’s compensation insurance) which Tenant must carry pursuant to Article 15 of this Lease shall contain one of the following provisions and/or endorsements (“Waiver Provision”):

 

(i) An express waiver of any right of subrogation by the insurance company against Landlord and its agents and employees; or

 

(ii) A statement that the policy shall not be invalidated should the insured waive in writing, prior to a loss, any or all rights of recovery against any party for losses covered by such policies.

 

(b) To the extent obtainable, Landlord’s property insurance policy covering the building shall also contain a Waiver Provision in one of the alternative forms provided in subsection 15.6(a), above. Any increased premium cost incurred by Landlord by reason of such Waiver Provision shall be paid by Tenant, provided, however, if Landlord is unable to obtain a waiver of subrogation from its insured, then any agreement to obtain such a waiver shall be null and void.

 

16. Default and Remedies.

 

16.1 Default by Tenant. Tenant shall be deemed in default (an “Event of Default”) hereof in the event Tenant should:

 

(a) Default in the prompt payment of Total Rent or any Additional Expenses when the same is due and continue in such default for ten (10) days after Tenant’s receipt of written notice from Landlord describing such amount; or

 

(b) Remain in violation of any other of the covenants to be performed by Tenant hereunder after the expiration of twenty (20) days following the receipt of notice of such violation, except if such violation is not reasonably capable of being cured within said 20-day period, then so long as Tenant has commenced to cure such violation within said 20-day period, then Tenant shall have an additional thirty (30) days takes to cure such violation provided that Tenant diligently pursues such cure to completion; or

 

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(c) Generally fail to pay its debts as they become due or admit in writing its inability to pay debts; or

 

(d) File a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, be adjudged bankrupt, be placed in or subjected to receivership, or make an assignment for benefit of creditors; or

 

16.2 Landlord Remedies. Upon an Event of Default, Landlord shall have the right to pursue any one or more of the following remedies without any notice or demand whatsoever:

 

(a) Landlord may terminate this Lease, or terminate Tenant’s rights (including, but not limited to, Tenant’s right of possession) under this Lease (but not Tenant’s obligations), and in either event Landlord shall have the right to immediate possession of the Premises and may reenter the Premises and remove all persons and property therefrom by any lawful means, without being guilty in any manner of trespass or otherwise; and any and all damages to Tenant, or persons holding under Tenant, by reason of such re-entry are hereby expressly waived; and any such termination or re-entry on the part of Landlord shall be without prejudice to any remedy available to Landlord for arrears of Rent, breach of contract, damages or otherwise, nor shall the termination of this Lease or of Tenant’s rights under this Lease by Landlord acting under this subsection be deemed in any manner to relieve Tenant from the obligation to pay the Rent and all other amounts due or to become due as provided in this Lease for and during the entire unexpired portion then remaining of the Term; and

 

(b) Without terminating this Lease, enter upon the Premises, by any lawful means, and without being guilty in any manner of trespass or otherwise and without liability for any damage to Tenant or persons holding under Tenant by reason of such re-entry, all of which are hereby expressly waived, and do or perform whatever Tenant is obligated hereunder to do or perform under the terms of this Lease; and Tenant shall reimburse Landlord on demand for any expenses or other sums which Landlord may reasonably incur or expend (), pursuant to this Subsection (c), and Landlord shall not be liable for any damages resulting to Tenant from such action, unless caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Landlord; provided, however, nothing in this subsection shall be deemed an obligation or undertaking by Landlord to remedy any such defaults of Tenant.

 

(c) Landlord may alter any and all locks and other security devices denying access to the Premises without notice; In the event that Landlord has repossessed the Premises as aforesaid or has elected to terminate this Lease by reason of Tenant’s default, Landlord shall not thereafter be obligated to provide Tenant with a key to the Premises at any time, regardless of amounts subsequently paid by Tenant; provided, that in any such instance, during Landlord’s normal business hours and at the convenience of Landlord, and upon receipt of a written request from Tenant accompanied by such written waivers and releases as Landlord may require, Landlord may, at its option, (1) escort Tenant or its authorized representative to the Premises to retrieve any personal belongings or other property of Tenant not subject to the Landlord’s lien or security interest described herein, or (2) obtain a list from Tenant of such personal property Tenant intends to remove, whereupon Landlord shall remove such property mid make it available to Tenant at a time and place designated by Landlord. In the event Landlord elects option (2) above, Tenant shall pay, in cash and in advance, all reasonable costs and expenses estimated by Landlord to be incurred in removing such property and making it available to Tenant, including, but not limited to all moving and/ or storage charges theretofore incurred by Landlord. If Landlord elects to exclude Tenant from the Premises without permanently repossessing the Premises or terminating this Lease pursuant to the foregoing, then Landlord shall not be obligated to permit Tenant entry into the Premises or provide Tenant with a key to re-enter the Premises until such time as all delinquent rental and other sums, including interest and late charges thereon, if any, due under this Lease have been fully paid, and all other defaults, if any, have been completely cured to Landlord’s reasonable satisfaction, and Landlord has been given. assurances by Tenant reasonably satisfactory to Landlord evidencing Tenant’s ability to satisfy its remaining obligations under this Lease. Landlord’s remedies hereunder shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any of its other remedies set forth in this Lease, or otherwise available to Landlord at law or in equity. It is intended that this paragraph, and the provisions herein contained, shall supersede and be paramount to any conflicting provisions of the Texas Property Code, as well as any successor statute governing the rights of landlords to change locks of commercial tenants; and

 

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(d) Pursuit of any of the foregoing remedies by Landlord shall not preclude pursuit of any other remedies herein provided Landlord or any other remedies provided by law, nor shall pursuit of any of the other remedies herein provided constitute a forfeiture or waiver of any Rent due Landlord hereunder or of any damages accruing to Landlord by reason of the violation of any of the terms, provisions and covenants herein contained. Forbearance by Landlord to enforce one or more of the remedies herein provided upon an Event of Default shall not be deemed or construed to constitute a waiver of such default.

 

In the event of termination of this Lease or of Tenant’s rights under this Lease by Landlord as provided in this subsection, Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to relet the Premises upon such terms, conditions and covenants as are deemed proper in Landlord’s sole discretion for the account of Tenant, and in such event, Tenant shall pay to Landlord all costs of renovating and altering the Premises for a new tenant or tenants (but not beyond returning the Premises to a shell condition) in addition to all brokerage and/or legal fees reasonably incurred by Landlord in connection therewith, and Landlord shall credit Tenant only for such amounts as are actually received from such reletting during the remainder of the Term. Alternatively, at the election of Landlord, Tenant covenants and agrees to pay as damages to Landlord, upon any such termination by Landlord of this Lease or of Tenant’s rights under this Lease, such sum as at the time of such termination equals the amount of the excess, if any, of the then present value of all the Rent which would have been due and payable hereunder during the remainder of the full Term (had Tenant kept and performed all agreements and covenants of Tenant set forth in this Lease) over and above the then present rental value of the Premises for said remainder of the Term. For purposes of present value calculations, Landlord and Tenant stipulate and agree to a discount rate of six percent (6%) per annum. In the event of termination or repossession of the Premises due to an Event of Default by Tenant, Landlord shall use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate its damages.

 

16.3 Landlord’s Lien. Tenant hereby grants to Landlord a lien and security interest in and on all personal property (excluding inventory) of Tenant now or hereafter placed in or upon the Premises or its common areas, and such property shall be and remain subject to such lien and security interest of Landlord for payment of all Rent and other sums agreed to be paid by Tenant. Such lien and security interest shall be in addition to and cumulative of Landlord’s statutory liens. The provisions of this paragraph relating to such lien and security interest shall constitute a security agreement under the Texas Business and Commerce Code, however any Landlord’s statutory or contractual lien rights of Landlord to Tenant’s personal property shall be automatically subordinate to any third party lenders having a purchase-money security interest or other interest in any such personal property of Tenant (“Superior Rights Holders”), and Landlord agrees to promptly execute and return within ten (10) days after receipt thereof, any documents reasonably requested by Tenant or any Superior Rights Holder to reflect the foregoing subordination of Landlord’s security interest in Tenant’s personal property as set forth in this Section 16.3.

 

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17. Bankruptcy of Tenant. If this Lease is assigned to any person or entity pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq., any and all funds payable or otherwise to be delivered in connection with such assignment shall be paid or delivered to Landlord, shall be and remain the exclusive property of Landlord, and shall not constitute property of Tenant or of the estate of Tenant within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Code. Any and all funds or other considerations constituting Landlord’s property under the preceding sentence not paid or delivered to Landlord shall be held in trust for the benefit of Landlord and be promptly paid or delivered to Landlord. Any person or entity to which this Lease is assigned pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code shall be deemed without further act or deed to have assumed all of the obligations arising under this Lease on and after the date of such assignment. Any such assignee shall upon demand execute and deliver to Landlord an instrument confirming such assumption.

 

18. Settlements of Disagreements. In the case of any and all claims or disputes arising between or among any two (2) or more parties in interest, if the parties in interest are unable to resolve the matter within a reasonable period of time, all of the parties in interest hereby agree to submit such claim or dispute to mediation in accordance with the rules and procedures set forth in Chapter 154 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as amended from time to time. The parties in interest hereby agree that all such claims and/or disputes will be submitted to mediation before any lawsuit is filed, or other formal action is taken, to resolve such claim or dispute by or through the litigation or arbitration processes; provided, however, that the provisions hereof shall not prevent any party from filing a lawsuit, or taking any other action, as may be necessary to preserve the legal rights of that party from impairment or extinction under any applicable statute of limitation, or other similar statue or rule of law. Each of the parties in interest hereby agrees to give the other parties in interest written notice of any claim or dispute which the parties in interest desires to submit to mediation under the procedures contained herein. Upon the giving of such written notice, the parties in interest shall first seek to agree on the person or persons who shall function as the mediator or mediators in connection with the mediation proceeding. If, after a reasonable period of time, the parties in interest are unable to agree on a suitable mediator, they shall request the judge of the Presiding District Court of Bexar County, Texas, to appoint a duly qualified mediator to conduct the mediation. The parties in interest shall bear equally the fees charged by the mediator and other associated costs of the mediation process. In connection with any such mediation, the parties in interest hereby agree to make a good faith effort to settle their disputes and resolve any claims through the mediation process. If, however, after a good faith effort to resolve any such dispute or claim through mediation, no settlement or resolution is achieved, the parties in interest shall be free to initiate litigation or to take whatever other action they may desire or deem appropriate in the circumstances, if the amount in controversy exceeds $20,000.00. If, however, the amount in controversy is $20,000.00 or less, the parties in interest shall submit their dispute to binding arbitration in accordance with the rules and regulations then currently published by the American Arbitration Association, except to the extent that the parties in interest are able to agree to alternative procedures. For example, notwithstanding the rules established by the American Arbitration Association, if the parties in interest can agree upon one or more arbitrators to decide their dispute, such arbitrator or arbitrators are hereby vested with the authority to hear and resolve the dispute or claim between the parties in interest in accordance with any rules and procedures agreed to by the parties to the dispute. In the absence of such agreement, or to the extent the parties cannot agree, the rules and procedures of the American Arbitration Association shall govern.

 

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19. Damage to Premises By Fire or Other Casualty.

 

19.1 Restoration of the Premises. In the event that the Premises are damaged by fire or other casualty, Tenant shall give immediate written notice of such damage to Landlord and to any mortgagee of the Premises whose address shall have been furnished it, and Landlord shall proceed with all reasonable diligence to commence and complete restoration of the Premises within one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of such damage, during which restoration period this Lease shall remain in full force and effect, except that Total Rent shall be reduced in proportion to the percentage which the area of the unusable portion of the Premises bears to the area of the entire Premises. Landlords obligation to restore the Premises shall be limited to the scope of Landlord’s original work and to the amount of insurance proceeds actually received, and Tenant shall be entirely responsible for the restoration of improvements by Tenant or Tenant’s personal property. In the event that the Premises cannot be restored within one hundred eighty (180) days of such damage, then either Landlord or Tenant may cancel this Lease effective upon written notice of such cancellation given to the other party.

 

19.2 No Restoration. Notwithstanding anything contained hereinabove to the contrary, in the event that any mortgagee of the Premises refuses to make the proceeds of Landlord’s insurance immediately available to Landlord for the restoration of the Premises, or in the event that such damage is the result of any casualty other than a casualty for which Landlord is required by this Lease to provide insurance, or in the event that the cost of such restoration is estimated to exceed eighty percent (80%) of the replacement cost of the entire Premises, then Landlord, at Landlord’s option, shall be released from the obligation to restore the Premises by giving notice of such and of Landlord’s election not to so restore, which notice must be given to Tenant within sixty (60) days of the date of the damage, in which event Tenant may terminate this Lease effective upon the date of destruction and receive a refund of any rents paid for the period of time after the destruction.

 

20. Environmental Matters.

 

The following definitions shall be used for the purposes of this Lease:

 

a. “Contamination” as used herein means the presence of or release of Hazardous Substances (as hereinafter defined) into any environmental media from, upon, within, below, into or on any portion of the Premises, the Building, the building common area or the Project so as to require remediation, cleanup or investigation under any applicable Environmental Law (as hereinafter defined).

 

b. “Environmental Laws” as used herein means all federal, state, and local laws, regulations, orders, permits, ordinances or other requirements, concerning protection of human health, safety and the environment, all as may be amended from time to time.

 

c. “Hazardous Substances” as used herein means any hazardous or toxic substance, material, chemical, pollutant, contaminant or waste as those terms are defined by any applicable Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq. (“CERCLA”) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq. [“RCRA”]) and any solid wastes, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea formaldehyde, asbestos, radioactive materials, radon, explosives, petroleum products and oil.

 

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1. Tenant covenants that all its activities on the Premises, the Building, or the Project during the Term will be conducted in compliance with Environmental Laws. Tenant warrants that to Tenant’s actual knowledge as of the date of this Lease that it is currently in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and that there are no pending or threatened notices of deficiency, notices of violation, orders, or judicial or administrative actions involving alleged violations by Tenant of any Environmental Laws. Tenant, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, shall be responsible for obtaining all permits or licenses or approvals under Environmental Laws necessary for Tenant’s operation of its business on the Premises and shall make all notifications and registrations required by any applicable Environmental Laws. Tenant, at Tenant’s sole cost and expense, shall at all times comply with the terms and conditions of all such permits, licenses, approvals, notifications and registrations and with any other applicable Environmental Laws. Tenant warrants that it has obtained all such permits, licenses or approvals and made all such notifications and registrations required by any applicable Environmental Laws necessary for Tenant’s operation of its business on the Premises.

 

2. Tenant shall not cause or permit any Hazardous Substances to be brought upon, kept or used in or about the Premises, the Building, or the Project by or at the direction of Tenant without the prior written consent of Landlord, provided, however, that the consent of Landlord shall not be required for the use at the Premises of cleaning supplies, toner for photocopying machines and other similar materials, in containers and quantities reasonably necessary for and consistent with normal and ordinary use by Tenant in the routine operation or maintenance of Tenant’s business operations, office equipment or in the routine janitorial service, cleaning and maintenance for the Premises.

 

3. Tenant shall not cause or permit the release of any Hazardous Substances by Tenant or its agents, contractors, employees or invitees into any environmental media such as air, water or land, or into or on the Premises, the Building or the Project in any manner that violates any Environmental Laws. If such release shall occur, Tenant shall (i) take all steps reasonably necessary to contain and control such release and any associated Contamination, (ii) clean up or otherwise remedy such release and any associated Contamination to the extent required by, and take any and all other actions required under, applicable Environmental Laws, and (iii) notify and keep Landlord reasonably informed of such release and response.

 

4. Regardless of any consents granted by Landlord allowing Hazardous Substances upon the Premises, Tenant shall under no circumstances whatsoever (i) cause or permit any activity on the Premises which would cause the Premises to become subject to regulation as a hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility under RCRA or the regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) discharge Hazardous Substances into the storm sewer system serving the Project; or (iii) install any underground storage tank or Underground piping on or under the Premises.

 

5. Tenant shall and hereby does indemnify Landlord and hold Landlord harmless from and against any and all expense, loss, and liability suffered by Landlord (with the exception of those expenses, losses, and liabilities arising from Landlord’s own negligence or willful act), by reason of Tenant’s improper storage, generation, handling, treatment, transportation, disposal, or arrangement for transportation or disposal, of any Hazardous Substances (whether accidental, intentional, or negligent) or by reason of Tenant’s breach of any of the provisions of this Paragraph 20. Such expenses, losses and liabilities shall include, without limitation, (i) any and all expenses that Landlord may incur to comply with any Environmental Laws as a result of Tenant’s failure to comply therewith; (ii) any and all costs that Landlord may incur in studying or remedying any Contamination at or arising from the Premises, the Building, or the Project; (iii) any and all costs that Landlord may incur in studying, removing, disposing or otherwise addressing any Hazardous Substances; (iv) any and all fines, penalties or other sanctions assessed upon Landlord by reason of Tenant’s failure to comply with Environmental Laws; and (v) any and all legal and professional fees and costs incurred by Landlord in connection with the foregoing. The indemnity contained herein shall survive the termination or expiration of this Lease.

 

6. Landlord shall have the right, but not the obligation, to enter the Premises at reasonable times throughout the Term upon no less than 24-hours’ prior written notice to audit and inspect the Premises for Tenant’s compliance with this Paragraph 20.

 

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20.1 Hazardous Substances. Tenant shall not generate, cause or permit to be released (whether by way of uncapping, pouring, spilling, spraying, spreading, attaching, leaking or otherwise) into or onto the Premises, or the Project, or the surrounding areas (including the ground and ground water thereunder and the sewer and drainage system therein) any hazardous substances (as defined or established from time to time by applicable local, state or federal law). The term “Hazardous Substances” includes, among other things, hazardous waste. Tenant shall immediately notify Landlord if any such release occurs, and, as to any such release that has been caused or permitted by Tenant: (i) Tenant shall immediately and entirely remove such released hazardous substance at Tenant’s expense, and such removal shall be in a manner fully in compliance with all laws pertaining to the removal and storage or disposal thereof; and (ii) Tenant hereby agrees to hold Landlord, Landlord’s mortgagee, Landlord’s management company, its offices, directors, employees and agents (“Landlord et. al.”) harmless of and from any liability, public or private, resulting to Landlord as a result of such release by Tenant and agrees to, and does hereby, indemnify Landlord et. al. from and against any expense or cost incurred by Landlord, of any nature whatsoever, which results, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from a release of a hazardous substance which is caused or permitted by Tenant. Further, Tenant shall, upon Landlord’s demand and at Tenant’s sole expense, demonstrate to Landlord (through such tests, professional inspections, sampling or otherwise as is, normally and customarily considered sufficient for the purpose) that Tenant has not caused or permitted any such release of hazardous substances. In addition to the foregoing, Tenant shall at all times be in full compliance with all applicable codes, regulations, ordinances and statutes, whether local, state or federal, including applicable environmental laws, such as, for example, the Emergency PIanning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986, or Rule 111, and any amendments thereto. Notwithstanding anything in this Lease to the contrary, Tenant shall have no liability in connection with the presence of any Hazardous Substances on, in or under the Premises, Building, or the Project, or the violation of any Environmental Laws, which was not otherwise caused by Tenant or its agents, contractors, employees or invitees. The provisions of this paragraph shall survive the expiration or termination of this Lease.

 

21. Eminent Domain.

 

21.1 Definitions. For purposes of this Paragraph 21, the following definition shall apply:

 

1. Eminent Domain Proceeding” shall mean any administrative or judicial proceeding in condemnation or any conveyance in lieu thereof to an entity with eminent domain authority.

 

2. Date of Taking” shall mean the date on which the first of any of the following shall occur:

 

a. Delivery of a conveyance document to an entity with eminent domain authority, conveying an interest in the Premises in lieu of condemnation;

 

b. The deposit or delivery of the Award of the Special Commissioner’s in a condemnation proceeding giving a right of possession to the condemning authority; or

 

c. The entry of a judgment in a condemnation proceeding conveying title in any portion of the Premises to the condemning authority.

 

3. Tenant Improvements” means real property improvements located within the Premises which remain the separate property of Tenant, including any cabling and removable trade fixtures (which remain the property of the Tenant as herein provided) in the Project. Tenant Improvements shall not include any improvements which become the property of the Landlord upon construction or installation (as provided hereinabove).

 

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4. Substantial Portion of the Premises” means (a) twenty percent (20%) or more of the ground floor square footage area of the Building, or (b) the permanent denial of all driveway access onto the abutting public streets and Landlord is unable to provide substitute space or driveway access within reasonable proximity to the Premises.

 

21.2 Whole, Permanent Takings. If the whole of the Premises shall be permanently taken in eminent domain, this Lease shall terminate as of the Date of Taking, and all rentals or other charges paid or payable by Tenant hereunder shall be prorated as of the Date of Taking. The total compensation paid by the condemning authority (minus the amount paid for Tenant’s leasehold improvements) shall be the property of Landlord, except for those amounts which Tenant is entitled to claim, provided that such amounts do not reduce Landlord’s award.

 

21.3 Partial, Permanent Takings. If a Substantial Portion of the Premises is permanently taken in eminent domain, the Landlord or Tenant shall have the option to terminate this Lease by giving written notice of such election to Landlord within thirty (30) days after the Date of Taking. In the event that Tenant exercises its option to terminate this Lease, all of the rental and other charges paid or payable by Tenant shall be prorated as of the Date of Taking

 

If less than a Substantial Portion of the Premises is permanently taken in eminent domain or if the Tenant elects not to terminate this Lease under a taking of a Substantial Portion of the Premises, then in either event the Lease shall continue in fill force and effect and the Total Rent thereafter payable for the remainder of the Term shall be reduced in proportion that the area of the Premises so taken in eminent domain shall bear to the area of the Premises immediately prior to the taking in eminent domain.

 

21.4 Temporary Takings. During any Temporary Taking of all or any portion of the Premises which taking is for a duration of ninety (90) days or less, Tenant’s obligation for the payment of Rent shall not diminish and Tenant shall be entitled to all compensation paid in eminent domain for the loss of use of the Premises. Landlord shall not make any grant of any Temporary Taking (of ninety (90) days or less) of any portion of the Premises without the consent of Tenant. In the event that any condemning authority contacts Landlord and extends an offer to acquire a Temporary Taking of any portion of the Premises for a term of ninety (90) days or less, Landlord shall immediately notify Tenant and permit Tenant to control the negotiations and dealings with the condemning authority.

 

In the event a Temporary Taking is for all or Substantial Portion of the Premises and is for a period of more than ninety(90) days, the Tenant shall have the right to terminate this Lease by giving written notice of its intention to terminate within thirty (30) days of the Date of Taking.

 

21.5 Procedure. Upon receipt of a written offer by any entity with eminent domain authority to purchase all or a portion of the Premises, Landlord shall inform Tenant of such offer and shall further promptly inform Tenant of any conveyance in eminent domain. Tenant shall permit inspection of the Premises by any agent or appraiser acting under the direction of the condemning authority and shall cooperate with Landlord in responding to reasonable requests for information regarding the condition or value of the real property which comprises the Premises. Landlord shall have complete control over decisions regarding the acceptance or rejection of any offer made in eminent domain and shall have complete control over the prosecution of any administrative or judicial proceeding in. condemnation.

 

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22. Holding Over. Should Tenant continue to occupy the Premises after the expiration of the Term hereof, whether with or against the consent of Landlord, such tenancy shall be at sufferance and under all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease, but at one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the Base Rent last charged Tenant during the Term or any renewal or extension thereof.

 

23. Subordination and Statement of Condition of Lease.

 

23.1 Subordination. Tenant accepts this Lease subject and subordinate to any mortgage presently existing or to hereinafter come into existence upon the Premises or upon the entire Project and to any renewals and extensions thereof, but Tenant agrees that any mortgagee shall have the right at any time to subordinate such mortgage to this Lease on such terms and subject to such conditions as the mortgagee may deem appropriate in its discretion. Any such subordination provided for in this Paragraph 23.1 shall be upon the express condition that: (a) upon foreclosure, exercise of power of sale or other exercise of the mortgagee’s rights, Tenant’s possession of the Premises shall not be disturbed so long as Tenant shall continue to perform all of the covenants and conditions of this Lease; (b) that Tenant’s obligation to perform such covenants and conditions shall not be in any way diminished thereby; and Tenant’s receipt of a subordination and non-disturbance agreement reasonably acceptable to Tenant and executed by the holder of any such mortgage upon the Premises or the Project.

 

23.2 Condition of Lease. Tenant shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to Landlord, without any charge, at any time within twenty (20) days after request by Landlord but not more than once per calendar year except in the event of a bona fide sale or financing event, a written statement or estoppel certificate as may be required by any mortgagee or purchaser of the Premises to the effect that to Tenant’s current actual knowledge without any duty to investigate or inquire, this Lease, as of said date, is unmodified and in full force and effect (or if there have been modifications, that this Lease is in full force and effect as modified), the date of commencement of this Lease, the date on which rental bas been last paid, and such other information as Landlord shall reasonably request. Any such statement by Tenant shall be used by Landlord for delivery to and reliance upon by prospective purchasers and lenders whose security will consist of liens upon the Premises and buildings of which the Premises are a part and shall not affect Tenant’s right to later assert any subsequent default or modification.

 

24. Signs. Tenant, at Tenant’s expense, may affix one sign to the exterior of the Premises in a location and size previously designated by Landlord and in accordance with local codes and restrictions. Such signs must meet Landlord’s reasonable requirements with respect to size, shape, construction, materials, design and color and must be approved in writing by Landlord prior to its installation by Tenant. Any additional signs may be approved by Landlord in writing at Landlord’s sole discretion. Landlord reserves the right to the use of the exterior walls and the roof of the Premises and the Building.

 

25. Security. Tenant, at Tenant’s own expense, shall provide whatever alarm systems which Tenant deems necessary and appropriate for the protection of the Premises and of Tenant’s fixtures, inventory and equipment located therein. In no event shall Landlord be responsible for the loss of or damage to any Tenant’s personal property, fixtures, inventory and equipment situated in the Premises, even though Landlord may have provided general area security or guard services. Tenant is expressly advised that if Tenant should place any fixtures, inventory and equipment within the Premises prior to the time the Premises are completed and delivered to Tenant; the risk of loss or damage to the same will be greatly increased in view of the fact that numerous people will, out of necessity, be permitted access to the Premises for the purpose of completing the same.

 

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25.1 Courtesy Patrol. Landlord may provide general area courtesy patrol services as required from time to time, in which event Tenant shall pay to Landlord, promptly after demand, Tenant’s pro rata share of the costs incurred by Landlord in having such services performed, such pro-rata share to be determined by the percentage which the square footage of the Premises bears to the total square footage of the building(s) benefiting from such services. Tenant is hereby notified that Landlord maintains no security with respect to keys and that Tenant may (at Tenant’s expense) change or re-key the Premise’s locks as deemed necessary by Tenant without Landlord’s consent. Upon default, Landlord may change or re-key the Premises locks without Tenant’s consent or notice to Tenant.

 

26. Brokerage Commissions. Tenant hereby represents and warrants to Landlord that Tenant has dealt with no broker in connection with this Lease except Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (“Tenant’s Broker”). Landlord hereby represents and warrants to Tenant that Landlord has dealt with no broker in connection with this except Leigh Ellis, Aquila Commercial and Trevor Lovelady Industrial Group Southwest (“Landlords Broker”). Landlord shall pay leasing commissions to Tenant’s Broker (the “Leasing Commissions”) pursuant to a separate agreement. Each party agrees to indemnify and hold the other party harmless from any claims, costs, or expenses arising due to a breach of the foregoing representation.

 

27. Financial Statements. Tenant shall submit to Landlord, from time to time but no more than once per calendar year, current financial statements and operating statements as are kept in the regular course of Tenant’s business. Tenant warrants and represents that all such financial information given to Landlord by or on behalf of Tenant is, or will be, as of their respective dates, to Tenant’s actual knowledge without any duty to investigate or inquire, true, complete and correct in accordance with Tenant’s regular accounting practices.

 

28. Parking. During the Term, Tenant shall be entitled to unreserved parking spots in the Project, at no cost to Tenant, in a location designated by Landlord. Upon request of Landlord, Tenant will furnish to Landlord a complete list of the license numbers of all automobiles operated by Tenant, its employees, subtenants, licensees or concessionaires. Landlord reserves the right to redesignate parking areas in the Project. Tenant shall not leave any vehicle in a state of disrepair, including without limitation, flat tire, out of date inspection stickers, or license plates on the Project. If Tenant or its employees, park their vehicles in areas other than the designated parking areas or leave any vehicle. in a state of disrepair, Landlord shall have the right to remove such vehicles at Tenant’s expense. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Landlord disclaims any obligation to enforce Tenant’s parking rights and. Tenant hereby releases Landlord from any such obligation.

 

Notwithstanding anything in this Lease or any rules and regulations to the contrary, Tenant may designate up to six parking spaces near Tenant’s primary building entrance for visitor parking and install signs indicating their reserved status. Tenant may designate up to four parking spaces as electric vehicle charge stations for Tenant’s exclusive use and install signs indicating their restricted status. Tenant may designate parking spaces in the rear of the building for Tenant’s exclusive use as mutually determined by Landlord and Tenant. Such spaces will be in that area intended for truck loading per the site plan. Tenant may paint parking stripes as needed to identify and delineate the parking spaces and may install signs indicating their restricted and reserved status. Landlord and Tenant acknowledge that Landlord agrees to the foregoing use of the parking area, but Landlord shall have no responsibility or obligation to patrol the parking area or enforce Tenant’s rights under this Section 28.

 

29. Miscellaneous.

 

29.1 Captions. The captions of the paragraphs contained in this Lease are for convenience only and shall not be deemed to be relevant in resolving any questions of interpretation or construction of any paragraph of this Lease.

 

29.2 Successors and Assigns. All of the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors and assigns, except that nothing in this provision shall be deemed to permit any assignment, subletting or use of the Premises other than as provided for herein.

 

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29.3 Applicable Law. This Lease shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas. Any judicial or dispute resolution proceedings between the parties based on, arising out of, or related to this Lease shall be conducted in Bexar County, Texas, and it is further agreed that all such parties stipulate and consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction over them in any proceedings based on, arising out of, or related to this Lease by state and federal courts located in Bexar County, Texas, and that venue of all such proceedings will properly and exclusively lie in such courts. Each number, singular or plural, as used in this Lease, shall include all numbers, and each gender shall be deemed to include all genders.

 

29.4 Time and Joint and Several Liability. Time is of the essence in each and every provision of this Lease, except as to the conditions relating to the delivery of possession of the Premises to Tenant. All the terms, covenants and conditions contained in this Lease to be performed by either party, if such party shall consist of more than one person or organization, shall be deemed to be joint and several, and all rights and remedies of the parties shall be cumulative and non-exclusive of any other remedy.

 

29.5 Non Waiver. No covenant, term or condition or breach thereof shall be deemed waived, except by written consent of the party against whom the waiver is claimed, and any waiver or the breach of any covenant, term or condition shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach of the same or any other covenant-term or condition. Acceptance of all or any portion of rent at any time shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any covenant, term or condition as to the rent payment accepted.

 

29.6 Withholding of Consent. It is expressly understood that Landlord shall not be liable for damages, even though withholding of the Landlord’s consent shall be found unreasonable, so that Tenant’s remedy in such event shall be limited to injunctive relief.

 

29.7 Entirety Clause. This Lease contains and embraces the entire agreement between the parties hereto, and it or any part of it may not be changed, altered, modified, limited, terminated, or extended orally or by any agreement between the parties unless such agreement be expressed in writing, signed and acknowledged by the parties hereto, their legal representatives, successors and assigns, except as may be expressly otherwise provided herein.

 

29.8 No Representations. Landlord or Landlord’s agent have made no expressed or implied representations or promises now or in the future with respect to the Building, the Project, or the Premises, except as herein expressly set forth, and no rights, easements or licenses are acquired by Tenant, by implication or otherwise, except as expressly set forth herein, and Tenant hereby waives any defects in the Premises or the surrounding common areas and any claim or cause of action based upon any warranty, expressed or implied, as to the suitability or condition of the Premises, the Building or the Project.

 

29.9 Limitation of Landlord’s Representative. Landlord’s representative, unless authorized by Landlord in writing, does not and will not have authority to (a) make exceptions, changes or amendments to this Lease, (b) waive any right, requirement, or provision of this Lease, or (c) release Tenant from all or part of this Lease.

 

29.10 Rules and Regulations. Tenant and Tenant’s agents, employees and invitees will comply fully with any reasonable rules and regulations including those on Exhibit “C” governing the operation and use of the Premises or the common service drives, parking areas, and railroad spur (if any) situated upon the Project which are hereinafter imposed by Landlord upon all tenants of the Project in order to preserve the rights and peaceful occupancy of all tenants of the Project.

 

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29.11 Notices. All notices or demands of any kind required to be given by Landlord or Tenant hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed delivered (i) upon hand delivery, (ii) one (1) business day following payment and deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, and (iii) forty-eight (48) hours after depositing the notice or demand in the United States mail, certified or registered, postage prepaid at the addresses mentioned previously, or such other address as shall be designated by either party in compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, or upon receipt if sent by email and delivery is confirmed or a hard copy is mailed, in accordance with the previous requirements, within one (1) business day of the delivery by email.

 

29.12 Force Majeure. For purposes of this Lease, the term “Unavoidable Delay” shall mean any delays due to strikes, lockouts, civil commotion, warlike operations, invasion, rebellion, hostilities, military or usurped power, sabotage, government regulations or controls, governmental actions, regulations, or legal requirements, including, without limitation, requirements of the City of Cedar Park, Williamson County, any utility company, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), or Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT); the discovery of any caves, sinkholes, endangered species or other environmental conditions subject to regulation by TCEQ, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Agency, or other applicable governmental agencies, inability to obtain any material, utility, or service because of governmental restrictions, hurricanes, floods, or other natural disasters, acts of God, weather delays, including, but not limited to, significant rainfall, freezing weather, or the effects of significant weather (i.e., muddy conditions that prohibit access to the worksite), or any other cause beyond the direct control of the party delayed (not including the insolvency or financial condition of that party or the increased cost of obtaining labor and materials). Notwithstanding anything in this Lease to the contrary, if Landlord or Tenant shall be delayed in the performance of any act required under this Lease by reason (other than the payment of Rent or any other monetary obligations) of any Unavoidable Delay, then performance of the act shall be excused for the period of the delay and the period for the performance of the act shall be extended for a reasonable period, in no event to exceed a period equivalent to the period of the delay.

 

29.13 Exhibits. The Exhibits referenced herein are attached hereto and incorporated and made a part of this Lease for all purposes.

 

30. Right of First Refusal,

 

30.1 Provided Tenant is not in default under the Lease, beginning on the Commencement Date, Tenant shall have a continuing right of first refusal (“ROFR”) to lease any space within the Building or the Project (the “ROFR Premises”), under the same terms and conditions as Landlord has agreed (subject to the ROFR Option) to lease the given ROFR Premises (the “ROFR Option”). Once the Building and the Project is fully occupied, the ROFR Option will not apply to any rights of existing tenants of the Building or the Project to lease or renew its current or additional space in the Building or the Project. or the Project

 

30.2 If Landlord plans to lease any portion of die ROFR Premises, Landlord shall promptly notify Tenant in writing of the rental rate and of all other material terms and conditions that Landlord has agreed with a third-party, subject to the ROFR Option, for a lease of that space, including any tenant improvement allowance, rental rate, and other terms (the “ROFR Notice”). Upon receipt of the ROFR Notice, Tenant shall have fifteen (15) days thereafter within which to elect to exercise its right to lease the ROFR Premises (the “Option Period”) by written notice of Tenant’s exercise of the ROFR Option to Landlord within the Option Period (the “Acceptance Notice”). If Tenant does not timely respond to the ROFR Notice within the Option Period, Tenant shall be deemed to have rejected the ROFR Option with respect to the tenant leasing such ROFR Premises (“ROFR Tenant”) and Tenant’s rights related to the ROFR Option shall thereafter be null and void with respect to that ROFR Tenant only, provided that Landlord and the ROFR Tenant enter into a lease for the ROFR Premises on the same terms and conditions as contained in the ROFR Notice. If Tenant exercises the ROFR Option by timely delivering the Acceptance Notice, Tenant and Landlord shall, within sixty (60) days after Landlord’s receipt of the Acceptance Notice, enter into an amendment to this Lease or a separate lease agreement that is substantially in accordance with the terms and conditions of the ROFR Notice; provided, however, that the term of the lease for the ROFR Premises will be co-terminus with this Lease and, to the extent it does not conflict with the terms and conditions set forth in the ROFR Notice, the lease of the ROFR Premises shall be otherwise substantially consistent with the form of this Lease and the terms and conditions set forth in this Lease.

 

30.3 Tenant’s decision to exercise or not exercise the ROFR Option shall have no effect on Tenant’s other obligations and rights under this Lease.

 

30.4 Tenant’s rights to the ROFR Option are personal to Tenant. Except with respect to a Permitted Transfer, Tenant may not, directly or indirectly, voluntarily or by operation of law, sell, assign, pledge, or otherwise transfer or hypothecate all or part of its ROFR rights without the prior written consent of Landlord, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

 

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EXECUTED this 5th day of February, 2018.

 

LANDLORD:   TENANT:
     
IGX Brushy Creek, LLC,   Hyliion Inc.,
a Texas limited liability company   a Delaware corporation
     
By: /s/ Ron W. Mills   By: /s/ Greg Van de Vere
  Ron W. Mills, Manager     Greg Van de Vere, VP Finance & CFO

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

PROJECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION

 

Lots 1 and 2, REPLAT OF BMC LUMBER SUBDIVISION NUMBER TWO, according to the map or plat thereof, recorded in Document No. 2013063845, Official Public Records, Williamson County, Texas.

 

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EXHIBIT A-1

 

PREMISES AND SITE PLAN

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

WORK LETTER

 

All references in this Work Letter to Articles or Paragraphs of “this Lease” shall mean the relevant portions of the Lease to which this Work Letter is attached as Exhibit B, and all references in this Work Letter to Sections of “this Work Letter” shall mean the relevant portions of this Work Letter.

 

1. Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:

 

(a) Tenant shall complete finished and detailed construction drawings for Tenant’s layout and finish out (except for Tenant’s Improvements) of the Premises, ceiling, telephone and electrical outlets, restrooms, finish schedule, and other work to be done by the Landlord (or Landlord’s contractors) hereunder (the “Construction Drawings”), in accordance with the preliminary plans attached hereto as Exhibit B-l.

 

(b) Landlord shall review and modify the Construction Drawings, as necessary, to include mechanical plans where necessary for installation of air conditioning system and duct work, heating, electrical facilities, and all other utilities, including the installation of meters or submeters for all utilities as may be required by Landlord.

 

(e) Landlord reserves the right to require the Plans (as defined herein) and the ensuing construction to (i) conform to a materials list and/or tenant finish package provided by Landlord and/or (ii) to meet building standard requirements.

 

(d) Landlord agrees to furnish to Tenant all information necessary for the preparation of the Construction Drawings within ten (10) business days following request by Tenant. Tenant will cause the approved Plans to be filed with the appropriate governmental agencies in order to obtain the Building Permit, in such form as may be required for construction and occupancy. Tenant shall use commercially reasonable efforts to submit the Plans to the appropriate governmental agencies no later than March 15, 2018, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the Building Permit no later than May 15, 2018. Any delay by Tenant in submitting the Plans by March 15, 2018 or obtaining the Building Permit by May 15, 2018 shall be deemed as a Tenant Delay (as defined herein), but shall not be considered a default by Tenant.

 

(e) Landlord shall approve or provide modifications to Tenant regarding the form of Construction Drawings. Landlord and Tenant shall mutually agree on the form of plans for Landlord’s Work, and the approved plans shall be known as the “Plans”, and the resulting documents necessary for construction of the Plans shall constitute the “Construction Documents”.

 

(g) Landlord shall designate engineers who shall complete, at Landlord’s initial expense, building standard construction of the Plans (“Landlord’s Work”), which shall include, but not be limited to:

 

i. _____________________;

ii. _____________________;

iii. _____________________;

iv. _____________________;

v. _____________________; and

vi. _____________________;

 

2. Any redrawing occasioned by Tenant after its prior approval, and any changes requested thereafter in plans and specifications, shall be at Tenant’s sole cost and expense and shall be subject to Landlord’s written approval.

 

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3. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Lease, the Premises shall be tendered to Tenant (or made available to Landlord’s contractors which may be performing the work) in their “AS-IS” condition at the time of such tender.

 

4. The term “building standard” shall mean standard build out finishes for premises leased in the Project as established by Landlord from time to time.

 

5. Landlord agrees to install, supply and otherwise undertake to do the work contemplated by the Construction Documents, at Landlord’s cost up to the amount of $36.50 per square foot of the Premises ($3,046,655.00) (the “Improvement Allowance”) utilizing a contractor chosen by Landlord; provided that Landlord shall require its contractor to obtain competitive bids from at least three (3) independent subcontractors for any costs in excess of $50,000. The selected contractor shall contract for such work directly with the Landlord. If Landlord (or Landlord’s contractors) agrees to perform at Tenant’s request and upon submission by Tenant of necessary plans and specifications, any additional work over and above the Plans or the Improvement Allowance, such work shall be performed by Landlord (or Landlord’s contractors) at Tenant’s sole expense. Prior to commencing any of the foregoing work, Landlord will submit to Tenant written estimates of the cost of any such work. If Tenant shall fail to approve any such estimates within ten (10) business days from the date of submission thereof in writing by Landlord, then same shall be deemed disapproved in all respects by Tenant, and Landlord shall not be authorized to proceed thereon. Prior to Landlord’s (or Landlord’s contractors) commencing any such work, Tenant shall pay to Landlord (or make financial arrangements acceptable in all respects to Landlord to pay for) the amount by which the approved estimated costs exceeds the Improvement Allowance.

 

6. Except where such entry would (in Landlord’s reasonable determination) cause difficulty, burden or interference with the construction of the any part of the Premises, Landlord will permit Tenant and its agents to enter the Premises prior to Landlord’s Tender (as hereinafter defined), in order that Tenant may perform, through its own contracts, such other work and decorations in the Premises prior to Landlord’s Tender; provided, however, this is conditioned upon (a) Tenant’s workmen and mechanics working in harmony and not interfering with the work progress of Landlord (or Landlord’s contractors) engaged in the performance of the work, (b) such workmen and mechanics being an approved contractor of Landlord prior to proceeding with the work, (c) such workmen and mechanics furnishing evidence of insurance acceptable in all respects to Landlord prior to proceeding with the work; (d) such workmen and such work otherwise complying with the provisions of this Lease; and (e) any work creating noise, vibrations, or odors shall be conducted during hours designated by Landlord. If at any time such workmen and contractors fail to meet these conditions, this license may be withdrawn by Landlord immediately upon notice to Tenant. Such entry shall be subject to all of the terms, covenants, provisions and conditions of the Lease, except as to the covenant to pay Rent. Landlord (or Landlord’s contractors) shall not be liable in any way for any injury, loss or damage which may occur to any of Tenant’s installations or decoration, even if the same is caused in whole or in part by the negligence (but not the gross negligence) of Landlord or Landlord’s Permittees.

 

7. The term “Landlord’s Tender” shall mean the date on which Landlord tenders the Premises to Tenant with the work contemplated by the Construction Documents substantially complete, as reasonably determined by Landlord obtaining a Certificate of Occupancy for the Premises, subject only to minor punch-list or corrective items; provided, however, that in the event any Tenant Delays are the sole cause of a delay in Landlord’s Tender, then the Commencement Date shall nevertheless occur as if there were no Tenant Delays. The existence of construction work in other portions of the Project shall not affect the determination of the date of substantial completion of the Premises. The term “Tenant Delays” shall mean delays in the design, engineering and construction of the leasehold improvements, or approval or submission of Plans, caused by Tenant, Tenant’s permittees, or caused by any engineer, architect, consultant, contractor, sub-contractor, materialmen, vendor or supplier of Tenant.

 

8. All work performed by Tenant shall be done in a manner which does not interfere with completion of any work being done by Landlord or other tenants or occupants of the Project or with the use of the Project by Landlord, other tenants, occupants or guests, and all such work shall be in compliance with all rules and regulations established by Landlord, any governmental authority, any insurance company insuring Landlord or Tenant, and otherwise in full compliance with the other provisions of the Lease. Tenant warrants that (i) all leasehold improvements by Tenant shall have been fully and finally completed, (ii) all of Tenant’s contractors, sub-contractors, materialmen, vendors and suppliers shall have been paid (as evidenced by full and final lien waivers and releases if required by Landlord), and (iii) all documents required by Landlord in connection with the construction of the leasehold improvements shall have been executed, completed, and received by Landlord, all to Landlord’s satisfaction, prior to the Commencement Date.

 

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EXHIBIT B-1

 

PLANS

 

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EXHIBIT C

 

RULES AND REGULATIONS

 

1. Tenant will refer all contractors, contractors’ representatives and installation technicians other than those performing routine or customary repair and maintenance services for Tenant to Landlord for Landlord’s supervision and written approval before performance of any such contractual services. Tenant, its agents or employees shall not mark, paint onto or cut into or in any way deface any part of Premises or Project without consent of Landlord.

 

2. Only signs that are approved by Landlord will be allowed on the exterior of the Project. No signs will be permitted on any outside window of the building or designating any exclusive parking spaces unless approved by Landlord.

 

3. Tenant shall not place, install or operate in any part of the Project any stove or cooktop surface without the prior written consent of Landlord, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

 

4. Landlord will not be responsible for any lost or stolen personal property, equipment, money, or jewelry from the Premises or Project.

 

5. No birds, dogs, cats or other animals shall be brought into or be kept in or about the Premises or common areas of the Project with the exception of aquariums of less than 10-gallon capacity.

 

6. Tenant, its agents, servants or employees shall not use the Project or Premises for housing, lodging, or sleeping purposes. .

 

7. Tenant may not park or store inoperable or abandon cars, trucks, recreational vehicles or trailers upon the common parking areas or vehicle loading areas without the written approval of Landlord. All cars, trucks, recreational vehicles or trailers which, in Landlord’s sole opinion, are unsightly or deemed to be a nuisance to other tenants and are not moved to a location designated by the landlord or removed from the Premises within three (3) days after Landlord’s written request for removal to Tenant may be removed from the Premises and stored at Tenant’s expense.

 

8. Landlord reserves the right to amend these Rules and Regulations and to make such other and further reasonable Rules and Regulations as in its judgment may from time to time be needed and desirable, so long as same do not substantially affect Tenant’s ability to conduct its business activities. Landlord shall notify Tenant of any changes in these Rules and Regulations by mailing amended Rules and Regulations to the Tenant’s notification address stated here in this Lease.

 

9. Tenant shall not allow the playing of tape recorders, records, televisions or radio at a volume which would disturb other tenants located within the Project.

 

10. Tenant shall not allow, cause, or permit to be caused, odors, fumes or gases to be emitted which are a nuisance to neighboring tenants.

 

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EXHIBIT D

 

SECURITY GUIDELINES

FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDING OCCUPANTS

 

In cooperation with the Texas Building Owners & Managers Association, the management would like you to be aware of some important guidelines for the safety of you, your employees, and your property. These suggestions have been approved by the Texas Police Association and the Sheriffs Association of Texas. We recommend that you consider following these guidelines, in addition to other common sense safety practices. You may want to distribute copies of these guidelines to your employees.

 

While inside Your Office…

 

1. Lock your office entry doors at closing time.

 

2. Keep office entry doors locked when any of your office employees are there after normal hours working.

 

3. Be careful to whom you give or lend your keys to your office.

 

4. Do not put markings on your office key to identify your name or address. Ask your employees who have office keys to make sure they are not identified as such on their personal key rings.

 

5. Evaluate the necessity of rekeying entry door locks when an employee resigns or is fired.

 

6. Keep the phone numbers for emergency medical services, police, and building security handy at each telephone station in your office.

 

7. Immediately report to the management office any needed repairs of locks, latches, doors or windows. 8 Immediately report to the management office any malfunction of other items affecting safety, such as burned out lights in stairwells, hallways and parking lots, etc.

 

9. Immediately report any suspicious persons or activity to the management office or building security.

 

10. Mark or engrave identification on valuable office equipment. Use security cables for computers. Keep purses in drawers, under desks or elsewhere out of sight.

 

11. If it is after dark and there are few persons in the parking lot, consider the advisability of having fellow employees escort ladies to their vehicles.

 

While in Your Car...

 

12. Lock your car doors while driving. Lock your car doors and roll up the windows when leaving your car parked.

 

13. Whenever possible, do not leave any visible items in your car such as audio tapes, wrapped packages, briefcases, purses, etc.

 

14. Do not leave your keys in the car.

 

15. Carry your key ring in your hand while walking to your car...whether you are at home, school, work or on vacation.

 

16. Consider recommending that all employees carry a small canister of tear gas or mace in their car or in their purse.

 

17. Whenever possible, park your car in an off-street parking area rather than on the street. If parking on the street, park close to any nearby street light.

 

18. Remember to check the back seat before getting into your car.

 

19. Do not stop at gas stations or automatic teller machines in questionable areas of town or at night if there is any suspicion of danger.

 

There is no such thing as a fail-safe security system. Even the most elaborate of security precautions (such as alarm systems, security guards, patrol cars and electronic gates) are not guaranties against crime. You should always proceed as if such security systems did not exist. All systems are subject to mechanical malfunctions, tampering, human error and personnel absenteeism. Owner makes no express or implied warranties of security. The best safety measures you can take are the ones you yourself can perform as a matter of common sense and habit. Please carefully consider and follow these safety suggestions and “help take a bite out of crime”.

 

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EXHIBIT E

 

RENEWAL TERM

 

Tenant, but not any assignee or subtenant of Tenant, is granted the option to extend the Term for one (1) consecutive extended term of five (5) years (the “Renewal Term”), provided (a) Tenant is not in default at the time of exercise of the respective option, and (b) Tenant gives written notice of its exercise of the respective option at least nine (9) months, but no more than twelve (12) months, prior to the expiration of the original Term. The Renewal Term shall be upon the same terms and conditions, except (i) Tenant shall have no further right of renewal after the Renewal Term, and (ii) the monthly Base Rent will be equal to the Market Rental Rate (as defined below). Tenant shall continue to be responsible for Tenant’s pro rata share of Additional Expenses during the Renewal Term, if exercised by the Tenant.

 

If Tenant exercises its option to extend the Term, as set forth herein, the Base Rent for the Premises throughout the Renewal Term shall be equal to the Market Rental Rate (as hereinafter defined) in effect at the commencement of such Renewal Term. For purposes of this Lease, the term “Market Rental Rate” shall be defined as the rate of annual base rent being charged to tenants whose renewal terms have commenced within the preceding six months, for terms of similar length for comparable space in comparably classed buildings in the Cedar Park market. Landlord shall reasonably determine the Market Rental Rate for the Renewal Term and give Tenant notice thereof within thirty (30) days following receipt of Tenant’s exercise notice (the “Rental Notice”). If Tenant shall dispute the proposed rental rate it shall notify Landlord in writing within ten (10) days following receipt of the Rental Notice (the “Dispute Notice”), and the parties shall negotiate in good faith for thirty (30) days to determine a mutually agreeable Market Rental Rate (“Negotiation Period”). If the parties cannot agree upon the Market Rental Rate and concessions within such thirty (30) day Negotiation Period, the Market Rental Rate shall be determined by a board of three (3) licensed real estate salesmen, one of whom shall be named by Landlord, one by Tenant, and the third shall be selected by the two so appointed. Each member of the board of brokers shall be licensed in the State of Texas as a real estate salesmen, specializing in the field of commercial office leasing in the business district in which the Premises is located, having no less than ten (10) years’ experience in such field, and recognized as ethical and reputable within the field. Landlord and Tenant agree to make their appointments promptly within five (5) business days after expiration of the thirty (30) day Negotiation Period, or sooner if mutually agreed upon. The three (3) brokers selected by Landlord and Tenant shall attempt in good faith to reach agreement on the Market Rental Rate. If the brokers so selected are not able to reach agreement on the Market Rental Rate within five (5) business days after the last such broker is appointed, each broker, within fifteen (15) days after the third broker is selected, shall submit his or her determination of said Market Rental Rate. The Market Rental Rate shall be the mean of the two closest rental rate determinations. Landlord and Tenant shall each pay the fee of the broker selected by it, and they shall equally share the payment of the fee of the third broker. If such determination shall not be concluded prior to the commencement of the Renewal Term, then the initial Base Rent for the Renewal Term shall be the rate proposed by Landlord in the Rental Notice, which rate shall remain in effect until a ruling is reached by the appointed brokers, and if the determination shall result in a lower rent, Tenant shall be entitled to a credit against the next succeeding installments of Base Rent due hereunder for such overpayment as it shall have theretofore made. If the determination shall result in a higher rent, Tenant shall within ten (10) days thereafter pay to Landlord the amount of the underpayment. Upon the determination of the Base Rent, Landlord and Tenant shall enter into an agreement supplementary to the Lease, as amended, setting forth the applicable Base Rent for the Renewal Term, but the failure to enter into any such supplementary agreement shall not affect the exercise of Tenant’s Renewal Term herein.

 

 

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Exhibit 16.1

 

October 1, 2020

 

Office of the Chief Accountant

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have read Hyliion Holdings Corp. statements (formally known as Tortoise Acquisition Corp.) included under Item 4.01 of its Form 8-K dated October 1, 2020. We agree with the statements concerning our Firm under Item 4.01, in which we were informed of our dismissal on October 1, 2020, following completion of the Company’s quarterly review for the period ended September 30, 2020, which consists only of the accounts of the pre-Business Combination Special Purpose Acquisition Company. We are not in a position to agree or disagree with other statements contained therein.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC

New York, New York