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Amendments to Article IV; Employee Benefits. Article IV of the Agreement shall be and hereby is amended as follows:

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• ERISA and Employee Benefits Matters (A) To the knowledge of the Company, no “prohibited transaction” as defined under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and not exempt under ERISA Section 408 and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan. At no time has the Company or any ERISA Affiliate maintained, sponsored, participated in, contributed to or has or had any liability or obligation in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA, or Section 412 of the Code or any “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or any multiple employer plan for which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or could incur liability under Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA. No Employee Benefit Plan provides or promises, or at any time provided or promised, retiree health, life insurance, or other retiree welfare benefits except as may be required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, or similar state law. Each Employee Benefit Plan is and has been operated in material compliance with its terms and all applicable laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred (including a “reportable event” as such term is defined in Section 4043 of ERISA) and no condition exists that would subject the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to any material tax, fine, lien, penalty or liability imposed by ERISA, the Code or other applicable law. Each Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Code Section 401(a) is so qualified and has a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS upon which it can rely, and any such determination or opinion letter remains in effect and has not been revoked; to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred since the date of any such determination or opinion letter that is reasonably likely to adversely affect such qualification; (B) with respect to each Foreign Benefit Plan, such Foreign Benefit Plan (1) if intended to qualify for special tax treatment, meets, in all material respects, the requirements for such treatment, and (2) if required to be funded, is funded to the extent required by applicable law, and with respect to all other Foreign Benefit Plans, adequate reserves therefor have been established on the accounting statements of the applicable Company or subsidiary; (C) the Company does not have any obligations under any collective bargaining agreement with any union and no organization efforts are underway with respect to Company employees. As used in this Agreement, “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; “Employee Benefit Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, including, without limitation, all stock purchase, stock option, stock-based severance, employment, change-in-control, medical, disability, fringe benefit, bonus, incentive, deferred compensation, employee loan and all other employee benefit plans, agreements, programs, policies or other arrangements, whether or not subject to ERISA, under which (x) any current or former employee, director or independent contractor of the Company or its subsidiaries has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or any of its respective subsidiaries or (y) the Company or any of its subsidiaries has had or has any present or future obligation or liability; “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; “ERISA Affiliate” means any member of the company’s controlled group as defined in Code Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o); and “Foreign Benefit Plan” means any Employee Benefit Plan established, maintained or contributed to outside of the United States of America or which covers any employee working or residing outside of the United States.

• Employee Benefits Matters promptly, and in any event within 5 days after a Responsible Officer becoming aware of any of the following, a written notice setting forth the nature thereof and the action, if any, that the Company or an ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto:

• Employee Benefit Plans and Related Matters; ERISA (a) Section 3.18(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth as of the date of this Agreement a true and complete list of the material Company Benefit Plans, including all Company Benefit Plans subject to ERISA. With respect to each such material Company Benefit Plan, the Company has made available to Parent a true and complete copy of such Company Benefit Plan, if written, or a description of the material terms of such Company Benefit Plan if not written, and to the extent applicable, (i) any proposed amendments, (ii) all trust agreements, insurance contracts or other funding arrangements, (iii) the most recent actuarial and trust reports for both ERISA funding and financial statement purposes, (iv) the most recent Form 5500 with all attachments required to have been filed with the IRS or the Department of Labor and all schedules thereto, (v) the most recent IRS determination or opinion letter, and (vi) all current summary plan descriptions.

• Certain Employee Benefits In the event that Acquiror discontinues any Company Benefit Plans for the benefit of Continuing Employees and replaces them with new benefit plans, programs or arrangements or Acquiror Benefit Plans, Acquiror shall, or shall cause its Subsidiaries to, cause each such plan, program or arrangement to treat such Continuing Employee in the same manner as similarly situated employees of Acquiror and treat the prior service with the Company of each Continuing Employee (to the same extent such service is recognized under any analogous plans, programs or arrangements of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time to the extent such a plan, program or arrangement is in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time) as service rendered to Acquiror or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, solely for purposes of eligibility to participate and for vesting thereunder (but not for purposes of benefit accruals under a defined benefit plan). To the extent commercially reasonable, Acquiror and its Subsidiaries will cause any and all preexisting condition limitations (to the extent applicable) and eligibility waiting periods, under any health plans maintained or adopted by Acquiror or its Subsidiaries in which Covered Employees are eligible to participate after the Effective Time, to be waived with respect to (a) Continuing Employees who, immediately prior to the Effective Time, participated in a Company- sponsored health plan and (b) their eligible dependents. Acquiror and its Subsidiaries will make commercially reasonable efforts to recognize, for purposes of any annual deductible and out-of-pocket limits under its existing or any new health plans, deductible and out-of-pocket expenses paid by Continuing Employees and their dependents during the calendar year in which the Effective Time occurs under the health plans of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Nothing in this Section 5.11 shall 61 61 prevent Acquiror from amending or terminating any Company Benefit Plans or Acquiror Benefit Plans (or its Subsidiaries) or any other contracts, arrangements, commitments or understandings, in accordance with their terms and applicable law; providing, however, that the arrangements identified in Section 5.11 of the Company Disclosure Schedule shall be administered as described therein. No Continuing Employee who participates in any Acquiror Benefit Plan as of the date of this Agreement shall be adversely affected by the provisions of this section 5.11, other than the preservation of the rights of Acquiror or its Subsidiaries to amend or terminate any Company Benefit Plans or Acquiror Benefit Plans or any other contracts, arrangements, commitments or understandings, as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence.

• Compliance with Employee Benefit Plans (a) The Company and each ERISA Affiliate have operated and administered each Plan in compliance with all applicable laws except for such instances of noncompliance as have not resulted in and could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the penalty or excise tax provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit plans (as defined in section 3 of ERISA), and no event, transaction or condition has occurred or exists that could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any such liability by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or in the imposition of any Lien on any of the rights, properties or assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, in either case pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or to section 430(k) of the Code or to any such penalty or excise tax provisions under the Code or federal law or section 4068 of ERISA or by the granting of a security interest in connection with the amendment of a Plan, other than such liabilities or Liens as would not be individually or in the aggregate Material.

• Compensation and Related Matters During the Term of the Executive’s employment, as compensation and consideration for the performance by the Executive of the Executive’s duties, responsibilities and covenants pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall pay the Executive and the Executive agrees to accept in full payment for such performance the amounts and benefits set forth below.

• Compensation and Employee Benefits SECTION 13.01.

• Employee Benefits and Labor Matters (a) Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists: (i) all “employee benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)), (ii) all Company travel policies and plans and employee reimbursement policies thereunder, (iii) all employment, consulting, non-competition, employee non-solicitation, or other compensation agreements, and all collective bargaining agreements, and (iv) all bonus or other incentive compensation, equity or equity-based compensation (including stock option, phantom stock or stock ownership), stock purchase, deferred compensation, change in control, severance, termination, profit-sharing, leave of absence, vacation, medical, life insurance or other death benefit, educational assistance, Section 125 cafeteria, dependant care, fringe benefit, pension and welfare benefit plans, policies, agreements or arrangements, in each case as to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to any current or former employee, independent contractor or director (collectively (i) through (iv), the “Company Plans”). Correct and complete copies of the following documents with respect to each of the Company Plans have been made available to Parent by the Company, to the extent applicable: (a) all plan documents and amendments thereto, (b) the two most recent annual reports on Form 5500 to the extent any such report was required by applicable Law, (c) the most recent summary plan description for each Company Plan for which such a summary plan description is required by applicable Law, (d) each currently effective trust agreement and insurance or group annuity contract and (e) the most recent favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service for each Company Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code. Each Company Plan (excluding any Company Plan which is a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA): (i) has been administered in accordance with its terms and (ii) is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Laws, except, in the case of (i) or (ii), for any instances of noncompliance that, individually or in the aggregate, would not have, or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

• Employee Benefit Plans and Employee Matters (a) Schedule 2.13(a) of the Disclosure Letter lists, with respect to Parent and any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is treated as a single employer with Parent (an “ERISA Affiliate”) within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code, (i) all “employee benefit plans” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), in which the Company’s employees or consultants participate or which the Company’s employees or consultants benefit from, (ii) each loan to an employee of the Company, (iii) all stock option, restricted stock unit, equity incentive, stock purchase, phantom stock, stock appreciation right, supplemental retirement, severance, sabbatical, medical, dental, vision care, disability, employee relocation, training, tuition assistance, cafeteria benefit (Section 125 of the Code), dependent care (Section 129 of the Code), life insurance or accident insurance plans, programs or arrangements in which the Company’s employees or consultants participate or which the Company’s employees or consultants benefit from, (iv) all bonus, pension, profit sharing, savings, severance, retirement, deferred compensation or incentive plans, programs or arrangements in which the Company’s employees or consultants participate or benefit from, (v) all other fringe or employee benefit plans, programs or arrangements that apply to the Company’s senior management and that do not generally apply to all employees of the Company and (vi) all employment or executive compensation or severance agreements, written or otherwise, as to which unsatisfied obligations of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries of greater than $1,000 remain for the benefit of, or relating to, any present or former employee, consultant or non-employee director of the Company or such Subsidiary (all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (vi), collectively, the “Company Employee Plans”). Correct and complete copies of all material documentation relating to the Company Employee Plans have been made available to Acquirer prior to the Agreement Date.

• Pension and Employee Benefits 4.1.23.1 Purchaser and each of its subsidiaries have complied in all material respects, with the terms of all agreements, health, welfare, supplemental unemployment benefit, bonus, profit sharing, deferred compensation, stock purchase, stock compensation, disability, pension or retirement plans and other employee or director compensation or benefit plans, policies or arrangements which are maintained by or binding upon Purchaser or such subsidiary or in respect of which Purchaser or any of its subsidiaries has any actual or potential liability (collectively, the “Purchaser Plans”) and with all applicable Laws relating thereto.