Duty of Care Indemnification. (a) To the fullest extent permitted by law, the General Partner and its Affiliates and their respective partners, members, managers, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and associates and, with the approval of the General Partner, any agent of any of the foregoing (including their respective executors, heirs, assigns, successors or other legal representatives) (each, a “Covered Person” and collectively, the “Covered Persons”), shall not be liable to the Partnership or to any of the other Partners for any loss, claim, damage or liability occasioned by any acts or omissions in the performance of its services hereunder, except to the extent that it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “Final Adjudication”) that such loss, claim, damage or liability is due to an act or omission of a Covered Person is due to an act or omission of such a Covered Person that constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. (b) A Covered Person shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by law by the Partnership against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by or imposed upon it by reason of or in connection with any action taken or omitted by such Covered Person arising out of the Covered Person’s status as a Partner or its activities on behalf of the Partnership, including in connection with any action, suit, investigation or proceeding before any judicial, administrative, regulatory or legislative body or agency to which it may be made a party or otherwise involved or with which it shall be threatened by reason of being or having been a Partner or by reason of serving or having served, at the request of the Fund General Partner, as a director, officer, consultant, advisor, manager, member or partner of any enterprise in which the Fund has or had a financial interest, including issuers of Portfolio Investments; provided that the Partnership may, but shall not be required to, indemnify a Covered Person with respect to any matter as to which there has been a Final Adjudication that such Covered Person’s acts or its failure to act (i) constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or (ii) were of a nature that makes indemnification by the Fund unavailable. The right to indemnification granted by this Section 5.7 shall be in addition to any rights to which a Covered Person may otherwise be entitled and shall inure to the benefit of the successors by operation of law or valid assigns of such Covered Person. The Partnership shall pay the expenses incurred by a Covered Person in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, investigation or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit, investigation or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the Covered Person to repay such payment if there shall be a Final Adjudication that it is not entitled to indemnification as provided herein. In any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder it shall be a defense that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7, and in any suit in the name of the Partnership to recover expenses advanced pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Partnership shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon Final Adjudication that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7. In any such suit brought to enforce a right to indemnification or to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of
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Duty of Care Indemnification. (a) To the fullest extent permitted by law, the General Partner and its Affiliates and their respective partners, members, managers, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and associates and, with the approval of the General Partner, any agent of any of the foregoing (including their respective executors, heirs, assigns, successors or other legal representatives) (each, a “Covered Person” and collectively, the “Covered Persons”), shall not be liable to the Partnership or to any of the other Partners for any loss, claim, damage or liability occasioned by any acts or omissions in the performance of its services hereunder, except to the extent that it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “Final Adjudication”) that such loss, claim, damage or liability is due to an act or omission of a Covered Person is due to an act or omission of such a Covered Person that constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. (b) A Covered Person shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by law by the Partnership against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by or imposed upon it by reason of or in connection with any action taken or omitted by such Covered Person arising out of the Covered Person’s status as a Partner or its activities on behalf of the Partnership, including in connection with any action, suit, investigation or proceeding before any judicial, administrative, regulatory or legislative body or agency to which it may be made a party or otherwise involved or with which it shall be threatened by reason of being or having been a Partner or by reason of serving or having served, at the request of the Partnership in its capacity as Fund General Partner, as a director, officer, consultant, advisor, manager, member or partner of any enterprise in which the Fund has or had a financial interest, including issuers of Portfolio Investments; provided that the Partnership may, but shall not be required to, indemnify a Covered Person with respect to any matter as to which there has been a Final Adjudication that such Covered Person’s acts or its failure to act (i) constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or (ii) were of a nature that makes indemnification by the Fund unavailable. The right to indemnification granted by this Section 5.7 shall be in addition to any rights to which a Covered Person may otherwise be entitled and shall inure to the benefit of the successors by operation of law or valid assigns of such Covered Person. The Partnership shall pay the expenses incurred by a Covered Person in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, investigation or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit, investigation or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the Covered Person to repay such payment if there shall be a Final Adjudication that it is not entitled to indemnification as provided herein. In any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder it shall be a defense that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7, and in any suit in the name of the Partnership to recover expenses advanced pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Partnership shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon Final Adjudication that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7. In any such suit brought to enforce a right to indemnification or to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden ofthe
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Duty of Care Indemnification. (a) To the fullest extent permitted by law, the General Partner and its Affiliates and their respective partners, members, managers, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and associates and, with the approval of the General Partner, any agent of any of the foregoing (including their respective executors, heirs, assigns, successors or other legal representatives) (each, a “Covered Person” and collectively, the “Covered Persons”), shall not be liable to the Partnership or to any of the other Partners for any loss, claim, damage or liability occasioned by any acts or omissions in the performance of its services hereunder, except to the extent that it shall ultimately be determined 15 by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “Final Adjudication”) that such loss, claim, damage or liability is due to an act or omission of a Covered Person is due to an act or omission of such a Covered Person that constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing. (b) A Covered Person shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by law by the Partnership against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by or imposed upon it by reason of or in connection with any action taken or omitted by such Covered Person arising out of the Covered Person’s status as a Partner or its activities on behalf of the Partnership, including in connection with any action, suit, investigation or proceeding before any judicial, administrative, regulatory or legislative body or agency to which it may be made a party or otherwise involved or with which it shall be threatened by reason of being or having been a Partner or by reason of serving or having served, at the request of the Fund General PartnerPartnership, as a director, officer, consultant, advisor, manager, member or partner of any enterprise in which the Fund AAA Associates has or had a financial interest, including issuers of Portfolio Investments; provided that the Partnership may, but shall not be required to, indemnify a Covered Person with respect to any matter as to which there has been a Final Adjudication that such Covered Person’s acts or its failure to act (i) constituted a bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or (ii) were of a nature that makes indemnification by the Fund AAA Associates unavailable. The right to indemnification granted by this Section 5.7 shall be in addition to any rights to which a Covered Person may otherwise be entitled and shall inure to the benefit of the successors by operation of law or valid assigns of such Covered Person. The Partnership shall pay the expenses incurred by a Covered Person in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, investigation or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit, investigation or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the Covered Person to repay such payment if there shall be a Final Adjudication that it is not entitled to indemnification as provided herein. In any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder it shall be a defense that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7, and in any suit in the name of the Partnership to recover expenses advanced pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Partnership shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon Final Adjudication that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7. In any such suit brought to enforce a right to indemnification or to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden ofof proving that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified, or to an advancement of expenses, shall be on the Partnership (or any Limited Partner acting derivatively or otherwise on behalf of the Partnership or the Limited Partners). The General Partner may not satisfy any right of indemnity or reimbursement granted in this Section 5.7 or to which it may be otherwise entitled except out of the assets of the Partnership (including, without limitation, insurance proceeds and rights pursuant to indemnification agreements), and no Partner shall be personally liable with respect to any such claim for indemnity or reimbursement. The General Partner may enter into appropriate indemnification agreements and/or arrangements reflective of the provisions of this Article 5 and obtain appropriate insurance coverage on behalf and at the expense of the Partnership to secure the Partnership’s indemnification obligations hereunder and may enter into appropriate indemnification agreements and/or arrangements reflective of the provisions of this Article 5. Each Covered Person 16 shall be deemed a third party beneficiary (to the extent not a direct party hereto) to this Agreement and, in particular, the provisions of this Article 5. (c) To the extent that, at law or in equity, a Covered Person has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Partnership or the Partners, the Covered Person shall not be liable to the Partnership or to any Partner for its good faith reliance on the provisions of this Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement, to the extent that they restrict or eliminate the duties and liabilities of a Covered Person otherwise existing at law or in equity to the Partnership or the Partners, are agreed by the parties hereto to replace such other duties and liabilities of such Covered Person. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or otherwise applicable provision of law or equity, to the maximum extent permitted by the Act, a Covered Person shall owe no duties (including fiduciary duties) to the Partnership or the Partners other than those specifically set forth herein; provided that (a) a Covered Person shall have the duty to act in accordance with the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and (b) the General Partner shall act at all times in good faith in the interests of the Partnership in accordance with section 4(3) of the Act. (d) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.7, the Partnership may, but shall not be required to, indemnify (i) a Retired Partner (or any other former Limited Partner) with respect to any claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses arising from any conduct occurring more than six months after the date of such Person’s retirement (or other withdrawal or departure), or (ii) a Limited Partner with respect to any claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses as a director, officer or agent of the issuer of the Fund Investment to the extent arising from conduct in such capacity occurring more than six months after the complete disposition of such Fund Investment by the Fund. (e) Each of the Covered Persons may consult with legal counsel, accountants and other experts selected by it and any act or omission suffered or taken by it on behalf of the Partnership or in furtherance of the interests of the Partnership, AAA Associates or the Fund in good faith in reliance upon and in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or other experts shall create a rebuttable presumption of the good faith and due care of such Covered Person with respect to such act or omission. (f) The General Partner shall be entitled to enter into one or more agreements and/or deeds on behalf of the Partnership to give effect to the indemnification provisions of this Section 5.7. ARTICLE 6
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Duty of Care Indemnification. (a) To the fullest extent permitted by law, the The General Partner (including, without limitation, for this purpose each former and its Affiliates present director, officer, manager, member, employee and their respective partners, members, managers, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and associates and, with the approval stockholder of the General Partner, any agent of any of the foregoing ) and each Limited Partner (including their respective executorsany former Limited Partner) in his capacity, heirsas such, assignsand to the extent such Limited Partner participates, successors directly or other legal representatives) indirectly, in the Partnership’s activities, whether or not a Retired Partner (each, a “Covered Person” and collectively, the “Covered Persons”), shall not be liable to the Partnership or to any of the other Partners for any loss, claim, damage or liability occasioned by any acts or omissions in the performance of its his services hereunder, except to the extent that unless it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (a “Final Adjudication”) that such loss, claim, damage or liability is due to an act or omission of a Covered Person is due to an act or omission of such a Covered Person that constituted a (i) made in bad faith violation or with criminal intent or (ii) that adversely affected any Fund and that failed to satisfy the duty of care owed pursuant to the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealingapplicable Fund LP Agreement or as otherwise required by law. (b) A Covered Person shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by law by the Partnership against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) incurred by or imposed upon it him by reason of or in connection with any action taken or omitted by such Covered Person arising out of the Covered Person’s status as a Partner or its his activities on behalf of the Partnership, including in connection with any action, suit, investigation or proceeding before any judicial, administrative, regulatory or legislative body or agency to which it may be made a party or otherwise involved or with which it shall be threatened by reason of being or having been a the General Partner or by reason of serving or having served, at the request of the Fund General PartnerPartnership in its capacity as Managing Partner of the Funds, as a director, officer, consultant, advisor, manager, member or partner of any enterprise in which any of the Fund Funds has or had a financial interest, including issuers of Portfolio Investments; provided provided, however, that the Partnership may, may but shall not be required to, to indemnify a Covered Person with respect to any matter as to which there has been a Final Adjudication that such Covered Person’s his acts or its his failure to act (i) constituted a were in bad faith violation of the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or with criminal intent or (ii) were of a nature that makes indemnification by the Fund Funds unavailable. The right to indemnification granted by this Section 5.7 shall be in addition to any rights to which a Covered Person may otherwise be entitled and shall inure to the benefit of the successors by operation of law or valid assigns of such Covered Person. The Partnership shall pay the expenses incurred by a Covered Person in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, investigation or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such such, action, suit, investigation or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by the Covered Person to repay such payment if there shall be a Final Adjudication that it he is not entitled to indemnification as provided herein. In any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder it shall be a defense that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7, and in any suit in the name of the Partnership to recover expenses advanced pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Partnership shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon Final Adjudication that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Section 5.7. In any such suit brought to enforce a right to indemnification or to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden ofof proving that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified, or to an advancement of expenses, shall be on the Partnership (or any Limited Partner acting derivatively or otherwise on
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