Fees of Shareholders' Agent. Any fees and other expenses of Samuxx X. Xxxxxxx (xx his successor) relating to the performance of his duties as Shareholders' Agent.
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Shareholders' Agent (a) At the Closing, Fortis Advisors LLC shall be constituted and appointed as the Shareholders’ Agent by virtue of the Company Shareholders’ execution of this Agreement or a Joinder Agreement and without any further action of any of the Company Shareholders or the Company. The Shareholders’ Agent shall be the representative, exclusive agent and attorney-in-fact for all purposes in connection with this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement, the Shareholders’ Agent Engagement Agreement and any agreements ancillary hereto and thereto for and on behalf of the Indemnifying Parties including without limitation to: (i) execute, as the Shareholders’ Agent, this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement and any agreement or instrument entered into or delivered in connection with the Transactions, (ii) give and receive notices, instructions and communications permitted or required under this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement or any other agreement, document or instrument entered into or executed in connection herewith, for and on behalf of any Indemnifying Party, to or from Acquirer (on behalf of itself or any other Indemnified Person) relating to this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement or any of the Transactions and any other matters contemplated by this Agreement or by such other agreement, document or instrument (except to the extent that this Agreement expressly contemplates that any such notice or communication shall be given or received by each Indemnifying Party individually), (iii) review, negotiate and agree to and authorize Acquirer to reclaim funds from the Escrow Fund in satisfaction of claims asserted by Acquirer (on behalf of itself or any other Indemnified Person, including by not objecting to such claims) pursuant to this ARTICLE 9, (iv) object to such claims pursuant to Section 9.6, (v) consent or agree to, negotiate, enter into, or, if applicable, contest, prosecute or defend, settlements and compromises of, and demand arbitration and comply with Orders of courts and awards of arbitrators with respect to, such claims, resolve any such claims, take any actions in connection with the resolution of any dispute relating hereto or to the Transactions by arbitration, settlement or otherwise, and take or forego any or all actions permitted or required of any Indemnifying Party or necessary in the judgment of the Shareholders’ Agent for the accomplishment of the foregoing and all of the other terms, conditions and limitations of this Agreement, (vi) consult with legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts selected by it, solely at the cost and expense of the Indemnifying Parties, (vii) consent or agree to any amendment to this Agreement or to waive any terms and conditions of this Agreement providing rights or benefits to the Indemnifying Parties in accordance with the terms hereof and in the manner provided herein and (viii) take all actions necessary or appropriate in the judgment of the Shareholders’ Agent for the accomplishment of the foregoing, in each case without having to seek or obtain the consent of any Person under any circumstance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Shareholders’ Agent shall have no obligation to act on behalf of the Indemnifying Parties, except as expressly provided herein, in the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement and in the Shareholders’ Agent Engagement Agreement, and for purposes of clarity, there are no obligations of the Shareholders’ Agent in any ancillary agreement, schedule, exhibit or the Company Disclosure Schedule. The Shareholders’ Agent shall be entitled to: (i) rely upon the Spreadsheet, (ii) rely upon any signature believed by it to be genuine, and (iii) reasonably assume that a signatory has proper authorization to sign on behalf of the applicable Indemnifying Party or other party. Acquirer and its Affiliates (including after the Closing, the Company) shall be entitled to rely on the appointment of Fortis Advisors LLC as the Shareholders’ Agent, or any subsequent appointee, and treat such Shareholders’ Agent as the duly appointed attorney-in-fact of each Indemnifying Party and as having the duties, power and authority provided for in this Section 9.7. The Indemnifying Parties and their successors shall be bound by all actions taken and documents executed by the Shareholders’ Agent in accordance with this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement the Paying Agent Agreement or the Shareholders’ Agent Engagement Agreement as if expressly confirmed and ratified in writing by the Indemnifying Parties, all defenses which may be available to any Indemnifying Party to contest, negate or disaffirm the action of the Shareholders’ Agent taken in good faith under this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or the Shareholders’ Agent Engagement Agreement are waived, and Acquirer and the other Indemnified Persons shall be entitled to rely exclusively on any action or decision of the Shareholders’ Agent. The powers, immunities and rights to indemnification granted to the Shareholders’ Agent Group hereunder: (i) are coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and survive the death, incompetence, bankruptcy or liquidation of any Indemnifying Party and shall be binding on any successor thereto, and (ii) shall survive the delivery of an assignment by any Indemnifying Party of the whole or any fraction of his, her or its interest in the Escrow Fund. The Shareholders’ Agent may resign at any time. The Person serving as the Shareholders’ Agent may be removed or replaced from time to time, or if such Person resigns from its position as the Shareholders’ Agent, then a successor may be appointed, by the holders of a majority in interest of the aggregate amount of cash then held in the Escrow Fund (or, in the event that there is no cash then held in the Escrow Fund by the Indemnifying Parties collectively having an Pro Rata Share greater than 50%) upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice to Acquirer. No bond shall be required of the Shareholders’ Agent.
Stockholders’ Agent By virtue of their approval of the Merger, the Stockholders irrevocably appoint Kevix X'Xxxxx xx their agent in connection with the transactions contemplated by Section 9 of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement (the "Stockholders' Agent"), and Kevix X'Xxxxx xxxeby accepts his appointment as the Stockholders' Agent. Parent shall be entitled to deal with the Stockholders' Agent on all matters relating to Section 9 and the Escrow Agreement, and shall be entitled to rely on any document executed or purported to be executed on behalf of the Stockholder Indemnitors by the Stockholders' Agent, and on any other action taken or purported to be taken on behalf of the Stockholder Indemnitors by the Stockholders' Agent, as fully binding upon such Stockholder Indemnitor. If the Stockholders' Agent shall die, become disabled or otherwise be unable to fulfill his responsibilities as agent of the Stockholder Indemnitors, then the Stockholder Indemnitors shall, within ten days after such death or disability, appoint a successor agent and, promptly thereafter, shall notify Parent of the identity of such successor. Any such successor shall become the "Stockholders' Agent" for purposes of this Section 10.1. If for any reason there is no Stockholders' Agent at any time, all references herein to the Stockholders' Agent shall be deemed to refer to the Stockholder Indemnitors.
Shareholders’ Representative Each of the Selling Shareholders (including the Former Company Share Award Holders), by virtue of its, his or her execution and delivery of this Agreement (directly, by proxy or pursuant to a power of attorney), hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints Xxxxx Xxxxx, a Principal and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company as of the date of this Agreement (the “Shareholders Representative”), to be such Selling Shareholder’s true and lawful representative, agent and attorney-in-fact to act on such Selling Shareholder’s behalf with respect to any actions permitted to be taken by such Selling Shareholder, or any of them, after the date of this Agreement in connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents. In such representative capacity, the Shareholders Representative shall take or refrain from taking, and the Selling Shareholders each agree that the Shareholders Representatives may take or refrain from taking, any and all actions which the Shareholders Representative reasonably believes, acting in good faith, to be necessary or appropriate under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (except as provided above) for and on behalf of the Selling Shareholders, as fully and effectively as if the Selling Shareholders were acting on their own behalf. Each reference in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to an action to be taken by the Selling Shareholders shall, with respect to the Selling Shareholders, be taken by the Shareholders Representative on their behalf pursuant to this Section 7.18. Each Selling Shareholder hereby ratifies and confirms, and agrees to ratify and confirm in the future upon the request of the Shareholders Representative, any action taken by the Shareholders Representative in the exercise of the agency and power of attorney granted to the Shareholders Representative pursuant to this Section 7.18, which agency and power of attorney, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable and a durable agency and power of attorney and shall survive the death, incapacity or incompetence of such Selling Shareholder. Each of Purchaser and the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon the directions, instructions and notice of the Shareholders Representative, when it is acting in their capacity as such under this Section 7.18, without being required to undertake any independent investigation or verification, and any notice provided in accordance with this Agreement to or from the Shareholders Representative in its capacity as such shall be conclusively deemed to have been provided to or from each of the Selling Shareholders, as applicable. The Shareholders Representative shall not have any liability to any of the Selling Shareholders arising out of or relating to any action taken or omission made in good faith by the Shareholders Representative (in its capacity as such) pursuant to this Agreement, and each Selling Shareholder shall, severally but not jointly, indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Shareholders Representative with respect to all actions so taken or omissions made on behalf of such Selling Shareholder up to the net proceeds received by such Selling Shareholder in connection with the Transactions.
Rights of Shareholder Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or the Plan, Participant shall have, with respect to the shares of Restricted Stock awarded hereunder, all of the rights of a shareholder of the Company, including the right to vote the shares and the right to receive any dividends as declared by the Company’s Board of Directors.
Approval of Shareholders The Trust will call a special meeting of the Acquired Fund Shareholders to consider and act upon this Agreement and to take all other appropriate action necessary to obtain approval of the transactions contemplated herein.
Rights of Shareholders The Shares shall be personal property giving only the rights in this Declaration specifically set forth. The ownership of the Trust Property of every description and the right to conduct any business herein before described are vested exclusively in the Trustees, and the Shareholders shall have no interest therein other than the beneficial interest conferred by their Shares, and they shall have no right to call for any partition or division of any property, profits, rights or interests of the Trust nor can they be called upon to share or assume any losses of the Trust or, subject to the right of the Trustees to charge certain expenses directly to Shareholders, as provided in the last sentence of Section 3.8, suffer an assessment of any kind by virtue of their ownership of Shares. The Shares shall not entitle the holder to preference, preemptive, appraisal, conversion or exchange rights (except as specified in this Section 6.3, in Section 11.4 or as specified by the Trustees when creating the Shares, as in preferred shares).
Special Meetings of Shareholders Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of Shareholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Trust’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Trustees may be made at a special meeting of Shareholders at which trustees are to be elected (i) pursuant to the Trust’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto), (ii) by or at the direction of the Trustees or any committee thereof or (iii) provided that the Trustees have determined that trustees shall be elected at such special meeting, by any Shareholder of the Trust who is a Shareholder of record both at the time the notice provided for in this Section 3.8(b) is delivered to the Secretary and at the time of the special meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complied with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.8(b). In the event the Trust calls a special meeting of Shareholders for the purpose of electing one or more Trustees, any such Shareholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position as specified in the Trust’s notice of meeting, if the Shareholder’s notice containing the information required by paragraph (a)(2) of this Section 3.8 shall have been delivered to the Secretary at the principal offices of the Trust not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such special meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and the nominees proposed by the Trustees to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of a special meeting to a later date or time commence a new time period for the giving of a Shareholder’s notice as described above.
Meetings of Shareholders The Trust shall hold annual meetings of the Shareholders (provided that the Trust's initial annual meeting of Shareholders may occur up to one year after the completion of its initial fiscal year). A special meeting of Shareholders may be called at any time by a majority of the Trustees or the President and shall be called by any Trustee for any proper purpose upon written request of Shareholders of the Trust holding in the aggregate not less than 51% of the outstanding Shares of the Trust or class or series of Shares having voting rights on the matter, such request specifying the purpose or purposes for which such meeting is to be called. Any shareholder meeting, including a Special Meeting, shall be held within or without the State of Delaware on such day and at such time as the Trustees shall designate.
Trustees, Shareholders, etc Not Personally Liable; Notice. All persons extending credit to, contracting with or having any claim against the Trust or any Series or class shall look only to the assets of the Trust, or, to the extent that the liability of the Trust may have been expressly limited by contract to the assets of a particular Series or attributable to a particular class, only to the assets belonging to the relevant Series or attributable to the relevant class, for payment under such credit, contract or claim; and neither the Shareholders nor the Trustees, nor any of the Trust's officers, employees or agents, whether past, present or future, shall be personally liable therefor. Nothing in this Declaration of Trust shall protect any Trustee against any liability to which such Trustee would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of the office of Trustee. Every note, bond, contract, instrument, certificate or undertaking made or issued on behalf of the Trust by the Trustees, by any officer or officers or otherwise shall give notice that this Declaration of Trust is on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and shall recite that the same was executed or made by or on behalf of the Trust or by them as Trustee or Trustees or as officer or officers or otherwise and not individually and that the obligations of such instrument are not binding upon any of them or the Shareholders individually but are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust or upon the assets belonging to the Series or attributable to the class for the benefit of which the Trustees have caused the note, bond, contract, instrument, certificate or undertaking to be made or issued, and may contain such further recital as he or she or they may deem appropriate, but the omission of any such recital shall not operate to bind any Trustee or Trustees or officer or officers or Shareholders or any other person individually.
Shareholder Representative (a) By the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any letter of transmittal, including counterparts thereof, each of the Shareholders of the Company Group will irrevocably constitute and appoint the Shareholder Representative as the true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact of such Shareholder with full powers of substitution to act in the name, place and stead of such Shareholder with respect to the performance on behalf of such Shareholder under the terms and provisions hereof and to do or refrain from doing all such further acts and things, and to execute all such documents, as the Shareholder Representative shall deem necessary or appropriate in connection with any transaction contemplated hereunder, including the power to: (i) act for such Shareholder with respect to the Indemnification Escrow Amount; (ii) amend, modify or waive any provision of the Transaction Documents in any manner; (iii) employ, obtain and rely upon the advice of legal counsel, accountants and other professional advisors as the Shareholder Representative, in the sole discretion thereof, deems necessary or advisable in the performance of the duties of the Shareholder Representative; (iv) act for such Shareholder with respect to all Purchase Price matters referred to herein; (v) incur any expenses, liquidate and withhold assets received on behalf of such Shareholder prior to their distribution to such Shareholder to the extent of any amount that the Shareholder Representative deems necessary for payment of or as a reserve against expenses, and pay such expenses or deposit the same in an interest-bearing bank account established for such purpose, with all such expenses reimbursed to the Shareholder Representative out of amounts received out of the Indemnification Escrow Amount, or if no amounts are received, by reimbursement from the Shareholders in accordance with their pro rata percentage ownership; (vi) receive all notices, communications and deliveries hereunder on behalf of such Shareholder; (vii) do or refrain from doing any further act or deed on behalf of such Shareholder that the Shareholder Representative deems necessary or appropriate, in the sole discretion of the Shareholder Representative, relating to the subject matter hereof as fully and completely as such Shareholder could do if personally present and acting and as though any reference to such Shareholder herein was a reference to the Shareholder Representative; or (viii) direct, authorize or permit any third party paying agent, if applicable, to take any of the foregoing actions; provided, however, that the Shareholder Representative shall have no obligation to act, except as expressly provided herein.
