Indemnification; Advancement. The Company and the Subsidiaries shall jointly and severally reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold the Consultant Indemnitees, and each of them, harmless from and against any Liabilities arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with (a) any act or omission of, or on behalf of, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, the Consultant or any of the Consultant Indemnitees, except to the extent proven to result directly and primarily from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the person seeking indemnification, or (b) any act or omission made at the direction of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (collectively, the items in (a) and (b) above, “Claims”). The Company, the Subsidiaries and any of their affiliates (other than the Consultant Indemnitees) shall jointly and severally defend at their own cost and expense any and all suits or actions (just or unjust) which may be brought against the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of their affiliates, or any Consultant Indemnitee or in which any Consultant Indemnitee may be impleaded with others upon any Claims, or upon any matter, directly or indirectly arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with this Agreement or the performance (or failure of performance) hereof by any Consultant Indemnitee. Reasonable expenses incurred by a Consultant Indemnitee entitled to be indemnified under this Section 6 who was, is or is threatened to be made subject to a Claim shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Claim upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such Consultant Indemnitee to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he, she or it is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company and the Subsidiaries. If the Company has acknowledged in writing its indemnification obligations hereunder with respect to a Claim and is actively defending a Claim, a Consultant Indemnitee shall not be entitled to reimbursement of expenses related to the engagement of separate legal counsel with respect to such Claim unless Consultant Indemnitee, in good faith upon the advice of counsel, believes a conflict of interest necessitates the engagement of such legal counsel. Neither Party may settle any Claim without the consent of the other Party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company hereby acknowledges that the Consultant Indemnities have certain rights to advancement and/or indemnification by certain affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees that the Company is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Consultant Indemnitees are primary and those of the Fund Indemnitors are secondary), that the Company shall be liable for the full amount of payments of indemnification required by any organizational document of such entity or any agreement to which such entity is a party, and that the Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives any claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement or any other recovery of any kind for which it is liable pursuant to any organizational document or agreement including this Agreement. The Company further agrees that no payment for indemnification by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of any Indemnified Party with respect to any claim for which an Indemnified Party has sought payment from it shall affect the foregoing, and the Fund Indemnitors, to the extent of such payment, shall be subrogated to all of the rights of recovery of such Indemnified Party against it.
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Samples: Consulting Agreement (Vince Holding Corp.), Consulting Agreement (Apparel Holding Corp.)
Indemnification; Advancement. The Company and the Subsidiaries shall jointly and severally reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold the Consultant Indemnitees, and each of them, harmless from and against any Liabilities arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with (a) any act or omission of, or on behalf of, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, the Consultant or any of the Consultant Indemnitees, except to the extent proven to result directly and primarily from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the person seeking indemnification, or (b) any act or omission made at the direction of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (collectively, the items in (a) and (b) above, “Claims”). The Company, the Subsidiaries and any of their affiliates (other than the Consultant Indemnitees) shall jointly and severally defend at their own cost and expense any and all suits or actions (just or unjust) which may be brought against the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of their affiliates, or any Consultant Indemnitee or in which any Consultant Indemnitee may be impleaded with others upon any Claims, or upon any matter, directly or indirectly arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with this Agreement or the performance (or failure of performance) hereof by any Consultant Indemnitee. Reasonable expenses incurred by a Consultant Indemnitee entitled to be indemnified under this Section 6 7 who was, is or is threatened to be made subject to a Claim shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Claim upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such Consultant Indemnitee to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he, she or it is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company and the Subsidiaries. If the Company has acknowledged in writing its indemnification obligations hereunder with respect to a Claim and is actively defending a Claim, a Consultant Indemnitee shall not be entitled to reimbursement of expenses related to the engagement of separate legal counsel with respect to such Claim unless Consultant Indemnitee, in good faith upon the advice of counsel, believes a conflict of interest necessitates the engagement of such legal counsel. Neither Party may settle any Claim without the consent of the other Party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company and each Subsidiary who is a guarantor hereto (a “Subsidiary Guarantor”) hereby acknowledges that the Consultant Indemnities have certain rights to advancement and/or indemnification by certain affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Consultant Indemnitees are primary and those of the Fund Indemnitors are secondary), that the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be liable for the full amount of payments of indemnification required by any organizational document of such entity or any agreement to which such entity is a party, and that the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally waives any claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement or any other recovery of any kind for which it is liable pursuant to any organizational document or agreement including this Agreement. The Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that no payment for indemnification by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of any Indemnified Party with respect to any claim for which an Indemnified Party has sought payment from it shall affect the foregoing, and the Fund Indemnitors, to the extent of such payment, shall be subrogated to all of the rights of recovery of such Indemnified Party against it.
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Indemnification; Advancement. (a) The Company and the Subsidiaries shall jointly and severally reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold the Consultant Indemnitees, and each of them, harmless from and against any Liabilities arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with (a) any act or omission of, or on behalf of, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, the Consultant or any of the Consultant Indemnitees, except to the extent proven such Liability shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to result have resulted directly and primarily from the fraud, bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct or gross negligence of the person seeking indemnification, or (b) any act or omission made at the direction of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (collectively, the items in (a) and (b) above, “Claims”). The Company, Company and the Subsidiaries and any of their affiliates (other than the Consultant Indemnitees) shall jointly and severally defend at their own cost and expense any and all suits or actions (just or unjust) which may be brought against the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of their affiliates, or any Consultant Indemnitee or in which any Consultant Indemnitee may be impleaded with others upon any Claims, or upon any matter, directly or indirectly arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with this Agreement Agreement, the Services or the performance (or failure of performance) hereof by any Consultant Indemnitee. Reasonable expenses incurred by a Consultant Indemnitee entitled to be indemnified under this Section 6 who was, is or is threatened to be made subject to a Claim shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Claim upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such Consultant Indemnitee to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he, she or it is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company and the Subsidiaries. If the Company has acknowledged in writing its indemnification obligations hereunder with respect to a Claim and is actively defending a Claim, a Consultant Indemnitee shall not be entitled to reimbursement of expenses related to the engagement of separate legal counsel with respect to such Claim unless Consultant Indemnitee, in good faith upon the advice of counsel, believes a conflict of interest necessitates the engagement of such legal counsel. Neither Party may settle any Claim without the consent of the other Party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayedSubsidiaries as set forth herein. The Company hereby acknowledges that the Consultant Indemnities Indemnitees have certain rights to advancement and/or indemnification by certain affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. Consultant (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees (for itself and the Subsidiaries) that the Company is and the Subsidiaries are the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its each such person’s respective obligations to the Consultant Indemnitees are primary and those of the Fund Indemnitors are secondary), that the Company shall be and the Subsidiaries are liable for the full amount of payments of indemnification required by any organizational document of such entity or any agreement to which such entity is a party, and that the Company (for itself and the Subsidiaries) irrevocably and unconditionally waives any claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement or any other recovery of any kind for which it is liable pursuant to any organizational document or agreement including this Agreement. The Company (for itself and the Subsidiaries) further agrees that no payment for indemnification by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of any Indemnified Party Consultant Indemnitee with respect to any claim for which an Indemnified Party a Consultant Indemnitee has sought payment from it shall affect the foregoing, and the Fund Indemnitors, to the extent of such payment, shall be subrogated to all of the rights of recovery of such Indemnified Party Consultant Indemnitee against it.
(b) The Consultant shall reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold the Company and the Subsidiaries harmless from and against any Liabilities arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with any act or omission of, or on behalf of, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, the Consultant or any of the Consultant Indemnitees, to the extent such Liability shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted directly and primarily from the fraud, bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Consultant.
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Samples: Consulting Services Agreement (EveryWare Global, Inc.)
Indemnification; Advancement. The Company and the Subsidiaries shall jointly and severally reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold the Consultant Indemnitees, and each of them, harmless from and against any Liabilities arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with (a) any act Each person who was or omission of, or on behalf of, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, the Consultant or any of the Consultant Indemnitees, except to the extent proven to result directly and primarily from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the person seeking indemnification, or (b) any act or omission is made at the direction of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (collectively, the items in (a) and (b) above, “Claims”). The Company, the Subsidiaries and any of their affiliates (other than the Consultant Indemnitees) shall jointly and severally defend at their own cost and expense any and all suits or actions (just or unjust) which may be brought against the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of their affiliates, or any Consultant Indemnitee or in which any Consultant Indemnitee may be impleaded with others upon any Claims, or upon any matter, directly or indirectly arising out of, related to, caused by, based upon or in connection with this Agreement or the performance (or failure of performance) hereof by any Consultant Indemnitee. Reasonable expenses incurred by a Consultant Indemnitee entitled to be indemnified under this Section 6 who was, is party or is threatened to be made subject a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative is or was, at any time during which this Certificate of Incorporation is in effect (whether or not such person continues to serve in such capacity at the time any indemnification or payment of expenses pursuant hereto is sought or at the time any proceeding relating thereto exists or is brought), a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was at any such time serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans maintained or sponsored by the Corporation (hereinafter, an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent, shall be (and shall be deemed to have a contractual right to be) indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation (and any successor of the Corporation by merger or otherwise) to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL as the same exists or may hereafter be amended or modified from time to time against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a Claim person who has ceased to be a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that except as provided in paragraph (c) of this Article X, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article X shall include the right, without the need for any action by the Board, to be paid by the Company Corporation (and any successor of the Corporation by merger or otherwise) the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition, such advances to be paid by the final disposition Corporation within twenty (20) days after the receipt by the Corporation of a statement or statements from the Claim claimant requesting such advance or advances from time to time; provided, however, that if the DGCL requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon receipt delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter, the “undertaking”) by or on behalf of such Consultant Indemnitee director or officer, to repay such amount all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right of appeal (a “final disposition”) that he, she such director or it officer is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Article X or otherwise. The rights conferred upon indemnitees in this Article X shall be contract rights between the Corporation and each indemnitee to whom such rights are extended that vest at the commencement of such person’s service to or at the request of the Corporation and all such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation or ceased to serve at the Corporation’s request as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, as described herein, and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators.
(b) To obtain indemnification under this Article X, a claimant shall submit to the Corporation a written request, including therein or therewith such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the claimant and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the claimant is entitled to indemnification. Upon written request by a claimant for indemnification pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph (b), a determination, if required by applicable law, with respect to the claimant’s entitlement thereto shall be made as follows if there is a dispute between the Corporation and the claimant with respect to the claimant’s rights to indemnification hereunder: (i) if requested by the Company claimant, by Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined), or (ii) if no request is made by the claimant for a determination by Independent Counsel, (A) by the Board by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of Disinterested Directors (as hereinafter defined), (B) if a quorum of the Board consisting of Disinterested Directors is not obtainable or, even if obtainable, such quorum of Disinterested Directors so directs, by Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined) in a written opinion to the Board, a copy of which shall be delivered to the claimant, or (C) if a quorum of Disinterested Directors so directs, by a majority of the stockholders of the Corporation by Independent Counsel. In the event the determination of entitlement to indemnification is to be made by Independent Counsel, the Independent Counsel shall be selected by the Board unless there shall have occurred within two years prior to the date of the commencement of the action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification is claimed a “Change of Control” as defined in the Santa Mxxxx Energy Corporation 2014 Performance Incentive Plan in which case the Independent Counsel shall be selected by the claimant unless the claimant shall request that such selection be made by the Board. If it is so determined that the claimant is entitled to indemnification, payment to the claimant shall be made within ten (10) days after such determination.
(c) If a claim under paragraph (a) of this Article X is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty (30) days after a written claim pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Article X has been received by the Corporation (except in the case of a claim for advancement of expenses, for which the applicable period is twenty (20) days), the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action that the claimant has not met the standard of conduct which makes it permissible under the DGCL for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed or that the claimant is not entitled to the requested advancement of expenses, but (except where the required undertaking, if any, has not been tendered to the Corporation) the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board, Independent Counsel or 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 or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board, Independent Counsel or stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.
(d) If a determination shall have been made pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Article X that the claimant is entitled to indemnification, the Corporation shall be bound by such determination in any judicial proceeding commenced pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Article X.
(e) The Corporation shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding commenced pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Article X that the procedures and presumptions of this Article X are not valid, binding and enforceable and shall stipulate in such proceeding that the Corporation is bound by all the provisions of this Article X.
(f) The right to indemnification and the Subsidiaries. If payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article X: (i) shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or Disinterested Directors or otherwise and (ii) cannot be terminated by the Company has acknowledged in writing its indemnification obligations hereunder Corporation, the Board or the stockholders of the Corporation with respect to a Claim and is actively defending a Claimperson’s service prior to the date of such termination. Any amendment, a Consultant Indemnitee shall not be entitled modification, alteration or repeal of this Article X that in any way diminishes, limits, restricts, adversely affects or eliminates any right of an indemnitee or his or her successors to reimbursement indemnification, advancement of expenses related to the engagement of separate legal counsel with respect to such Claim unless Consultant Indemniteeor otherwise shall be prospective only and shall not, in good faith upon the advice of counsel, believes a conflict of interest necessitates the engagement of such legal counsel. Neither Party may settle any Claim without the written consent of the other Partyindemnitee, in any way diminish, limit, restrict, adversely affect or eliminate any such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Company hereby acknowledges that the Consultant Indemnities have certain rights to advancement and/or indemnification by certain affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (collectively, the “Fund Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees that the Company is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Consultant Indemnitees are primary and those of the Fund Indemnitors are secondary), that the Company shall be liable for the full amount of payments of indemnification required by any organizational document of such entity or any agreement to which such entity is a party, and that the Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives any claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation, exoneration, reimbursement or any other recovery of any kind for which it is liable pursuant to any organizational document or agreement including this Agreement. The Company further agrees that no payment for indemnification by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of any Indemnified Party right with respect to any claim for which an Indemnified Party has sought payment from it shall affect actual or alleged state of facts, occurrence, action or omission then or previously existing, or any action, suit or proceeding previously or thereafter brought or threatened based in whole or in part upon any such actual or alleged state of facts, occurrence, action or omission.
(g) The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any current or former director, officer, employee or agent of the foregoingCorporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL. To the extent that the Corporation maintains any policy or policies providing such insurance, each such current or former director or officer, and each such agent or employee to which rights to indemnification have been granted as provided in paragraph (h) of this Article X, shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the Fund Indemnitorsmaximum extent of the coverage thereunder for any such current or former director, officer, employee or agent.
(h) The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board or the Chief Executive Officer, grant rights to indemnification, and rights to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in connection with any proceeding in advance of such paymentits final disposition, to any current or former employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article X with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of current or former directors and officers of the Corporation.
(i) If any provision or provisions of this Article X shall be subrogated held to all be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of the rights remaining provisions of recovery this Article X (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Article X containing any such Indemnified Party against itprovision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (ii) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article X (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Article X containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.
(j) For purposes of this Article X:
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