Indemnification of Directors and Officers (a) From and after the Effective Time, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, and the Surviving Corporation agrees to, indemnify, defend and hold harmless in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company, and subject to the limitations of the BCL, each present and past officer, director, employee, representative or agent (other than Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxx), of the Company (or any subsidiary or division thereof), including, without limitation, each person controlling any of the foregoing persons (individually, an "Indemnified Party" and collectively, the "Indemnified Parties"), against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation arising out of or pertaining to acts or omissions, or alleged acts or omissions, by them in their capacities as such, whether commenced, asserted or claimed before or after the Effective Time. In the event of any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation (an "Action"), (i) the Surviving Corporation shall advance the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel selected by the Indemnified Party, which counsel shall be reasonably acceptable to Parent, in advance of the final disposition of any such action; provided, however, that prior to advancement of fees and expenses, the Indemnified Party shall provide an undertaking in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation, and (ii) the Surviving Corporation will cooperate in the defense of any such matter; provided, however, that the Surviving Corporation shall not be liable for any settlement effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and provided, further, that the Surviving Corporation shall not be obligated pursuant to this Section to pay the fees and disbursements of more than one counsel for all Indemnified Parties in any single Action except to the extent that, in the opinion of counsel for the Indemnified Parties, to do so would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between or among such parties. (b) For a period of six years after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall not amend the provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws providing for exculpation of director and officer liability and indemnification, except as required by applicable law. (c) Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, and the Surviving Corporation agrees to, maintain in effect for the Indemnified Parties for not less than three years the current policies of directors' and officers' liability insurance and fiduciary liability insurance maintained by the Company and the Company's subsidiaries with respect to matters occurring at or prior to the Effective Time; provided, that Parent may substitute therefor policies of substantially the same coverage containing terms and conditions which are no less advantageous, in any material respect, to the Indemnified Parties. (d) Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, and the Surviving Corporation agrees to, pay all expenses, including attorneys' fees, that may be incurred by any Indemnified Parties in enforcing the indemnity and other obligations provided for in this Section 6.9. (e) The rights of each Indemnified Party hereunder shall be in addition to any other rights such Indemnified Party has under the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the Company, under the BCL or otherwise. This Section 6.9 is intended to benefit each of the Indemnified Parties and shall be binding on all successors and assigns of Newco, the Company and the Surviving Corporation. 6.10
Directors and Officers Exculpation Indemnification and Insurance (a) From and after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation and Parent shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the Organizational Documents, as now or hereafter in effect: (i) indemnify and hold harmless each person who is at the date hereof, was previously, or during the period from the date hereof through the Effective Time will be, serving as a director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and each Person who served as a director, officer, member, trustee or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, pension or other employee benefit plan or enterprise at the request of or for the benefit of any Company Group Member (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) in connection with any D&O Claim and any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, Claim Expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of any thereof) relating to or resulting from such D&O Claim; and (ii) promptly advance to such Covered Person any Claim Expenses incurred in defending, serving as a witness with respect to or otherwise participating with respect to any D&O Claim in advance of the final disposition of such D&O Claim, including payment on behalf of or advancement to the Covered Person of any Claim Expenses incurred by such Covered Person in connection with enforcing any rights with respect to such indemnification and/or advancement, in each case without the requirement of any bond or other security. In the event of any such D&O Claim, Parent and the Surviving Corporation shall cooperate with the Covered Person in the defense of any such D&O Claim. All rights to indemnification and advancement conferred hereunder shall continue as to a Person who has ceased to be a director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof and shall inure to the benefit of such Person’s heirs, successors, executors and personal and legal representatives.
Indemnification; Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance (a) The Company shall, and from and after the Effective Time, CSLC and the Surviving Entity shall, indemnify, defend and hold harmless each person who is now, or at any time prior to the date hereof has been or who becomes prior to the Effective Time, an officer, director or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the "Indemnified Parties") from and against (i) all losses, claims, damages, costs, expenses, liabilities or judgments or amounts that are paid in settlement with the approval of the indemnifying party (which approval shall not unreasonably be withheld) of or in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding, case or investigation ("Action") based in whole or in part on or arising in whole or in part out of or in connection with the fact that such person is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary, whether pertaining to any matter existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time and whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time ("Indemnified Liabilities") and (ii) all Indemnified Liabilities based in whole or in part on, or arising in whole or in part out of or in connection with this Agreement, the Merger or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, in each case to the fullest extent a corporation is permitted under applicable law to indemnify its own directors, officers and employees, as the case may be and CSLC and the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall pay expenses in advance of the final disposition of any such action or proceeding to each Indemnified Party to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law upon receipt of any undertaking contemplated by applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, if any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation is commenced or instituted against any Indemnified Party (whether arising before or after the Effective Time), (i) the Indemnified Parties may retain counsel satisfactory to them and the Company (or satisfactory to them and CSLC and the Surviving Entity after the Effective Time); (ii) the Company (or after the Effective Time, CSLC and the Surviving Entity) shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel for the Indemnified Parties promptly as reasonably itemized statements therefor are received; and (iii) the Company (or after the Effective Time, CSLC and the Surviving Entity) shall use best efforts to assist in the vigorous defense of any such matter, provided that neither the Company, CSLC nor the Surviving Entity shall be liable for any settlement of any claim effected without its written consent (which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld). Any Indemnified Party electing to claim indemnification under this Section 5.9, upon learning of any such Action, shall promptly notify the Company, CSLC or the Surviving Entity of such election (but the failure so to notify the Company shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 5.9, except to the extent such failure materially prejudices it or if it otherwise forfeits substantive rights and defenses as a result of such failure), and shall deliver to the Company (or after the Effective Time, to CSLC and the Surviving Entity) the undertaking contemplated by applicable law. The Indemnified Parties as a group may retain only one firm of legal counsel to represent them with respect to each such matter unless there is, under applicable standards of professional conduct, a conflict in respect of any significant issue between the positions of any two or more Indemnified Parties.
Indemnification; Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance (i) Executive shall retain all rights to indemnification under the Company's Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws, and (ii) the Company shall maintain Director's and Officer's liability insurance on behalf of Executive, in both cases at the level in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date or immediately prior to the Change in Control, whichever is greater, for a number of years equal to the Severance Multiple following the Termination Date, and throughout the period of any applicable statute of limitations.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification (a) After the Effective Time, PalEx shall, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, indemnify and hold harmless, each present and former director, officer and agent of the Company (each, together with such person's heirs, executors or administrators, an "INDEMNIFIED PARTY" and collectively, the "INDEMNIFIED PARTIES") against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of, relating to or in connection with any action or omission of PalEx occurring prior to the Effective Time (including, without limitation, acts or omissions in connection with such persons serving as an officer, director or other fiduciary in any entity if such service was at the request or for the benefit of the Company). In the event of any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation (whether arising before or after the Effective Time), (i) PalEx shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel selected by the indemnified parties, which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to PalEx, promptly after statements therefor are received, (ii) PalEx will cooperate in the defense of any such matter, and (iii) any determination required to be made with respect to whether an indemnified party's conduct complies with the standards set forth under the DGCL or other applicable statutes and PalEx's or the Surviving Corporation's respective Certificates of Incorporation or By-Laws shall be made by independent legal counsel acceptable to PalEx as the case may be, and the indemnified party; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that PalEx shall not be liable for any settlement effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).
Directors and Officers Insurance; Indemnification (a) The Company shall provide the Executive with (i) the coverage applicable to the officers of the Company under the Company’s policies of directors’ and officers’ insurance as may be in effect from time to time, and (ii) the most favorable indemnification that the Company from time to time extends to any of its officers or directors, whether under the Company’s by-laws, Certificate of Incorporation, by contract or otherwise.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance (a) Buyer and Acquisition Sub agree that all rights to exculpation and indemnification for acts or omissions occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time (including any matters arising in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement), now existing in favor of the current or former directors, officers or employees, as the case may be, of the Company or its subsidiaries (other than CPEX) as provided in their respective articles of association, certificates of incorporation or bylaws (or comparable organization documents) or agreements shall survive the Merger and shall continue in full force and effect. The Surviving Corporation shall (and Buyer shall cause the Surviving Corporation to) indemnify, defend and hold harmless, and advance expenses to Indemnitees with respect to all acts or omissions by them in their capacities as such at any time prior to the Effective Time, to the fullest extent required by: (i) the Company Certificate or Company By-Laws and the organizational documents of the Company’s subsidiaries (other than CPEX), each as in effect on the date of this Agreement; and (ii) any indemnification agreements of the Company or its subsidiaries (other than CPEX) as in effect on the date of this Agreement, copies of which have been made available to Buyer. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 6.7(a) shall affect the rights of any employee of CPEX existing pursuant to (i) the Company Certificate or Company By-Laws and the organizational documents of the Company’s subsidiaries (other than CPEX), each as in effect on the date of this Agreement; and (ii) any indemnification agreements of the Company or its subsidiaries (other than CPEX) as in effect on the date of this Agreement.
Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance and Indemnification For not less than six (6) years from and after the Effective Date, Aon agrees to indemnify and hold harmless all individuals who at or prior to the Effective Time are past or present directors, officers or employees of WTW or WTW Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) against any costs or expenses (including advancing attorneys’ fees and expenses in advance of the final disposition of any actual or threatened claim, suit, proceeding or investigation to each Indemnified Party to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law; provided such Indemnified Party agrees in advance to return any such funds to which a court of competent jurisdiction has determined in a final, nonappealable judgment such Indemnified Party is not ultimately entitled), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any actual or threatened claim, action, investigation, suit or proceeding in respect of acts or omissions occurring or alleged to have occurred at or prior to the Effective Time (including acts or omissions occurring in connection with the approval of this Agreement and the consummation of the Acquisition or any of the other Transactions), whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, in connection with such persons serving as an officer, director, employee or other fiduciary of WTW or any of the WTW Subsidiaries or of any Person if such service was at the request or for the benefit of WTW or any of the WTW Subsidiaries, to the fullest extent permitted by Law or provided pursuant to WTW Governing Documents or the organizational documents of any WTW Subsidiary or any indemnification agreements, if any, in existence on the date of this Agreement. The Parties agree that all rights to elimination of liability, indemnification and advancement of expenses for acts or omissions occurring or alleged to have occurred at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, now existing in favor of the Indemnified Parties as provided in their respective certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or comparable organizational documents) or in any agreement shall survive the Acquisition and shall continue in full force and effect. For six (6) years after the Effective Time, Aon shall cause to be maintained in effect the provisions in (i) WTW Governing Documents and the organizational documents of any WTW Subsidiary and (ii) any other agreements of WTW and WTW Subsidiaries with any Indemnified Party, in each case, regarding elimination of liability, indemnification of officers, directors and employees and advancement of expenses that are in existence on the date of this Agreement, and no such provision shall be amended, modified or repealed in any manner that would adversely affect the rights or protections thereunder of any such Indemnified Party in respect of acts or omissions occurring or alleged to have occurred at or prior to the Effective Time (including acts or omissions occurring in connection with the approval of this Agreement and the consummation of the Acquisition or any of the other Transactions). Aon shall cause for an aggregate period of not less than six (6) years from the Effective Date, the purchase of an insurance and indemnification policy in favor of WTW’s current directors and officers that provides coverage for events occurring prior to the Effective Time (the “D&O Insurance”) that is no less favorable that WTW’s existing policy or, if insurance coverage that is no less favorable is unavailable, the best available coverage; provided, however, that WTW shall not be required to pay an annual premium for the D&O Insurance in excess of three-hundred (300%) of the last annual premium paid prior to the date of this Agreement (it being understood that Aon shall nevertheless be obligated to provide as much coverage as may be obtained for such amount); provided further that WTW may prior to the Effective Time substitute therefor a single premium six-year tail coverage with respect to D&O Insurance with an annual cost not in excess of three-hundred (300%) of the last annual premium paid prior to the date of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if any Indemnified Party notifies Aon on or prior to the sixth (6th) anniversary of the Effective Time of a matter in respect of which such Person may seek indemnification pursuant to this Section 8.4, the provisions of this Section 8.4 shall continue in effect with respect to such matter until the final disposition of all claims, actions, investigations, suits and proceedings relating thereto. In the event following the Effective Time Aon or any of its respective successors or assigns (i) consolidates with or merges into any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity of such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of Aon, as the case may be, shall assume the obligations set forth in this Section 8.4. The rights and obligations under this Section 8.4 shall survive consummation of the Acquisition and shall not be terminated or amended in a manner that is adverse to any Indemnified Party without the written consent of such Indemnified Party. The provisions of this Section 8.4 are intended to be for the benefit of, and will be enforceable by, each Indemnified Party, his or her heirs and his or her legal representatives.
Indemnification of Company, Directors and Officers Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including the Rule 430A Information, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.
