Indemnity and D&O Insurance. 9.01. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SP Corporate shall defend, indemnify, save and hold harmless the Company from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs or expenses, including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromises and settlements, as fines and penalties and legal or other costs and reasonable expenses of investigating or defending against any claim or alleged claim of any nature whatsoever resulting from SP Corporate’s, the Designated Persons’ or the SP Corporate Persons’ activities or services under this Agreement (a “Claim”) and incurred by reason of SP Corporate’s, any Designated Person’s or the SP Corporate Persons’, as applicable, fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence or reckless disregard of their respective duties; provided, however, that SP Corporate or the Designated Persons shall not be held responsible for (i) any action of the Company in which SP Corporate or any Designated Person, as applicable, advised the Board or the Committee prior to taking such action and the Board (including a majority of the disinterested directors) or the Committee declined to follow such advice and such decision was provided in writing to SP Corporate or (ii) any Claim to the extent such Claim is occasioned by the fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct of duties of the Company’s officers, directors, employees, consultants or agents (except for the Designated Persons, SP Corporate or the SP Corporate Persons).
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Samples: Management Services Agreement (Steel Partners Holdings L.P.), Management Services Agreement (Steel Partners Holdings L.P.), Management Services Agreement (iGo, Inc.)
Indemnity and D&O Insurance. 9.01. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SP Corporate shall defend, indemnify, save and hold harmless the Company from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs or expenses, including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromises and settlements, as fines and penalties and legal or other costs and reasonable expenses of investigating or defending against any claim or alleged claim of any nature whatsoever resulting from SP Corporate’s, the Designated Persons’ or the SP Corporate Persons’ activities or services under this Agreement (a “Claim”) and incurred by reason of SP Corporate’s, any Designated Person’s or the SP Corporate Persons’, as applicable, fraud, fraud or willful misconduct, gross negligence or reckless disregard of their respective duties; provided, however, that SP Corporate or the Designated Persons shall not be held responsible for (i) any action of the Company in which SP Corporate or any Designated Person, as applicable, advised the Board or the Committee prior to taking such action and the Board (including a majority of the disinterested directors) or the Committee declined to follow such advice and such decision was provided in writing to SP Corporate or (ii) any Claim to the extent such Claim is occasioned by the fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct of duties of the Company’s officers, directors, employees, consultants or agents (except for the Designated Persons, SP Corporate or the SP Corporate Persons).
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Samples: Management Services Agreement (Steel Partners Holdings L.P.), Management Services Agreement (ModusLink Global Solutions Inc)