Initial Indemnity. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, administrative, investigative or criminal (other than an action by or in the right of the Company), by reason of the fact that he is or was or had agreed to become a director of the Company, or is or was serving or had agreed to serve at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against any and all costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys’and others’fees and expenses), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection therewith and any appeal therefrom if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of non contendre or its equivalent shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not satisfy the foregoing standard of conduct to the extent applicable thereto.
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Samples: Indemnification Agreement (Dendrite International Inc)
Initial Indemnity. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, administrative, investigative or criminal (other than an action by or in the right of the Company), by reason of the fact that he is or was or had agreed to become a director of the Company, or is or was serving or had agreed to serve at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against any and all costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys’and others’fees attorneys’ and others’ fees and expenses), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection therewith and any appeal therefrom if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of non nolo contendre or its equivalent shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not satisfy the foregoing standard of conduct to the extent applicable thereto.
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Samples: Indemnification Agreement (Dendrite International Inc)