Mutual Release The Executive, for himself, his heirs, personal representatives and assigns, and any other person or entity that could or might act on behalf of him, including, without limitation, his counsel (all of whom are collectively referred to as “Executive Releasers”), and the Company, its parents, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, and each of their past and present officers, agents, directors, executives, shareholders, independent contractors, attorneys and insurers (all of whom are collectively referred to as “Company Releasers), hereby fully and forever release and discharge each other of and from any and all actions, causes of action, claims, demands, costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, of every kind and nature whatsoever, in law or in equity, whether now known or unknown, that each Releaser, or any person acting under any of them, may now have, or claim at any future time to have, based in whole or in part upon any act or omission occurring from the beginning of time through the date of execution of this Agreement, including but not limited to, any claim in connection with the Executive’s employment relationship with the Company, or the termination thereof, without regard to present actual knowledge of such acts or omissions, including specifically, but not by way of limitation, matters which may arise at common law, such as breach of contract, express or implied, promissory estoppel, wrongful discharge, tortious interference with contractual rights, infliction of emotional distress, defamation, or under federal, state or local laws, that may be legally waived and released such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, as amended (with respect to unvested benefits), the National Labor Relations Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act; EXCEPT for the rights and obligations created by this Agreement AND EXCEPT for any vested rights under any pension, retirement, profit sharing, health and welfare or stock option, or similar plan. Each party hereby warrants that it or he has not assigned or transferred to any person any portion of any claim which is released, waived and discharged above. The Executive further warrants that except as he has reported to the Company before the Separation Date, he has not experienced any illness, injury, or disability compensable or recoverable under the worker’s compensation laws of any state. The Executive further represents and warrants that he has been given at least 21 days to review and consider his rights and obligations under this Agreement (although he may voluntarily choose to sign this Agreement earlier) and he may revoke this Agreement within the seven (7) day period following his execution of this Agreement. Each party specifically represents that it or he has had a full and fair opportunity to consult with counsel of its or his own choosing concerning the agreements, representations, and declarations set forth in this Agreement. Each party understands and agrees that by signing this Agreement it or he is giving up its or his right to bring any legal claim against the other party concerning, directly or indirectly, the Executive’s employment relationship with the Company, including the Executive’s separation from employment. Each party agrees that this legal release is intended to be interpreted in the broadest possible manner in favor of the other party, to include all actual or potential legal claims that one party may have against the other, except as specifically provided otherwise in this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, this release shall not waive or in any way limit or otherwise affect the Executive’s rights, if any, to indemnification and/or defense in connection with any claim that may be asserted against the Executive as a consequence of his employment with the Executive, whether such rights arise under the Company’s articles of incorporation, bylaws, insurance contracts or otherwise. Specifically, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Executive harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, in the event the Executive was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person.
Mutual Releases (a) Each of the Stockholders, on behalf of themselves and their respective heirs, estates, trustees, beneficiaries, successors, predecessors, assigns, subsidiaries, principals, directors, officers, and insurers (the “Stockholder Releasors”), hereby do remise, release and forever discharge, and covenant not to xxx or take any steps to pursue or further any Legal Proceeding against any of the Other Parties or their respective successors, predecessors, assigns, subsidiaries, principals, directors and officers (in their capacity as such), and insurers (the “Company Releasees”) from and in respect of any and all claims and causes of action, whether based on any federal, state or foreign law or right of action, direct, indirect or representative in nature, foreseen or unforeseen, matured or unmatured, known or unknown, that all or any of the Stockholder Releasors have, had, or may have against the Company Releasees, or any of them, of any kind, nature or type whatsoever, from the beginning of time to the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing release shall not release any rights or duties under this Agreement or any claims or causes of action that the Stockholder Releasors may have for the breach or enforcement of any provision of this Agreement.
(b) The Company, on behalf of itself and its successors, predecessors, assigns, subsidiaries, principals, directors, officers, and insurers (the “Company Releasors”), hereby do remise, release and forever discharge, and covenant not to xxx or take any steps to pursue or further any Legal Proceeding against any of the Other Parties or their respective heirs, estates, trustees, beneficiaries, successors, predecessors, assigns, subsidiaries, principals, directors and officers (in their capacity as such), and insurers (the “Stockholder Releasees”) from and in respect of any and all claims and causes of action, whether based on any federal, state or foreign law or right of action, direct, indirect or representative in nature, foreseen or unforeseen, matured or unmatured, known or unknown, that all or any of the Company Releasors have, had, or may have against the Stockholder Releasees, or any of them, of any kind, nature or type whatsoever, from the beginning of time to the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing release shall not release any rights or duties under this Agreement or any claims or causes of action that the Company Releasors may have for the breach or enforcement of any provision of this Agreement.
(c) Each Party represents and warrants that it has not heretofore transferred or assigned, or purported to transfer or assign, to any person, firm or corporation any claims, demands, obligations, losses, causes of action, damages, penalties, costs, expenses, attorneys’ fees, liabilities or indemnities herein released. Each of the Parties represents and warrants that neither it nor any assignee has filed any lawsuit against any Other Party.
(d) Each Party waives any and all rights (to the extent permitted by state law, federal law, principles of common law or any other law) that may have the effect of limiting the releases in this Section 5. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Party acknowledges that there is a risk that the damages and costs that it believes it has suffered or will suffer may turn out to be other than or greater than those now known, suspected or believed to be true. Facts on which each Party has been relying in entering into this Agreement may later turn out to be other than or different from those now known, suspected or believed to be true. Each Party acknowledges that in entering into this Agreement, it has expressed that it agrees to accept the risk of any such possible unknown damages, claims, facts, demands, actions and causes of action. Each Party acknowledges and agrees that the releases and covenants provided for in this Section 5 are binding, unconditional and final as of the date hereof.
Mutual Release of Claims Except as expressly set forth in the last sentence of this Section 14, Consultant and Client, on behalf of themselves, and their respective heirs, executors, officers, directors, employees, consultants, investors, administrators, predecessor and successor corporations, and assigns, hereby fully and forever release each other and their respective heirs, executors, officers, directors, employees, consultants, investors, shareholders, administrators, predecessor and successor corporations, and assigns, from, and agree not to xxx concerning, any claim, duty, obligation or cause of action relating to any matters of any kind, whether presently known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that any of them may possess arising from any omissions, acts or facts that have occurred up until and including the date of this Agreement including, without limitation: (a) any and all claims relating to or arising from Consultant's service to the Company and the termination of that service; (b) any and all claims relating to, or arising from, Consultant's right to purchase, or actual purchase of shares of common stock of Client; (c) any and all claims of violation of public policy, discrimination, breach of contract (both express and implied), breach of a covenant of good faith and fair dealing (both express and implied), promissory estoppel, negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent or intentional misrepresentation, negligent or intentional interference with contract or prospective economic advantage, unfair business practices, defamation, libel, slander, negligence, personal injury, invasion of privacy and conversion; (d) any and all claims for violation of any federal, state or municipal constitution, law, statute, regulation or ordinance; and (e) any and all claims for attorneys' fees and costs. Client and Consultant agree that the release set forth in this Section 14 will be and remain in effect in all respects as a complete general release as to the matters released. Consultant agrees that this release does not extend to any claims of any nature or type against Consultant based on a breach by Consultant of any fiduciary duty owed to Client or its stockholders or any claims brought by the stockholders of Client against Consultant (whether in their own name or in the name, or on behalf, of Client).
Separation Agreement and General Release The Company’s obligation to make the Severance Payment is conditioned on Executive or Executive’s legal representatives executing a separation agreement and general release of claims related to or arising from Executive’s employment with the Company or the termination of employment against the Company and its affiliates (and their respective officers and directors) in a form reasonably determined by the Company, which shall be provided by the Company to Executive within five days following the Date of Termination; provided that, if Executive should fail to execute (or revokes) such release within 45 days following the Date of Termination, the Company shall not have any obligation to provide the Severance Payment. If Executive executes the release within such 45-day period and does not revoke the release within seven days following the execution of the release, the Severance Payment will be made in accordance with Section 4(a)(ii).
General Release of Claims Employee knowingly and voluntarily releases and forever discharges the Company from any and all claims, rights, causes of action, demands, fees costs, expenses, including attorneys’ fees, and liabilities of any kind whatsoever, whether known or unknown, against the Company, that Employee has, has ever had or may have as of the date of execution of this Agreement and General Release, including, but not limited to, any alleged violation of: ● The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended; ● The Older Workers Benefit Protection Act of 1990; ● The National Labor Relations Act, as amended; ● Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; ● The Civil Rights Act of 1991; ● Sections 1981 through 1988 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended; ● The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; ● The Immigration Reform and Control Act, as amended; ● The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended; ● The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, as amended; ● The Occupational Safety and Health Act, as amended; ● The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; ● All other federal, state or local civil or human rights laws, whistleblower laws, or any other local, state or federal law, regulations and ordinances; ● All public policy, contract, tort, or common laws; and ● All allegations for costs, fees, and other expenses including attorneys’ fees incurred in these matters. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the sole matters to which the Agreement and General Release do not apply are: (i) Employee’s rights of indemnification and directors and officers liability insurance coverage to which the Executive was entitled immediately prior to __________ __, 20__ with regard to the Executive’s service as an officer and director of the Company (including, without limitation, under Article 15 of the Severance Agreement); (ii) Employee’s rights under any tax-qualified pension plan or claims for accrued vested benefits under any other employee benefit plan, policy or arrangement maintained by the Company or under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended; (iii) Employee’s rights under Article 7 or Article 11 of the Severance Agreement, as the case may be; and (iv) Employee’s rights as a stockholder of the Company.
General Release Executive, on behalf of Executive and Executive’s heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, hereby voluntarily, unconditionally, irrevocably and absolutely releases and forever discharges the Company and its past, present and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, portfolio companies and investments, and each of their predecessors, successors and assigns, and each of their respective officers, employees, directors, agents, attorneys, insurers, benefit plans, benefit plan administrators, and all of their predecessors, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims, actions and causes of action, rights, obligations, demands, debts, promises, damages, liabilities, suits, controversies, actions, crossclaims, counterclaims, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, punitive or exemplary damages and any other damages, claims for costs and attorneys’ fees, losses or liabilities of any nature whatsoever in law and in equity and any other liabilities, in each case, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected of any nature whatsoever (collectively, “Claims”) (i) arising on or prior to the date upon which Executive signs this Agreement and (ii) arising from or in any way related to Executive’s employment or termination of employment with any of the Released Parties, in each case, that Executive ever had, now has, or may hereafter have against any Released Party (the “Released Claims”), including, but not limited to, (x) any Claims under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (“ADEA”) and (y) any other federal, state, local or other law, regulation, ordinance, constitutional provisions, executive order or other source of law; provided, however, that the Released Claims will not include (A) the obligations of the Company under this Agreement or the obligation of the Company to pay the Severance Benefits, (B) the obligations of the Company to continue to provide indemnification to Executive as provided in the Company’s or any of its affiliate’s governing documents or as otherwise agreed with Executive under the Employment Agreement or any other agreement providing for indemnification rights, (C) any Claim under directors’ and officers’ insurance or other fiduciary or liability coverage, including with respect to any claims made or threatened against Executive in Executive’s capacity as a director, manager, officer or employee of the Company or any of its affiliates or as an administrator under any of its employee benefit plans, (D) any Claim to vested benefits under any Company employee benefit plan or equity incentive plan, (E) any Claim Executive may have as a current or former shareholder of the Company or any of its affiliates, and (F) any Claims that cannot be waived by private agreement under applicable law. Executive further agrees that any payments to be provided by the Company pursuant to this Agreement will be in full satisfaction of any and all Released Claims. The provision of such payments will not be deemed an admission of liability or wrongdoing by any of the Released Parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit Executive from confidentially or otherwise communicating or filing a charge or complaint with a federal, state, local or other governmental agency or regulatory entity, participating in a governmental agency or regulatory investigation or giving truthful testimony to a governmental agency or regulatory entity if properly subpoenaed or otherwise required to do so under applicable law.
General Releases (a) For and in consideration of the severance benefits which the Executive will receive under the Employment Severance Agreement to which this Release Agreement is attached, the Executive fully and forever releases and discharges MedSource Technologies, Inc. ("Company") (which for purposes of this Agreement includes its present and former officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents, investors, administrators, representatives, attorneys, affiliates, divisions, subsidiaries, parent corporations, predecessor and successor corporations and assigns) from any and all liability for any claim, duty, obligation, debt, covenant, cause of action or damages (collectively "Claims"), whether presently known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that Executive ever had, may have had or now have arising from any omission, act or fact that has occurred up to and including the date of this Agreement. Such released Claims include, but are not limited to: (i) any Claims arising out of or attributable to Executive's employment or the termination of employment with the Company; (ii) any Claims for wages, severance pay, bonuses, accrued vacation, personal days, holidays, sick days, stock, stock options, units, membership interests, attorneys fees, costs or expenses; (iii) all Claims arising under any agreement, understanding, promise or contract (express or implied, oral or written) between Executive and the Company; (iv) all Claims of wrongful termination, unjust dismissal, defamation, violation of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing libel or slander; (v) all Claims arising under tort law; (vi) any Claims arising under any federal, state or local law dealing with discrimination based on age, race, sex, national origin, handicap, religion, disability or sexual preference; (vii) any Claims arising under any federal, state or local constitution, statute, regulation or ordinance to the extent such claims may be validly waived including, without limitation, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (the "ADEA"), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; and (viii) any Claims for any other loss or damage.
(b) The Company, for itself and affiliated companies and its and their successors and assigns, hereby releases and forever discharges Executive from any and all claims based upon any act, omission or occurrence occurring up to and including the effective date of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any matter arising out of Executive's employment with the Company.
Exclusions from General Release Excluded from the Release are any claims or rights that cannot be waived by law, as well as Executive’s right to file a charge with an administrative agency or participate in any agency investigation. Executive is, however, waiving the right to recover any money in connection with a charge or investigation. Executive is also waiving the right to recover any money in connection with a charge filed by any other individual or by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any other federal or state agency.
Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Files (a) Upon the payment in full of any Home Equity Loan (including any liquidation of such Home Equity Loan through foreclosure or otherwise), or the receipt by the Servicer of a notification that payment in full will be escrowed in a manner customary for such purposes, the Servicer shall deliver to the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, a written request of the Servicer, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N, signed by an Authorized Officer which states the purpose of the release of a File. Upon receipt of such written request, the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee shall promptly release the related File, in trust, in its reasonable discretion to (i) the Servicer, (ii) an escrow agent or (iii) any employee, agent or attorney of the Trustee. Upon any such payment in full, or the receipt of such notification that such funds have been placed in escrow, the Servicer is authorized to give, as attorney-in-fact for the Trustee and the mortgagee under the Mortgage which secured the Note, an instrument of satisfaction (or assignment of Mortgage without recourse) regarding the Property relating to such Mortgage, which instrument of satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be delivered to the Person or Persons entitled thereto against receipt therefor of payment in full, it being understood and agreed that no expense incurred in connection with such instrument of satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be chargeable to the Principal and Interest Account or to the Trustee.
(b) The Servicer shall have the right to accept applications of Mortgagors for consent to (i) partial releases of Mortgages, (ii) alterations and (iii) removal, demolition or division of Properties subject to Mortgages. No application for approval shall be considered by the Servicer unless: (x) the provisions of the related Note and Mortgage have been complied with; (y) the Loan-to-Value Ratio and debt-to-income ratio after any release does not exceed the Loan-to-Value Ratio and debt-to-income ratio of such Note on the Cut-Off Date or Replacement Cut-Off Date, as applicable, and any increase in the Loan-to-Value Ratio shall not exceed 5%; and (z) the lien priority of the related Mortgage is not affected. Upon receipt by the Trustee of an Officer’s Certificate executed on behalf of the Servicer setting forth the action proposed to be taken in respect of a particular Home Equity Loan and certifying that the criteria set forth in the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Servicer the consent or partial release so requested by the Servicer. A proposed form of consent or partial release, as the case may be, shall accompany any Officer’s Certificate delivered by the Servicer pursuant to this paragraph.
(c) From time to time and as appropriate in the servicing of any Home Equity Loan, including, without limitation, foreclosure or other comparable conversion of a Home Equity Loan or collection under any applicable Insurance Policy, the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, shall release the related File to the Servicer, promptly upon a written request of the Servicer, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N, signed by an Authorized Officer, which states the purpose of the release of a File. Such receipt shall obligate the Servicer to return the File to the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, when the need therefor by the Servicer no longer exists.
(d) In all cases where the Servicer directs the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, to sign any document or to release a File within a particular period of time, the Servicer shall notify an Authorized Officer of the Trustee by telephone of such need and the Trustee shall thereon use its best efforts to comply with the Servicer’s needs, but in any event will comply within two Business Days of such request.
(e) No costs associated with the procedures described in this Section 8.14 shall be an expense of the Trust.
Separation Agreement The Parties agree that, in the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Separation Agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.
