No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Company, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Indenture or the Notes or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting any Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Shareholders No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Indenture or the Notes or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting any Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of Company Exempt from Individual Liability No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, or in any Security or any coupons appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, of the Company or of any successor, either directly or through the Company or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities and the coupons appertaining thereto by the holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities and the coupons appertaining thereto.
Company Stock The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of: (i) 95,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock, (ii) 900,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $1.75 per share, and (iii) 100,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $1.75 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) (the undesignated and Series A Preferred Stock are collectively referred to herein as the “Company Preferred Stock”). As of August 7, 2007, (a) 44,641,388 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and outstanding, (b) no shares of Company Preferred Stock were issued and outstanding, (c) 18,195,312 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under the Company Stock Plans, (d) 1,500,000 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under stock options granted outside of the Company Stock Plans, (e) 1,370,763 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under Company Warrants, and (f) 378,100 shares of Company Common Stock were held in treasury. The outstanding shares of Company Common Stock have been duly authorized and are validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable, and subject to no preemptive rights (and were not issued in violation of any subscriptive or preemptive rights). As of the date hereof, other than the Company Stock Options and the Company Warrants, there are no shares of Company Common Stock authorized and reserved for issuance, the Company does not have any Rights issued or outstanding with respect to Company Stock, and the Company does not have any commitment to authorize, issue or sell any Company Stock or Rights, except pursuant to this Agreement. Section 4.2(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of the holders of outstanding Company Stock Options and Company Warrants, the date that each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant was granted, the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant, the vesting schedule and expiration date of each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant and the price at which each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant may be exercised.
Ownership of Company Stock None of the Investor nor any of its controlled Affiliates owns any capital stock or other equity or equity-linked securities of the Company.
RIGHTS AS A STOCKHOLDER, DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE OR CONSULTANT The Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares covered by the Option until the date of the issuance of the shares for which the Option has been exercised (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). No adjustment shall be made for dividends, distributions or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date the shares are issued, except as provided in Section 9. If the Participant is an Employee, the Participant understands and acknowledges that, except as otherwise provided in a separate, written employment agreement between a Participating Company and the Participant, the Participant’s employment is “at will” and is for no specified term. Nothing in this Option Agreement shall confer upon the Participant any right to continue in the Service of a Participating Company or interfere in any way with any right of the Participating Company Group to terminate the Participant’s Service as a Director, an Employee or Consultant, as the case may be, at any time.
Transfer Books; No Further Ownership Rights in Shares At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed and thereafter there shall be no further registration of transfers of Shares on the records of the Company. From and after the Effective Time, the holders of Certificates and Book-Entry Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall cease to have any rights with respect to such Shares except as otherwise provided for herein or by applicable Law. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be cancelled and exchanged as provided in this Agreement.
Grant of Company Reacquisition Right Except to the extent otherwise provided by the Superseding Agreement, if any, in the event that the Participant’s Service terminates for any reason or no reason, with or without cause, the Participant shall forfeit and the Company shall automatically reacquire all Units which are not, as of the time of such termination, Vested Units (“Unvested Units”), and the Participant shall not be entitled to any payment therefor (the “Company Reacquisition Right”).
Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership (a) Without prejudice to the requirements of applicable law concerning disclosure of beneficial ownership of Shares, any Beneficial Owner (as defined below) of American Depositary Shares who becomes, or ceases to be, directly or indirectly the Beneficial Owner of more than five percent (5%) of all outstanding Shares (whether such interest is held in whole or in part through Receipts) shall, within five (5) days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays in any part of Japan) following such event, send written notice to the Issuer at its head office in Japan as specified in Section 7.5 containing the following information: (i) the name, address and nationality of such Beneficial Owner and all other persons by whom or on whose behalf such Shares have been acquired or are held; the number of American Depositary Shares and total Shares (including American Depositary Shares) beneficially owned directly or indirectly by such Beneficial Owner immediately before and immediately after the event requiring notification; the names and addresses of any persons other than the Depositary, the Custodian, or either of their nominees, through whom such beneficially owned Shares are held, or in whose name such Shares are registered in the Issuer’s transfer book, and the respective numbers of Shares beneficially held through each such person; the date or dates of acquisition of the beneficial interest in such Shares; and the number of any Shares; and the number of any Shares in which such Beneficial Owner has the right to acquire directly or indirectly beneficial ownership and material information as to such right(s) of acquisition; and (ii) the names, addresses and nationalities of any persons with whom such Beneficial Owner is acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate or other group for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of a beneficial interest in Shares; and the number of Shares being acquired, held, voted or disposed of as a result of such association (being the total number held by such group). Any Beneficial Owner of more than five percent (5%) of all outstanding Shares shall promptly notify the Issuer as provided above of any material change in the information previously notified, including, without limitation, a change of more than one (1%) in the percentage of total Shares to which the beneficial ownership relates. As used herein, the term "Beneficial Owners" of Shares means a person who, directly or indirectly, through any contract, trust arrangement, understanding, relationship, or otherwise, has an interest in any Shares (other than the Depositary, Custodian or any of their nominees) which underlie any American Depositary Shares issued hereunder (including having the right to exercise or control the exercise of any right conferred by the holding of such Shares or the power to vote or to direct voting or the power to dispose or to direct disposition) and includes any owner of an American Depositary Share hereunder. (b) Without prejudice to the requirements of applicable law and the provisions of the Issuer’s Articles of Incorporation, any Beneficial Owner of Shares shall, if so requested in writing by the Issuer, provide such information with respect to the beneficial ownership of Shares (including not only Shares underlying American Depositary Shares, but also any other Shares in which such Beneficial Owner has an interest) by such Beneficial Owner as is requested by the Issuer. Such Beneficial Owner shall provide such information to the Issuer in writing the time specified by the Issuer.
Ownership of Company Shares The Shareholder is the record and/or “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which meaning will apply for all purposes of this Agreement) of the number of outstanding Company Shares set forth in the recitals to this Agreement. Also set forth in the recitals to this Agreement is the number of Company Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Options. The Shareholder holds the requisite power to vote the number of Company Shares set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.