Dissolution and Termination (a) The Company shall not be dissolved by the admission of Substitute Members or Additional Members. The Company shall dissolve, and its affairs shall be wound up, upon:
(i) an election to dissolve the Company by the Manager (or, if the Manager has been removed for “cause” pursuant to Section 5.2, an election to dissolve the Company by an affirmative vote of the holders of not less than a majority of the Common Shares then Outstanding entitled to vote thereon);
(ii) the sale, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets and properties of the Company;
(iii) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of the Company pursuant to the provisions of the Delaware Act; or
(iv) at any time that there are no members of the Company, unless the business of the Company is continued in accordance with the Delaware Act.
Dissolution and Termination of the Company 20 Section 12.1. Dissolution.................................................20 Section 12.2. Liquidation.................................................20 Section 12.3. Time for Liquidation, etc...................................21 Section 12.4. Claims of the Members.......................................21
Dissolution and Termination of Trust (a) This Trust shall continue without limitation of time but subject to the provisions of sub-sections (b) and (c) of this Section 9.4.
(b) Notwithstanding anything in Section 9.5 to the contrary, the Trustees may without Shareholder approval (unless such approval is required by the 1940 Act) in dissolution of the Trust or any Class, liquidate, reorganize or dissolve the Trust or any Class in any manner or fashion not inconsistent with applicable law, including, without limitation,
(i) sell and convey all or substantially all of the assets of the Trust or any Class to another trust, partnership, limited liability company, association or corporation, or to a separate series or class of shares thereof, organized under the laws of any state or jurisdiction, for adequate consideration which may include the assumption of all outstanding obligations, taxes and other liabilities, accrued or contingent, of the Trust or any Class, and which may include shares of beneficial interest, stock or other ownership interests of such trust, partnership, limited liability company, association or corporation or of a series thereof; or
(ii) at any time sell and convert into money all of the assets of the Trust or any Class. Following a sale or conversion in accordance with the foregoing sub-Section 9.4(b)(i) or (ii), and upon making reasonable provision, in the determination of the Trustees, for the payment of all liabilities of the Trust or the affected Class as required by applicable law, by such assumption or otherwise, the Shareholders of each Class involved in such sale or conversion shall be entitled to receive, as a Class, when and as declared by the Trustees, the excess of the assets allocated to that Class over the liabilities allocated to such Class. The assets so distributable to the Shareholders of any particular Class shall be distributed among such Shareholders in proportion to the number of Shares of that Class held by them and recorded on the books of the Trust.
(c) Upon completion of the distribution of the remaining proceeds or the remaining assets as provided in sub-section (b), the Trust (in the case of a sale or conversion with respect to the Trust) or any affected Class shall terminate and the Trustees and the Trust or any affected Class shall be discharged of any and all further liabilities and duties hereunder and the right, title and interest of all parties with respect to the Trust or such affected Class shall be cancelled and discharged. Upon termination of the Trust, following completion of winding up of its business, the Trustees shall cause a certificate of cancellation of the Trust’s certificate of trust to be filed in accordance with the Act, which certificate of cancellation may be signed by any one Trustee.
Liquidation and Termination On dissolution of the Company, the Board of Directors shall act as the liquidator or may appoint one or more Members as liquidator. The liquidator shall proceed diligently to wind up the affairs of the Company and make final distributions as provided herein and in the Act. The costs of liquidation shall be borne as a Company expense. Until final distribution, the liquidator shall continue to operate the Company properties with all of the power and authority of the Board of Directors. The steps to be accomplished by the liquidator are as follows:
(a) as promptly as possible after dissolution and again after final liquidation, the liquidator shall cause a proper accounting to be made by a recognized firm of certified public accountants of the Company’s assets, liabilities and operations through the last day of the calendar month in which the dissolution occurs or the final liquidation is completed, as applicable;
(b) the liquidator shall cause the notice described in the Act to be mailed to each known creditor of and claimant against the Company in the manner described thereunder;
(c) the liquidator shall pay, satisfy or discharge from Company funds all of the debts, liabilities and obligations of the Company (including all expenses incurred in liquidation) or otherwise make adequate provision for payment and discharge thereof;
(d) the liquidator shall make reasonable provision to pay all contingent, conditional or unmatured contractual claims known to the Company;
(e) the liquidator shall make such provision as will be reasonably likely to be sufficient to provide compensation for any claim against the Company which is the subject of a pending action, suit or proceeding to which the Company is a party;
(f) the liquidator shall make such provision as will be reasonably likely to be sufficient for claims that have not been made known to the Company or that have not arisen but that, based on facts known to the Company, are likely to arise or to become known to the Company after the date of dissolution;
(g) the liquidator shall distribute all remaining assets of the Company by the end of the taxable year of the Company during which the liquidation of the Company occurs (or, if later, 90 days after the date of the liquidation) in accordance with Section 3.02 (but subject to the other applicable provisions in this Agreement); and
(h) all distributions in kind to the Members shall be made subject to the liability of each distributee for costs, expenses and liabilities theretofore incurred or for which the Company has committed prior to the date of termination, and those costs, expenses and liabilities shall be allocated to the distributees pursuant to this Section 10.02. The distribution of cash and/or property to a Member in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.02 constitutes a complete return to the Member of its Capital Contributions and a complete distribution to the Member of its interest in the Company and all of the Company’s property and constitutes a compromise to which all Members have consented within the meaning of the Act. To the extent that a Member returns funds to the Company, it has no claim against any other Member for those funds.
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Dissolution Liquidation and Termination of the Company 18 Section 11.1 Dissolution 18 Section 11.2 Liquidation and Termination 18 Section 11.3 Payment of Debts 18 Section 11.4 Debts to Members 19 Section 11.5 Remaining Distribution 19 Section 11.6 Reserve 19 Section 11.7 Final Accounting 19 ARTICLE XII MISCELLANEOUS 20 Section 12.1 Relationship of the Parties 20 Section 12.2 Performance by the Company 20 Section 12.3 Agreement for Further Execution 20 Section 12.4 Notices 20 ANNEX A Definitions ANNEX B Representations and Warranties of the Members ANNEX C Employment and Secondment Matters PP Disclosure Schedule GEOSP Disclosure Schedule EXHIBIT 1 Membership Interests EXHIBIT 2 Allocation and Capital Account Provisions EXHIBIT 3 Strategic Plan and 1999 Operating Plan EXHIBIT 4 GE Company Policies EXHIBIT 5 Form of Contribution Agreement EXHIBIT 6 Form of Promissory Note and Security Agreement EXHIBIT 7 Form of GE Trademark and Tradename Agreement EXHIBIT 8 Form of PP Trademark Agreement EXHIBIT 9 Form of Distributor Agreement AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT OF GE FUEL CELL SYSTEMS, L.L.C. A Delaware Limited Liability Company THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT (this "LLC Agreement") is made and entered into on the 3rd day of February, 1999, by and between GE ON-SITE POWER, INC., a Delaware corporation ("GEOSP"), a wholly owned subsidiary of GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY ("GE"), which is controlled by GE's Power Systems business ("GEPS"), having offices at Xxx Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, and PLUG POWER, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company ("PP"), having offices at 000 Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx, New York 12110 (GEOSP and PP, collectively the "Members" and each individually, a "Member"), to join together to operate a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware for the purposes and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this LLC Agreement.
Dissolution Winding Up and Termination Upon the occurrence of a Liquidating Event, the General Partner shall have the full power and authority to proceed with the liquidation of the Partnership and to take all steps which it may deem necessary or desirable to wind up the Partnership’s affairs, having for such purpose all the powers referred to and provided for in Article 7 appropriate to accomplish the same and allowing for a reasonable time in order to minimize losses attendant to the liquidation, so that the Partnership may be terminated in accordance with the Act. In the event that there is no General Partner, the Limited Partners shall, by Majority Approval, designate one or more Partners or a non-Partner or both to proceed with the liquidation of the Partnership’s assets and the termination of the Partnership. In the event that a liquidator is designated pursuant to the preceding sentence, hereinafter in this Article all references to the General Partner shall be deemed to refer to such liquidator.
Winding Up and Termination (a) Upon the occurrence of a Dissolution Event, the property and business of the Company shall be wound up by the Board or, in the event of the unavailability of the Board, by a Person designated as a liquidating trustee by the Board (the Board or such liquidating trustee, the “Liquidating Trustee”). Subject to the requirements of applicable law and the further provisions of this Section 6.2, the Liquidating Trustee shall have discretion in determining whether to sell or otherwise dispose of Company assets or to distribute the same in kind and the timing and manner of such disposition or distribution. While the Company continues to hold assets, the Liquidating Trustee may in its discretion expend funds, acquire additional assets and borrow funds. The Liquidating Trustee may also authorize the payment of fees and expenses reasonably required in connection with the winding up of the Company and any fees and expenses payable pursuant to any agreement to which the Company is party.
(b) Within a reasonable period of time following the occurrence of a Dissolution Event, after allocating all items of income, gain, loss or deduction pursuant to Section 3.4, the Company’s assets (except for assets reserved pursuant to Section 6.3) shall be applied and distributed in the following manner and order of priority:
(i) the claims of all creditors of the Company (including Members except to the extent not permitted by law) shall be paid and discharged other than liabilities for which reasonable provision for payment has been made; and
(ii) to the Members in the same manner as Distributions under Section 3.3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, liquidating distributions shall be made no later than the last to occur of (x) 90 days after the date of disposition (including pursuant to Section 6.3 of the last remaining asset of the Company and (y) the end of the Company’s taxable year in which the disposition referred to in clause (x) shall occur.
(c) The Liquidating Trustee shall allocate securities for distribution in kind to the Members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the amount by which the Fair Value of any property to be distributed in kind to the Members (including property distributed in liquidation and property distributed pursuant to Section 3.3) exceeds or is less than the adjusted basis of such property shall, to the extent not otherwise recognized by the Company, be taken into account in computing income, gains and losses of the Company for purposes of crediting or charging the Capital Account of, and distributing proceeds to, the Members, pursuant to this Agreement.
(d) When the Liquidating Trustee has completed the winding up described in this Section 6.2, the Liquidating Trustee shall cause the Termination of the Company.
Term, Duration and Termination This Agreement shall become effective with respect to each Fund as of the date first written above (the "Effective Date") (or, if a particular Fund is not in existence on such date, on the earlier of the date an amendment to Schedule A to this Agreement relating to that Fund is executed or the Distributor begins providing services under this Agreement with respect to such Fund) and, unless sooner terminated as provided herein, shall continue for a two year period following the Effective Date. Thereafter, if not terminated, this Agreement shall continue with respect to a particular Fund automatically for successive one-year terms, provided that such continuance is specifically approved at least annually (a) by the vote of a majority of those members of the Trust's Board of Trustees who are not parties to this Agreement or interested persons of any such party, cast in person at a meeting for the purpose of voting on such approval and (b) by the vote of the Trust's Board of Trustees or the vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such Fund. This Agreement is terminable without penalty with sixty days' prior written notice, by the Trust's Board of Trustees, by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Trust, or by the Distributor. This Agreement will also terminate automatically in the event of its assignment. (As used in this Agreement, the terms "majority of the outstanding voting securities," "interested persons" and "
Disposition and Termination The Escrow Agent shall deliver the Fund as follows:
(a) Upon Escrow Agent’s receipt of a joint written direction from the undersigned or their assigns to each of the Parties hereto at the addresses set forth below, Escrow Agent shall disburse the Fund as directed by the undersigned in such notice. Any notice hereunder shall be delivered by personal delivery, facsimile, United States Postal Service Certified Mail or by a recognized overnight delivery service with positive delivery acknowledgement all as described in Section 10 hereof.
(b) Subject to Section 4(d) below, upon Escrow Agent’s receipt from Company of a copy of written notice of Purchaser’s default under the Merger Agreement or the Deposit Note, Escrow Agent shall deliver the Fund to Company after five (5) business days’ prior written notice to the Parties. Notification hereunder shall be in the same manner set forth in Section 4(a) above.
(c) Subject to Section 4(d) below, upon Escrow Agent’s receipt by Purchaser of a copy of written notice of Company’s default under the Merger Agreement, Escrow Agent shall deliver the Fund to Purchaser after five (5) business days’ prior written notice to the Parties. Notification hereunder shall be in the same manner set forth in paragraph 4(a) above.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Escrow Agent shall give five (5) business days’ written notice to the Parties prior to any disbursement of the Fund. Notification hereunder shall be in the same manner set forth in paragraph 4(a) above. If the non-receiving party objects to any disbursement of the Deposit, such party shall provide written notice by 5pm (CST) on such 5th business day of its objection to the other party and Escrow Agent, and thereafter the Escrow Agent shall only disburse the objected funds upon receipt of joint written instruction from the Parties or a final and non-appealable court order along with an opinion of counsel stating that such order is final and non-appealable. Upon delivery of the Fund by the Escrow Agent, this Escrow Agreement shall terminate, subject to the provisions of Section 8. The Party who receives the Fund is referred to herein as the “Recipient”.
