Valid Security Entitlement. Upon payment for the Offered Securities to be sold by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement, delivery of such Offered Securities, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such other nominee as may be designated by The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), registration of such Offered Securities in the name of Cede or such other nominee and the crediting of such Offered Securities on the books of DTC to securities accounts of the Underwriters (i) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such Offered Securities within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”), (ii) under Section 8-501 of the UCC, the Underwriters will acquire a valid security entitlement in respect of such Offered Securities, and (iii) an action based on an “adverse claim” (within the meaning of Sections 8-102 and 8-105 of the UCC) to such securities entitlement, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien or other theory may not be asserted against the Underwriters with respect to such security entitlement (assuming that the Underwriters are purchasing such Offered Securities without, and DTC has no, notice of any adverse claim). For purposes of this representation, such Selling Stockholder may assume that when such payment, delivery and crediting occur, (w) the “securities intermediary’s jurisdiction” under Section 8-501 of the UCC with respect to DTC is the State of New York, (x) such Offered Securities will have been registered in the name of Cede or another nominee designated by DTC, in each case on the Company’s share registry in accordance with its certificate of incorporation, bylaws and applicable law, (y) DTC will be registered as a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC, and (z) each Underwriter maintains a securities account with DTC and appropriate entries to those accounts of the several Underwriters on the records of DTC will have been made pursuant to the UCC.
