Contract
EXHIBIT
10.40
AGREEMENT, made
effective as of the _____ day of _________, _____ between Arby’s Restaurant
Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and _______________________
(the "Indemnitee").
WHEREAS, it is
essential to the Company and its stockholders to attract and retain qualified
and capable directors, officers, employees, trustees, agents and fiduciaries;
and
WHEREAS, it has
been the policy of the Company to indemnify its directors and officers so as to
provide them with the maximum possible protection permitted by law;
and
WHEREAS, in
recognition of Indemnitee's need for protection against personal liability in
order to induce Indemnitee to serve or continue to serve the Company in an
effective manner, and, in the case of directors and officers, to supplement or
replace the Company's directors' and officers' liability insurance coverage, and
in part to provide Indemnitee with specific contractual assurance that the
protection promised by the Company's corporate charter and/or corporate by-laws
or similar governing documents or the partnership agreements or limited
liability company agreements or similar governing documents of partnerships and
limited liability companies for which the Company serves or has served as
general partner or manager (together, the Company's "Governing Documents") will
be available to Indemnitee (regardless of, among other things, any amendment to
or revocation of the Governing Documents or any change in the composition of the
Company's Board of Directors or any acquisition transaction relating to the
Company), the Company, with the prior approval of the Company's sole
stockholder, wishes to provide the Indemnitee with the benefits contemplated by
this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, as a
result of the provision of such benefits Indemnitee has agreed to serve or to
continue to serve the Company;
NOW, THEREFORE,
the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. The
following terms, as used herein, shall have the following respective
meanings:
(a) An
Affiliate
of a specified Person is a Person who directly, or indirectly through one or
more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is under common control
with, the Person specified. The term Associate
used to indicate a relationship with any Person shall mean (i) any corporation
or organization (other than the Company or a Subsidiary) of which such Person is
an officer or partner or is, directly, or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner of
ten (10) percent or more of any class of Equity Securities, (ii) any trust or
other estate in which such Person has a substantial beneficial interest or as to
which such Person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity (other
than an Employee Plan Trustee), (iii) any Relative of such Person, or (iv) any
officer or director of any corporation controlling or controlled by such
Person.
(b) Beneficial
Ownership shall be determined, and a Person shall be the Beneficial
Owner of all securities which such Person is deemed to own beneficially,
pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (or any successor rule or statutory
provision), or, if said Rule 13d-3 shall be rescinded and there shall be no
successor rule or statutory provision thereto, pursuant to said Rule 13d-3
as in effect on January 1, 2005; provided,
however,
that a Person shall, in any event, also be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of
any Voting Shares: (A) of which such Person or any of its
Affiliates or Associates is, directly or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner,
or (B) of which such Person or any of its Affiliates or Associates has
(i) the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or
only after the passage of time), pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or
understanding or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights,
warrants, or options, or otherwise, or (ii) sole or shared voting or
investment power with respect thereto pursuant to any agreement, arrangement,
understanding, relationship or otherwise (but shall not be deemed to be the
Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares solely by reason of a revocable proxy
granted for a particular meeting of stockholders, pursuant to a public
solicitation of proxies for such meeting, with respect to shares of which
neither such Person nor any such Affiliate or Associate is otherwise deemed the
Beneficial Owner), or (C) of which any other Person is, directly or
indirectly, the Beneficial Owner if such first mentioned Person or any of its
Affiliates or Associates acts with such other Person as a partnership, syndicate
or other group pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the
purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of any shares of capital
stock of the Company; and provided
further,
however,
that (i) no director or officer of the Company, nor any Associate or
Affiliate of any such director or officer, shall, solely by reason of any or all
of such directors and officers acting in their capacities as such, be deemed for
any purposes hereof, to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares of which
any other such director or officer (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) is
the Beneficial Owner and (ii) no trustee of an employee stock ownership or
similar plan of the Company or any Subsidiary ("Employee Plan Trustee") or any
Associate or Affiliate of any such Trustee, shall, solely by reason of being an
Employee Plan Trustee or Associate or Affiliate of an Employee Plan Trustee, be
deemed for any purposes hereof to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares
held by or under any such plan.
(c) Change
in Control shall be deemed to have occurred if (A) any Person (other
than (i) the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) any pension, profit
sharing, employee stock ownership or other employee benefit plan of the Company
or any Subsidiary or any trustee of or fiduciary with respect to any such plan
when acting in such capacity, or (iii) Xxxxxx Xxxxx (“Xxxxx”), Xxxxx X. May
(“May”) or any Affiliate or Associate of Xxxxx or May) is or becomes,
after the date of this Agreement, the Beneficial Owner of 20% or more of the
total voting power of the Voting Shares, (B) during any period of two
consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute
the Board of Directors of the Company and any new director whose election or
appointment by the Board of Directors or nomination or recommendation for
election by the Company's stockholders was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors
at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof,
(C) the stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of
the Company with any other corporation, other than a merger or consolidation
which would result in the Voting Shares of the Company outstanding immediately
prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by
being converted into Voting Shares of the surviving entity) at least 80% of the
total voting power represented by the Voting Shares of the Company or such
surviving entity outstanding, or the stockholders of the Company approve a plan
of complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or
disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company's assets,
or (D) a change in control of a nature that would be required to be
reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of
Regulation 14 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, as in effect on January 1, 2005.
(d) Claim
means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration or
proceeding, or any inquiry or investigation, whether brought by or in the right
of the Company or otherwise, that Indemnitee in good faith believes might lead
to the institution of any such action, suit, arbitration or proceeding, whether
civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other, or any appeal
therefrom.
(e) D&O
Insurance means any valid directors' and officers' liability insurance
policy maintained by the Company for the benefit of the Indemnitee, if
any.
(f) Determination
means a determination, and Determined
means a matter which has been determined based on the facts known at the time,
by: (i) a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors,
or (ii) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or even if obtainable, if a
quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a
written opinion, or, in the event there has been a Change in Control, by the
Special Independent Counsel (in a written opinion) selected by Indemnitee as set
forth in Section 6, or (iii) a majority of the disinterested
stockholders of the Company, or (iv) a final adjudication by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
(g) Equity
Security shall have the meaning given to such term under Rule 3a11-1
of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, as in effect on January 1, 2005.
(h) Excluded
Claim means any payment for Losses or Expenses in connection with any
Claim: (i) based upon or attributable to Indemnitee gaining in
fact any personal profit or advantage to which Indemnitee is not entitled; or
(ii) for the return by Indemnitee of any remuneration paid to Indemnitee
without the previous approval of the stockholders of the Company which is
illegal; or (iii) for an accounting of profits in fact made from the
purchase or sale by Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning
of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as in
effect on January 1, 2005, or similar provisions of any state law; or
(iv) resulting from Indemnitee's knowingly fraudulent, dishonest or willful
misconduct; or (v) the payment of which by the Company under this Agreement
is not permitted by applicable law.
(i) Expenses
means any reasonable expenses incurred by Indemnitee as a result of a Claim or
Claims made against Indemnitee for Indemnifiable Events including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees and all other costs, expenses and obligations paid
or incurred in connection with investigating, defending, being a witness in or
participating in (including on appeal), or preparing to defend, be a witness in
or participate in any Claim relating to any Indemnifiable Event.
(j) Fines
means any fine, penalty or, with respect to an employee benefit plan, any excise
tax or penalty assessed with respect thereto.
(k) Indemnifiable
Event means any event or occurrence, occurring prior to or after the date
of this Agreement, related to the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director,
officer, employee, trustee, agent or fiduciary of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director,
officer, manager, employee, trustee, agent or fiduciary of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, employee benefit plan,
trust or other enterprise, or by reason of anything done or not done by
Indemnitee, including, but not limited to, any breach of duty, neglect, error,
misstatement, misleading statement, omission, or other act done or wrongfully
attempted by Indemnitee, or any of the foregoing alleged by any claimant, in any
such capacity.
(l) Losses
means any amounts or sums which Indemnitee is legally obligated to pay as a
result of a Claim or Claims made against Indemnitee for Indemnifiable Events
including, without limitation, damages, judgments and sums or amounts paid in
settlement of a Claim or Claims, and Fines.
(m) Person
means any individual, partnership, corporation, business trust, joint stock
company, trust, limited liability company, unincorporated association, joint
venture, governmental authority or other entity of whatever
nature.
(n) Potential
Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred if (A) the
Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the
occurrence of a Change in Control; (B) any Person (including the Company)
publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which if
consummated would constitute a Change in Control; (C) any Person
(other than (i) the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) any pension,
profit sharing, employee stock ownership or other employee benefit plan of the
Company or any Subsidiary or any trustee of or fiduciary with respect to any
such plan when acting in such capacity, or (iii) Xxxxx, May, or any
Affiliate or Associate of Xxxxx or May) who is or becomes the
Beneficial Owner of 9.5% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Shares,
increases his Beneficial Ownership of such voting power by 5% or more over the
percentage so owned by such Person on the date hereof; or (D) the
Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this
Agreement, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.
(o) Relative
means a Person's spouse, parents, children, siblings, mothers- and
fathers-in-law, sons- and daughters-in-law, and brothers- and
sisters-in-law.
(p) Reviewing
Party means any appropriate person or body consisting of a member or
members of the Company's Board of Directors or any other person or body
appointed by the Board (including the Special Independent Counsel referred to in
Section 6) who is not a party to the particular Claim for which Indemnitee
is seeking indemnification.
(q) Subsidiary
means any corporation of which a majority of any class of Equity Security is
owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
(r) Trust
means the trust established pursuant to Section 7 hereof.
(s) Voting
Shares means any issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the
Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.
2. Basic
Indemnification Agreement. In consideration of, and as an
inducement to, the Indemnitee rendering valuable services to the Company and/or
its Subsidiaries, the Company agrees that in the event Indemnitee is or becomes
a party to or witness or other participant in, or is threatened to be made a
party to or witness or other participant in, a Claim by reason of (or arising in
part out of) an Indemnifiable Event, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee to
the fullest extent authorized by law, against any and all Expenses and Losses
(including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in
connection with or in respect of such Expenses and Losses) of such Claim,
whether or not such Claim proceeds to judgment or is settled or otherwise is
brought to a final disposition, subject in each case, to the further provisions
of this Agreement.
3. Limitations
on Indemnification. Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 2, Indemnitee shall not be indemnified and held harmless from any
Losses or Expenses (a) which have been Determined, as provided herein, to
constitute an Excluded Claim; (b) to the extent Indemnitee is indemnified
by the Company and has actually received payment pursuant to the Company's
Governing Documents, D&O Insurance, or otherwise; or (c) other than
pursuant to the last sentence of Section 4(d) or Section 14, in
connection with any Claim initiated by Indemnitee, unless the Company has joined
in or the Board of Directors has authorized such Claim.
4. Indemnification
Procedures.
(a) Promptly
after receipt by Indemnitee of notice of any Claim, Indemnitee shall, if
indemnification with respect thereto may be sought from the Company under this
Agreement, notify the Company of the commencement thereof and Indemnitee agrees
further not to make any admission or effect any settlement with respect to such
Claim without the consent of the Company, except any Claim with respect to which
the Indemnitee has undertaken the defense in accordance with the second to last
sentence of Section 4(d).
(b) If,
at the time of the receipt of such notice, the Company has D&O Insurance in
effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the commencement of Claim to the
insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective
policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or
desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all
Losses and Expenses payable as a result of such Claim.
(c) To
the extent the Company does not, at the time of the Claim have applicable
D&O Insurance, or if a Determination is made that any Expenses arising out
of such Claim will not be payable under the D&O Insurance then in effect,
the Company shall be obligated to pay the Expenses of any Claim in advance of
the final disposition thereof and the Company, if appropriate, shall be entitled
to assume the defense of such Claim, with counsel satisfactory to Indemnitee,
upon the delivery to Indemnitee of written notice of its election so to
do. After delivery of such notice, the Company will not be liable to
Indemnitee under this Agreement for any legal or other Expenses subsequently
incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such defense other than reasonable
Expenses of investigation; provided
that
Indemnitee shall have the right to employ its counsel in such Claim but the fees
and expenses of such counsel incurred after delivery of notice from the Company
of its assumption of such defense shall be at the Indemnitee's expense; provided
further
that if: (i) the employment of counsel by Indemnitee has been
previously authorized by the Company; (ii) Indemnitee shall have reasonably
concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and
Indemnitee in the conduct of any such defense; or (iii) the Company
shall not, in fact, have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action,
the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the
Company.
(d) All
payments on account of the Company's indemnification obligations under this
Agreement shall be made within sixty (60) days of Indemnitee's written request
therefor unless a Determination is made that the Claims giving rise to
Indemnitee's request are Excluded Claims or otherwise not payable under this
Agreement, provided
that
all payments on account of the Company's obligation to pay Expenses under
Section 4(c) of this Agreement prior to the final disposition of any Claim
shall be made within 20 days of Indemnitee's written request therefor and such
obligation shall not be subject to any such Determination but shall be subject
to Section 4(e) of this Agreement. In the event the Company
takes the position that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification in
connection with the proposed settlement of any Claim, the Indemnitee shall have
the right at its own expense to undertake defense of any such Claim, insofar as
such proceeding involves Claims against the Indemnitee, by written notice given
to the Company within 10 days after the Company has notified the Indemnitee in
writing of its contention that the Indemnitee is not entitled to
indemnification. If it is subsequently determined in connection
with such proceeding that the Indemnifiable Events are not Excluded Claims and
that the Indemnitee, therefore, is entitled to be indemnified under the
provisions of Section 2 hereof, the Company shall promptly indemnify the
Indemnitee.
(e) Indemnitee
hereby expressly undertakes and agrees to reimburse the Company for all Losses
and Expenses paid by the Company in connection with any Claim against Indemnitee
in the event and only to the extent that a Determination shall have been made by
a court of competent jurisdiction in a decision from which there is no further
right to appeal that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company
for such Losses and Expenses because the Claim is an Excluded Claim or because
Indemnitee is otherwise not entitled to payment under this
Agreement.
5. Settlement. The
Company shall have no obligation to indemnify Indemnitee under this Agreement
for any amounts paid in settlement of any Claim effected without the Company's
prior written consent. The Company shall not settle any Claim in
which it takes the position that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification
in connection with such settlement without the consent of the Indemnitee, nor
shall the Company settle any Claim in any manner which would impose any Fine or
any obligation on Indemnitee, without Indemnitee's written
consent. Neither the Company nor Indemnitee shall unreasonably
withhold their consent to any proposed settlement.
6. Change
in Control; Extraordinary Transactions. The Company and
Indemnitee agree that if there is a Change in Control of the Company (other than
a Change in Control which has been approved by a majority of the Company's
Board of Directors who were directors immediately prior to such Change in
Control) then all Determinations thereafter with respect to the rights of
Indemnitee to be paid Losses and Expenses under this Agreement shall be made
only by a special independent counsel (the "Special Independent Counsel")
selected by Indemnitee and approved by the Company (which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld) or by a court of competent jurisdiction. The
Company shall pay the reasonable fees of such Special Independent Counsel and
shall indemnify such Special Independent Counsel against any and all reasonable
expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), claims, liabilities and damages
arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its engagement pursuant
hereto.
The Company
covenants and agrees that, in the event of a Change in Control of the sort set
forth in clause (C) of Section 1(c), the Company will use its best
efforts (a) to have the obligations of the Company under this Agreement
including, but not limited to those under Section 7, expressly assumed by
the surviving, purchasing or succeeding entity, or (b) otherwise to
adequately provide for the satisfaction of the Company's obligations under this
Agreement, in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitee.
7. Establishment
of Trust. In the event of a Potential Change in Control (other
than a Potential Change of Control which has been approved by a majority of the
Company’s Board of Directors who were directors immediately prior to such
Potential Change of Control), the Company shall, upon written request
by Indemnitee, create a trust (the "Trust") for the benefit of the Indemnitee
and from time to time upon written request of Indemnitee shall fund the Trust in
an amount sufficient to satisfy any and all Losses and Expenses which are
actually paid or which Indemnitee reasonably determines from time to time may be
payable by the Company under this Agreement. The amount or amounts to
be deposited in the Trust pursuant to the foregoing funding obligation shall be
determined by the Reviewing Party, in any case in which the Special Independent
Counsel is involved. The terms of the Trust shall provide that upon a
Change in Control: (i) the Trust shall not be revoked or the
principal thereof invaded without the written consent of the Indemnitee;
(ii) the trustee of the Trust shall advance, within twenty days of a
request by the Indemnitee, any and all Expenses to the Indemnitee (and the
Indemnitee hereby agrees to reimburse the Trust under the circumstances under
which the Indemnitee would be required to reimburse the Company under
Section 4(e) of this Agreement); (iii) the Company shall continue to
fund the Trust from time to time in accordance with the funding obligations set
forth above; (iv) the trustee of the Trust shall promptly pay to the
Indemnitee all Losses and Expenses for which the Indemnitee shall be entitled to
indemnification pursuant to this Agreement; and (v) all unexpended funds in
the Trust shall revert to the Company upon a final determination by a court of
competent jurisdiction in a final decision from which there is no further right
of appeal that the Indemnitee has been fully indemnified under the terms of this
Agreement. The Trustee of the Trust shall be chosen by the
Indemnitee.
8. No
Presumption. For purposes of this Agreement, the termination
of any Claim by judgment, order, settlement (whether with or without court
approval) or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo
contendere,
or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that Indemnitee
did not meet any particular standard of conduct or have any particular belief or
that a court has determined that indemnification is not permitted by applicable
law.
9. Nonexclusivity,
Etc. The rights of the Indemnitee hereunder shall be in
addition to any other rights Indemnitee may have under the Company's Governing
Documents or under the laws, as in effect from time to time, of the Company's
state of incorporation (such laws being the "Applicable State Laws"), any vote
of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in
the Indemnitee's official capacity and as to action in any other capacity by
holding such office, and shall continue after the Indemnitee ceases to serve the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a director, officer, employee, agent or
fiduciary, for so long as the Indemnitee shall be subject to any Claim by reason
of (or arising in part out of) an Indemnifiable Event. To the extent
that a change in the Applicable State Laws (whether by statute or judicial
decision or by reincorporation of the Company in a different jurisdiction)
permits greater indemnification by agreement than would be afforded
currently under the Company's Governing Documents and this Agreement, it is the
intent of the parties hereto that Indemnitee shall enjoy by this Agreement the
greater benefits so afforded by such change.
10. Liability
Insurance. To the extent the Company maintains D&O
Insurance, Indemnitee, if an officer or director of the Company, shall be
covered by such policy or policies, in accordance with its or their terms, to
the maximum extent of the coverage available for any director or officer of the
Company.
11. Subrogation. In
the event of payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to
the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who
shall execute all papers required and shall do everything that may be necessary
to secure such rights, including the execution of such documents necessary to
enable the Company effectively to bring suit to enforce such
rights.
12. Partial
Indemnity, Etc. If Indemnitee is entitled under any provision
of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for some or a portion of the
Expenses and Losses of a Claim but not, however, for all of the total amount
thereof, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee for the portion
thereof to which Indemnitee is entitled. Moreover, notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any or all Claims relating
in whole or in part to any Indemnifiable Event or in defense of any issue or
matter therein, including dismissal without prejudice, Indemnitee shall be
indemnified against all Expenses incurred in connection therewith. In
connection with any Determination as to whether Indemnitee is entitled to be
indemnified hereunder the burden of proof shall be on the Company to establish
that Indemnitee is not so entitled.
13. Liability
of Company. The Indemnitee agrees that neither the
stockholders nor the directors nor any officer, employee, representative or
agent of the Company shall be personally liable for the satisfaction of the
Company's obligations under this Agreement and the Indemnitee shall look
solely to the assets of the Company for satisfaction of any claims
hereunder.
14. Enforcement.
(a) Indemnitee's
right to indemnification and other rights under this Agreement shall be
specifically enforceable by Indemnitee only in the state or Federal courts of
the State of Georgia or of the then current State of incorporation of the
Company and shall be enforceable notwithstanding any adverse Determination by
the Company's Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, the Special
Independent Counsel or the Company's stockholders and no such Determination
shall create a presumption that Indemnitee is not entitled to be
indemnified hereunder. In any such action the Company shall have the
burden of proving that indemnification is not required under this
Agreement.
(b) In
the event that any action is instituted by Indemnitee under this Agreement, or
to enforce or interpret any of the terms of this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be
entitled to be paid all court costs and reasonable expenses, including
reasonable counsel fees, incurred by Indemnitee with respect to such action,
unless the court determines that each of the material assertions made by
Indemnitee as a basis for such action were not made in good faith or were
frivolous.
15. Severability. In
the event that any provision of this Agreement is determined by a court to
require the Company to do or to fail to do an act which is in violation of
applicable law, such provision (including any provision within a single section,
paragraph or sentence) shall be limited or modified in its application to the
minimum extent necessary to avoid a violation of law, and, as so limited or
modified, such provision and the balance of this Agreement shall be enforceable
in accordance with their terms to the fullest extent permitted by
law.
16. Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the state in which the Company is incorporated at
the time any claim for indemnification is made hereunder applicable to
agreements made and to be performed entirely within such state.
17. Consent
to Jurisdiction. The Company and the Indemnitee each hereby
irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of
Georgia and the laws of the State in which the Company is incorporated at the
time any claim for indemnification hereunder is made for all purposes in
connection with any action or proceeding which arises out of or relates to this
Agreement and agree that any action instituted under this Agreement shall be
brought only in the state and Federal courts of the States indicated in this
Section.
18. Notices. All
notices, or other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be
sufficiently given for all purposes if in writing and personally delivered,
telegraphed, telexed, sent by facsimile transmission or sent by registered or
certified mail, return receipt requested, with postage prepaid addressed as
follows, or to such other address as the parties shall have given notice of
pursuant hereto:
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(a)
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If
to the Company, to:
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Arby’s
Restaurant Group, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
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Attention: General Counsel
Fax No.:
000-000-0000
with a copy
to:
Triarc Companies,
Inc.
280 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Attention: Executive
Vice President & General
Counsel
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Fax
No.: 000-000-0000
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(b)
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If
to the Indemnitee, to:
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1300
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000
19. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be signed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original and
all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same
instrument.
20. Successors
and Assigns. This Agreement shall be (i) binding upon all
successors and assigns of the Company, including any direct or indirect
successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or
substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, and
(ii) shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successors and
assigns, heirs, and personal or legal representatives of
Indemnitee.
21. Amendment;
Waiver. No amendment, modification, termination or
cancellation of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing signed
by each of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of
this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other
provision hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a
continuing waiver.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the Company and Indemnitee have executed this Agreement effective as of
the day and year first above written.
| ARBY'S RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. | |
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By:____________________________________
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| By:__________________________________ | |
| Title:_________________________________ | |
| ATTEST: | |
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By:_______________________________
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| By:____________________________ | |
| Title:___________________________ | |
| WITNESS: | |
| ________________________________ | ________________________________________ |
| ______________________________, Indemnitee |
