WAIVER AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO STOCKHOLDER’S AGREEMENT
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WAIVER AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO STOCKHOLDER’S AGREEMENT
This Waiver Agreement with respect to Stockholder’s Agreement (this “Waiver Agreement”), dated April 4, 2024, is by and among Excelerate Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), and Excelerate Energy Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with its Permitted Transferees who are assignees pursuant to Section 4.9 of the Stockholder’s Agreement, the “Kaiser Investor”) (each a “Party” and collectively, the “Parties”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, on April 18, 2022, the Parties entered into that certain Stockholder’s Agreement, which was subsequently amended by the Parties through Amendment No. 1 thereto, dated August 9, 2023 (as so amended, and as may be amended from time to time, the “Stockholder’s Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Section 2.1 of the Stockholders Agreement provides (subject to certain ownership thresholds) the Kaiser Investor with certain rights regarding Board Designees (all obligations of the Board or the Company pursuant to Section 2.1 other than those set out in Subsection (j) (regarding Observers), Subsection (k) (regarding confidentiality) and Subsection (l) (regarding exculpation, indemnification, advancement, and reimbursement), collectively, the “Board and Committee Composition Rights”);
WHEREAS, the Board and Committee Composition Rights are generally qualified by reference to fiduciary duties under Delaware law (including through the definition of Necessary Action);
WHEREAS, the Stockholders Agreement further provides that, if the Kaiser Investor shall cease to have the right to designate one or more director(s) pursuant to the Stockholders Agreement, the Director Designee(s) selected by the Kaiser Investor shall, at the request of a majority of the directors then in office or the Chairman of the Board (or the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee in connection with the removal of the Chairman of the Board) resign immediately (“Company Resignation Right”), or the Kaiser Investor shall take all action necessary to remove such Director Designee(s) (“Kaiser Removal Obligation”);
WHEREAS, the Stockholders Agreement further provides (subject to certain ownership thresholds) that the Company will not, and will take all Necessary Action to cause its subsidiaries not to, take certain actions without the prior written consent of the Kaiser Investor (“Kaiser Consent Rights”);
WHEREAS, in an opinion captioned West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund x. Xxxxxx & Company (“Moelis”), the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware declared invalid certain rights that are similar to some of the Board and Committee Composition Rights and to the Kaiser Consent Rights;
WHEREAS, the Stockholders Agreement provides that (i) if any provision of the Stockholders Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, a suitable and equitable provision will be substituted therefor in order to carry out, so far as may be valid and
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enforceable, the intent and purpose of such invalid or unenforceable provision and (ii) each Party will take such further actions as may be reasonably requested from time to time by the other Parties to give effect to and carry out the transactions contemplated therein (the “Severability and Further Assurances Provisions”);
WHEREAS, the Stockholders Agreement provides that any provision thereof may be waived in a writing signed by each of the parties against whom the waiver is to be effective; and
WHEREAS, in light of Moelis and the Severability and Further Assurances Provisions, the Parties have determined to enter into this Waiver Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual consideration and covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties intending to be legally bound agree as follows:
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have executed this Waiver Agreement as of the date first written above.
COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx Hood
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx Hood
Title: Executive Vice President and General Counsel
PARTNERSHIP
Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership
By: Excelerate Energy, Inc., its general partner
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx Hood
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx Hood
Title: Executive Vice President and General Counsel
KAISER INVESTOR
Excelerate Energy Holdings, LLC
By: Xxxxxx-Xxxxxxx Management Company LLC, Inc., its manager
By: /s/ Xxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: President