July 31, 2006
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Appaloosa Management L.P.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xx. Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.
c/o 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attn: Xx. Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, STANDSTILL
AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
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Gentlemen:
This letter agreement relates to discussions involving Appaloosa
Management L.P. and its affiliates ("Appaloosa") and Harbinger Capital Partners
Master Fund I, Ltd. and its affiliates ("Harbinger") (collectively, "you" or
"your", it being understood that, unless otherwise determined by Delphi
Corporation, Harbinger will communicate with Delphi only through Appaloosa)
involving Delphi Corporation ("Delphi"), a debtor and debtor-in-possession in
chapter 11 cases (the "Chapter 11 Cases") in the United States Bankruptcy Court
for the Southern District of New York (the "Bankruptcy Court") concerning
possible negotiated business arrangements between you and the Company (defined
below). In connection with your interest in and review of certain matters
relating to Delphi and its subsidiaries and affiliates (together with their
respective officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and other
representatives, the "Company"), the Company may furnish to you certain
non-public, confidential and/or proprietary information pertaining to the
Company which is reasonably necessary in order for you to evaluate a Transaction
(as defined below) and which the Company reasonably determines is not
competitively sensitive or legally privileged (such information is anticipated
to include the financial presentations generally provided on a regular basis to
the Company's statutory committees and/or their advisors relating to the
Company's transformation plan which are reasonably necessary in order for you to
evaluate a Transaction). Such information, in whole or in part, whether written
or oral, together with any analyses, summaries, compilations, studies,
forecasts, abstracts or documents prepared during the review of the Company by
you or your Representatives (as defined below) which contain, are based upon or
otherwise reflect such information, is hereinafter referred to as the
"Evaluation Material." The term "Evaluation Material" does not include any
information which you demonstrate: (a) previously was available to you on a
non-confidential basis or by virtue of your becoming a member, if ever, of an
official committee in the Chapter 11 Cases (provided, however, that any
information made available to you in your capacity as a member of a statutory
committee shall be kept confidential as may be required pursuant to agreements
between such statutory committee and the Company and any applicable duties and
obligations you may have as a member of such committee); (b) was obtained from a
third person which, insofar as you know, following reasonable inquiry, is not
subject to any prohibition against disclosure; or (c) is or becomes generally
available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by of you or any of
your Representatives in violation of this agreement.
You will use the Evaluation Material solely for the purpose of: (1)
considering a possible negotiated business arrangement in our mutual interest
involving the Company in the Chapter 11 Cases (such business arrangement, the
"Transaction"), and (2) to the extent such Transaction is acceptable to the
Company, implementation of such Transaction, and you will not use the Evaluation
Material for any other business or competitive purpose. Except as required by
law, rule or regulation, you will keep the Evaluation Material strictly
confidential and will not disclose the Evaluation Material to any person or
entity (including any official or unofficial committee in the Chapter 11 Cases),
except that you may disclose the Evaluation Material or portions thereof to
those of your directors, officers, partners, employees, agents, financial
institutions, attorneys, advisors and accountants (collectively,
"Representatives") who need to know such information for the purpose of
evaluating on your behalf a Transaction and who also execute an acknowledgment
wherein they agree to be bound by the confidentiality provisions of this
agreement as if they were parties hereto. Without the prior written consent of
the Company, neither you nor your Representatives will disclose to any person or
entity (including any official or unofficial committee in the Chapter 11 Cases)
the fact that the Evaluation Material has been made available or that
discussions between the parties concerning a Transaction are taking place or any
term, condition or other fact relating to such business arrangement (except as
required by law, rule or regulation and subject to any applicable fiduciary
duties as a committee member). You will be responsible for any breach of this
agreement by you or any of your Representatives. Prior to the earlier of (i)
February 15, 2007, (ii) the date on which the Company files a plan of
reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases (a "Plan of Reorganization") in which any
party in interest in the Chapter 11 Cases is afforded an opportunity to
participate, including, without limitation, an opportunity to participate in a
rights offering for the equity of the Delphi following emergence from the
Chapter 11 Cases but the holders of Delphi equity are not afforded such
opportunity, (iii) any date selected by the Company in its discretion following
either the filing by you of a pleading in the Chapter 11 Cases or the taking by
you of a public position which respect to a matter relating to the Chapter 11
Cases which in either case the Company believes is in opposition to, or
inconsistent with, a position the Company has taken or expects to take in the
Chapter 11 Cases, and (iv) the fifth business day following notice by you that
the Company has not delivered to you previously-requested information (other
than information the Company reasonably determines is competitively sensitive or
legally privileged) described in such notice unless either such information is
not reasonably necessary in order for you to evaluate a Transaction or prior, to
such fifth business day, the Company delivers to you such information (such
earlier date, the "Release Date"), unless otherwise agreed to by the Company in
writing, you agree, in your individual capacity and not as a committee member,
if ever applicable, to engage (along with your Representatives) in discussions
and negotiate exclusively with the Company and its legal and financial advisors
with respect to a Transaction. In addition, you hereby withdraw the letter to
the Members of the Board of Directors of Delphi, dated March 15, 2006 (the
"March 15 Letter"). You will file an amendment to your Schedule 13D disclosing
this Agreement and related matters (including that you have withdrawn the March
15 letter).
You hereby represent that you have, and will have at all times after
the execution of this agreement and prior to the Release Date, a "Net Long
Position" (as defined below) with respect to the Company. At the Company's
request you agree promptly to provide the Company with reasonable information
which supports the initial representation in the prior sentence and your
continued compliance with the prior sentence and the next sentence. In addition,
prior to the Release Date, you will not sell, dispose of or otherwise transfer
any equity or debt securities, equity or fixed income related credit derivatives
or other instruments (including put equivalent and call equivalent instruments)
issued by, guaranteed by or relating to the Company. With respect to the
Company, a "Net Long Position" means that, on an aggregate basis with respect to
all equity or debt securities, equity or fixed income related credit derivatives
or other instruments (including put equivalent and call equivalent instruments)
issued by, guaranteed by or relating to the Company, your portfolio of such
securities, derivatives and other instruments would be reasonably likely to gain
in value if an event occurred which would be reasonably likely to cause the
credit quality of the Company to improve.
In the event that you or any of your Representatives are legally
required (by deposition, interrogatories, requests for documents, subpoena,
civil investigation demand or similar process) to disclose any of the Evaluation
Material, or if you or any of your Representatives are legally required (by
deposition, interrogatories, requests for documents, subpoena, civil
investigation demand or similar process) to disclose the fact that the
Evaluation Material has been made available or that discussions between the
parties are taking place or any other fact relating to a Transaction, you will
provide to the extent practicable, the Company with prompt prior written notice
of such requirement so that the Company may (a) seek a protective order or other
appropriate remedy or (b) in its sole discretion, waive compliance with the
terms of this agreement. If a protective order or other remedy is not obtained
within a reasonable period of time, or the Company waives compliance with the
terms of this agreement, you or your Representatives, as applicable, will
disclose only that which you or your Representatives are legally required to
disclose or which is necessary to avoid sanction for contempt of court and you
or your Representatives, as applicable, will exercise commercially reasonable
efforts (which efforts will consist of at least the efforts you undertake in
connection with ensuring the confidential treatment of your non-public,
confidential and/or proprietary information) to ensure confidential treatment of
(x) the Evaluation Material, (y) the fact that the Evaluation Material has been
made available or that discussions between the parties are taking place, and (z)
any other fact you are prohibited from disclosing pursuant to this agreement.
If we do not proceed with a Transaction, or if the Company so
requests, you will promptly return to the Company all copies (including
originals) of the Evaluation Material in your possession or in the possession of
your Representatives, and you will promptly destroy all Evaluation Material
which constitutes copies (including originals) of any analyses, studies,
abstracts or other documents prepared by you or your Representatives or for your
or your Representatives' use, and any such destruction shall be certified in
writing to us by a duly authorized Representative of yours. Notwithstanding the
return or destruction of Evaluation Material, you and your Representatives will
continue to be bound by your obligations of confidentiality hereunder for the
period commencing on the date hereof through the first anniversary of the date
of the consummation of a Plan of Reorganization.
You understand and agree that except as set forth in written
definitive agreements in connection with a Transaction, the Company has not made
or is not making any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the
accuracy or completeness of the Evaluation Material, and nor will the Company or
its affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees,
agents, affiliates, attorneys, advisors or accountants have any liability to you
or any other person or entity relating to or resulting from the use of the
Evaluation Material or any errors therein or omissions therefrom.
For the period commencing on the date hereof through the Release Date
(unless the Company is determined by a final order of the Bankruptcy Court to
have failed to perform in all material respects all of its obligations
hereunder), (a) you will not seek, and will cause each of your affiliates not
to, directly or indirectly, knowingly seek, or solicit or induce, or attempt to
solicit or induce a third party to seek, or support a third party that may seek
or is seeking to shorten or terminate the Company's exclusive periods (the
"Exclusive Periods") to propose and/or solicit a Plan of Reorganization;
provided, however, that if you become a member of an official committee in the
Chapter 11 Cases, then in your capacity as a member of such a committee, you may
participate in committee discussions, committee meetings and committee votes
with respect to the foregoing matters consistent with your fiduciary duties as a
member of such committee and (b) you will not take, and will cause each of your
affiliates not to take, directly or indirectly, any action with respect to the
matters described in the March 15 Letter.
Until the later of the Release Date and the date upon which you are no
longer in possession of material, non-public information about the Company
(unless the Company is determined by a final order of the Bankruptcy Court to
have failed to perform in all material respects all of its obligations
hereunder), without the prior written consent of the Company, you will not, and
will cause each of your affiliates and Representatives (in their capacity as
such) not to, singly or as part of a group, in any manner, directly or
indirectly: (i) participate in any solicitation of proxies or become a
participant in any election contest with respect to the Company, (ii) form, join
or in any way participate in a "group" (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) with respect to Delphi's common stock,
and (iii) sell, dispose of or otherwise transfer any equity securities of the
Company ("Equity Securities"), any debt securities of the Company ("Debt
Securities"), or assets of or claims against the Company, or any rights to
acquire any Equity Securities, Debt Securities, or assets of or claims against
the Company. In addition, nothing in this letter agreement results in or will
result in a modification, amendment, waiver of any provision in the (i) the
Final Order Under 11 USC Sections 105, 362 and 541 FED. R. BANKR. P. 3001 dated
January 6, 2006 (A) Establishing Notification Procedures Applicable to
Substantial Holders of Claims and Equity Securities and (B) Establishing
Notification and Hearing Procedures for Trading in Claims and Equity Securities,
(ii) the letter agreements, dated November 22, 2005 and January 9, 2006, between
the Company and Palomino Fund, (iii) the letter agreements, dated December 5,
2005 and January 9, 2006 between the Company and Appaloosa Investment
Partnership I, and (iv) the letter agreements, both dated January 9, 2006,
between the Company and Appaloosa Management LP.
You agree that money damages would not be a sufficient remedy for any
breach of this agreement by you or your Representatives and that, in addition to
all other remedies, the Company will be entitled to equitable relief, including
specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief, in the event of
any breach or threatened breach of any provision of this agreement. In the event
of litigation relating to this agreement, each party shall pay its own expenses.
You acknowledge and agree that the Company is free to terminate
discussions and negotiations with you at any time after the Release Date and for
any reason (provided, however, that the Company will not be limited in any way
by the terms of this letter agreement in allocating, prioritizing and directing
its resources and personnel, including its employees, agents and
representatives, to discussions and negotiations with other parties in
connection with the Chapter 11 Cases or other matter) and unless and until a
written definitive agreement concerning a Transaction has been executed and
approved by the Bankruptcy Court, neither the Company nor any of our affiliates
or any of our or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents,
affiliates, attorneys, advisors or accountants will have any liability to you
with respect to any business arrangement, whether by virtue of this agreement,
any other written or oral expression with respect to any Transaction or
otherwise.
You acknowledge that you and your Representatives may receive material
non-public information in connection with your evaluation of any Transaction and
you are aware (and you will so advise your Representatives) that the United
States securities laws impose restrictions on trading in securities when in
possession of such information.
The Company understands that you would prefer not to be in possession
of material non-public information at the time a Plan of Reorganization becomes
effective. In this regard, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts
to avoid providing you with information that the Company expects is likely to be
material non-public information as of the effective date of such a Plan of
Reorganization and you shall follow appropriate procedures to screen information
the Company provides to you to avoid being in possession or having knowledge of
material non-public information as of such date. If, however, you believe that
you are in possession of material non-public information at the time a Plan of
Reorganization becomes effective, you may request the Company to make
appropriate public disclosure such that the information would no longer be
non-public, and the Company will make such public disclosure if the Company
reasonably determines that such public disclosure would be in the best interests
of the Company and its constituents.
If information subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege, work
product doctrine or any other ground on which production of such information
should not be made is nevertheless inadvertently produced by the Company to you
or your Representatives, such production shall in no way prejudice or otherwise
constitute a waiver of, or estoppel as to, any claim of privilege, work product
or other ground for withholding production to which the Company would otherwise
be entitled. If a claim of inadvertent production is made pursuant to this
paragraph with respect to information then in the custody of you or your
Representatives, then you or your Representatives, as the case may be, shall,
upon request, promptly return to the Company that material (including all copies
thereof) as to which the claim of inadvertent production has been made, and you
and your Representatives shall not further use such information for any purpose.
Appaloosa and Harbinger are acting independently and not in concert
with respect to this agreement and nothing in this agreement shall be construed
to suggest that Appaloosa and Harbinger are in any manner acting together with
respect to the Company or any Transaction.
This agreement is solely for the benefit of the Company and its
respective successors and assigns. The rights of the Company under this
agreement may be assigned in whole or in part to any purchaser of the Company or
any substantial part thereof, which purchaser shall be entitled to enforce this
agreement to the same extent and in the same manner as the Company is entitled
to enforce this agreement.
No failure or delay by the Company in the exercise of any right, power
or privilege hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof. This agreement can only
be modified or waived in writing.
Notices required or permitted by this Agreement shall be given by
certified mail, return receipt requested, overnight courier service or facsimile
to the following notice addresses:
A. For the Company:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
Vice President, General Counsel
and Chief Compliance Officer
Delphi Corporation
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Xxxx Xx. Xxxxxx, Jr., Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000, Suite 2100
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
B. For Appaloosa Management L.P.
Appaloosa Management L.P.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xx. Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
C. For Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.
Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.
c/o 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attn: Xx. Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd.
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: Legal Department
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
Any proceeding relating to this letter agreement shall be brought in
the Bankruptcy Court during the pendency of the Chapter 11 Cases and thereafter
in a federal or state court of New York. You and the Company hereby consent to
personal jurisdiction in any such action and to service of process by mail, and
waive any objection to venue in any such court. This letter shall be governed by
the internal laws of the State of New York and shall inure to the benefit of and
be binding upon the Company and you and our respective affiliates, successors
and assigns, including any successor to the Company or you or substantially all
of the Company's or your assets or business.
Please acknowledge your acceptance of the terms and conditions stated
herein by signing and returning this agreement to the Company.
DELPHI CORPORATION
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By: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Its: Vice President & General Counsel
ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
APPALOOSA MANAGEMENT L.P.
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By:
Its:
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS MASTER FUND I, LTD.
By: Harbinger Capital Partners Offshore Manager, LLC,
as its investment manager
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By:
Its:
SK 03773 0003 733749
