LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT OF HEXEGEN LLC
Exhibit 10.1
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
OF
HEXEGEN LLC
This Limited Liability Company Agreement (this “Agreement”) of Hexegen LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), is made as of May __, 2024, by and among the Members (the “Effective Date”).
FORMATION
DEFINITIONS
1933 Act has the meaning set forth in Section 7.2 hereof.
Act has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 hereof.
Adjusted Balance means, for each Member with respect to the Member’s Class I Units, an amount equal to:
Adjusted Capital Account has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(b) hereof.
Affiliate means, as to any Member or otherwise, a Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Member or other Person. For purposes of this definition, “control” means: (i) the ability to vote, directly or indirectly, stock or other equity securities having more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of all outstanding stock or other equity securities of an entity, (ii) the ability to otherwise direct the day to day operations of an entity, or (iii) such equivalent of (i) or (ii) for a not-for-profit company. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of Member B.
Agreement means this Limited Liability Company Agreement (including all Exhibits hereto), as it may be amended, supplemented or restated from time to time.
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required to close in New York City, New York.
Capital Account has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1 hereof.
Capital Contribution means, with respect to any Member, the amount of money contributed to the Company with respect to Units in the Company held or purchased by such Member, and any additional Capital Contributions made pursuant to Section 3.2.
Cause means a good faith determination by the vote of at least 75% of the independent members of the board of directors of Nabors that one or more of the following events exists or has occurred:
provided, however, that termination for “Cause” under (b) or (c) shall have not been deemed to have occurred unless: (i) such event, as determined by the independent members of the board of directors of Nabors, causes substantial harm to Nabors, (ii) upon becoming aware of any alleged breach, Nabors shall first provide written notice to Member B of the basis of the alleged breach in reasonable detail and shall provide Member B 90 days following such written notice to cure, correct, or mitigate the event so it does not become a basis for a termination for cause, (iii) if the alleged breach has been cured or corrected by Member B within 90 days of receipt of written notice, no “Cause” shall be found, (iv) if the conduct surrounding the alleged breach, although not capable of being cured or corrected, is nevertheless stopped or reversed, and Nabors has neither been materially financially harmed nor incurred substantial nonfinancial adverse effects, no “Cause” shall be found to exist and (v) in all events, prior to the board of directors of Nabors making any good faith determination by vote on the matter, Member B shall be afforded the opportunity upon reasonable notice, with counsel of his choosing, to be heard before the Nabors board of directors on the matter.
Class I Units means the shares of Class I membership units of the Company, from time to time issued by the Company, pursuant to that certain certificate of incorporation of the Company, as may be amended from time to time, subject to adjustment, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein.
Class II Units means the shares of Class II membership units of the Company, from time to time issued by the Company, pursuant to that certain certificate of incorporation of the Company, as may be amended from time to time, subject to adjustment, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any corresponding provision or provisions of any succeeding law).
Company has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
Company Confidential Information has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8(d) hereof.
Company Sale means (i) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, taken as a whole, or (ii) the sale, assignment or other disposition by the Company or the Members (whether by merger, consolidation, recapitalization, transfer of equity securities or otherwise) that results in the Members immediately prior to such transaction owning less than 50% of the voting power of the Units (or other entity resulting from such merger, consolidation or other business combination).
Compensatory Interest has the meaning set forth in Section 4.4 hereof.
Designated Individual has the meaning set forth in Section 6.9(a) hereof.
Dissolution Event has the meaning set forth in Section 8.1 hereof.
Distributable Cash Flow has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1 hereof.
Effective Date has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
Final Value has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3 hereof.
Fiscal Year means (i) the period commencing upon the formation of the Company in 2024 and ending on December 31, 2024, (ii) any subsequent twelve-month period commencing on January 1 and ending on December 31 and (iii) the period commencing on the immediately preceding January 1 and ending on the date on which all Property is distributed to the Members pursuant to Article 8 hereof.
Funding Failure means a determination by the board of directors of Nabors to cease funding the business of the Company, or to fund the business of the Company at a level below the reasonable needs of the business necessary to maintain an ongoing concern.
Government Authority means any United States or non-United States federal, state, municipal or local government, or political subdivision thereof, or any authority, agency or commission entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, regulatory or taxing authority or power, any court or tribunal (or any department, bureau or division thereof), or any arbitrator or arbitral body, and includes any entity acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.
Indemnitee has the meaning set forth in Section 6.6(b) hereof.
Liquidator has the meaning set forth in Section 8.2(a) hereof.
Manager(s) has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1 hereof.
Member means each Person executing this Agreement as a member or its permitted successor, and any Person subsequently admitted as a Member pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
Member A means Nabors Energy Transition Solutions LLC.
Member B means Remington Energy I, LLC.
Member Representatives has the meaning set forth in Section 6.8(d) hereof.
Nabors means Xxxxxx Industries Ltd.
Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 9.2 hereof.
Partnership Indemnitees has the meaning set forth in Section 6.9(g) hereof.
Partnership Representative has the meaning set forth in Section 6.9(a) hereof.
Person means an individual or a corporation, partnership (whether general or limited), trust, limited liability company, corporation, unincorporated organization, association or other entity or organization.
Profits Interest means a “profits interest” within the meaning of Internal Revenue Service Revenue Procedure 93-27, 1993-2 C.B. 343, as clarified by Revenue Procedure 2001-43, 2001-2 C.B. 191, and Internal Revenue Service Notice 200543, and any future Internal Revenue Service guidance.
Property means all real and personal property acquired by the Company, including cash, and any improvements thereto, and shall include both tangible and intangible property.
Purchase Notice shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.2 hereof.
Regulations means the income tax regulations promulgated under the Code and in effect, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
Revised Partnership Audit Provisions means Code sections 6221 through 6241 as originally enacted in P.L. 114-74, and as may be amended, and including any Regulations or other administrative guidance promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service thereunder or successor provisions and any comparable provision of non-U.S. or U.S. state or local law.
Tax Distributions means the distributions provided for in Section 4.2 hereof.
Termination Notice shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.2 hereof.
Testing Event has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3.
Transfer means, directly or indirectly, any sale, assignment, transfer, pledge, hypothecation, granting a lien or other security interest, or other disposition of all or part of any membership units, shares, warrants or units consisting of shares and warrants, by operation of law or otherwise, voluntarily or involuntarily, by intestacy, will, trust or estate distribution, or inter vivos action. “Transferor” or “Transferee” shall have the correlative meanings.
Unit(s) means an issued and outstanding Class I or Class II Unit held by a Member as shown on Exhibit A, with each such Unit having such rights and obligations as set forth herein (including a Member’s right to receive distributions of the Company’s assets).
CAPITALIZATION OF THE COMPANY
4.2Tax Distributions. Tax Distributions shall be made to the Members on each estimated payment date for taxes and following each tax year equal to the product of (i) the amount of taxable income allocated to such Member and (ii) the applicable tax rate (i.e., the corporate rate with respect to Member A and the individual rate with respect to Member B). Tax Distributions shall be treated as advances and shall reduce future distributions to each Member, including amounts payable pursuant to Section 4.1, Section 4.3 and Section 8.2 (without duplication).
4.3Valuation. On the earlier of (i) the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date, (ii) a Funding Failure, (iii) a Company Sale or (iv) on each sale or other disposition of all or material assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (each, as applicable, a “Testing Event”), the Company will be valued by an independent third party appraiser selected by the Audit Committee of Nabors, subject to Member B’s consent to the appraiser which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed (such value, the “Final Value”; provided, that the Final Value in the event of a Company Sale will be the valuation of the Company implied by such Company Sale). If upon a Testing Event the Final Value exceeds the Adjusted Balance of Member A, then Member A shall pay, or cause to be paid, to Member B an amount equal to the amount the holders of Class II Units would receive if the business was sold for the Final Value and the proceeds were distributed in accordance with Section 8.2. Member A shall satisfy the obligation pursuant to this Section 4.3 with cash unless Member A, in its sole discretion, determines to satisfy all or a portion of the value with Nabors common stock having a value equal to the amount of cash otherwise payable to Member B, using the trailing 10-day volume-weighted average closing sale price (regular way) of a share of Nabors common stock as of the Business Day ending immediately prior to the payment date as reported on the NYSE (as published in The Wall Street Journal). All outstanding Class II Units shall automatically be cancelled upon payment to the holders of Class II Units of such amount.
4.4Profits Interest. The Class II Units are intended to be treated as Profits Interests and the provisions of this this Agreement shall at all times be interpreted in a manner consistent with such intent. Accordingly, the portion of a Member’s Capital Account associated with each Class II Unit at the time of its issuance shall be equal to zero. The Company and each holder of a Class II Unit shall file all federal income tax returns (and state, local and foreign tax returns where
applicable) consistent with this Section 4.4 and the characterization of the Class II Units as Profits Interests, although none of the Manager, the Company or any Member makes any representation as to the tax treatment of the Class II Units. The Manager shall have the right to amend this Agreement without the approval of any other Member upon publication of final regulations in the Federal Register (or other official pronouncement) to (i) direct and authorize the election of a safe harbor under Treasury Regulations section 1.83-3(1) (or any similar provision) under which the fair market value of a partnership interest that is transferred in connection with the performance of services (“Compensatory Interest”) is treated as being equal to the liquidation value of that interest, (ii) provide for an agreement by the Company and all of its Members to comply with all the requirements set forth in such regulations and Notice 2005-43 (and any other guidance provided by the IRS with respect to such election) with respect to all Compensatory Interests while the election remains effective and (iii) provide for any other related amendments. The Manager shall have the discretion to make any determinations required under this Section 4.4 including as to the extent to which a Class II Unit will be excluded from participating in Company distributions on account of this Section 4.4. Subject to the foregoing limitations, distributions shall be made to holders of Class II Units without regard to vesting.
4.5Limitation Upon Distributions. Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement to the contrary, no distribution shall be made to any Member to the extent prohibited under the Act and, prior to a Dissolution Event, there will be no distribution of assets other than cash or securities to any Member.
4.6Required Withholding. The Company is authorized to withhold from distributions to a Member (including from any distributions in kind), or with respect to allocations to a Member, and to pay over to a federal, state, local or foreign government, any amounts required to be withheld pursuant to the Code, or any provision of any other federal, state, local or foreign law. All amounts withheld pursuant to this Section 4.6 shall be treated as amounts distributed to the relevant Member or Members at the time such amount is withheld for all purposes of this Agreement.
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS AND ALLOCATIONS
MANAGEMENT
TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
TERMINATION AND DISSOLUTION
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(c)To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Member shall have full rights to directly enforce the terms of this Agreement against the Company, the Manager and the other Members, and there shall be no such enforcement right which shall require enforcement by derivative suit or action.
AMENDMENTS
This Agreement may be amended only with the unanimous consent of the Members.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the date set forth on the first page hereof.
MEMBERS:
XXXXXX ENERGY TRANSITION SOLUTIONS LLC,
a Texas limited liability company
By: ______________________________
Name:
Title:
REMINGTON ENERGY I, LLC,
a Texas limited liability company
By: ______________________________
Name:
Title: