SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTSettlement Agreement • March 24th, 2006 • Sovereign Bancorp Inc • Savings institution, federally chartered • New York
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 22, 2006 (“Agreement”), by and among Relational Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Holdings”), Relational Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Group”), Relational Investors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Relational”), Ralph V. Whitworth (“Whitworth”), David H. Batchelder (“Batchelder”), and each of the investment partnerships controlled by Relational and identified on Annex A hereto (collectively, the “Funds” and, together with Holdings, Group, Relational, Whitworth and Batchelder, the “Relational Group”), on the one hand, and Sovereign Bancorp, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (“Sovereign” or the “Company”), on the other.
