SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTSettlement Agreement • September 21st, 2007 • TJX Companies Inc /De/ • Retail-family clothing stores • Massachusetts
Contract Type FiledSeptember 21st, 2007 Company Industry JurisdictionThis Settlement Agreement, dated as of September 21, 2007 (the “Settlement Agreement”), is made and entered into by and among the following Settling Parties (as defined below) to the above-captioned consolidated action: (i) ACohen Marketing & Public Relations, LLC, Julie Buckley, Anne Cohen, LaQuita Kearney, Laura Lerner, Robert Mann, Jitka Parmet, Deborah Wilson, Kathleen Robinson, Shannon Kidd and Mary Robb Farley, (the “Representative Plaintiffs”), individually and on behalf of the Settlement Class (as defined below), by and through (in alphabetical order) Ben Barnow, Barnow and Associates, P.C.; Lester L. Levy, Wolf Popper LLP; and Sherrie R. Savett, Berger & Montague, P.C. (together, “Settlement Class Co-Lead Counsel”); (ii) The TJX Companies, Inc. (“TJX”), by and through its counsel of record, Harvey J. Wolkoff and Mark P. Szpak, Ropes & Gray LLP, and (iii) Fifth Third Bancorp (“Fifth Third”), by and through its counsel of record, W. Breck Weigel, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LL