Effective Date Actions. On the Effective Date, and as part of the Purchase Price, JPMC shall (i) waive, or contribute and assign for distribution in accordance with the Plan and Section 2.22 hereof, any and all claims JPMC has against WMI in connection with JPMC’s payment of prepetition claims of vendors against WMI, WMB or their respective subsidiaries and Affiliates (or its purchase of such claims), whether by subrogation, assignment or otherwise, (ii) pay or otherwise satisfy any proofs of claim filed against the Debtors and the Debtors’ chapter 11 estates by vendors with respect to services, software licenses or goods provided to WMB and its subsidiaries (whether prior or subsequent to JPMC’s acquisition of the assets of WMB) pursuant to contracts or written agreements between WMB and/or its subsidiaries and such vendors (to the extent such portion of any such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim and to the extent payable, in whole or in part, by the Debtors or the Debtors’ chapter 11 estates), (iii) pay to WMI Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000), which funds (A) shall be placed into an escrow administered by WMI (the “Vendor Escrow”), (B) shall be used by WMI in connection with the satisfaction of Claims asserted against WMI by vendors with respect to services, software licenses or goods asserted to have been provided by the counterparties to or for the benefit of WMB or any of its subsidiaries or minority investments operations prior to the Petition Date pursuant to agreements between WMI and such vendors to the extent such portion of any such Claim becomes an Allowed Claim and to the extent payable, in whole or in part, by the Debtors or the Debtors’ chapter 11 estates (the “WMI Vendor Claims”) and (C) to the extent that any funds remain in such escrow following (1) the payment or satisfaction of all WMI Vendor Claims (including, without limitation, the withdrawal, with prejudice, of all related proofs of claim) and (2) the payment of all fees and expenses associated with such escrow, shall be distributed equally to WMI and JPMC and (iv) cooperate, to the extent reasonably requested by WMI, to enable the Debtors to (A) identify all such Claims and proofs of claim filed by vendors against the Debtors and the Debtors’ chapter 11 estates in connection therewith, (B) cause the withdrawal, with prejudice, of all such proofs of claim and (C) direct KCC to remove from the claims registry of the Debtors’ Chapter 11 Cases such proofs of claim and (4) provide for releases (whether in the Plan or otherwise) in favor of the Debtors and JPMC, and to the extent of applicable law, the FDIC Receiver and the Receivership, in connection with the WMI Vendor Claims. The Debtors shall use their good faith efforts to pay and fully resolve any WMI Vendor Claim, despite potential arguments that all or a portion of the WMI Vendor Claim is comprised of (i) services, software licenses or goods that were provided to WMB, rather than WMI, or (ii) liabilities associated with a WMI Vendor Claim are not reflected on the books and records of WMI.
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Sources: Settlement Agreement (Washington Mutual, Inc), Settlement Agreement (Washington Mutual, Inc)