Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) After the Effective Time, PalEx shall, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, indemnify and hold harmless, each present and former director, officer and agent of the Company (each, together with such person's heirs, executors or administrators, an "INDEMNIFIED PARTY" and collectively, the "INDEMNIFIED PARTIES") against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of, relating to or in connection with any action or omission of PalEx occurring prior to the Effective Time (including, without limitation, acts or omissions in connection with such persons serving as an officer, director or other fiduciary in any entity if such service was at the request or for the benefit of the Company). In the event of any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation (whether arising before or after the Effective Time), (i) PalEx shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel selected by the indemnified parties, which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to PalEx, promptly after statements therefor are received, (ii) PalEx will cooperate in the defense of any such matter, and (iii) any determination required to be made with respect to whether an indemnified party's conduct complies with the standards set forth under the DGCL or other applicable statutes and PalEx's or the Surviving Corporation's respective Certificates of Incorporation or By-Laws shall be made by independent legal counsel acceptable to PalEx as the case may be, and the indemnified party; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that PalEx shall not be liable for any settlement effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) Following the Closing, the organizational documents of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and SPAC shall contain provisions no less favorable with respect to indemnification, advancement or expense reimbursement than are set forth in their respective organizational documents as of the date hereof, which provisions shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified for a period of six (6) years from the Closing Date in any manner that would affect adversely the rights thereunder of individuals who, at or prior to the Closing Date, were directors, officers, employees, fiduciaries or agents of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or SPAC, unless such modification shall be required by applicable Law. For a period of six (6) years from the Closing, the Company agrees that it shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless each present and former director and officer of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and SPAC against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Closing, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Closing, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law and the applicable organizational documents of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and SPAC, as of the date hereof (including the advancing of expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law and the applicable organizational documents of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and SPAC, as applicable, as of the date hereof). For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent the foregoing indemnification and advancement obligation arises under applicable Law or this Agreement but not the applicable organizational documents of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or SPAC, as applicable, the Company shall have no obligation to indemnify or advance expenses to the extent it is determined by final adjudication in the underlying action for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought that such individual did not act in good faith or in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the entity for which such individual is or was serving as a director or officer, or, with respect to any criminal action or proce...
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) For a period of six (6) years from and after the Closing, the Buyer shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, cause the Company and the Consolidated Subsidiaries to honor all the Company’s and the Consolidated Subsidiaries’ obligations to indemnify (including all obligations to advance funds for expenses) the current or former directors or officers of the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary for acts or omissions by such directors and officers occurring prior to the Closing Date to the extent that such obligations of the Company or such Consolidated Subsidiary exist on the date of this Agreement, whether pursuant to the Company Charter, the Company Bylaws, the respective charters or bylaws of the Consolidated Subsidiaries, individual indemnity agreements or otherwise, and such obligations shall survive and shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the current terms of the Company Charter, the Company Bylaws, the respective charters or bylaws of the Consolidated Subsidiaries and such individual indemnity agreements from the Closing Date until the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations with respect to any claims against such directors or officers arising out of such acts or omissions; provided, however, that such indemnification obligations shall only be with respect to matters arising in connection with such director’s or officer’s service as a director or officer of the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary, and not in any other capacity; and provided, further, that in no event shall the Buyer, the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary have any obligation pursuant to this Section 7.4 with respect to matters for which the Buyer is entitled to indemnification pursuant to Article IX.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) From and after the Effective Time, the Company agrees that it shall, and shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, indemnify and hold harmless each present and former director, officer and employee of Pubco and its Subsidiaries against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, to the fullest extent that Pubco or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, would have been permitted under applicable Law and their applicable certificate of incorporation and bylaws in effect on the date hereof to indemnify such Person (including promptly advancing expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under such certificate of incorporation and bylaws). The Company shall cause Pubco and its Subsidiaries (i) to maintain for a period of not less than six years from the Effective Time provisions in their respective certificate of incorporation and bylaws (or similar organizational documents) concerning the indemnification and exculpation (including provisions relating to expense advancement) of Pubco’s and its Subsidiaries’ respective former and current officers, directors, employees and agents that are no less favorable to those Persons than the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of Pubco and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, in each case, as of the date hereof and (ii) not to amend, repeal or otherwise modify such provisions in any respect that would adversely affect the rights of those Persons thereunder, in each case, except as required by Law.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) The indemnification provisions of the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Company as in effect at the Effective Time shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified for a period of six years from the Effective Time in any manner that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of individuals who at the Effective Time were directors, officers, employees or agents of the Company.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) From and after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law (and the Surviving Corporation shall also advance expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law; provided, that the person to whom expenses are advanced provides an undertaking to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification), each present and former director and officer of the Company and its Subsidiaries (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") against any and all costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any Action, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to any action or omission or matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, including the Transactions, to the same extent as provided in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Company, or any other applicable contract, in effect on the date hereof.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) From and after the Company Merger Effective Time, the Parent Entities shall, and shall cause the Surviving Company and the Surviving Partnership to, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, indemnify, defend and hold harmless each current or former director or officer of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries and each fiduciary under benefit plans of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries (each an "Indemnified Party" and collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") against (i) all losses, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses), judgments, fines, claims, actions, suits, damages or liabilities or, subject to the proviso of the next sentence, amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of actions or omissions occurring at or prior to the Company Merger Effective Time (and whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Company Merger Effective Time), including in connection with the consideration, negotiation and approval of this Agreement, to the extent that they are based on or arise out of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer or fiduciary under benefit plans, including payment on behalf of or advancement to the Indemnified Party of any expenses incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with enforcing any rights with respect to such indemnification and/or advancement (the "Indemnified Liabilities"), and (ii) all Indemnified Liabilities to the extent they are based on or arise out of or pertain to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Company Merger Effective Time, and including any expenses incurred in enforcing such person's rights under this Section 5.8(a); provided that (x) none of the Surviving Company or the Surviving Partnership shall be liable for any settlement effected without their prior written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); and (y) none of the Surviving Company or the Surviving Partnership shall be obligated under this Section 5.8(a) to pay the fees and expenses of more than one legal counsel (selected by a plurality of the applicable Indemnified Parties) for all Indemnified Parties in any jurisdiction with respect to any single legal action except to the extent that, on the advice of any such Indemnified Party's counsel, two o...
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) The articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation shall contain the provisions with respect to indemnification that are set forth, as of the date of this Agreement, in the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Company, which provisions shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified for a period of six years from the Effective Time in any manner that would affect adversely the rights thereunder of individuals who at or at any time prior to the Effective Time were directors, officers, employees, fiduciaries or agents of the Company.
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) The certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation and the operating agreement of the Surviving Entity shall each contain provisions no less favorable with respect to indemnification, advancement or expense reimbursement than are set forth in the Company Charter, which provisions shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified for a period of six years from the Effective Time in any manner that would affect adversely the rights thereunder of individuals who, at or prior to the Effective Time, were directors, officers, employees, fiduciaries or agents of the Company, unless such modification shall be required by applicable Law. From and after the Effective Time, SMMC agrees that it shall indemnify and hold harmless each present and former director and officer of the Company against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, to the fullest extent that the Company would have been permitted under applicable Law, any indemnification agreements between the Company and such officers and directors, the Company Charter in effect on the date of this Agreement to indemnify such person (including the advancing of expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law).
Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification. (a) Subject to the terms of this Section 4.3, after the Closing Date and notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement, Buyer shall and shall cause the Company, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, to jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless, each director, officer, employee and agent of the Company who served as such at any time prior to the Closing Date (each, together with such person's heirs, executors or administrators, an "NACT Indemnified Party" and collectively, the "NACT Indemnified Parties") against any costs or expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (each an "NACT Claim"), arising out of, relating to or in connection with any action or omission occurring prior to the Closing Date (including, without limitation, acts or omissions in connection with such persons serving as an officer, director or other fiduciary in any entity if such service was at the request or for the benefit of the Company) or arising out of or pertaining to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that Buyer shall have no obligation to indemnify any of the NACT Indemnified Parties hereunder unless such party acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful (the "Conduct Standard").
