Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is # an officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, # an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or # to its knowledge, a “beneficial owner” of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)). The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely

Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for [[Sections 3.2(f) and 4.14]4]] hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: # none of the Purchasers has been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, # past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, # any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock and # each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that # one or more Purchasers Purchaser may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and # such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.

Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs . To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for any Swap Contract or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

Acknowledgements Regarding Placement Agent. Each Buyer acknowledges that the Placement Agent will be compensated by the Company for acting in such capacity with respect to the securities purchased by the Buyers. The Buyer represents that # the Buyer was contacted regarding the sale of the Securities by the Placement Agent (or an authorized agent or representative thereof) with whom the Buyer had a substantial pre-existing relationship and who entered into a confidentiality agreement or otherwise agreed, orally or in writing, to keep information with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby confidential and # to such Buyer’s knowledge, no Securities were offered or sold to such Buyer by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising.

Buyer’s Representations and Warranties. The Buyer represents and warrants to the Company that:

Each Buyer, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Company with respect to only itself that, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

Securities Intermediary’s Jurisdiction. The Securities Intermediary agrees that, for the purposes of the UCC, # its “securities intermediary’s jurisdiction” (within the meaning of [[Section 8-110(e)])]])] of the UCC) shall be the State of New York and # to the extent that any Account (into which cash is credited as set forth herein) is re-characterized as a “deposit account” (within the meaning of [[Section 9-102(a)(29)])]])] of the UCC), its “bank’s jurisdiction” (within the meaning of [[Section 9-304(b)])]])] of the UCC) shall be the State of New York.

incidental to such Buyer’s purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its respective representatives.

BUYER'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Buyer hereby acknowledges that Buyer is relying solely on Buyer's own inspection of the Business and the representations of Seller regarding the prior Business operating history, the value of the assets being purchased and all other material facts. Broker(s) neither represented nor warranted the accuracy of any facts, figures, books, records, memoranda, financial information or data, of any kind, concerning the operations of Seller. Broker has not conducted any independent investigation whatsoever of the Business and the information provided by Seller to Broker. Moreover, Buyer acknowledges that Broker has not verified any of the representations made by Seller.

Sale and Purchase of Purchase Securities. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company agrees to issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase and acquire from the Company, the aggregate number of Series C Preferred Units and Warrants set forth on [Schedule 1] hereto, in such amounts and at such applicable Closing Dates as further described herein. The Warrants to be issued and sold hereunder will be exercisable into Partnership Units, in the manner and at the prices set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The Partnership Units issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are referred to collectively herein as the “Warrant Units”.