This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto; provided, however, Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights, obligations or interest hereunder without the prior written consent of Lender and, provided further, that, although Lender may sell participations in its rights hereunder without the need for notice to, or consent of, Borrower, each participant must be a ​ or state-chartered bank and a participant shall not constitute a “lender” hereunder. In the case of any such participation, the participant shall not have any rights under this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents (the participant’s rights in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the agreement executed by Lender in favor of the participant relating thereto) and all amounts payable by Borrower hereunder shall be determined as if Lender had not sold such participation and Lender’s obligations under the Credit Documents shall remain unchanged.

Benefit Plans. Except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company Group, considered as one enterprise, all Benefit Plans have been operated, maintained, funded and administered in compliance in all material respects with their respective terms and all applicable laws, including ERISA and the Code, and no Benefit Plan has any unfunded or underfunded liabilities. There are no pending, or to the knowledge of the Company Group, threatened material claims by or on behalf of any Benefit Plan, by any employee or beneficiary covered under any such Benefit Plan, or otherwise involving any such Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for benefits). No member of the Company Group nor any of their respective ERISA Affiliates sponsors, maintains, contributes to or has any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to, or has ever sponsored, maintained, contributed to or had any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to, any defined benefit pension plan subject to Title IV or [Section 302] of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in [Section 4001(a)(3)] of ERISA) or a “multiple employer plan” (within the meaning of Section 412(c) of the Code). No member of the Company Group has any liability, contingent or otherwise, to provide any post-retirement life, health or welfare benefits, other than liability for continuation coverage described in Part 6 of Title I of ERISA or similar applicable state laws. No Benefit Plan is a “non-qualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code. Each Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is the subject of a favorable determination or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service as to such qualification and, to the knowledge of the Company Group, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would reasonably be expected to adversely affect such qualification. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (whether alone or in conjunction with a subsequent event) will entitle any employee or other service provider of the Company Group to any compensatory payment or benefit, increase the amount of any compensatory payment or benefit, accelerate the time of payment or vesting or result in the funding of any compensatory payment or benefit, or result in any loan forgiveness. No member of the Company Group has any obligation to pay any tax gross-up or similar payments.

Benefit Plans. The Company is not a party to any benefit plan under which the Company currently has an obligation to provide benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of the Company.

Benefit Plans. During the Employment Period, the Executive and/or the Executive's family, as the case may be, shall be eligible for participation in and shall receive all benefits under welfare benefit plans, practices, policies, and programs provided by the Company and its Affiliated Companies (including, without limitation, medical, executive medical, annual executive physical, prescription, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, executive long-term disability, salary continuance, employee life, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and travel accident insurance plans and programs) to the extent applicable generally to other peer executives of the Company and its Affiliated Companies, but in no event shall such plans, practices, policies, and programs provide the Executive with benefits which are less favorable, in the aggregate, than the most favorable of such plans, practices, policies, and programs in effect for the Executive at any time during the 90-day period immediately preceding the Effective Date or, if more favorable to the Executive, those provided generally at any time after the Effective Date to other peer executives of the Company and its Affiliated Companies.

Benefit Plans. During the Employment Term, the Executive shall be eligible to participate in all retirement and employment benefit plans and programs of the Company that are generally available to senior executives of the Company. Executive may also receive long term incentive grants pursuant to the Company’s long-term incentive program(s). Such participation shall be pursuant to the terms and conditions of such plans and programs, as the same shall be amended from time to time. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Executive shall be entitled to receive relocation benefits consistent with the Company’s policy in effect from time to time with adjustments as approved by a representative of the Compensation Committee.

Subject only to such limitations or restrictions as may relate to the Executive personally, during the Initial Term or any Renewal Term, the Company will at the Executive’s request include the Executive in all of the Company’s employee benefits programs and plans (including, but not limited to, group medical plans) provided by the Company to its executive employees, for so long as such programs and plans are continued by the Company and are available to its executive employees generally, and the Company will pay the premium cost of such participation to the same extent as the Company pays for its other executives.

Death Benefit. In the event of the Employee’s death, the Company shall pay the Employee’s unpaid vested Performance Units (in the amount determined under Section 4(a) of the Agreement if the Employee’s death occurred prior to the end of the Incentive Cycle) to the Employee’s estate. Such payment shall be made at the time prescribed in [Section 5(a)] above, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter in a single lump sum distribution of shares of Common Stock (and cash for fractional shares of Common Stock), unless the Performance Units were deferred under the ​ Deferred Compensation and 401(k) Excess Plan, in which case such deferred Performance Units shall be paid under the terms of that plan.

Death Benefit. In the event that a married Participant dies while in the employment of the Company, for purposes of determining the amount of benefits payable under the Plan to the Participant’s surviving spouse, if any, the Participant shall be deemed to have # elected to receive payment of his Supplemental Retirement Benefit in the form of a Joint & Survivor Annuity (determined in accordance with Section 3.2.2) and # incurred a Separation from Service on the day immediately preceding the date of the Participant’s death. If a deceased Participant has attained age 55 at the time of his death, the survivor benefit portion of his Supplemental Retirement Benefit shall begin to be paid as of the first day of the month following the Participant’s death. In the event the Participant has not attained age 55, such benefit shall begin to be paid as of the first day of the month following the date the Participant would have attained age 55. In the event that a Participant dies while in the employ of the Company and does not have a surviving spouse, then, except as provided in Section 3.2.3, the Company shall have no further liability or obligation under the Plan to the Participant or any person or entity claiming rights through the Participant (including his estate).

Benefit Plans. During the term of this Agreement, Executive shall be entitled to participate, at a level commensurate with his position, in all benefit plans Employer presently has or hereafter adopts for its officers or employees, including (without limitation) directors and officers liability insurance, pension, profit sharing, stock option or any group life or health insurance, hospitalization or other similar plans, any eligibility or waiting periods to be waived to the extent feasible.

Disability Benefit. If the Executive experiences a Disability prior to Separation from Service and Normal Benefit Date, the Employer shall pay the Executive the Deferral Account balance at Disability, plus an additional amount equal to the Contributions remaining to be made in accordance with [Article 2]. This benefit shall be paid in quarterly installments between 2 years and 10 years, at the selection of the Executive, and shall commence the first day of the immediately subsequent quarter following Disability. During the payment period, interest shall be credited on the unpaid portion of the benefit as described in [Section 3.1(b)(ii)]. The quarterly payments shall be amortized in such a way so as to produce equal payments over the remaining payment period. This will require quarterly reamortization for changes in the Crediting Rate.