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Board Observer Rights
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For so long as the Investor or any of its affiliates beneficially own # any Preferred Units, Warrants or Partnership Units, or # shares of Common Stock equal to at least 25% of the number of Partnership Units that may be issued upon exercise the Warrants (without regard to any vesting or other conditions to which such Partnership Units may be subject) (the “Ownership Requirement”), the Company shall cause one person designated by the Investor to be appointed as a non-voting observer to the Board and the Committees, which Observer shall initially be Marcos Alvarado, and who the Investor shall have the right to replace from time to time in its sole discretion (provided that any Observer appointed hereunder shall be an employee of Sixth Street Partners, LLC or one of its affiliates). Except as set forth herein, the Company shall invite the Observer to attend, in a non-voting observer capacity, all meetings of the Board and any and all Committees (as determined by the Observer from time to time). Except as set forth herein, the Observer shall have the right to speak at and participate in such meetings, but in no event shall the Observer: # be deemed to be a member of the Board or any Committee; # have the right to vote on any matter under consideration by the Board or any Committee or otherwise have any power to cause the Company or any of its subsidiaries to take, or not to take, any action; # have or be deemed to have, or otherwise be subject to, any duties, fiduciary or otherwise, to the Company or its stockholders or any duties, fiduciary or otherwise, otherwise applicable to the directors of the Company; or # have any right or possess any authority to bind the Company or any of its subsidiaries in any way whatsoever. As a non-voting observer, and except as set forth herein, the Observer will also be provided, concurrently with delivery to the directors of the Company and in the same manner delivery is made to them, copies of all notices, agenda, minutes, consents, and all other materials or information, financial or otherwise, that are provided to the directors, including with respect to any Board or Committee meeting or any written consent in lieu of a Board or Committee meeting. If a meeting of the Board or a Committee is conducted via telephone or other electronic medium, except as set forth herein, the Observer may attend such meeting via the same medium. The presence of the Observer shall not be taken into account or required for purposes of establishing a quorum. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Board or any Committee may exclude the Observer from all or any portion of any meeting or discussions, and can withhold or redact materials otherwise distributed to the members of the Board or such Committee, solely to the extent that: # the Board reasonably determines based on the advice of counsel that such action is reasonably necessary to prevent the loss of attorney-client privilege, work product or similar privilege; provided that, in such case, # any such exclusion shall only apply to such portion of such meeting or material which would be required to preserve such privilege and not to any other portion thereof; and # the Observer shall be informed of the general subject matter of the materials or meetings (or portion thereof) from which Observer is excluded to the extent it would not result in the loss of such privilege; or # the Board reasonably determines in good faith that the information being discussed at all or a portion of such meetings or included in such materials, would result in a violation of applicable law; provided that, in any such case, # any such exclusion shall only apply to such portion of such meeting or material which would be required to avoid such conflict, breach of confidentiality or violation of applicable laws, and not to any other portion thereof; and # the Observer shall be informed of the general subject matter of the materials or meetings (or portion thereof) from which the Observer is excluded to the extent it would not result in a violation of applicable laws. The Investor may, temporarily or permanently, at any time and from time to time by written notice to the Company, voluntarily and immediately relinquish its rights under this Section 1.

Board Observer Rights. On and after the Initial Closing Date, the Purchaser shall have the right in its sole discretion, to designate one person as a non-voting observer on the Board of Directors (the “Board Observer”), as further set forth in the Board Observer Agreement to be entered into at the Initial Closing. The Purchaser may, temporarily or permanently, at any time by written notice to the Company, voluntarily and immediately relinquish its rights under this Section 6.9.

Indemnification; Advancement of Expenses. The Observer shall be entitled to advancement of expenses and rights to indemnification from the Company, and the Company agrees to advance expenses to and indemnify the Observer, in each case to the same extent provided by the Company to its directors. The foregoing rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses constitute third-party rights contractually extended to the Observer by the Company and do not constitute rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses as a result of the Observer serving as a director, manager, officer, employee, or agent of the Company. The Company shall reimburse the Observer, on the same basis as directors of the Company, for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Observer in connection with attendance at Board and Committee meetings or any other matter which Observer undertakes on behalf of the Company (“Expenses”) (it being understood that Observer shall be under no obligation to undertake any matter unless Observer expressly agrees thereto in his or her sole discretion). All reimbursements payable by the Company pursuant to this Section 8 shall be paid to the Observer in accordance with the Company’s policies and practices with respect to director expense reimbursement then in effect; provided, however, that any such reimbursement shall be paid to the Observer no later than comparable reimbursement is paid to the members of the Board. The Observer shall not be entitled to receive any other payment or remuneration hereunder or otherwise in connection with Observer’s involvement with the Board or the Committee.

Board Observer Agreement” means the board observer agreement substantially in the form set forth as [Exhibit D] to this Agreement.

Section # Board Observation Rights. shall have the right to appoint a representative to serve as a board observer (the “Board Observer”) and Borrower shall invite each Board Observer to attend all meetings of its Board of Directors in a nonvoting observer capacity and, for such purposes, shall give the Board Observer copies of all notices, minutes, consents, and other materials that it provides to its directors; provided, however, that Borrower may withhold any information and exclude such representative from any meeting or portion thereof if # access to such information or attendance at such meeting or portion thereof could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the attorney-client privilege between Borrower and its counsel with respect to actual or potential litigation; or # access to such information or attendance at such meeting could result in a conflict of interest between such Lender or its representative and Borrower with respect to matters concerning the financing transaction between Borrower, Agent and the .

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the A&R LPA, the Certificate of Designations, the Warrant Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Board Observer Agreement.

Except as may otherwise be set forth in any applicable management rights letter or other written agreement with an Investor, a board observer may participate in person at the Company’s Board of Directors meetings only at the explicit invitation of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, where such invitation may be granted solely at the Chairman’s discretion (each a “Chairman Invited Observer”). The Company shall reimburse up to 50% of a Chairman Invited Observer’s reasonable out of pocket travel expenses incurred (consistent with the Company’s travel policy) in connection with attending any meeting of the Board of Directors to which he or she is invited.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and provided that the Investor together with its Affiliates Beneficially Own 4.99% or greater of the Outstanding Equity, the Investor shall have the right (but not the obligation) to designate one person to be nominated for election to the Board (a “Nominee”) by giving written notice to the Chairman of the Board or the Secretary of the Company. The Nominee shall be selected by the Investor in reasonable consultation with (but without the need for the approval of) the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of its Board of Directors (the “Nominating Committee”).

The Company acknowledges that the Observer desires to have conversations with members of the CEO Search Committee regarding the selection of the new Chief Executive Officer of SpinCo. The Company and the Current Board shall not take any actions to limit such dialogue or restrict members of the CEO Search Committee from speaking to the Observer (or suggest that members of the CEO Search Committee not do so). In the event the process for the selection of the new Chief Executive Officer of SpinCo is conducted by the Current Board or any committee thereof instead of the CEO Search Committee, the Observer shall be entitled to the same observer rights on the Current Board or such committee thereof, solely with respect to matters pertaining to the selection of the new Chief Executive Officer of SpinCo, as the Observer is entitled to under this [Section 1(h)] with respect to the CEO Search Committee.

The Observer and each of the [[MHR Entities:Organization]] acknowledge and agree that the rights of the Observer, in his or her capacity as such, shall be limited to the rights expressly provided herein and that the Observer shall not have any rights as a director or member of any committee of the Board (including the Committee). For the avoidance of doubt, the Observer and each of the [[MHR Entities:Organization]] acknowledge and agree that the Observer shall # not be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at any meeting of the Committee, # not have the right to vote on any matter brought before the Committee or to participate in any action by unanimous written consent in lieu of a meeting of the Committee (and no vote or consent of the Observer shall be required for purposes of determining whether any matter has been approved by the Committee), and # not be entitled to any other rights or powers of directors under the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Company, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, applicable law or any other agreement to which the Company is a party. The Observer acknowledges and agrees that he or she shall not be entitled to compensation for his or her service as an observer of the Committee.

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