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Exceptions to General Release
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General Release. Expressly conditioned upon timely completion of the requirements set forth herein, each Party, and each of their respective members, does hereby release and forever discharge the other Party, and each of its respective members, from any and all manner of action or actions, cause or causes of action, in law or in equity, suits, debts, liens, contracts (express, implied in fact, or implied by law), agreements, promises, liabilities, claims, set offs, rights and claims for indemnity and/or contribution, refunds, overpayments, demands, commissions, damages, losses, costs, or expenses, of any nature whatsoever, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, fixed or contingent, which each now has or may hereafter have by reason of any matter, cause, or thing whatsoever from the beginning of time to the date hereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any matters that or might have been in any way raised, by complaint, cross-complaint or otherwise and the agreements shall be null and void and of no effect. Notwithstanding the above, or any other provisions of this instrument, this Agreement shall not affect, discharge, or release any claims, known or unknown, which arise from or relate to the rights or obligations of the Parties hereto, whether presently existing or subsequently accruing, with respect to the obligations created by or arising out of the provisions of this Agreement or the Voting Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

Exceptions to the Release. This Release does not waive any claims # for unemployment or workers’ compensation, # for vested or other rights to which the Employee may be entitled under the Company’s employee benefit plans on the date Employee signs this Release that cannot legally be waived, # that may arise after Employee signs this Release, # for reimbursement of expenses under the Company’s expense reimbursement policies, or # which cannot be released by private agreement. In addition, nothing in this Release, including but not limited to the acknowledgements, Full and Final Release, and provisions related to Confidential Information of Company, Non-Disparagement, Non-Compete, Company Property, Confidentiality, and Cooperation, # limits or affects Employee’s right to challenge the validity of this Release under ADEA or the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) or # prevents Employee from filing a charge or complaint with or from participating in an investigation or proceeding conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or any other federal, state or local agency charged with the enforcement of any laws, or from exercising rights under Section 7 of the NLRA to engage in protected, concerted activity, although by signing this Release, Employee waives the right to individual relief (including any backpay, frontpay, reinstatement or other legal or equitable relief) in any charge, complaint, or lawsuit or other proceeding brought by Employee or on Employee’s behalf by any third party, except for any right Employee may have to receive a payment from a government agency (and not the Company) for information provided to the government agency. Furthermore, nothing in this Release prohibits Employee from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any responsible government authority, including but not limited to the Department of Justice, the SEC, the Congress, and any agency Inspector General, or making other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation; and Employee does not need the prior authorization of the Company to make any such reports or disclosures and is not required to notify the Company that Employee has made such reports or disclosures. If any disclosures Employee makes to the responsible government authorities include Company Confidential Information, Employee will so notify the authorities in time for them to take steps to protect the information’s confidentiality. Employee is hereby notified that Employee will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is # made in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or # made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal and Employee does not disclose the trade secret except pursuant to court order.

General Release Requirement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, it will be a condition to Executive's right to receive the amounts provided for in Section 6.1, Section 6.2 and Section 7.1, that Executive timely execute and deliver to the Company, a general release provided by and acceptable to the Company within twenty-one (21) days of its delivery to Executive (or such longer period as may be required under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended), without subsequent revocation of the general release. Upon satisfaction of the general release condition, the payment of the severance benefits will commence as provided in Section 6.1, Section 6.2 and Section 7.1 or as applicable as provided in this Agreement.

Mutual General Release. In exchange for the mutual consideration and the Company's payments and other undertakings as described herein, the Company and the Executive, for their selves and their heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns, do hereby completely release and forever discharge each other and their heirs, the Company’s parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and their respective shareholders, officers, directors, representatives, employees, former employees, agents, attorneys, successors and assigns (herein collectively “the Releases”) from all claims, rights, demands, actions, obligations and causes of action of any and every kind, nature and character, known or unknown, that either party may now have or has ever had against them, arising from or in any way connected with the employment relationship between the parties, any actions taken by any of the Releases during the employment relationship, the termination of that relationship, and any other dealings of any kind between Executive and any of the Releases up to the effective date of the Agreement, including but not limited to # any and all claims of “wrongful discharge,” breach of express or implied contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, fraud and defamation; # any tort of any nature; # any and all claims arising under any federal, state, county or municipal statute, constitution or ordinance, including but not limited to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (excluding claims for benefits under a plan or program subject thereto), and any other laws and regulations relating to employment discrimination; and # any and all claims for compensation, bonuses, severance pay, vacation pay, expense reimbursement, attorneys' fees and costs. Nothing herein shall limit Executive’s rights to indemnification under the Company’s bylaws or other organizational documents or to post-termination coverage under and pursuant to the terms of the Company’s D&O insurance policies.

Exceptions. Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations of confidentiality and restrictions on use, the receiving Party may disclose the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information: # to the receiving Party’s employees, agents, or independent contractors who # have a need to know such Confidential Information to assist the receiving Party or act on its behalf in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and # are bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure at least as restrictive as those set forth in Section 6.1; provided that the receiving Party shall ensure compliance with, and be liable for any breach of, Section 6.1 by any such employees, agents, or independent contractors; # to the extent necessary to comply with a court order or other applicable Law, including regulations promulgated by security exchanges; provided that the receiving Party shall, to the extent legally permissible and practicable, provide prompt notice of such required disclosure to ethe disclosing Party and cooperate, at the other Party’s sole cost and expense, with the disclosing Party’s efforts to obtain a protective order, confidential treatment, or other limitation on such required disclosure; and # to actual or prospective acquirers, licensees (including sublicensees), investors, lenders, and other financial or commercial partners (and to their respective advisors, agents, and representatives) to the extent reasonably necessary for evaluating or carrying out a transaction with such Persons, in each case under written obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure at least as restrictive as those set forth in Section 6.1.

Exceptions. Notwithstanding anything set forth above to the contrary, the Extension Right shall, at Landlord’s option, not be in effect and Tenant may not exercise the Extension Right:

Exceptions. The Receiving Party’s obligation of nondisclosure and the limitations upon the right to use the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information will not apply to the extent that the Receiving Party can demonstrate that the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information: # was known to the Receiving Party or any of its Affiliates prior to the time of disclosure without any obligation of confidentiality with respect to such information; # is or becomes public knowledge through no wrongful act, fault or omission of the Receiving Party or any of its Affiliates; # is subsequently obtained by the Receiving Party or any of its Affiliates from a Third Party not known by the Receiving Party after due inquiry to be under an obligation of confidentiality; # has been independently discovered or developed by employees, subcontractors, consultants or agents of the Receiving Party or any of its Affiliates without the aid, application or use of the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information, as evidenced by contemporaneous written records; or # was made public or was otherwise released from the restrictions set forth in this Agreement by express prior written consent of the Disclosing Party.

For good and valuable consideration, including the consideration set forth in [Section 1(b)] hereof, Executive knowingly and voluntarily (for and on behalf of Executive, Executive’s family, and Executive’s heirs, executors, administrators and assigns) hereby releases and forever discharges the Company and its affiliates, predecessors, successors and subsidiaries, and the foregoing entities’ respective equity-holders, officers, directors, managers, members, partners, employees, agents, representatives, and other affiliated persons, and the Company’s and its affiliates’ benefit plans (and the fiduciaries and trustees of such plans) (collectively, the “Company Parties”), from liability for, and Executive hereby waives, any and all claims, damages, or causes of action of any kind related to Executive’s employment with any Company Party and any other acts or omissions related to any matter occurring on or prior to the date that Executive executes this Agreement, including # any alleged violation through such time of: # any federal, state or local anti-discrimination or anti-retaliation law, regulation or ordinance, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (including as amended by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, [Sections 1981 through 1988] of

Exclusions from General Release. Excluded from the General Release above are any claims or rights which cannot be waived by law, including my rights to accrued vacation, if any. Nothing in this Waiver and Release Agreement shall be construed to prohibit me from filing a charge with an administrative agency, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or participating in an agency investigation. I am, however, waiving all rights to recover money or other individual relief in connection with any administrative charge, whether filed by me or another individual or entity.

General Release of Claim. Employee, Employee's heirs, executors, administrators, fiduciaries, successors and/or assigns, knowingly and voluntarily release and forever give up, to the full extent permitted by law, Employer, Employer's past, present and future direct or indirect parent organizations, subsidiaries, divisions, affiliated entities, and their partners, officers, directors, trustees, administrators, fiduciaries, employment benefit plans and/or pension plans or funds, executors, attorneys, employees, insurers, reinsurers and/or agents and their successors and assigns individually and in their official capacities (collectively referred to herein as "Released Parties" or "Released Party"), jointly and severally, of and from all claims, known or unknown, that Employee has or may have against Released Parties as of the date of execution of this Agreement including, but not limited to, any alleged violation of:

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