In consideration for receiving the severance payments and benefits described above, and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which Employee hereby acknowledges, Employee hereby waives and releases to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law any and all claims or causes of action, whether known or unknown, against the ​ and/or its predecessors, successors, past or present subsidiaries, affiliated companies, investors, branches or related entities (collectively, including the ​, the “Entities”) and/or the Entities’ respective past, present, or future insurers, officers, directors, agents, attorneys, employees, stockholders, assigns and employee benefit plans (collectively with the Entities, the “Released Parties”), with respect to any matter, including, without limitation, any matter related to Employee’s employment with the ​ or the termination of that employment relationship, occurring as of or prior to the latest date opposite Employee’s signature(s) below. This waiver and release includes, without limitation, claims to wages, including overtime or minimum wages, bonuses, incentive compensation, equity compensation, vacation pay or any other compensation or benefits; any claims for failure to provide accurate itemized wage statements, failure to timely pay final pay or failure to provide meal or rest breaks; claims for any loss, cost, damage, or expense arising out of any dispute over the non-withholding or other tax treatment or employment classification, claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); claims for attorneys’ fees or costs; claims for penalties; any and all claims for stock, stock options or other equity securities of the ​; claims of wrongful discharge, constructive discharge, emotional distress, defamation, invasion of privacy, fraud, breach of contract, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing; any claims of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation based on sex, age, race, national origin, disability or on any other protected basis, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or any other federal, state, or local law prohibiting discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation; and claims under the California laws, and all other laws and regulations relating to employment. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, the above stated release and waiver of claims shall not apply to any of the following: # any claims Employee may have under this Agreement, # any rights Employee may have to accrued but unpaid salary or vested benefits, # any COBRA benefits required by law; # any rights to indemnification, exculpation and/or advancement of expenses in Employee’s capacity as a director or officer of the ​ or any of its affiliates, whether under the organizational documents of any such companies or otherwise, and any rights as an additional insured under any D&O insurance or similar policy maintained by the ​; and # any claim which cannot be released as a matter of law in a private agreement.

General Release. In exchange for the consideration provided to you under this Agreement to which you would not otherwise be entitled, you hereby generally and completely release the Company, and its affiliated, related, parent and subsidiary entities, and its and their current and former directors, officers, employees, shareholders, partners, agents, attorneys, predecessors, successors, insurers, affiliates, and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims, liabilities and obligations, both known and unknown, that arise out of or are in any way related to events, acts, conduct, or omissions occurring prior to or on the date you sign this Agreement (collectively, the “Released Claims”).

General Release. In exchange for these special severance benefits offered by Ashland, I completely release any and all claims I may have at this time, whether known or unknown, against Ashland, its parents, divisions, subsidiaries, insurers and affiliates, their predecessors, successors and assigns, and their officers, directors or employees (collectively referred to hereafter as “Releasees”). This Release is intended to be a broad release and shall apply to any relief from Releasees, no matter how denominated, including, but not limited to, claims for future employment, rights or causes of action for wages, backpay, front pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages, or attorney’s fees. I also agree that I will not file any such claim and I hereby agree to indemnify and hold Releasees harmless from any such claim.

General Release. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, neither the Company nor the Partnership shall have any obligation to pay any amount or provide any benefit, as the case may be, other than the Accrued Benefits under this Agreement, unless the Employee executes, delivers to the Partnership, and does not revoke (to the extent the Employee is allowed to do so as set forth in the General Release or pursuant to law), a General Release within sixty (60) days of the Employee’s Termination Date.

General Release. Notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary, # Executive shall not be entitled to receive any payments, Benefits or other compensation under this paragraph 4 (beyond the Accrued Obligations) unless and until Executive has executed and delivered to the Company a general release substantially in the form attached hereto as [Exhibit A] (a “General Release”) (with such changes thereto as may be required due to # changes in the law or if Executive’s termination of employment is part of a reduction in force requiring a longer (45-day) opportunity to consider the Release or # to comply with Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”) or state law requirements) within sixty (60) days of the Termination Date, and the time for revocation of such release has elapsed and # to the extent that the payment of any amount constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” for purposes of Code Section 409A, any such payment scheduled to occur during the first sixty (60) days following the termination of employment shall not be paid until the first regularly scheduled pay period following the sixtieth (60th) day following such termination and shall include payment of any amount that was otherwise scheduled to be paid prior thereto.

General Release. From and after Closing Date, # the Seller, on behalf of itself and the Seller Affiliates (each a “Seller Releasing Person”), hereby forever releases and discharges the Purchaser, its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives, predecessors, successors, related entities, assigns or the like or any persons acting by, through, under or in concert with, any of them (collectively, the “Released Purchaser Persons”) from all debts, demands, causes of action, suits, covenants, torts, damages and any and all claims, defenses, offsets, judgments, demands and liabilities whatsoever, of every name and nature, both at law and in equity, known or unknown, accrued or unaccrued, that have been or could have been asserted against any Released Purchaser Person, that any Seller Releasing Person has or ever

General Release. For and in consideration of your undertakings in this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you, on behalf of yourself and your heirs, legatees and personal representatives, release and waive all claims, suits or actions of any kind against LSI, its parents, predecessors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries and affiliates, any of each of their employee benefit plans, and any of each of their current and former directors, officers, employees, and agents in their individual and official capacities ("Released Parties"), which you have, had or may have through the date you execute this Agreement, whether known or unknown, including but not limited to all claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers' Benefit Protection Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Ohio Fair Employment Practices Law and under any other federal, state and local statute, ordinance, regulation, and order, under the common law and under any Released Party policy, practice or procedure; provided, however, that you do not waive # rights under this Agreement; # vested benefits under any retirement plan in which you are a participant in accordance with the terms of the plan; and # claims that cannot be released as a matter of law.

General Release. As consideration for the severance payments and benefits I will receive as described in paragraph 2 of the attached letter agreement dated ​ (“Letter Agreement”), I, on behalf of myself and my heirs, executors, administrators, representatives, attorneys and assigns, hereby waive, release and forever discharge PCS Administration (USA), Inc. and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (collectively, the “Company”) together with the Company’s parent, sister companies, subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates, whether direct or indirect, its and their joint ventures and joint venturers (including their respective directors, officers, employees, shareholders, attorneys, partners and agents, past, present and future), and each of its and their respective successors and assigns (hereinafter collectively, the “Releasees”), from any and all known or unknown actions, causes of action, damages, claims or liabilities of any kind that have or could be asserted against any of the Releasees arising out of or related to my employment with and/or separation from employment with the Company or any of the other Releasees up to and including the date of this Waiver and Release Agreement, including, but not limited to:

General Waiver and Release by Executive. As a material inducement to the Company to enter into this Agreement, and in consideration of the Company’s promise to make the payments set forth in this Agreement, Executive hereby knowingly and voluntarily releases Patterson, its affiliated and related entities, and any of their respective direct or indirect subsidiaries, and its and their respective officers, employees, agents, insurers, representatives, counsel, shareholders, directors, successors and assigns (“Releasees”) from all liability for damages or claims of any kind arising out of any actions, decisions, or events occurring through the date of Executive’s execution of this Agreement.

Executive understands that he is giving up any and all claims, complaints, causes of action or demands of any kind that he has or may have for claims arising under or based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, Executive Order 11246, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) with respect to unvested benefits, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, any other state or local antidiscrimination, civil rights and human rights statutes, or any other federal state or local law which claims can be properly released through this Agreement. Executive further understands that this release