Special Purpose Funding Vehicles. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; provided that # nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan, and # if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof or, if it fails to do so, to make such payment to the Administrative Agent as is required under [Section 2.12(b)(ii)]. Each party hereto hereby agrees that # neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement (including its obligations under [Section 3.04]), # no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, and # the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the lender of record hereunder. The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior debt of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may # with notice to, but without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and with the payment of a processing fee in the amount of $3,500 (which processing fee may be waived by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), assign all or any portion of its right to receive payment with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and # disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.

Insurance Contracts and Funding. The Company may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of or person serving in any other capacity with, the Company or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including serving as a trustee or fiduciary of any employee benefit plan) against any expenses, liabilities or losses, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such person against such expenses, liabilities or losses under the Act. The Company may enter into contracts with any director, officer, agent or employee of the Company in furtherance of the provisions of this Article VI, and may create a trust fund, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit) to ensure the payment of such amounts as may be necessary to effect the advancing of expenses and indemnification as provided in this Article VI.

Notwithstanding any other terms of the Plan to the contrary, following a Funding Event, the provisions of this Section 8 shall apply to the payment of benefits under the Plan with respect to any Director who is a Participant on such date.

Funding the Deferral Account. Deferred fee accounts will not be funded. The accounts will be maintained by A&B only as book accounts, and no trust account, fiduciary relationship, or other security arrangement will be established, other than, at the option of A&B, an escrow account the amounts in which remain subject to the claims of A&B's general creditors in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy. Because this Plan is unfunded, the Outside Directors must rely solely on the general credit of A&B for payment of deferred fees. However, A&B in its sole discretion may establish and maintain a “rabbi” trust, which shall be a trust in which the Company may deposit amounts determined under the Plan. Any “rabbi” trust assets are subject to the claims of A&B’s creditors in the event of bankruptcy or insolvency, until paid to the Outside Directors and their beneficiaries. The “rabbi” trust shall constitute an unfunded arrangement providing deferred compensation to a select group of management or highly compensated employees for purposes of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).

No Funding of Plan. The Company shall not be required to fund or otherwise segregate any cash or any other assets, which may at any time be paid to Participants under the Plan. The Plan shall constitute an “unfunded” plan of the Company. The Company shall not, by any provisions of the Plan, be deemed to be a trustee of any property, and any rights of any Participant or former Participant shall be no greater than those of a general unsecured creditor or shareholder of the Company, as the case may be.

Funding, Number, and Amount. Loans are available pro rata from a Participant’s vested Accounts. For each Participant, no more than two loans may be approved and no more than two loans may be outstanding at any time during a Plan Year, except that a third loan may be approved during the period beginning April 1, 2020 and ending September 30, 2020 under the MDU 401(k) Plan (which may be transferred to the Plan as part of the Plan Spinoff defined in Section A-1), and such loan may remain outstanding until it is fully repaid according to its terms and this Section 4.8. The minimum amount of each loan is $1,000. The maximum amount of each loan, when added to the outstanding balance of all other loans made to the Participant from all qualified plans maintained by the Affiliates, shall not exceed the lesser of:

Interest, Funding Losses, Etc. All prepayments under this Section 2.07 shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a SOFR Loan on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or SOFR Loan, as applicable, pursuant to [Section 3.05].

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, NTU’s liability for any cause whatsoever related to the subject matter of this Agreement and regardless of the form of action, whether in contract or in tort, including negligence, shall be limited to the cash funding provided by the Company to NTU for the performance of the Research Project, except to the extent where the same is caused by the gross negligence, dishonesty or wilful misconduct of NTU.

allocate primary responsibility as between the Parties for tasks relating to the Research and Development of Research Candidates and Development Candidates where not already specified in the Research Plan, Early Clinical Development Plans or Late Clinical Development Plans therefor;

review and discuss the Research, Development and Commercialization of Research Candidates, Development Candidates and Products and any other ongoing activities;