Section 18-108 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act provides that a limited liability company has the power, subject to such standards and restrictions, if any, as are set forth in its limited liability company agreement, to indemnify and hold harmless any member or manager or other person from and against any and all claims and demands whatsoever.
The limited liability company agreement of each of Sally Holdings, Sally Investment Holdings LLC, Beauty Holding LLC, Arcadia Beauty Labs LLC, Sally Beauty International Finance LLC and Sally Beauty Military Supply LLC provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no member, officer, employee, agent or representative shall be liable to such company or any member, and such person shall be entitled to indemnification, for any loss, liability, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such person, in good faith on behalf of the company (and with respect to indemnification, in a manner reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such officer by such agreement), except that such person shall be liable for any such loss, liability, damage or claim incurred by reason of such person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any indemnity under the limited liability company agreements shall be provided out of and to the extent of such company’s assets only, and none of the above named persons shall have liability on account thereof.
The operating agreement of Diorama Services Company, LLC provides that a member is not personally liable for a debt, obligation or liability solely by reason of being or acting as a member and provides for the indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law, of any person or entity who was or is a party to or threatened to be made a party to any proceeding, whether threatened, pending or completed, by reason of being a member or officer, against any liabilities, expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such proceeding.
The regulations of Armstrong McCall Holdings, L.L.C. provide for the indemnification of members, officers, employees, agents and others as fully as, and to the same extent, a corporation is entitled to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and agents under the DGCL.
California Corporation
Innovations—Successful Salon Services is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of California.
Section 317 of the California General Corporation Law, or the “CGCL,” provides that a corporation shall have the power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or other agent of the corporation, against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the corporation and, in the case of a criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct of the person was unlawful. Section 317 further provides that a corporation shall have the power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or other agent of the corporation, against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of the action if such person acted in good faith, in a manner the person believed to be in the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders.
Section 317 further provides that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation in the performance of that person’s duty to the corporation and its shareholders, unless and only to the extent that the court in which the proceeding is or was pending shall determine upon application that, in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for expenses and then only to the extent that the court shall determine.
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