| | preliminary meeting. In the event of the majority in favor of any resolution being less than 65% the parties will not be bound to vote in unison. |
“Preliminary Meeting” for purposes of this agreement - means either in the form of a face to face meeting, or a consultation by telephone, or in any other way, and provided that in a case in which no meeting is actually held, a decision as to the manner of voting shall be in the form of a document in writing signed by the holders of at least 65% of the voting ballots.
In any case in which any of the parties is unable to participate in a shareholders meeting in respect of which a uniform vote has been stipulated as specified above in Section 2.4, such party shall give, to any of the other parties or to another representative, a proxy instructing him to vote pursuant to all his holdings in the Company in accordance with the uniform vote that has been stipulated.
4. | Coordination of Voting in the Election of Directors and their Removal from Office. |
When a resolution for election of directors or termination of their office or non-renewal of appointments of directors appears on the agenda of the General Meeting of the Shareholders, all the parties shall vote for the election of Messrs Itschak Friedman, Dinu Toiba, Chaim Friedman, Eyal Guterman and Laurence Pronk and shall oppose the termination of their office or the non-renewal of their appointments or the termination of office or non-renewal of the appointment of any one of them.
5. | Right of First Refusal in a Sale of Shares. |
| 5.1 | If any of the parties wishes to sell some or all of his securities in the Company (hereinafter: “the Offered Securities”), the other parties shall have a right of first refusal to acquire the offered securitiespro ratato their holdings in the Company’s securities as at the date of the offer (hereinafter: “Right of Acquisition”). |
| 5.2 | A party wishing to sell securities as aforesaid (hereinafter: the “Offeror”) shall give notice thereof in writing to the other parties (hereinafter: the “Offerees”). In such notice the price proposed by him and the terms of payment shall be specified. |
| Each of the Offerees must respond to the offer if he is interested in acquisition of some or all of the securities being offered to him, within two business days in any transaction in which the value of the offered securities, according to the price prescribed in the offer is up to 50,000 Dollars or within four business days in the transaction in which the value of the offered securities is in excess of 50,000 Dollars. A “dollar” for this purpose - is an amount equivalent in |
| value in New Shekels calculated at the representative rate of the NIS against the US Dollar, as it is last published prior to the date of the offer. |
| 5.3 | Where an Offeree has not given notice of exercise of the right of acquisition within the aforesaid time, or has given notice of exercise of the right of acquisition as regards some of the securities being offered to him, his share shall be available for the other Offereespro rateto their holdings of the Company’s shares. |
| 5.4 | Where notices of exercise of the right of acquisition have not been given within two or four days from the date on which the written offer to acquire the offered securities was received, as specified above in Section 5.2, or notices have been given of exercise of the right of acquisition as regards some of the offered securities only, to the effect that all the accepting parties have signified agreement to acquire only some of the offered securities, the Offeror will be free to sell the offered securities, either all of them or those in respect of which no exercise notice has been received, as the case may be, to others at such price and on such terms as have been offered as aforesaid, within 14 days of the date on which the Offerees were to have responded to the offer. |
If during the aforementioned period the Offeror has not sold the securities to third parties, he will have to revert to and offer them to the other parties to the agreement in the manner outlined above whenever he again wishes to sell them.
| 5.5 | Notwithstanding that stated above in Section 5.1, there shall be no restriction on sale of the securities on the Stock Exchange by any of the parties, in a quantity that shall not exceed in aggregate 1% of the amount of the securities listed for trading on the Stock Exchange, in a Gregorian calendar year. |
| 5.6 | The right of first refusal shall not apply to a transfer from a party to his relative, provided that the transferee accepts personal responsibility for the transferor’s obligations in this agreement. “Relative” - means a spouse as well as a brother, parent, grandparent, offspring, or offspring of the spouse, or the spouse of any of the foregoing or a company under the full control of the parties to the agreement. |
6. | Variations of the Agreement |
This agreement may be completely or partially rescinded by a majority of 65% of the votes of the parties to the agreement.
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The provisions of this agreement shall not apply to a third party who acquires shares from a party to the agreement, other than a transferee as stated above in Section 5.6.
Disputes arising from the provisions of this agreement shall be referred for a decision by a retired judge who shall act as arbitrator between the parties. The arbitrator will not be bound to give reasons for his decisions and will not be subject to the substantive law, legal procedure or the laws of evidence. In the absence of agreement between the parties as to the identity of the arbitrator a decision as to the identity of the arbitrator shall be referred to the Head of the Israel Bar Association.
The addresses of the parties are as stated in the preamble to this agreement or any other address that is notified in writing to the parties.
Notifications in accordance with this agreement shall be given in writing. A notification shall be deemed to have been delivered within 96 hours from the date of its dispatch by registered mail or on the first business day after its personal delivery or by facsimile.
AND IN WITNESS WHEREOF THE PARTIES HAVE SIGNED:
/s/ Itschak Friedman | | /s/ Dinu Toiba | | /s/ Eyal Guterman |
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/s/ SIVANIR LTD. | | /s/ Chaim Friedman | | /s/ Laurence Pronk |