Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION VERSION
UNITHOLDER SUPPORT AGREEMENT
ThisUNITHOLDER SUPPORT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 13, 2019, is entered into by and among Brookfield Asset Management Inc., a corporation formed under the laws of Ontario (“Parent”), Berlin Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Merger Sub”) and a wholly owned direct or indirect subsidiary of Parent, Oaktree Capital Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), Oaktree Capital Group Holdings, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“OCGH” or the “Unitholder”), and Oaktree Capital Group Holdings GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “General Partner”).
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, the Unitholder is the record and beneficial owner (as defined in Rule13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of 13,000 Class A Units of the Company (“Class A Units”) and 85,398,460 Class B Units of the Company (“Class B Units” and, together with the Class A Units, “Company Units”) (all such units, together with any additional Company Units that are hereafter issued to, or otherwise acquired or owned, beneficially or of record, by, the Unitholder prior to the termination of this Agreement being referred to herein as the “Subject Units”);
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution hereof, Parent, Merger Sub, Company, Oslo Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SellerCo”) and Oslo Holdings Merger Sub LLC a Delaware limited liability company, are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of the date hereof and as it may be amended, supplemented or waived from time to time in accordance with the DLLCA (the “Merger Agreement”), which provides, among other things, for Merger Sub to merge with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company continuing as the surviving company, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement (capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement);
WHEREAS, the Company, OCGH, OCM Holdings I, LLC, Oaktree Holdings, Inc., Oaktree AIF Holdings, Inc., Oaktree Holdings, Ltd. and certain other Affiliates of OCGH are party to a Second Amended and Restated Exchange Agreement dated March 29, 2012 (the “Existing Exchange Agreement”) which provides for, among other things, the exchange of limited partnership units of OCGH (“OCGH Units”) into Class A Units and the cancellation of a corresponding number of Class B Units; and
WHEREAS, as a condition to their willingness to enter into the Merger Agreement, Parent and Merger Sub have required that the Unitholder and the General Partner, and as an inducement and in consideration therefor, the Unitholder (solely in the Unitholder’s capacity as a holder of the Subject Units) and the General Partner (solely in its capacity as the General Partner of the Unitholder) have agreed to, enter into this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth below and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, do hereby agree as follows: