any Member for any act or omission performed or failed to be performed by such Exculpated Person, as a manager of the Operating Company, or for any losses, claims, costs, damages, or liabilities arising from any such act or omission, other than by reason of gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any termination of this Agreement or amendment to this Section 4.9 shall not adversely affect any right or protection of an Exculpated Person existing at the time of such termination or amendment.
4.10 Indemnification of Managing Member and Related Persons.
(a) General. The Operating Company shall indemnify and hold harmless Exculpated Persons from and against any and all losses, claims, demands, costs, damages, liabilities, joint and several, expenses of any nature (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements), judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts arising from any and all claims, demands, actions, suits, or proceedings, civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, in which the Exculpated Person may be involved, or threatened to be involved, as a party or otherwise, arising out of or incidental to the offering of the Membership Units or the business of the Operating Company or any Portfolio Entities, including liabilities under the federal and state securities laws, regardless of whether the Exculpated Person continues to be the Managing Member, or an officer, manager, member, employee, agent of the Managing Member, its Affiliate or Related Person at the time any such liability or expense is paid or incurred, provided, however, that no such indemnification may be made if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such Exculpated Person establishes that: (i) the Exculpated Person’s acts were committed in bad faith; (ii) were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated; or (iii) that it personally gained in fact a financial income or other advantage to which it was not entitled under Applicable Law. The termination of any action, suit, or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea ofnolo contendere, or its equivalent, shall not, in and of itself, create a presumption or otherwise constitute evidence that the Exculpated Person acted in the manner specified above in (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 4.11(a).
(b) Expenses. Expenses incurred by an Exculpated Person in defending any claim, demand, action, suit, or proceeding subject to this Section 4.11 shall, immediately from time to time as expected to incur, be advanced by the Operating Company prior to the final disposition of such claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding upon receipt by the Operating Company of any undertaking by or on behalf of the Exculpated Person to repay such amount if it shall be determined that such Exculpated Person is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in this Section 4.11(a).
(c) Other Rights. The indemnification provided by this Section 4.11 shall be in addition to any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any agreement, as a matter of law or equity, or otherwise, both as to an action in the Exculpated Person’s capacity as the Managing Member, as an officer, manager, member, employee, agent or Affiliate of the Managing Member, and as to an action in another capacity, and shall continue as to an Exculpated Person who has ceased to serve in such capacity and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, successors, assigns and administrators of the Exculpated Person.
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