PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 6. | INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. |
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P.
The sections of the Annual Report on Form20-F of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (the “partnership”) for the year ended December 31, 2018 entitled Item 6.A. “Directors and Senior Management—Our Master Services Agreement,” Item 6.A. “Directors and Senior Management—Indemnification and Limitations on Liability,” Item 6.C “Board Practices—Indemnification and Limitations on Liability,” Item 10.B. “Memorandum and Articles of Association—Description of our LP Units, Preferred Units and the Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of BEP—Indemnification; Limitations on Liability,” and Item 10.B. “Memorandum and Articles of Association—Description of the Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of BRELP—Indemnification; Limitations on Liability” include disclosure relating to the indemnification of certain of the partnership’s affiliates and the directors and officers of the partnership’s general partner and the partnership’s service providers and are incorporated by reference herein.
Brookfield Renewable Corporation
Articles
Under the articles of Brookfield Renewable Corporation (our “company,” “our,” “us” or “we”), our company will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify any present or former director or officer of our company (or a person serving as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation), who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is otherwise involved in, any threatened, pending or completed action while acting in such capacity, for all liability and loss suffered (including, without limitation, any judgments, fines, or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements), actually and reasonably incurred. Our company may enter into agreements with any such person to provide such indemnification. The right to indemnification includes the right to be paid by our company the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by such person in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition, such that the advances are paid by our company within sixty (60) days after the receipt by our company of a statement or statements from the claimant requesting such advance or advances from time to time (and subject to filing a written request for indemnification pursuant to the articles).
Our company will not indemnify any present or former director or officer of our company for acts of bad faith, fraud, willful misfeasance, gross negligence, knowing violation of law or reckless disregard of the director’s duties or for any act for which indemnification is specifically prohibited under theBusiness Corporations Act (British Columbia) (“BCBCA”).
Insurance
Our company has the benefit of insurance coverage under which the directors of our company are insured, subject to the limits of the policy, against certain losses arising from claims made against such directors by reason of any acts or omissions covered under the policy in their respective capacities as directors of our company, including certain liabilities under securities laws.
Master Services Agreement
Under the partnership’s existing master services agreement, which will be amended in connection with the completion of the special distribution to include our company as a service recipient (the “Master Services Agreement”), the Service Providers (as defined in the Master Services Agreement) have not assumed and will not assume any responsibility other than to provide or arrange for the provision of the services called for thereunder in good faith and will not be responsible for any action that the service recipients take in following or declining to follow the advice or recommendations of the Service Providers. The Service Providers have agreed to indemnify each of the service recipients and their affiliates, and their directors, officers, agents, members, partners, shareholders, employees and other representatives to the fullest extent permitted by law from and against any claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses (including legal fees) resulting from the Service Providers’ bad faith, fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence and, in the case of a criminal matter, conduct undertaken with the knowledge that the conduct was unlawful. The maximum amount of the aggregate liability of the Service Providers and their affiliates, the directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, advisers and other representatives of the Service Providers and their affiliates, will be equal to the amounts previously paid in respect of services pursuant to our Master Services Agreement or any other agreement or arrangement contemplated by our Master Services Agreement in the two most recent calendar years by the service recipients. The service recipients have also agreed to indemnify each of the Service Providers, Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and their directors, officers, agents, subcontractors, delegates, members, partners, shareholders and employees to the fullest extent permitted by law from and against any claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses (including legal fees) incurred by an indemnified person or threatened in connection with our company’s respective businesses, investments and activities or in respect of or arising from the Master Services Agreement or the services provided by the Service Providers, except to the
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