7. INDEMNIFICATION.
7.1. Right to Indemnification. The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted, from time to time, by applicable law any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or, while a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of or in any other capacity with another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement in connection with such action, suit or proceeding.
7.2. Expenses. The Corporation shall advance to a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation expenses incurred in connection with defending any action, suit or proceeding referred to above or in the By-Laws at any time before the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the indemnified person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article 7 or as provided in the By-Laws. The Corporation shall have the power to enter into agreements providing for such advancement of expenses.
7.3. Non-exclusivity. The indemnification and other rights provided for in this Article 7 shall not be exclusive of any provision with respect to indemnification or the payment of expenses in the By-Laws or any other contract or agreement between the Corporation and any officer, director, employee or agent of the Corporation or any other person.
7.4. Future Changes. Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article 7, nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article 7, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of such provisions in respect of any act or omission or any matter occurring prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision regardless of when any cause of action, suit or claim relating to any such matter accrued or matured or was commenced, and such provision shall continue to have effect in respect of such act, omission or matter as if such provision had not been so amended or repealed or if a provision inconsistent therewith had not been so adopted.
8. COMPROMISE OR SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS. Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.
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