Exhibit 1
Opioid Claimant Release
Releases by Holders of Opioid Claims
For good and valuable consideration, the adequacy of which is hereby confirmed, each Participating Opioid Claimant (in its capacity as such) conclusively, absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably and forever releases and discharges, to the maximum extent permitted by law, as such law may be extended subsequent to the Closing Date, each Debtor, each Non-Debtor Affiliate, the Purchaser, and each Released Party from any and all Opioid Claims,9 counterclaims, disputes, obligations, suits, judgments, damages, demands, debts, rights, Causes of Action, liens, remedies, losses, contributions, indemnities, costs, liabilities, attorneys’ fees and expenses whatsoever, including any derivative claims asserted, or assertable on behalf of the Debtors, or their Estates, whether liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, matured or unmatured, known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, asserted or unasserted, accrued or unaccrued, existing or hereinafter arising, whether in law or equity, whether sounding in tort, contract or any other theory, whether arising under federal, state, territorial, municipal, local, or tribal statutory or common law, or any other applicable international, foreign, or domestic law, rule, statute, regulation, treaty, right, duty, requirement or otherwise, that such Participating Opioid Claimant or its estate, affiliates, heirs, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, managers, accountants, attorneys, representatives, consultants, agents, and any other persons or parties claiming under or through it or them would have been legally entitled to assert in their own right (whether individually or collectively) or on behalf of any other Person based on or relating to, or in any manner arising from, in whole or in part, the Debtors (including the management, ownership, or operation thereof), their Estates, the Non-Debtor Affiliates (including the management, ownership, or operation thereof), the Opioid Claims, the Debtors’ in- or out-of-court restructuring efforts (including the Chapter 11 Cases), intercompany transactions between or among a Debtor and another Debtor or a Non-Debtor Affiliate, the business or contractual arrangements or interactions between any Debtor and any Released Party (including the exercise of any common law or contractual rights of setoff or recoupment by any Released Party at any time on or prior to the Closing Date), the restructuring of any Claim or Equity Interest before or during the Chapter 11 Cases, the use of Cash Collateral, any Avoidance Actions, the negotiation, formulation, preparation, dissemination, filing, or implementation of, prior to the Closing Date, the Voluntary Opioid Trust Settlement, the Public Opioid Settlement Trust, the Private Opioid Settlement Trust, the Tribal Opioid Settlement Trust, the Public Opioid Trust Documents, the Private Opioid Trust Documents, the Tribal Opioid Trust Documents, the Restructuring Support Agreement (including the exhibits and joinders thereto and any amendments to the Restructuring Support Agreement or any exhibits or joinders thereto) and related transactions, the Sale, or the PSA, or any contract, instrument, release, or other agreement or document created or entered into prior to the Closing Date in connection with the creation of the Public Opioid Settlement Trust, the Private Opioid Settlement Trust, the Tribal Opioid Settlement Trust, the Restructuring Support Agreement (including the exhibits and joinders thereto and any amendments to the Restructuring Support Agreement or any exhibits or joinders thereto), the Sale, and related transactions, the PSA, the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, the
9 | [NTD: form of release by governmental entities will be limited to opioid claims (i.e., claims relating to the opioid crisis, and not, for example, anti-trust claims relating to opioid products).] |