employment prior to signing this Agreement, and Executive will submit for reimbursement all business expenses Executive may incur prior to the Separation Date by no later than ten (10) days following the Separation Date.
f. No Claims. The Company represents that as of the date of this Agreement, none of the Company’s executive officers nor any of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors are aware of any claims, causes of actions, charges, judgments or similar that it or any Released Party (as defined below) has against Executive.
g. No Defamatory Statements. The Company will not issue any press release or make any formal pronouncements, and will direct the members of its Board of Directors, executive officers, investor relations team, and public relations team, in each case, as constituted on the date of this Agreement and on the Separation Date (the “Key Personnel”) not to issue or make, defamatory statements that are intended to harm Executive. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prohibit the Company or any of the Key Personnel from reporting conduct to, providing truthful information to or participating in any investigation or proceeding conducted by a federal or state government agency or self-regulatory organization, from making statements in confidence to a professional advisor for the purpose of securing professional advice or from making truthful comments in the ordinary course of Executive’s continued employment with the Company (e.g., performance reviews) or pursuant to any legal dispute between the Company or its affiliates and Executive. The Company shall be permitted to make truthful statements to rebut any false or misleading statements made about the Company by the Executive or Executive’s representatives.
4. PROMISES OF EXECUTIVE:
a. Released Actions/General Release: With the sole exceptions described in this paragraph, Executive (on behalf of himself and all his heirs, assigns, legal representatives, successors in interest, or any person claiming through Executive) hereby releases the Company and each of its divisions, subsidiaries, benefit plans and all other affiliated entities, as well as all their current and former employees, officers, directors, agents, shareholders, attorneys, accountants, partners, insurers, advisors, partnerships, assigns, successors, heirs, predecessors in interest, joint venturers, and affiliated persons of all those entities, each in their respective official capacities as such (collectively “Released Parties”), from all liabilities, causes of action, charges, complaints, suits, claims, obligations, costs, losses, damages, injuries, rights, judgments, attorney’s fees, expenses, bonds, bills, penalties, fines, liens, and all other legal responsibilities of any form or nature whatsoever, in law or equity, fixed or contingent, whether known or unknown or suspected or unsuspected to exist by Executive, which Executive have or had or may claim to have by reason of any and all matters from the beginning of time to the present, including but not limited to those arising from Executive’s employment and separation from the Company (including the termination of the Employment Contract) or pursuant to any federal, State, or local laws, regulations, executive orders or other requirements, including, but not limited to, federal, state and local wage and hour laws, federal, state and local whistleblower laws, federal, state and local fair employment laws, federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, federal, state and local labor laws, Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act,
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