10. Employee Release of Claims.
(a) In exchange for the severance pay, acceleration of vested equity (and related distribution holdbacks) and other benefits provided to you under this Agreement, as well as the repurchase provisions set forth in Section 6(c), to which you would not otherwise be entitled, on your own behalf and on the behalf of your heirs, executors, administrators, beneficiaries, representatives and assigns, and all others connected with or claiming through you, hereby release and forever discharge the Company, Parent and their current and past parents, subsidiaries and other affiliates and all of their respective past, present and future officers, directors, trustees, shareholders, employees, agents, employee benefit plans, general and limited partners, members, managers, investors, joint venturers, representatives, successors and assigns, and all others connected with any of them, only to the extent such parties were acting in their official capacities (collectively, the “Released Parties”), from any and all causes of action, rights and claims of any type or description, known or unknown, which you have had in the past, now have, or might now have, through the date of you signing of this Agreement, in any way related to, connected with or arising out of your employment or its termination or the Employment Agreement by and among you, McAfee Employee Holdings, LLC and Foundation Technology Worldwide LLC (“Parent”) dated as of June 1, 2017 (the “Employment Agreement”) or pursuant to any federal, state or local law, regulation or other requirement (including without limitation Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and/or the fair employment practices statute of the state or states in which you were previously employed by the Company or otherwise had a relationship with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or other affiliates, each as amended from time to time) (collectively, the “Released Claims”). The foregoing release shall not apply to (a) any claim that arises after you sign this Agreement, (b) any rights to indemnification that you may have under the Company’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, by contract, as a matter of law, or otherwise, or under any power that the Company or its predecessor or affiliate entities may have to indemnify you or hold you harmless, (c) any claim that may not be waived pursuant to applicable law, (d) your rights to severance pay and benefits under this Agreement, (e) your rights following the date hereof with respect to any equity interests you hold in Parent or any of its affiliates as set forth in this Agreement, (f) your right to enforce the terms of this Agreement or (g) your rights to any vested benefits to which you are entitled under the terms of any of the Company’s or its affiliates’ benefit plans, programs, or policies.
In signing this Agreement, to the extent applicable, you expressly waive and relinquish all rights and benefits provided by Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California, and do so understanding and acknowledging the significance of such specific waiver of Section 1542, which section states as follows:
A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or the released party.
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