(d) As a condition to the exercise, settlement, conversion or exchange of an Award into Membership Units, or the grant of an Award of Membership Units (including restricted Membership Units), the Participant will be required to become a party to the LLC Agreement, execute such other documents and instruments as are reasonably and customarily required by the Company to evidence compliance with applicable federal and state securities and “blue sky” laws, and the Membership Units acquired will be held subject to, and in compliance with, the terms and conditions of the LLC Agreement.
5. Membership Units Subject to the Plan; Limitations and Conditions
(a) Subject to Section 8, the number of Membership Units available for Awards under this Plan shall be equal to 18,160,000 Membership Units. Unless restricted by applicable law, Membership Units related to Awards that are forfeited, terminated, canceled or expire unexercised shall immediately become available for new Awards.
(b) No Awards shall be granted under the Plan beyond ten years after the effective date of the Plan as set forth in Section 13, but the terms of Awards made on or before the expiration of the Plan may extend beyond such expiration date. At the time an Award is made or amended or the terms or conditions of an Award are changed in accordance with the terms of the Plan or the Award Agreement, the Committee may provide for limitations or conditions on such Award.
(c) No such Awards shall, prior to vesting and delivery thereof to the Participant, be in any manner liable for or subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements, or torts of the Participant.
(d) Other than as specifically provided in the LLC Agreement, the Award Agreement and/or in the Management Unitholder’s Agreement to be entered into by and between the Company and a given Participant (the “Management Unitholder’s Agreement”), no benefit under the Plan shall be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or charge, and any attempt to do so shall be void. No such benefit shall, prior to receipt thereof by the Participant, be in any manner liable for or subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements, or torts of the Participant.
(e) Unless otherwise determined by the Committee and other than as specifically provided in the LLC Agreement, the Award Agreement and/or in the Management Unitholder’s Agreement, an Award shall not be transferable or assignable by the Participant other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. An Award exercisable after the death of a Participant may be exercised by his legatees, personal representative, or distributees.
(f) Other than as specifically provided in the LLC Agreement, the Award Agreement and/or in the Management Unitholder’s Agreement, Participants shall not be, and shall not have any of the rights or privileges of, Members of the Company in respect of any Awards exercisable, settled, convertible or exchangeable into Membership Units, unless and until book entry representing such Membership Units has been made and admission of the Participant as a Member pursuant to the LLC Agreement has occurred.
(g) Except as otherwise determined by the Committee or as specifically provided in the LLC Agreement, the Award Agreement and/or in the Management Unitholder’s Agreement, no exercise of any Award may be made during a Participant’s lifetime by anyone other than the Participant, except by a legal representative appointed for or by the Participant in accordance with the requirements set forth by the Company.