The Company hereby acknowledges that you are acting as principal and not as a fiduciary of the Company, and the Company’s engagement of you in connection with the transactions contemplated herein is as an independent contractor, on an arms-length basis under this Agreement with duties solely to the Company, and not in any other capacity including as a fiduciary. Neither this Agreement, your performance hereunder nor any previous or existing relationship between the Company, and any member of or business within the Group will be deemed to create any fiduciary relationship. Neither this engagement, nor the delivery of any advice in connection with this engagement, is intended to confer rights upon any persons not a party hereto (including security holders, employees or creditors of the Company) as against the Group or their respective directors, officers, agents and employees. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the transactions contemplated herein (irrespective of whether any member of or business within the Group has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters).
9. Termination; Representations, Acknowledgments and Indemnities to Survive.
(a) Subject to clause (c) below, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company, at any time upon notice to the Solicitation Agent, if (i) at any time prior to the Exercise Date, the Consent Solicitation and Exercise is terminated or withdrawn by the Company for any reason, or (ii) the Solicitation Agent does not comply with all of its covenants under this Agreement.
(b) Subject to clause (c) below, this Agreement may be terminated by the Solicitation Agent, at any time upon notice to the Company, if (i) at any time prior to the Exercise Date, the Consent Solicitation and Exercise is terminated or withdrawn by the Company for any reason, (ii) the Company does not comply in all material respects with any covenant specified in Section 1, (iii) the Company shall publish, send or otherwise distribute any amendment or supplement to the Offering Documents to which the Solicitation Agent shall reasonably object or which shall be reasonably disapproved by the counsel to the Solicitation Agent or (iv) the Solicitation Agent cancels the Agreement pursuant to Section 6.
(c) The respective agreements, representations, warranties, acknowledgments, indemnities and other statements of the Company or its officers, and of the Solicitation Agent set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Solicitation Agent or the Company, or any of the officers, directors or controlling person of the Company, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Ordinary Shares. The provisions of Section 2, Section 5(m), Section 7, and Section 16 hereof, and this Section 9(c), shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.
10. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Solicitation Agent is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies its clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of its clients, as well as other information that will allow the Solicitation Agent to properly identify its clients.
11. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Solicitation Agent, will be mailed or delivered to BofA Securities, Inc. at One Bryant Park, New York, New York 10036, with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) White & Case LLP, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, Attention: Elliott Smith and Laura Katherine Mann, elliott.smith@whitecase.com and laurakatherine.mann@whitecase.com, or, if sent to the Company, to the 9th Floor, 10 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SL, United Kingdom, with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 601 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022, Attention: Ross M. Leff, ross.leff@kirkland.com.
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