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Access to Hyundai’s Supply Chain / Components: | | Hyundai will provide the Company with reasonable access to its supply chain and procurement for automotive components and leverage its purchasing power. Accordingly, on the Company’s request. Hyundai will make a reasonable effort in directing its suppliers to supply components to the Company [*]. The parties shall discuss in good faith the terms on which Hyundai may supply fuel-cell products to the Company. |
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Term and Termination: | | The term of the Collaboration Agreement will be 5 years from the date of closing of the transaction (the ‘‘Effective Date”) and may be terminated earlier in the event any party materially breaches the Collaboration Agreement and (where the breach is remediable) fails to remedy the breach within 30 days’ notice of such breach. |
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Deal Announcement: | | Content and form of any announcement in connection with this Collaboration Agreement must be mutually agreed by the parties in advance of making any such announcement. |
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Counsel and Expenses: | | Each party to bear its own costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Collaboration Agreement. |
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Confidentiality: | | The Company will not disclose the terms of this Collaboration Agreement to any person other than officers, members of the Company board and the Company’s accountants and attorneys without the written consent of Hyundai. The Company shall ensure that any third parties receiving any information relating to this Collaboration Agreement are subject to separate confidential agreements prior to the receipt of such information. |
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Entire Agreement | | The parties intend for this Collaboration Agreement to be legally binding. This Collaboration Agreement (and each Vehicle Contract) forms the entire agreement between the parties in relation to its subject matter and no amendment or addition to it shall be made unless it is in writing and executed by both parties. |
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Assignment, Severability, No Agency, No Third Party Rights | | Save for an assignment or novation in favour of an affiliate of the Company or a financier, the Company shall not assign, novate or deal in any way with all or any part of the benefit of, or its rights or benefits under, this Collaboration Agreement without the prior written consent of Hyundai. |
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| | Each of the provisions of this Collaboration Agreement is separate, severable and enforceable and, accordingly, if at any time any provision is adjudged by any court to be void and unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Collaboration Agreement shall not be affected or impaired in any way. |
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| | Each party is an independent contractor and shall not describe or in any way hold itself out as being the agent of the other. Nothing in this Collaboration Agreement constitutes one party being a partner, employer, employee or agent of the other party and neither party shall have the power to make any representation or warranty, to enter into any transaction on behalf of, or in any other way to bind the other party. Nothing in this Collaboration Agreement shall give rise to a partnership, agency or joint venture between the parties. |
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| | The parties do not intend that the provisions of this Collaboration Agreement shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise by any person not a party to it. |
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Waiver | | No waiver of any of the terms of this Collaboration Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and executed by the parties. No failure or delay by a party to exercise any right, power or remedy under this Collaboration Agreement shall operate as a waiver of that right, or any other right, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of that right or any other right, power or remedy. |
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Governing Law | | This Collaboration Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with this Collaboration Agreement. |