8.11 Governing Law. Except as otherwise set forth in an Agreement, the Plan and Awards shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of Switzerland, excluding its principles of conflict of laws.
8.12 Accounts. The delivery or payment of any Shares (including, for the avoidance of doubt, ADSs) or cash shall be for the account of the Company or the applicable Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, and any such delivery or payment shall not be made until the recipient shall have paid or made satisfactory arrangements for the payment of any applicable withholding taxes.
8.13 Legends. Shares (including, for the avoidance of doubt, ADSs) subject to an Award shall bear or otherwise be subject to such legends as the Committee deems necessary or appropriate to reflect or refer to any terms, conditions or restrictions of the Award applicable to such Shares (including, for the avoidance of doubt, ADSs), including any to the effect that the Shares (including, for the avoidance of doubt, ADSs) represented thereby may not be disposed of unless the Company has received an opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company, that such disposition will not violate any federal or state securities laws.
8.14 Company’s Rights. The grant of Awards pursuant to the Plan shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Company to make reclassifications, reorganizations or other changes of or to its capital or business structure or to merge, consolidate, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its business or assets.
8.15 Interpretation. The words “include,” “includes,” “included” and “including” to the extent used in the Plan shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation.”
8.16 Section 409A. The Plan and Awards are intended to be exempt from, or compliant with, the requirements of Code Section 409A and related regulations and United States Department of the Treasury pronouncements (“Section 409A”) to the extent that Section 409A is applicable to a Holder. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, if any Plan provision or Award under the Plan would result in the imposition of an additional tax under Section 409A, that Plan provision or Award will be reformed to be exempt from Section 409A or comply with the requirements of Section 409A, and no such action taken shall be deemed to adversely affect the Holder’s rights to an Award.
8.17 Annexes and Subplans. Any annex or subplan adopted from time to time with respect to the Plan shall be made a part of the Plan and, in the event of a conflict between the terms of the Plan and the terms of an annex or subplan to the Plan, the terms of the annex or subplan shall control with respect to the terms of Awards granted to Persons who are Holders pursuant to the annex or subplan.
8.18 Recoupment. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, all Awards granted to LG Participants will be subject to deduction or recoupment pursuant to the Liberty Global Recoupment Policy, as in effect from time to time, or as otherwise may be required pursuant to any law, government regulation or stock exchange listing requirement, and all Awards granted to Company service providers shall be subject to deduction or recoupment pursuant to any recoupment policy that may be adopted by the Company or as otherwise may be required pursuant to any law, government regulation or stock exchange listing requirement or any other policy adopted by the Company.
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