Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors, or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.
Section 12. Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses.
(a) In this Section 12:
(1) “Director or officer” means an individual who is or was a director or officer of the corporation and includes the estate or personal representative of such person.
(2) “Liability” means the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, fine or expenses, including attorneys’ fees, reasonably incurred with respect to a proceeding.
(3) “Party” means an individual who was, is or is threatened to be made a party or who is otherwise involved in a proceeding.
(4) “Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative, legislative or investigative, and whether formal or informal.
(b) The corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may be amended, any director or officer who is a party in a proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or, while a director or officer of the corporation, serves or served at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, manager, member, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another entity, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, against all liability reasonably incurred by the director or officer in connection with the proceeding. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the corporation shall be required to indemnify a director or officer in connection with a proceeding (or part of a proceeding) commenced by the director or officer only in accordance with Section 12(d) below or if the commencement of the proceeding (or part of the proceeding) by the director or officer was authorized in the specific case by the Board of Directors of the corporation.
(c) The corporation shall to the fullest extent not prohibited by law pay the expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by a director or officer in defending any proceeding in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding, provided, however, that, to the extent required by law, the payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only following receipt of an undertaking by the director or officer to repay all amounts advanced if it is ultimately determined that the director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section 12 or pursuant to any other bylaw, agreement or action by the Board of Directors or stockholders.
(d) If a claim for indemnification (following the final disposition of any proceeding) or advancement of expenses under this Section 12 is not paid in full within thirty (30) days after a written claim for indemnification or advancement by a director or officer has been received by the corporation, the director or officer may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of the claim, and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting the claim. In any such action the corporation shall have the burden of proving that the director or officer is not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses.
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