Exhibit 10.63
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KFx Inc.
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K‑Fuel ® Projects
Participation and Development Agreement
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THIS K‑FUEL ® PROJECTS PARTICIPATION AND
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, entered into as of May 5, 2005 (this
“ Agreement ”), by and among KFx, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and the
Investors listed on Schedule A hereto (as amended from time to time
as provided herein) (each, an “ Investor ”, and
collectively, the “ Investors ”). This
Agreement shall be effective upon the date that is the later of the
date that the First Amendment (as defined below) becomes effective
and the date that this Agreement shall have been executed by the
Company and Investors holding more than two thirds of the
Registrable Securities (as defined in the Investors’ Rights
Agreement) then outstanding.
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, the Company and the Investors are parties to that certain
Fourth Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, made
as of August 21, 2002 (the “ Investors’ Rights
Agreement ”);
WHEREAS, the K‑Fuel Provisions of the Investors’ Rights
Agreement related to that certain First Amended Limited Liability
Company Agreement of K‑Fuel, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company (“ K‑Fuel LLC ”), dated
June 29, 1999 (the “ K‑Fuel Agreement ”),
by and between Kennecott Alternative Fuels, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“ Kennecott ”), and the Company,
and the transactions contemplated thereby;
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Equity Exchange Agreement, dated
as of November 7, 2004, by and among Pegasus Technologies, Inc.,
K‑Fuel LLC, the Company, Kennecott Energy Corporation and
Kennecott, Kennecott withdrew as a member from K‑Fuel LLC and
assigned certain of its technology rights to K‑Fuel
LLC;
WHEREAS, in light of the foregoing and other facts, events and
circumstances, the parties hereto are as of the date hereof
entering into a certain First Amendment to the Investors’
Rights Agreement (the “ First Amendment ”) to
clarify and modify the K‑Fuel Provisions by, inter
alia , amending and restating the rights of the Investors in
respect of K‑Fuel Technology (as defined herein) in their
entirety in this new agreement; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Company and the Investors holding more than two thirds of the
Registrable Securities currently outstanding is a condition to the
effectiveness of the First Amendment.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements,
promises, covenants and conditions set forth in the
Investors’ Rights Agreement, the First Amendment and in this
Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby expressly acknowledged,
the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
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Section 1.1. Certain Definitions
. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, the
following terms, whenever used in this Agreement, shall have the
meanings ascribed to them below or in the referenced Sections of
this Agreement:
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(a) “ Affiliate ” means, with
respect to any Person at any particular time, any other Person
controlling, controlled by or under common control with such first
Person. For purposes of this definition,
“control” (and the correlative terms
“controlling”, “controlled by” and
“under common control with”) means the possession,
directly or indirectly through one or more other Persons, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract (except a commercial contract for goods or
non-management services) or otherwise, unless the power is solely
the result of an official position with or corporate office held in
such Person. Control is presumed to exist if any Person, directly
or indirectly, owns, controls or holds with the power to vote in
the aggregate ten percent (10%) or more of the voting securities of
any other Person. A pension plan shall be deemed to be
controlled by, and an Affiliate of, its sponsor for the purposes of
this Agreement.
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(b) “ Binding Agreement ” means
any written contract or agreement binding on and Enforceable
against the parties thereto, including any binding and Enforceable
letter of intent or term sheet.
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(c) “ Broker
Investor ” means that certain participant of an Investor
who on March 28, 2002 (the date of the Original Investors’
Rights Agreement) had a demonstrated capability and capacity to
broker coal such as K‑Fuel Products .
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(d) “ Capacity ” means
(i) with respect to any Commercial Project, the designed (or
if not designed, the projected) annual output capacity for the
production of K‑Fuel Products determined, based on reasonable
estimates by the applicable Commercial Project developer and
operator which take into account expected downtime due to regularly
scheduled maintenance and cleaning, at the time that Binding
Agreements are entered into for the development or expansion of
such Commercial Project, or (ii) with respect to multiple
Commercial Projects, the aggregate Capacity of all such Commercial
Projects. After the determination thereof for purposes of
this Agreement, the Capacity of a Commercial Project shall not be
adjusted to reflect its actual annual production of K‑Fuel
Products, absent a bona fide , designed (A) expansion
of such Commercial Project, or (B) prior to the commencement
of operations, contraction of such Commercial Project.
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(e) “ Capital Recovery Point ”
means, with respect to any Commercial Project, the point at which
(i) the difference of (A) the sum of (1) cumulative
Gross Operating Profits, plus (2) any financing or
refinancing proceeds, plus (3) any Tax Credit Monetization
Proceeds, less (B) the amount paid to the applicable
Commercial Project Licensor by the applicable Commercial Project
Licensee for such Commercial Project designated as royalties (for
the avoidance of uncertainty, excluding amounts designated as fees)
under the applicable License Agreement, equals (ii) the
aggregate initial equity investment in such Commercial
Project.
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(f) “ Carried Interest ” means,
with respect to any Commercial Project, the Company’s right
to participate in profits, net income or other distributions of
such Commercial Project in a proportion greater than its
proportionate capital contribution to such Commercial
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Project, whether or not such
right begins only after specified returns to the other investors in
such Commercial Project.
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(g) “ Commercial Project ”
means a project which involves a plant or facility to produce
K‑Fuel Products on a commercial basis.
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(h) “ Commercial Project Licensee
” means, with respect to any Commercial Project, the Person
or Persons holding the rights pursuant to a License Agreement to
Exploit the K‑Fuel Technology in connection
therewith.
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(i) “ Commercial Project Licensor
” means, with respect to any Commercial Project, the Licensor
who has granted a license to the applicable Commercial Project
Licensee pursuant to a License Agreement to Exploit the
K‑Fuel Technology in connection therewith.
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(j) “ Commercial Project Notice
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.1(a).
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(k) “ Company Commercial Projects
” means Commercial Projects, other than Investors Commercial
Projects, (i) in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
participates through an equity interest, and (ii) that the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries constructs, develops or
operates.
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(l) “ Company Participation Capacity
” means, with respect to any Investors Capped Project in
which the Company participates pursuant to Section 2.3, the product
of (x) the Participation Percentage of the Company in such
Investors Capped Project, times (y) the Capacity of
such Investors Capped Project.
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(m) “ Company Project Investors
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
9.2.
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(n) “ Comparable Licensees ”
means, as of any date of determination, third-party licensees of
the K‑Fuel Technology similarly situated to the Commercial
Project Licensees for Investors Capped Projects, provided
that such third-party licensees have paid, or do pay, license fees
in respect of the K‑Fuel Technology at any time preceding, or
within the twelve (12) month period immediately succeeding, such
date of determination.
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(o) “ Confidential Information
” means all notices and other information of any kind or
nature whatsoever delivered by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives to the Investor
Representative or any Investor pursuant to this Agreement to
evaluate and carry out discussions or negotiations regarding
potential participations in Commercial Projects, whether orally or
in writing and regardless of whether marked or designated as
“confidential” or proprietary at the time of
disclosure.
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(p) “ Cook Inlet Project ”
means that certain coal processing project, currently being
developed by Cook Inlet Coal, LLC, near the Cook Inlet estuary in
the State of Alaska.
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(q) “ CPI Adjustment ” means an
increase or decrease to a fee based on a change to the level of the
Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers All Items – Less
Shelter – Index (1967 = 100%), as published with respect to
the United States by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the United
States Department of Labor, or, if such index is no longer
published, a substantially similar price index reasonably selected
by the Company.
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(r) “ Deliverables ” means the
deliverables to be provided by a Commercial Project Licensor to the
applicable Commercial Project Licensee under the applicable License
Agreement, as generally described in Exhibit A.
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(s) “ Development Costs ”
means, with respect to any Commercial Project, all costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the development thereof,
including the costs of identifying the opportunity, performing
feasibility and impact studies, negotiating definitive agreements,
obtaining permits and regulatory approvals, engaging engineers and
contractors to design and build the project and , as
reasonably determined by the Company, the amortized value of the
Company’s general development costs which are of direct
benefit or value to such Commercial Project.
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(t) “ Discretion ” means, with
respect to any Person, such Person’s absolute, sole and
unfettered discretion, which need not be (i) exercised wisely,
reasonably or in good faith, or (ii) explained or justified to
any other Person.
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(u) “ Enforceable ” means, with
respect to any party to an agreement, instrument or other
undertaking, that such agreement, instrument or other undertaking
is enforceable against such party in accordance with its terms,
except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles.
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(v) “ Equipment ” means the
proprietary and patented equipment and certain related equipment
necessary to implement the K-Fuel Technology.
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(w) “ Exchange Act ” means the
United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, each as amended from time to
time, or any successor statute or statutes or rules and
regulations, as the case may be, thereto (it being understood that
any reference to any specific section or definition of the Exchange
Act or such rules and regulations shall be deemed to include a
reference to any similar sections or definitions, as the case may
be, of any successor statutes or rules and regulations, as the case
may be).
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(x) “ Exempt Capacity ” means
the first twenty-five (25) million tons of aggregate Capacity of
Company Commercial Projects in operation or subject to Binding
Agreements.
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(y) “ Exploit ” means provide,
manufacture, use, employ, practice, distribute, reproduce,
disseminate, make, sell, research, design, develop, market or
otherwise exploit.
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(z) “ First Amendment ” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals hereto.
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(aa) “ Governmental Authority ”
means any legislative, judicial, executive or other governmental
court, tribunal, legislature, council, authority, office, branch,
department, agency, commission, body, corporation or
instrumentality, whether foreign, federal, state or
local.
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(bb) “ Gross Operating Profits
” means, with respect to any Commercial Project, the gross
operating revenues of such Commercial Project for the sale of
K‑Fuel Products or other fuel products produced at such
Commercial Project in arm’s length transactions with third
parties, net of:
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(1) deductions for third party expenses not
otherwise reimbursed, including (i) normal and customary
trade, quantity and cash discounts and sales returns and
allowances, including (A) those granted on account of price
adjustments, billing errors, rejected goods, returns and rebates,
(B) administrative and other fees and
reimbursements and similar payments to wholesalers and
other distributors, buying groups and other institutions,
(C) allowances, rebates and fees paid to distributors, and
(D) chargebacks, (ii) customs and excise duties and other
duties related to the sales to the extent that such items are
included in the gross amount invoiced, (iii) rebates and
similar payments made with respect to sales paid for by any
Governmental Authority, (iv) sales and other taxes and duties
directly related to the sale or delivery of such K‑Fuel
Products (but excluding any foreign, federal, state or local taxes,
duties, assessments or charges assessed against or based upon any
income of such Commercial Project generally or derived from such
sale);
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(2) the cost of goods sold based on (i) the
cost to such Commercial Project of acquiring feedstock and the
actual production of such K‑Fuel Products, and
(ii) operation and maintenance costs for operating such
Commercial Project;
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(3) reasonable sales, general and administrative
costs and expenses directly related to the operation of such
Commercial Project or sale of such K‑Fuel Products, including
(i) advertising, (ii) bad debt expense, (iii) bank
charges, (iv) commissions, (v) contract labor,
(vi) transportation and delivery expenses, (vii) dues and
subscriptions, (viii) insurance, (ix) office expenses,
(x) operating supplies, (xi) payroll taxes,
(xii) permits and licenses, (xiii) legal, accounting,
engineering, consulting and other professional fees,
(xiv) property taxes, (xv) lease or rent expense,
(xvi) repairs, (xvii) telephone, (xviii) travel and
entertainment, (xix) fuel and utility expense,
(xx) vehicle expenses, and (xxi) salaries and wages;
and
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(4) interest and administrative costs associated with
indebtedness of the applicable Commercial Project Licensee that are
directly allocable to such Commercial Project.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing,
“ Gross Operating Profits ” shall not be reduced
by (i) the principal portion of any debt service,
(ii) capital improvements for expanding the Capacity of such
Commercial Project, (iii) any payments, rebates, fees,
reimbursements, costs, expenses, overhead or other allocations to
or from any Affiliate or related party of such Commercial Project
Licensee, or (iv) depreciation, depletion or amortization
costs of such Commercial Project Licensee.
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(cc) “ Improvements ” means the
Investors Improvements and the Licensor Improvements.
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(dd) “ India Exclusive Sales Right
” means the exclusive rights of the Investors to sell
K‑Fuel Products for consumption in India as contemplated by
Section 2.10.
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(ee) “ Initial Fee Date ” means
(i) with respect to each Commercial Project governed by a
License Agreement specific to such Commercial Project, the date the
License Agreement for such Commercial Project is executed and
delivered by the applicable Licensor, and (ii) with respect to
each other Commercial Project, the first date on which ground is
broken on such Commercial Project.
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(ff) “ Institutional Accredited
Investor ” means a non-natural Person that is an
“accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1),
(2), (3) or (7) promulgated under the Securities Act.
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(gg) “ Investors ” means the
Investors listed on Schedule A to this Agreement, together
with their successors and permitted assigns pursuant to ARTICLE
VI.
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(hh) “ Investors Capped Projects
” means all Commercial Projects constructed, developed or
operated by Investors as contemplated by Section 2.3.
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(ii) “ Investors Commercial Projects
” means all Investors Capped Projects and all Investors India
Projects.
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(jj) “ Investors Company Participation
Rights ” means the rights of the Investors to participate
in Company Commercial Projects pursuant to Section 2.1.
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(kk) “ Investors Improvements ”
means any and all Technology Improvements in respect of the
K‑Fuel Technology or the Deliverables, to the production of
K‑Fuel Products or to the construction, development or
operation of Commercial Projects which are conceived, developed or
reduced to practice in connection with any Investors Commercial
Project.
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(ll) “ Investors India Projects
” means all Investors India Market Projects and all Investors
India Site Projects.
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(mm) “ Investors India Market
Projects ” means all Commercial Projects whose
K‑Fuel Products may only be marketed and sold within India as
contemplated by Section 2.4.
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(nn) “ Investors India Site Projects
” means all Commercial Projects which must be constructed,
developed and operated within India as contemplated by Section
2.5.
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(oo) “ Investors Licensor ” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.5.
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(pp) “ Investors Participation
Capacity ” means, with respect to any Commercial Project
in which any Investors participate pursuant to Section 2.1 or
Section 2.2, the product of (x) the aggregate Participation
Percentage of such Investors in such Commercial Project,
times (y) the Capacity of such Commercial
Project.
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(qq) “ Investors Project Rights
” means the Investors’ rights to (i) participate
in Commercial Projects pursuant to Section 2.1 and Section
2.2, and (ii) construct, develop or operate Investors
Commercial Projects pursuant to Section 2.3, Section 2.4 and
Section 2.5.
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(rr) “ Investors Representative
” means Westcliff Capital Management, together with its
successors as Investors Representative hereunder pursuant to
Section 5.4.
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(ss) “ Investors Rights ” means the
participation, development, sales, brokerage and other rights of
the Investors, including the Investors Project Rights, the India
Exclusive Sales Right and the Right of First Refusal, contemplated
by ARTICLE II, including the rights to the transactions
contemplated thereby.
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(tt) “ Investors Third-Party
Participation Rights ” means the rights of the Investors
to be assigned the right to participate in third-party Commercial
Projects pursuant to Section 2.2.
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(uu) “ K‑Fuel Agreement ”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals
hereto.
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(vv) “ K‑Fuel LLC ” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals
hereto.
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(ww) “ K‑Fuel Products ”
means any fuel products which are produced using the K‑Fuel
Technology.
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(xx) “ K‑Fuel Provisions
” means Sections 3.2 through Section 3.8, inclusive, and
Section 3.10 of the Investors’ Rights Agreement, as such
Sections were constituted immediately prior to giving effect to the
First Amendment.
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(yy) “ K‑Fuel Technology
” means the Licensed Patents, the Deliverables and the
Improvements.
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(zz) “ K‑Fuel Technology ”
means the Licensed Patents, the Deliverables and the
Improvements.
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(aaa) “ Kennecott ” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals hereto.
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(bbb) “ License Agreement ”
means, with respect to any Investors Commercial Project, the
license agreement for such Commercial Project as contemplated by
Section 3.1.
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(ccc) “ Licensed Patents ”
means the United States patents and patent applications listed on
Exhibit C, all foreign counterparts thereof, any and all
patents maturing from a continuation, continuation-in-part,
division, reissue, reexamination or any other type of application
based on the foregoing, regardless of whether such patent matures
from a convention or non-convention application, and any other
substitution, renewal, extension, addition, utility model or any
other United States or foreign patent based on the foregoing, for
the duration of the last to expire of the foregoing patent
rights.
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(ddd) “ Licensor ” means the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including K‑Fuel LLC,
that from time to time shall have the right to license the
K‑Fuel Technology.
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(eee) “ Licensor Improvements ”
means any Technology Improvements to the K‑Fuel Technology or
the Deliverables (i) conceived, developed or reduced to
practice by (A) the Licensors, or (B) a licensee of the
Licensors, including any Commercial Project Licensee for an
Investors Commercial Project, provided that such licensee
effectively assigns all right, title and interest to such
Technology Improvements to the applicable Licensors without
restrictions on such Licensors’ ability to license such
Technology Improvements to their licensees, and (ii) which are
generally commercially released by the Licensors.
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(fff) “ LSA ” means Lurgi South
Africa (Pty) Limited, a South Africa company, together with its
successors and assigns.
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(ggg) “ Lurgi Agreement ” means
that certain Business Development and Intellectual Property Rights
Agreement, dated as of January 2, 2003, by and among the
Company
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and Lurgi, as modified on January
8, 2004 and amended on May 21, 2004, attached as Exhibit D,
and as, amended, extended, restated, superseded, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
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(hhh) “ Management Rights ”
means management, executive or voting rights, powers or
authorities, including the right, power or authority to determine
or make design, construction, operations, hiring, contracting and
any other management or business decisions.
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(iii) “ Maximum Capacity ”
means an aggregate Capacity of Commercial Projects of fifty (50)
million tons per year; provided , however , that if a
one-time additional allocation of up to three (3) million
additional tons of Capacity is reasonably necessary to support the
economic viability of the Investors constructing, developing or
operating a final Investors Capped Project pursuant to Section 2.2,
the Investors may petition the Company for such an allocation, and,
upon the Investors’ submission of supporting information,
including alternate economic models, reasonably acceptable to the
Company, the Maximum Capacity shall for purposes of such final
Investors Capped Project be increased by the petitioned
amount.
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(jjj) “ Net Revenue ” means,
with respect to the sale or other disposition of K‑Fuel
Products produced by any Commercial Project, the excess of
(i) gross revenue collected from such sale or other
disposition, over (ii) the sum of (A) bona
fide price adjustments, billing errors, rejected goods,
returns, rebates, chargebacks and third-party commissions on such
sale or other disposition, plus (B) sales or use taxes,
excise taxes or other governmental or regulatory assessments,
duties or charges imposed on such sale or other disposition
(excluding any foreign, federal, state or local taxes, duties,
assessments or charges assessed against or based upon a
Person’s income), all as determined in accordance with the
applicable License Agreement; provided that to the extent
that such sale or disposition was not in an arm’s length
transaction with third parties, the amounts to be calculated as
provided in clause (i) and clause (ii)(A) next above shall be
adjusted to the amounts the Company reasonably determines would
have applied had such sale or disposition been made in an
arm’s length transaction with third parties.
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(kkk) “ Participation Percentage
” means, with respect to any Person and any Commercial
Project, the aggregate percentage equity interest of such Person in
the production of K‑Fuel Products by such Commercial Project;
provided that any Carried Interests shall not be considered
in determining Participation Percentages.
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(lll) “ Person ” means any
individual, trustee, receiver, conservator, administrator,
liquidator, custodian, corporation, limited liability company,
general or limited partnership, sole proprietorship, association,
company, institution, public benefit corporation, firm, joint-stock
company, trust, business trust, separate account, estate, joint
venture, Governmental Authority or any other legally recognized
entity or body, whether domestic or foreign.
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(mmm) “ Prime Rate ” means,
with respect to any date of determination, the last variable rate
of interest per annum published by the Board of Governors of the
United States Federal Reserve System under the heading “Bank
Prime Loan” in Federal Reserve statistical release H.15(519),
or any successor publication to the Federal Reserve System
reporting the Bank Prime Loan rate or its equivalent;
provided that if no updated rate can be so determined for a
period of six (6) months, the Company shall designate a
substantially similar publication of interest rates with the
consent of the Investors Representative, such consent not to be
unreasonably delayed, withheld or conditioned.
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(nnn) “ QIB ” means a
“qualified institutional buyer”, as defined in Rule
144A promulgated under the Securities Act.
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(ooo) “ Recipient ” means any
Person who receives Confidential Information pursuant to or in
connection with this Agreement.
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(ppp) “ Representatives ”
means, with respect to any Person, its directors, officers,
partners, members, managers, employees, agents, consultants or
other representatives (including advisers, attorneys, accountants
and financial advisers).
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(qqq) “ Revenue Code ” means
the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, each as amended from time to
time, or any successor statute or statutes or rules and
regulations, as the case may be, thereto (it being understood that
any reference to any specific section or definition of the Revenue
Code or such rules and regulations shall be deemed to include a
reference to any similar sections or definitions, as the case may
be, of any successor statutes or rules and regulations, as the case
may be).
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(rrr) “ Right of First Refusal
” means the Brokers Investor’s right of first refusal
to serve as the Company’s broker pursuant to Section
2.11.
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(sss) “ Sasol ” means Sasol
Lurgi Technology Company (Pty) Limited.
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(ttt) “ Sasol/Lurgi Technology
” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Lurgi
Agreement.
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(uuu) “ Securities Act ” means
the United States Securities Act of 1933 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, each as amended from time to
time, or any successor statute or statutes or rules and
regulations, as the case may be, thereto (it being understood that
any reference to any specific section or definition of the
Securities Act or such rules and regulations shall be deemed to
include a reference to any similar sections or definitions, as the
case may be, of any successor statutes or rules and regulations, as
the case may be).
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(vvv) “ Subsidiary ” means,
with respect to any Person, any other Person a majority of the
equity ownership or voting stock of which is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more other
Persons, by such first Person and any of its other
Subsidiaries.
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(www) “ Tax Credit Monetization
Proceeds ” means, with respect to any Commercial Project,
all amounts, proceeds, revenues, capital contributions or
compensation of any kind or nature paid by any unaffiliated and
otherwise unrelated Person to the applicable Commercial Project
Licensee or any of its Affiliates in consideration of, incidental
to or in connection with the grant, assignment or allocation of tax
or similar credits to such unrelated Person.
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(xxx) “ Technology ” means
ideas, information, methods, processes or products, regardless of
form, physical embodiment or legal status, and the intellectual
property rights associated therewith.
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(yyy) “ Technology Improvements
” means any improvements, enhancements, advancements,
updates, revisions, changes or modifications, regardless of whether
a patent can be obtained therefor.
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(zzz) “ Total Production Capacity
” means the aggregate Capacity of all Commercial Projects in
operation or subject to Binding Agreements.
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(aaaa) “ Transfer ” means, with
respect to any right, property or asset, sell, deed, distribute,
exchange, convey, gift, devise, bequeath, assign, issue, lease,
pledge, hypothecate, grant a lien on, grant a security interest in,
or otherwise alienate, transfer, encumber or dispose of such right,
property or asset or any interest therein or right thereto, in
whole or in part, whether directly or indirectly (through another
Person or otherwise), whether voluntarily, involuntarily or by
operation of law, and whether with or without
consideration.
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(bbbb) “ Used Capacity ” means,
subject to Section 2.8, the sum of (a) the aggregate Investors
Participation Capacity in (i) all Company Commercial Projects
in which the Investors participate pursuant to Section 2.1 (other
than Company Commercial Projects in which any Investors participate
separately from this Agreement, provided that the Company expressly
agrees in writing that such Investor participation (A) is not
pursuant to this Agreement, and (B) shall not be included when
calculating the Used Capacity), and (ii) all Commercial
Projects in which the Investors participate pursuant to Section
2.2, plus (b) the aggregate Capacity of all Investors
Capped Projects (net of any Company Participation Capacity
therein), in each case whether such Commercial Project is in
operation or subject to Binding Agreements.
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(cccc) “ Westcliff Capital Management
” means Westcliff Capital Management, LLC, a California
limited liability company.
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Section 1.2. Interpretations
. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires:
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(a) all references in this Agreement to designated
“Articles,” “Sections” and other
subdivisions, or to designated “Exhibits”,
“Schedules” or “Appendices”, are to the
designated Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of, or the
designated Exhibits, Schedules or Appendices to, this
Agreement;
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(b) the words “herein,”
“hereof”, “herewith” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Agreement as a whole, and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision hereof;
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(c) pronouns having a masculine, feminine or
neuter gender shall be deemed to include the others;
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(d) the term “or” shall not be
exclusive;
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(e) the terms “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed
to be followed by the words “without limitation”;
and
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(f) whenever the singular number is used, if
required by the context, the same shall include the plural, and
vice versa.
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Section 2.1. Investors’ Participation Rights in
Company Commercial Projects . The Company hereby
grants to the Investors the right to participate in Company
Commercial Projects, subject to Section 2.7, Section 2.9, Section
4.1, Section 4.3 and the following terms and
conditions:
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(a) After Total Production Capacity reaches or
exceeds the Exempt Capacity, the Investors shall have the right to
participate in each new Company Commercial Project at a
Participation Percentage up to fifteen percent (15%) of the
Company’s Participation Percentage in such Company Commercial
Project. The Company may, in its Discretion, offer the
Investors a larger Participation Percentage on a per-project basis
on whatever terms and conditions the Company in its Discretion
elects to offer, and, unless otherwise provided by the terms of
such additional participation, the additional Investors
Participation Percentage shall count towards Used Capacity;
provided that the Investors shall be under no obligation to
accept such an offer if presented.
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(b) Participation by the Investors in Company
Commercial Projects pursuant to this Section 2.1 will generally be
on the same terms applicable to third parties, including the
allocation of Development Costs, tax items, profits, losses and
liabilities, provided , however , that the Investors
shall not (i) be required to provide the Company with, or be
subject to, any Carried Interest, (ii) be entitled to
participate in any Carried Interest provided to the Company by a
third party, or (iii) be entitled to any Management Rights in
such Company Commercial Project; and provided further that
the license fees and royalties applicable to the Investors’
participation shall be at the rates applicable to Investors Capped
Projects.
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(c) By way of example, if Total Production
Capacity is more than the Exempt Capacity and the Investors Project
Rights have not terminated pursuant to Section 2.7, and the Company
participates with a third party in a Commercial Project at a fifty
percent (50%) Participation Percentage (prior to the
Investors’ participation) with an additional twenty-five
percent (25%) Carried Interest, the Investors shall have the right
to participate up to a seven and one-half percent (7.5%)
Participation Percentage in such Commercial Project, without any
adjustment for the Company’s Carried Interest (that is, will
neither receive any of the Carried Interest obtained by the
Company, nor provide or be subject to any Carried Interest to the
Company).
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Section 2.2. Investors’ Participation Rights in
Commercial Projects in Place of Company . If the
Company from time to time has a contractual right to fund a portion
of the capital of a Commercial Project other than an Investors
Commercial Project, and the Company intends to decline to exercise
such right, or to fund less than the maximum amount it is permitted
to fund, the Company hereby agrees to assign to the Investors, on
the terms and subject to the conditions on which the Company is
entitled to participate, to the extent the Company declines to
exercise such right or to fund less than the maximum amount it is
permitted to fund, the right to participate in such Commercial
Project, subject to Section 2.7, Section 2.9, Section 4.1, Section
4.3 and the following terms and conditions:
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(a) Such Commercial Project shall have an
effective and valid license to Exploit any rights under or to the
K‑Fuel Technology pursuant to a license agreement with a
Licensor.
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(b) The Company shall be entitled to any Carried
Interest to which it would have been entitled had it funded such
Commercial Project to the extent the Investors instead
fund
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such Commercial Project pursuant
to this Section 2.2, and the Investors shall (i) not be
entitled to any participation in such Carried Interest, and
(ii) use their commercially reasonable efforts to comply with
any provisions and to satisfy any conditions necessary for the
Company to receive the full benefit of such Carried
Interest.
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(c) The Company shall not be obligated to assign
to the Investors any Management Rights which the Company may have
in such Commercial Project, and may exercise any such Management
Rights in its Discretion notwithstanding the assignment of economic
rights to any Investors pursuant to this Section 2.2.
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(d) The Company’s obligations under this
Section 2.2 to assign any rights to the Investors shall be subject
to any conditions, restrictions, limitations and prohibitions on
and against assignment imposed by any other parties to such
Commercial Project at any time that (i) the Investors
Representative is not Westcliff Capital Management, or
(ii) Richard S. Spencer III does not control, or is not the
Company’s contact for, Westcliff Capital
Management.
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Section 2.3. Investors Rights to Develop Commercial
Projects . Upon request by the Investors
Representative, the Company hereby agrees from time to time to
offer to enter, or to cause a Licensor to offer to enter, into a
License Agreement with a Commercial Project Licensee for a specific
Commercial Project located anywhere worldwide except within India,
which License Agreement shall grant such Commercial Project
Licensee a non-exclusive license to construct, develop and operate
such Commercial Project and to Exploit the K‑Fuel Technology
in connection therewith, subject to Section 2.6, Section
2.7 , Section 2.9,
ARTICLE III and Section 4.1. The Company shall have the right
to participate at a Participation Percentage up to fifty percent
(50%) in each Investors Capped Project.
Section 2.4. Investors Rights to Develop Commercial
Projects for India Market . Upon request by the
Investors Representative, the Company hereby agrees from time to
time to offer to enter, or to cause a Licensor to offer to enter,
into a License Agreement with a Commercial Project Licensee for a
specific Commercial Project located anywhere worldwide except
within India or the United States (except a Commercial Project may
be located in the State of Alaska if after request the Company
determines that such Commercial Project will not adversely affect
the Company or the Cook Inlet Project), which License Agreement
shall grant such Commercial Project Licensee a non-exclusive
license to construct, develop and operate such Commercial Project
and to Exploit the K‑Fuel Technology in connection therewith,
subject to Section 2.6, Section 2.7, Section 2.9, ARTICLE III,
Section 4.1 and the following terms and
conditions:
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(a) The K‑Fuel Products produced at each
Investors India Market Project may only be sold for consumption
within India.
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(b) the Company shall have the right to
participate at a Participation Percentage up to fifty percent (50%)
in each Investors India Market Project to the extent that such such
India Market Project is not undertaken for charitable
purposes.
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Section 2.5. Investors Exclusive Rights to Develop
Projects Within India . Upon request by the
Investors Representative, the Company hereby agrees within a
reasonable period of time to offer to enter, or to cause a Licensor
to offer to enter, into a License Agreement with a Person
designated by the Investors Representative (the “
Investors Licensor ”), which License Agreement shall
grant such Person an irrevocable, transferable, exclusive right and
license, with the right to grant sublicenses subject to the terms
and conditions of such License Agreement, to construct, develop and
operate Commercial Projects within India, and to Exploit the
K‑Fuel Technology within India in connection therewith,
subject to Section 2.7(d), ARTICLE III and the following terms and
conditions:
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(a) Each Investors India Site Project shall obtain
an effective and valid license to Exploit the rights under or to
the K‑Fuel Technology pursuant to a license agreement with
the Investors Licensor which complies in all respects with the
License Agreement for the Investors Licensor.
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(b) The Investors may, in their Discretion, offer
the Company the opportunity to participate in Investors India Site
Projects on a per-project basis on whatever terms and conditions
the Investors in their Discretion elect to offer, but the Company
shall be under no obligation to accept such an offer if
presented.
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Section 2.6. Dual-Use Plants and Facilities
. The Investors may elect to designate a single physical
plant or facility as both an Investors Capped Project and an
Investors India Market Project under this Agreement by making a
single request both under Section 2.3 and Section 2.4, indicating
therein that there will be a single physical plant or facility for
the requested Investors Capped Project and Investors India Market
Project and indicating the Capacity of each such Commercial
Project. The Company shall modify the License Agreement
offered, or caused to be offered, to the applicable Commercial
Project Licensee pursuant to Section 2.3 and Section 2.4 to the
extent necessary to accommodate a single Person being party to, and
a single plant or facility being subject to, the two separate
License Agreements contemplated by Section 2.3 and Section 2.4, it
being understood and agreed that each such License Agreement shall
provide for royalties and fees, impose restrictions on sales of
K‑Fuel Products and contain other terms and provisions which
allocate K‑Fuel Product produced by the plant or facility
between the Investors Capped Project and the Investors India Market
Project in the same proportion as the respective Capacities of such
Investors Capped Project and such Investors India Market
Project . After
such a designation, the Investors shall send a single Commercial
Project Notice in respect of both such Commercial Projects, but
shall indicate therein the allocation of Capacity (and, in the same
proportion, K‑Fuel Products produced by the applicable plant
or facility) between the Investors Capped Project and Investors
India Market Project.
Section 2.7. Termination and Suspension of Investors
Project Rights .
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(a) The Investors shall not have any Investors
Company Participation Rights or Investors Third-Party Participation
Rights before the Total Production Capacity reaches or exceeds the
Exempt Capacity; provided that until such time, the Company
may, in its Discretion, offer the Investors the opportunity to
participate in Company Commercial Projects on a per-project basis
on whatever terms and conditions the Company in its Discretion
elects to offer, but the Investors shall be under no obligation to
accept such an offer if presented.
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(b) The Investors shall no longer have any
Investors Company Participation Rights or Investors Third-Party
Participation Rights, or any right to construct, develop or operate
any Investors Capped Project, and such Investors Project Rights
shall immediately terminate and be of no further force or effect,
upon the occurrence of any of the following events (each, a “
Termination Event ”): (i) the Used Capacity
reaches or exceeds the Maximum Capacity; or (ii) twenty (20)
years shall have elapsed from the date on which the Total
Production Capacity first reached or exceeded the Exempt
Capacity. The occurrence of a Termination Event shall not
affect (A) the rights of the Company which by their nature
should survive such occurrence, including the rights which survive
the termination of this Agreement under Section 12.2,
(B) Investors India Projects, or (C) the Investors’
rights with respect to such Company Commercial Projects,
third-party Commercial Projects or Investors Capped Projects as are
then in operation or subject to Binding Agreements, including the
Investors’ rights pursuant to ARTICLE VI.
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(c) The Investors shall no longer have any right
or license to construct, develop and operate any Investors India
Projects, or the India Exclusive Sales Right, and such Investors
Project Rights and India Exclusive Sales Right shall immediately
terminate and be of no further force or effect, effective on March
31, 2012 (the “ Termination Date ”);
provided that the Termination Date shall be automatically
extended for successive seven (7) year terms if at the time the
then-current term expires, the Investors shall have constructed, or
entered into Binding Agreements to construct (and shall within a
reasonable period of time thereafter in fact have constructed and
commenced operating), Investors India Site Projects having an
aggregate Capacity greater than the product of (x) three (3)
million tons, times (y) the aggregate number of
seven-year terms (including the initial term and the term then
expiring) which shall then have expired. The occurrence of
the Termination Date shall not affect (A) the rights of the
Company which by their nature should survive such occurrence,
including the rights which survive the termination of this
Agreement under Section 12.2, (B) the Investors’ rights
with respect to Company Commercial Projects or third-party
Commercial Projects, (C) Investors Capped Projects, or
(D) such Investors India Projects as are then in operation or
subject to Binding Agreements, including the Investors’
rights pursuant to ARTICLE VI.
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(d) Whenever and for so
long as any Investor or Investors Commercial Project shall be in
material breach of any of its agreements or covenants under this
Agreement or the applicable License Agreement, as the case may be,
such Investor or all of the Investors participating in such
Investors Commercial Project, as the case may be, shall not have or
enjoy (i) any Investors Company Participation Rights,
(ii) any Investors Third-Party Participation Rights,
(iii) any right to participate in the construction,
development or operation of any Investors Commercial Project,
(iv) the India Exclusive Sales Right, (v) the right (in
any capacity) to any information from the Company or any of its
Affiliates or their respective Representatives, or the Investors
Representative, under this Agreement, or (vi) any right to
assign any of its rights pursuant to ARTICLE VI. Upon
identification of any such Investor by the Company, the Company
shall no longer have any obligation under this Agreement to
deliver, and upon notice thereof the Investors
Representative shall not without an explicit
instruction from the Company deliver, any Commercial Project
Notice, Confidential Information or other confidential information
to such Investor.
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Section 2.8. Adjustments to Used Capacity
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(a) If any Investors enter into any Binding
Agreements with the Company (and possibly other parties) with
respect to any Commercial Project and fail to perform their
obligations under such Binding Agreements, the Capacity of such
Commercial Project shall nevertheless be included in the
calculation of Used Capacity.
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(b) If the Company enters into any Binding
Agreements with any Investors for the development of any Commercial
Project pursuant to the Investors Project Rights and the Company
fails to fund its portion of such Commercial Project according to
such Binding Agreements, the Investors or third parties shall be
allowed to fund the portion of such Commercial Project that was not
funded by the Company on the terms that were applicable to the
Company, and in such event, the participation interest applicable
to such additional portion of the Commercial Project shall not be
included in the calculation of Used Capacity.
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(c) The adjustments to Used Capacity in this
Section 2.8 are cumulative and are in addition to, rather than
exclusive of, any other remedies provided by law or in equity or
that are available under the applicable Binding Agreements or
subsequent contractual obligations or in equity.
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Section 2.9. Tax Credits . The Company
and the Investors each agrees to use its commercially reasonable
efforts to cause each Commercial Project which it structures and in
which the Investors or the Company, as the case may be, participate
to be structured, to the extent permissible under applicable law,
to allow for the pass-through and sharing of any tax credits under
the Revenue Code, for which such Commercial Project is eligible;
provided that neither the Company nor the Investors shall be
obligated to incur any liability, expense or cost, or suffer the
loss of any right, benefit or gain, pursuant to this Section 2.9
unless the other of them agrees in writing to indemnify the first
of them for such liability, expense, cost or loss.
Section 2.10. India Exclusive Sales Right
. Subject to Section 2.7 and ARTICLE III, to the extent
permitted by the laws and regulations of India, the Investors and
the Investors Commercial Projects, and their respective designees,
shall jointly have the exclusive right to sell K‑Fuel
Products for consumption within India.
Section 2.11. Right of First Refusal Over United
States Brokerage .
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