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Exhibit 10.2
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
This INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT made and entered into as of (Agreement),
by and between EXTERRAN HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (Company), and
(Indemnitee).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, highly skilled and competent persons are becoming more reluctant to serve public
corporations as directors or officers unless they are provided with adequate protection through
insurance and indemnification against inordinate risks of claims and actions against them arising
out of their service to and activities on behalf of a corporation; and
WHEREAS, uncertainties relating to indemnification have increased the difficulty of attracting
and retaining such persons; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has determined that the inability to attract and retain such
persons is detrimental to the best interests of the Companys stockholders and that the Company
should act to assure such persons that there will be increased certainty of such protection in the
future; and
WHEREAS, while the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the Bylaws) require
indemnification of the officers and directors of the Company, the Bylaws and the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the DGCL) expressly provide that the indemnification
provisions set forth therein are not exclusive, and thereby contemplate that contracts may be
entered into between the Company and its directors, officers and other persons with respect to
indemnification; and
WHEREAS, Indemnitee does not regard the protection available under the Bylaws and through
insurance as adequate in the present circumstances, and may not be willing to serve as an officer,
director, employee or agent without adequate protection, and the Company desires Indemnitee to
serve in one or more such capacities; and
WHEREAS, it is reasonable, prudent and necessary for the Company contractually to obligate
itself to indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law so that Indemnitee
will serve or continue to serve the Company free from undue concern that Indemnitee will not be so
indemnified; and
WHEREAS, Indemnitee is willing to serve and to take on additional service for or on behalf of
the Company on the condition that Indemnitee be so indemnified; and
WHEREAS, this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the Bylaws and any
resolutions adopted pursuant thereto, and shall not be deemed a substitute therefor, nor to
diminish or abrogate any rights of Indemnitee thereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants contained herein, the
Company and Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:
Section 1. Services by Indemnitee. Indemnitee agrees to serve as a director, officer,
employee or agent of the Company. This Agreement does not create or otherwise establish any right
on the part of Indemnitee to be and continue to be nominated to be a director, officer, employee or
agent of the Company and does not create an employment contract between the Company and Indemnitee.
Section 2. Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law in effect on the date hereof or as such laws may from time to
time be amended. Without diminishing the scope of the indemnification provided by this Section 2,
the rights of indemnification of Indemnitee provided hereunder shall include but shall not be
limited to those rights, except to the extent expressly prohibited by applicable law.
Section 3. Action or Proceeding Other Than an Action by or in the Right of the
Company. Indemnitee shall be entitled to the indemnification rights provided in this Section 3
if Indemnitee is a party to or participant in or is threatened to be made a party to or participant
in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative in nature, other than an action by or in the right of the Company
to procure a judgment in its favor, by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director,
officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the
Company as a director, officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary of any other entity or by reason of
anything done or not done by him or her in any such capacity. Pursuant to this Section 3,
Indemnitee shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against expenses
(including attorneys fees and disbursements), judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such action, suit or
proceeding (including, but not limited to, the investigation, defense or appeal thereof or any
claim, issue or matter therein), if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect
to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe Indemnitees conduct was
unlawful.
Section 4. Actions by or in the Right of the Company. Indemnitee shall be entitled to
the indemnification rights provided in this Section 4 if Indemnitee is a person who was or is made
a party to or participant in or is threatened to be made a party to or participant in any
threatened, pending or completed action or suit brought by or in the right of the Company to
procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director,
officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the
Company as a director, officer, employee, agent, or fiduciary of any other entity by reason of
anything done or not done by Indemnitee in any such capacity. Pursuant to this Section 4,
Indemnitee shall be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against expenses
(including attorneys fees and disbursements) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in
connection
with such action or suit (including, but not limited to, the investigation, defense,
settlement or appeal thereof or any claim, issue or matter therein) if Indemnitee acted in good
faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the Company; provided, however, that no such indemnification shall be made in
respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been finally adjudged by a
court to be liable to the Company, unless, and only to the extent that, the Court of Chancery of
the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon
application that, despite such adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of
the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses which
such court shall deem proper.
Section 5. Indemnification for Expenses of Successful Party. Notwithstanding the
other provisions of this Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee has been successful on the merits
or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 3 or 4 hereof, or
in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all
expenses (including attorneys fees and disbursements) actually and reasonably incurred by
Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in connection therewith. For purposes of this Section and
Section 6 below, and without limitation, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in any such
action, suit or proceeding by dismissal, with or without prejudice, shall be deemed to be a
successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.
Section 6. Partial Indemnification. If Indemnitee is only partially successful in the
defense, investigation, settlement or appeal of any action, suit, investigation or proceeding
described in Section 4 hereof, and as a result is not entitled under Section 5 hereof to
indemnification by the Company for the total amount of the expenses (including attorneys fees and
disbursements), judgments, penalties, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by Indemnitee, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee, as a matter of right
pursuant to Section 5 hereof, to the extent Indemnitee has been partially successful. If the
Indemnitee is only partially successful in any such action, suit, investigation or proceeding, the
Company shall also indemnify Indemnitee, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, against
all expenses (including attorneys fees and disbursements) reasonably incurred in connection with a
claim, issue or matter related to any claim, issue or matter on which the Indemnitee was
successful.
Section 7. Indemnification for Expenses of a Witness. To the extent that Indemnitee
is, by reason of Indemnitees Corporate Status (as hereinafter defined), a witness in any
proceeding, Indemnitee shall be indemnified by the Company against all expenses actually and
reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in connection therewith.
Section 8. Additional Indemnification.
(a) Notwithstanding any limitation in Sections 3, 4, 5 or 6 hereof, the Company shall
indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law if Indemnitee is a party to
or threatened to be made a party to any action, suit or proceeding (including any action, suit or
proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor) against all expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually
and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with the action, suit or proceeding.
(b) For purposes of Section 8(a), the meaning of the phrase to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law shall include, but not be limited to:
(i) to the fullest extent permitted by the provision of the DGCL that authorizes or
contemplates additional indemnification by agreement, or the corresponding provision of any
amendment to or replacement of the DGCL, and
(ii) to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by any amendments to or replacements
of the DGCL adopted after the date of this Agreement that increase the extent to which a
corporation may indemnify its officers and directors.
Section 9. Exclusions. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Company
shall not be obligated under this Agreement to make any indemnity (and, with respect to clause (c)
below, advancement of expenses) in connection with any claim made against Indemnitee:
(a) for which payment has actually been made to or on behalf of Indemnitee under any insurance
policy or other indemnity provision, except with respect to any excess beyond the amount paid under
any insurance policy or other indemnity provision; or
(b) for (i) an accounting of profits made from the purchase and sale (or sale and purchase) by
Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act (as
hereinafter defined) or similar provisions of state statutory law or common law, or (ii) any
reimbursement of the Company by the Indemnitee of any bonus or other incentive-based or
equity-based compensation or of any profits realized by the Indemnitee from the sale of securities
of the Company, as required in each case under the Exchange Act (including any such reimbursements
that arise from an accounting restatement of the Company pursuant to Section 304 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), or the payment to the Company of profits
arising from the purchase and sale by Indemnitee of securities in violation of Section 306 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act), or
(c) except as provided in Section 13 of this Agreement, in connection with any action, suit or
proceeding (or any part thereof) initiated by Indemnitee, including any action, suit or proceeding
(or any part thereof) initiated by Indemnitee against the Company or its directors, officers,
employees or other indemnitees, unless (i) the Board of Directors authorized the action, suit or
proceeding (or any part thereof) prior to its initiation or (ii) the Company provides the
indemnification or advancement of expenses, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested
in the Company under applicable law.
Section 10. Determination of Entitlement to Indemnification.
(a) Upon written request by Indemnitee for indemnification pursuant to Section 3 or 4 hereof,
the entitlement of the Indemnitee to indemnification pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall
be determined by the following person or persons who shall be empowered to make such determination: (i) if a Change of Control shall have occurred, by
Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined) in a written opinion to the Board of Directors, a copy
of which shall be delivered to Indemnitee, or (ii) if a Change of Control shall not have
occurred,
(A) by the Board of Directors, by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors (as hereinafter
defined) even if less than a quorum; or (B) if there are no such Disinterested Directors or if such
Disinterested Directors so direct, by Independent Counsel in a written opinion to the Board of
Directors, a copy of which shall be delivered to Indemnitee; or (C) if so directed by the Board of
Directors, by the stockholders of the Company. Such determination of entitlement to
indemnification shall be made not later than 60 days after receipt by the Company of a written
request for indemnification. Such request shall include documentation or information which is
necessary for such determination and which is reasonably available to Indemnitee. To the fullest
extent not prohibited by law, any expenses (including attorneys fees) incurred by Indemnitee in
connection with Indemnitees request for indemnification hereunder shall be borne by the Company,
and the Company hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold Indemnitee harmless therefrom irrespective of
the outcome of the determination of Indemnitees entitlement to indemnification. If the person
making such determination shall determine that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification as to part
(but not all) of the application for indemnification, such person shall reasonably prorate such
partial indemnification among such claims, issues or matters.
(b) In the event the determination of entitlement to indemnification is to be made by
Independent Counsel pursuant to Section 10(a) hereof, the Independent Counsel shall be selected as
provided in this Section 10(b). If a Change of Control shall not have occurred, the Independent
Counsel shall be selected by the Board of Directors, and the Company shall give written notice to
Indemnitee advising Indemnitee of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected. If a Change
of Control shall have occurred, the Independent Counsel shall be selected by Indemnitee (unless
Indemnitee shall request that such selection be made by the Board of Directors, in which event the
preceding sentence shall apply), and Indemnitee shall give written notice to the Company advising
it of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected. In either event, Indemnitee or the
Company, as the case may be, may, within ten (10) days after such written notice of selection shall
have been given, deliver to the Company or to Indemnitee, as the case may be, a written objection
to such selection; provided, however, that such objection may be asserted only on the ground that
the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirements of Independent Counsel as
defined herein, and the objection shall set forth with particularity the factual basis of such
assertion. Absent a proper and timely objection, the person so selected shall act as Independent
Counsel. If such written objection is so made and substantiated, the Independent Counsel so
selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until such objection is withdrawn or a
court has determined that such objection is without merit. If, within twenty (20) days after the
later of submission by Indemnitee of a written request for indemnification pursuant to Section
10(a) hereof and the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding, no Independent Counsel
shall have been selected and not objected to, either the Company or Indemnitee may petition a court
of competent jurisdiction for resolution of any objection which shall have been made by the Company
or Indemnitee to the others selection of Independent Counsel and/or for the appointment as
Independent Counsel of a person selected by the Court or by such other person as the Court shall
designate, and the person with respect to whom all objections are so resolved or the person so appointed shall act as Independent
Counsel under Section 10(a) hereof. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or
arbitration pursuant to Section 13 of this Agreement, Independent Counsel shall be discharged
and
relieved of any further responsibility in such capacity (subject to the applicable standards of
professional conduct then prevailing).
Section 11. Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings.
(a) The Secretary of the Company shall, promptly upon receipt of Indemnitees request for
indemnification, advise in writing the Board of Directors or such other person or persons empowered
to make the determination as provided in Section 10 that Indemnitee has made such request for
indemnification. Upon making such request for indemnification, Indemnitee shall be presumed to be
entitled to indemnification






