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INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

Indemnification Agreement

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Title: INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
Governing Law: Delaware     Date: 1/13/2006
Industry: Communications Services     Sector: Services

INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT, Parties: american telecom services inc
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Exhibit 10.18

 

 

 

 

INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (the

“Agreement”) dated [                    ] , 2006 (the

“Agreement Date”) by and between AMERICAN

TELECOM SERVICES, INC., a Delaware

corporation (including any successors thereto, the

“Company”) and [                    ] (“Indemnitee”).

 


 

Competent and experienced persons are reluctant to serve or to continue to serve corporations as directors, officers, or in other capacities unless they are provided with adequate protection through insurance or indemnification (or both) against claims and actions against them arising out of their service to, and activities on behalf of, those corporations.

 

The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has determined that the continuation of present trends in litigation will make it more difficult to attract and retain competent and experienced persons, that this situation is detrimental to the best interests of the Company’s stockholders, and that the Company should act to assure its directors and officers that there will be increased certainty of adequate protection in the future.

 

It is reasonable, prudent, and necessary for the Company to obligate itself contractually to indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law in order to induce them to serve or continue to serve the Company.

 

Indemnitee is willing to serve and continue to serve the Company on the condition that Indemnitee be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, Indemnitee is agreeing to serve or to continue to serve as a director or officer of the Company.

 

NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the foregoing premises, Indemnitee’s agreement to serve or continue to serve as a director or officer of the Company, and the covenants contained in this Agreement, the Company and Indemnitee hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement:

 

(a) Affiliate shall mean any Person that directly, or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Person specified.

 

(b) Change of Control shall mean (i) any person shall after the date hereof become the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing


50% or more of the voting or economic interest of all then outstanding securities of the Company, (ii) the consummation of any corporate transaction, including a consolidation or merger, of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving entity, other than a consolidation or merger of the Company in which the holders of the Company’s equity interest immediately prior to the consolidation or merger shall, upon consummation of the consolidation or merger, own at least 50% of the equity interests of the surviving entity after such consolidation or merger, (iii) persons who, as of the Effective Time, represent all the members of the board of directors (the “Board”) of the Company cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board, or (iv) the consummation of any sale (in any single transaction or series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets or business of the Company.

 

(c) Claim shall mean any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding (including, without limitation, securities laws actions, suits, and proceedings and also any cross claim or counterclaim in any action, suit, or proceeding), whether civil, criminal, arbitral, administrative, regulatory, or investigative in nature, or any inquiry or investigation (including discovery), whether conducted by the Company or an other Person, that Indemnitee in good faith believes could reasonably be expected to lead to the institution of any action, suit, or proceeding.

 

(d) Expenses shall mean all costs, expenses (including attorneys’ and expert witnesses’ fees), and obligations paid or incurred in connection with investigating, defending, (including affirmative defenses and counterclaims), being a witness in, or participating in (including on appeal), or preparing to defend, be a witness in, or participate in, any Claim relating to any Indemnifiable Event.

 

(e) Indemnifiable Event shall mean any actual or alleged act, omission, statement, misstatement, event, or occurrence related to the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, agent, or fiduciary of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, trustee, agent, or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust, or other enterprise, or by reason of an actual or alleged thing done or not done by Indemnitee in any such capacity, but shall exclude acts or omissions to the extent that they are finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (after exhaustion of all appeals) to have resulted from the intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law by Indemnitee and was material to the Claim relating to an Indemnifiable Event. An Indemnifiable Event also shall include (i) any event or occurrence which relates to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the operations thereof at any time prior to the time that Indemnitee became an officer or director of the Company and (ii) any alleged or actual material misrepresentations or omission (A) in any filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the time that Indemnitee became an officer or director of the Company or (B) in the Company’s Form 10, or any amendments thereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Company agrees that Indemnitee’s service on behalf of or with respect to any Subsidiary or employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall be deemed to be at the request of the Company.

 

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(f) Indemnifiable Liabilities shall mean all Expenses and all other liabilities, damages (including, without limitation, punitive, exemplary, and the multiplied portion of any damages), judgments, payments, fines, penalties, amounts paid in settlement, and awards paid or incurred that arise out of, or in any way relate to, any Indemnifiable Event, and any federal, state, local or foreign taxes imposed on Indemnitee as a result of the actual or deemed receipt of any payments under this Agreement.

 

(g) Person shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated association, or other form of business or legal entity or governmental entity.

 

(h) Potential Change of Control shall be deemed to have occurred if: (i) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change of Control, (ii) any Person (including the Company) publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions that, if consummated, would constitute a Change of Control and the success and consummation of such intention reasonably appears to be more likely than not, or (iii) the Board adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this Agreement, a Potential Change of Control has occurred, except in each case for a transaction in which an Indemnitee is participating as an active principal and not solely as a result of such Indemnitee’s position as a director or officer.

 

(i) Reviewing Party shall mean a member or members of the Board who are not parties to the particular Claim for which Indemnitee is seeking indemnification or if a Change of Control has occurred or if there is a Potential Change of Control and Indemnitee so requests, or if the members of the Board so elect, or if all of the members of the Board are parties to such Claim, Special Counsel.

 

(j) Special Counsel shall mean special, independent legal counsel selected by Indemnitee and approved by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), and who has not otherwise performed material services for the Company or for Indemnitee within the last three years or who would not, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or the Indemnitee in an action to determine the Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement (other than as Special Counsel under this Agreement or similar agreements).

 

(k) Subsidiary shall mean, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which a majority of the voting power of the voting equity securities or equity interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by that Person.

 

2. Indemnification and Expense Advancement.

 

(a) The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee and hold Indemnitee harmless to the fullest extent permitted by law, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 30 days after written demand is presented to the Company, from and against any and all Indemnifiable Liabilities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Company under this Section 2(a) shall be subject to the condition that the Reviewing Party shall not have determined (in a written opinion, in any case in which Special Counsel is involved) that Indemnitee is not

 

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permitted to be indemnified under applicable law. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall require any determination under this Section 2(a) to be made by the Reviewing Party prior to the disposition or conclusion or the Claim against the Indemnitee.

 

(b) If so requested by Indemnitee, the Company shall advance to Indemnitee all reasonable expenses incurred by Indemnittee to the fullest extent permitted by law (or, if applicable, reimburse Indemnitee for any and all reasonable Expenses incurred by Indemnitee and previously paid by Indemnitee) within ten business days after such request (an “Expense Advance”) and delivery by Indemnitee of an undertaking to repay Expense Advances if and to the extent such undertaking is required by applicable law prior to the Company’s payment of Expense Advances. The Company shall be obligated from time to time at the request of Indemnitee to make or pay an Expense Advance in advance of the final disposition or conclusion of any Claim. In connection with any request for an Expense Advance, if requested by the Company, Indemnitee or Indemnitee’s counsel shall submit an affidavit stating that the Expenses to which the Expense Advance relate are reasonable. Any dispute as to the reasonableness of any Expense shall not delay an Expense Advance by the Company. If, when, and to the extent that the Reviewing Party determines that Indemnitee would not be permitted to be indemnified with respect to a Claim under applicable law or the amount of the Expense Advance was not reasonable, the Company shall be entitled to be reimbursed by Indemnitee and Indemnitee hereby agrees to reimburse the Company without interest (which agreement shall be an unsecured obligation of Indemnitee) for (x) all related Expense Advances theretofore made or paid by the Company in the event that it is determined that indemnification would not be permitted or (y) the exc


 
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