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Exhibit
10.68
[***] DENOTES
CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS OMITTED AND FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO A REQUEST FOR
CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT.
INTEL/MICRON
CONFIDENTIAL
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LIMITED LIABILITY
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
OF
IM FLASH SINGAPORE,
LLP
BY AND
BETWEEN
MICRON SEMICONDUCTOR ASIA
PTE. LTD.
AND
INTEL TECHNOLOGY ASIA PTE
LTD
FEBRUARY 27,
2007
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
1.
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ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS
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1
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1.1
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The Joint Venture Company
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1
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1.2
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Name
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1
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1.3
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Term
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1
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1.4
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Purpose of the Joint Venture Company;
Business
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2
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1.5
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Principal Place of Business; Other Places of
Business; Registered Office
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2
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1.6
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Intentionally Omitted
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2
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1.7
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Intentionally Omitted
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2
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1.8
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Supply Agreements
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2
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ARTICLE 2.
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CAPITALIZATION
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3
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2.1
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Initial Capital Contributions of the
Members
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3
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2.2
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Initial Capital Contribution Reserve
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3
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2.3
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Additional Capital Contributions
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3
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2.4
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Shortfalls in Contributions
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6
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2.5
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Miscellaneous Capital Provisions
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8
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2.6
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Contributions After a Change in Consolidating
Member
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9
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ARTICLE 3.
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MEMBER DEBT FINANCING
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10
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3.1
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Mandatory Member Debt Financing
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10
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3.2
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Optional [***] Financing
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12
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3.3
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Optional Other Member Debt Financing
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13
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3.4
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Change In Committed Capital
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14
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3.5
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Change in Consolidating Member
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14
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3.6
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Loans Through Subsidiary
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14
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ARTICLE 4.
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CAPITAL ACCOUNTS AND ALLOCATIONS
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14
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4.1
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Capital Accounts
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14
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4.2
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Allocations of Book Income and Loss
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14
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4.3
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Tax Allocations
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15
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4.4
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Restoration of Negative Balances
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15
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ARTICLE 5.
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DISTRIBUTIONS
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15
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5.1
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Distributions
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15
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5.2
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Withholding Tax Payments and
Obligations
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17
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5.3
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Distribution Limitations
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ARTICLE 6.
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MANAGEMENT; BOARD OF MANAGERS
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17
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6.1
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Management Power
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17
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6.2
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Number of Managers; Appointment of
Managers
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18
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6.3
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Voting of Managers
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19
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6.4
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Meetings of the Board of Managers;
Quorum
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22
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6.5
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Notice; Waiver
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23
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6.6
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Action Without a Meeting; Meetings by
Telecommunications
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23
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6.7
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Alternate Managers
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23
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6.8
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Compensation of Managers
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23
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6.9
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Statutory Manager
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24
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ARTICLE 7.
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MEMBERS
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24
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7.1
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Rights of Members; Meetings
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24
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7.2
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Limitations on the Rights of Members
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25
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7.3
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Limited Liability of the Members
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7.4
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Voting Rights of Members
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7.5
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Defaulting Member
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29
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7.6
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Cooperation
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ARTICLE 8.
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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
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29
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8.1
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Site Manager
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8.2
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Intentionally Omitted
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30
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8.3
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Lead Controller
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30
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8.4
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Intentionally Omitted
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30
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8.5
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General Provisions Regarding Officers
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8.6
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Intentionally Omitted
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8.7
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Waiver of Fiduciary Duties
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ARTICLE 9.
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EMPLOYEE MATTERS
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9.1
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Joint Venture Company Employees; Seconded
Employees
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9.2
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Performance and Removal of Seconded
Employees
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33
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9.3
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Forms
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9.4
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Compensation and Benefits
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ARTICLE 10.
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RECORDS, ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS
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10.1
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Books and Records
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10.2
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Access to Information
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10.3
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Operations Reports
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10.4
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Financial Reports
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10.5
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Reportable Events
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10.6
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Tax Information
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10.7
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Tax Matters and Precedent Partner
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10.8
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Bank Accounts and Funds
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10.9
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Internal Controls
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ARTICLE 11.
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BUSINESS PLAN
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11.1
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Initial Business Plan; Initial Budgets
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11.2
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Subsequent Business Plans
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11.3
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Expenditures
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11.4
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Fab Criteria
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11.5
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Quarterly Business Plan
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49
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11.6
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Operating Plan
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50
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11.7
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Use of Member Names
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50
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11.8
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Insurance
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ARTICLE 12.
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TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS
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51
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12.1
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Restrictions on Transfer
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12.2
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Permitted Transfers
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12.3
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Additional Members
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12.4
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Certain Purchases
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12.5
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Purchase of Remaining Interest
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ARTICLE 13.
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TRIGGERING EVENTS; DISSOLUTION AND
LIQUIDATION
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13.1
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Triggering Events
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13.2
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Determination of [***] Value
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13.3
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No Withdrawal
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57
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13.4
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Intentionally Omitted
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13.5
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Intentionally Omitted
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13.6
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Intentionally Omitted
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57
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13.7
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Intentionally Omitted
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57
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13.8
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Intentionally Omitted
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57
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13.9
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Intentionally Omitted
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13.10
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Intentionally Omitted
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13.11
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Auction of Remaining Assets
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13.12
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Voluntary Dissolution; Mandatory
Dissolution
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13.13
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Liquidation
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13.14
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Supply Agreements
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13.15
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Employees
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ARTICLE 14.
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EXCULPATION AND INDEMNIFICATION
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14.1
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Exculpation
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14.2
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Indemnification
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ARTICLE 15.
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GOVERNMENTAL APPROVALS
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62
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15.1
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Governmental Approvals
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ARTICLE 16.
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FORMATION OF ADDITIONAL ENTITIES
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16.1
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Formation of Domestic Subsidiaries
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16.2
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Intentionally Omitted
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ARTICLE 17.
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DEADLOCK; OTHER DISPUTE RESOLUTION; EVENT OF
DEFAULT
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64
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17.1
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Deadlock
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64
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17.2
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Resolution of Deadlock
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17.3
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Definition of "Intel Singapore
Matters."
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66
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17.4
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Definition of "Micron Singapore
Matters."
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66
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17.5
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Other Dispute Resolution
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66
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17.6
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Mediation
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66
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17.7
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Event of Default
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66
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17.8
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Specific Performance
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67
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17.9
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Tax Matters
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67
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ARTICLE 18.
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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68
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18.1
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Notices
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68
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18.2
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Waiver
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69
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18.3
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Assignment
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69
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18.4
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Third Party Rights
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69
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18.5
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Choice of Law
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69
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18.6
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Headings
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69
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18.7
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Entire Agreement
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69
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18.8
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Severability
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70
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18.9
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Counterparts
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70
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18.10
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Further Assurances
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70
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18.11
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Consequential Damages
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70
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18.12
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Jurisdiction; Venue
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70
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18.13
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Confidential Information
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70
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18.14
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Certain Interpretive Matters
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71
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APPENDICES
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Appendix A
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Definitions
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Appendix B
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Tax Matters
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Appendix C
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Initial Managers
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Appendix D
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Initial Capital Contributions
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Appendix E
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Intentionally Omitted.
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule 1
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[***] Schedule
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Schedule 2
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Insurance
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Schedule 3
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Intentionally Omitted.
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Schedule 4
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Intentionally Omitted.
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Schedule 5
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Applicable Joint Ventures and Applicable Joint
Venture Agreements
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Schedule 6
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Relatives
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A
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Form of Mandatory Note
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Exhibit B
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Form of Optional [***] Note
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Exhibit C
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Form of Optional Other Note
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-v-
LIMITED LIABILITY
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
OF
IM FLASH SINGAPORE,
LLP
This LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP
AGREEMENT (this " Agreement ") of
IM Flash Singapore, LLP , a limited liability
partnership organized under the laws of Singapore
(the " Joint
Venture Company "), is
made and entered into as of this 27th day of February, 2007 (the "
Effective Date "), by and between Micron
Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd., a private limited company organized
under the laws of Singapore (" Micron Singapore
"), and Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd, a private limited company
organized under the laws of Singapore ("
Intel Singapore ") (Micron Singapore and Intel
Singapore are each referred to individually as a "
Member ," and collectively as the "
Members "). Capitalized terms used in this
Agreement shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms
in Appendix A to this Agreement or as otherwise provided in
Section 18.14.
RECITALS
A. Micron Singapore
and Intel Singapore registered the Joint Venture Company to engage
in the activities set forth in Section 1.4 hereof.
B. Prior to or
contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement, the Joint
Venture Company, Micron Singapore and Intel Singapore have each
entered into the Joint Venture Documents to which they are a
party.
ARTICLE 1.
ORGANIZATIONAL
MATTERS
1.1 The
Joint Venture Company . The Joint Venture Company is a
limited liability partnership organized under the Limited Liability
Partnership Act of 2005 (No. 5 of 2005) of Singapore, as amended
from time to time (the " Act "), and governed by
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. The Joint
Venture Company is a limited liability partnership
as a result of the lodging by each of
Micron Singapore and Intel Singapore of a statement in accordance
with Section(15)(i) of the Act with the Registrar of Limited
Liability Partnerships (the " Registrar ") and the
issuance of the notice of registration (the
" Certificate ").
1.2 Name . The name of the Joint Venture Company is "
IM Flash Singapore, LLP ."
1.3 Term . The initial term of the business of the Joint
Venture Company shall continue until January 6, 2016, unless
terminated prior to such date in accordance with this Agreement
(the " Initial Term ").
Such Initial Term may be extended by mutual written agreement of
the Members at least [***] prior to the expiration of the Initial
Term or any Renewal Term (any such extensions to be on such terms
and for such period as set forth in writing and agreed to by the
Members) (each such extended term, a " Renewal
Term ," and together with the Initial Term,
the " Term ").
1.4 Purpose
of the Joint Venture Company; Business . The purpose of the
Joint Venture Company shall be (A) to engage in the business
of manufacturing for the Members NAND Flash Memory Products in
various forms, including NAND Flash Memory Wafers, and such other
forms of memory products as may be determined by the Board of
Managers from time to time, and related memory product
manufacturing development activities, (B) to enter into any
other lawful business, purpose or activity in which a limited
liability partnership may be engaged under Applicable Law
(including the Act), as the Members may determine from time to
time, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, and (C) to enter into any lawful transaction
and engage in any lawful activities in furtherance of the foregoing
purposes and as may be necessary or incidental to, connected with
or arising out of the foregoing purposes in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement; provided ,
however , that a Member having an Economic Interest above
[***] percent ([***]%) may, in its sole discretion, include the
manufacture of other forms of memory products in the purpose of the
Joint Venture Company (other than (i) [***] if such Member is Intel
Singapore and (ii) Intel [***] if such Member is Micron Singapore),
so long as the amount, delivery schedule, pricing and terms of the
other Member’s supply of Joint Venture Products remain as
they existed immediately prior to the time at which the decision to
include the manufacture of such other forms of memory products is
made.
1.5 Principal Place of Business; Other Places of Business;
Registered Office .
(A) The
principal place of business and mailing address of the Joint
Venture Company shall be IM Flash Singapore, LLP, c/o Allen &
Gledhill, One Marina Boulevard #28-00, Singapore 018989, or such
other address within Singapore as the Board
of Managers may from time to time designate. The Board of Managers
may change the principal place of business of the Joint Venture
Company to such other place or places within Singapore
as the Board of Managers may from time to
time determine, in its sole and absolute discretion and, if
necessary, the Board of Managers shall cause the Certificate to be
amended in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Act
to effectuate the change in the principal place of
business.
(B) The Joint
Venture Company may maintain other offices and places of business
at such other place or places within or outside Singapore, and
outside of the United States, as the Board of Managers may deem to
be advisable.
(C) The
registered office of the Joint Venture Company in Singapore shall
be IM Flash Singapore, LLP, c/o Allen & Gledhill, One Marina
Boulevard #28-00, Singapore 018989. The registered office may be
changed from time to time by the Board of Managers, by causing the
prescribed form, accompanied by the requisite filing fee, to be
filed with the ACRA in accordance with the Act.
1.6 Intentionally Omitted.
1.7 Intentionally Omitted.
1.8 Supply
Agreements . Contemporaneously with the execution of this
Agreement, Intel Singapore and Micron Singapore have entered into
the Supply Agreements with the Joint Venture Company pursuant to
which, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
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applicable Supply Agreement, each Member shall
purchase from the Joint Venture Company, and the Joint Venture
Company shall supply to each Member, a percentage of the Joint
Venture Company’s output of Products equal to such
Member’s Sharing Interest.
ARTICLE 2.
CAPITALIZATION
2.1 Initial
Capital Contributions of the Members .
(A) Intel
Singapore Initial Capital Contribution . The Members
acknowledge and agree that, within three (3) Business Days of the
Effective Date, Intel Singapore shall deliver to the Joint Venture
Company all of the Intel Initial Contributed Assets, as identified
on Appendix D .
(B) Micron
Singapore Initial Capital Contribution . The Members
acknowledge and agree that, within three (3) Business Days of the
Effective Date, Micron Singapore shall deliver to the Joint Venture
Company all of the Micron Initial Contributed Assets, as identified
on Appendix D .
2.2 Initial
Capital Contribution Reserve . The Joint Venture Company
shall use all funds contributed as Initial Capital Contributions
before permitting any Additional Capital Contributions. Moreover,
the Initial Capital Contributions shall be transferred to a reserve
account promptly after such funds are delivered to the Joint
Venture Company. Such monies shall be invested in such investment
or investments as the Board of Managers may hereafter designate.
Such amounts shall be deemed to be necessary reserves for purposes
of distributions under Section 5.1(A).
2.3 Additional Capital Contributions .
(A) [***]
Capital Contributions . In addition to the Initial Capital
Contributions, each Member shall make Capital Contributions to the
Joint Venture Company equal to its [***] Capital Contributions;
provided, however , that in no event shall (1) Intel
Singapore be obligated to make [***] Capital Contributions in the
aggregate in excess of the Intel Maximum Incremental Capital
Amount, or (2) Micron Singapore be obligated to make [***] Capital
Contributions in the aggregate in excess of the Micron Maximum
Incremental Capital Amount. Such [***] Capital Contributions shall
be made in quarterly installments on the twenty-fifth (25
th ) day of each
Fiscal Quarter of the Joint Venture Company (or if such day is not
a Business Day, then on the next Business Day after such day) in
amounts equal to the sum of (a) the amounts required for the
remainder of the Fiscal Quarter in which the [***] Capital
Contributions are made and (b) the amounts required for the first
twenty-five (25) days of the upcoming Fiscal Quarter (or if such
day is not a Business Day, then through the next Business Day after
such day), each as set forth in the Approved Business Plan in
effect at the time of such contribution.
(B) [***] Capital
Contributions . Except as mutually agreed in writing by both
Members, each Member may, but shall not be required to, make
Capital Contributions to the Joint Venture Company equal to its
[***] Capital Contribution. Such [***] Capital Contributions shall
be made in quarterly installments on the twenty-fifth (25
th ) day of each
Fiscal
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Quarter of the Joint Venture Company (or if such
day is not a Business Day, then on the next Business Day after such
day) in an amount equal to the sum of (a) the amounts of the [***]
Capital Contributions scheduled for the remainder of the Fiscal
Quarter in which the [***] Capital Contributions are made and (b)
the amounts of the [***] Capital Contributions scheduled for the
first twenty-five (25) days of the upcoming Fiscal Quarter (or if
such day is not a Business Day, then through the next Business Day
after such day), each as set forth in the Approved Business Plan in
effect at the time of such contribution.
(C) Other
Capital Contributions . Except as mutually agreed in writing
by both Members, each Member may, but shall not be required to,
make Capital Contributions (other than [***] Capital Contributions
and [***] Capital Contributions) to the Joint Venture Company equal
to its [***] as set forth in the Annual Budget included in the
Approved Business Plan for the Fiscal Year in which the
contributions are to be made. Any such Capital Contributions shall
be made in quarterly installments on the twenty-fifth (25
th ) day of each
Fiscal Quarter of the Joint Venture Company (or if such day is not
a Business Day, then on the next Business Day after such day) in an
amount equal to the sum of (a) the amounts of such Capital
Contributions scheduled for the remainder of the Fiscal Quarter in
which such Capital Contributions are made and (b) the amounts of
such Capital Contributions scheduled for the first twenty-five (25)
days of the upcoming Fiscal Quarter (or if such day is not a
Business Day, then through the next Business Day after such day),
each as set forth in the Approved Business Plan in effect at the
time of such contribution. Such contributed funds are hereinafter
referred to as the " Other Capital Contributions "
and, together with the [***] Capital Contributions and the [***]
Capital Contributions, the " Additional Capital
Contributions ."
(D) No
Other Contributions . Except as set forth in
Sections 2.1 and 2.3(A), in the Joint Venture Documents and
such other contributions as the Members may agree in writing shall
be required, no Member shall be required to make any Capital
Contributions to the Joint Venture Company, and, except as
contemplated by Section 2.3(B), 2.3(C) and 2.4, in the Joint
Venture Documents and such other contributions as the Members may
agree in writing may be made (and except for Make-Up Contributions
and any deemed contributions of amounts outstanding under Member
Notes), no additional Capital Contribution to the Joint Venture
Company shall be made by either Member without the consent of the
other Member.
(E) Coordination . The Members shall coordinate with each
other regarding, and provide each other with advance written notice
of, the timing of their delivery of each Additional Capital
Contribution.
(F) Partial
Contributions . In the event that any Member determines to
contribute less than its [***] of any Additional Capital
Contribution, such Member shall provide notice of such
determination specifying the amount of such Additional Capital
Contribution it intends to make, if any. Such notice shall be
provided to the Joint Venture Company and to the other Member as
soon as practicable after such determination is made, but in any
event not less than ten (10) Business Days prior to the date such
Additional Capital Contribution is to be made. Any failure or delay
in providing such notice shall not affect the right of any Member
to refrain from providing such Additional Capital Contribution, nor
shall it result in any liability for damages. Subject to Section
3.1, to the extent that a Member contributes less than its [***] of
any Additional Capital Contribution for a given Fiscal Quarter, the
other Member shall have the
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right to reduce its contribution proportionately.
In the event that such other Member has already remitted any amount
in respect of its Additional Capital Contribution, the Joint
Venture Company shall, upon such other Member’s request and
at its option, return such amount or deem all or a portion of such
contribution to be Member Debt Financing hereunder. Any amount so
requested to be returned or refunded shall be remitted to the
requesting Member immediately by wire transfer of immediately
available funds. The amount contributed for such Fiscal Quarter by
the non-contributing Member (and the other Member, if its
contribution is proportionately reduced) shall be applied in the
following order:
(1) First , to satisfy the obligation of such Member to
contribute its [***] of any [***] Capital Contribution for such
Fiscal Quarter;
(2) Second , the remainder, if any, to fulfill the
Member’s [***] of the amount, if any, of any Other Capital
Contribution for such Fiscal Quarter relating to an Operational
Fab;
(3) Third, the
remainder, if any, to fulfill the Member’s [***] of the
amount, if any, of any Other Capital Contribution for such Fiscal
Quarter relating to matters not addressed in the immediately
preceding clause (2); and
(4) Fourth,
the remainder, if any, to fulfill the Member’s [***] of any
amount of the [***] Capital Contribution for such Fiscal Quarter to
be applied to a [***] under the [***] Budget, and if there is [***]
such [***], each of such [***] in the order in which they appear on
the [***] Schedule.
(G) Priority of Contributions . Each Member shall contribute
[***] of the cumulative aggregate [***] Capital Contributions
theretofore due (and shall pay any interest accrued thereon at the
rate provided in Section 2.4(A)(3) as a result of such
Member’s failure to make such contributions at the times and
in the amounts required pursuant to Section 2.3(A)) other than any
[***] Capital Contributions as to which the obligation to
contribute has been terminated pursuant to Section 2.4(A)(2),
before it may make any other Capital Contributions, including any
[***] Capital Contributions (including by way of Make-Up
Contributions), or any Other Capital Contribution or any Member
Debt Financing; provided, however , that for purposes of
this Section 2.3(G), a Member’s [***] of an Additional
Capital Contribution shall be deemed to exclude any shortfall of an
[***] Capital Contribution (1) for which the Joint Venture Company,
or the other Member acting on its behalf, has not demanded payment
or pursued any claim for payment and (2) any portion of which the
Member is restricted from contributing, or the Joint Venture
Company is restricted from paying, under Article 2 or Article
3.
(H) Interim
Loan . Each remittance of funds in respect of a
Member’s [***] of an Additional Capital Contribution pursuant
to this Section 2.3 shall, upon receipt by the Joint Venture
Company of such funds, be deemed to be a loan (which shall bear no
interest) to the Joint Venture Company of the entire amount so
delivered until the other Member remits funds in respect of its
[***] of such Additional Capital Contribution. At such
time:
(1) if both
Members have remitted amounts equal to their respective [***]s of
the Additional Capital Contribution in full, all such amounts shall
be deemed
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Additional Capital Contributions (whereupon the
respective amounts remitted by the Members shall no longer be
deemed loans and shall be added to the Members’ respective
Capital Contribution Balances);
(2) if there
is a Shortfall Amount, the amount actually remitted by the
Non-Funding Member shall be deemed an Additional Capital
Contribution by such Member (and such amount shall no longer be
deemed a loan and shall be added to the Non-Funding Member’s
Capital Contribution Balance), and a portion of the amount actually
remitted by the Funding Member equal to the product of (a) the
Funding Member’s [***] of such Additional Capital
Contribution (whether or not contributed in full)
multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is
the amount actually remitted by the Non-Funding Member and the
denominator of which is the Non-Funding Member’s [***] of the
Additional Capital Contribution shall be deemed an Additional
Capital Contribution (and such amount shall be added to the Funding
Member’s Capital Contribution Balance). In such event, the
remainder of the amount remitted by the Funding Member shall
continue to be a loan to the Joint Venture Company until: (i) the
return of all or a portion of such remaining funds upon the receipt
by the Joint Venture Company of instructions from such Member to
return all or a portion of such funds to the Member pursuant to
Sections 2.3(F), 2.4(A)(1), 2.4(C) or 3.1(A); (ii) the Funding
Member instructs the Joint Venture Company to deem all or a portion
of such remaining funds an Additional Capital Contribution
(whereupon all or such portion of such funds shall be added to the
Member’s Capital Contribution Balance); or (iii) the Funding
Member instructs the Joint Venture Company to deem all or a portion
of such funds to be Member Debt Financing; provided that
if the Joint Venture Company has not received instructions pursuant
to subparagraphs (i), (ii) or (iii) above within fifteen (15) days
of the date the applicable Additional Capital Contribution was due,
the Joint Venture Company shall contact such Member to request such
instruction.
2.4 Shortfalls in Contributions .
(A) [***]
Capital Contribution Shortfall .
(1) If a
Member fails to remit in full its [***] Capital Contribution, at
the time and in the amount required pursuant to
Section 2.3(A), the other Member, if it has remitted its [***]
of such [***] Capital Contribution, may, at its election, (a)
require that the Joint Venture Company return the remitting
Member’s share of such [***] Capital Contribution to such
remitting Member in part or in full, (b) make a Capital
Contribution to the Joint Venture Company of any or all of the
shortfall or (c) provide Optional [***] Financing in accordance
with Section 3.2.
(2) To the
extent the other Member elects to contribute or loan the shortfall
under Section 2.4(A)(1)(b) or (c) above, such other Member may
elect, by written notice to the Joint Venture Company and the
non-contributing Member, to terminate the right and obligation of
the non-contributing Member to contribute any unpaid portion of
such non-contributing Member’s [***] of the [***] Capital
Contribution that the non-contributing Member failed to
pay.
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(3) The other
Member, if it has remitted its [***] of the [***] Capital
Contribution, may direct the Joint Venture Company under
Section 7.5 to (or may, on behalf of the Joint Venture
Company) demand payment and pursue a claim against the
non-contributing Member for payment. The non-contributing Member
shall be obligated to pay interest (which interest shall not be
treated as a Capital Contribution) on such uncontributed amount at
[***] (as in effect on the date such contribution was scheduled to
be made and adjusted every [***]), compounded [***], from the date
such [***] Capital Contribution is due until the date it is paid.
The Member that did not make an [***] Capital Contribution it was
required to make under the terms of this Agreement shall pay to the
Joint Venture Company and the other Member all costs, including
attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Joint Venture Company and
the other Member, respectively, in pursuing such claim for payment
(which payments shall not be treated as Capital Contributions).
Such Member shall not be liable for any additional damages. If the
Joint Venture Company recovers against the non-contributing Member,
the funds collected from the non-contributing Member shall be
applied first to the payment in full of costs theretofore incurred
by the Joint Venture Company or the other Member in the pursuit of
the claim for payment against the non-contributing Member (and such
amount shall not be treated as a Capital Contribution), then to all
accrued but unpaid interest on such payment (and such amount shall
not be treated as a Capital Contribution) and then to the payment
of the delinquent portion of the [***] Capital Contribution (and
such amount shall be added to the Capital Contribution Balance of
the non-contributing Member). In addition, upon such payment by the
non-contributing Member, (a) if a related Optional [***] Shortfall
Note is then outstanding, the provisions of Section 3.2(D)
(subject to Section 3.2(E)) shall apply and (b) if no related
Optional [***] Shortfall Note is then outstanding, but the other
Member has remitted to the Joint Venture Company the amount that
the non-contributing Member was required to make, then the Joint
Venture Company shall immediately refund to the contributing Member
an amount equal to the non-contributing Member’s payment that
was treated as a Capital Contribution, and the Capital Contribution
Balance of the contributing Member shall be reduced by such
amount.
(4) If, after
a failure by a Member to timely make a Capital Contribution of its
[***] of an [***] Capital Contribution that it was required to make
under the terms of this Agreement, such Member wishes to make any
payment with respect to such portion of the [***] Capital
Contribution (and the ability to make such contribution has not
been terminated pursuant to Section 2.4(A)(2)), the Joint
Venture Company, with the consent of the other Member (which
consent shall not be necessary if an action to collect such amount
has been commenced by or at the direction of such other Member),
shall accept such payment and apply it first to the payment in full
of costs theretofore incurred by the Joint Venture Company or the
other Member in the pursuit of a claim for payment against the
non-contributing Member (and such amount shall not be treated as a
Capital Contribution), then to all accrued but unpaid interest on
such payment (and such amount shall not be treated as a Capital
Contribution) and then to the payment of the delinquent portion of
the [***] Capital Contribution (and such amount shall be added to
the Capital Contribution Balance of such Member). In addition, upon
such payment by the non-contributing Member, (a) if a related
Optional [***] Shortfall Note is then outstanding, the provisions
of Section 3.2(D) (subject to Section 3.2(E)) shall
apply
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and (b) if no related Optional [***] Shortfall
Note is then outstanding, but the other Member has remitted to the
Joint Venture Company the amount that the non-contributing Member
was required to make, then the Joint Venture Company shall
immediately refund to the contributing Member an amount equal to
the non-contributing Member’s payment that was treated as a
Capital Contribution, and the Capital Contribution Balance of the
contributing Member shall be reduced by such amount.
(5) Notwithstanding any provision hereof to the contrary, the
failure by a Member to contribute in [***] of any [***] Capital
Contribution shall not constitute a Triggering Event.
(B) [***]
Capital Contribution Shortfall . If a Member does not remit
in [***] of any [***] Capital Contribution at the time and in the
full amount permitted pursuant to Section 2.3(B), the
provisions of Section 3.1 shall apply.
(C) Other
Capital Contribution Shortfall . If a Member does not remit
[***] of any Other Capital Contribution, at the time and in the
full amount permitted pursuant to Section 2.3(C), the other
Member, if it has remitted its [***] of such Other Capital
Contribution may, at its election, (1) require that the Joint
Venture Company [***] of such Other Capital Contribution to the
remitting Member in part or in full, (2) make a [***] to the Joint
Venture Company of any or all of the shortfall or (3) provide
Optional Other Financing in accordance with Section 3.3.
2.5 Miscellaneous Capital Provisions .
(A) Capital
Contributions shall be credited to the Capital Account of the
contributing Member to the extent provided in Article 4 of this
Agreement.
(B) No
interest shall be paid to a Member on Capital Contributions. A
Member shall not be entitled to withdraw any of its Capital
Contributions except as provided in Section 2.3(F), 2.4 or
Section 3.1.
(C) Except as
otherwise provided in Article 13 or as otherwise agreed in writing
by the Members, a Member receiving a return of all or any portion
of its Capital Contribution shall have no right to receive a
particular type of property or a particular asset.
(D) Any
Capital Contributions to the Joint Venture Company to be made in
cash shall be made by the Members by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the Joint Venture Company or its designated
agent.
(E) Except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.4 or Article 3 or for trade credit
for services or goods provided by a Member to the Joint Venture
Company under any Joint Venture Document or any other agreement
that has been approved as required in this Agreement, no Member
shall advance funds or make loans to the Joint Venture Company
without the approval of the Board of Managers. Any such approved
advances or loans by a Member shall not be Capital Contributions
and shall not result in any increase in the amount of such
Member’s Capital Contribution Balance or entitle such Member
to any increase in its Percentage Interest, except as otherwise
provided in Section 2.4 or Article 3. The amount of such advances
or loans
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shall be a debt of the Joint Venture Company to
such Member and (unless such loan is subject to a written guaranty
or other written agreement governing the liability of another party
with respect thereto) shall be payable or collectible only out of
the assets of the Joint Venture Company.
(F) Except as
provided in Section 5.2(C), the Joint Venture Company shall
not make loans to, or guaranty any indebtedness of, any Member or
any other Person other than a Domestic Facilities Company;
provided , however , that the provisions of this
Section 2.5(F) shall not prohibit the Joint Venture
Company from providing payment terms to the Members for Joint
Venture Products manufactured by the Joint Venture Company on
behalf of the Members pursuant to any Joint Venture Document or any
other agreement that has been approved as provided in this
Agreement.
2.6 Contributions After a Change in Consolidating Member .
Notwithstanding anything in this Article 2 to the contrary,
following a Change in Consolidating Member:
(A) with
respect to any Additional Capital Contribution, (1) the amount of
the [***] Member’s [***] that the [***]
Member is required or permitted to make pursuant to this Article 2
shall be reduced to the amount that would not result in the
occurrence of [***] Member or in the reduction of the [***]
Economic Interest below the lesser of [***]% and the [***]
Member’s then-existing Economic Interest, and (2) the [***]
Member shall become entitled to contribute the [***] Contribution
Amount; provided, however , that if the [***] Member fails
to make such Additional Capital Contribution (or provide Member
Debt Financing, if applicable) in an amount equal to the full [***]
Contribution Amount then the limitations set forth in this
Section 2.6(A) shall not apply with respect to such Additional
Capital Contribution; and
(B) any
payment by the Joint Venture Company to such [***] Member shall not
equal or exceed the amount that would result in the occurrence of
[***] Member or in the reduction of the [***] Member’s
Economic Interest below the lesser of [***]% and the [***]
Member’s then-existing Economic Interest.
ARTICLE 3.
MEMBER DEBT
FINANCING
3.1 Mandatory Member Debt Financing .
(A) This
Section 3.1 shall apply if (1) there occurs a Shortfall Amount in
respect of a [***] Capital Contribution pursuant to Section 2.4(B),
(2) the Non-Funding Member has contributed its [***] of all
previously required [***] Capital Contributions and (3) the other
Member has become the " Funding Member " as a
result of (a) such other Member’s timely remittance of
its [***] of such [***] Capital Contribution (after giving effect
to the return of any amount so remitted which such Member requests
or any increase in such amount contributed by such Member, up to
its [***] of such [***] Capital Contribution, after receiving
notice from the Joint Venture Company that the other Member has not
timely delivered its [***] of the [***] Capital Contribution), or
(b) if neither Member has timely remitted the amount of its [***]
of such [***] Capital Contribution, such other Member’s
remittance of a greater percentage of its [***] of such [***]
Capital Contribution than the other Member (after giving effect to
the return
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of any amount so remitted which such Member
requests or any increase in such amount contributed by such Member,
up to its [***] of such [***] Capital Contribution, after receiving
notice from the Joint Venture Company that neither Member has
timely delivered its [***] of the [***] Capital Contribution). In
such event, the Funding Member shall (y) promptly provide Member
Debt Financing to the Joint Venture Company in an amount equal to
the Loan Amount and (z) the Funding Member Portion shall be deemed
to have been provided as Member Debt Financing, rather than as a
Capital Contribution, to the Joint Venture Company. However, if the
Shortfall Amount is less than $[***], then the Funding Member may
elect not to provide the Mandatory Member Debt Financing and, in
such case, the Joint Venture Company shall return to each Member
the portion of the [***] Capital Contribution actually remitted by
such Member. Furthermore, a Funding Member shall not be required to
provide Mandatory Member Debt Financing with respect to a [***]
Capital Contribution under a [***] that is part of a Disputed
Approved Business Plan proposed by the Non-Funding Member. No
Funding Member shall be obligated to provide more than $[***] of
Mandatory Member Debt Financing outstanding at any time (not
including any Mandatory Equalization Note) with respect to
Shortfall Amounts caused by a given Non-Funding Member.
(B) In
exchange for the Mandatory Member Debt Financing, the Joint Venture
Company shall issue to the Funding Member two convertible notes,
one having a principal balance equal to the Loan Amount (the "
Mandatory Shortfall Note "), and the other having
a principal balance equal to the Funding Member Portion (the "
Mandatory Equalization Note " and, together with
the related Mandatory Shortfall Note, the " Mandatory
Notes "), in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A .
(C) Each
Mandatory Note issued in accordance with this Section 3.1 shall
have [***] term, subject to Section 3.1(E). For the first
[***] of the term of a Mandatory Shortfall Note, such Mandatory
Shortfall Note shall bear interest at [***] (as in effect on the
issue date (the " Issuance Date ") thereof and
adjusted every [***]),[***] basis points per annum, compounded
[***]. Thereafter, until the end of the [***] term, such Mandatory
Shortfall Note shall bear interest at [***], adjusted every [***],
compounded [***]. No Mandatory Equalization Note shall
[***].
(D) (1) At any
time after the Issuance Date of a Mandatory Shortfall Note in
accordance with this Section 3.1 and prior to the expiration of the
[***] term of such Mandatory Shortfall Note, the Non-Funding Member
may, upon three (3) Business Days’ notice to the Joint
Venture Company and the Funding Member, make one or more Make-Up
Contributions to the Joint Venture Company in an aggregate amount
up to the outstanding principal balance of the Mandatory Shortfall
Note. Each Make-Up Contribution shall be accompanied by a payment
equal to the accrued interest on the corresponding Mandatory
Shortfall Note, which interest payment shall not be deemed to be a
Capital Contribution. If the Make-Up Contribution is less than the
entire amount of principal and accrued interest on a Mandatory
Shortfall Note, the Make-Up Contribution shall be deemed to be a
payment applied first to all accrued interest and then to principal
on such Mandatory Shortfall Note (and the amount so treated as a
payment with respect to accrued interest shall not be treated as a
Capital Contribution). If a Member is the Non-Funding Member with
respect to more than one Mandatory Shortfall Note outstanding at
the time of such contribution, the Non-Funding Member shall specify
the Mandatory Shortfall Note to which a Make-Up Contribution
applies (or, if no such specification is made, the Make-
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Up Contribution will be used to repay the
Mandatory Shortfall Note that is closest to its maturity date).
Upon receipt of such funds, the Joint Venture Company shall
immediately repay to the Funding Member the portion of the
outstanding principal balance of and accrued interest on the
Mandatory Shortfall Note in an amount equal to the Make-Up
Contribution plus any accrued interest on the amount of such
Make-Up Contribution. At such time, the following shall occur:
(a) the amount of the Make-Up Contribution equal to the
principal balance of the Mandatory Shortfall Note so repaid shall
be deemed to be a Capital Contribution by the Non-Funding Member
and such amount shall be added to the Capital Contribution Balance
of the Non-Funding Member; and (b) a percentage of the
outstanding principal balance of the related Mandatory Equalization
Note equal to the percentage of the principal balance of the
Mandatory Shortfall Note repaid shall convert into a Capital
Contribution by the Funding Member, whereupon such amount shall be
added to the Capital Contribution Balance of the Funding
Member.
(2) To the
extent excess cash is available in accordance with Section 5.1
at any time to make payments on any Mandatory Notes, if the Funding
Member elects, by written notice executed by its chief executive
officer and delivered to the Joint Venture Company prior to the
making of the distributions under Section 5.1, to receive such
payments, the Joint Venture Company shall make payments on the
outstanding principal of and accrued interest on the Mandatory
Shortfall Notes (with any such payment being applied first to the
payment in full of accrued interest and then, to the extent of any
remaining amount of such payment, to the repayment of principal)
and the outstanding principal of the Mandatory Equalization Notes;
provided , however , that any payment by the
Joint Venture Company on the unpaid principal of a Mandatory
Shortfall Note must be accompanied by a payment by the Joint
Venture Company of an equal percentage of the unpaid principal of
the related Mandatory Equalization Note. Upon the Funding
Member’s receipt of funds from the Joint Venture Company to
be applied to the repayment of principal on the Mandatory Notes,
the principal portions of the Mandatory Notes that were so repaid
by the Joint Venture Company shall no longer be
outstanding.
(E) To the
extent any amount of a Mandatory Shortfall Note remains outstanding
upon its maturity for any reason, the Funding Member shall elect to
do one of the following: (1) transfer to the Joint Venture
Company as a Capital Contribution all or a portion of the
obligations owing to the Funding Member for (a) the unpaid
principal of and accrued interest on the Mandatory Shortfall Note
and (b) the unpaid principal of the Mandatory Equalization Note,
whereupon an amount equal to the sum of (a) and (b) shall be added
to the Capital Contribution Balance of the Funding Member; or (2)
permit the Mandatory Notes to become a continuing note that will
remain outstanding, have a principal amount equal to the sum of (a)
the principal of and accrued interest on the former Mandatory
Shortfall Note and (b) the principal of the former Mandatory
Equalization Note and be convertible at any time thereafter at the
option of the Funding Member (a " Continuing Mandatory
Note "), which Continuing Mandatory Note shall bear no
interest and shall mature on the Liquidation Date. In the event
that the Funding Member fails to make an election, the Funding
Member shall be deemed to have elected to permit the Mandatory
Notes to become a Continuing Mandatory Note. Upon conversion of a
Continuing Mandatory Note by the Funding Member, the amount of
principal of such Continuing Mandatory Note shall be added to the
Capital Contribution Balance of the Funding Member. To the extent
excess cash is available in accordance with Section 5.1 at any
time to
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make payments on any Continuing Mandatory Note,
if the Funding Member elects to receive such payments, by written
notice executed by its chief executive officer and delivered to the
Joint Venture Company prior to the making of the distributions
under Section 5.1, the Joint Venture Company shall make such
payments on the outstanding principal of the Continuing Mandatory
Note. Upon the Funding Member’s receipt of funds from the
Joint Venture Company, the portion of the Continuing Mandatory Note
that was paid by the Joint Venture Company shall no longer be
outstanding.
3.2 Optional [***] Financing .
(A) In the
event of a Shortfall Amount in respect of an [***] Capital
Contribution, the Funding Member may, in its sole discretion, elect
to extend Member Debt Financing to the Joint Venture Company (the "
Optional [***] Financing ") consisting of all or a
portion of the Shortfall Amount and the related Funding Member
Portion of such [***] Capital Contribution (the aggregate amount so
loaned, the " Optional [***] Loan Amount
").
(B) In
exchange for the Optional [***] Financing, the Joint Venture
Company shall issue to the Funding Member two convertible notes,
one having a principal amount equal to the amount loaned by the
Funding Member in respect of the Shortfall Amount (the "
Optional [***] Shortfall Note ") and the other
having a principal amount equal to the Funding Member Portion (the
" Optional [***] Equalization Note " and, together
with the related Optional [***] Shortfall Note, the "
Optional [***] Notes "), in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit B .
(C) The
Optional [***] Shortfall Notes issued in accordance with this
Section 3.2 will mature on the [***] and shall bear interest
at [***] (as in effect on the Issuance Date thereof and adjusted
every [***]), compounded [***]. The Optional [***] Equalization
Notes issued in accordance with this Section 3.2 shall bear no
interest and will mature on the [***]. The Optional [***] Notes
shall be convertible at any time. Upon conversion of the Optional
[***] Notes by the Funding Member, the sum of (a) the unpaid
principal of and accrued interest on the Optional [***] Shortfall
Note and (b) the unpaid principal of the Optional [***]
Equalization Note shall be added to the Capital Contribution
Balance of the Funding Member.
(D) If the
Joint Venture Company or the Funding Member, on the Joint Venture
Company’s behalf, demands payment and determines to pursue a
collection action with respect to the Non-Funding Member’s
failure to deliver the Shortfall Amount relating to the [***]
Capital Contribution and the Joint Venture Company recovers from
the Non-Funding Member, the funds collected from the Non-Funding
Member shall be applied first to the payment to the Joint Venture
Company and the Funding Member, in full of the costs theretofore
incurred by the Joint Venture Company or the Funding Member,
respectively, in the pursuit of the claim for payment against the
Non-Funding Member (and such amount shall not be treated as a
Capital Contribution), then to all accrued but unpaid interest on
such payment (and such amount shall not be treated as a Capital
Contribution) and then to the payment of an Optional [***]
Shortfall Note to the extent funds are available. At such time, the
following shall occur: (1) a portion of the Make-Up
Contribution recovered from the Non-Funding Member equal to the
principal balance of the Optional [***] Shortfall Note so repaid
shall be deemed to be a Capital Contribution by the Non-Funding
Member, and such amount shall be added to the Capital Contribution
Balance of the Non-Funding Member and (2) a percentage of the
outstanding
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principal balance of the related Optional [***]
Equalization Note equal to the percentage of the principal balance
of the Optional [***] Shortfall Note repaid shall convert into a
Capital Contribution by the Funding Member, and such amount shall
be added to the Capital Contribution Balance of the Funding
Member.
(E) To the
extent excess cash is available in accordance with Section 5.1
at any time to make payments on any Optional [***] Notes, if the
Funding Member elects to receive such payments, by written notice
executed by its chief executive officer and delivered to the Joint
Venture Company prior to the making of the distribution under
Section 5.1, the Joint Venture Company shall make payments on the
outstanding principal of and accrued interest on the Optional [***]
Shortfall Notes (with any such payment being applied first to the
payment in full of accrued interest and then, to the extent of any
remaining amount of such payment, to the repayment of principal)
and the outstanding principal of the Optional [***] Equalization
Notes; provided , however , that any payment by
the Joint Venture Company on the unpaid principal on an Optional
[***] Shortfall Note must be accompanied by a payment by the Joint
Venture Company of an equal percentage of the unpaid principal of
the related Optional [***] Equalization Note. Upon the Funding
Member’s receipt of funds from the Joint Venture Company, the
portion of the Optional [***] Shortfall Note and related Optional
[***] Equalization Note that was paid by the Joint Venture Company
shall no longer be outstanding.
3.3 Optional Other Member Debt Financing .
(A) In the
event of a Shortfall Amount in respect of an Other Capital
Contribution, the Funding Member may, in its sole discretion, elect
to extend Member Debt Financing to the Joint Venture Company (the "
Optional Other Financing "), consisting of all or
a portion of the Shortfall Amount and the related Funding Member
Portion of such Other Capital Contribution.
(B) In
exchange for the Optional Other Financing, the Joint Venture
Company shall issue to the Funding Member a convertible note (the "
Optional Other Shortfall Note "), in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit C . The Optional Other
Shortfall Note shall bear [***] interest, shall mature on the [***]
and shall be convertible at any time.
3.4 Change
In Committed Capital . Each time there is a change in a
Member’s Committed Capital, as a result of the making of a
Capital Contribution or a loan evidenced by a Member Note, a
payment on a Member Note, or otherwise, each Member’s
respective Percentage Interest, Economic Interest and Sharing
Interest shall be immediately recalculated in accordance with the
definitions of such terms, taking into account any delay provided
for in the definition of Sharing Interest; provided,
however , that in accordance with Section 2.3(H) an adjustment
to the Percentage Interests of the Members relating to any funds
remitted in respect of an Additional Capital Contribution to be
made pursuant to Article 2 shall be made when contemplated by
Section 2.3(H).
3.5 Change
in Consolidating Member . Following a Change in
Consolidating Member (as a result of which the Non-Funding Member
becomes the Former Consolidating Member), any (A) Make-Up
Contribution made by the Non-Funding Member to the Joint Venture
Company or (B) payment on a Member Note by the Joint Venture
Company from excess funds
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available in accordance with Section 5.1
shall not equal or exceed the amount that would result in the
occurrence of another Change in Consolidating Member or in the
reduction of the Consolidating Member’s Economic Interest
below the lesser of [***]% and the [***] Member’s
then-existing Economic Interest.
3.6 Loans
Through Subsidiary . Notwithstanding any provision of this
Article 3, in lieu of providing any Member Debt Financing permitted
or required of a Member, (A) Intel Singapore may elect to provide
such Member Debt Financing through Intel or a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of Intel and (B) Micron Singapore may elect to provide
such Member Debt Financing through Micron or a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of Micron; provided, however , that the Member,
rather than such Affiliate of the Member, shall own the Economic
Interest, Sharing Interest and Committed Capital related to such
Member Debt Financing and shall have all rights against the Joint
Venture Company related to such Member Debt Financing.
ARTICLE 4.
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS AND
ALLOCATIONS
4.1 Capital
Accounts . Each Member shall have a capital account
maintained in accordance with the terms of Article 2 of
Appendix B to this Agreement (a " Capital
Account ").
4.2 Allocations of Book Income and Loss . Book income and
Book loss for any Fiscal Year shall be allocated to the Members in
the manner provided in Article 3 of Appendix B .
4.3 Tax
Allocations . All items of income, gain, loss, and deduction
shall be allocated among the Members for federal income tax
purposes in the manner provided in Article 4 of Appendix B
.
4.4 Restoration of Negative Balances . No Member with a
deficit balance in its Capital Account shall have any obligation to
the Joint Venture Company, to any other Member or to any third
party to restore or repay said deficit balance. This
Section 4.4 shall not affect any of the other rights or
obligations of the Members under this Agreement or any other
agreement.
ARTICLE 5.
DISTRIBUTIONS
5.1 Distributions .
(A) Unless
otherwise unanimously agreed in writing by the Members, the Joint
Venture Company shall not make any distributions until after the
first anniversary of the Effective Date. Thereafter, subject to
Articles 6, 7 and 13 and the provisions of the Act and after
giving effect to all Capital Contributions or Member Debt Financing
to be made on the same date under Article 2 and
Article 3, respectively, the Joint Venture Company shall,
subject to Section 5.1(C), make distributions of cash to the
Members as set forth in this Section 5.1(A), on a [***] basis on
the [***] day of each Fiscal [***] (or if such day is not a
Business Day, then on the first Business Day after such day) to the
extent that the Joint Venture Company’s cash as of the end of
the immediately preceding Fiscal [***] is in excess of the sum of
(y) any amounts that have been contributed as a Capital
Contribution or loaned to the Joint Venture Company as Member Debt
Financing and that are being held for the purpose of making capital
or operating
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expenditures in the current Fiscal [***] or the
first twenty-five (25) days of the immediately succeeding Fiscal
[***] (or if such day is not a Business Day, then on the first
Business Day after such day) and (z) all reserves that are
considered reasonably necessary by the Board of Managers to pay
other expenditures that are reasonably likely to be payable in the
period described in clause (y) above, and in any event including
the reserve established under Section 2.2 and amounts
remaining in the Accumulated Distributions Accounts;
provided , however , that the Board of Managers
shall cause the Joint Venture Company to use any cash available for
distribution as follows:
(1) first , to pay in full all amounts outstanding under
any outstanding Mandatory Shortfall Notes and related Mandatory
Equalization Notes ( provided any holder thereof has
requested such payment by written notice executed by its chief
executive officer and delivered to the Joint Venture Company prior
to the distribution thereof under this Section 5.1) in order of
their respective maturity dates;
(2) second , to pay any outstanding Continuing Mandatory
Notes ( provided any holder thereof has requested such
payment by written notice executed by its chief executive officer
and delivered to the Joint Venture Company prior to the
distribution thereof under this Section 5.1) in the order that the
respective maturity dates of the related Mandatory Shortfall Notes
and Mandatory Equalization Notes occurred;
(3) third , to pay in full all amounts outstanding under
any other outstanding Member Notes ( provided any holder
thereof has requested such payment by written notice executed by
its chief executive officer and delivered to the Joint Venture
Company prior to the distribution thereof under this Section
5.1);
(4) fourth , to make a distribution to a Member whose
aggregate, cumulative distributions (not including any payments
made pursuant to Sections 5.1(A)(1), (2) and (3)) immediately
prior to such distribution are less than the amount equal to the
Member’s Sharing Interest (as such Sharing Interest is
determined immediately after any payments made under
Sections 5.1(A)(1), (2) and (3)) multiplied by the aggregate,
cumulative distributions (not including any payments made pursuant
to Sections 5.1(A)(1), (2) and (3)) of the Joint Venture
Company immediately prior to such distribution, until such
Member’s aggregate, cumulative distributions (not including
payments made pursuant to Sections 5.1(A)(1), (2) and (3), but
including such distribution pursuant to this Section 5.1(A)(4)) are
equal to its Distribution Entitlement; and
(5) finally,
to make distributions pro rata to the Members in
accordance with their respective Sharing Interests (as such Sharing
Interests are determined immediately after any payments made under
Sections 5.1(A)(1), (2) and (3)).
(B) Distributions of cash are only to be made to the extent cash is
available to the Joint Venture Company without requiring (1) the
sale of Joint Venture Company assets (other than in the ordinary
course of business) or the pledge of Joint Venture Company assets
at a time or on terms that the Board of Managers believes are not
in the best interests of the Joint Venture Company or (2) a
reduction in reserves that the Board of Managers believes
are
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reasonably necessary for Joint Venture Company
purposes for the then-current Fiscal [***] and the first
twenty-five (25) days of the immediately succeeding Fiscal [***]
(or if such day is not a Business Day, then through the first
Business Day after such day).
(C) The Joint
Venture Company shall maintain in its books of account for each
Member a special purpose account (the " Accumulated
Distributions Accounts ") for purposes of recording
amounts that would be distributed to such Member under
Section 5.1(A) but for the application of this
Section 5.1(C). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Section 5.1, in lieu of actually making the cash
distributions contemplated by this Section 5.1, the Joint
Venture Company shall (except to the extent a Member requests
direct payment to the Member) increase each Member’s
Accumulated Distributions Account by the amount of such cash that
was to have been distributed to such Member. Subsequently, when a
Member is required to, or desires to, make a Capital Contribution
required or permitted by this Agreement, in lieu of making such
Capital Contribution such Member may instruct the Joint Venture
Company to reduce such Member’s Accumulated Distributions
Account in an amount (not to exceed the amount in such
Member’s Accumulated Distributions Account) up to the amount
of such Capital Contribution, which shall be treated for all
purposes (including for purposes of the definition of Capital
Contribution Balance) as if such Member had made such Capital
Contribution at the time designated in such instruction. A Member
may, at any time, demand payment of, and the Joint Venture Company
shall immediately pay, the full amount of such Member’s
Accumulated Distributions Account, in which event the amount so
paid shall reduce the Member’s Accumulated Distributions
Account.
5.2 Withholding Tax Payments and Obligations . In the event
that withholding taxes are paid or required to be paid in respect
of payments made to or by the Joint Venture Company, or allocations
to a Member, such withholding shall be treated as follows:
(A) Payments to the Joint Venture Company . If the Joint
Venture Company receives proceeds in respect of which a tax has
been withheld, the Joint Venture Company shall be treated as having
received cash in an amount equal to the amount of such withheld
tax, and, for all purposes of this Agreement, each Member shall be
treated as having received a distribution pursuant to
Section 5.1 equal to the portion of the withholding tax
allocable to such Member, as reasonably determined by the Board of
Managers. Such amounts shall not be treated as Joint Venture
Company expenses.
(B) Payments by the Joint Venture Company . The Joint
Venture Company is authorized to withhold, and the Precedent
Partner shall take any actions reasonably necessary to withhold,
from any payment made to, or any distributive share of, a Member
any taxes required by law to be withheld, and in such event, such
taxes shall be treated as if an amount equal to such withheld taxes
had been distributed to such Member pursuant to Section 5.1
(or, as provided in Section 5.2(C), loaned to such
Member).
(C) Certain
Withheld Taxes Treated as Demand Loans . Any taxes withheld
pursuant to Sections 5.2(A) or 5.2(B) hereof shall be treated as if
distributed to the relevant Member pursuant to Section 5.1 to the
extent an amount equal to such withheld taxes would then be
distributable to such Member, and, to the extent in excess of such
distributable amounts, as a demand loan payable by the Member to
the Joint Venture Company with interest at a rate equal
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to [***] (or, if less, the maximum rate
allowed by law), compounded and adjusted [***], commencing five (5)
days after written demand therefor on behalf of the Joint Venture
Company is made by any other Member.
5.3 Distribution Limitations . Notwithstanding anything in
this Agreement to the contrary, the Joint Venture Company shall not
make any distribution of cash or other property to any Member if
the distribution would violate any agreement to which the Joint
Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which
it or any of them is bound.
ARTICLE 6.
MANAGEMENT; BOARD OF
MANAGERS
6.1 Management Power . Except as specifically provided in
Article 7, Article 8, and Sections 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3, the
business, property and affairs of the Joint Venture Company shall
be managed by or under the direction of a board of Managers (the "
Board of Managers "), and, except as provided in
Article 7, Article 8 and Sections 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3, no
Member shall have any right to participate in or exercise control
or management power over the business and affairs of the Joint
Venture Company or otherwise to bind, act or purport to act on
behalf of the Joint Venture Company in any manner. No individual
Manager, in his or her capacity as such, may act on behalf of the
Board of Managers or bind the Joint Venture Company. Subject to the
limitations set forth in this Agreement, the Board of Managers
shall have all the rights and powers specifically set forth in
Section 6.3.
6.2 Number
of Managers; Appointment of Managers .
(A) The Board
of Managers shall consist of eight (8) individuals (each such
individual, a " Manager "). Subject to
Section 6.2(B), one half of the Managers shall be appointed by
Micron Singapore and one half of the Managers shall be appointed by
Intel Singapore. The initial Managers appointed by Micron Singapore
are listed on Appendix C , and the initial Managers
appointed by Intel Singapore are listed on Appendix C . Each
Member having the right to appoint a Manager or Managers in
accordance with this Section shall also have the right, in its sole
discretion, to remove such Manager or Managers at any time by
delivery of written notice to the other Member(s) and the Joint
Venture Company. Any vacancy in the office of a Manager for any
reason other than pursuant to Section 6.2(B) (including as a
result of such Manager’s death, resignation, retirement or
removal pursuant to this Section) shall be filled by the Member
that appointed the relevant Manager. Unless a Manager resigns,
dies, retires or is removed in accordance with this Section, each
Manager shall hold office until a successor shall have been duly
appointed by the appointing Member. Unless the Members agree
otherwise, each Member who has the right to appoint three (3) or
more Managers shall appoint at least one (1) Manager that is a
resident of Singapore.
(B) Effect
of Change in Percentage Interest on Managers . While a
Member’s Percentage Interest is below [***] percent ([***]%)
but at least [***] percent ([***]%), the number of Managers such
Member is entitled to appoint to the Board of Managers shall be
reduced to [***] ([***]), and the number of Managers the other
Member is entitled to appoint to the Board of Managers shall be
increased to [***] ([***]). While a Member’s Percentage
Interest is below [***] percent ([***]%) but at least [***] percent
([***]%), the number of
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Managers such Member is entitled to appoint to
the Board of Managers shall be reduced to [***] ([***]), and the
number of Managers the other Member is entitled to appoint to the
Board of Managers shall be increased to [***] ([***]). While a
Member’s Percentage Interest is below [***] percent ([***]%)
but at least [***] percent ([***]%), the number of Managers such
Member is entitled to appoint to the Board of Managers shall be
reduced to [***] ([***]), and the number of Managers the other
Member is entitled to appoint to the Board of Managers shall be
increased to [***] ([***]). While a Member’s Percentage
Interest is below [***] percent ([***]%), the number of Managers
such Member is entitled to appoint to the Board of Managers shall
be reduced to [***], and the other Member shall be entitled to
appoint [***] Managers to the Board of Managers; provided
, however , that the Member with a Percentage Interest of
less than [***] percent ([***]%) shall be entitled to designate,
from time to time, an individual who shall not be a member of, and
shall have no right to vote at any meeting of, the Board of
Managers, but who shall have the right to receive notice of,
attend, and act as an observer for such Member at, any meeting of
the Board of Managers, and who shall receive all materials
delivered to the Board of Managers in connection with any such
meetings. If either Member’s Percentage Interest should be
below any of the threshold levels set forth above and if such
Member (the " Appointing Member ") then has more
designees serving on the Board of Managers than the number to which
it is entitled, such Appointing Member shall immediately identify
by written notice to the other Member the designee or designees on
the Board of Managers that will cease serving on the Board of
Managers and each such designee shall thereupon cease to be a
Manager or member of the Board of Managers. If such Appointing
Member fails to make such designation within five (5) Business Days
after written demand by the other Member, the other Member may
designate by written notice to the Appointing Member one or more
(as appropriate) of the Appointing Member’s designees on the
Board of Managers that will cease serving on the Board of Managers
and each such designee shall thereupon cease to be a Manager or
member of the Board of Managers. The other Member who is entitled
to appoint one or more additional Managers to serve on the Board of
Managers may immediately appoint such additional Managers by
written notice to the other Member designating such Managers.
Similarly, if a Member whose Percentage Interest fell below any
threshold level set forth in this Section 6.2(B) subsequently
increases its Percentage Interest above any such level, the process
shall be reversed.
(C) Chairman of the Board of Managers . Until the end of the
Fiscal Year ending in 2007, Micron Singapore shall have the right
to designate one of its designated Managers as chairman of the
Board of Managers (the " Chairman "), and
thereafter, for each subsequent Fiscal Year of the Joint Venture
Company, the right to designate the Chairman (from among its
designated Managers) shall alternate between Intel Singapore and
Micron Singapore; provided , however , that while
the Percentage Interest of a Member is below [***] percent
([***]%), the Chairman of the Board will be appointed by the other
Member. The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Board of
Managers and shall have such other duties and responsibilities as
may be assigned to him or her by the Board of Managers. The
Chairman may delegate to any Manager authority to chair any
meeting, either on a temporary or a permanent basis. The Chairman
must include any item submitted by a Member or Manager for
consideration at a meeting of the Board of Managers, may not cut
off debate on any matter being considered by the Board of Managers
and shall call for a vote on any matter at the request of any
Manager, including any matter described in
Section 6.3(B).
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(D) Presence of Certain Officers at Meetings of Board of
Managers . The Site Manager, who shall not be a member of
the Board of Managers, may attend, but shall have no right to vote
at, all meetings of the Board of Managers; provided ,
however , that the Board of Managers may exclude the Site
Manager from such meetings or such portions of meetings at which
the compensation or performance of, or any issue involving, the
Site Manager is discussed as the Board of Managers, in its sole
discretion, deems appropriate.
6.3 Voting
of Managers .
(A) Each
Manager shall be entitled to one (1) vote, and Managers shall not
be entitled to cast their votes through proxies (except as provided
in Section 6.7). Subject to Sections 6.3(B) and 6.3(C),
all actions, determinations or resolutions of the Board of Managers
shall require the affirmative vote or consent of a majority of the
Board of Managers present at any meeting at which a quorum is
present ( i.e. , the affirmative vote of five (5) Managers
if the total number of Managers is eight (8)), which majority must
include at least [***] appointed by each Member at all times that
each Member has at least [***] to the Board of Managers;
provided, however , that any matter that is a Micron
Singapore Matter shall be deemed approved upon the approval of a
majority of the Managers appointed by Micron Singapore, and any
matter that is an Intel Singapore Matter shall be deemed approved
upon the approval of a majority of the Managers appointed by Intel.
Except as specifically provided in Article 7, Article 8 and
Sections 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3, the Board of Managers shall have
the right, power and authority to take all actions of the Joint
Venture Company, including the following, and in no event shall any
of the following actions be taken without the approval of the Board
of Managers (which approval may be obtained through the adoption of
an Undisputed Approved Business Plan by the Board of Managers in
accordance with Sections 11.1 and 11.2, provided that the
relevant Undisputed Approved Business Plan sets forth such action
in reasonable detail), by or with respect to the Joint Venture
Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company:
(1) entering
into any agreement or making any modification or amendment to, or
terminating, any agreement between (a) the Joint Venture
Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company and
(b) any Member or an Affiliate of a Member;
(2) selecting
attorneys, accountants, auditors and financial advisors for the
Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(3) adopting,
or making any material modification, amendment or termination of,
material accounting and tax policies, procedures and principles
applicable to the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries
other than those made in accordance with Section 10.9 (
provided , however , that the right, power and
authority of the Board of Managers with respect to tax policies,
procedures and principles granted under this Section 6.3 shall be
subject to the provisions of Section 10.7 hereof);
(4) adopting
or making any material changes to any employee benefit plan,
including any incentive compensation plan;
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(5) setting
any distribution to the Members not required under
Article 5;
(6) subject to
Section 6.3(B)(1)(b), commencing or settling litigation, except
routine employment litigation matters;
(7) making any
material purchase, sale or lease (as lessor or lessee) of any real
property (except for any such purchase or lease to effectuate an
Intel Singapore Matter that is approved by a majority of the Intel
Singapore Managers then in office or a Micron Singapore Matter that
is approved by a majority of the Micron Singapore Managers then in
office);
(8) acquiring
securities or any equity ownership interest in any Person, other
than a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company
established to hold a Fab or assets of the Joint Venture Company or
any of its Subsidiaries;
(9) making any
public announcement by the Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary
of the Joint Venture Company of any material non-public information
not previously approved for public announcement by the Board of
Managers;
(10) entering
into or amending any collective bargaining arrangements or waiving
any material provision or requirement thereof;
(11) approving
any Proposed Business Plan, or amending or modifying any Approved
Business Plan (or any modification thereof), subject to Sections
11.1(C), 11.2(D) and 11.2(E);
(12) making
any filing with, public comments to, or negotiation or discussion
with, any Governmental Entity (excluding regular operating filings
and other routine administrative matters and other than any such
filing, public comments, or negotiation or discussion relating to
an Intel Singapore Matter that is approved by a majority of the
Intel Singapore Managers then in office or relating to a Micron
Singapore Matter that is approved by a majority of the Micron
Singapore Managers then in office); and
(13) establishing, overseeing and modifying the investment policies
of the Joint Venture Company with respect to funds held by the
Joint Venture Company, including funds reserved pursuant to
Section 2.2 pending the use of such funds in accordance with
any applicable Approved Business Plan.
(B) (1)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action of the Board of Managers
with respect to any of the following matters relating to a Member
(the " Interested Member ") shall be deemed
approved by the Board of Managers if approved either by the
affirmative vote at a meeting of the Board of Managers of a
majority of the Managers appointed by the other Member (the "
Independent Member ") with respect to such action
or by written consent of a majority of the Managers appointed by
such Independent Member:
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(a) any
determination to grant indemnification to the Interested Member for
any matter not contemplated by Section 14.2 hereof; or
(b) the
pursuit of any remedy by the Joint Venture Company or a Subsidiary
of the Joint Venture Company against the Interested Member or
Affiliate of the Interested Member (excluding any Applicable Joint
Venture and any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Applicable Joint
Venture) in accordance with Section 7.5; or
(c) any other
matter (other than a matter provided for in Section 6.3(B)(2))
in which the interests of the Joint Venture Company or a Subsidiary
of the Joint Venture Company and the Interested Member, or an
officer, director, controlling stockholder or Affiliate of the
Interested Member (excluding any Applicable Joint Venture and any
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Applicable Joint Venture), are
adverse.
(2) The entry
into, modification of, amendment to, or termination by the Joint
Venture Company of any agreement or other transaction between the
Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company, on the one hand, and the Interested Member or an officer,
director, controlling stockholder or Affiliate of the Interested
Member (excluding any Applicable Joint Venture and any Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of any Applicable Joint Venture), on the other hand, (an
" Interested Member
Transaction ") shall be permitted only
if:
(a) The
material facts as to the relationship or interest of the Interested
Member (and its officers, directors, controlling stockholders and
Affiliates (excluding any Applicable Joint Venture and any
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Applicable Joint Venture)) as to the
Interested Member Transaction are disclosed or are known to the
Board of Managers and the Independent Member, and the Board of
Managers in good faith authorizes the Interested Member Transaction
by the affirmative votes of a majority of the Managers appointed by
the Independent Member, even though the Managers appointed by the
Independent Member may be less than a quorum; or
(b) The
material facts as to the relationship or interest of the Interested
Member (and its officers, directors, controlling stockholders and
Affiliates) as to the Interested Member Transaction are disclosed
or are known to the Independent Member, and the Interested Member
Transaction is specifically approved in writing by the Independent
Member; or
(c) The
Interested Member Transaction is authorized, approved or ratified
by the Board of Managers and is fair as to the Joint Venture
Company or the applicable Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company
and the Independent Member as of the time it is so authorized,
approved or ratified by the Board of Managers.
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(3) Managers
appointed by the Interested Member may be counted in determining
the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Managers
which authorizes the Interested Member Transaction.
(C) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if
a Member has only [***] to the Board of Managers as a result of its
Percentage Interest falling below the requisite threshold set forth
in Section 6.2(B), the following actions will require the
approval of a majority of the members of the Board of Managers,
including the Manager appointed by such Member:
(1) any
material modification, amendment or termination of material
accounting and tax policies, procedures and principles applicable
to the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than
those made in accordance with Section 10.9 ( provided
, however , that the right, power and authority of the
Board of Managers with respect to tax policies, procedures and
principles granted under this Section 6.3 shall be subject to the
provisions of Section 10.7 hereof); and
(2) except for
any litigation matter subject to Section 6.3(B)(1)(b), any
settlement of a litigation matter or a group of related litigation
matters, other than routine litigation matters not involving
current or former members of management, where the amount of
damages payable by the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries exceeds $[***] or that results in disparate treatment
of the Members.
6.4 Meetings of the Board of Managers; Quorum . The Board of
Managers shall hold meetings at least once per Fiscal Quarter.
Subject to a Manager’s right to appoint an alternate Manager
in accordance with Section 6.7, the presence of at least a majority
of the Managers (five (5) while the number of Managers is eight
(8)), in person or by telephone conference or by other means of
communications acceptable to the Board of Managers, shall be
necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the purpose of
taking action by the Board of Managers at any meeting of the Board
of Managers; provided , that such quorum shall consist of
at least a majority of the Managers appointed by each Member that
appoints an odd number of Managers greater than one, and at least
half of the Managers appointed by each Member that appoints an even
number of Managers. No action taken by the Board of Managers at any
meeting shall be valid unless the requisite quorum is
present.
6.5 Notice;
Waiver . The regular quarterly meetings of the Board of
Managers described in Section 6.4 shall be held upon not less than
ten (10) days’ written notice. Additional meetings of the
Board of Managers shall be held (A) at such other times as may be
determined by the Board of Managers, (B) at the request of at least
two (2) Managers or the Site Manager upon not less than five (5)
Business Days’ written notice or (C) in accordance with
Section 17.1 following a failure by the Board of Managers to adopt
or reject a proposal for action presented to it. For purposes of
this Section, notice may be provided via facsimile, email or any
other manner provided in Section 18.1, or telephonic notice to
each Manager (which notice shall be provided to the other Managers
by the requesting Managers). The presence of any Manager at a
meeting (including by means of telephone conference or other means
of communications acceptable to the Board of Managers) shall
constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting with respect to such
Manager, unless such Manager declares at the meeting that such
Manager objects
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to the notice as having been improperly given.
The Board of Managers shall cause written minutes to be prepared of
all actions taken by the Board of Managers and shall cause a copy
thereof to be delivered to each Manager within fifteen (15) days of
each meeting.
6.6 Action
Without a Meeting; Meetings by Telecommunications .
(A) On any
matter that is to be voted on, consented to or approved by the
Board of Managers, the Board of Managers may take such action
without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a
consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken,
shall be signed by the Managers having not less than the minimum
votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action, in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, at a meeting at which
all the Managers were present and voted.
(B) Unless the
Act otherwise provides, members of the Board of Managers shall have
the right to participate in all meetings of the Board of Managers
by means of a conference telephone or similar communications
equipment by means of which all persons participating in the
meeting can hear each other at the same time and participation by
such means shall constitute presence in person at a
meeting.
6.7 Alternate Managers . Each Manager shall have the right
to designate an individual to attend and vote at meetings of the
Board of Managers as the proxy of such regularly appointed
Manager.
6.8 Compensation of Managers . The Managers, in their
capacity as such, shall not receive compensation from the Joint
Venture Company. Each Member shall bear the cost and expenses
incurred by its appointed Managers in connection with the Joint
Venture Company’s business while such Managers are serving in
such capacity.
6.9 Statutory Manager . There shall, at all times, be one
person ordinarily resident in Singapore appointed as the statutory
manager of the Joint Venture Company solely for the purposes of
section 23 of the Act (the " Statutory Manager ").
The duties of the Statutory Manager, in his or her capacity as
Statutory Manager, shall be confined solely to ensure that all
acts, matters and things that are required to be done by the Joint
Venture Company under sections 24, 27 and 28 of the Act are done by
the Joint Venture Company and being responsible in respect of such
matters under section 23(3) of the Act. The Statutory Manager shall
be appointed by the Consolidating Member unless the Members agree
otherwise in writing. The Consolidating Member shall also have the
right, in its sole discretion, to remove such Statutory Manager at
any time by delivery of written notice to the other Member(s) and
the Joint Venture Company, unless otherwise agreed in writing by
the Members. Any vacancy in the position of Statutory Manager for
any reason (including as a result of such Statutory Manager’s
death, resignation, retirement or removal pursuant to this Section)
shall be filled by the Consolidating Member, unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the Members. The first Statutory Manager shall
be appointed by Micron Singapore and, unless such Statutory Manager
resigns, dies, retires or is removed in accordance with this
Section, such Statutory Manager shall serve in such position until
a successor shall have been duly appointed by the Consolidating
Member or as otherwise agreed in writing by the Members. For
avoidance of doubt, no Manager under this Agreement
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shall be the Statutory Manager unless such
Manager is so designated by the Member appointing such Statutory
Manager in accordance with this Section.
ARTICLE 7.
MEMBERS
7.1 Rights
of Members; Meetings .
(A) The
Members shall be the partners of the Joint Venture Company under
the Act, and shall be entitled to the following: (1) receive
financial reports and tax reporting information referenced in
Sections 10.4 and 10.6; (2) receive (y) the then-current
Approved Business Plans, as updated from time to time in accordance
with Section 11.1 or Section 11.2 and any Proposed Business Plan
and (z) the then-current Operating Plan; (3) receive such
additional information of the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as may reasonably be requested by a Member; (4) copies
of any third party audit findings from any audit of the Joint
Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company, any
subcontractor for the Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of
the Joint Venture Company or any Person that provides services to
the Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company (including a Member in such capacity but only to the extent
contemplated by the applicable service agreement with such Member);
and (5) such additional rights as are elsewhere provided in this
Agreement or by mandatory requirements of Applicable Law, including
mandatory requirements of the Act.
(B) At any
time, and from time to time, the Board of Managers may, but shall
not be required to, call meetings of the Members.
(1) Special
meetings of the Members for any proper purpose or purposes may be
called at any time by either Member. Each meeting of the Members
shall be conducted by the Site Manager or designee of the Site
Manager and shall be held at the principal offices of the Joint
Venture Company or at such other place as may be agreed upon from
time to time by the Members. The Site Manager or his or her
designee, as applicable, shall include any item submitted by a
Member for consideration at a meeting of the Members, may not cut
off debate on any matter being considered by the Members and shall
call for a vote on any matter at the request of any Member.
Meetings may be held by telephone if both Members so
consent.
(2) Except as
otherwise required by Applicable Law, written notice (which may be
provided via facsimile or electronic mail with receipt
confirmation) of each meeting of the Members of the Joint Venture
Company shall be given not less than five (5) nor more than
thirty-five (35) days before the date of such meeting.
(3) The
presence, either in person or by proxy, of Members whose combined
Percentage Interests equal one hundred percent (100%) is required
to constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Members.
(4) Each
Member may authorize any Person ( provided such Person is
an officer of the Member) to act for it or on its behalf on all
matters in which the Member is entitled to participate. Each proxy
must be signed by a duly authorized officer of the
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Member. All other provisions governing, or
otherwise relating to, the holding of meetings of the Members shall
be established from time to time as mutually agreed by the
Members.
(5) The
Members shall be entitled to vote on any matter submitted to a vote
of the Members in proportion to their Percentage Interests. Members
may vote either in person or by proxy at any meeting. Each Member
shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote for each full percentage of
the Percentage Interest held by such Member. Fractional votes shall
be permitted.
(6) Any action
permitted or required by the Act, the Certificate, or this
Agreement to be taken at a meeting of Members may be taken without
a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action to be
taken, is signed by the Member or Members whose vote or approval is
required for the taking of such action under this Agreement. Such
consent shall have the same force and effect as if such action was
approved by vote at a meeting at which all the Members were present
and voted and may be stated as such in any document or instrument
filed with the ACRA, and the execution of such consent shall
constitute attendance or presence in person at a meeting of
Members.
7.2 Limitations on the Rights of Members .
(A) Subject to
any mandatory requirements of Applicable Law, including mandatory
requirements under the Act, except as provided in this Agreement or
as otherwise unanimously agreed in writing by the Members, no
Member (in its capacity as a Member) has the right to take any part
whatsoever in the management and control of the business of the
Joint Venture Company, sign for or bind the Joint Venture Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, compel a sale or appraisal of the Joint
Venture Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ assets,
or sell or assign its Interest in the Joint Venture Company or any
of its Subsidiaries.
(B) No Member
may, without the prior written consent of the other Member: (1)
confess any judgment against the Joint Venture Company or any of
its Subsidiaries; (2) act for, enter into any agreement on behalf
of or otherwise purport to bind the other Member, the Joint Venture
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (3) do any acts in
contravention of this Agreement or any of the Affiliate Agreements;
(4) except as contemplated by the Affiliate Agreements, dispose of
the goodwill or the business of the Joint Venture Company or any of
its Subsidiaries; (5) Transfer its Interest in the Joint Venture
Company (except as provided in Sections 12.2, 12.4(A), 12.4(B) or
12.5); or (6) assign the property of the Joint Venture Company or
any of its Subsidiaries in trust for creditors or on the
assignee’s promise to pay any indebtedness of the Joint
Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
7.3 Limited
Liability of the Members . Except to the extent expressly
set forth in Article 2 of this Agreement or otherwise in a
written instrument executed by the Member against whom any
liability is asserted in favor of the Person asserting such
liability, the Members (solely in their capacity as Members) have
no obligation to contribute to the Joint Venture Company or any of
its Subsidiaries and shall not be liable for any debt, obligation
or liability of the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. Any liability to return distributions made by
the
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Joint Venture Company is limited to mandatory
requirements of the Act or of any other Applicable Law.
7.4 Voting
Rights of Members .
(A) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, for
so long as a Member’s Percentage Interest is greater than
[***] ([***]%), the following actions shall require the unanimous
approval of the Members:
(1) any
amendment, restatement or revocation of the Certificate, except
(a) as provided in Section 1.5(A) to effectuate a change in
the principal place of business of the Joint Venture Company,
(b) to change the name of the Joint Venture Company,
(c) as required by Applicable Law, or (d) to accomplish
any action that would be allowed under the terms and conditions of
this Agreement where the only prohibition on the performance of
such action is the terms of the Certificate;
(2) any
material change in the business purpose of the Joint Venture
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than a change in
accordance with the proviso to Section 1.4;
(3) any
Transfer of any Interest to any Person, except as expressly
permitted by Sections 12.2, 12.4(A), 12.4(B) or 12.5;
(4) any
agreement with respect to all present or former Members to extend
the period for assessing any tax which is attributable to any Joint
Venture Company item or item of any of the Joint Venture
Company’s Subsidiaries;
(5) any
approval of the inclusion within the business purpose of the Joint
Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries the manufacture of
memory products other than NAND Flash Memory Products, subject to
the proviso to Section 1.4;
(6) any
approval or setting of any distribution to any Member (other than
distributions of cash in accordance with Article 5);
provided , however , that a Member’s
consent for the purposes of this Section 7.4(A)(6) shall not be
unreasonably withheld; and
(7) the sale,
license, assignment or other transfer of any intellectual property
owned or in the possession of the Joint Venture Company or any
Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company (including any technology
or know-how, whether or not patented, any trademark, trade name or
service mark, any copyright or any software or other method or
process) to any Person other than a Domestic Facilities Company or
an Applicable Joint Venture or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of an
Applicable Joint Venture, except as provided in the Joint Venture
Documents or as otherwise unanimously agreed in writing by the
Members.
(B) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, and
in addition to the provisions of Section 7.4(A), for so long as a
Member’s Percentage Interest is at
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least [***] percent ([***]%), the following
actions shall require the unanimous approval of the
Members:
(1) the
incurrence of any indebtedness for borrowed money, other than
(i) as provided in Article 2 or Article 3 and (ii) any
third-party equipment financing;
(2) any sale,
lease, pledge (other than pledges of equipment under a permitted
third-party equipment financing), assignment, transfer (other than
transfers to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company) or other disposition of any asset of the Joint Venture
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or group of assets in each case
other than in the ordinary course, unless approved in an Undisputed
Approved Business Plan or unless made in connection with a
dissolution of the Joint Venture Company as contemplated by Article
13; provided , however , that unanimous approval
will not be required if the aggregate amount of such sales, leases,
pledges (other than pledges of equipment under a permitted
third-party equipment financing), assignments, transfers (other
than transfers to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company) and other dispositions not in the ordinary course do not
exceed the amount provided for in an Undisputed Approved Business
Plan by more than $[***] in any Fiscal Year;
(3) any
purchase, lease or other acquisition, in any single transaction or
in a series of related transactions, of personal property or
services or capital equipment inconsistent with an Approved
Business Plan (after taking into account any general overrun
provisions contained in such Approved Business Plan);
(4) any
capital expenditures or series of related capital expenditures,
that exceed the amount provided therefor in the most recently
Approved Business Plan (after taking into account any general
spending overrun provisions contained in such Approved Business
Plan) or any commitment by the Joint Venture Company or any
Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company to make expenditures in any
development project in an amount greater than the amount set forth
in the most recently Approved Business Plan (after taking into
account any general spending overrun provisions contained in such
Approved Business Plan);
(5) any
merger, consolidation or other business combination to which the
Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company is a party, or any other transaction to which the Joint
Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company is a
party (other than where the Joint Venture Company is merged or
combined with or consolidated into a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Joint Venture Company), resulting in a change of control of the
Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company, other than a change of control that may occur pursuant to
Article 2 or Article 3;
(6) (a) the voluntary commencement or the failure to contest
in a timely and appropriate manner any involuntary proceeding or
the filing of any petition seeking relief under bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or similar laws, (b) the application
for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee,
custodian, conservator
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or similar official for the Joint Venture Company
or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company, or for a
substantial part of their property or assets, (c) the filing
of an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed
against the Joint Venture Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint
Venture Company in any proceeding described above, (d) the
consent to any order for relief issued with respect to any
proceeding described in this subsection (6), (e) the making of
a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or (f) the
admission in writing of the Joint Venture Company’s
inability, or the failure of the Joint Venture Company or of any
Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company generally, to pay its debts
as they become due or the taking of any action for the purpose of
effecting any of the foregoing;
(7) the
acquisition of any business or entry into any joint venture or
partnership;
(8) the
creation of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company other than a Domestic Facilities Company or any other
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company;
and
(9) negotiating external sources of additional wafer manufacturing
capacity for Joint Venture Products.
In addition, such Member shall have the right to
review and comment on any public announcement by the Joint Venture
Company or any Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company.
(C) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, and
in addition to the provisions of Sections 7.4(A) and 7.4(B), for so
long as a Member’s Percentage Interest is at least [***]
percent ([***]%), the following actions shall require the unanimous
approval of the Members:
(1) the
purchase, license or other acquisition of rights to third party
intellectual property other than routine software licenses in
connection with the Joint Venture Company’s or any of its
Subsidiaries’ ongoing operations.
7.5 Defaulting Member . Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall the pursuit of any
remedy by the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries
against a Defaulting Member pursuant to Section 17.7 require the
consent of such Defaulting Member. The Non-Defaulting Member shall
have the right to control the Joint Venture Company’s pursuit
of any such claim against the Defaulting Member.
7.6 Cooperation .
(A) Intel
Singapore may take action on behalf of the Joint Venture Company
with respect to any Intel Singapore Matter and shall cooperate with
and keep Micron Singapore regularly informed with respect to any
Intel Singapore Matter.
(B) Micron
Singapore may take action on behalf of the Joint Venture Company
with respect to any Micron Singapore Matter and shall cooperate
with and keep Intel Singapore regularly informed with respect to
any Micron Singapore Matter.
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ARTICLE 8.
OFFICERS AND
COMMITTEES
8.1 Site
Manager .
(A) The Board
of Managers shall appoint a site manager (the " Site
Manager "), who shall have responsibility for the
day-to-day general management and control of the business and
affairs of the Joint Venture Company and its Subsidiaries and
overseeing the implementation of the strategic direction of the
Joint Venture Company and its Subsidiaries. The Site Manager shall
perform or oversee those duties and have all powers that are
commonly incident to the office of chief executive officer or that
are specifically delegated to him or her by the Board of Managers.
The Site Manager shall reside in Singapore and shall be a full time
employee of the Joint Venture Company, selected by the Board of
Managers, subject to the consent of any Member whose Percentage
Interest is at least [***] percent ([***]%), which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Board of Managers
shall have the right to remove any Site Manager at any time, with
or without cause, subject to the terms of any employment contract
between the Joint Venture Company and the Site Manager.
(B) The Board
of Managers shall determine, from time to time, the incentive
compensation for which the Site Manager may be eligible based upon
the Joint Venture Company’s operational success.
8.2 Intentionally Omitted.
8.3 Lead
Controller .
(A) The Joint
Venture Company shall have a financial manager (the " Lead
Controller ") who shall serve as the principal financial
officer of the Joint Venture Company and shall have responsibility
for and authority over the day-to-day financial matters of the
Joint Venture Company and its Subsidiaries. The Lead Controller
shall perform such duties and have such powers specifically
delegated to the Lead Controller by the Board of Managers. The Lead
Controller shall reside in Singapore and shall be a full time
employee of Micron Singapore or a Relative of Micron Singapore
seconded on a full time basis to the Joint Venture Company by
Micron Singapore or a Relative of Micron Singapore, or another
individual selected by Micron Singapore, subject to the consent of
Intel Singapore, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed. Micron Singapore shall have the right to remove the
Lead Controller at any time, with or without cause,
provided that it provides at least ten (10) days written
notice of removal to Intel Singapore and the Joint Venture Company.
Micron Singapore shall have the right to fill any vacancy in the
position of Lead Controller for any reason (including as a result
of the Lead Controller’s death, resignation, retirement or
removal pursuant to this Section), subject to the consent of Intel
Singapore, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. The Lead Controller shall report directly to the Board of
Managers.
(B) The Board
of Managers shall determine, from time to time, the incentive
compensation for which the Lead Controller may be eligible based
upon the Joint Venture Company’s operational
success.
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(C) For so
long as there is a Lead Controller who is seconded to the Joint
Venture Company by a Member, the other Member shall be entitled to
second to the Joint Venture Company a senior finance officer of
such other Member or of a Relative of such other Member to assist
the Lead Controller in the execution of his or her duties set forth
in this Section 8.3. The senior finance officer shall reside
in Singapore and shall be seconded on a full time basis to the
Joint Venture Company. The Board of Managers shall determine, from
time to time, the incentive compensation for which such officer may
be eligible based upon the Joint Venture Company’s
operational success.
8.4 Intentionally Omitted.
8.5 General
Provisions Regarding Officers .
(A) There
shall be one or more site managers of the Joint Venture Company who
shall serve as officers of the Joint Venture Company and shall have
such authority and perform or oversee those duties that are
delegated to such officers by the Board of Managers or the Site
Manager. The Board of Managers may, from time to time, designate
other officers of the Joint Venture Company, delegate to such
officers such authority and duties as the Board of Managers may
deem advisable and assign titles to any such officers. Except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement, officers may either be full
time employees of the Joint Venture Company resident in Singapore
or Seconded Employees. Unless the Board of Managers otherwise
determines or unless otherwise provided by this Agreement, if the
title assigned to an officer of the Joint Venture Company is one
commonly used for officers for businesses of comparable size in the
same industry, then, subject to the terms of this Agreement, the
assignment of such title shall constitute the delegation to such
officer of the authority and duties that are customarily associated
with such office for businesses of comparable size in the same
industry. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, any
number of titles may be held by the same individual.
(B) Subject to
all rights, if any, under any contract of employment, any officer
to whom a delegation is made pursuant to Section 8.5(A) shall
serve in the capacity delegated unless and until such delegation is
revoked by the Board of Managers for any reason or no reason
whatsoever, with or without cause, or such officer
resigns.
8.6 Intentionally Omitted.
8.7 Waiver
of Fiduciary Duties .
(A) In
connection with the determination of any and all matters presented
for action to the Members or the Board of Managers, as applicable,
the Members acknowledge and agree that each Member will be acting
on its own behalf and each Representative serving on the Board of
Managers will be acting on behalf of the Member that appointed such
Representative.
(B) Each
Member may act, and, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable
Law, will be protected for acting, in its own interest (subject to
the express terms of any contract entered into by such Member)
without regard to the interest of the other Member or the Joint
Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and, subject to
Section 8.7(D), each Representative may act, and, to the
fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, will be protected for
acting at
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the direction or control of, or in a manner that
such Representative believes is in the best interest of, the Member
that appointed the Representative without regard to the interest of
the other Member or the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. Further, each Member may, to the fullest extent
permitted by Applicable Law (subject to the express terms of any
contract entered into by such Member), make decisions and exercise
direction and control over the decisions of the Representatives
appointed by such Member without duty to or regard for the
interests of the other Member or the Joint Venture Company or any
of its Subsidiaries.
(C) The Joint
Venture Company, on its own behalf and on behalf of each of its
Subsidiaries, and each Member waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by Applicable Law, (1) any claim or cause of action
against any Member or Manager based on the determination of any and
all matters presented for action to the Members or the Board of
Managers, as applicable, (2) breach of fiduciary duty, duty of
care, duty of loyalty or any other duty or (3) breach of the
Act; provided , however , the foregoing will not
limit any Member’s obligation under or liability for breach
of the express terms of this Agreement or any other agreement that
they have entered into with the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or the other Member; and provided
further , however , that, unless a Member has
received the written consent of the other Member authorizing such
activities, no Member shall negotiate or enter into or request or
otherwise cause the Joint Venture Company to negotiate or enter
into any agreement or transaction that would result in such Member
or any of its Subsidiaries receiving any financial consideration or
other tangible property incentive, payment or other form of
financial consideration or other tangible property consideration
from any Governmental Entity or Person based upon the Joint Venture
Company’s taking an action (including hiring any employees,
undertaking any construction or purchasing any equipment) or
entering into such agreement or transaction other than as a Member
of the Joint Venture Company pursuant to this Agreement, and any
Member who receives any such consideration or other tangible
property incentive, payment or other form of financial
consideration or other tangible property consideration from any
Governmental Entity or Person in respect of the Joint Venture
Company’s activities, shall promptly convey such
consideration or other tangible property incentive, payment or
other form of financial consideration or other tangible property
consideration from any Governmental Entity or Person to the Joint
Venture Company without any adjustment in the Capital Contribution
Balance of such Member.
(D) The term "
Representative " shall mean, with respect to a
Member and the Managers and the employees, agents and other
representatives of such Member including the Seconded Employees of
such Member, but not including, only for purposes of
Section 8.7(C)(2), the Site Manager, the Lead Controller or
any other officer or site manager of the Joint Venture Company (and
each such officer shall be bound by such fiduciary and other duties
(including the duty of care and the duty of loyalty) as would apply
to an officer having comparable authority and duties under the
DGCL).
ARTICLE 9.
EMPLOYEE
MATTERS
9.1 Joint
Venture Company Employees; Seconded Employees . The Joint
Venture Company shall employ its own personnel and shall be their
exclusive employer. In addition, certain other persons who are
employed by Micron Singapore or its Relatives or Intel
Singapore
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or its Relatives may be seconded by Micron or
Intel, respectively, and certain other persons who are employed by
the U.S. Joint Venture Company may be seconded by the U.S. Joint
Venture Company, to work in Singapore for the Joint Venture Company
on a full time basis for a given period of time ("
Seconded Employees ")
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Micron Personnel
Secondment Agreement, the Intel Personnel Secondment Agreement or
the U.S. Joint Venture Personnel Secondment Agreement,
respectively. Seconded Employees may be utilized to provide
services to the Joint Venture Company until (1) the time specified
in Article 8 for certain Seconded Employees, if any, acting as
officers of the Joint Venture Company, (2) with respect to Seconded
Employees employed by Micron Singapore or its Relatives, until the
time determined under the terms of the Micron Personnel Secondment
Agreement, (3) with respect to Seconded Employees employed by Intel
Singapore or its Relatives, until the time determined under the
terms of the Intel Personnel Secondment Agreement or (4) with
respect to the Seconded Employees employed by the U.S. Joint
Venture Company, until the time determined under the terms of the
U.S. Joint Venture Company Personnel Secondment Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Seconded Employee will become
employed by the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries
unless agreed among the Joint Venture Company and the
Members.
9.2 Performance and Removal of Seconded Employees . The
Board of Managers shall possess the authority to require that a
Seconded Employee be reassigned by the seconding Member or its
Relatives or the U.S. Joint Venture Company, as the case may be, to
duties other than with the Joint Venture Company. Subject to the
terms of the Intel Personnel Secondment Agreement, the Micron
Personnel Secondment Agreement and the U.S. Joint Venture Company
Personnel Secondment Agreement, as the case may be, the Site
Manager shall possess the authority to require that a Seconded
Employee be reassigned by the seconding Member or its Relatives or
the U.S. Joint Venture Company, as the case may be, to duties other
than with the Joint Venture Company.
9.3 Forms . (A) The Joint Venture Company and each of its
Subsidiaries shall have policies applicable to, and ensure that all
of its officers, employees and third-party independent contractors,
third-party consultants, and other third-party service providers
enter into appropriate agreements with respect to, (1) protection
of confidential information of the Joint Venture Company and its
Subsidiaries, (2) compliance with Applicable Laws, and
(3) other matters related to the delivery of services to, or
employment of such Person by, the Joint Venture Company or its
Subsidiaries. The Joint Venture Company and each of its
Subsidiaries shall have policies applicable to, and ensure that all
of its officers and employees enter into appropriate agreements
with respect to intellectual property assignment, including
invention disclosures, pursuant to which ownership to any
intellectual property created in the course of employment with the
Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be assigned
to the Joint Venture Company. The Joint Venture Company and each of
its Subsidiaries shall have policies applicable to, and ensure that
all of its third-party independent contractors, third-party
consultants, and other third-party service providers that create
intellectual property in the course of performing services for the
Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries, enter into
appropriate agreements with the Joint Venture Company with respect
to the Joint Venture Company’s ownership of, or the Joint
Venture Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ right to use,
such intellectual property. The forms referred to in this Section
9.3 are collectively referred to as the " Service Provider
Related Forms ."
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(B) Notwithstanding any preceding provisions in this Section 9.3 or
elsewhere, no Seconded Employee shall be required to sign any
Service Provider Related Forms, except with respect to
acknowledgement of and agreement regarding policies of the Joint
Venture Company addressing conduct while performing services at the
premises of the Joint Venture Company, such as workplace safety,
but excluding matters relating to protection of confidential
information of the Joint Venture Company and its Subsidiaries and
intellectual property assignment, which issues have been addressed
in other documents. The Joint Venture Company shall be responsible
for providing those appropriate Service Provider Related Forms, if
any, prepared by the Joint Venture Company for Seconded Employees
to the appropriate Seconded Employees, following up to make sure
they are signed and for properly storing such forms; however, Intel
Singapore and Micron Singapore shall each require that their
Seconded Employees sign the applicable Service Provider Related
Forms when requested to do so by the Joint Venture
Company.
9.4 Compensation and Benefits .
(A) The Joint
Venture Company and its Subsidiaries shall have compensation and
benefits programs for the employees of the Joint Venture Company
and its Subsidiaries (excluding, for this purpose, Seconded
Employees) at its locations consistent with local practices in each
respective geographic area, as determined by the Site Manager and,
to the extent required by law or this Agreement, approved by the
Board of Managers, which may initially be modeled after
Micron’s local compensation and benefits programs if deemed
to be appropriate and competitive by the Site Manager and, if
applicable, the Board of Managers. Incentive compensation programs
for Joint Venture Company employees and the employees of any
Subsidiary of the Joint Venture Company will be tied to the Joint
Venture Company’s operational success, as determined by the
Site Manager and approved by the Board of Managers.
(B) It is the
intention of Micron Singapore to offer employees of Micron
Singapore and its Relatives who transfer to the Joint Venture
Company the option to transfer their vacation leave days balance
accrued as of the date of transfer to the comparable plan of the
Joint Venture Company to be administered in accordance with the
terms of such plan. If Micron Singapore and its Relatives allow
such a transfer and if an employee so elects, the Joint Venture
Company shall credit the employee’s Joint Venture Company
vacation leave (or similar time bank) account with the transferred
time and Micron Singapore shall pay the Joint Venture Company an
amount equal to the person’s base daily rate multiplied by
the vacation leave days transferred.
(C) It is the
intention of Intel Singapore to offer employees of Intel Singapore
and its Relatives who transfer to the Joint Venture Company the
option to transfer their vacation leave days balance accrued as of
the date of transfer to the comparable plan of the Joint Venture
Company to be administered in accordance with the terms of such
plan. If Intel Singapore and its Relatives allow such a transfer
and if an employee so elects, the Joint Venture Company shall
credit the employee’s Joint Venture Company vacation leave
(or similar time bank) account with the transferred time and Intel
Singapore shall pay the Joint Venture Company an amount equal to
the person’s base daily rate multiplied by the vacation leave
days transferred.
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ARTICLE
10.
RECORDS, ACCOUNTS AND
REPORTS
10.1 Books
and Records . The Site Manager shall keep or cause to be
kept adequate books and records with respect to the Joint Venture
Company’s and each of its Subsidiaries’ business,
including the following:
(A) a current
list of the full name and last known business address of each
Member and its appointed Managers and all officers and
Representatives;
(B) copies of
records that would enable a Member to determine the relative
Committed Capital, Percentage Interests, Sharing Interests,
Economic Interests, Member Debt Financing, Capital Contribution
Balances and Accumulated Distributions Accounts of the
Members;
(C) a copy of
the Certificate together with any amendments;
(D) copies of
the Joint Venture Company’s and each of its
Subsidiaries’ income tax returns and reports, if any, for the
longer of (1) five (5) years from the time of filing or
(2) with respect to any such tax return of the Joint Venture
Company, until the expiration of the statute of limitations on the
assessment of income tax liabilities for the taxable year of each
Member in which the income required to be shown on such tax return
of the Joint Venture Company is required to be included (and each
Member shall promptly respond to requests from the officers of the
Joint Venture Company in order to determine whether such statute of
limitations has expired);
(E) a copy of
this Agreement, together with any amendments;
(F) copies of
any financial statements of the Joint Venture Company and its
Subsidiaries for the greater of its seven (7) most recent years or
all open taxable years;
(G) copies of
all Proposed Business Plans, Approved Business Plans, Member
Business Plans and Operating Plans;
(H) minutes of
meetings of the Members, the Board of Managers, and any other
committee appointed by the Board of Managers from time to time and
all written consents in lieu of a meeting;
(I) copies of
all contracts and agreements to which the Joint Venture Company is
a party; and
(J) any other
records required to be maintained by the Act.
10.2 Access
to Information .
(A) To the
extent not in violation of Applicable Law, each Member and its
agents (which may include employees of the Member or the
Member’s independent certified accountants) shall have the
right, at any reasonable time, to inspect, review, copy and audit
(or
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cause to be audited) at the expense of the
inspecting Member any and all properties, assets, books of account,
corporate records, contracts, documentation and any other material
of the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries, at the
request of the inspecting Member. Upon such request, the Joint
Venture Company and each of its relevant Subsidiaries shall use
reasonable efforts to make available to such inspecting Member the
Joint Venture Company’s accountants and key employees for
interviews to verify information furnished or to enable such Member
to otherwise review the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and their operations. Such availability is conditioned
upon the terms and conditions of the Confidentiality
Agreement.
(B) The
Members recognize that the Joint Venture Company may, from time to
time, be in possession of Competitively Sensitive Information
belonging to a Member or its Relatives, and in no event shall a
Member be entitled to access any Competitively Sensitive
Information of the other Member or its Relatives in the possession
of the Joint Venture Company. The Joint Venture Company shall
maintain procedures reasonably acceptable to both Members
(including requiring that the Members use reasonable efforts to
label or otherwise identify Competitively Sensitive Information as
such) to ensure that the Joint Venture Company will not disclose or
provide Competitively Sensitive Information of one Member or its
Relatives to the other Member (other than to a Joint Venture
Company employee or to a Seconded Employee of the other Member to
the extent required for such employee or Seconded Employee to
perform his or her duties for the Joint Venture Company) or any
third party unless such disclosure is specifically requested by the
Member or its Relatives providing such Competitively Sensitive
Information. The Joint Venture Company shall not be liable for
inadvertent disclosures of Competitively Sensitive Information that
was not labeled or identified as such.
(C) Upon
request, each Member agrees to use reasonable efforts to provide
the other Member and the Joint Venture Company with reasonable
access to those portions of its facilities and to those items of
its and its Relatives’ equipment that are being used to
provide services to the Joint Venture Company, and to those
employees who are providing services to the Joint Venture Company,
to verify information regarding such operations or enable such
Member and the Joint Venture Company to otherwise review the
services being provided to the Joint Venture Company.
10.3 Operations Reports . Subject to Section 10.2(B), the
Joint Venture Company and each of its Subsidiaries shall provide
both Members with all quarterly, monthly and weekly reporting
packages containing such manufacturing and production reports as
may be required to be delivered under any agreement with, or
otherwise requested by, either Member.
10.4 Financial Reports . The Joint Venture Company and each
of its Subsidiaries shall provide the Members the
following:
(A) Monthly
Reports .
(1) for each
Fiscal Month, the Joint Venture Company, and if requested, each of
its Subsidiaries, shall provide each Member with the following
monthly reports prepared in accordance with Modified GAAP
consistently applied, and in accordance with any other accounting
principles under which such information must
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be prepared by the Joint Venture Company or such
Subsidiaries under applicable legal or contractual requirements, in
each case within the time period specified below:
(a) Monthly
Flash Report within eight (8) days after the end of each Fiscal
Month;
(b) monthly
cash flow report within fifteen (15) days after the end of each
Fiscal Month;
(c) month-end
balance sheet within fifteen (15) days after the end of each Fiscal
Month;
(d) monthly
profit and loss statement within fifteen (15) days after the end of
each Fiscal Month;
(e) monthly
operational spending summary within fifteen (15) days after the end
of each Fiscal Month; and
(f) such other
reports as may be required to be delivered under any agreement
with, or otherwise reasonably requested by, either
Member.
(2) With
respect to each of the monthly reports set forth in
Section 10.4(A)(1), each Member may provide a sample format
for such monthly report as is necessary and appropriate.
(B) Quarterly Reports . (1) As soon as available, but not
later than twenty (20) days after the end of each Fiscal Quarter
(other than Fiscal Quarters ending on the last day of a Fiscal
Year, provided that the information required by this
Section 10.4(B) will be included in the reports delivered pursuant
to Section 10.4(C) below for the Fiscal Year ending on such date),
the Joint Venture Company shall provide to each Member a
consolidated balance sheet of the Joint Venture Company as of the
end of such period and consolidated statements of income, cash
flows and changes in Members’ equity, as applicable, for such
Fiscal Quarter and for the period commencing at the end of the
previous Fiscal Year and ending with the end of such period,
setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding
figures for the corresponding period of the preceding Fiscal Year
and including comparisons to the Approved Business Plan, each
prepared in accordance with Modified GAAP and in accordance with
any other accounting principles under which such information must
be prepared by the Joint Venture Company or such Subsidiaries under
applicable legal or contractual requirements. The Lead Controller
shall discuss with the Members such quarterly financial data and
the business outlook of the Joint Venture Company and its
Subsidiaries and shall be available to respond to questions from
the Members regarding such data and outlook.
(2) In
addition, as soon as available, but not later than thirty (30) days
after the end of each Fiscal Quarter, the Joint Venture Company
shall provide to each Member a consolidated balance sheet of the
Joint Venture Company as of the end of each Fiscal Quarter and
consolidated statements of income and changes in Members’
equity, as applicable, for such Fiscal Quarter and for the period
commencing at the end of the previous Fiscal Year and ending with
the end of such period, setting forth in each case in
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comparative form the corresponding figures for
the corresponding period of the preceding Fiscal Year (to the
extent such comparison is appropriate), each prepared in accordance
with GAAP and in accordance with any other accounting principles
under which such information must be prepared by the Joint Venture
Company or such Subsidiaries under applicable legal or contractual
requirements. The Joint Venture Company shall also provide a
reconciliation that describes and quantifies the differences
between the consolidated financial statements prepared in
accordance with GAAP or such other legal or contractual
requirement, as applicable, and the consolidated financial
statements prepared in accordance with Modified GAAP. The
non-Consolidating Member may reasonably request that the
Consolidating Member use its reasonable efforts to engage the
Consolidating Member’s external auditor to perform certain
agreed-upon procedures with respect to such reconciliation. Upon
such request, the Consolidating Member shall not unreasonably deny
or delay such request. The non-Consolidating Member shall promptly
reimburse the Consolidating Member for the incremental costs
incurred by the Consolidating Member with respect to the
performance of such agreed-upon procedures by the Consolidating
Member’s external auditor.
(C) Annual
Audit . As soon as available, but not later than ninety (90)
days after the end of the first Fiscal Year of the Joint Venture
Company ended August 31, 2007, and not later than sixty (60) days
after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Joint Venture Company
thereafter, audited consolidated financial statements of the Joint
Venture Company and its Subsidiaries, which shall include
statements of revenues and expenses, of cash flows and of changes
in Members’ equity, as applicable, for such Fiscal Year and a
balance sheet as of the last day thereof, each prepared in
accordance with Modified GAAP, consistently applied, and in
compliance with any other accounting principles under which such
information must be prepared by the Joint Venture Company or such
Subsidiaries under applicable legal or contractual requirements and
accompanied by the report of a firm of independent certified public
accountants selected from time to time by the Board of Managers
(the " Accountants ").
(D) Right
to Audit . Either Member may conduct a separate audit of the
Joint Venture Company’s financial statements and internal
controls over financing reporting at its own expense, and the
Members agree to use all reasonable efforts to coordinate the
timing of any separate audits that any Member elects to
conduct.
10.5 Reportable Events .
(A) The Joint
Venture Company shall provide notice to the Members of any Member
Reportable Event as soon as possible and in any event no later than
[***] ([***]) days following the occurrence of said event. The
following events shall be " Member Reportable
Events ":
(1) any action
by the Joint Venture Company or a Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company that will result in recording an impairment of assets of
the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including
without limitation, intangibles, goodwill, fixed assets, accounts
receivable and inventory, that is expected to exceed $[***],
individually or when aggregating other similar assets impaired at
the same time;
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(2) any
decision to shutdown a business unit, close a facility, dispose of
long-lived assets or terminate employees (in a FAS 146 plan of
termination) whereby the Joint Venture Company or a Subsidiary of
the Joint Venture Company may incur an accounting charge that would
exceed $[***];
(3) entry by
the Joint Venture Company or a Subsidiary of the Joint Venture
Company into any off-balance sheet arrangement (unconsolidated
transactions with a third party under which the entity retains or
has a contingent interest in transferred assets or is obligated
under derivative instruments classified in equity, or with a third
party that constitutes a "variable interest entity" under FIN
46);
(4) the
execution, amendment or termination of a contract that meets one of
the following thresholds:
(a) patent,
copyright or trademark license requiring payment of more than
$[***];
(b) technology
licenses requiring payment of more than $[***];
(c) contracts
for supply of equipment or materials (i) from either a sole
source (single qualified source or true sole source), a supplier
with only one site, or a supplier located only in a "high risk"
geographic area and (ii) where interruption of supply may
cause a key Joint Venture Product to experience a launch delay or
production interruption with revenue impact of more than $[***] in
a ninety (90)-day period; and
(d) other
contracts with a value in excess of $[***]; and
(5) entry into
any short-term debt (payable within one year), long-term debt,
capital lease, operating lease or guaranty in excess of
$[***].
(B) The Joint
Venture Company shall provide notice to the Members of any Joint
Venture Reportable Event as soon as possible and in any event no
later than [***] ([***]) days after the Joint Venture Company
becomes aware of such Joint Venture Reportable Event. The following
events shall be " Joint Venture Reportable Events
":
(1) receipt by
the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries of an offer to
buy an Interest in the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or a significant amount of its assets or to merge or
consolidate with the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or any indication of interest from any Person with
respect to any such transaction;
(2) the
commencement, or threat delivered in writing, of any lawsuit
involving the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(3) the
receipt by the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
a notice that the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is in default under
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any loan agreement to which the Joint Venture
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party;
(4) any breach
by the Joint Venture Company or any of its Subsidiaries or a Member
or an Affiliate of a Member of any contract, agreement or
understanding between the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and a Member or an Affiliate of a Member;
(5) any recall
of, or other significant alleged product defects with respect to,
any product manufactured by the Joint Venture Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, whether or not as a result of a request or order by
any Governmental Entity;
(6) any
material adverse change with respect to the current status of any
item of intellectual property rights owned by the Joint Venture
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (" Intellectual Property
Rights "), including receipt of any adverse notice from
any Governmental Entity with respect to such item of Intellectual
Property Rights and notice of any action taken or threatened by any
third party that could affect the validity of any item of
Intellectual Property Rights;
(7) the
removal or resignation of the Accountants for the Joint Venture
Company, or any adoption, or material modification, of any
significant accounting policy or tax policy other than those
required by GAAP or any other legal or contractual requirements
applicable to the Joint Venture Company (if any such legal or
contractual requirement is different); or
(8) any other
event that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a
material adverse effect on the business, results of operations,
financial condition or assets of the Joint Venture Company or any
of its Subsidiaries.
10.6 Tax
Information .
(A) Estimated Tax Information . The Lead Controller shall
deliver to each Member, on or prior to the date that is ninety (90)
days following the end of each Joint Venture Company Fiscal Year,
an estimate of the Singapore taxable income of the Joint Venture
Company for such Fiscal Year.
(B) Tax
Returns . The Lead Controller shall deliver to each Member,
on or prior to the date that is one hundred twenty (120) days
following the end of each Joint Venture Company Fiscal Year, a
draft of the Singapore income tax computation (and related
attachments including a copy of the certified true and correct
financial statements of the Joint Venture Company and a draft
return of contributed capital of each Member) of the Joint Venture
Company for such Fiscal Year. Each Member shall have fifteen (15)
days to review such tax returns and provide written comments
thereon to the Joint Venture Company, and to the extent the Joint
Venture Company does not intend to incorporate such comments into
such tax returns the Joint Venture Company and the Members shall
attempt to resolve any disagreements within fifteen (15) days after
the delivery of such comments to the Joint Venture Company. If the
Members and the Joint Venture Company are unable to resolve any
disputes regarding the content of such tax returns within such
fifteen (15)-day period, the issue or issues shall be
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referred for resolution to a partner at a "Big 4"
accounting firm (or other nationally recognized accounting firm)
reasonably acceptable to the Members and the Joint Venture Company,
who shall be requested to resolve open issues, on the basis of the
position most likely to be sustained if challenged in a court
having initial jurisdiction over the matter (which for Singapore
tax issues shall be deemed to be the Singapore court), no later
than one hundred eighty (180) days following the end of such Fiscal
Year. The decision of such accounting firm shall be final and
binding on the Members and the Joint Venture Company, and the costs
of such accounting firm shall be Joint Venture Company costs. The
Joint Venture Company shall deliver final income tax returns (and
related attachments, including a copy of the final tax computation,
a copy of the certified true and correct financial statements of
the Joint Venture Company and the return of contributed capital of
each Member) to the Members within two hundred twenty (220) days
after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Joint Venture Company, but
not prior to the resolution of disputes among the Members and the
Joint Venture Company with respect to such tax returns;
provided that if such tax returns become due (taking into
account extensions of time to file, which the Joint Venture Company
shall seek as necessary to avoid the delinquent filing of its tax
returns) they shall be filed as determined by the Joint Venture
Company and shall be amended and re-filed as required by the
outcome of the referral to the accounting firm as provided
herein.
10.7 Tax
Matters and Precedent Partner . The [***] at the end of a
given Fiscal Year (or, if there is no [***] at such time, the
Member that served as the Precedent Partner for the prior year)
shall serve as the " Precedent Partner " for the
purpose of Sections 62 and 71 of the Singapore Income Tax Act ("
ITA ") and in any similar capacity under Singapore
or foreign law for such year. The Precedent Partner shall supply
such information to the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore ("
IRAS ") and to the other Member as may be
necessary to cause the other Member to comply with the ITA. The
Precedent Partner shall keep each Member informed of any
administrative or judicial proceeding relative to any adjustment or
proposed adjustment at the Joint Venture Company level of Joint
Venture Company items, and shall provide the other Member with
notice and an opportunity to participate in significant meetings or
other proceedings (both in person and by telephone), preparation of
correspondence and other significant events with respect to taxes
pertaining to the Joint Venture Company. Without the prior written
approval of all Members, the Precedent Partner shall not
(a) enter into any settlement agreement with the IRAS which
purports to bind or otherwise could adversely affect Persons other
than the Precedent Partner and any Members who agree in writing to
be bound by such agreement, (b) file a petition or similar
proceeding as contemplated by the ITA, (c) intervene in any
action as contemplated by the ITA, (d) file any request as
contemplated by the ITA, (e) enter into an agreement extending
the period of limitation as contemplated by the ITA, (f) take
any actions comparable to those described in clauses (a) through
(e) under Singapore or foreign tax law or (g) take any other
action in its capacity as Precedent Partner that could
significantly affect the tax liability of the other Member.
10.8 Bank
Accounts and Funds . Except as otherwise provided in
Section 2.2, Joint Venture Company funds, including cash
Capital Contributions, shall be deposited in an interest-bearing
account or accounts in the name of the Joint Venture Company and
shall not be commingled with the funds of any Member, Manager or
any other Person. All checks, orders or withdrawals shall be signed
by any one or more Persons as authorized by the Board of Managers
and subject to the approval rights set forth in
Section 10.9(E).
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10.9 Internal Controls .
(A) The Joint
Venture Company shall have in place a system of internal controls
over financial reporting in accordance with the policies of the
Consolidating Member as of the Effective Date, the design and
operation of which shall be monitored and approved by the Board of
Managers and the Lead Controller. Changes to the Joint Venture
Company’s system of internal controls over financial
reporting shall be made at the request of either Member (and if
requested by the non-Consolidating Member, the non-Consolidating
Member shall reimburse the Joint Venture Company for its reasonable
costs incurred in implementing the changes), subject to the other
Member’s approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld, and, subject to the approval of the Board of Managers and
the approval of the Lead Controller, which shall not be
unreasonably withheld; provided , however , that
in the event of a Change of Consolidating Member, the internal
controls over financial reporting and accounting systems of the
Joint Venture Company shall, at the Joint Venture Company’s
expense, be modified as necessary to satisfy the new Consolidating
Member’s requirements relating to internal controls over
financial reporting, and such Member shall be entitled to receive
the information and perform th
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