Exhibit 10.2
VOTING AGREEMENT
BY AND AMONG
THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK,
THE PARTIES LISTED
ON SCHEDULE A HERETO
AND
(SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 4.5 AND 5.2
HEREOF)
AMERITRADE HOLDING CORPORATION
DATED AS OF JUNE 22, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
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General
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1.1.
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Defined
Terms
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ARTICLE
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VOTING
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2.1.
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Agreement to
Vote
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No Inconsistent
Agreements
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Proxy
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ARTICLE
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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3.1.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Stockholders
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3.2.
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Representations
and Warranties of TD
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ARTICLE
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OTHER
COVENANTS
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Prohibition on
Transfers, Other Actions
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Stock
Dividends, etc.
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No
Solicitation
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Notice of
Acquisitions, Proposals Regarding Prohibited
Transactions
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Waiver of
Conflicts, Rights Under Existing Stockholders Agreement;
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Termination of
Existing Stockholders Agreement
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Waiver of Right
to Consent to Director Indemnification Agreements and
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Investor
Information Rights Agreements
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ARTICLE
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MISCELLANEOUS
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5.1.
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Termination
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Legends; Stop
Transfer Order
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No Ownership
Interest
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Notices
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Interpretation
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Counterparts
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5.7.
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Entire
Agreement
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Governing Law;
Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
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Amendment;
Waiver
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Remedies
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Severability
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Successors and
Assigns; Third Party Beneficiaries
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Obligations
Several
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Schedule A:
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Stockholders
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Exhibit A:
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Form of Joinder
Agreement
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INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS
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ii
VOTING AGREEMENT
VOTING
AGREEMENT, dated as of June 22, 2005 (this “
Agreement ”), by and among The Toronto-Dominion
Bank, a Canadian chartered bank (“ TD ”),
the individuals and entities set forth on Schedule A hereto
under the heading “R Parties” (collectively, the
“ R Parties ”), the entities set forth on
Schedule A hereto under the heading “TA Entities”
(collectively, the “ TA Investors ”), the
entities set forth on Schedule A hereto under the heading
“SLP Entities” (collectively, the “ SLP
Investors ” and, together with the TA Investors, the
“ Private Equity Investors ”) (each of
the R Parties, each of the TA Investors, and each of the SLP
Investors, a “ Stockholder ”, and
collectively, the “ Stockholders ”), and,
solely for the purposes of Sections 4.5 and 5.2 hereof,
Ameritrade Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“
Ameritrade ”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, Ameritrade and
TD are entering into an Agreement of Sale and Purchase, dated as of
the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “ Share Purchase
Agreement ”) pursuant to which, among other things,
Ameritrade shall purchase from TD all of the capital stock of TD
Waterhouse Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned
subsidiary of TD (“ Waterhouse ”), and TD
will receive, in consideration for its shares of Waterhouse capital
stock, shares of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of
Ameritrade (the “ Common Stock
”).
WHEREAS,
as of the date hereof, (i) the R Parties are the record and
beneficial owners, in the aggregate, of 105,718,442 shares of
Common Stock, (ii) the TA Investors are the record and
beneficial owners, in the aggregate, of 18,967,767 shares of Common
Stock, and (iii) the SLP Investors are the record and
beneficial owners, in the aggregate, of 11,466,209 shares of Common
Stock.
WHEREAS,
as a condition and inducement to TD entering into the Share
Purchase Agreement, TD has required that the Stockholders agree,
and the Stockholders have agreed, to enter into this agreement and
abide by the covenants and obligations with respect to the Covered
Shares (as hereinafter defined) set forth herein.
NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements herein
contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
GENERAL
1.1.
Defined Terms . The following capitalized terms, as used in
this Agreement, shall have the meanings set forth below.
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have
the meanings ascribed thereto in the Share Purchase
Agreement.
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Acquisition Proposal ” has the meaning set
forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
“
Additional Proposal ” has the meaning set forth
in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Affiliate ” means, with respect to any Person,
any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common
control with, such specified Person; provided ,
however , that solely for purposes of this Agreement,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, neither
Ameritrade nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be an
Affiliate of any Stockholder, nor shall any Stockholder be deemed
to be an Affiliate of Ameritrade.
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Ameritrade Restated Bylaws ” has the meaning
set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Ameritrade Restated Charter ” has the meaning
set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Ameritrade Stock Issuance ” has the meaning set
forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Ameritrade Stockholders’ Meeting ” has
the meaning set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Beneficial Ownership ” by a Person of any
securities includes ownership by any Person who, directly or
indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding,
relationship or otherwise, has or shares (i) voting power
which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting of, such
security; and/or (ii) investment power which includes the
power to dispose, or to direct the disposition, of such security;
and shall otherwise be interpreted in accordance with the term
“beneficial ownership” as defined in Rule 13d-3
adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; provided that
for purposes of determining Beneficial Ownership, a Person shall be
deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of any securities which may be
acquired by such Person pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or
understanding or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange
rights, warrants or options, or otherwise (irrespective of whether
the right to acquire such securities is exercisable immediately or
only after the passage of time, including the passage of time in
excess of 60 days, the satisfaction of any conditions, the
occurrence of any event or any combination of the foregoing). The
terms “ Beneficially Own ” and “
Beneficially Owned ” shall have a correlative
meaning.
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Closing ” has the meaning set forth in the
Share Purchase Agreement.
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Closing Date ” has the meaning set forth in the
Share Purchase Agreement.
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control ” (including the terms “
controlled by ” and “ under common
control with ”), with respect to the relationship
between or among two or more Persons, means the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the affairs or
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management of a Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or executor,
by contract or any other means.
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Covered Shares ” means, with respect to each
Stockholder, such Stockholder’s Existing Shares, together
with any shares of Common Stock or other voting capital stock of
Ameritrade and any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or other voting capital
stock of Ameritrade, in each case that such Stockholder acquires
Beneficial Ownership of on or after the date hereof and prior to
the Record Date.
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Encumbrance ” means any security interest,
pledge, mortgage, lien (statutory or other), charge, option to
purchase, lease or other right to acquire any interest or any
claim, restriction, covenant, title defect, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement or other encumbrance of any kind or
any preference, priority or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement).
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Existing Shares ” means, with respect to each
Stockholder, the number of shares of Common Stock Beneficially
Owned (and except as may be set forth on Schedule A hereto,
owned of record) by such Stockholder, as set forth opposite such
Stockholder’s name on Schedule A hereto.
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Existing Stockholders Agreement ” means the
Stockholders Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2002, by and among
Ameritrade, the Ricketts Holders and the Datek Holders (as such
terms are defined therein).
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Family Member ” means, with respect to any
natural Person, (i) a spouse, descendent, or any other person
related by blood, adoption or marriage to such Person or such
Person’s spouse, (ii) any trust, family partnership or
limited liability company whose beneficiaries consist of such
Person and/or such Person’s spouse and/or any Person related
by blood, marriage or adoption to such Person or such
Person’s spouse, and (iii) the estate or heirs of such
Person.
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Governmental Authority ” has the meaning set
forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Joinder Agreement ” means an agreement in the
form set forth in Exhibit A.
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Permitted Hedge ” means an equity derivative
contract, including a prepaid or other forward sale of securities,
or other agreement to transfer an interest in Covered Shares,
between a Stockholder and a counterparty, provided that such
counterparty executes and delivers to TD a Joinder Agreement with
respect to the securities which are the subject of such equity
derivative contract or other agreement; provided, further, in the
case of any Permitted Hedge involving a Transfer to the Ricketts
Grandchildren Trust, that such Transfer is not part of a plan to
avoid the provisions of Section 2.3 with respect to the
Transferring party.
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Permitted Pledge ” means a bona fide pledge of
securities, provided that the Stockholder pledging such
securities retains sole voting power with respect to the securities
subject to such pledge, and provided , further , that
the pledgee of any such securities executes and delivers to TD a
Joinder Agreement with respect to the securities which are the
subject of such pledge.
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Permitted Transfer ” means (i) a Transfer
by a Stockholder who is a natural Person to a Family Member of such
Stockholder, provided that such transferee executes and
delivers to TD a Joinder Agreement with respect to the securities
subject to such Transfer, provided, further, in the case of a
Transfer to the Ricketts Grandchildren Trust, that such Transfer is
not part of a plan to avoid the provisions of Section 2.3 with
respect to the Transferring party; (ii) a Permitted Pledge or
(iii) a Permitted Hedge.
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Person ” means any individual, corporation,
limited liability company, limited or general partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization, government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof or any other entity, or any Group comprised of two or more
of the foregoing.
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Record Date ” means the date fixed as the
record date for the Ameritrade Stockholders’ Meeting and used
for the purpose of mailing the SEC Proxy Statement, whether or not
a subsequent record date is established for such
meeting.
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Representatives ” means the officers,
directors, employees, agents, advisors and Affiliates of a
Person.
“ Share Purchase ” means the purchase by
Ameritrade of all of the outstanding capital stock of Waterhouse
pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person,
any corporation or other organization, whether incorporated or
unincorporated, (i) of which such Person or any other
Subsidiary of such Person is a general partner (excluding
partnerships, the general partnership interests of which held by
such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person do not have a majority
of the voting interests in such partnership), or (ii) at least
a majority of the securities or other interests of which having by
their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board
of directors or others performing similar functions with respect to
such corporation or other organization is directly or indirectly
owned or controlled by such Person or by any one or more of its
Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its
Subsidiaries.
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Transaction Agreements ” has the meaning set
forth in the Share Purchase Agreement.
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Transfer ” means, directly or indirectly, to
sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or similarly
dispose of (by merger, by testamentary disposition, by operation of
law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily, or to enter
into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding
with respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, pledge,
encumbrance, hypothecation or similar disposition of (by merger, by
testamentary disposition, by operation of law or
otherwise).
ARTICLE II
VOTING
2.1.
Agreement to Vote . Each Stockholder hereby agrees that
during the term of this Agreement, at the Ameritrade Stockholders
Meeting or any other meeting of the stockholders of
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Ameritrade, however called,
including any adjournment or postponement thereof, or in connection
with any written consent of the stockholders of Ameritrade, such
Stockholder shall, in each case to the fullest extent that such
Stockholder’s Covered Shares are entitled to vote thereon or
consent thereto, provided that a Change in Ameritrade
Recommendation has not been effected:
(a) appear
at each such meeting or otherwise cause such Stockholder’s
Covered Shares to be counted as present thereat for purposes of
calculating a quorum; and
(b) vote
(or cause to be voted), in person or by proxy, or deliver (or cause
to be delivered) a written consent covering, all of such
Stockholder’s Covered Shares (i) in favor of the
approval of the Ameritrade Stock Issuance, the Ameritrade Restated
Charter and any Additional Proposals and if applicable, the
election of directors designated in accordance with
Section 5.13 of the Share Purchase Agreement;
(ii) against any action or agreement that such Stockholder
believes would result in a breach of any covenant, representation
or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of Ameritrade
contained in the Share Purchase Agreement or any Transaction
Agreement, or of any Stockholder contained in this Agreement; and
(iii) against any Acquisition Proposal or any other action,
agreement or transaction that is intended, or that such Stockholder
believes is reasonably likely, to materially impede, interfere
with, delay, postpone, discourage or materially and adversely
affect the transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase
Agreement, the Transaction Agreements or this Agreement or the
performance by such Stockholder of its obligations under this
Agreement, including: (A) any extraordinary corporate
transaction, such as a merger, consolidation or other business
combination involving Ameritrade or its Subsidiaries (other than
the Share Purchase); (B) a sale, lease or transfer of a
material amount of assets of Ameritrade or any of its Subsidiaries
or a reorganization, recapitalization or liquidation of Ameritrade
or any of its Subsidiaries; (C) an election of new members to
the board of directors of Ameritrade, except as provided in
Section 5.13 of the Share Purchase Agreement or as required or
permitted by the Existing Stockholders Agreement; or (D) any
material change in the present capitalization or dividend policy of
Ameritrade or any amendment or other change to Ameritrade’s
certificate of incorporation or bylaws other than those changes or
amendments contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement, the
Ameritrade Restated Charter and the Ameritrade Restated
Bylaws.
2.2.
No Inconsistent Agreements . Each Stockholder hereby
covenants and agrees that, except for this Agreement and, in the
case of clause (a) only, the Existing Stockholders Agreement,
such Stockholder (a) has not entered into, and shall not enter
into at any time while this Agreement remains in effect, any voting
agreement or voting trust with respect to such Stockholder’s
Covered Shares that is inconsistent with the terms hereof and
(b) has not granted, and shall not grant at any time while
this Agreement remains in effect, any proxy, or any consent or
power of attorney that is inconsistent with the terms hereof, in
each case with respect to such Stockholder’s Covered
Shares.
2.3.
Proxy . Each Stockholder (other than the Ricketts
Grandchildren Trust) hereby irrevocably appoints as its proxy and
attorney-in-fact, W. Edmund Clark, J. David Livingston and
Christopher A. Montague, in their respective capacities as officers
of TD, and any individual who shall hereafter succeed to any such
officer of TD, and any other Person designated in writing by TD,
each of them individually, with full power of substitution, to vote
or execute written consents with respect to such
Stockholder’s
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Covered Shares in accordance with
Section 2.1 hereof during the term of this Agreement, provided
that such proxy may only be exercised if such Stockholder fails to
comply with the terms of Section 2.1 and if no Change in
Ameritrade Recommendation has occurred. This proxy is coupled with
an interest and shall be irrevocable during the term of this
Agreement (except upon the earlier occurrence of a Change in
Ameritrade Recommendation, in which case it shall be automatically
revoked), and each Stockholder will take such further action or
execute such other instruments as may be necessary to effectuate
the intent of this proxy and hereby revokes any proxy previously
granted by such Stockholder with respect to such
Stockholder’s Covered Shares. The foregoing proxy is subject
to, and shall only become effective upon, TD having received all
necessary regulatory approvals and consents, if any, required under
applicable law to exercise the voting powers granted by such proxy,
as shall be determined in good faith by TD. TD may terminate this
proxy with respect to any Stockholder at any time at its sole
election by written notice provided to such Stockholder.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1.
Representations and Warranties of the Stockholders . Each
Stockholder hereby represents and warrants to TD as
follows:
(a)
Organization; Authorization; Validity of Agreement; Necessary
Action . Such Stockholder, if it is a legal entity, is duly
organized under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of
organization and is validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of such jurisdiction. Such Stockholder has full power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform its
obligations hereunder and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery by such
Stockholder, if it is a legal entity, of this Agreement, the
performance by it of its obligations hereunder and the consummation
by it of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and
validly authorized by such Stockholder and no other actions or
proceedings on the part of such Stockholder or any general or
limited partner or stockholder thereof are necessary to authorize
the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, the performance
by it of its obligations hereunder or the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby. If such Stockholder is an
individual, such Stockholder has the legal capacity and all
requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement, to
perform its obligations hereunder and to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by each Stockholder and, assuming this
Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of TD,
constitutes a valid and binding obligation of such Stockholder,
enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as
enforcement may be limited by general principles of equity whether
applied in a court of law or a court of equity and by bankruptcy,
insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and
remedies generally.
(b)
Ownership . Such Stockholder’s Existing Shares are,
and all of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares owned from the
date hereof through and on the Record Date will be, Beneficially
Owned and owned of record by such Stockholder, except to the extent
such Covered Shares are Transferred after the date hereof pursuant
to a Permitted Transfer. Such Stockholder has good and marketable
title to such Stockholder’s Existing Shares, free and clear
of any Encumbrances (other than any Permitted Pledges and except as
described in Schedule A
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hereto). As of the date hereof,
such Stockholder’s Existing Shares constitute all of the
shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned or owned of record by
such Stockholder. Such Stockholder has and will have at all times,
through the date on which the Ameritrade Required Votes and any
Additional Votes (each as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement)
are received (or, solely in the case of clause (ii), through the
Record Date) (i) sole voting power and sole power to issue
instructions with respect to the matters set forth in
Article II hereof (in each case, if and to the extent the
Record Date is the record date for the Ameritrade
Stockholders’
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