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This excerpt taken from the HBI 8-K filed Sep 5, 2006. INDEMNIFICATION AND ADVANCE OF EXPENSES Section 1. Right To Indemnification. To the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law in effect from time to time, the Corporation shall indemnify and, without requiring a preliminary determination of the ultimate entitlement to indemnification, shall pay or reimburse reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding to (a) any individual who is a present or former director or officer of the Corporation or a subsidiary thereof and who is made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity (or by reason of his or her service as a director or officer of Sara Lee Corporation or a subsidiary thereof in connection with Sara Lees Branded Apparel Americas/Asia business) or (b) any individual who, while a director or officer of the Corporation and at the request of the Corporation serves or has served another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or any other enterprise as a director, officer, partner or trustee of such corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise and who is made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity. The Corporation may, with the approval of its Board of Directors, provide such indemnification and advance for expenses to a person who served a predecessor of the Corporation in any of the capacities described in (a) or (b) above (other than Sara Lee or a subsidiary thereof) and to any employee or agent of the Corporation or a predecessor of the Corporation. Section 2. Change In Control. In the event of a change in control of the Corporation, any person claiming a right to be indemnified or to an advance of expenses by the Corporation may have his right to be indemnified or to an advance of expenses and the extent of indemnification and advance of expenses to which he is entitled determined by independent legal counsel selected by a committee composed of all of the continuing directors, or in the event there are no continuing directors, by independent legal counsel selected by the person claiming indemnification or advance of expenses, with the approval of the chief executive officer of the Corporation, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld. As used in this section, continuing director shall mean a director who was a
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member of the Board of Directors prior to the change in control and who is not an Acquiring Person (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement to be entered into between the Corporation and Computershare Investor Services, LLC, Rights Agent, as the same may be amended from time to time, or any successor agreement thereto), and is not and was not an affiliate or associate of an Acquiring Person or a representative or nominee of an Acquiring Person or of any such affiliate or associate. As used in this Article XII, change in control shall mean any change in the Board of Directors of the Corporation, resulting in continuing directors constituting less than a majority of the Board of Directors. Section 3. Time For Payment Enforcement. Any indemnification, or payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of any proceeding, shall be made promptly, and in any event within 60 days, upon the written request of the director or officer entitled to indemnification (the Indemnified Party). The right to indemnification and advance of expenses hereunder shall be enforceable by the Indemnified Party in any court of competent jurisdiction, if (i) the Corporation denies such request, in whole or in part, or (ii) no disposition thereof is made within 60 days. The Indemnified Partys costs and expenses incurred in connection with successfully establishing his or her right to indemnification, in whole or in part, in any such action shall also be indemnified by the Corporation. Section 4. General. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by this Article XII (a) shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses may be entitled under any law (common or statutory), or any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or other provision that is not contrary to law, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding office or while employed by or acting as agent of the Corporation, (b) shall continue in respect of all events occurring while a person was a director or officer after such person has ceased to be a director or officer (including after a change in control of the Corporation), and (c) shall inure to the benefit of the estate, heirs, executors and administrators of such person. All rights to indemnification and advance of expenses hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each director or officer of the Corporation who serves or served in such capacity at any time while this Article XII is in effect. Section 5. Effective Time. This Article XII shall be effective from and after the date of its adoption and shall apply to all proceedings arising prior to or after such date, regardless of whether relating to facts or circumstances occurring prior to or after such date. Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article, nor the adoption or amendment of any other provision of the Charter or Bylaws inconsistent with this Article, shall apply to or affect in any respect the applicability of this Article with respect to any act or failure to act which occurred prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption. Section 6. Further Action. The Board of Directors may take such action as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this Article XII and is expressly empowered to adopt, approve and amend from time to time such resolutions or contracts implementing such provisions or such further arrangements for indemnification or advance for expenses as may be permitted by law.
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Section 7. Severability. If this Article XII or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify each director and officer of the Corporation as to costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement with respect to any proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including an action by or in the right of the Corporation, to the full extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Article that shall not have been invalidated and to the full extent permitted by applicable law. |
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