EX-10.112 425 y93391a1exv10w112.htm EX-10.112 exv10w112
Exhibit 10.112
 
Letter of Indemnification
Dated 6 July, 2011
Reynolds Group Holdings Limited
for the benefit and in favour of
the Indemnitees defined in this Letter of Indemnification
(Germany)
 

 


 

Contents
         
Clause   Page
1. Definitions
    2  
 
       
2. Indemnification
    2  
 
       
3. Limitations on Indemnification
    2  
 
       
4. Indemnification Procedure
    3  
 
       
5. Severability
    4  
 
       
6. Governing law
    4  
 
       
7. Amendments
    4  
 
       
8. Continuation of Agreement
    4  
 
       
Schedule
       
 
       
1. Part A: German Subsidiaries
    6  
 
       
2. Part B: List of Indemnitees
    7  

 


 

THIS LETTER OF INDEMNIFICATION is made on 6 July, 2011
BY:
Reynolds Group Holdings Limited, a company registered in New Zealand whose registered office is at c/o Bell Gully (GJM), Level 22, Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand (“RGHL”);
IN FAVOUR AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF:
Each Indemnitee (as defined below).
BACKGROUND
A.   As part of the Reynolds group of companies (the “Reynolds Group”), each German Subsidiary (as defined below) is a guarantor and/or a security provider (as relevant) in respect of the Reynolds Group’s existing financing arrangements (the “Existing Financing Arrangements”).
 
B.   It is currently intended that RGHL will indirectly acquire Graham Packaging Company Inc. (“GPC”) through the merger of an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of RGHL with and into GPC, with GPC surviving such merger and becoming an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of RGHL (the “Acquisition”).
 
C.   In order to fund the Acquisition and the associated costs and transactions required to effect the Acquisition, certain members of the Reynolds Group intend to incur additional indebtedness; in connection with this additional indebtedness, the Existing Financing Arrangements may be supplemented and/or amended (collectively, the “Financing Transactions”).
 
    In addition, certain of the German Subsidiaries may be required to take certain steps as may be necessary or desirable to effect corporate restructuring(s) and other steps necessary or desirable to implement the Acquisition and may also participate in and take steps in connection with the acquisition of certain of the GPC entities, and associated steps to fund such acquisitions, by members of the Reynolds Group upon or following closing of the Acquisition, including, without limitation, by way of entry into any acquisition agreement(s), loan agreements, capital increases and/or any other related and necessary documents (the “Acquisition and Structuring Transactions”).
 
    Furthermore, certain of the German Subsidiaries may be required to take certain steps as may be necessary or desirable to effect other acquisitions, dispositions, financings, refinancings or corporate restructurings in connection with any future acquisition, disposition, financing, corporate restructuring or any other transaction entered into by members of the Reynolds Group, including, without limitation, by way of entry into any acquisition agreement, indenture, credit or other financing agreement, intercreditor agreement, guarantee, security document, purchase agreement, registration rights agreement or any other document, or any joinder to, or amendment or

 


 

    affirmation of, such document (each such transaction, a “Prospective Transaction”, and collectively, the “Prospective Transactions”).
 
    (The Financing Transactions together with the Acquisition and Structuring Transactions and the Prospective Transactions are, collectively, the “Transactions”, and the documents relating to the Transactions, are collectively, the “Transaction Documents”.)
 
D.   RGHL has agreed to provide an indemnity to the Indemnitees (as defined below) in respect of the Transactions, as further described below.
It is the intention of RGHL that this document be executed as a Letter of Indemnification in favour and for the benefit of each Indemnitee.
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1.   Definitions
 
    Director” means with respect to companies incorporated under German law any managing director (Geschaftsfuhrer), and, after the date of this Letter of Indemnification, any person serving as or elected to or appointed to serve as a managing director (Geschaftsfuhrer) of a German Subsidiary.
 
    German Subsidiary” means each company listed in Part A of the Schedule to this Letter of Indemnification.
 
    Indemnitee” means each person listed in Part B of the Schedule to this Letter of Indemnification and, after the date of this Letter of Indemnification, any person serving as or elected to or appointed to serve as a Director of a German Subsidiary.
 
2.   Indemnification
 
    Subject to an Indemnitee complying with the procedures of clause 4 below, RGHL shall — upon first demand (auf erstes Anfordern) — indemnify (freistellen) each Indemnitee against all legal expenses, losses, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges in connection therewith) incurred by an Indemnitee or on an Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with any proceeding resulting from or relating to decisions the Indemnitee made or any actions the Indemnitee took on behalf of a German Subsidiary in his or her capacity as a Director of that company in connection with any Transactions or the approval or execution of any Transaction Document or associated corporate authorization or resolutions or documents in relation to the Transactions (“Indemnified Liabilities”).
 
3.   Limitations on Indemnification
 
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Letter of Indemnification, an Indemnitee shall not be entitled to indemnification under this Letter of Indemnification:

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  (a)   to the extent that such indemnification is not permitted by applicable laws; or
 
  (b)   to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are the result of gross negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct of the Indemnitee; or
 
  (c)   to the extent that payment is actually made, or for which payment may be immediately claimed, to or on behalf of the relevant Indemnitee under an insurance policy, except in respect of any amount in excess of the limits of liability of such policy or any applicable deductible for such policy; or
 
  (d)   to the extent that payment has or will be made to the relevant Indemnitee by a German Subsidiary or any affiliate of RGHL otherwise than pursuant to this Letter of Indemnification; or
 
  (e)   in connection with any proceeding (or part thereof) or appeal in relation to a proceeding initiated by an Indemnitee, unless:
  (i)   such indemnification is expressly required to be made by law,
 
  (ii)   the proceeding was authorised by the shareholder(s) (or other decision making organ) of a German Subsidiary; or
 
  (iii)   such indemnification is provided by the relevant German Subsidiary, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in a German Subsidiary under applicable law.
4.   Indemnification Procedure
  4.1   To qualify for indemnification under this Letter of Indemnification, each Indemnitee shall give RGHL notice in writing as soon as practicable of any proceeding in relation to that Indemnitee for which indemnification will or could be sought under this Letter of Indemnification.
 
  4.2   To obtain indemnification payments or advances under this Letter of Indemnification, an Indemnitee shall submit to RGHL a written request therefore, together with such invoices or other supporting information as may be reasonably requested by RGHL and reasonably available to the relevant Indemnitee.
 
  4.3   Subject to clauses 4.2 and 4.4, RGHL shall make such indemnification payment within 30 business days of receipt of such invoices and supporting information.
 
  4.4   There shall be no presumption in favour of indemnification. If there is a dispute between RGHL and an Indemnitee as to whether that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, then independent legal

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      counsel shall be selected by the board of directors of RGHL to make such determination. The selected independent legal counsel shall make such determination within 30 business days of being selected and the decision of such independent legal counsel shall be binding upon all RGHL and the relevant Indemnitee.
  4.5   Each Indemnitee shall be obliged as soon as practicable to claim his rights under any applicable insurance policy and shall assign to RGHL any related payments claims under such insurance policy. However this clause does not affect the Indemnitee’s right to indemnification under clause 2 above.
5.   Severability
 
    If any provision or provisions of this Letter of Indemnification shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Letter of Indemnification shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.
 
6.   Governing law
 
    This Letter of Indemnification shall be governed by and its provisions construed in accordance with German law.
 
    Whenever an English term of this Letter of Indemnification is followed by a German term in parenthesis, the German term shall prevail for the purpose of construction of this Letter of Indemnification.
 
7.   Amendments
 
    No amendment or modification of this Letter of Indemnification shall be effective unless it is approved in writing by each Indemnitee having the benefit of this Letter of Indemnification.
 
8.   Continuation of Agreement
 
    This Letter of Indemnification shall remain in effect in favour and for the benefit of each Indemnitee with respect to any action or failure to act of such Indemnitee during the term of service of such Indemnitee as a Director of the relevant German Subsidiary, whether or not the term of service of such Indemnitee has concluded.

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This Letter of Indemnification has been executed as of the date stated at the beginning hereof.
Reynolds Group Holdings Limited
         
/s/ Graeme Richard Hart    
Name:   Graeme Richard Hart   
Position: Director   

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Schedule
Part A
German Subsidiaries
  Closure Systems International Holdings (Germany) GmbH
 
  Closure Systems International Deutschland GmbH

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Part B
List of Indemnitees
  Wolf-Friedrich Bähre
 
  Gregory Alan Cole
 
  Helen Dorothy Golding
 
  Victor Lance Mitchell
 
  Robert Eugene Smith

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