execution, or performance of this Agreement (including any
representation or warranty made in, in connection with, or as an
inducement to, this Agreement), may be made only against (and such
representations and warranties are those solely of) the persons
that are expressly identified as the parties in the preamble to
this Agreement (the “Contracting Parties”). No person who is
not a Contracting Party, including any Equity Investor, and any
current, former or future director, officer, employee,
incorporator, member, partner, manager, stockholder, equityholder,
Affiliate, agent, attorney, representative or assignee of, and any
financial advisor or lender to, any Contracting Party, or any
current, former or future director, officer, employee,
incorporator, member, partner, manager, stockholder, equityholder,
Affiliate, agent, attorney, representative or assignee of any of
the foregoing and the Financing Entities Related Parties
(collectively, the “Non-Recourse Party”), shall have
any liability (whether in contract or in tort, in law or in equity,
or granted by statute) for any claims, causes of action,
obligations, or liabilities arising under, out of, in connection
with, or related in any manner to this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or based on, in respect
of, or by reason of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or the negotiation, execution, performance, or
breach of this Agreement (except for the liabilities and
obligations of each Equity Investor expressly set forth in the
Confidentiality Agreement, the Equity Commitment Letters or the Fee
Funding Agreements to which it is a party and subject in each case
to the terms, conditions and limitations set forth therein), and,
to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, each Contracting
Party, on behalf of itself and its controlled Affiliates, hereby
waives and releases all such liabilities, claims, causes of action,
and obligations against any such Non-Recourse Party. Without limiting
the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law,
except as provided in the Transaction Documents, (a) each
Contracting Party hereby waives and releases any and all rights,
claims, demands, or causes of action that may otherwise be
available at law or in equity, or granted by statute, to avoid or
disregard the entity form of a Contracting Party or otherwise
impute or extend the liability of a Contracting Party to any
Non-Recourse Party, whether
based on statute or based on theories of equity, agency, control,
instrumentality, alter ego, domination, sham, single business
enterprise, piercing the veil, unfairness, undercapitalization, or
otherwise; and (b) each Contracting Party disclaims any
reliance upon any Non-Recourse Party with respect to the
performance of this Agreement or any representation or warranty
made in, in connection with, or as an inducement to this
Agreement.
Section 8.16 Definitions.
(a) For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms (as
capitalized below) will have the following meanings when used
herein:
“Affiliates” shall mean, as to any person, any other person
which, directly or indirectly, controls, or is controlled by, or is
under common control with, such person. As used in this definition,
“control” (including, with its correlative meanings,
“controlled by” and “under common control with”)
shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of management or policies of a
person, whether through the ownership of securities or partnership
or other ownership interests, by contract or otherwise.
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