Item 6. | Indemnification of Directors and Officers |
Section 145 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is
a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is
or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director,
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including
attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with
such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the
person’s conduct was unlawful.
In the case of an action by
or in the right of the corporation, Section 145 of the DGCL permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party
or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by reason of the fact that the person is or
was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’
fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith
and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification
shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation
unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application
that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled
to indemnity for such expenses that the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
Section 145 of the DGCL also
permits a Delaware corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by
such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the
power to indemnify such person against such liability under Section 145 of the DGCL.
Article Sixth of the Company’s
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation states that to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL the Company’s directors
shall not be personally liable to the Company or to its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.
If the DGCL is amended after the date hereof to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
then the liability of the Company’s directors shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so
amended.
Article Seventh of the Company’s
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation requires the Company, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to provide
indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) its directors and officers, and authorizes the Company, to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law, to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) to other employees and agents (and any other persons
to which the DGCL permits the Company to provide indemnification) through bylaw provisions, agreements with such directors, officers,
employees, agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, subject only to limits created by the
DGCL with respect to actions for breach of duty to our corporation, our stockholders and others.
Article Seventh of the Company’s
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Company shall, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by
the DGCL, indemnify each of its directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements
and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is
or was a director of the Company. Article Seventh of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation also provides
that the Company may, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the DGCL, indemnify each of its employees, officers and agents
against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in
connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an employee, officer or agent of the Company.
The right to indemnification conferred by Article Seventh includes the right to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending
any action or proceeding for which indemnification is required or permitted following authorization thereof by the board of directors.
Such expenses shall be paid in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf
of the indemnified party to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further
right to appeal that the indemnified party is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in Article Seventh of the Company’s Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
The Company may maintain insurance,
at its expense, to protect the Company and any of its directors, officers, employees or agents against any such expense, liability or
loss, whether or not we have the power to indemnify such person.
Insofar as indemnification
for liabilities arising under the Securities Act, may be permitted to the Company’s directors, officers or persons controlling the
Company pursuant to the provisions contained in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, the DGCL
or otherwise, the Company has been informed that, in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. If a claim for indemnification against such liabilities, other than the payment
by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by one of its directors, officers or controlling persons in the successful defense of any
action, suit, or proceeding, is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person, the Company will, unless in the opinion of our
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by the Company is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication
of this issue.