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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001622536-25-000041
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		19
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20251209
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20251215
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20251215

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Talen Energy Corp
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001622536
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		EIN:				471197305
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-37388
		FILM NUMBER:		251569978

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2929 ALLEN PKWY, SUITE 2200
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77019
		BUSINESS PHONE:		281-203-5300

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2929 ALLEN PKWY, SUITE 2200
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77019
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style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div></div><div id="i0c9942d2bdd54d0ebd147f90061b88ae_10"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 5.02. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Executive Officer Updates</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">On December 15, 2025, as part </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">of</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> its coordinated, on-going succession and retention planning, Talen Energy Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) announced that the Company&#8217;s board of directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) has:</span></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">extended the term of the employment agreement of Mark &#8220;Mac&#8221; McFarland to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Company through February 2027 with one year evergreen renewals thereafter;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">appointed Terry L. Nutt as President of the Company, effective immediately;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">appointed Cole Muller as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective immediately;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">appointed Brad Berryman as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective immediately;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">appointed Dale Lebsack as Chief Asset Development Officer of the Company, effective immediately; and </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">extended the term of the employment agreements of certain other of the Company&#8217;s executive officers, including the Chief Administrative Officer, the Chief Development Officer and the Chief Commercial Officer through February 2027, in each case, with one year evergreen renewals thereafter.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Concurrently </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">therewith</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Mr. McFarland resigned as President of the Company but will remain in his position as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board; </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Mr. Nutt resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company but will assist in the transition of his duties, acting as principal financial officer until the Company files its annual report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025; </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">the Board extended the term of the employment agreements of Messrs. Nutt, Muller, Berryman and Lebsack through February 2027, in each case, with one year evergreen renewals thereafter; </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">John Wander, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company, gave the Company notice of his intent to retire at the end of June 2026; and </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">the Board appointed Ed Casulli as Chief Nuclear Officer of the Company, effective immediately. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">None of Messrs. Nutt, Muller or Berryman was appointed to his applicable position under any arrangement or understanding between him and any other person. There are no transactions with Messrs. Nutt, Muller or Berryman that would be </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">reportable</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K and no family relationships exist between any of Messrs. Nutt, </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Muller</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or Berryman and any of the directors or other officers of the Company. Mr. Wander&#8217;s retirement is not the result of any disagreement with the Company related to its operations, policies, or practices.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Biographies of Named Executive Officers</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Mr. Nutt</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, age 49, had served as the Company&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer from July 2023 through his appointment as President. He has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, including time spent at independent power producers and energy </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">trading</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> firms. From 2018 until 2023, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director for EDF Trading North America (&#8220;EDF&#8221;), the energy commodity trading subsidiary of &#201;lectricit&#233; de France (EDF) S.A., a </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">multinational</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> energy utility headquartered in France. Prior to his service at EDF, Mr. Nutt served in multiple senior finance positions at Vistra Corporation (and its predecessor entities) (&#8220;Vistra&#8221;), including as Senior Vice President and Controller and Senior Vice President of Risk Management. Prior to his time at Vistra, Mr. Nutt worked in various finance roles at Dynegy Inc. Mr. Nutt earned his M.S. in Accounting and his B.B.A., summa cum laude, from Texas A&amp;M University.</span></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2</span></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Mr. Muller</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, age 45, has most recently served as the Company&#8217;s Executive Vice President, Strategic Ventures prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Muller has been responsible for leading the Company&#8217;s strategic direction related to </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">digital</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> infrastructure development and data center contracting. Prior to that, he led the Company&#8217;s PJM Fossil business unit, where he was responsible for the Company&#8217;s eight gigawatts of PJM generation assets. Before joining the Company in 2018, he was an Associate Partner for McKinsey &amp; Co., advising energy clients, including the Company, on </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">strategic</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> opportunities and operational transformations. He also previously served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Muller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. He received his MBA from The Wharton School, and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Mr. Berryman</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, age 57, has served as the Company&#8217;s senior vice president and Chief Nuclear Officer since September 2018, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Susquehanna nuclear power plant that the Company </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">majority</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> owns and operates. Mr. Berryman joined the Company in early 2017 in the role of site vice president for Susquehanna, where he was responsible for all plant operations and personnel. With over two decades of extensive </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">commercial</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> nuclear experience, Mr. Berryman has held positions of increasing importance spanning various technical, operational, training and financial capacities. Prior to joining the Company, he served as general manager at Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station. He also held leadership roles at Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and Arkansas Nuclear One. In addition, he proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy as part of the submarine fast attack fleet. Mr. Berryman earned his B.S., summa cum laude, in Organizational Management from Central Baptist College.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Employment and Transition and Retirement Arrangements &#8211; Named Executive Officers  </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Salary and Incentive Compensation Changes</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with Messrs. McFarland&#8217;s, Nutt&#8217;s, Muller&#8217;s and Berryman&#8217;s appointments and the approval of their respective extended </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">employment</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> agreements, the Board set their salaries, target short-term annual incentive bonus and target grant date value of long-term incentive award amounts as follows:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:98.878%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:32.287%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.448%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:20.455%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.448%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:20.455%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:0.448%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:20.459%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Executive</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Salary</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Target STI<br/>(% of Salary)</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Target LTI<br/>(% of Salary)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Mac McFarland</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">$1,400,000</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">135%</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">700%</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Terry Nutt</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">$925,000</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">110%</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">600%</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Cole Muller</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">$725,000</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">100%</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#e1e1e2;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">600%</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-bottom:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Brad Berryman</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-bottom:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">$600,000</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-bottom:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">100%</span></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-bottom:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">450%</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Employment Agreements</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with Messrs. McFarland&#8217;s, Nutt&#8217;s, Muller&#8217;s and Berryman&#8217;s appointments, each named executive officer entered into an Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;Executive Employment Agreement&#8221;), with an initial term through February 28, 2027 (subject to automatic annual renewals thereafter unless the executive or the Company provide 90 days&#8217; written notice of their intent not to extend the term).   </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Further, a portion of the executive&#8217;s PSUs and time-based restricted stock units (&#8220;RSUs&#8221;) that are scheduled to vest and settle in calendar year 2026 will be settled in cash in an amount equal to 60% of the net after-tax value of each such award, subject to a </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">cap</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> on cash settlement equal to 60% of the net after-tax value that would result from such award if the Company&#8217;s common stock on the vesting date was equal to $400.00, and subject to the ability of the Compensation Committee to modify the portion that is cash-settled if it determines that cash settlement would materially and adversely affect the Company (the &#8220;Cash Settlement&#8221;). Any shares received in settlement of the executive&#8217;s PSUs and RSUs that are scheduled to vest in 2026 will be subject to a lock-up through November 13, 2026.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In addition, the Executive Employment Agreement provides that, subject to the approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee, the executive&#8217;s 2026 long-term incentive awards will consist of (i) an ordinary-course grant of RSUs and PSUs with an aggregate grant date fair value equal to the executive&#8217;s annual long-term incentive award target (as described above) with a three-year vesting period (i.e., 2029), and (ii) a one-time grant of RSUs and PSUs with an aggregate grant-date </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">fair value equal to 67% of the executive&#8217;s annual long-term incentive award target with a two-year vesting period (i.e.,</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 2028). The awards granted in 2026 will consist of no more than 70% PSUs, with the remainder being RSUs and will be granted on terms described in Exhibit A to the Executive Employment Agreement.   </span></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3</span></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event an executive&#8217;s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause, the Company does not renew the term of the applicable Executive Employment Agreement, or upon an executive&#8217;s resignation for Good Reason (each, as defined in the Executive Employment Agreement and herein, a &#8220;Qualifying Termination&#8221;) and such termination is not on or within 18 months following a Change of Control (as defined in the Executive Employment Agreement), the applicable executive will receive any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the year preceding the year in which the termination occurs and, subject to the executive&#8217;s execution and nonrevocation of a release of claims in favor of the Company and continued compliance with the executive&#8217;s restrictive covenant obligations, (i) the sum of the executive&#8217;s annual base salary and target annual bonus (in the case of Mr. McFarland, two times the sum of the executive&#8217;s annual base salary and target annual bonus), payable over 12 months following the Qualifying Termination, (ii) a pro-rated target bonus amount for the year of termination, and (iii) eligibility to continue on the Company&#8217;s health plan at a monthly rate equal to the Company&#8217;s full Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (&#8220;COBRA&#8221;) rates for up to 36 months at the executive&#8217;s sole expense (the &#8220;COBRA Continuation&#8221;). If the executive experiences a Qualifying Termination within 18 months following a Change of Control, the executive will receive any earn</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">ed but unpaid annual bonus for the year preceding the year in which the termination occurs and, subject to the executive&#8217;s execution and nonrevocation of a release in favor of the Company and continued compliance with the executive&#8217;s restrictive covenant obligations, (i) a lump sum equal to 2.99 times the sum of the executive&#8217;s annual base salary and the executive&#8217;s target annual bonus amount, (ii) a pro-rated target bonus amount for the year of the executive&#8217;s termination, and (iii) eligibility for COBRA Continuation at a monthly rate that is no greater than the premiums the executive paid for coverage under the Company&#8217;s group health plan immediately prior to the termination date for up to 36 months. In the event the executive&#8217;s employment is terminated due to the executive&#8217;s death or disability, the executive shall receive (i) any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the year preceding the year in which the termination occurs, (ii) a prorated portion of the executive&#8217;s target bonus for the year of termination, and (iii) eligibility for COBRA Continuation at a monthly rate equal to the Company&#8217;s full COBRA rates for up to 36 months. Additionally, w</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">here an executive provides 90 days&#8217; notice on a non-renewal of the term of the Executive Employment Agreement, the executive shall be entitled to receive any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the year preceding the year in which the termination occurs, subject to the executive&#8217;s execution and nonrevocation of a release of claims in favor of the Company and continued compliance with the executive&#8217;s restrictive covenant obligations.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Under the terms of the Executive Employment Agreement, each executive is subject to perpetual confidentiality, assignment of intellectual property and non-disparagement covenants as well as non-competition and non-solicitation covenants applicable during </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">employment</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and for one year thereafter.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the applicable Executive Employment Agreement, copies </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">of</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> which are filed as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 to this Current Report on Form 8-K (this &#8220;Report&#8221;) and which are incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Transition and Retirement Agreement</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with Mr. Wander&#8217;s retirement, Mr. Wander entered into a transition and retirement agreement with the Company, dated as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;Transition Agreement&#8221;), which provides for a transition from his current role as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to a role as Senior Advisor to the Company following the May 2026 vesting of his performance based stock units granted in 2023. Mr. Wander will be paid $12,500 for his services as a Senior Advisor, and will </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">continue</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to receive his current benefits through June 30, 2026 (other than any new grants of equity). He will receive (i) the Cash Settlement on the same terms received by other Company executives (as described above) and (ii) at separation, subject to his execution and non-revocation of a general release of claims in favor of the Company and his continued compliance with his restrictive covenant obligations to the Company, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, he will receive (x) the COBRA Continuation for up to 36 months and (y) a pro-rated annual bonus paid at target for the 2026 fiscal year.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The foregoing description is qualified in </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">its</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> entirety by reference to the full text of the Transition Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.5 to this Report and which is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.</span></div><div id="i0c9942d2bdd54d0ebd147f90061b88ae_19"></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 7.01. </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">           Regulation FD Disclosure</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">On December 15, 2025, the Company issued a press release regarding these matters, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report and which is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.</span></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">4</span></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The information provided under this Item 7.01 and in Exhibit 99.1 hereto is being furnished and shall not be deemed &#8220;filed&#8221; for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section. Such information shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as set forth by specific reference in such filing.</span></div><div id="i0c9942d2bdd54d0ebd147f90061b88ae_22"></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 9.01.             Financial Statements and Exhibits.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d) </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Exhibits.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:11.560%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:86.240%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Exhibit No.</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Description.</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">10.1</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;&#x5E;</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex101mcfarlandaremployment.htm">Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of December 12, 2025, by and between Talen Energy Corporation and Mark &#8220;Mac&#8221; McFarland.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">10.2</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;&#x5E;</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex102nuttaremploymentagree.htm">Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of December 12, 2025, by and between Talen Energy Corporation and Terry L. Nutt.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">10.3</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;&#x5E;</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex103mulleraremploymentagr.htm">Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of December 12, 2025, by and between Talen Energy Corporation and Cole Muller.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">10.4</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;&#x5E;</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex104berrymanaremploymenta.htm">Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of December 12, 2025, by and between Talen Energy Corporation and Brad Berryman.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">10.5</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;&#x5E;</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex105wandertransitionagree.htm">Transition and Retirement Agreement and Release of Claims, dated as of December 12, 2025, by and between Talen Energy Corporation and John Wander.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">99.1</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#0000ff;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex99120251215pressreleasee.htm">Press Release dated December 15, 2025.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">104</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Cover Page Interactive Data File (cover page XBRL tags embedded within the Inline XBRL document).</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="padding-left:18pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#8224;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:18pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:5.2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-2.8pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#x5E;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Certain private and immaterial portions of the exhibit have been redacted pursuant to Item 601(a)(6) of Regulation S-K.</span></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">5</span></div></div></div><div id="i0c9942d2bdd54d0ebd147f90061b88ae_25"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;margin-top:9pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SIGNATURES</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:5.150%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:46.496%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:5.791%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:38.163%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">TALEN ENERGY CORPORATION</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Date:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">December 15, 2025</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">By:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">/s/ John Wander</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Name:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">John Wander</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Title:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">General 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i594f91f14892444a854b076c84e0ae3b_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exhibit 10.1</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) is made and entered into by and between Talen Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Mark A. McFarland (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effective Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company entered into an employment agreement, effective as of May 17, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company mutually desire that Employee continue to provide services to the Company and its affiliates on the terms set forth in this Agreement, which replaces and supersedes in its entirety the Prior Agreement as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of such employment and the mutual covenants and promises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Employee agree as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period (as defined below), the Company shall continue to employ Employee, and Employee shall continue to serve, as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and in such other position or positions as may be assigned from time to time by the board of directors (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Board</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) of the Company. Employee shall remain a member of the Board, and during the Employment Period will be nominated by the Board for re-election upon the expiration of his term as a director. In addition, if requested by the Company, Employee shall serve as an officer or member of the board of directors of any subsidiaries or affiliates of the Company without additional compensation. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee expressly and irrevocably waives and releases any and all claims Employee may have to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason under the Prior Agreement and receive payments and benefits or otherwise be entitled to any other rights under any plan, program, agreement or other arrangement sponsored by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, as the result of Employee&#8217;s role change from Chief Executive Officer and President under the Prior Agreement to Chief Executive Officer (as set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 1(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above). </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Duties and Responsibilities of Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall actively engage in the business and affairs of the Company (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Group</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as may be requested by the Board from time to time, devote such amount of Employee&#8217;s business time and attention as is reasonably necessary to manage the business and affairs of the Company, which amount of time will constitute substantially all of Employee&#8217;s business time. Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities shall include those normally incidental to the position(s) identified in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 1</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, as well as such additional duties as may be assigned to Employee by the Board from time to time, which duties and responsibilities may include </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">providing services to other members of the Company Group in addition to the Company. Employee may, without violating this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 2(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i)&#160;as a passive investment, own publicly traded securities in such form or manner as will not require any services by Employee in the operation of the entities in which such securities are owned&#59; (ii)&#160;engage in charitable and civic activities&#59; (iii)&#160;with the prior written consent of the Board, engage in other personal and passive investment activities&#59; (iv)</font><font style="color:#1c1c1c;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">serve on the board of directors at California Resources Corporation as a non-employee director&#59; and (v)&#160;with the prior written consent of the Board, serve on the board of directors of one other for-profit corporation, so long as such engagements, ownership, interests or activities do not interfere with Employee&#8217;s ability to fulfill Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and are not inconsistent with Employee&#8217;s obligations to any member of the Company Group or competitive with the business of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee hereby represents and warrants that Employee is not the subject of, or a party to, any non-competition or non-solicitation covenant, non-disclosure agreement, or any other agreement, obligation, restriction or understanding that would prohibit Employee from executing this Agreement or fully performing each of Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities hereunder, or would in any manner, directly or indirectly, limit or affect any of the duties and responsibilities that may now or in the future be assigned to Employee hereunder. Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Employee is strictly prohibited from using or disclosing any confidential information belonging to any prior employer in the course of performing services for any member of the Company Group, and Employee promises that Employee shall not do so. Employee shall not introduce documents or other materials containing confidential information of any prior employer to the premises or property (including computers and computer systems) of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee owes each member of the Company Group fiduciary duties, and the obligations described in this Agreement are in addition to, and not in lieu of, the obligations Employee owes each member of the Company Group under statutory and common law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salar</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. During the Employment Period, the Company shall pay to Employee an annualized base salary of $1,400,000 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salary</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) in consideration for Employee&#8217;s services under this Agreement, payable in substantially equal installments in conformity with the Company&#8217;s customary payroll practices for similarly situated employees as may exist from time to time, but no less frequently than twice per month. The Base Salary shall be subject to annual review by the Compensation Committee of the Board (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation Committee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) and may be increased, but not decreased, at the discretion of the Compensation Committee following consultation with the other independent members of the Board.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Beginning on January 1, 2026, Employee shall be eligible for bonus compensation for calendar year 2026 and each subsequent complete calendar year that Employee is employed by the Company hereunder (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The target Annual Bonus for each such calendar year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Bonus Year</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) shall be 135% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary in effect as of the first day of the Bonus Year (the &#8220;Target Bonus&#8221;), with the actual Annual </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 2</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Bonus for a Bonus Year depending on the level of achievement of the performance targets as determined by the Compensation Committee for the Bonus Year. The performance targets that must be achieved in order to be eligible for certain bonus levels shall be established by the Compensation Committee annually, in its sole discretion, and communicated to Employee within the first one-hundred twenty (120) days of the applicable Bonus Year. Each Annual Bonus, if any, shall be paid as soon as administratively feasible after the Compensation Committee certifies whether the applicable performance targets for the applicable Bonus Year have been achieved, but in no event later than March 15 following the end of such Bonus Year. For the avoidance of doubt, Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for calendar year 2025 shall continue to be governed by the provisions of the Prior Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the contrary, but subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, no Annual Bonus, if any, nor any portion thereof, shall be payable for any Bonus Year unless Employee remains continuously employed by the Company from the Effective Date through the date on which such Annual Bonus is paid.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Long-Term Incentive Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Annual Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Provided that Employee is employed by the Company on the applicable date of grant, Employee shall be eligible to receive an annual grant under the Talen Energy Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan or any applicable successor plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) with a grant date target value not less than 700% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary as in effect on the applicable date of grant of such award on such terms and conditions as the Board and the Compensation Committee shall determine from time to time (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). All LTIP Awards granted to Employee under the LTIP shall be subject to and governed by the terms and provisions of the LTIP as in effect from time to time and the award agreements evidencing such awards. Employee&#8217;s annual grant for calendar year 2026 shall, subject to the approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee, be on substantially the terms set forth on </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit&#160;A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Cash-Settlement&#59; Stock Ownership Guidelines</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding anything in the applicable award agreement to the contrary, if, on the date of vesting of any performance stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">PSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) other than the Emergence Grants (as defined below), Employee holds Company Common Stock (as defined in the LTIP) in excess of two hundred percent (200%) of the stock ownership requirements applicable to Employee under the Company&#8217;s Stock Ownership Guidelines, adopted March 14, 2024, and as updated from time to time, fifty percent (50%) of the net after-tax value of such PSUs will be settled in cash and the remaining portion will be settled in Company Common Stock, with such settlement otherwise subject to the terms of the applicable award agreement, subject to the Compensation Committee&#8217;s ability to modify the portion settled in cash to the extent necessitated by a Liquidity Constraint, as defined below.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Settlement of Emergence Grants&#59; Lock-Up</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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In consideration of the foregoing, Employee agrees not to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase, transfer the economic risk of ownership in, make any short sale of, pledge or otherwise transfer or dispose of, any interest in any shares of Company Common Stock received upon settlement of the Emergence Grants (each, an &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Award Share</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) until November 13, 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lock-Up Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that this paragraph shall not prohibit Employee from, during the last ninety (90) days of the Lock-Up Period, establishing a trading plan that meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, so long as no trades are executed pursuant to such plan during the Lock-Up Period. 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Upon the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the Company shall pay to Employee (A)&#160;all earned and unpaid Base Salary as of the date of the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company, (B)&#160;reimbursement for all incurred but unreimbursed expenses for which Employee is entitled to reimbursement in accordance with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 5</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and (C)&#160;benefits to which Employee is entitled under the terms of any applicable benefit plan or program described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Accrued Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). In addition, subject to any limitation under applicable law, previously paid compensation pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">3(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be subject to clawback or forfeiture and cancellation at the discretion of the Compensation Committee in the event of a termination of Employee&#8217;s employment for Cause.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or for Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for convenience at any time and for any reason, or no reason at all, upon written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall also have the right to terminate Employee by non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof upon ninety (90)-days written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company at any time for Good Reason, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. For purposes of this Agreement, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall mean any of the following occurring without Employee&#8217;s consent&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material adverse change in Employee&#8217;s title, duties or responsibilities (including reporting responsibilities)&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material reduction in Employee&#8217;s Base Salary&#59;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 6</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a relocation of Employee&#8217;s primary work location to a distance of more than 50 miles from the Houston, Texas metropolitan area&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iv)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material breach by the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company and Employee agree that Good Reason shall not exist unless and until Employee provides the Company with written notice of the acts alleged to constitute Good Reason within ninety (90) days of Employee&#8217;s knowledge of the occurrence of such event, and Company fails to cure such acts within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice. Employee must terminate employment within sixty (60) days following the expiration of such cure period for the termination to be on account of Good Reason. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Death or Disabilit</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. Upon the death or Disability of Employee, Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company shall automatically terminate and the Company shall pay to Employee or Employee&#8217;s estate, as applicable, (i)&#160;the Accrued Benefits, (ii)&#160;any earned and unpaid Annual Bonus for the calendar year preceding the year in which such termination of employment occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Year Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates), (iii)&#160;an amount equal to the Target Bonus for the year in which such termination of employment occurs, prorated for the period of days beginning on January 1 and ending on the date of such termination of employment relative to the number of days in the applicable Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prorated Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that the Prorated Target Bonus described in clause (iii) of the preceding sentence, if any, shall be paid in a lump sum in cash on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the date on which Employee&#8217;s employment terminates (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and (iv) subject to Employee&#8217;s timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), continued participation (pursuant to COBRA) in the Company&#8217;s group health plan (to the extent permitted under applicable law and the terms of such plan) covering Employee and Employee&#8217;s eligible dependents for a period of thirty-six (36) months at Employee&#8217;s (or Employee&#8217;s estate&#8217;s, in the case of Employee&#8217;s death) sole expense, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that the Company may modify the continuation coverage contemplated by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;0</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the extent reasonably necessary to avoid the imposition of any excise taxes on the Company for failure to comply with the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 105(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended&#59; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended&#59; and&#47;or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended, and in each case, the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder (to the extent applicable) (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA Continuation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). For purposes of this Agreement, a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist if, as determined in the reasonable opinion of a licensed physician, Employee is unable to perform the essential functions of Employee&#8217;s position (after accounting for reasonable accommodation, if applicable and required by applicable law), due to physical or mental impairment, that continues for a period in excess of ninety (90) consecutive days or one hundred-eighty (180) days, whether or not consecutive (or for any longer period as may be required by applicable law), in any twelve (12)-month period.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 7</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In addition to Employee&#8217;s right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason, Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company for convenience at any time and for any other reason, or no reason at all, upon sixty (60) days&#8217; advance written notice to the Company (or ninety (90) days&#8217;, in the event of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if Employee has provided notice to the Company of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, the Company may determine, in its sole discretion, that such termination shall be effective on any date prior to the effective date of termination provided in such notice (and, if such earlier date is so required, then it shall not change the basis for Employee&#8217;s termination of employment nor be construed or interpreted as a termination of employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">). Upon the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i) the Company shall pay to Employee the Accrued Benefits and (ii) if Employee provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination and such termination occurs at or following the end of the initial Term, Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 0</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Additionally, if Employee (a) provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination related to a non-renewal of term (including any renewal terms following the initial Term), (b)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, a release of all claims in a form acceptable to the Company and generally used by the Company with respect to similarly situated employees (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Release</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, upon such termination, and (c) abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections (c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(f),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Employee shall receive the Prior Year Bonus, if any (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination of Employment without Cause, for Good Reason, or for the Company&#8217;s Non-Renewal of the Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Outside a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and (B) the Termination Date is not on or within eighteen (18) months following a Change in Control (as defined in the LTIP, and such period, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 8</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;8(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make severance payments to Employee in a total amount equal to (i) twenty-four (24) months&#8217; worth of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary and (ii) two (2) times the target Annual Bonus, where each are determined as of the year in which such termination occurs (such total severance payments being referred to as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Severance Payment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The Non-CIC Severance Payment will be divided into substantially equal installments paid over the twenty-four (24)-month period following the Termination Date. 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shall mean any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Houston, Texas, are authorized or required by law to be closed.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(B)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall pay to Employee the Prorated Target Bonus, payable in a lump sum on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the Termination Date.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 9</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(C)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 0</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The payments and benefits described in clauses (A), (B), and (C) above are collectively referred to herein as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Termination Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.&#8221;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Within a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(b),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is within the Change in Control Period, then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date, and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;8(f)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make a lump sum payment to Employee equal to the product of two and ninety-nine hundredths (2.99) times the sum of (I)&#160;twelve (12) months&#8217; 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(and together with the Non-CIC Termination Benefits, as applicable, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">If the Release is not executed and returned to the Company on or before the Release Expiration Date, and the required revocation period has not fully expired without revocation of the Release by Employee, then Employee shall not be entitled to any portion of the applicable Termination Benefits. As used herein, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Release Expiration Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; is that date that is twenty-one (21) days following the date upon which the Company delivers the Release to Employee (which shall occur no later than seven (7) days after the Termination Date) or, in the event that such termination of employment is &#8220;in connection with an exit incentive or other employment termination program&#8221; (as such phrase is defined in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967), the date that is forty-five (45) days following such delivery date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(g)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">After-Acquired Evidence</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that the Company determines, in good faith, that Employee is eligible to receive Termination Benefits pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> but, after such determination, the Company subsequently acquires evidence or determines that&#58; (i)&#160;Employee has failed to abide by the terms of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, or 11&#59; or (ii)&#160;a Cause condition existed prior to the Termination Date that, had the Company been fully aware of such condition, would have given the Company the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, then the Company shall have the right to cease the payment of any future installments of the Termination Benefits and Employee shall promptly return to the Company all installments of the Termination Benefits received by Employee prior to the date that the Company determines that the conditions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(g)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> have been satisfied. In addition, the provisions of the last sentence of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 8(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall apply, and, subject to any limitation under applicable law, previously paid compensation pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">3(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be subject to clawback or forfeiture and cancellation at the discretion of the Compensation Committee in the event Employee fails to abide by the terms of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">9.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disclosures</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Promptly (and in any event, within three (3) Business Days) upon becoming aware of (a)&#160;any actual or potential Conflict of Interest or (b)&#160;any lawsuit, claim or arbitration filed against or involving Employee or any trust or vehicle owned or controlled by Employee, in each case, Employee shall disclose such actual or potential Conflict of Interest or such lawsuit, claim or arbitration to the Board. A &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Conflict of Interest</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist when Employee engages in, or plans to engage in, any activities, associations, or interests that conflict with, or create an appearance of a conflict with, Employee&#8217;s duties, responsibilities, authorities, or obligations for or to any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">10.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Confidentiality</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties on behalf of the Company Group hereunder, Employee will be provided with, and will have access to, Confidential Information (as defined below). As a condition of Employee&#8217;s receipt and access to such Confidential Information and in exchange for </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 11</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">other valuable consideration provided hereunder, and as a condition of Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder, Employee shall comply with this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, both during the Employment Period and thereafter, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or by directive of the Board, for the benefit of the Company Group, or while acting in the course and scope of his employment, Employee shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any person or entity and shall not use any Confidential Information. Employee shall follow all Company policies and protocols regarding the security of all documents and other materials containing Confidential Information to the extent such policies have been clearly communicated in writing or made available to Employee (regardless of the medium on which Confidential Information is stored). The covenants of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall apply to all Confidential Information, whether now known or later to become known to Employee during the period that Employee is employed by or affiliated with or providing services to the Company or any other member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding any provision of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the contrary, Employee may make the following disclosures and uses of Confidential Information&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">disclosures to other employees of a member of the Company Group who have a need to know the information in connection with the businesses of the Company Group&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">disclosures to third parties when, in the reasonable and good faith belief of Employee, such disclosure is in connection with Employee&#8217;s performance of Employee&#8217;s duties under this Agreement and in the best interest of the Company Group&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">disclosures and uses that are approved in writing by the Board&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iv)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">disclosures to a person or entity that has (x)&#160;been retained by a member of the Company Group to provide services to one or more members of the Company Group and (y)&#160;agreed in writing to abide by the terms of a confidentiality agreement.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Upon the expiration of the Employment Period, and at any other time upon request of the Company, Employee shall promptly surrender and deliver to the Company all documents (including electronically stored information) and all copies thereof and all other materials of any nature containing or pertaining to all Confidential Information and any other Company Group property (including any Company Group-issued computer, mobile device or other equipment) in Employee&#8217;s possession, custody or control and Employee shall not retain any such documents or other materials or property of the Company Group. Within five (5) days of any such request, Employee shall certify to the Company in writing that all such documents, materials and property have been returned to the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All trade secrets, non-public information, designs, ideas, concepts, improvements, product developments, discoveries and inventions, whether patentable or not, that </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 12</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">are conceived, made, developed or acquired by or disclosed to Employee, individually or in conjunction with others, during the period that Employee is employed by the Company or any other member of the Company Group (whether during business hours or otherwise and whether on the Company&#8217;s premises or otherwise), that relate to any member of the Company Group&#8217;s businesses or properties, products or services (including all such information relating to corporate opportunities, operations, future plans, methods of doing business, business plans, strategies for developing business and market share, research, financial and sales data, pricing terms, evaluations, opinions, interpretations, acquisition prospects, the identity of customers or acquisition targets or their requirements, the identity of key contacts within customers&#8217; organizations or within the organization of acquisition prospects, or marketing and merchandising techniques, prospective names and marks) is defined as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Confidential Information.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; Moreover, all documents, videotapes, written presentations, brochures, drawings, memoranda, notes, records, files, correspondence, manuals, models, specifications, computer programs, e-mail, voice mail, electronic databases, maps, drawings, architectural renditions, models and all other writings or materials of any type including or embodying any of such information, ideas, concepts, improvements, discoveries, inventions and other similar forms of expression are and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company or other applicable member of the Company Group and be subject to the same restrictions on disclosure applicable to all Confidential Information pursuant to this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information shall not include any information that (i)&#160;is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or wrongful act of Employee or any of Employee&#8217;s agents&#59; (ii)&#160;was available to Employee on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by a member of the Company Group&#59; or (iii)&#160;becomes available to Employee on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a member of the Company Group&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided, however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation with respect to confidentiality to, a member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict Employee from lawfully&#58; (i)&#160;initiating communications directly with, cooperating with, providing information to, causing information to be provided to, or otherwise assisting in an investigation by, any governmental or regulatory agency, entity, official or authority regarding a possible violation of any law&#59; (ii)&#160;responding to any inquiry or legal process directed to Employee from any such governmental authority&#59; (iii)&#160;testifying, participating or otherwise assisting in any action or proceeding by any such governmental authority relating to a possible violation of law&#59; or (iv)&#160;making any other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prohibit or restrict Employee to disclose an act of sexual abuse or facts related to an act of sexual abuse. Additionally, pursuant to the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that&#58; (A)&#160;is made (1)&#160;in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (2)&#160;solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law&#59; (B)&#160;is made to the individual&#8217;s attorney in relation to a lawsuit for retaliation against the individual for reporting a suspected violation of law&#59; or (C)&#160;is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. 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Employee acknowledges that (i) Employee performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group that are irreplaceable, and that Employee&#8217;s performance of such services to a competing business will result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information which, if disclosed, would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company Group, (iii) in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment by a competitor, Employee would inevitably use or disclose such Confidential Information, (iv) the Company Group has substantial relationships with their Customers and Employee has had and will continue to have access to these Customers, (v) Employee has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group, and (vi) Employee has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from being a passive owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation engaged in a business that is in competition with the Company Group, so long as Employee has no active participation in the business of such corporation. Nothing in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;11(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall prohibit Employee from being employed or engaged by any Person where such work would not involve any level of strategic, advisory, technical, creative, sales, or other activity similar to that which Employee provided to the Company Group (acknowledging that Employee&#8217;s role requires Employee to engage in strategic, managerial, and business development activity), or is in connection with an independent business line of such Person that is wholly unrelated to the business of the Company Group and Confidential Information (subject to protocols to prevent Employee from disclosing Confidential Information). In addition, the provisions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 11(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall not be violated by Employee commencing employment </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 14</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">with a subsidiary, division or unit of any entity that engages in a business in competition with the Company Group so long as Employee and such subsidiary, division or unit does not engage in a business in competition with the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any person who was, as of the Termination Date, an employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company or any member of the Company Group and with whom Employee had contact during the Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group or who otherwise worked in the same department as the Employee (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Covered Individuals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), to terminate his or her employment or contracting relationship with the Company Group, or to become an employee or independent contractor of any other Person or hire or retain any such employee, agent or individual, or take any action to materially assist or aid any other Person in identifying, hiring or soliciting any such employee, agent or individual (any employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company Group shall be deemed covered by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 11(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> while so employed or retained and for a period of six (6) months thereafter)&#59; 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means any Person who or which&#58; (a) purchased products or services from the Company Group prior to or during Employee&#8217;s period of employment and who or which Employee was aware of or about whom or which Employee had received Confidential Information&#59; or (b)&#160;was called upon or solicited by the Company or any member of the Company Group or any of their predecessors prior to or during the twelve (12) month period prior to the Termination Date, if Employee had direct or indirect contact with such Person as an employee or service provider of the Company Group or learned or became aware of such Person during Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Person</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; 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or (ii)&#160;were developed on any amount of the Company&#8217;s or any other member of the Company Group&#8217;s time or with the use of any member of the Company Group&#8217;s equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information (all of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall promptly disclose all Company Intellectual Property to the Company in writing. To support Employee&#8217;s disclosure obligation herein, Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all Company Intellectual Property made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group in such form as may be specified from time to time by the Company. These records shall be available to, and remain the sole property of, the Company at all times.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All of Employee&#8217;s works of authorship and associated copyrights created during the period in which Employee is employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group and in the scope of Employee&#8217;s employment or engagement shall be deemed to be &#8220;works made for hire&#8221; within the meaning of the Copyright Act. To the extent any right, title and interest in and to Company Intellectual Property cannot be assigned by Employee to the Company, Employee shall grant, and does hereby grant, to the Company Group an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, reproduce, practice and otherwise commercialize such rights, title and interest.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee recognizes that this Agreement will not be deemed to require assignment of any invention or intellectual property that Employee developed entirely on Employee&#8217;s own time without using the equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secrets, or Confidential Information of any member of the Company Group. In addition, this Agreement does not apply to any invention that qualifies fully for protection from assignment to the Company under any specifically applicable state law or regulation.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 16</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">To the extent allowed by law, this Section applies to all rights that may be known as or referred to as &#8220;moral rights,&#8221; &#8220;artist&#8217;s rights,&#8221; &#8220;droit moral,&#8221; or the like, including without limitation those rights set forth in 17 U.S.C. &#167;106A (collectively, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Moral Rights</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). To the extent Employee retains any Moral Rights under applicable law, Employee hereby ratifies and consents to any action that may be taken with respect to such Moral Rights by or authorized by the Company or any member of the Company Group, and Employee hereby waives and agrees not to assert any Moral Rights with respect to such Moral Rights. Employee shall confirm any such ratifications, consents, waivers, and agreements from time to time as requested by the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee hereby represents and warrants that there are no inventions (whether or not patentable), original works of authorship, designs, know-how, mask works, ideas, information, developments, improvements, or trade secrets of which Employee is the sole or joint author, creator, contributor, or inventor that were made or developed by Employee prior to Employee&#8217;s employment with or affiliation with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, or in which Employee asserts any intellectual property right, and which are applicable to or relate in any way to the business, products, services, or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business of any member of the Company Group (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Inventions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall make no claim of any rights to any Prior Inventions. If, in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with or affiliation with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, Employee incorporates into the product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group a Prior Invention, the Company Group is hereby granted and will have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, import, export, offer for sale, sell and otherwise commercialize such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall perform, during and after the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist each member of the Company Group, at the Company&#8217;s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Company Intellectual Property and Confidential Information assigned, to be assigned, or licensed to the Company under this Agreement. Such acts may include execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i)&#160;in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, or other applications&#59; (ii)&#160;in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, moral rights, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights&#59; and (iii)&#160;in other legal proceedings related to the Company Intellectual Property or Confidential Information.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(g)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to communicate with Employee, the Company (or, as applicable, a member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, moral right, trade secret or other proprietary right under any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property (including derivative works, improvements, </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 17</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations of such Company Intellectual Property), Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of the Company&#8217;s duly authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee, (i)&#160;to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application&#59; (ii)&#160;to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement&#59; and (iii)&#160;to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, moral rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(h)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that Employee enters into, on behalf of any member of the Company Group, any contracts or agreements relating to any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, Employee shall assign such contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) promptly, and in any event, prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment. In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to coordinate with Employee, the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to assign said contracts or agreements, or if Employee does not assign said contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) and each of the Company&#8217;s duly authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee to execute said assignments and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the execution of said documents.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">13.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Defense of Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and for a period of one (1) year following the Termination Date, upon request from the Company, Employee shall reasonably cooperate with the Company Group, at times and locations agreeable to Employee, to assist (a) in the prosecution of any claims that may be made by the Company Group, to the extent that such claims may relate to Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and about which Employee has substantial knowledge and (b)&#160;in the defense of any claims that may be made by or against any member of the Company Group that relate to Employee&#8217;s actual or prior areas of responsibility (collectively, (a) and (b) of this sentence, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees to promptly inform the Company if Employee becomes aware of any lawsuits involving Claims that may be filed or threatened against the Company Group. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee also agrees to promptly inform the Company (to the extent that Employee is legally permitted to do so) if Employee is asked to assist in any investigation of the Company Group (or their actions) or another party attempts to obtain information or documents from Employee (other than in connection with any litigation or other proceeding in which Employee is a party-in-opposition) with respect to matters Employee believes in good faith to relate to any investigation of the Company Group, in each case, regardless of whether a lawsuit or other proceeding has then been filed against the Company Group with respect to such investigation, and shall not do so unless legally required. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, during the pendency of any </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 18</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">litigation or other proceeding involving Claims, Employee shall not communicate with anyone (other than Employee&#8217;s attorneys and tax and&#47;or financial advisors and except to the extent that Employee determines in good faith is necessary in connection with the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder) with respect to the facts or subject matter of any pending or potential litigation or regulatory or administrative proceeding involving the Company Group without giving prior written notice to the Company or the Company&#8217;s counsel. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">14.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Disparagement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and thereafter, except to the extent compelled or required by applicable law and subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees Employee shall not disparage the Company Group or its respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders or successors or their respective products or services, in any manner (including but not limited to, verbally or via hard copy, websites, blogs, social media forums or any other medium)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided, however,</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from&#58; engaging in concerted activity relative to the terms and conditions of Employee&#8217;s employment and in communications protected under the National Labor Relations Act, filing a charge or providing information to any governmental agency&#59; and</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> provided, further</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from providing information in response to a subpoena or other enforceable legal process or as otherwise required by law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">15.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Reasonableness of Covenants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In signing this Agreement, Employee has carefully read and considered all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the restraints imposed under these </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">14</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee agrees that these restraints are necessary for the reasonable and proper protection of the Company Group and their trade secrets and Confidential Information and that such restraints are reasonable in respect to subject matter, length of time and geographic area. Employee acknowledges that each of these covenants has a unique, very substantial and immeasurable value to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">16.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Tolling</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the event of any violation of the provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the post-termination restrictions contained in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be extended by a period of time equal to the period of such violation, as determined by a court of law, it being the intention of the parties hereto that the running of the applicable post-termination restriction period shall be tolled during any period of such violation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">17.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Withholdings&#59; Deductions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company may withhold and deduct from any benefits and payments made or to be made pursuant to this Agreement (a)&#160;all federal, state, local and other taxes as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling and (b)&#160;any deductions consented to in writing by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">18.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Title and Headings&#59; Construction</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Titles and headings to Sections hereof are for the purpose of reference only and shall in no way limit, define or otherwise affect the provisions hereof. Any and all Exhibits or Attachments referred to in this Agreement are, by such reference, incorporated herein and made a part hereof for all purposes. Unless the context requires otherwise, all references to laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments refer to such laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments as they may be amended from time to time, and references to particular provisions of laws or regulations include a reference to the corresponding provisions of any succeeding law or regulation. All references to </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 19</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;dollars&#8221; or &#8220;$&#8221; in this Agreement refer to United States dollars. The words &#8220;herein&#8221;, &#8220;hereof&#8221;, &#8220;hereunder&#8221; and other compounds of the word &#8220;here&#8221; shall refer to the entire Agreement, including all Exhibits attached hereto, and not to any particular provision hereof. The word &#8220;or&#8221; is not exclusive. Wherever the context so requires, the masculine gender includes the feminine or neuter, and the singular number includes the plural and conversely. All references to &#8220;including&#8221; shall be construed as meaning &#8220;including without limitation.&#8221; Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty or ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against any party hereto, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On the contrary, this Agreement has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">19.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable Law</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement shall in all respects be construed according to the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of laws principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. With respect to any claim or dispute related to or arising under this Agreement, the parties hereto consent to the exclusive jurisdiction, forum and venue of the state and federal courts (as applicable) located in Houston, Texas.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">20.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Entire Agreement and Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and, as of the Effective Date, supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto concerning the subject matter hereof (including, without limitation, the Prior Agreement), other than (x) that certain Indemnification Agreement, dated May 17, 2023, between the Company and the Employee or any other indemnification rights of the Employee that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date, (y) equity award agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date (other than as such equity award agreements may be modified hereby), or (z) the terms of Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for the calendar year 2025. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument executed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">21.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Enforcement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The parties hereto acknowledge that an award of damages for failure to comply with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">14</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of this Agreement may not be an adequate remedy for the Company attempting to enforce or prevent the breach of such provisions, and accordingly the parties hereto authorize the Company to (in addition to any other remedies or relief to which it may be entitled) bring an action against Employee for a permanent or temporary injunction, to compel the specific performance or any other equitable remedy by Employee of their obligations to comply with, or prevent the breach of or remedy the breach of, such provisions without proof of actual damages. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">22.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Waiver of Breach</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Any waiver of this Agreement must be executed by the party to be bound by such waiver. No waiver by either party hereto of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other party, or of compliance with any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party, will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by such other party or any similar or dissimilar provision or condition at the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 20</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">same or any subsequent time. The failure of either party hereto to take any action by reason of any breach will not deprive such party of the right to take action at any time.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">23.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Assignment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement is personal to Employee, and neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations hereunder shall be assignable or otherwise transferred by Employee. The Company may assign this Agreement without Employee&#8217;s consent, including to any member of the Company Group and to any successor (whether by merger, purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the equity, assets or businesses of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">24.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Notices</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notices provided for in this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly received (a)&#160;when delivered in person&#59; (b)&#160;on the first Business Day after such notice is sent by express overnight courier service&#59; or (c)&#160;on the second Business Day following deposit with a nationally-recognized second-day courier service with proof of receipt maintained, in each case, to the following address, as applicable&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to the Company, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Talen Energy Corporation<br>2929 Allen Parkway, 22</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">nd</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Floor</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Houston, Texas 77019<br>Attention&#58; Board of Directors<br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to Employee, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mark A. McFarland </font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#91;Address redacted&#93;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"><br>(</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Or, if different, the latest address on file with the Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">25.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Counterparts</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, including by electronic mail or facsimile, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a copy hereof containing multiple signature pages, each signed by one party, but together signed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">26.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Deemed Resignations</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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Any payments under this Agreement that may be excluded from Section 409A either as separation pay due to an involuntary separation from service or as a short-term deferral shall be excluded from Section 409A to the maximum extent possible. For purposes of Section 409A, each installment payment provided under this Agreement shall be treated as a separate payment. Any payments to be made under this Agreement upon a termination of Employee&#8217;s employment shall only be made if such termination of employment constitutes a &#8220;separation from service&#8221; under Section 409A.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">To the extent that any right to reimbursement of expenses or payment of any benefit in-kind under this Agreement constitutes nonqualified deferred compensation (within the meaning of Section 409A), (i)&#160;any such expense reimbursement shall be made by the Company no later than the last day of Employee&#8217;s taxable year following the taxable year in which such expense was incurred by Employee, (ii)&#160;the right to reimbursement or in-kind benefits shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit, and (iii)&#160;the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits provided during any taxable year shall not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits to be provided in any other taxable year&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that the foregoing clause shall not be violated with regard to expenses reimbursed under any arrangement covered by Section 105(b) of the Code solely because such expenses are subject to a limit related to the period in which the arrangement is in effect.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, if any payment or benefit provided for herein would be subject to additional taxes and interest under Section 409A if Employee&#8217;s receipt of such payment or benefit is not delayed until the earlier of the date of Employee&#8217;s death or the date that is six (6) months after the Termination Date (such date, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 409A Payment Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), then such payment or benefit shall not be provided to Employee (or Employee&#8217;s estate, if applicable) until the Section 409A Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representations that the payments and benefits provided under this Agreement are exempt from, or compliant with, Section 409A and in no event shall any member of the Company Group be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest or other expenses that may be incurred by Employee on account of non-compliance with Section 409A.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">28.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9-16</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">21</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">27</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and those provisions necessary to interpret and enforce them, shall survive any termination of this Agreement and any termination of the employment relationship between Employee and the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">29.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Third-Party Beneficiaries</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Each member of the Company Group that is not a signatory to this Agreement shall be a third-party beneficiary of Employee&#8217;s obligations under </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8-16</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">21</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and shall be entitled to enforce such obligations as if a party hereto.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 22</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">30.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Certain Excise Taxes</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Employee is a &#8220;disqualified individual&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(c) of the Code), and the benefits provided for in this Agreement, together with any other payments and benefits which Employee has the right to receive from the Company and its affiliates, would constitute a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code), then the benefits provided for in this Agreement (beginning with any benefit to be paid in cash hereunder) shall be either (a)&#160;reduced (but not below zero) so that the present value of such total amounts and benefits received by Employee from the Company will be one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s &#8220;base amount&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(b)(3) of the Code) and so that no portion of such amounts and benefits received by Employee shall be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code or (b)&#160;paid in full, whichever produces the better net after-tax position to Employee (taking into account any applicable excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code and any other applicable taxes). The determination as to whether any such reduction in the amount of the benefits provided hereunder is necessary shall be made by the Compensation Committee in good faith and in consultation with tax and legal advisors of the Company. If a reduced payment or benefit is made and through error or otherwise that payment or benefit, when aggregated with other payments and benefits from the Company (or its affiliates) used in determining if a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; exists, exceeds one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s base amount, then Employee shall immediately repay such excess to the Company upon notification that an overpayment has been made. Nothing in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 30</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall require the Company to be responsible for, or have any liability or obligation with respect to, Employee&#8217;s excise tax liabilities under Section 4999 of the Code.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">31.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Severability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction determines that any provision of this Agreement (or portion thereof) is invalid or unenforceable, then the invalidity or unenforceability of that provision (or portion thereof) shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement, and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#91;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank&#59; <br>Signature Page Follows</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#93;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 23</font></div></div></div><div id="i594f91f14892444a854b076c84e0ae3b_4"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee and the Company each have caused this Agreement to be executed and effective as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">EMPLOYEE</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">&#47;s&#47; Mac McFarland&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"><br>Mark A. McFarland</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">COMPANY<br><br></font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">TALEN ENERGY CORPORATION</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:238.5pt;text-indent:-22.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">By&#58; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">&#47;s&#47; Andrew Wright&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"><br>Name&#58; Andrew Wright<br>Title&#58; Chief Administrative Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SIGNATURE PAGE<br>TO AMENDED AND RESTATED<br>EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div></div></div><div id="i594f91f14892444a854b076c84e0ae3b_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">EXHIBIT A<br><br>LTIP TERM SHEET&#58; 2026 AWARDS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:14.88pt;padding-right:14.88pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:28.257%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:69.543%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Target Award Amount</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Awards consisting of (i) ordinary-course grants with a grant date fair value equal to 100% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Standard Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">plus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> (ii) a one-time grant of awards with a grant date fair value equal to 67% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">True-Up Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; and, together with the Standard Awards, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">2026 Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU&#47;RSU Allocation</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Standard Awards and True-Up Awards to each consist of no more than 70% PSUs, with remaining 2026 Awards being RSUs.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs to have 3% &#8220;kicker&#8221; (and terms consistent with prior awards, including a 30-day VWAP of Company common stock used to determine CAGR achievement).</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Vesting Term</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Standard Awards to have a three-year term. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">True-Up Awards to have a two-year term.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Vesting Mechanics</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">RSUs&#58; Ratably on each anniversary of grant.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs&#58; Cliff-vesting at end of term.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU Payout Mechanics</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs vesting based on the achievement of 5% (50% of target PSUs), 7.5% (100% of target PSUs) and 10% (200% of target PSUs) CAGR, respectively (and terms consistent with prior awards, including regarding interpolation).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">10-day VWAP of Company common stock used to determine CAGR achievement.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Good Leaver Vesting</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Pro-rata vesting. 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i813b068decff492a9869cdbdb1136d55_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exhibit 10.2</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) is made and entered into by and between Talen Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Terry Nutt (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effective Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company entered into an employment agreement, effective as of July 10, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company mutually desire that Employee continue to provide services to the Company and its affiliates on the terms set forth in this Agreement, which replaces and supersedes in its entirety the Prior Agreement as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of such employment and the mutual covenants and promises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Employee agree as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period (as defined below), the Company shall continue to employ Employee, and Employee shall serve as President of the Company (and, for the avoidance of doubt, as of the Effective Date, shall no longer serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company). In addition, if requested by the Company, Employee shall serve as an officer or member of the board of directors of any subsidiaries or affiliates of the Company without additional compensation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee expressly and irrevocably waives and releases any and all claims Employee may have to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason under the Prior Agreement and receive payments and benefits or otherwise be entitled to any other rights under any plan, program, agreement or other arrangement sponsored by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, as the result of Employee&#8217;s role change from Chief Financial Officer under the Prior Agreement to President (as set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 1(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Duties and Responsibilities of Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall actively engage in the business and affairs of the Company (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Group</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as may be requested by the Chief Executive Officer (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">CEO</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) of the Company from time to time, devote such amount of Employee&#8217;s business time and attention as is reasonably necessary to manage the business and affairs of the Company, which amount of time will constitute substantially all of Employee&#8217;s business time. Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities shall include those normally incidental to the position(s) identified in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section (a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, as well as such additional duties as may be assigned to Employee by the CEO from time to time, which duties and responsibilities may include providing services to other members of the Company Group in addition to the Company. Employee may, without violating this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 2(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i)&#160;as a passive investment, own publicly traded securities in such form or manner as will not </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">require any services by Employee in the operation of the entities in which such securities are owned&#59; (ii)&#160;engage in charitable and civic activities&#59; and (iii)&#160;with the prior written consent of the board of directors of the Company (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Board</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), engage in other personal and passive investment activities, in each case, so long as such engagements, ownership, interests or activities do not interfere with Employee&#8217;s ability to fulfill Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and are not inconsistent with Employee&#8217;s obligations to any member of the Company Group or competitive with the business of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee hereby represents and warrants that Employee is not the subject of, or a party to, any non-competition or non-solicitation covenant, non-disclosure agreement, or any other agreement, obligation, restriction or understanding that would prohibit Employee from executing this Agreement or fully performing each of Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities hereunder, or would in any manner, directly or indirectly, limit or affect any of the duties and responsibilities that may now or in the future be assigned to Employee hereunder. Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Employee is strictly prohibited from using or disclosing any confidential information belonging to any prior employer in the course of performing services for any member of the Company Group, and Employee promises that Employee shall not do so. Employee shall not introduce documents or other materials containing confidential information of any prior employer to the premises or property (including computers and computer systems) of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee owes each member of the Company Group fiduciary duties, and the obligations described in this Agreement are in addition to, and not in lieu of, the obligations Employee owes each member of the Company Group under statutory and common law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salar</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. During the Employment Period, the Company shall pay to Employee an annualized base salary of $925,000 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salary</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) in consideration for Employee&#8217;s services under this Agreement, payable in substantially equal installments in conformity with the Company&#8217;s customary payroll practices for similarly situated employees as may exist from time to time, but no less frequently than twice per month. The Base Salary shall be subject to annual review by the Compensation Committee of the Board (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation Committee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Beginning on January 1, 2026, Employee shall be eligible for bonus compensation for calendar year 2026 and each subsequent complete calendar year that Employee is employed by the Company hereunder (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The target Annual Bonus for each such calendar year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Bonus Year</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) shall be 110% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary in effect as of the first day of the Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), with the actual Annual Bonus for a Bonus Year depending on the level of achievement of the performance targets as determined by the Compensation Committee for the Bonus Year. The performance targets that must be achieved in order to be eligible for certain bonus levels shall be established by the Compensation Committee annually, in its sole discretion, and communicated to Employee within the first one-hundred twenty (120) days of the applicable Bonus Year. Each Annual Bonus, if </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 2</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">any, shall be paid as soon as administratively feasible after the Compensation Committee certifies whether the applicable performance targets for the applicable Bonus Year have been achieved, but in no event later than March 15 following the end of such Bonus Year. For the avoidance of doubt, Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for calendar year 2025 shall continue to be governed by the provisions of the Prior Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the contrary, but subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, no Annual Bonus, if any, nor any portion thereof, shall be payable for any Bonus Year unless Employee remains continuously employed by the Company from the Effective Date through the date on which such Annual Bonus is paid.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lon</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">-Term Incentive Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Annual Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Provided that Employee is employed by the Company on the applicable date of grant, Employee shall be eligible to receive an annual grant under the Talen Energy Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan or any applicable successor plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) with a grant date target value not less than 600% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary as in effect on the applicable date of grant of such award on such terms and conditions as the Board and the Compensation Committee shall determine from time to time (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). All LTIP Awards granted to Employee under the LTIP shall be subject to and governed by the terms and provisions of the LTIP as in effect from time to time and the award agreements evidencing such awards. Employee&#8217;s annual grant for calendar year 2026 shall, subject to the approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee, be on substantially the terms set forth on </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Cash-Settlement&#59; Stock Ownership Guidelines</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding anything in the applicable award agreement to the contrary, if, on the date of vesting of any performance stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">PSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) other than the Emergence Grants (as defined below), Employee holds Company Common Stock (as defined in the LTIP) in excess of two hundred percent (200%) of the stock ownership requirements applicable to Employee under the Company&#8217;s Stock Ownership Guidelines, adopted March 14, 2024, and as updated from time to time, fifty percent (50%) of the net after-tax value of such PSUs will be settled in cash and the remaining portion will be settled in Company Common Stock, with such settlement otherwise subject to the terms of the applicable award agreement, subject to the Compensation Committee&#8217;s ability to modify the portion settled in cash to the extent necessitated by a Liquidity Constraint, as defined below.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Settlement of Emergence Grants&#59; Lock-Up</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. With respect to Employee&#8217;s PSUs and time-based restricted stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">RSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) that were granted in 2023</font><font style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:6pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">and scheduled to vest and settle in calendar year 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Emergence Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), Employee and the Company acknowledge and agree that a portion of the Emergence Grants will be settled in cash in an amount equal to sixty percent (60%) of the net after-tax value of each such award (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Cash-Settled Portion</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if the Fair Market Value (as defined in the LTIP) of a share of Company Common Stock on the date of vesting of the Emergence Grants exceeds $400.00, the Cash-Settled Portion of the Emergence Grants will be no greater cash value in the aggregate than the Cash-Settled </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 3</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Portion that would result if the Fair Market Value of a share of Company Common Stock were equal to $400.00. In consideration of the foregoing, Employee agrees not to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase, transfer the economic risk of ownership in, make any short sale of, pledge or otherwise transfer or dispose of, any interest in any shares of Company Common Stock received upon settlement of the Emergence Grants (each, an &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Award Share</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) until November 13, 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lock-Up Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that this paragraph shall not prohibit Employee from, during the last ninety (90) days of the Lock-Up Period, establishing a trading plan that meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, so long as no trades are executed pursuant to such plan during the Lock-Up Period. Employee acknowledges and agrees that any Award Share will be subject to legends, stop transfer orders or any other similar restriction that the Company deems reasonably necessary to effectuate the provisions set forth in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(c)(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Compensation Committee reasonably determines that the settlement of all or a portion of the Cash-Settled Portion of the Emergence Grants in cash would materially and adversely affect the Company (a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Liquidity Constraint</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), the Compensation Committee may elect to reduce the Cash-Settled Portion to the extent necessary to address the Liquidity Constraint, in which case the Lock-Up Period will be reduced in the same proportion by which the Cash-Settled Portion was reduced. 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Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the Company shall reimburse Employee for Employee&#8217;s reasonable out-of-pocket business-related expenses actually incurred in the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder during the Employment Period so long as Employee timely submits all documentation for such expenses, as required by Company policy in effect from time to time. Any such reimbursement of expenses shall be made by the Company upon or as soon as practicable following receipt of such documentation (but in any event not later than the close of Employee&#8217;s taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense is incurred by Employee). In no event shall any reimbursement be made to Employee for any expenses incurred after the date of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment with the Company.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 4</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">6.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall continue to be eligible to participate in the same benefit plans and programs (including vacation and paid time off) in which other similarly situated Company employees are eligible to participate, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and programs in effect from time to time. The Company shall not, however, by reason of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 6</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, be obligated to institute, maintain, or refrain from changing, amending, or discontinuing, any such plan or policy, so long as such changes are similarly applicable to similarly situated Company employees generally.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall cover Employee under directors&#8217; and officers&#8217; liability insurance through the Employment Period, and, while potential liability exists, after the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company, on substantially similar terms as provided to other executive officers of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall reimburse Employee up to $5,000 for legal fees incurred in connection with the review of this Agreement. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination of Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate Employee&#8217;s Employment for Cause</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder at any time for Cause. 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or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(vi)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s conviction or plea of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">nolo contendere</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to a felony or crime involving moral turpitude.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, no determination of &#8220;Cause&#8221; may be made pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections&#160;7(a)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> unless (1)&#160;Employee has been given written notice by the Board describing the specific alleged action(s) or omission(s) that constitute &#8220;Cause,&#8221; 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The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for convenience at any time and for any reason, or no reason at all, upon written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall also have the right to terminate Employee by non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof upon ninety (90)-days written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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For purposes of this Agreement, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall mean any of the following occurring without Employee&#8217;s consent&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material adverse change in Employee&#8217;s title, duties or responsibilities (including reporting responsibilities)&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material reduction in Employee&#8217;s Base Salary&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a relocation of Employee&#8217;s primary work location to a distance of more than 50 miles from the Houston, Texas metropolitan area&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iv)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material breach by the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 6</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company and Employee agree that Good Reason shall not exist unless and until Employee provides the Company with written notice of the acts alleged to constitute Good Reason within ninety (90) days of Employee&#8217;s knowledge of the occurrence of such event, and Company fails to cure such acts within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice. Employee must terminate employment within sixty (60) days following the expiration of such cure period for the termination to be on account of Good Reason.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Death or Disabilit</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. Upon the death or Disability of Employee, Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company shall automatically terminate and the Company shall pay to Employee or Employee&#8217;s estate, as applicable, (i)&#160;the Accrued Benefits, (ii)&#160;any earned and unpaid Annual Bonus for the calendar year preceding the year in which such termination of employment occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Year Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;an amount equal to the Target Bonus for the year in which such termination of employment occurs, prorated for the period of days beginning on January 1 and ending on the date of such termination of employment relative to the number of days in the applicable Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prorated Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that the Prorated Target Bonus described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">clause (iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of the preceding sentence, if any, shall be paid in a lump sum in cash on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the date on which Employee&#8217;s employment terminates (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and (iv)&#160;subject to Employee&#8217;s timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), continued participation (pursuant to COBRA) in the Company&#8217;s group health plan (to the extent permitted under applicable law and the terms of such plan) covering Employee and Employee&#8217;s eligible dependents for a period of thirty-six (36) months at Employee&#8217;s (or Employee&#8217;s estate&#8217;s, in the case of Employee&#8217;s death) sole expense, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that the Company may modify the continuation coverage contemplated by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the extent reasonably necessary to avoid the imposition of any excise taxes on the Company for failure to comply with the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 105(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended&#59; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended&#59; and&#47;or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended, and in each case, the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder (to the extent applicable) (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA Continuation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). For purposes of this Agreement, a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist if, as determined in the reasonable opinion of a licensed physician, Employee is unable to perform the essential functions of Employee&#8217;s position (after accounting for reasonable accommodation, if applicable and required by applicable law), due to physical or mental impairment, that continues for a period in excess of ninety (90) consecutive days or one hundred-eighty (180) days, whether or not consecutive (or for any longer period as may be required by applicable law), in any twelve (12)-month period.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In addition to Employee&#8217;s right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason, Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company for convenience at any time and for any other reason, or no reason at all, upon sixty (60) days&#8217; advance written notice to the Company (or ninety (90) days, in the event of a non-renewal of the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 7</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Term or any extension thereof)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if Employee has provided notice to the Company of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, the Company may determine, in its sole discretion, that such termination shall be effective on any date prior to the effective date of termination provided in such notice (and, if such earlier date is so required, then it shall not change the basis for Employee&#8217;s termination of employment nor be construed or interpreted as a termination of employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">). Upon the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i) the Company shall pay to Employee the Accrued Benefits and (ii) if Employee provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination and such termination occurs at or following the end of the initial Term, Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Additionally, if Employee (a) provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination related to a non-renewal of term (including any renewal terms following the initial Term), (b)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, a release of all claims in a form acceptable to the Company and generally used by the Company with respect to similarly situated employees (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Release</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, upon such termination, and (c) abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10,</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Employee shall receive the Prior Year Bonus, if any (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination of Employment without Cause, for Good Reason, or for the Company&#8217;s Non-Renewal of the Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Outside a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is not on or within eighteen (18) months following a Change in Control (as defined in the LTIP, and such period, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 8</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(i)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make severance payments to Employee in a total amount equal to (i)&#160;twelve (12) months&#8217; worth of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary and (ii) one (1) times the target Annual Bonus, where each are determined as of the year in which such termination occurs (such total severance payments being referred to as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Severance Payment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The Non-CIC Severance Payment will be divided into substantially equal installments paid over the twelve (12)-month period following the Termination Date. 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If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is within the Change in Control Period, then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date, and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make a lump sum payment to Employee equal to the product of two and ninety-nine hundredths (2.99) times the sum of (I)&#160;twelve (12) months&#8217; 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(and together </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 10</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">with the Non-CIC Termination Benefits, as applicable, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">If the Release is not executed and returned to the Company on or before the Release Expiration Date, and the required revocation period has not fully expired without revocation of the Release by Employee, then Employee shall not be entitled to any portion of the applicable Termination Benefits. 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Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that the Company determines, in good faith, that Employee is eligible to receive Termination Benefits pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> but, after such determination, the Company subsequently acquires evidence or determines that&#58; (i)&#160;Employee has failed to abide by the terms of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; or (ii)&#160;a Cause condition existed prior to the Termination Date that, had the Company been fully aware of such condition, would have given the Company the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, then the Company shall have the right to cease the payment of any future installments of the Termination Benefits and Employee shall promptly return to the Company all installments of the Termination Benefits received by Employee prior to the date that the Company determines that the conditions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(g)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> have been satisfied. In addition, the provisions of the last sentence of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall apply, and, subject to any limitation under applicable law, previously paid compensation pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections&#160;3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">3(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be subject to clawback or forfeiture and cancellation at the discretion of the Compensation Committee in the event Employee fails to abide by the terms of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">8.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disclosures</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Promptly (and in any event, within three (3) Business Days) upon becoming aware of (a)&#160;any actual or potential Conflict of Interest or (b)&#160;any lawsuit, claim or arbitration filed against or involving Employee or any trust or vehicle owned or controlled by Employee, in each case, Employee shall disclose such actual or potential Conflict of Interest or such lawsuit, claim or arbitration to the Board. A &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Conflict of Interest</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist when Employee engages in, or plans to engage in, any activities, associations, or interests that conflict with, or create an appearance of a conflict with, Employee&#8217;s duties, responsibilities, authorities, or obligations for or to any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">9.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Confidentiality</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties on behalf of the Company Group hereunder, Employee will be provided with, and will have access to, Confidential Information (as defined below). 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Employee shall follow all Company policies and protocols regarding the security of all documents and other materials containing Confidential Information to the extent such policies have been clearly communicated in writing or made available to Employee (regardless of the medium on which Confidential Information is stored). 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Within five (5) days of any such request, Employee shall certify to the Company in writing that all such documents, materials and property have been returned to the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All trade secrets, non-public information, designs, ideas, concepts, improvements, product developments, discoveries and inventions, whether patentable or not, that are conceived, made, developed or acquired by or disclosed to Employee, individually or in conjunction with others, during the period that Employee is employed by the Company or any other member of the Company Group (whether during business hours or otherwise and whether on the Company&#8217;s premises or otherwise), that relate to any member of the Company Group&#8217;s </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 12</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">businesses or properties, products or services (including all such information relating to corporate opportunities, operations, future plans, methods of doing business, business plans, strategies for developing business and market share, research, financial and sales data, pricing terms, evaluations, opinions, interpretations, acquisition prospects, the identity of customers or acquisition targets or their requirements, the identity of key contacts within customers&#8217; organizations or within the organization of acquisition prospects, or marketing and merchandising techniques, prospective names and marks) is defined as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Confidential Information.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; Moreover, all documents, videotapes, written presentations, brochures, drawings, memoranda, notes, records, files, correspondence, manuals, models, specifications, computer programs, e-mail, voice mail, electronic databases, maps, drawings, architectural renditions, models and all other writings or materials of any type including or embodying any of such information, ideas, concepts, improvements, discoveries, inventions and other similar forms of expression are and shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company or other applicable member of the Company Group and be subject to the same restrictions on disclosure applicable to all Confidential Information pursuant to this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information shall not include any information that (i)&#160;is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or wrongful act of Employee or any of Employee&#8217;s agents&#59; (ii)&#160;was available to Employee on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by a member of the Company Group&#59; or (iii)&#160;becomes available to Employee on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a member of the Company Group&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided, however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation with respect to confidentiality to, a member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict Employee from lawfully&#58; (i)&#160;initiating communications directly with, cooperating with, providing information to, causing information to be provided to, or otherwise assisting in an investigation by, any governmental or regulatory agency, entity, official or authority regarding a possible violation of any law&#59; (ii)&#160;responding to any inquiry or legal process directed to Employee from any such governmental authority&#59; (iii)&#160;testifying, participating or otherwise assisting in any action or proceeding by any such governmental authority relating to a possible violation of law&#59; or (iv)&#160;making any other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prohibit or restrict Employee to disclose an act of sexual abuse or facts related to an act of sexual abuse. Additionally, pursuant to the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that&#58; (A)&#160;is made (1)&#160;in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (2)&#160;solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law&#59; (B)&#160;is made to the individual&#8217;s attorney in relation to a lawsuit for retaliation against the individual for reporting a suspected violation of law&#59; or (C)&#160;is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Nothing in this Agreement requires Employee to obtain prior authorization before engaging in any conduct described in this paragraph, or to notify the Company that Employee has engaged in any such conduct.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 13</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">10.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Competition&#59; Non-Solicitation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee acknowledges that (i) Employee performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group that are irreplaceable, and that Employee&#8217;s performance of such services to a competing business will result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information which, if disclosed, would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company Group, (iii) in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment by a competitor, Employee would inevitably use or disclose such Confidential Information, (iv) the Company Group has substantial relationships with their Customers and Employee has had and will continue to have access to these Customers, (v) Employee has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group, and (vi) Employee has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from being a passive owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation engaged in a business that is in competition with the Company Group, so long as Employee has no active participation in the business of such corporation. Nothing in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall prohibit Employee from being employed or engaged by any Person where such work would not involve any level of strategic, advisory, technical, creative, sales, or other activity similar to that which Employee provided to the Company Group (acknowledging that Employee&#8217;s role requires Employee to engage in strategic, managerial, and business development activity), or is in connection with an independent business line of such Person that is wholly unrelated to the business of the Company Group and Confidential Information (subject to protocols to prevent Employee from disclosing Confidential Information). In addition, the provisions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall not be violated by Employee commencing employment with a subsidiary, division or unit of any entity that engages in a business in competition with the Company Group so long as Employee and such subsidiary, division or unit does not engage in a business in competition with the Company Group&#59;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 14</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any person who was, as of the Termination Date, an employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company or any member of the Company Group and with whom Employee had contact during the Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group or who otherwise worked in the same department as the Employee (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Covered Individuals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), to terminate his or her employment or contracting relationship with the Company Group, or to become an employee or independent contractor of any other Person or hire or retain any such employee, agent or individual, or take any action to materially assist or aid any other Person in identifying, hiring or soliciting any such employee, agent or individual (any employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company Group shall be deemed covered by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> while so employed or retained and for a period of six (6) months thereafter)&#59; notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, general employment solicitations through advertisements for candidates in publicly available media for potential employment do not violate this provision&#59; so long as such advertisements are not specifically targeted at any Covered Individuals&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any Customer (as defined below) or any supplier or other business relation of the Company Group who was working with any member of the Company Group as of the Termination Date, to cease doing or reduce the amount of its business with such entity or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such Customer, supplier or other business relation and the Company Group&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">interfere, or aid or induce any other person or entity in interfering, with the relationship between the Company Group and any of their respective vendors, joint venturers or licensors.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Definitions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">For the purposes of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the following definitions shall apply&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Customer</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means any Person who or which&#58; (a) purchased products or services from the Company Group prior to or during Employee&#8217;s period of employment and who or which Employee was aware of or about whom or which Employee had received Confidential Information&#59; or (b)&#160;was called upon or solicited by the Company or any member of the Company Group or any of their predecessors prior to or during the twelve (12) month period prior to the Termination Date, if Employee had direct or indirect contact with such Person as an employee or service provider of the Company Group or learned or became aware of such Person during Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Person</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 15</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">11.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Ownership of Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee agrees that the Company shall own, and Employee shall (and hereby does) assign, all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, trademark rights, and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to any and all inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, developments, improvements, innovations, works of authorship, mask works, designs, know-how, ideas, formulae, processes, techniques, data and information authored, created, contributed to, made or conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by Employee during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, whether or not registerable under U.S. law or the laws of other jurisdictions, that either (i)&#160;relate, at the time of conception, reduction to practice, creation, derivation or development, to any member of the Company Group&#8217;s businesses or actual or anticipated research or development&#59; or (ii)&#160;were developed on any amount of the Company&#8217;s or any other member of the Company Group&#8217;s time or with the use of any member of the Company Group&#8217;s equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information (all of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall promptly disclose all Company Intellectual Property to the Company in writing. To support Employee&#8217;s disclosure obligation herein, Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all Company Intellectual Property made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group in such form as may be specified from time to time by the Company. These records shall be available to, and remain the sole property of, the Company at all times.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All of Employee&#8217;s works of authorship and associated copyrights created during the period in which Employee is employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group and in the scope of Employee&#8217;s employment or engagement shall be deemed to be &#8220;works made for hire&#8221; within the meaning of the Copyright Act. To the extent any right, title and interest in and to Company Intellectual Property cannot be assigned by Employee to the Company, Employee shall grant, and does hereby grant, to the Company Group an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, reproduce, practice and otherwise commercialize such rights, title and interest.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee recognizes that this Agreement will not be deemed to require assignment of any invention or intellectual property that Employee developed entirely on Employee&#8217;s own time without using the equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secrets, or Confidential Information of any member of the Company Group. 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Employee shall confirm any such ratifications, consents, waivers, and agreements from time to time as requested by the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee hereby represents and warrants that there are no inventions (whether or not patentable), original works of authorship, designs, know-how, mask works, ideas, information, developments, improvements, or trade secrets of which Employee is the sole or joint author, creator, contributor, or inventor that were made or developed by Employee prior to Employee&#8217;s employment with or affiliation with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, or in which Employee asserts any intellectual property right, and which are applicable to or relate in any way to the business, products, services, or demonstrably anticipated research and development or business of any member of the Company Group (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Inventions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall make no claim of any rights to any Prior Inventions. If, in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with or affiliation with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, Employee incorporates into the product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group a Prior Invention, the Company Group is hereby granted and will have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, import, export, offer for sale, sell and otherwise commercialize such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall perform, during and after the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist each member of the Company Group, at the Company&#8217;s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Company Intellectual Property and Confidential Information assigned, to be assigned, or licensed to the Company under this Agreement. Such acts may include execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i)&#160;in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, or other applications&#59; (ii)&#160;in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, moral rights, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights&#59; and (iii)&#160;in other legal proceedings related to the Company Intellectual Property or Confidential Information.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(g)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to communicate with Employee, the Company (or, as applicable, a member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, moral right, trade secret or other proprietary right under any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations of such Company Intellectual Property), Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of the Company&#8217;s duly </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 17</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee, (i)&#160;to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application&#59; (ii)&#160;to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement&#59; and (iii)&#160;to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, moral rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(h)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that Employee enters into, on behalf of any member of the Company Group, any contracts or agreements relating to any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, Employee shall assign such contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) promptly, and in any event, prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment. In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to coordinate with Employee, the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to assign said contracts or agreements, or if Employee does not assign said contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) and each of the Company&#8217;s duly authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee to execute said assignments and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the execution of said documents.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">12.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Defense of Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and for a period of one (1) year following the Termination Date, upon request from the Company, Employee shall reasonably cooperate with the Company Group, at times and locations agreeable to Employee, to assist (a) in the prosecution of any claims that may be made by the Company Group, to the extent that such claims may relate to Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and about which Employee has substantial knowledge and (b)&#160;in the defense of any claims that may be made by or against any member of the Company Group that relate to Employee&#8217;s actual or prior areas of responsibility (collectively, (a) and (b) of this sentence, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees to promptly inform the Company if Employee becomes aware of any lawsuits involving Claims that may be filed or threatened against the Company Group. 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Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, during the pendency of any litigation or other proceeding involving Claims, Employee shall not communicate with anyone (other than Employee&#8217;s attorneys and tax and&#47;or financial advisors and except to the extent that Employee determines in good faith is necessary in connection with </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 18</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder) with respect to the facts or subject matter of any pending or potential litigation or regulatory or administrative proceeding involving the Company Group without giving prior written notice to the Company or the Company&#8217;s counsel. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">13.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Disparagement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and thereafter, except to the extent compelled or required by applicable law and subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees Employee shall not disparage the Company Group or its respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders or successors or their respective products or services, in any manner (including but not limited to, verbally or via hard copy, websites, blogs, social media forums or any other medium)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from&#58; engaging in concerted activity relative to the terms and conditions of Employee&#8217;s employment and in communications protected under the National Labor Relations Act, filing a charge or providing information to any governmental agency&#59; and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">further</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from providing information in response to a subpoena or other enforceable legal process or as otherwise required by law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">14.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Reasonableness of Covenants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In signing this Agreement, Employee has carefully read and considered all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the restraints imposed under these </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee agrees that these restraints are necessary for the reasonable and proper protection of the Company Group and their trade secrets and Confidential Information and that such restraints are reasonable in respect to subject matter, length of time and geographic area. Employee acknowledges that each of these covenants has a unique, very substantial and immeasurable value to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">15.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Tolling</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the event of any violation of the provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the post-termination restrictions contained in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be extended by a period of time equal to the period of such violation, as determined by a court of law, it being the intention of the parties hereto that the running of the applicable post-termination restriction period shall be tolled during any period of such violation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">16.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Withholdings&#59; Deductions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company may withhold and deduct from any benefits and payments made or to be made pursuant to this Agreement (a)&#160;all federal, state, local and other taxes as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling and (b)&#160;any deductions consented to in writing by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">17.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Title and Headings&#59; Construction</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Titles and headings to Sections hereof are for the purpose of reference only and shall in no way limit, define or otherwise affect the provisions hereof. Any and all Exhibits or Attachments referred to in this Agreement are, by such reference, incorporated herein and made a part hereof for all purposes. Unless the context requires otherwise, all references to laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments refer to such laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments as they may be amended from time to time, and references to particular provisions of laws or regulations include a reference to the corresponding provisions of any succeeding law or regulation. All references to &#8220;dollars&#8221; or &#8220;$&#8221; in this Agreement refer to United States dollars. The words &#8220;herein&#8221;, &#8220;hereof&#8221;, &#8220;hereunder&#8221; and other compounds of the word &#8220;here&#8221; shall refer to the entire Agreement, including all Exhibits attached hereto, and not to any particular provision hereof. The word &#8220;or&#8221; </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 19</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">is not exclusive. Wherever the context so requires, the masculine gender includes the feminine or neuter, and the singular number includes the plural and conversely. All references to &#8220;including&#8221; shall be construed as meaning &#8220;including without limitation.&#8221; Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty or ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against any party hereto, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On the contrary, this Agreement has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">18.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable Law</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement shall in all respects be construed according to the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of laws principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. With respect to any claim or dispute related to or arising under this Agreement, the parties hereto consent to the exclusive jurisdiction, forum and venue of the state and federal courts (as applicable) located in Houston, Texas.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">19.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Entire Agreement and Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and, as of the Effective Date, supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto concerning the subject matter hereof (including, without limitation, the Prior Agreement), other than (x) that certain Indemnification Agreement, dated July 10, 2023, between the Company and the Employee or any other indemnification rights of the Employee that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date, (y) equity award agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date (other than as such equity award agreements may be modified hereby), or (z) the terms of Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for the calendar year 2025. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument executed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">20.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Enforcement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The parties hereto acknowledge that an award of damages for failure to comply with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of this Agreement may not be an adequate remedy for the Company attempting to enforce or prevent the breach of such provisions, and accordingly the parties hereto authorize the Company to (in addition to any other remedies or relief to which it may be entitled) bring an action against Employee for a permanent or temporary injunction, to compel the specific performance or any other equitable remedy by Employee of their obligations to comply with, or prevent the breach of or remedy the breach of, such provisions without proof of actual damages. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">21.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Waiver of Breach</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Any waiver of this Agreement must be executed by the party to be bound by such waiver. No waiver by either party hereto of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other party, or of compliance with any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party, will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by such other party or any similar or dissimilar provision or condition at the same or any subsequent time. The failure of either party hereto to take any action by reason of any breach will not deprive such party of the right to take action at any time.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">22.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Assignment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement is personal to Employee, and neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations hereunder shall be assignable or otherwise transferred </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 20</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">by Employee. The Company may assign this Agreement without Employee&#8217;s consent, including to any member of the Company Group and to any successor (whether by merger, purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the equity, assets or businesses of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">23.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Notices</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notices provided for in this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly received (a)&#160;when delivered in person&#59; (b)&#160;on the first Business Day after such notice is sent by express overnight courier service&#59; or (c)&#160;on the second Business Day following deposit with a nationally-recognized second-day courier service with proof of receipt maintained, in each case, to the following address, as applicable&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to the Company, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Talen Energy Corporation<br>2929 Allen Parkway, 22</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">nd</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Floor</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Houston, Texas 77019<br>Attention&#58; Board of Directors<br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to Employee, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Terry Nutt</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#91;Address redacted&#93;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"><br>(</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Or, if different, the latest address on file with the Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">)</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">24.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Counterparts</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, including by electronic mail or facsimile, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a copy hereof containing multiple signature pages, each signed by one party, but together signed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">25.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Deemed Resignations</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Except as otherwise determined by the Board or as otherwise agreed to in writing by Employee and any member of the Company Group prior to the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company or any member of the Company Group, any termination of Employee&#8217;s employment shall constitute, as applicable, an automatic resignation of Employee&#58; (a)&#160;as an officer of the Company and each member of the Company Group&#59; (b)&#160;from the Board&#59; and (c)&#160;from the board of directors or board of managers (or similar governing body) of any member of the Company Group and from the board of directors or board of managers (or similar governing body) of any corporation, limited liability entity, unlimited liability entity or other entity in which any member of the Company Group holds an equity interest and with respect to which board of directors or board of managers (or similar governing body) Employee serves as such Company Group member&#8217;s designee or other representative.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">26.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 409A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all provisions of this Agreement are intended to comply with Section 409A of the Code and the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 21</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">applicable Treasury regulations and administrative guidance issued thereunder (collectively, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 409A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) or an exemption therefrom and shall be construed and administered in accordance with such intent. Any payments under this Agreement that may be excluded from Section 409A either as separation pay due to an involuntary separation from service or as a short-term deferral shall be excluded from Section 409A to the maximum extent possible. For purposes of Section 409A, each installment payment provided under this Agreement shall be treated as a separate payment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representations that the payments and benefits provided under this Agreement are exempt from, or compliant with, Section 409A and in no event shall any member of the Company Group be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest or other expenses that may be incurred by Employee on account of non-compliance with Section 409A.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">27.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">8-15</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">20</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">25</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and those provisions necessary to interpret and enforce them, shall survive any termination of this Agreement and any termination of the employment relationship between Employee and the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">28.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Third-Party Beneficiaries</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Each member of the Company Group that is not a signatory to this Agreement shall be a third-party beneficiary of Employee&#8217;s obligations under </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 7-15</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">20</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">25</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and shall be entitled to enforce such obligations as if a party hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">29.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Certain Excise Taxes</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Employee is a &#8220;disqualified individual&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(c) of the Code), and the benefits provided for in this Agreement, together with any other payments and </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 22</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">benefits which Employee has the right to receive from the Company and its affiliates, would constitute a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code), then the benefits provided for in this Agreement (beginning with any benefit to be paid in cash hereunder) shall be either (a)&#160;reduced (but not below zero) so that the present value of such total amounts and benefits received by Employee from the Company will be one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s &#8220;base amount&#8221; (as defined in Section 280G(b)(3) of the Code) and so that no portion of such amounts and benefits received by Employee shall be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code or (b)&#160;paid in full, whichever produces the better net after-tax position to Employee (taking into account any applicable excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code and any other applicable taxes). The determination as to whether any such reduction in the amount of the benefits provided hereunder is necessary shall be made by the Compensation Committee in good faith and in consultation with tax and legal advisors of the Company. If a reduced payment or benefit is made and through error or otherwise that payment or benefit, when aggregated with other payments and benefits from the Company (or its affiliates) used in determining if a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; exists, exceeds one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s base amount, then Employee shall immediately repay such excess to the Company upon notification that an overpayment has been made. 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If an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction determines that any provision of this Agreement (or portion thereof) is invalid or unenforceable, then the invalidity or unenforceability of that provision (or portion thereof) shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement, and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#91;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank&#59; <br>Signature Page Follows</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#93;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 23</font></div></div></div><div id="i813b068decff492a9869cdbdb1136d55_4"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee and the Company each have caused this Agreement to be executed and effective as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">EMPLOYEE</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:36pt;padding-left:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">&#47;s&#47; Terry L. 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Andrew Wright<br>Title&#58; Chief Administrative Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SIGNATURE PAGE<br>TO AMENDED AND RESTATED<br>EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div></div></div><div id="i813b068decff492a9869cdbdb1136d55_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">EXHIBIT A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"><br><br></font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP TERM SHEET&#58; 2026 AWARDS </font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:28.257%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:69.543%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Target Award Amount</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Awards consisting of (i) ordinary-course grants with a grant date fair value equal to 100% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Standard Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">plus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> (ii) a one-time grant of awards with a grant date fair value equal to 67% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">True-Up Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; 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Ratably on each anniversary of grant.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs&#58; Cliff-vesting at end of term.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU Payout Mechanics</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs vesting based on the achievement of 5% (50% of target PSUs), 7.5% (100% of target PSUs) and 10% (200% of target PSUs) CAGR, respectively (and terms consistent with prior awards, including regarding interpolation).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">10-day VWAP of Company common stock used to determine CAGR achievement.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Good Leaver Vesting</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Pro-rata vesting. 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i5dfa01facccb4009b206f1c9885313f5_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exhibit 10.3</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) is made and entered into by and between Talen Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Cole Muller (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effective Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company entered into an employment agreement, effective as of July 7, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company mutually desire that Employee continue to provide services to the Company and its affiliates on the terms set forth in this Agreement, which replaces and supersedes in its entirety the Prior Agreement as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of such employment and the mutual covenants and promises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Employee agree as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period (as defined below), the Company shall continue to employ Employee, and Employee shall serve, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company (and, for the avoidance of doubt, as of the Effective Date, Employee shall no longer serve as Executive Vice President, Strategic Ventures of the Company). In addition, if requested by the Company, Employee shall serve as an officer or member of the board of directors of any subsidiaries or affiliates of the Company without additional compensation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee expressly and irrevocably waives and releases any and all claims Employee may have to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason under the Prior Agreement and receive payments and benefits or otherwise be entitled to any other rights under any plan, program, agreement or other arrangement sponsored by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, as the result of Employee&#8217;s role change from Executive Vice President, Strategic Ventures under the Prior Agreement to Chief Financial Officer (as set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;2(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Duties and Responsibilities of Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall actively engage in the business and affairs of the Company (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Group</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as may be requested by the Chief Executive Officer (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">CEO</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) of the Company from time to time, devote such amount of Employee&#8217;s business time and attention as is reasonably necessary to manage the business and affairs of the Company, which amount of time will constitute substantially all of Employee&#8217;s business time. Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities shall include those normally incidental to the position(s) identified in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 5</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, as well as such additional duties as may be assigned to Employee by the CEO and&#47;or the President from time to time, which duties and responsibilities may include providing services to other members of the Company Group in addition to the Company. 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Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Employee is strictly prohibited from using or disclosing any confidential information belonging to any prior employer in the course of performing services for any member of the Company Group, and Employee promises that Employee shall not do so. Employee shall not introduce documents or other materials containing confidential information of any prior employer to the premises or property (including computers and computer systems) of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee owes each member of the Company Group fiduciary duties, and the obligations described in this Agreement are in addition to, and not in lieu of, the obligations Employee owes each member of the Company Group under statutory and common law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salar</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. During the Employment Period, the Company shall pay to Employee an annualized base salary of $725,000 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salary</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) in consideration for Employee&#8217;s services under this Agreement, payable in substantially equal installments in conformity with the Company&#8217;s customary payroll practices for similarly situated employees as may exist from time to time, but no less frequently than twice per month. The Base Salary shall be subject to annual review by the Compensation Committee of the Board (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation Committee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Beginning on January 1, 2026, Employee shall be eligible for bonus compensation for calendar year 2026 and each subsequent complete calendar year that Employee is employed by the Company hereunder (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The target Annual Bonus for each such calendar year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Bonus Year</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) shall be 100% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary in effect as of the first day of the Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), with the actual Annual Bonus for a Bonus Year depending on the level of achievement of the performance targets as determined by the Compensation Committee for the Bonus Year. The performance targets that must be achieved in order to be eligible for certain bonus levels shall be established by the Compensation Committee annually, in its sole discretion, and communicated to Employee within </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 2</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the first one-hundred twenty (120) days of the applicable Bonus Year. Each Annual Bonus, if any, shall be paid as soon as administratively feasible after the Compensation Committee certifies whether the applicable performance targets for the applicable Bonus Year have been achieved, but in no event later than March 15 following the end of such Bonus Year. For the avoidance of doubt, Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for calendar year 2025 shall continue to be governed by the provisions of the Prior Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the contrary, but subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, no Annual Bonus, if any, nor any portion thereof, shall be payable for any Bonus Year unless Employee remains continuously employed by the Company from the Effective Date through the date on which such Annual Bonus is paid.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lon</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">-Term Incentive Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Annual Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Provided that Employee is employed by the Company on the applicable date of grant, Employee shall be eligible to receive an annual grant under the Talen Energy Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan or any applicable successor plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) with a grant date target value not less than 600% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary as in effect on the applicable date of grant of such award on such terms and conditions as the Board and the Compensation Committee shall determine from time to time (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). All LTIP Awards granted to Employee under the LTIP shall be subject to and governed by the terms and provisions of the LTIP as in effect from time to time and the award agreements evidencing such awards. Employee&#8217;s annual grant for calendar year 2026 shall, subject to the approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee, be on substantially the terms set forth on </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Cash-Settlement&#59; Stock Ownership Guidelines</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding anything in the applicable award agreement to the contrary, if, on the date of  vesting of any performance stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">PSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) other than the Emergence Grants (as defined below), Employee holds Company Common Stock (as defined in the LTIP) in excess of two hundred percent (200%) of the stock ownership requirements applicable to Employee under the Company&#8217;s Stock Ownership Guidelines, adopted March 14, 2024, and as updated from time to time, fifty percent (50%) of the net after-tax value of such PSUs will be settled in cash and the remaining portion will be settled in Company Common Stock, with such settlement otherwise subject to the terms of the applicable award agreement, subject to the Compensation Committee&#8217;s ability to modify the portion settled in cash to the extent necessitated by a Liquidity Constraint, as defined below.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Settlement of Emergence Grants&#59; Lock-Up</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. With respect to Employee&#8217;s PSUs and time-based restricted stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">RSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) that were granted in 2023</font><font style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:6pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">and scheduled to vest and settle in calendar year 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Emergence Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), Employee and the Company acknowledge and agree that a portion of the Emergence Grants will be settled in cash in an amount equal to sixty percent (60%) of the net after-tax value of each such award (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Cash-Settled Portion</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if the Fair Market Value (as defined in the LTIP) of a share of Company Common Stock on the date of vesting of the Emergence Grants exceeds $400.00, the Cash-Settled Portion of the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 3</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Emergence Grants will be no greater cash value in the aggregate than the Cash-Settled Portion that would result if the Fair Market Value of a share of Company Common Stock were equal to $400.00. In consideration of the foregoing, Employee agrees not to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase, transfer the economic risk of ownership in, make any short sale of, pledge or otherwise transfer or dispose of, any interest in any shares of Company Common Stock received upon settlement of the Emergence Grants (each, an &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Award Share</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) until November 13, 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lock-Up Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that this paragraph shall not prohibit Employee from, during the last ninety (90) days of the Lock-Up Period, establishing a trading plan that meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, so long as no trades are executed pursuant to such plan during the Lock-Up Period. Employee acknowledges and agrees that any Award Share will be subject to legends, stop transfer orders or any other similar restriction that the Company deems reasonably necessary to effectuate the provisions set forth in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(c)(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Compensation Committee reasonably determines that the settlement of all or a portion of the Cash-Settled Portion of the Emergence Grants in cash would materially and adversely affect the Company (a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Liquidity Constraint</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), the Compensation Committee may elect to reduce the Cash-Settled Portion to the extent necessary to address the Liquidity Constraint, in which case the Lock-Up Period will be reduced in the same proportion by which the Cash-Settled Portion was reduced. By way of example only, if the Compensation Committee determines, in accordance with the previous sentence, that the Cash-Settled Portion will be reduced to one-half (1&#47;2) of the Cash-Settled Portion that would otherwise result from this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;3(c)(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the Lock-Up Period applicable to the Award Shares shall be reduced to 90 days (i.e., one-half (1&#47;2) of 180 days).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">4.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Term of Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The term of Employee&#8217;s employment under this Agreement shall be for the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending on February 28, 2027 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Thereafter, the term of this Agreement will automatically extend, on the same terms, for successive one-year periods, unless either party provides written notice of non-extension at least ninety (90) days prior to the end of the Term or any extension thereof. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this Agreement may be terminated at any time in accordance with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The period from the Effective Date through the expiration of this Agreement or, if sooner, the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this Agreement, regardless of the time or reason for such termination, shall be referred to herein as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.&#8221;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">5.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Business Expenses</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the Company shall reimburse Employee for Employee&#8217;s reasonable out-of-pocket business-related expenses actually incurred in the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder during the Employment Period so long as Employee timely submits all documentation for such expenses, as required by Company policy in effect from time to time. Any such reimbursement of expenses shall be made by the Company upon or as soon as practicable following receipt of such documentation (but in any event not later than the close of Employee&#8217;s taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense is incurred by Employee). In no event shall any reimbursement be made to Employee for any expenses incurred after the date of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment with the Company.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 4</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">6.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall continue to be eligible to participate in the same benefit plans and programs (including vacation and paid time off) in which other similarly situated Company employees are eligible to participate, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and programs in effect from time to time. The Company shall not, however, by reason of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 6</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, be obligated to institute, maintain, or refrain from changing, amending, or discontinuing, any such plan or policy, so long as such changes are similarly applicable to similarly situated Company employees generally.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall cover Employee under directors&#8217; and officers&#8217; liability insurance through the Employment Period, and, while potential liability exists, after the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company, on substantially similar terms as provided to other executive officers of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall reimburse Employee up to $5,000 for legal fees incurred in connection with the review of this Agreement.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination of Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate Employee&#8217;s Employment for Cause</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder at any time for Cause. 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or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(vi)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s conviction or plea of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">nolo contendere</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to a felony or crime involving moral turpitude.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, no determination of &#8220;Cause&#8221; may be made pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections&#160;7(a)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> unless (1)&#160;Employee has been given written notice by the Board describing the specific alleged action(s) or omission(s) that constitute &#8220;Cause,&#8221; 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The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for convenience at any time and for any reason, or no reason at all, upon written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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Upon the death or Disability of Employee, Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company shall automatically terminate and the Company shall pay to Employee or Employee&#8217;s estate, as applicable, (i)&#160;the Accrued Benefits, (ii)&#160;any earned and unpaid Annual Bonus for the calendar year preceding the year in which such termination of employment occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Year Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;an amount equal to the Target Bonus for the year in which such termination of employment occurs, prorated for the period of days beginning on January 1 and ending on the date of such termination of employment relative to the number of days in the applicable Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prorated Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that the Prorated Target Bonus described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">clause (iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of the preceding sentence, if any, shall be paid in a lump sum in cash on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the date on which Employee&#8217;s employment terminates (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and (iv)&#160;subject to Employee&#8217;s timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), continued participation (pursuant to COBRA) in the Company&#8217;s group health plan (to the extent permitted under applicable law and the terms of such plan) covering Employee and Employee&#8217;s eligible dependents for a period of thirty-six (36) months at Employee&#8217;s (or Employee&#8217;s estate&#8217;s, in the case of Employee&#8217;s death) sole expense, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that the Company may modify the continuation coverage contemplated by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the extent reasonably necessary to avoid the imposition of any excise taxes on the Company for failure to comply with the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 105(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended&#59; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended&#59; and&#47;or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended, and in each case, the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder (to the extent applicable) (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA Continuation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). For purposes of this Agreement, a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist if, as determined in the reasonable opinion of a licensed physician, Employee is unable to perform the essential functions of Employee&#8217;s position (after accounting for reasonable accommodation, if applicable and required by applicable law), due to physical or mental impairment, that continues for a period in excess of ninety (90) consecutive days or one hundred-eighty (180) days, whether or not consecutive (or for any longer period as may be required by applicable law), in any twelve (12)-month period.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In addition to Employee&#8217;s right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason, Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company for convenience at any time and for any other reason, or no reason at all, upon sixty (60) days&#8217; advance written notice to the Company (or ninety (90) days, in the event of a non-renewal of the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 7</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Term or any extension thereof)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if Employee has provided notice to the Company of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, the Company may determine, in its sole discretion, that such termination shall be effective on any date prior to the effective date of termination provided in such notice (and, if such earlier date is so required, then it shall not change the basis for Employee&#8217;s termination of employment nor be construed or interpreted as a termination of employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">). Upon the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i) the Company shall pay to Employee the Accrued Benefits and (ii) if Employee provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination and such termination occurs at or following the end of the initial Term, Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Additionally, if Employee (a) provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination related to a non-renewal of term (including any renewal terms following the initial Term), (b)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, a release of all claims in a form acceptable to the Company and generally used by the Company with respect to similarly situated employees (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Release</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, upon such termination, and (c) abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10,</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Employee shall receive the Prior Year Bonus, if any (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination of Employment without Cause, for Good Reason, or for the Company&#8217;s Non-Renewal of the Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Outside a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is not on or within eighteen (18) months following a Change in Control (as defined in the LTIP, and such period, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 8</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(i)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make severance payments to Employee in a total amount equal to (i)&#160;twelve (12) months&#8217; worth of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary and (ii) one (1) times the target Annual Bonus, where each are determined as of the year in which such termination occurs (such total severance payments being referred to as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Severance Payment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The Non-CIC Severance Payment will be divided into substantially equal installments paid over the twelve (12)-month period following the Termination Date. On the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the Termination Date (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">First Payment Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), the Company shall pay to Employee, without interest, a number of such installments equal to the number of such installments that would have been paid during the period beginning on the Termination Date and ending on the First Payment Date had the installments been paid on the Company&#8217;s regularly scheduled pay dates on or following the Termination Date, and each of the remaining installments shall be paid on the Company&#8217;s regularly scheduled pay dates during the remainder of such twelve (12)-month period&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that to the extent, if any, that the aggregate amount of the installments of the Non-CIC Severance Payment that would otherwise be paid pursuant to the preceding provisions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)(i)(A)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> after March 15 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Termination Date occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable March 15</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) exceeds the maximum exemption amount under Treasury Regulation Section&#160;1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii)(A), then such excess shall be paid to Employee in a lump sum on the Applicable March 15 (or the first Business Day (as defined below) preceding the Applicable March 15 if the Applicable March 15 is not a Business Day) and the installments of the Non-CIC Severance Payment payable after the Applicable March 15 shall be reduced by such excess (beginning with the installment first payable after the Applicable March 15 and continuing with the next succeeding installment until the aggregate reduction equals such excess). &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Business Day</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall mean any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Houston, Texas, are authorized or required by law to be closed.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(B)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall pay to Employee the Prorated Target Bonus, payable in a lump sum on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the Termination Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(C)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 9</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The payments and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">clauses (A)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(B)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(C)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above are collectively referred to herein as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Termination Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.&#8221;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Within a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is within the Change in Control Period, then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date, and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; 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Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that the Company determines, in good faith, that Employee is eligible to receive Termination Benefits pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> but, after such determination, the Company subsequently acquires evidence or determines that&#58; (i)&#160;Employee has failed to abide by the terms of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; or (ii)&#160;a Cause condition existed prior to the Termination Date that, had the Company been fully aware of such condition, would have given the Company the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, then the Company shall have the right to cease the payment of any future installments of the Termination Benefits and Employee shall promptly return to the Company all installments of the Termination Benefits received by Employee prior to the date that the Company determines that the conditions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(g)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> have been satisfied. 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Promptly (and in any event, within three (3) Business Days) upon becoming aware of (a)&#160;any actual or potential Conflict of Interest or (b)&#160;any lawsuit, claim or arbitration filed against or involving Employee or any trust or vehicle owned or controlled by Employee, in each case, Employee shall disclose such actual or potential Conflict of Interest or such lawsuit, claim or arbitration to the Board. 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In the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties on behalf of the Company Group hereunder, Employee will be provided with, and will have access to, Confidential Information (as defined below). 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Employee shall follow all Company policies and protocols regarding the security of all documents and other materials containing Confidential Information to the extent such policies have been clearly communicated in writing or made available to Employee (regardless of the medium on which Confidential Information is stored). 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For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information shall not include any information that (i)&#160;is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or wrongful act of Employee or any of Employee&#8217;s agents&#59; (ii)&#160;was available to Employee on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by a member of the Company Group&#59; or (iii)&#160;becomes available to Employee on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a member of the Company Group&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided, however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation with respect to confidentiality to, a member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict Employee from lawfully&#58; (i)&#160;initiating communications directly with, cooperating with, providing information to, causing information to be provided to, or otherwise assisting in an investigation by, any governmental or regulatory agency, entity, official or authority regarding a possible violation of any law&#59; (ii)&#160;responding to any inquiry or legal process directed to Employee from any such governmental authority&#59; (iii)&#160;testifying, participating or otherwise assisting in any action or proceeding by any such governmental authority relating to a possible violation of law&#59; or (iv)&#160;making any other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prohibit or restrict Employee to disclose an act of sexual abuse or facts related to an act of sexual abuse. Additionally, pursuant to the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that&#58; (A)&#160;is made (1)&#160;in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (2)&#160;solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law&#59; (B)&#160;is made to the individual&#8217;s attorney in relation to a lawsuit for retaliation against the individual for reporting a suspected violation of law&#59; or (C)&#160;is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Nothing in this Agreement requires Employee to obtain prior authorization before engaging in any conduct described in this paragraph, or to notify the Company that Employee has engaged in any such conduct.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 13</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">10.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Competition&#59; Non-Solicitation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee acknowledges that (i) Employee performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group that are irreplaceable, and that Employee&#8217;s performance of such services to a competing business will result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information which, if disclosed, would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company Group, (iii) in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment by a competitor, Employee would inevitably use or disclose such Confidential Information, (iv) the Company Group has substantial relationships with their Customers and Employee has had and will continue to have access to these Customers, (v) Employee has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group, and (vi) Employee has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from being a passive owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation engaged in a business that is in competition with the Company Group, so long as Employee has no active participation in the business of such corporation. Nothing in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall prohibit Employee from being employed or engaged by any Person where such work would not involve any level of strategic, advisory, technical, creative, sales, or other activity similar to that which Employee provided to the Company Group (acknowledging that Employee&#8217;s role requires Employee to engage in strategic, managerial, and business development activity), or is in connection with an independent business line of such Person that is wholly unrelated to the business of the Company Group and Confidential Information (subject to protocols to prevent Employee from disclosing Confidential Information). 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notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, general employment solicitations through advertisements for candidates in publicly available media for potential employment do not violate this provision&#59; so long as such advertisements are not specifically targeted at any Covered Individuals&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any Customer (as defined below) or any supplier or other business relation of the Company Group who was working with any member of the Company Group as of the Termination Date, to cease doing or reduce the amount of its business with such entity or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such Customer, supplier or other business relation and the Company Group&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">interfere, or aid or induce any other person or entity in interfering, with the relationship between the Company Group and any of their respective vendors, joint venturers or licensors.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Definitions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">For the purposes of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the following definitions shall apply&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Customer</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means any Person who or which&#58; (a) purchased products or services from the Company Group prior to or during Employee&#8217;s period of employment and who or which Employee was aware of or about whom or which Employee had received Confidential Information&#59; or (b)&#160;was called upon or solicited by the Company or any member of the Company Group or any of their predecessors prior to or during the twelve (12) month period prior to the Termination Date, if Employee had direct or indirect contact with such Person as an employee or service provider of the Company Group or learned or became aware of such Person during Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Person</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 15</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">11.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Ownership of Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee agrees that the Company shall own, and Employee shall (and hereby does) assign, all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, trademark rights, and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to any and all inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, developments, improvements, innovations, works of authorship, mask works, designs, know-how, ideas, formulae, processes, techniques, data and information authored, created, contributed to, made or conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by Employee during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, whether or not registerable under U.S. law or the laws of other jurisdictions, that either (i)&#160;relate, at the time of conception, reduction to practice, creation, derivation or development, to any member of the Company Group&#8217;s businesses or actual or anticipated research or development&#59; or (ii)&#160;were developed on any amount of the Company&#8217;s or any other member of the Company Group&#8217;s time or with the use of any member of the Company Group&#8217;s equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information (all of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall promptly disclose all Company Intellectual Property to the Company in writing. To support Employee&#8217;s disclosure obligation herein, Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all Company Intellectual Property made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group in such form as may be specified from time to time by the Company. These records shall be available to, and remain the sole property of, the Company at all times.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All of Employee&#8217;s works of authorship and associated copyrights created during the period in which Employee is employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group and in the scope of Employee&#8217;s employment or engagement shall be deemed to be &#8220;works made for hire&#8221; within the meaning of the Copyright Act. To the extent any right, title and interest in and to Company Intellectual Property cannot be assigned by Employee to the Company, Employee shall grant, and does hereby grant, to the Company Group an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, reproduce, practice and otherwise commercialize such rights, title and interest.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee recognizes that this Agreement will not be deemed to require assignment of any invention or intellectual property that Employee developed entirely on Employee&#8217;s own time without using the equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secrets, or Confidential Information of any member of the Company Group. 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Such acts may include execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i)&#160;in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, or other applications&#59; (ii)&#160;in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, moral rights, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights&#59; and (iii)&#160;in other legal proceedings related to the Company Intellectual Property or Confidential Information.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(g)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to communicate with Employee, the Company (or, as applicable, a member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, moral right, trade secret or other proprietary right under any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations of such Company Intellectual Property), Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of the Company&#8217;s duly </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 17</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee, (i)&#160;to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application&#59; (ii)&#160;to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement&#59; and (iii)&#160;to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, moral rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(h)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that Employee enters into, on behalf of any member of the Company Group, any contracts or agreements relating to any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, Employee shall assign such contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) promptly, and in any event, prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment. In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to coordinate with Employee, the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to assign said contracts or agreements, or if Employee does not assign said contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) and each of the Company&#8217;s duly authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee to execute said assignments and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the execution of said documents.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">12.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Defense of Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and for a period of one (1) year following the Termination Date, upon request from the Company, Employee shall reasonably cooperate with the Company Group, at times and locations agreeable to Employee, to assist (a) in the prosecution of any claims that may be made by the Company Group, to the extent that such claims may relate to Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and about which Employee has substantial knowledge and (b)&#160;in the defense of any claims that may be made by or against any member of the Company Group that relate to Employee&#8217;s actual or prior areas of responsibility (collectively, (a) and (b) of this sentence, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees to promptly inform the Company if Employee becomes aware of any lawsuits involving Claims that may be filed or threatened against the Company Group. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee also agrees to promptly inform the Company (to the extent that Employee is legally permitted to do so) if Employee is asked to assist in any investigation of the Company Group (or their actions) or another party attempts to obtain information or documents from Employee (other than in connection with any litigation or other proceeding in which Employee is a party-in-opposition) with respect to matters Employee believes in good faith to relate to any investigation of the Company Group, in each case, regardless of whether a lawsuit or other proceeding has then been filed against the Company Group with respect to such investigation, and shall not do so unless legally required. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, during the pendency of any litigation or other proceeding involving Claims, Employee shall not communicate with anyone (other than Employee&#8217;s attorneys and tax and&#47;or financial advisors and except to the extent that Employee determines in good faith is necessary in connection with </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 18</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder) with respect to the facts or subject matter of any pending or potential litigation or regulatory or administrative proceeding involving the Company Group without giving prior written notice to the Company or the Company&#8217;s counsel. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">13.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Disparagement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and thereafter, except to the extent compelled or required by applicable law and subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees Employee shall not disparage the Company Group or its respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders or successors or their respective products or services, in any manner (including but not limited to, verbally or via hard copy, websites, blogs, social media forums or any other medium)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from&#58; engaging in concerted activity relative to the terms and conditions of Employee&#8217;s employment and in communications protected under the National Labor Relations Act, filing a charge or providing information to any governmental agency&#59; and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">further</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from providing information in response to a subpoena or other enforceable legal process or as otherwise required by law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">14.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Reasonableness of Covenants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In signing this Agreement, Employee has carefully read and considered all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the restraints imposed under these </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee agrees that these restraints are necessary for the reasonable and proper protection of the Company Group and their trade secrets and Confidential Information and that such restraints are reasonable in respect to subject matter, length of time and geographic area. Employee acknowledges that each of these covenants has a unique, very substantial and immeasurable value to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">15.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Tolling</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the event of any violation of the provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the post-termination restrictions contained in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be extended by a period of time equal to the period of such violation, as determined by a court of law, it being the intention of the parties hereto that the running of the applicable post-termination restriction period shall be tolled during any period of such violation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">16.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Withholdings&#59; Deductions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company may withhold and deduct from any benefits and payments made or to be made pursuant to this Agreement (a)&#160;all federal, state, local and other taxes as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling and (b)&#160;any deductions consented to in writing by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">17.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Title and Headings&#59; Construction</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Titles and headings to Sections hereof are for the purpose of reference only and shall in no way limit, define or otherwise affect the provisions hereof. Any and all Exhibits or Attachments referred to in this Agreement are, by such reference, incorporated herein and made a part hereof for all purposes. Unless the context requires otherwise, all references to laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments refer to such laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments as they may be amended from time to time, and references to particular provisions of laws or regulations include a reference to the corresponding provisions of any succeeding law or regulation. All references to &#8220;dollars&#8221; or &#8220;$&#8221; in this Agreement refer to United States dollars. The words &#8220;herein&#8221;, &#8220;hereof&#8221;, &#8220;hereunder&#8221; and other compounds of the word &#8220;here&#8221; shall refer to the entire Agreement, including all Exhibits attached hereto, and not to any particular provision hereof. The word &#8220;or&#8221; </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 19</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">is not exclusive. Wherever the context so requires, the masculine gender includes the feminine or neuter, and the singular number includes the plural and conversely. All references to &#8220;including&#8221; shall be construed as meaning &#8220;including without limitation.&#8221; Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty or ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against any party hereto, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On the contrary, this Agreement has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">18.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable Law</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement shall in all respects be construed according to the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of laws principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. With respect to any claim or dispute related to or arising under this Agreement, the parties hereto consent to the exclusive jurisdiction, forum and venue of the state and federal courts (as applicable) located in Houston, Texas.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">19.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Entire Agreement and Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and, as of the Effective Date, supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto concerning the subject matter hereof (including, without limitation, the Prior Agreement), other than (x) that certain Indemnification Agreement, dated July 1, 2024, between the Company and the Employee or any other indemnification rights of the Employee that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date, (y) equity award agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date (other than as such equity award agreements may be modified hereby), or (z) the terms of Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for the calendar year 2025. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument executed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">20.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Enforcement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The parties hereto acknowledge that an award of damages for failure to comply with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of this Agreement may not be an adequate remedy for the Company attempting to enforce or prevent the breach of such provisions, and accordingly the parties hereto authorize the Company to (in addition to any other remedies or relief to which it may be entitled) bring an action against Employee for a permanent or temporary injunction, to compel the specific performance or any other equitable remedy by Employee of their obligations to comply with, or prevent the breach of or remedy the breach of, such provisions without proof of actual damages. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">21.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Waiver of Breach</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Any waiver of this Agreement must be executed by the party to be bound by such waiver. No waiver by either party hereto of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other party, or of compliance with any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party, will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by such other party or any similar or dissimilar provision or condition at the same or any subsequent time. The failure of either party hereto to take any action by reason of any breach will not deprive such party of the right to take action at any time.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">22.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Assignment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement is personal to Employee, and neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations hereunder shall be assignable or otherwise transferred by Employee. The Company may assign this Agreement without Employee&#8217;s consent, including </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 20</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">to any member of the Company Group and to any successor (whether by merger, purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the equity, assets or businesses of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">23.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Notices</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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The determination as to whether any such reduction in the amount of the benefits provided hereunder is necessary shall be made by the Compensation Committee in good faith and in consultation with tax and legal advisors of the Company. If a reduced payment or benefit is made and through error or otherwise that payment or benefit, when aggregated with other payments and benefits from the Company (or its affiliates) used in determining if a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; exists, exceeds one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s base amount, then Employee shall immediately repay such excess to the Company upon notification that an overpayment has been made. 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 Andrew Wright<br>Title&#58;  Chief Administrative Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SIGNATURE PAGE<br>TO AMENDED AND RESTATED <br>EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div></div></div><div id="i5dfa01facccb4009b206f1c9885313f5_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">EXHIBIT A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"><br><br></font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP TERM SHEET&#58; 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and, together with the Standard Awards, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">2026 Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU&#47;RSU Allocation</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Standard Awards and True-Up Awards to each consist of no more than 70% PSUs, with remaining 2026 Awards being RSUs.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs to have 3% &#8220;kicker&#8221; 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Ratably on each anniversary of grant.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs&#58; Cliff-vesting at end of term.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU Payout Mechanics</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs vesting based on the achievement of 5% (50% of target PSUs), 7.5% (100% of target PSUs) and 10% (200% of target PSUs) CAGR, respectively (and terms consistent with prior awards, including regarding interpolation).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">10-day VWAP of Company common stock used to determine CAGR achievement.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Good Leaver Vesting</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Pro-rata vesting. 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ifc85384bedc24f07ae0af7e024d200d8_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exhibit 10.4</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) is made and entered into by and between Talen Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Brad Berryman (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as of December 12, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effective Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company entered into an employment agreement, effective as of June 26, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">WHEREAS, Employee and the Company mutually desire that Employee continue to provide services to the Company and its affiliates on the terms set forth in this Agreement, which replaces and supersedes in its entirety the Prior Agreement as of the Effective Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of such employment and the mutual covenants and promises herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Employee agree as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period (as defined below), the Company shall continue to employ Employee, and Employee shall serve as Chief Operating Officer. In addition, if requested by the Company, Employee shall serve as an officer or member of the board of directors of any subsidiaries or affiliates of the Company without additional compensation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee expressly and irrevocably waives and releases any and all claims Employee may have to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason under the Prior Agreement and receive payments and benefits or otherwise be entitled to any other rights under any plan, program, agreement or other arrangement sponsored by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, as the result of Employee&#8217;s role change from Chief Nuclear Officer under the Prior Agreement to Chief Operating Officer (as set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 1(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above) and as a result of Employee directly reporting to the President rather than the Chief Executive Officer (as set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 2(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> below). </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Duties and Responsibilities of Employee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall actively engage in the business and affairs of the Company (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Group</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) as may be requested by the Chief Executive Officer (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">CEO</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) of the Company from time to time, devote such amount of Employee&#8217;s business time and attention as is reasonably necessary to manage the business and affairs of the Company, which amount of time will constitute substantially all of Employee&#8217;s business time. Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities shall include those normally incidental to the position(s) identified in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section (a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, as well as such additional duties as may be assigned to Employee by the CEO and&#47;or the President from time to time, which duties and responsibilities may include providing services to other members of the Company Group in addition to the Company. Employee may, without violating this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 2(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i)&#160;as a passive investment, own publicly traded securities in such </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">form or manner as will not require any services by Employee in the operation of the entities in which such securities are owned&#59; (ii)&#160;engage in charitable and civic activities, including, without limitation, serving on boards and committees of the United Way&#59; and (iii)&#160;with the prior written consent of the board of directors of the Company (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Board</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), engage in other personal and passive investment activities, in each case, so long as such engagements, ownership, interests or activities do not interfere with Employee&#8217;s ability to fulfill Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and are not inconsistent with Employee&#8217;s obligations to any member of the Company Group or competitive with the business of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee hereby represents and warrants that Employee is not the subject of, or a party to, any non-competition or non-solicitation covenant, non-disclosure agreement, or any other agreement, obligation, restriction or understanding that would prohibit Employee from executing this Agreement or fully performing each of Employee&#8217;s duties and responsibilities hereunder, or would in any manner, directly or indirectly, limit or affect any of the duties and responsibilities that may now or in the future be assigned to Employee hereunder. Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Employee is strictly prohibited from using or disclosing any confidential information belonging to any prior employer in the course of performing services for any member of the Company Group, and Employee promises that Employee shall not do so. Employee shall not introduce documents or other materials containing confidential information of any prior employer to the premises or property (including computers and computer systems) of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee owes each member of the Company Group fiduciary duties, and the obligations described in this Agreement are in addition to, and not in lieu of, the obligations Employee owes each member of the Company Group under statutory and common law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salar</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. During the Employment Period, the Company shall pay to Employee an annualized base salary of $600,000 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Base Salary</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) in consideration for Employee&#8217;s services under this Agreement, payable in substantially equal installments in conformity with the Company&#8217;s customary payroll practices for similarly situated employees as may exist from time to time, but no less frequently than twice per month. The Base Salary shall be subject to annual review by the Compensation Committee of the Board (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Compensation Committee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Beginning on January 1, 2026, Employee shall be eligible for bonus compensation for calendar year 2026 and each subsequent complete calendar year that Employee is employed by the Company hereunder (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Annual Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The target Annual Bonus for each such calendar year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Bonus Year</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) shall be 100% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary in effect as of the first day of the Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), with the actual Annual Bonus for a Bonus Year depending on the level of achievement of the performance targets as determined by the Compensation Committee for the Bonus Year. The performance targets that must be achieved in order to be eligible for certain bonus levels shall be established by the Compensation Committee annually, in its sole discretion, and communicated to Employee within </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 2</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the first one-hundred twenty (120) days of the applicable Bonus Year. Each Annual Bonus, if any, shall be paid as soon as administratively feasible after the Compensation Committee certifies whether the applicable performance targets for the applicable Bonus Year have been achieved, but in no event later than March 15 following the end of such Bonus Year. For the avoidance of doubt, Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for calendar year 2025 shall continue to be governed by the provisions of the Prior Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the contrary, but subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, no Annual Bonus, if any, nor any portion thereof, shall be payable for any Bonus Year unless Employee remains continuously employed by the Company from the Effective Date through the date on which such Annual Bonus is paid.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lon</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">-Term Incentive Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Annual Grants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Provided that Employee is employed by the Company on the applicable date of grant, Employee shall be eligible to receive an annual grant under the Talen Energy Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan or any applicable successor plan (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) with a grant date target value not less than 450% of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary as in effect on the applicable date of grant of such award on such terms and conditions as the Board and the Compensation Committee shall determine from time to time (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). All LTIP Awards granted to Employee under the LTIP shall be subject to and governed by the terms and provisions of the LTIP as in effect from time to time and the award agreements evidencing such awards. 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Notwithstanding anything in the applicable award agreement to the contrary, if, on the date of vesting of any performance stock units (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">PSUs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) other than the Emergence Grants (as defined below), Employee holds Company Common Stock (as defined in the LTIP) in excess of two hundred percent (200%) of the stock ownership requirements applicable to Employee under the Company&#8217;s Stock Ownership Guidelines, adopted March 14, 2024, and as updated from time to time, fifty percent (50%) of the net after-tax value of such PSUs will be settled in cash and the remaining portion will be settled in Company Common Stock, with such settlement otherwise subject to the terms of the applicable award agreement, subject to the Compensation Committee&#8217;s ability to modify the portion settled in cash to the extent necessitated by a Liquidity Constraint, as defined below.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Settlement of Emergence Grants&#59; Lock-Up</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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In consideration of the foregoing, Employee agrees not to sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase, transfer the economic risk of ownership in, make any short sale of, pledge or otherwise transfer or dispose of, any interest in any shares of Company Common Stock received upon settlement of the Emergence Grants (each, an &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Award Share</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) until November 13, 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Lock-Up Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that this paragraph shall not prohibit Employee from, during the last ninety (90) days of the Lock-Up Period, establishing a trading plan that meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, so long as no trades are executed pursuant to such plan during the Lock-Up Period. Employee acknowledges and agrees that any Award Share will be subject to legends, stop transfer orders or any other similar restriction that the Company deems reasonably necessary to effectuate the provisions set forth in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 3(c)(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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The term of Employee&#8217;s employment under this Agreement shall be for the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending on February 28, 2027 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Thereafter, the term of this Agreement will automatically extend, on the same terms, for successive one-year periods, unless either party provides written notice of non-extension at least ninety (90) days prior to the end of the Term or any extension thereof. 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Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the Company shall reimburse Employee for Employee&#8217;s reasonable out-of-pocket business-related expenses actually incurred in the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder during the Employment Period so long as Employee timely submits all documentation for such expenses, as required by Company policy in effect from time to time. Any such reimbursement of expenses shall be made by the Company upon or as soon as practicable following receipt of such documentation (but in any event not later than the close of Employee&#8217;s taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense is incurred by Employee). In no event shall any reimbursement be made to Employee for any expenses incurred after the date of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment with the Company.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 4</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">6.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">During the Employment Period, Employee shall continue to be eligible to participate in the same benefit plans and programs (including vacation and paid time off) in which other similarly situated Company employees are eligible to participate, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and programs in effect from time to time. The Company shall not, however, by reason of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 6</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, be obligated to institute, maintain, or refrain from changing, amending, or discontinuing, any such plan or policy, so long as such changes are similarly applicable to similarly situated Company employees generally.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall cover Employee under directors&#8217; and officers&#8217; liability insurance through the Employment Period, and, while potential liability exists, after the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company, on substantially similar terms as provided to other executive officers of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall reimburse Employee up to $5,000 for legal fees incurred in connection with the review of this Agreement. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination of Employment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate Employee&#8217;s Employment for Cause</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder at any time for Cause. 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or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(vi)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s conviction or plea of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">nolo contendere</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to a felony or crime involving moral turpitude.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, no determination of &#8220;Cause&#8221; may be made pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections&#160;7(a)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> unless (1)&#160;Employee has been given written notice by the Board describing the specific alleged action(s) or omission(s) that constitute &#8220;Cause,&#8221; and (2)&#160;Employee has failed to cure such acts or omissions within thirty (30) days of such notice from the Board. 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In addition, subject to any limitation under applicable law, previously paid compensation pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections&#160;3(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">3(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be subject to clawback or forfeiture and cancellation at the discretion of the Compensation Committee in the event of a termination of Employee&#8217;s employment for Cause.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or for Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for convenience at any time and for any reason, or no reason at all, upon written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company shall also have the right to terminate Employee by non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof upon ninety (90)-days written notice to Employee, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company at any time for Good Reason, in which event Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. For purposes of this Agreement, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Good Reason</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall mean any of the following occurring without Employee&#8217;s consent&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material adverse change in Employee&#8217;s title, duties or responsibilities (including reporting responsibilities)&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material reduction in Employee&#8217;s Base Salary&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a relocation of Employee&#8217;s primary work location to a distance of more than 50 miles from the Houston, Texas metropolitan area&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iv)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a material breach by the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 6</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company and Employee agree that Good Reason shall not exist unless and until Employee provides the Company with written notice of the acts alleged to constitute Good Reason within ninety (90) days of Employee&#8217;s knowledge of the occurrence of such event, and Company fails to cure such acts within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice. Employee must terminate employment within sixty (60) days following the expiration of such cure period for the termination to be on account of Good Reason.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Death or Disabilit</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">y. Upon the death or Disability of Employee, Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company shall automatically terminate and the Company shall pay to Employee or Employee&#8217;s estate, as applicable, (i)&#160;the Accrued Benefits, (ii)&#160;any earned and unpaid Annual Bonus for the calendar year preceding the year in which such termination of employment occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prior Year Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(iii)&#160;an amount equal to the Target Bonus for the year in which such termination of employment occurs, prorated for the period of days beginning on January 1 and ending on the date of such termination of employment relative to the number of days in the applicable Bonus Year (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Prorated Target Bonus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that the Prorated Target Bonus described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">clause (iii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of the preceding sentence, if any, shall be paid in a lump sum in cash on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the date on which Employee&#8217;s employment terminates (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and (iv)&#160;subject to Employee&#8217;s timely election of continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), continued participation (pursuant to COBRA) in the Company&#8217;s group health plan (to the extent permitted under applicable law and the terms of such plan) covering Employee and Employee&#8217;s eligible dependents for a period of thirty-six (36) months at Employee&#8217;s (or Employee&#8217;s estate&#8217;s, in the case of Employee&#8217;s death) sole expense, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that the Company may modify the continuation coverage contemplated by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> to the extent reasonably necessary to avoid the imposition of any excise taxes on the Company for failure to comply with the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 105(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended&#59; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended&#59; and&#47;or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended, and in each case, the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder (to the extent applicable) (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">COBRA Continuation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). For purposes of this Agreement, a &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Disability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall exist if, as determined in the reasonable opinion of a licensed physician, Employee is unable to perform the essential functions of Employee&#8217;s position (after accounting for reasonable accommodation, if applicable and required by applicable law), due to physical or mental impairment, that continues for a period in excess of ninety (90) consecutive days or one hundred-eighty (180) days, whether or not consecutive (or for any longer period as may be required by applicable law), in any twelve (12)-month period.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employee&#8217;s Ri</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">g</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ht to Terminate for Convenience or Non-Renewal of Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In addition to Employee&#8217;s right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment for Good Reason, Employee shall have the right to terminate Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company for convenience at any time and for any other reason, or no reason at all, upon sixty (60) days&#8217; advance written notice to the Company (or ninety (90) days, in the event of a non-renewal of the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 7</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Term or any extension thereof)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that if Employee has provided notice to the Company of Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, the Company may determine, in its sole discretion, that such termination shall be effective on any date prior to the effective date of termination provided in such notice (and, if such earlier date is so required, then it shall not change the basis for Employee&#8217;s termination of employment nor be construed or interpreted as a termination of employment pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">). Upon the termination of Employee&#8217;s employment pursuant to this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, (i) the Company shall pay to Employee the Accrued Benefits and (ii) if Employee provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination and such termination occurs at or following the end of the initial Term, Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Additionally, if Employee (a) provides at least ninety (90) days&#8217; written notice of termination related to a non-renewal of term (including any renewal terms following the initial Term), (b)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, a release of all claims in a form acceptable to the Company and generally used by the Company with respect to similarly situated employees (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Release</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, upon such termination, and (c) abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10,</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Employee shall receive the Prior Year Bonus, if any (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination of Employment without Cause, for Good Reason, or for the Company&#8217;s Non-Renewal of the Term</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Outside a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is not on or within eighteen (18) months following a Change in Control (as defined in the LTIP, and such period, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date (as defined below), and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 8</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(i)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; and (y)&#160;abides by the terms of each of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 8</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> then&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(A)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall make severance payments to Employee in a total amount equal to (i)&#160;twelve (12) months&#8217; worth of Employee&#8217;s Base Salary and (ii) one (1) times the target Annual Bonus, where each are determined as of the year in which such termination occurs (such total severance payments being referred to as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Severance Payment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). The Non-CIC Severance Payment will be divided into substantially equal installments paid over the twelve (12)-month period following the Termination Date. On the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the Termination Date (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">First Payment Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), the Company shall pay to Employee, without interest, a number of such installments equal to the number of such installments that would have been paid during the period beginning on the Termination Date and ending on the First Payment Date had the installments been paid on the Company&#8217;s regularly scheduled pay dates on or following the Termination Date, and each of the remaining installments shall be paid on the Company&#8217;s regularly scheduled pay dates during the remainder of such twelve (12)-month period&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that to the extent, if any, that the aggregate amount of the installments of the Non-CIC Severance Payment that would otherwise be paid pursuant to the preceding provisions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(f)(i)(A)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> after March 15 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Termination Date occurs (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable March 15</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) exceeds the maximum exemption amount under Treasury Regulation Section&#160;1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii)(A), then such excess shall be paid to Employee in a lump sum on the Applicable March 15 (or the first Business Day (as defined below) preceding the Applicable March 15 if the Applicable March 15 is not a Business Day) and the installments of the Non-CIC Severance Payment payable after the Applicable March 15 shall be reduced by such excess (beginning with the installment first payable after the Applicable March 15 and continuing with the next succeeding installment until the aggregate reduction equals such excess). &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Business Day</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; shall mean any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Houston, Texas, are authorized or required by law to be closed.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(B)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company shall pay to Employee the Prorated Target Bonus, payable in a lump sum on the Company&#8217;s first regularly scheduled pay date that is on or after the date that is sixty (60) days after the Termination Date.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(C)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall be eligible for the COBRA Continuation, subject to the same terms, conditions and eligibility requirements set forth in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(d)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 9</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The payments and benefits described in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">clauses (A)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(B)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">(C)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> above are collectively referred to herein as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-CIC Termination Benefits</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.&#8221;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Termination Within a Change in Control Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. If Employee&#8217;s employment hereunder is terminated (A) by the Company without Cause (including as a result of a non-renewal of the Term or any extension thereof) pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(b),</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> or is terminated by Employee for Good Reason pursuant to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 7(c)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and (B) the Termination Date is within the Change in Control Period, then the Company shall pay Employee the Accrued Benefits and any Prior Year Bonus (which amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date of such termination of employment but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Bonus Year to which such Annual Bonus relates) and, so long as (and only if) Employee&#58; (x)&#160;executes on or before the Release Expiration Date, and does not revoke within any time provided by the Company to do so, the Release, which Release shall release each member of the Company Group and their respective affiliates, and the foregoing entities&#8217; respective shareholders, members, partners, officers, managers, directors, fiduciaries, employees, representatives, agents and benefit plans (and fiduciaries of such plans) from any and all claims, including any and all causes of action arising out of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and any other member of the Company Group or the termination of such employment, but excluding all claims to severance payments, Employee may have under this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;7(f)(ii)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#59; 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In the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties on behalf of the Company Group hereunder, Employee will be provided with, and will have access to, Confidential Information (as defined below). 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Employee shall follow all Company policies and protocols regarding the security of all documents and other materials containing Confidential Information to the extent such policies have been clearly communicated in writing or made available to Employee (regardless of the medium on which Confidential Information is stored). 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For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information shall not include any information that (i)&#160;is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or wrongful act of Employee or any of Employee&#8217;s agents&#59; (ii)&#160;was available to Employee on a non-confidential basis before its disclosure by a member of the Company Group&#59; or (iii)&#160;becomes available to Employee on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a member of the Company Group&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided, however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation with respect to confidentiality to, a member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict Employee from lawfully&#58; (i)&#160;initiating communications directly with, cooperating with, providing information to, causing information to be provided to, or otherwise assisting in an investigation by, any governmental or regulatory agency, entity, official or authority regarding a possible violation of any law&#59; (ii)&#160;responding to any inquiry or legal process directed to Employee from any such governmental authority&#59; (iii)&#160;testifying, participating or otherwise assisting in any action or proceeding by any such governmental authority relating to a possible violation of law&#59; or (iv)&#160;making any other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of any applicable law. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prohibit or restrict Employee to disclose an act of sexual abuse or facts related to an act of sexual abuse. Additionally, pursuant to the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that&#58; (A)&#160;is made (1)&#160;in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney and (2)&#160;solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law&#59; (B)&#160;is made to the individual&#8217;s attorney in relation to a lawsuit for retaliation against the individual for reporting a suspected violation of law&#59; or (C)&#160;is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Nothing in this Agreement requires Employee to obtain prior authorization before engaging in any conduct described in this paragraph, or to notify the Company that Employee has engaged in any such conduct.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 13</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">10.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Competition&#59; Non-Solicitation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee acknowledges that (i) Employee performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group that are irreplaceable, and that Employee&#8217;s performance of such services to a competing business will result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) Employee has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information which, if disclosed, would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company Group, (iii) in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment by a competitor, Employee would inevitably use or disclose such Confidential Information, (iv) the Company Group has substantial relationships with their Customers and Employee has had and will continue to have access to these Customers, (v) Employee has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group, and (vi) Employee has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit Employee from being a passive owner of not more than three percent (3%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation engaged in a business that is in competition with the Company Group, so long as Employee has no active participation in the business of such corporation. Nothing in this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall prohibit Employee from being employed or engaged by any Person where such work would not involve any level of strategic, advisory, technical, creative, sales, or other activity similar to that which Employee provided to the Company Group (acknowledging that Employee&#8217;s role requires Employee to engage in strategic, managerial, and business development activity), or is in connection with an independent business line of such Person that is wholly unrelated to the business of the Company Group and Confidential Information (subject to protocols to prevent Employee from disclosing Confidential Information). In addition, the provisions of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall not be violated by Employee commencing employment with a subsidiary, division or unit of any entity that engages in a business in competition with the Company Group so long as Employee and such subsidiary, division or unit does not engage in a business in competition with the Company Group&#59;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 14</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any person who was, as of the Termination Date, an employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company or any member of the Company Group and with whom Employee had contact during the Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group or who otherwise worked in the same department as the Employee (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Covered Individuals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), to terminate his or her employment or contracting relationship with the Company Group, or to become an employee or independent contractor of any other Person or hire or retain any such employee, agent or individual, or take any action to materially assist or aid any other Person in identifying, hiring or soliciting any such employee, agent or individual (any employee, agent or individual retained as an independent contractor of the Company Group shall be deemed covered by this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;10(b)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> while so employed or retained and for a period of six (6) months thereafter)&#59; notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, general employment solicitations through advertisements for candidates in publicly available media for potential employment do not violate this provision&#59; so long as such advertisements are not specifically targeted at any Covered Individuals&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">solicit, induce or attempt to induce any Customer (as defined below) or any supplier or other business relation of the Company Group who was working with any member of the Company Group as of the Termination Date, to cease doing or reduce the amount of its business with such entity or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such Customer, supplier or other business relation and the Company Group&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">interfere, or aid or induce any other person or entity in interfering, with the relationship between the Company Group and any of their respective vendors, joint venturers or licensors.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(e)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Definitions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">For the purposes of this </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, the following definitions shall apply&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(i)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Customer</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means any Person who or which&#58; (a) purchased products or services from the Company Group prior to or during Employee&#8217;s period of employment and who or which Employee was aware of or about whom or which Employee had received Confidential Information&#59; or (b)&#160;was called upon or solicited by the Company or any member of the Company Group or any of their predecessors prior to or during the twelve (12) month period prior to the Termination Date, if Employee had direct or indirect contact with such Person as an employee or service provider of the Company Group or learned or became aware of such Person during Employee&#8217;s employment with or service to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(ii)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Person</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; means an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 15</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">11.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Ownership of Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee agrees that the Company shall own, and Employee shall (and hereby does) assign, all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights, trademark rights, and all other intellectual and industrial property rights of any sort throughout the world) relating to any and all inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, developments, improvements, innovations, works of authorship, mask works, designs, know-how, ideas, formulae, processes, techniques, data and information authored, created, contributed to, made or conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by Employee during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, whether or not registerable under U.S. law or the laws of other jurisdictions, that either (i)&#160;relate, at the time of conception, reduction to practice, creation, derivation or development, to any member of the Company Group&#8217;s businesses or actual or anticipated research or development&#59; or (ii)&#160;were developed on any amount of the Company&#8217;s or any other member of the Company Group&#8217;s time or with the use of any member of the Company Group&#8217;s equipment, supplies, facilities or Confidential Information (all of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Intellectual Property</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and Employee shall promptly disclose all Company Intellectual Property to the Company in writing. To support Employee&#8217;s disclosure obligation herein, Employee shall keep and maintain adequate and current written records of all Company Intellectual Property made by Employee (solely or jointly with others) during the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group in such form as may be specified from time to time by the Company. These records shall be available to, and remain the sole property of, the Company at all times.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">All of Employee&#8217;s works of authorship and associated copyrights created during the period in which Employee is employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group and in the scope of Employee&#8217;s employment or engagement shall be deemed to be &#8220;works made for hire&#8221; within the meaning of the Copyright Act. To the extent any right, title and interest in and to Company Intellectual Property cannot be assigned by Employee to the Company, Employee shall grant, and does hereby grant, to the Company Group an exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees) to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, reproduce, practice and otherwise commercialize such rights, title and interest.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(c)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee recognizes that this Agreement will not be deemed to require assignment of any invention or intellectual property that Employee developed entirely on Employee&#8217;s own time without using the equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secrets, or Confidential Information of any member of the Company Group. In addition, this Agreement does not apply to any invention that qualifies fully for protection from assignment to the Company under any specifically applicable state law or regulation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(d)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">To the extent allowed by law, this Section applies to all rights that may be known as or referred to as &#8220;moral rights,&#8221; &#8220;artist&#8217;s rights,&#8221; &#8220;droit moral,&#8221; or the like, including without limitation those rights set forth in 17 U.S.C. &#167;106A (collectively, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Moral Rights</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). 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If, in the course of Employee&#8217;s employment with or affiliation with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, Employee incorporates into the product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group a Prior Invention, the Company Group is hereby granted and will have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use, import, export, offer for sale, sell and otherwise commercialize such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process, or device of any member of the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(f)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Employee shall perform, during and after the period in which Employee is or has been employed by or affiliated with the Company or any other member of the Company Group, all acts deemed necessary or desirable by the Company to permit and assist each member of the Company Group, at the Company&#8217;s expense, in obtaining and enforcing the full benefits, enjoyment, rights and title throughout the world in the Company Intellectual Property and Confidential Information assigned, to be assigned, or licensed to the Company under this Agreement. Such acts may include execution of documents and assistance or cooperation (i)&#160;in the filing, prosecution, registration, and memorialization of assignment of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, or other applications&#59; (ii)&#160;in the enforcement of any applicable patents, copyrights, mask work, moral rights, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights&#59; and (iii)&#160;in other legal proceedings related to the Company Intellectual Property or Confidential Information.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(g)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to communicate with Employee, the Company (or, as applicable, a member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to file, prosecute, register, or memorialize the assignment of any patent, copyright, mask work or other applications or to enforce any patent, copyright, mask work, moral right, trade secret or other proprietary right under any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property (including derivative works, improvements, renewals, extensions, continuations, divisionals, continuations in part, continuing patent applications, reissues, and reexaminations of such Company Intellectual Property), Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of the Company&#8217;s duly </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 17</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee, (i)&#160;to execute, file, prosecute, register and memorialize the assignment of any such application&#59; (ii)&#160;to execute and file any documentation required for such enforcement&#59; and (iii)&#160;to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the filing, prosecution, registration, memorialization of assignment, issuance, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, mask works, moral rights, trade secrets or other rights under the Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, all with the same legal force and effect as if executed by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(h)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In the event that Employee enters into, on behalf of any member of the Company Group, any contracts or agreements relating to any Confidential Information or Company Intellectual Property, Employee shall assign such contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) promptly, and in any event, prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment. In the event that after reasonable and diligent effort to coordinate with Employee, the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) is unable to secure Employee&#8217;s signature to any document required to assign said contracts or agreements, or if Employee does not assign said contracts or agreements to the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) prior to Employee&#8217;s termination of employment, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company (or the applicable member of the Company Group) and each of the Company&#8217;s duly authorized officers and agents as Employee&#8217;s agents and attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Employee&#8217;s behalf and instead of Employee to execute said assignments and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the execution of said documents.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">12.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Defense of Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and for a period of one (1) year following the Termination Date, upon request from the Company, Employee shall reasonably cooperate with the Company Group, at times and locations agreeable to Employee, to assist (a) in the prosecution of any claims that may be made by the Company Group, to the extent that such claims may relate to Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and about which Employee has substantial knowledge and (b)&#160;in the defense of any claims that may be made by or against any member of the Company Group that relate to Employee&#8217;s actual or prior areas of responsibility (collectively, (a) and (b) of this sentence, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees to promptly inform the Company if Employee becomes aware of any lawsuits involving Claims that may be filed or threatened against the Company Group. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee also agrees to promptly inform the Company (to the extent that Employee is legally permitted to do so) if Employee is asked to assist in any investigation of the Company Group (or their actions) or another party attempts to obtain information or documents from Employee (other than in connection with any litigation or other proceeding in which Employee is a party-in-opposition) with respect to matters Employee believes in good faith to relate to any investigation of the Company Group, in each case, regardless of whether a lawsuit or other proceeding has then been filed against the Company Group with respect to such investigation, and shall not do so unless legally required. Subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section&#160;9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, during the pendency of any litigation or other proceeding involving Claims, Employee shall not communicate with anyone (other than Employee&#8217;s attorneys and tax and&#47;or financial advisors and except to the extent that Employee determines in good faith is necessary in connection with </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 18</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the performance of Employee&#8217;s duties hereunder) with respect to the facts or subject matter of any pending or potential litigation or regulatory or administrative proceeding involving the Company Group without giving prior written notice to the Company or the Company&#8217;s counsel. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">13.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Non-Disparagement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. During the Employment Period and thereafter, except to the extent compelled or required by applicable law and subject to </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 9(e)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, Employee agrees Employee shall not disparage the Company Group or its respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders or successors or their respective products or services, in any manner (including but not limited to, verbally or via hard copy, websites, blogs, social media forums or any other medium)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">however</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from&#58; engaging in concerted activity relative to the terms and conditions of Employee&#8217;s employment and in communications protected under the National Labor Relations Act, filing a charge or providing information to any governmental agency&#59; and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">further</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, that nothing in this Section shall prevent Employee from providing information in response to a subpoena or other enforceable legal process or as otherwise required by law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">14.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Reasonableness of Covenants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In signing this Agreement, Employee has carefully read and considered all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including the restraints imposed under these </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Employee agrees that these restraints are necessary for the reasonable and proper protection of the Company Group and their trade secrets and Confidential Information and that such restraints are reasonable in respect to subject matter, length of time and geographic area. Employee acknowledges that each of these covenants has a unique, very substantial and immeasurable value to the Company Group.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">15.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Tolling</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. In the event of any violation of the provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> hereto, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the post-termination restrictions contained in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Section 10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> shall be extended by a period of time equal to the period of such violation, as determined by a court of law, it being the intention of the parties hereto that the running of the applicable post-termination restriction period shall be tolled during any period of such violation.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">16.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Withholdings&#59; Deductions</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The Company may withhold and deduct from any benefits and payments made or to be made pursuant to this Agreement (a)&#160;all federal, state, local and other taxes as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling and (b)&#160;any deductions consented to in writing by Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">17.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Title and Headings&#59; Construction</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Titles and headings to Sections hereof are for the purpose of reference only and shall in no way limit, define or otherwise affect the provisions hereof. Any and all Exhibits or Attachments referred to in this Agreement are, by such reference, incorporated herein and made a part hereof for all purposes. Unless the context requires otherwise, all references to laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments refer to such laws, regulations, contracts, documents, agreements and instruments as they may be amended from time to time, and references to particular provisions of laws or regulations include a reference to the corresponding provisions of any succeeding law or regulation. All references to &#8220;dollars&#8221; or &#8220;$&#8221; in this Agreement refer to United States dollars. The words &#8220;herein&#8221;, &#8220;hereof&#8221;, &#8220;hereunder&#8221; and other compounds of the word &#8220;here&#8221; shall refer to the entire Agreement, including all Exhibits attached hereto, and not to any particular provision hereof. The word &#8220;or&#8221; </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 19</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">is not exclusive. Wherever the context so requires, the masculine gender includes the feminine or neuter, and the singular number includes the plural and conversely. All references to &#8220;including&#8221; shall be construed as meaning &#8220;including without limitation.&#8221; Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty or ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against any party hereto, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On the contrary, this Agreement has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">18.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Applicable Law</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement shall in all respects be construed according to the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of laws principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. With respect to any claim or dispute related to or arising under this Agreement, the parties hereto consent to the exclusive jurisdiction, forum and venue of the state and federal courts (as applicable) located in Houston, Texas.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">19.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Entire Agreement and Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and, as of the Effective Date, supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto concerning the subject matter hereof (including, without limitation, the Prior Agreement), other than (x) that certain Indemnification Agreement, dated May 17, 2023, between the Company and the Employee or any other indemnification rights of the Employee that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date, (y) equity award agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">that are in effect or outstanding as of the Effective Date (other than as such equity award agreements may be modified hereby), or (z) the terms of Employee&#8217;s Annual Bonus for the calendar year 2025. This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument executed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">20.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Enforcement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The parties hereto acknowledge that an award of damages for failure to comply with </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">11</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">12</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">13</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> of this Agreement may not be an adequate remedy for the Company attempting to enforce or prevent the breach of such provisions, and accordingly the parties hereto authorize the Company to (in addition to any other remedies or relief to which it may be entitled) bring an action against Employee for a permanent or temporary injunction, to compel the specific performance or any other equitable remedy by Employee of their obligations to comply with, or prevent the breach of or remedy the breach of, such provisions without proof of actual damages. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">21.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Waiver of Breach</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Any waiver of this Agreement must be executed by the party to be bound by such waiver. No waiver by either party hereto of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other party, or of compliance with any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party, will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by such other party or any similar or dissimilar provision or condition at the same or any subsequent time. The failure of either party hereto to take any action by reason of any breach will not deprive such party of the right to take action at any time.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">22.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Assignment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement is personal to Employee, and neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations hereunder shall be assignable or otherwise transferred </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> 20</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">by Employee. The Company may assign this Agreement without Employee&#8217;s consent, including to any member of the Company Group and to any successor (whether by merger, purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the equity, assets or businesses of the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">23.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Notices</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. Notices provided for in this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly received (a)&#160;when delivered in person&#59; (b)&#160;on the first Business Day after such notice is sent by express overnight courier service&#59; or (c)&#160;on the second Business Day following deposit with a nationally-recognized second-day courier service with proof of receipt maintained, in each case, to the following address, as applicable&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to the Company, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Talen Energy Corporation<br>2929 Allen Parkway, 22</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">nd</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Floor</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Houston, Texas 77019<br>Attention&#58; Board of Directors<br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">If to Employee, addressed to&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Brad Berryman</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#91;Address redacted&#93;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"><br>(</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Or, if different, the latest address on file with the Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">)</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">24.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Counterparts</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, including by electronic mail or facsimile, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a copy hereof containing multiple signature pages, each signed by one party, but together signed by both parties hereto.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">25.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Deemed Resignations</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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Any payments under this Agreement that may be excluded from Section 409A either as separation pay due to an involuntary separation from service or as a short-term deferral shall be excluded from Section 409A to the maximum extent possible. For purposes of Section 409A, each installment payment provided under this Agreement shall be treated as a separate payment. 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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representations that the payments and benefits provided under this Agreement are exempt from, or compliant with, Section 409A and in no event shall any member of the Company Group be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest or other expenses that may be incurred by Employee on account of non-compliance with Section 409A.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">27.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Effect of Termination</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. The provisions of </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Sections 7(a)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">8-15</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">20</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">25</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">26</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> and those provisions necessary to interpret and enforce them, shall survive any termination of this Agreement and any termination of the employment relationship between Employee and the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#010000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">28.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Third-Party Beneficiaries</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">. 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The determination as to whether any such reduction in the amount of the benefits provided hereunder is necessary shall be made by the Compensation Committee in good faith and in consultation with tax and legal advisors of the Company. If a reduced payment or benefit is made and through error or otherwise that payment or benefit, when aggregated with other payments and benefits from the Company (or its affiliates) used in determining if a &#8220;parachute payment&#8221; exists, exceeds one dollar ($1.00) less than three times Employee&#8217;s base amount, then Employee shall immediately repay such excess to the Company upon notification that an overpayment has been made. 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Andrew Wright<br>Title&#58; Chief Administrative Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SIGNATURE PAGE<br>TO AMENDED AND RESTATED<br>EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT</font></div></div></div><div id="ifc85384bedc24f07ae0af7e024d200d8_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">EXHIBIT A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"><br><br></font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">LTIP TERM SHEET&#58; 2026 AWARDS </font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:28.257%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:69.543%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Target Award Amount</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Awards consisting of (i) ordinary-course grants with a grant date fair value equal to 100% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Standard Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">plus</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> (ii) a one-time grant of awards with a grant date fair value equal to 67% of Employee&#8217;s LTIP target (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">True-Up Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; and, together with the Standard Awards, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">2026 Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU&#47;RSU Allocation</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Standard Awards and True-Up Awards to each consist of no more than 70% PSUs, with remaining 2026 Awards being RSUs.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs to have 3% &#8220;kicker&#8221; 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Ratably on each anniversary of grant.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs&#58; Cliff-vesting at end of term.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">PSU Payout Mechanics</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">PSUs vesting based on the achievement of 5% (50% of target PSUs), 7.5% (100% of target PSUs) and 10% (200% of target PSUs) CAGR, respectively (and terms consistent with prior awards, including regarding interpolation).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">10-day VWAP of Company common stock used to determine CAGR achievement.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:125%">Good Leaver Vesting</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;border-right:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:27pt;padding-right:2.77pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:13.8pt">Pro-rata vesting. 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i2a1900e0535748da88ee89445b07cae3_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Exhibit 10.5</font></div></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">December 12, 2025</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">John Wander</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">via e-mail</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Re&#58;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Transition and Retirement Agreement and Release of Claims</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dear John&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This letter agreement (this &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Letter Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) confirms our agreement regarding the transition of your duties and retirement from employment with Talen Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and its direct and indirect subsidiaries (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Company Group</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Reference is made herein to (a) the Employment Agreement, by and between you and the Company, dated as of June 19, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Employment Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; (b) the Talen Energy Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Plan</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; (c) the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, by and between you and the Company, dated as of June 16, 2023 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Emergence RSU Award</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; (d)&#160;the Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, by and between you and the Company, dated as of June 16, 2023 (together with the Emergence RSU Award, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Emergence Awards</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), (e) the Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, by and between you and the Company, dated as of February 28, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">2025 RSU Award</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), and (f)&#160;the Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement, by and between you and the Company, dated as of February 28, 2025 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">2025 PSU Award</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221; and, collectively with the Emergence Awards and the 2025 RSU Award, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Award Agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;). For the avoidance of doubt, the Employment Agreement will continue to govern your employment with the Company until the Transition Date (as defined below).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:35pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Capitalized terms used but not defined herein will have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Plan. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Transition Period. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(a)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Effective as of the date of this Agreement, you and the Company acknowledge and agree that (i) you will no longer be eligible to receive any new grants of equity awards under the Plan and (ii) you shall report directly to the President of the Company rather than the Company&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(b)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Effective as of May 20, 2026 (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Transition Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), you will transition from your role as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company to the role of Senior Advisor to the Company, reporting to the President of the Company. 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You further understand that neither this Letter Agreement nor the General Release limits your ability to (a) communicate with any Government Agencies or otherwise participate in any investigation or proceeding that may be conducted by any Government Agency, including providing documents or other information, without notice to the Company, or (b) make any other disclosures required by applicable law or legal process or other disclosures under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation. 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Accordingly, the parties to this Letter Agreement have the right to disclose in confidence trade secrets to federal, state and local government officials, or to an attorney, for the sole purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law. 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This Letter Agreement will bind the heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns of you and the Company Group and inure to the benefit of you and the Company Group and your and their respective heirs, successors and assigns (as applicable)&#59; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">provided</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> that, you may not assign your rights or obligations hereunder. 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Additionally, the parties agree that electronic reproductions of signatures (</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">i.e.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, scanned PDF versions of original signatures, facsimile transmissions and the like) will be treated as original signatures for purposes of execution of this Letter Agreement.</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">&#91;SIGNATURES ON FOLLOWING PAGE&#93;</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">5</font></div></div></div><div id="i2a1900e0535748da88ee89445b07cae3_4"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;If this Letter Agreement accurately reflects your understanding as to the terms and conditions set forth herein, please sign one copy of this Letter Agreement in the space provided below and return the same for the records of the Company.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Very truly yours,</font></div><div style="text-indent:216pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">TALEN ENERGY CORPORATION <br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:216pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">By&#58; 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I understand and agree that I will receive or retain the Termination Benefits provided that I&#58; (i)&#160;execute this General Release and do not revoke this General Release within the time period permitted hereafter and (ii) comply with the Letter Agreement, this General Release and the Restrictive Covenants at all times. Such consideration provided to me under the Letter Agreement will not be considered compensation for purposes of any employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement maintained or hereafter established by the Company Group (as defined in the Letter Agreement). I also acknowledge and represent that I have received all payments and benefits that I am entitled to receive (as of the date hereof) by virtue of any employment by the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Except as provided in paragraph 4 below and except for the provisions of the Letter Agreement that expressly survive the termination of my employment with the Company, I knowingly and voluntarily (for myself and my heirs, executors, administrators and assigns) release and forever discharge the Company Group (as defined in the Letter Agreement) and all present and former managers, directors, officers, agents, representatives, employees, successors and assigns of the Company Group and their direct and indirect owners (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Released Parties</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;) from any and all claims, suits, controversies, actions, causes of action, cross-claims, counter-claims, demands, debts, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, punitive or exemplary damages, other damages, claims for costs and attorneys&#8217; fees or liabilities of any nature whatsoever in law and in equity, both past and present (through the date I execute this General Release), and whether known or unknown, suspected or claimed against the Company or any of the Released Parties (collectively, &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Claims</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;), that I, my spouse or any of my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns may have, including, without limitation, any Claims (i) that arise out of or are connected with any matter, including my employment with, or my separation or termination from, the Company&#59; (ii) that arise under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended&#59; the Civil Rights Act of 1991&#59; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (including the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act) (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">ADEA</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8221;)&#59; the Equal Pay Act of 1963, as amended&#59; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990&#59; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993&#59; the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act&#59; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974&#59; any applicable Executive Orders&#59; the Fair Labor Standards Act&#59; or their state or local counterparts&#59; or under any other federal, state or local civil or human rights law, or under any other local, state or federal law, regulation or ordinance&#59; or </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="margin-top:3pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:3pt"><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">under any public policy, contract or tort or under common law, including any Claim for wrongful discharge, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress or defamation&#59; (iii) that arise under any policies, practices or procedures of the Company&#59; or (iv) for costs, fees or other expenses, including attorneys&#8217; fees incurred in these matters.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I represent that I have made no assignment or transfer of any Claim covered by paragraph 2 above.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">4.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I agree that this General Release does not waive or release any rights or Claims that I may have under the ADEA that arise after the date I execute this General Release. I acknowledge and agree that my separation from employment with the Company is in compliance with the terms of the Letter Agreement and company policy and shall not serve as the basis for any Claim (including, without limitation, any Claim under the ADEA). </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">5.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In signing this General Release, I acknowledge and intend that it shall be effective as a bar to each and every one of the Claims hereinabove mentioned or implied. I expressly consent that this General Release shall be given full force and effect according to each and all of its express terms and provisions, including those relating to unknown and unsuspected Claims (notwithstanding any state statute that expressly limits the effectiveness of a general release of unknown, unsuspected and unanticipated Claims), if any, as well as those relating to any other Claims hereinabove mentioned or implied. I acknowledge and agree that this waiver is an essential and material term of this General Release and that without such waiver the Company would not have agreed to the terms of the Letter Agreement. I further agree that in the event I should bring a Claim seeking damages against the Company, or in the event I should seek to recover against the Company in any Claim brought by a governmental agency on my behalf, this General Release shall serve as a complete defense to such Claims to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">6.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">I represent that I am not aware of any pending charge or complaint of the type described in paragraph 2 above as of the execution of this General Release. I represent that I am not aware of any Claim by me other than the Claims that are released by this General Release. I acknowledge that I may hereafter discover Claims or facts in addition to or different than those which I now know or believe to exist with respect to the subject matter of the release set forth in paragraph 2 above and which, if known or suspected at the time of entering into this General Release, may have materially affected this General</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Release and my decision to enter into it. Nevertheless, I hereby waive any Claim that might arise as a result of such different or additional Claims or facts.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I agree that neither this General Release, nor the furnishing of the consideration for this General Release, shall be deemed or construed at any time to be an admission by the Company, any Released Party or myself of any improper or unlawful conduct.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">8.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I agree that I will forfeit all unpaid or unprovided amounts and&#47;or benefits payable or provided by the Company pursuant to the Letter Agreement if I challenge the validity of this General Release. 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ie361f1fa3031422eaf4f9f5bdf8f09b4_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Exhibit 99.1</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Talen Energy Announces Strategic Realignment of Executive Management</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">HOUSTON, December 15, 2025</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> &#8212; Talen Energy Corporation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> (&#8220;Talen,&#8221; the &#8220;Company,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; or &#8220;our&#8221;) </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(</font><font style="color:#0e32e1;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">NASDAQ&#58; TLN</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">), a leading independent power producer, </font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">announced today that its Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) approved several changes to Talen&#8217;s executive management team to align with its business strategy and provide continuity of leadership.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;The Board has been laser focused on creating and preserving shareholder value by ensuring continuity of leadership and personal growth opportunities for our entire team. As such, I am extremely pleased to announce these leadership transitions that allow us to retain the management team. The Board has complete confidence in Talen&#8217;s executive team to continue building on the successes of the past several years and look forward to the continued value that the entire Talen team will deliver to the Company&#8217;s stakeholders,&#8221; said Stephen Schaefer, Chairman of the Board.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Effective immediately&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#9642;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.81pt">Mac McFarland will continue in his role as the Company&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer (responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Company) and a member of the Board&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#9642;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.81pt">Terry L. Nutt has been appointed President of the Company (responsible for the daily operations of the Company&#8217;s business, including plant operations, commercial activities, administrative functions, regulatory and other external stakeholder engagements)&#59; and </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#9642;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.81pt">Cole Muller has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company (responsible for accounting, treasury, risk management, financial planning, investor relations, tax and internal controls).  </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;I appreciate the confidence that the Board has in the team, and I&#8217;m excited about Talen&#8217;s future. We believe our talented team will build on our successes and capitalize on the opportunities in front of us. In Terry&#8217;s new role, he brings extensive knowledge of the industry and commodity markets given his prior experience. He is highly respected both inside and outside of Talen and has been a good partner to me. Additionally, Cole brings a strong financial and analytical presence to the CFO role. He is a fixture with the investment community, having been a large part of our investor outreach over the past two years. Both will serve Talen&#8217;s stakeholders well in their new roles, and I look forward to focusing on strategy and execution of the Talen flywheel,&#8221; said Mac McFarland. </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In addition, the Company announced that&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Brad Berryman will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer of the Company (responsible for operations of Talen&#8217;s entire power generation fleet), effective immediately, </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Ed Casulli will assume the role of Chief Nuclear Officer of the Company (responsible for operations of Talen&#8217;s Susquehanna nuclear power facility), effective immediately&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Dale Lebsack will assume the role of Chief Asset Development Officer of the Company (responsible for assessing, designing and constructing new generation assets for Talen, as well as developing site opportunities for new generation and large load interconnections), effective immediately&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Darren Olagues will continue as the Company&#8217;s Chief Development Officer (maintaining responsibility for corporate strategy and M&#38;A activity, and expanding to oversee data center commercial strategies)&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Chris Morice will continue as the Company&#8217;s Chief Commercial Officer (responsible for the Company&#8217;s hedging and trading activities across all commodities and commercial origination efforts)&#59;  </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Andy Wright will continue as the Company&#8217;s Chief Administrative Officer (responsible for human resources, information technology and corporate security)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">John Wander, the Company&#8217;s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, has notified the Company of his intent to retire at the end of June 2026. Mr. Wander will continue to provide oversight of the Company&#8217;s legal functions until retirement, and the Company will conduct a search process to identify Mr. Wander&#8217;s replacement.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;We want to thank John Wander for his leadership and tireless efforts these past three years and wish him well in his upcoming retirement,&#8221; Schaefer said.  </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:center;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1</font></div><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Nutt and Muller Biographies</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mr. Nutt served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company from July 2023 through his appointment as President. He has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, including time spent at independent power producers and energy trading firms. From 2018 until 2023, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director for EDF Trading North America (&#8220;EDF&#8221;), the energy commodity trading subsidiary of &#201;lectricit&#233; de France (EDF) S.A., a multinational energy utility headquartered in France. Prior to his service at EDF, Mr. Nutt served in multiple senior finance positions at Vistra Corporation (and its predecessor entities) (&#8220;Vistra&#8221;), including as Senior Vice President and Controller and Senior Vice President of Risk Management. Prior to his time at Vistra, Mr. Nutt worked in various finance roles at Dynegy Inc. Mr. Nutt earned his M.S. in Accounting and his B.B.A., summa cum laude, from Texas A&#38;M University.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mr. Muller most recently served as the Company&#8217;s Executive Vice President, Strategic Ventures prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Muller has been responsible for leading the Company&#8217;s strategic direction related to digital infrastructure development and data center contracting. Prior to that, he led the Company&#8217;s PJM Fossil business unit, where he was responsible for the Company&#8217;s eight gigawatts of PJM generation assets. Before joining the Company in 2018, he was an Associate Partner for McKinsey &#38; Co., advising energy clients, including the Company, on strategic opportunities and operational transformations. He also previously served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Muller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. He received his MBA from The Wharton School, and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Employment Agreements and May 2026 Equity Award Settlement</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with these leadership changes. Messrs. McFarland, Nutt, Muller, Wright, Berryman, Morice, Lebsack and Olagues all entered into new employment agreements that replace the existing agreements that were generally set to terminate in May 2026.  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We own and operate approximately 13.2 gigawatts of power infrastructure in the United States, including 2.2 gigawatts of nuclear power and a significant dispatchable fossil fleet. We produce and sell electricity, capacity, and ancillary services into wholesale U.S. power markets, with our generation fleet located in the Mid-Atlantic, Ohio and Montana. Our team is committed to generating power safely and reliably, delivering the most value per megawatt produced. Talen is also powering the digital infrastructure revolution. We are well-positioned to serve this growing industry, as artificial intelligence data centers increasingly demand more reliable, clean power. Talen is headquartered in Houston, Texas. 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These forward-looking statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this communication, or incorporated by reference into this communication, are forward-looking statements. Throughout this communication, we have attempted to identify forward-looking statements by using words such as &#8220;anticipate,&#8221; &#8220;believe,&#8221; &#8220;continue,&#8221; &#8220;could,&#8221; &#8220;estimate,&#8221; &#8220;expect,&#8221; &#8220;forecasts,&#8221; &#8220;goal,&#8221; &#8220;intend,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;plan,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;predict,&#8221; &#8220;project,&#8221; &#8220;seek,&#8221; &#8220;should,&#8221; &#8220;will,&#8221; or other forms of these words or similar words or expressions or the negative thereof, although not all forward-looking statements contain these terms. 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    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntitiesTable_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntitiesTable" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entities [Table]</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntitiesTable" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntitiesTable"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntitiesTable" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntitiesTable" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName_019b08ae-b237-7696-b278-3f66404c54a1_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Security Exchange Name</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Security Exchange Name</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_SecurityExchangeName"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:to="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown_019b08ae-b237-7411-a931-a913a48829f0_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, City or Town</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, City or Town</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial_019b08ae-b237-7d84-84b0-430576cc60b4_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Soliciting Material</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Soliciting Material</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_SolicitingMaterial"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:to="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_CoverAbstract_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_CoverAbstract" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Cover [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_CoverAbstract" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_CoverAbstract"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_CoverAbstract" xlink:to="lab_dei_CoverAbstract" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_CityAreaCode_019b08ae-b237-7c40-82f4-9d0241302163_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_CityAreaCode" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">City Area Code</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_CityAreaCode_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_CityAreaCode" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">City Area Code</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_CityAreaCode" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_CityAreaCode"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_CityAreaCode" xlink:to="lab_dei_CityAreaCode" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_AmendmentFlag_019b08ae-b237-7a8b-baf1-d52a0963b087_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_AmendmentFlag" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Amendment Flag</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_AmendmentFlag_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_AmendmentFlag" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Amendment Flag</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_AmendmentFlag" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_AmendmentFlag"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_AmendmentFlag" xlink:to="lab_dei_AmendmentFlag" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber_019b08ae-b237-75f9-9b5e-848aeb2500ab_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Tax Identification Number</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Tax Identification Number</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_TradingSymbol_019b08ae-b237-7c3a-b45f-b4cb8e201ee5_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_TradingSymbol" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Trading Symbol</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_TradingSymbol_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_TradingSymbol" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Trading Symbol</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_TradingSymbol" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_TradingSymbol"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_TradingSymbol" xlink:to="lab_dei_TradingSymbol" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityRegistrantName_019b08ae-b237-7fb3-a31a-a64a84b5d1f5_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityRegistrantName" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Registrant Name</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityRegistrantName_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityRegistrantName" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Registrant Name</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityRegistrantName" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityRegistrantName"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityRegistrantName" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityRegistrantName" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer_019b08ae-b237-7a3d-a598-81e69b317a0a_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Pre-commencement Tender Offer</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Pre-commencement Tender Offer</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer" xlink:to="lab_dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract_019b08ae-b237-7fbd-b1b9-2eed44826dad_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Statement of Financial Position [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Statement of Financial Position [Abstract]</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract" xlink:href="https://xbrl.fasb.org/us-gaap/2024/elts/us-gaap-2024.xsd#us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract" xlink:to="lab_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany_019b08ae-b237-798b-98fa-e3c53c1f084b_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Emerging Growth Company</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Emerging Growth Company</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityEmergingGrowthCompany" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey_019b08ae-b237-7d69-8d92-28a3d5395c14_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Central Index Key</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Central Index Key</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityCentralIndexKey"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityFileNumber_019b08ae-b237-7184-8db9-36c09c8ae0c3_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityFileNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity File Number</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityFileNumber_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityFileNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity File Number</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityFileNumber" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityFileNumber"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityFileNumber" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityFileNumber" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince_019b08ae-b237-74ba-bcce-cf2ebb213a71_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, State or Province</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, State or Province</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer_019b08ae-b237-7992-9187-5c506d505c9e_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Pre-commencement Issuer Tender Offer</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Pre-commencement Issuer Tender Offer</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:to="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1_019b08ae-b237-7d15-a9e6-f0c7200c00b0_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, Address Line One</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, Address Line One</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode_019b08ae-b237-7d1d-a8f5-82f2d7f651e2_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, Postal Zip Code</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Entity Address, Postal Zip Code</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode" xlink:to="lab_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications_019b08ae-b237-7289-991b-aad36556a9e1_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Written Communications</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Written Communications</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_WrittenCommunications"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:to="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_LocalPhoneNumber_019b08ae-b237-7e3d-9cdd-0ebce6c19593_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_LocalPhoneNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Local Phone Number</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_LocalPhoneNumber_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_LocalPhoneNumber" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Local Phone Number</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_LocalPhoneNumber" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_LocalPhoneNumber"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_LocalPhoneNumber" xlink:to="lab_dei_LocalPhoneNumber" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_Security12bTitle_019b08ae-b237-7141-bb3f-f1f65e19c082_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_Security12bTitle" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Title of 12(b) Security</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_Security12bTitle_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_Security12bTitle" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Title of 12(b) Security</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_Security12bTitle" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_Security12bTitle"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_Security12bTitle" xlink:to="lab_dei_Security12bTitle" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate_019b08ae-b237-71cd-813e-90892892af03_terseLabel_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/terseLabel" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Document Period End Date</link:label>
    <link:label id="lab_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate_label_en-US" xlink:label="lab_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:type="resource" xml:lang="en-US">Document Period End Date</link:label>
    <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="loc_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2024/dei-2024.xsd#dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate"/>
    <link:labelArc xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate" xlink:to="lab_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate" xlink:type="arc" order="1"/>
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<th class="th"><div>Dec. 09, 2025</div></th>
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<td class="text">001-37388<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber', window );">Entity Tax Identification Number</a></td>
<td class="text">47-1197305<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1', window );">Entity Address, Address Line One</a></td>
<td class="text">2929 Allen Pkwy, Suite 2200<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown', window );">Entity Address, City or Town</a></td>
<td class="text">Houston<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince', window );">Entity Address, State or Province</a></td>
<td class="text">TX<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="re">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode', window );">Entity Address, Postal Zip Code</a></td>
<td class="text">77019<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_CityAreaCode', window );">City Area Code</a></td>
<td class="text">888<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_LocalPhoneNumber', window );">Local Phone Number</a></td>
<td class="text">211-6011<span></span>
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</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_WrittenCommunications', window );">Written Communications</a></td>
<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer', window );">Pre-commencement Issuer Tender Offer</a></td>
<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_Security12bTitle', window );">Title of 12(b) Security</a></td>
<td class="text">Common stock, par value $0.001 per share<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_TradingSymbol', window );">Trading Symbol</a></td>
<td class="text">TLN<span></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="ro">
<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_SecurityExchangeName', window );">Security Exchange Name</a></td>
<td class="text">NASDAQ<span></span>
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<tr class="re">
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey', window );">Entity Central Index Key</a></td>
<td class="text">0001622536<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_us-gaap_StatementOfFinancialPositionAbstract', window );"><strong>Statement of Financial Position [Abstract]</strong></a></td>
<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="text">Dec.  09,  2025<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Boolean flag that is true when the XBRL content amends previously-filed or accepted submission.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Area code of city</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For the EDGAR submission types of Form 8-K: the date of the report, the date of the earliest event reported; for the EDGAR submission types of Form N-1A: the filing date; for all other submission types: the end of the reporting or transition period. The format of the date is YYYY-MM-DD.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The type of document being provided (such as 10-K, 10-Q, 485BPOS, etc). The document type is limited to the same value as the supporting SEC submission type, or the word 'Other'.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Address Line 1 such as Attn, Building Name, Street Name</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the City or Town</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Code for the postal or zip code</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the state or province.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<td style="padding-right: 4px;white-space:nowrap;"><strong> Namespace Prefix:</strong></td>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A unique 10-digit SEC-issued value to identify entities that have filed disclosures with the SEC. It is commonly abbreviated as CIK.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Indicate if registrant meets the emerging growth company criteria.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Commission file number. The field allows up to 17 characters. The prefix may contain 1-3 digits, the sequence number may contain 1-8 digits, the optional suffix may contain 1-4 characters, and the fields are separated with a hyphen.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ Details</a><div style="display: none;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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