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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001628280-24-025187
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		14
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240524
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240524
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240524

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000935419
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		IRS NUMBER:				760458229
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			TX
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13992
		FILM NUMBER:		24984221

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		10737 CUTTEN ROAD
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77066
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2813976730

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		10737 CUTTEN ROAD
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77066

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	RICKS CABARET INTERNATIONAL INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950112
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Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">As previously disclosed in our prior filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, on January 21, 2022, Shiva Stein and Kevin McCarty filed a shareholder derivative action in the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division against certain of our current and former officers and directors as defendants, as well as against RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. as nominal defendant, which action is styled Stein v. 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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-top:12pt"><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:46.930%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:2.990%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:46.780%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height:14pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td 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<div id="ib3af95fd3b81466a8ff2b8f5a5bd4c8a_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt">HOUSTON DIVISION</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:47.048%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.651%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:48.901%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">SHIVA STEIN and KEVIN McCARTY, </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Derivatively on Behalf of RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Plaintiffs,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">vs.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">NOUR-DEAN ANAKAR, YURA BARABASH, STEVEN L. JENKINS, ERIC LANGAN, LUKE LIROT, PHILLIP K. MARSHALL, ELAINE J. MARTIN, ALLAN PRIAULX, and TRAVIS REESE,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Defendants,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#8211; and &#8211;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC, a Texas corporation,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Nominal Defendant.</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New 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(&#8220;RCI&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (together with the Individual Defendants and Plaintiffs, the &#8220;Settling Parties&#8221;).  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">This Stipulation, subject to the approval of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (the &#8220;Court&#8221;), is intended by the Settling Parties to fully, finally, and forever compromise, resolve, discharge, and settle the Released Claims and to result in the complete resolution and&#47;or dismissal of the Derivative Action with prejudice, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, and without any admission or concession as to the merits of any of the Settling Parties&#8217; claims or defenses.</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">I.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:28.34pt">INTRODUCTION</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Allegations Of The Case</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">RCI is a publicly traded corporation incorporated under the laws of Texas and headquartered in Houston, Texas.  The Company owns and operates night clubs offering adult entertainment, restaurants, and bar operations in the United States.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint (the &#8220;Complaint&#8221;) alleges that on February 14, 2018, RCI disclosed that it suffered from material weaknesses related to its internal controls over financial reporting.  According to RCI, these material weaknesses included&#58; (1) ineffective controls over complex accounting and management estimates&#59; (2) ineffective controls to support accurate accounting, reporting, and disclosures in the Company&#8217;s 2017 Annual Report on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) Form 10-K (the &#8220;2017 10-K&#8221;)&#59; and (3) </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">ineffective controls to prevent unauthorized access to certain systems, programs, and data.  These material internal controls weaknesses were attributed to RCI not having &#8220;a sufficient complement of accounting and financial reporting personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge to address our financial reporting requirements.&#8221;  RCI subsequently disclosed the existence of the same material internal controls weaknesses on March 7, 2018, May 10, 2018, and August 9, 2018.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On December 31, 2018, RCI reported the existence of material weaknesses in RCI&#8217;s internal controls over financial reporting as reported in the 2017 Form 10-K, as well as the following additional problem area&#58;  ineffective controls to ensure against segregation of cash counts at its nightclubs and restaurants comingling of cash between RCI&#8217;s &#8220;Nightclubs&#8221; and &#8220;Bombshells&#8221; business lines and the review of journal entries used to record revenue transactions.  RCI further stated that the material weaknesses were due to the Company&#8217;s failure to have &#8220;a sufficient complement of accounting, financial and information technology personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge to assess internal control risks, address known internal control weaknesses, and address the Company&#8217;s overall financial reporting and information technology requirements.&#8221;  RCI&#8217;s then-outside independent auditor also expressed its opinion that &#8220;RCI &#91;&#93; did not maintain, in all material respects, effective internal controls over financial reporting as of September 30, 2018.&#8221;  RCI subsequently disclosed the existence of the same areas of material weaknesses related to RCI&#8217;s financial reporting on March 1, 2019.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On May 10, 2019, RCI announced that it could not timely file its Quarterly Report on SEC Form 10-K for the second quarter of fiscal year 2019.  The Company disclosed that in response to the publication of a series of media reports in the short-seller community in mid-and late 2018 (concerning certain alleged related party transactions (&#8220;RPTs&#8221;) which were allegedly omitted from RCI&#8217;s financial statements), the SEC initiated an informal inquiry and a special committee of Company&#8217;s Audit Committee engaged independent outside counsel to conduct an internal review into those matters.  Several weeks later, on July 18, 2019, RCI disclosed that its independent registered public accounting firm had resigned.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On September 24, 2019, RCI announced that the SEC&#8217;s informal inquiry had transitioned into a formal investigation.  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The Litigation Demands each demanded that the Board undertake an independent internal investigation in good faith into the Individual Defendants&#8217; violations of Texas and&#47;or federal law and commence a civil action against each of the Individual Defendants to recover for the benefit of the Company the amount of damages sustained by the Company as a result of their alleged breaches of fiduciary duties and other serious misconduct.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">Refusal of the Litigation Demands</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">By letters dated July 2, 2021, and July 12, 2021 (collectively referred to as the &#8220;Refusal&#8221;), RCI&#8217;s Chief Compliance Officer responded to the Litigation Demands on behalf of the Company.  The Refusal stated that following receipt of the Litigation Demands, the Board had formed a Special Committee to evaluate the Litigation Demands, that the Special Committee had conducted an investigation, and that the Special Committee had determined to reject the Litigation Demands in their entirety.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.7pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27.7pt">The Inspection Demand</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following receipt of the Refusal, on August 9, 2021, pursuant to Tex. Bus. Org. 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On August 19, 2021, in response to the Inspection Demand, RCI produced certain non-public internal documents to Plaintiffs (the &#8220;Production&#8221;).  Plaintiffs thereafter reviewed and analyzed the Production.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.7pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">4.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27.7pt">The Derivative Action</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following their review and analysis of the Production, Plaintiffs prepared a detailed Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint (the &#8220;Complaint&#8221;) asserting claims on behalf of the Company under Texas law for breach of fiduciary duty against the Individual Defendants, as well as Elaine J. Martin (&#8220;Martin&#8221;) and Allan Priaulx (&#8220;Priaulx&#8221;).  In addition, based in part on the non-public Production, the Complaint alleged that the Plaintiffs&#8217; Litigation Demands had been wrongfully refused by the Board.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On January 21, 2022, Plaintiffs filed a motion with the Court for leave to file the Complaint under seal, thus initiating the Derivative Action.  After that motion was granted, on February 23, 2022, Plaintiffs filed the operative Complaint under seal on behalf of RCI.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On April 4, 2022, RCI filed a motion to dismiss the Derivative Action, and the Individual Defendants, Martin, and Priaulx filed a separate motion to dismiss.  The defendants&#8217; respective motions to dismiss were brought pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23.1 (&#8220;Rule 23.1&#8221;) and 12(b)(6) (&#8220;Rule 12(b)(6)&#8221;) and argued that the Derivative Action should be dismissed because Plaintiffs&#58; (1) failed to adequately allege wrongful refusal of the Litigation Demands and (2) failed to state any claims upon which relief could be granted.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On May 5, 2022, Plaintiffs filed an opposition to the motions to dismiss.  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The MTD Order further concluded that because Martin and Priaulx joined the Board after the alleged misconduct in the Derivative Action, that the claims brought against those two individuals in the Derivative Action were dismissed.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Settlement Negotiations</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following the entry of the Court&#8217;s MTD Order on March 31, 2023, the Settling Parties began discussing the potential for a resolution of the Derivative Action, and agreed to participate in a private, in-person mediation (the &#8220;Mediation&#8221;) for those purposes.  The Mediation was scheduled to take place on June 12, 2023 in Corona Del Mar, California, before an experienced neutral mediator, Michelle Yoshida, Esq. 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In addition, in advance of the Mediation, Plaintiffs submitted to Defendants a comprehensive set of proposed corporate governance reforms designed to address the events and alleged deficiencies alleged in the Derivative Action.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On June 12, 2023, the Settling Parties attended the full day, in-person Mediation in California, overseen by Ms. Yoshida.  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After the Settling Parties reached an impasse as to this final remaining term, on July 21, 2023, Ms. Yoshida issued a double-blind mediator&#8217;s proposal to the Settling Parties (the &#8220;Mediator&#8217;s Proposal&#8221;).  On July 24, 2023, the Settling Parties each accepted the Mediator&#8217;s Proposal, pursuant to which Defendants and their insurer have agreed to pay $1,200,000.00 in attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses to Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel, subject to the Court&#8217;s approval.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">II.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;padding-left:23.68pt">PLAINTIFFS&#8217; CLAIMS AND THE BENEFITS OF SETTLEMENT</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel believe that the claims asserted in the Derivative Action have merit and that their investigation supports the claims asserted.  Without conceding the merit of any of Defendants&#8217; defenses or the lack of merit of any of their own allegations, and in light of the benefits of the Settlement as well as to avoid the potentially protracted time, expense, and uncertainty associated with continued litigation, including potential trials and appeals, Plaintiffs have concluded that it is desirable that the Derivative Action be fully and finally settled in the manner and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Stipulation.  Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel recognize the significant risk, expense, and length of continued proceedings necessary to prosecute the Derivative Action against the Individual Defendants through trial and possible appeal(s).  Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel also have taken into account the uncertain outcome and the risk of any litigation, especially complex litigation such as the Derivative Action, as well as the difficulties and delays inherent in such litigation.  Based upon their thorough investigation and evaluation of the relevant evidence, substantive law, procedural rules, and their assessment of the interests of RCI and Current RCI Shareholders, Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel have determined that the Settlement&#8217;s guarantee of substantial benefits conferred upon RCI and Current RCI Shareholders in the form of the Corporate Governance Reforms is fair, reasonable and adequate consideration for forgoing the pursuit of a potentially superior recovery through further litigation, and serves the best interests of RCI and Current RCI Shareholders.  </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel attest that they conducted an investigation relating to the claims and the underlying events alleged in the Derivative Action, including, but not limited to&#58; (i) negotiating for and reviewing the confidential Production&#59; (ii) reviewing and analyzing RCI&#8217;s public filings with the SEC, press releases, announcements, transcripts of investor conference calls, and news articles&#59; (iii) reviewing and analyzing the investigations referenced in publicly-available pleadings against RCI related to the allegations in the Derivative Action&#59; (iv) reviewing and analyzing the allegations contained in the related, settled securities class action captioned </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">In re RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. 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Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel&#8217;s assessment of the facts and legal issues material to their recommendation in favor of the Settlement was honed and refined in the course of drafting pleadings, in connection with preparing and demands, and during the lengthy substantive written and verbal exchanges with Defendants&#8217; Counsel and the Mediator. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Accordingly, Plaintiffs have agreed to settle the Derivative Action upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">III.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.02pt">DEFENDANTS&#8217; DENIALS OF WRONGDOING AND LIABILITY</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The Individual Defendants have denied, and continue to deny, each and every claim and contention alleged by Plaintiffs in the Derivative Action and deny any and all allegations of fault, </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">wrongdoing, liability, or damages whatsoever.  The Individual Defendants affirm that at all relevant times they acted properly, lawfully, in good faith, in full accord with their fiduciary duties, and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in the best interests of RCI and its stockholders.  Further, the Individual Defendants have denied expressly, and continue to deny expressly, all allegations of wrongdoing, fault, liability, or damage against them arising out of any of the conduct, statements, acts, or omissions alleged, or that could have been alleged, in the Derivative Action.  The Individual Defendants deny that they have ever committed or attempted to commit any violations of law, any breach of fiduciary duty owed to RCI or its shareholders, or any wrongdoing whatsoever.  The Individual Defendants maintain that they had and have meritorious defenses to all claims alleged in the Derivative Action.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Without admitting the validity of any of the claims that Plaintiffs have asserted in the Derivative Action, or any liability with respect thereto, the Individual Defendants have concluded that it is desirable that the claims be settled on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.  The Individual Defendants are entering into this Settlement because (among other reasons) it will eliminate the uncertainty, distraction, disruption, burden, and expense of further litigation of the Derivative Action.  Neither this Stipulation, nor any of its terms or provisions, nor any act performed or document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Settlement&#58; (a) is, may be construed as, or may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, the truth or validity of any of the Released Claims, any claims or allegations made in the Derivative Action, or any purported acts or omissions by the Defendants&#59; (b) is, may be construed as, or may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, any fault, omission, negligence, or wrongdoing by the Defendants, or&#160;any concession of liability whatsoever&#59; or (c) is, may be construed as, or may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, a concession by any Individual Defendant of any infirmity in the defenses that Defendants asserted or could have asserted in the Derivative Action, or otherwise. </font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">IV.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.68pt">BOARD APPROVAL</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The independent, non-defendant members of RCI&#8217;s Board have unanimously approved a resolution reflecting their determination, in a good faith exercise of their business judgment, that&#58; (a) the litigation and settlement efforts in the Derivative Action are the precipitating, substantial and material factor in the Board&#8217;s agreement to adopt, implement, and maintain the Corporate Governance Measures for the agreed term as formal policies of RCI and as enforceable provisions of  the Judgment to resolve this case, (b) the Corporate Governance Measures confer benefits on the Company and its shareholders&#59; and (c) the Settlement and each of its terms are fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">V.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">TERMS OF STIPULATION AND AGREEMENT OF SETTLEMENT</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs (for themselves and derivatively on behalf of RCI), the Individual Defendants, and nominal defendant RCI, by and through their respective counsel or attorneys of record, hereby stipulate and agree that, subject to approval by the Court, in consideration of the benefits flowing to the Parties hereto, the Derivative Action and all of the Released Claims shall be fully, finally, and forever compromised, settled, released, discharged, and dismissed with prejudice and with full preclusive effect as to all Parties, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt;text-decoration:underline">Definitions</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">As used in this Stipulation, the following terms have the meanings specified below.  In the event of any inconsistency between any definition set forth below and any definition set forth in any document in the form of the exhibits to this Stipulation, the definition set forth below shall control.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.1</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:21pt">&#8220;Board&#8221; means the RCI Board of Directors.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.2</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:21pt">&#8220;Court&#8221; refers to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.3</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:21pt">&#8220;Current RCI Shareholders&#8221; means any Person who owns RCI common stock as of the date of the execution of this Stipulation and continues to hold their RCI common stock as of the date of the Settlement Hearing, excluding the Individual Defendants, the officers and </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">directors of RCI, members of their immediate families, and their legal representatives, heirs, successors, or assigns, and any entity in which Individual Defendants have or had a controlling interest.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.4</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:21pt">&#8220;Defendants&#8221; 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(1) the expiration of the time to file a notice of appeal from the Judgment&#59; or (2) if an appeal has been filed, the court of appeals has either affirmed the Judgment or dismissed that appeal and the time for any reconsideration or further appellate review has passed&#59; or (3) if a higher court has granted further appellate review, that court has either affirmed the underlying Judgment or affirmed the court of appeal&#8217;s decision affirming the Judgment or dismissing the appeal.  For purposes of this paragraph, an &#8220;appeal&#8221; shall not include any appeal that concerns only the issue of attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses or the payment of service awards to the Plaintiffs.  Any proceeding or order, or any appeal or petition for a writ of certiorari pertaining solely to the application for attorneys&#8217; fees, costs, or expenses, or the payment of service awards to the Plaintiffs shall not in any way delay or preclude the Judgment from becoming Final. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.9</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:21pt">&#8220;Final Order and Judgment&#8221; means the final order judgment to be entered by the Court, substantially in the form attached hereto as </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">Exhibit&#160;E</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.10</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:15pt">&#8220;Individual Defendants&#8221; means collectively Nour-Dean Anakar, Yura Barabash, Steven L. 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With respect to any and all Released Claims, the Settling Parties stipulate and agree that, upon the Effective Date, the Releasing Persons shall expressly waive, and shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, expressly waived the provisions, rights, and benefits conferred by or under California Civil Code &#167;1542, or any other law of the United States or any state or territory of the United States, or principle of common law, which is similar, comparable, or equivalent to &#167;1542, which provides&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;padding-right:54pt;text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="padding-left:72pt;padding-right:54pt;text-align:justify"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The Settling Parties shall expressly waive, and the Releasing Persons shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, expressly waived any and all provisions, rights, and benefits conferred by any United States federal law or any law of any state or territory of the United States, or principle of common law or foreign law, which is similar, comparable, or equivalent in effect to California Civil Code &#167; 1542.  The Settling Parties acknowledge that they may discover facts in addition to or different from those now known or believed to be true by them with respect to the released claims, but it is the intention of the Settling Parties completely, fully, finally, and forever to compromise, settle, release, discharge, and extinguish any and all of the Released Claims, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, contingent or absolute, accrued or unaccrued, apparent or unapparent, which now exist, heretofore existed, or may hereafter exist, and without regard to the subsequent discovery or existence of additional or different facts, and based upon any theory of law or equity, including, but not limited to, conduct which is negligent, intentional, with or without malice, or a breach of any duty, law or rule. The Settling Parties acknowledge, and the Releasing Persons shall be deemed by operation of the Judgment to have acknowledged, that the foregoing waiver was separately bargained for and was a material element of the Settlement.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.28</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:15pt">&#8220;RCI&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221; means nominal defendant RCI, Inc. and includes all of its subsidiaries, predecessors, successors, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt;text-decoration:underline">Terms of the Settlement</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">2.1&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Within ninety (90) days of entry of the Final Order and Judgment, RCI shall adopt the Corporate Governance Measures for a period of at least four (4) years following the Effective Date (defined herein) of the Settlement (the &#8220;Minimum Term&#8221;), except for modifications required by applicable law, regulation, or fiduciary duty to RCI.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">2.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Board shall pass resolutions ensuring adequate funding for the costs of implementing and maintaining the Corporate Governance Measures.  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RCI shall pay all costs of this notice program, or any other form and manner of notice as may be required by the Court.  The Settling Parties agree that the content and manner of notice set forth herein constitutes adequate and reasonable notice to Current RCI Shareholders under applicable law and consistent with due process standards.  Prior to the Settlement Hearing, Defendants&#8217; Counsel shall file with the Court a declaration confirming the effectuation of the notice program as ordered by the Court.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">3.3&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Pending the Court&#8217;s determination as to final approval of the Settlement, Plaintiffs and all other Persons are barred and enjoined from commencing, prosecuting, instigating, or in </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">any way participating in the commencement or prosecution of any action asserting any Released Claim against any of the Released Persons.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">4.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Releases</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">4.1&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Upon the Effective Date, RCI, Plaintiffs (on behalf of themselves and derivatively on behalf of RCI), and all other Releasing Persons (derivatively on behalf of RCI) shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged the Released Persons from the Released Claims.  The Releasing Persons shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, covenanted not to sue any Released Person with respect to any Released Claims, and shall be permanently barred and enjoined from initiating, instituting, commencing, maintaining, or prosecuting any of the Released Claims against any of the Released Persons.  Upon the Effective Date, the Releasing Persons shall be deemed to have waived and relinquished, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the provisions, rights, and benefits of any state, federal, or foreign law, or principle of common law, which may have the effect of limiting the foregoing release.  The foregoing release shall include a release of Unknown Claims.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">4.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Upon the Effective Date, the Released Persons shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged the Releasing Persons from all claims, sanctions, actions, liabilities, or damages arising out of, relating to, or in connection with the institution, prosecution, assertion, settlement, or resolution of the Released Claims.  The foregoing release shall include a release of Unknown Claims.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">4.3&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Notwithstanding &#167; V, &#182;&#182;&#160;4.1 through 4.2 above, nothing in the Stipulation or the Judgment shall provide a release of any claims to enforce this Stipulation, the Settlement, or the Judgment or bar any action by any Settling Party to enforce the terms of the Stipulation, the Settlement, or the Judgment.  In addition, nothing in &#167; V, &#182;&#182;&#160;4.1 through 4.2 above is intended to release any rights to indemnification, insurance coverage, or advancement of expenses that any Released Person has or may have under any insurance policy, contract, bylaw, or charter </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">provision, or under Texas law, including, but not limited to, any rights any Released Person has or may have related to any pending or threatened civil or government proceedings.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">5.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Separately Negotiated Fee and Expense Amount and Service Awards</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.1&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;After reaching agreement in principle on the substantive consideration for the Settlement, the Settling Parties commenced good faith, arm&#8217;s-length negotiations concerning a fair and reasonable amount of attorneys' fees and expenses to be paid to Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel, overseen and assisted by the Mediator.  Pursuant to a formal mediator&#8217;s proposal issued by the Mediator and accepted by all Settling Parties, and in recognition of the substantial benefits provided to RCI and Current RCI Shareholders as a result of the Settlement, Defendants&#8217; D&#38;O insurers have agreed to pay to Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel an award of attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses in the total amount of one-million, two-hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000.00) (the &#8220;Fee and Expense Amount&#8221;), subject to approval by the Court.  The Settling Parties agree that the Fee and Expense Amount is fair and reasonable in light of the substantial benefits conferred upon RCI and Current RCI Shareholders by the Settlement.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Fee and Expense Amount shall be transferred to a trust account (the &#8220;Trust Account&#8221;) held by Pomerantz LLP (&#8220;Pomerantz&#8221;), as receiving agent for Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel within the later of twenty (20) calendar days after (a)&#160;entry of the Preliminary Approval Order by the Court or (b)&#160;receipt by Defendants&#8217; Counsel of the appropriate payment instructions and a Form W-9.  Defendants and Defendants&#8217; Counsel shall have no responsibility for, nor bear any risk or liability with respect to, the Trust Account, its operation, and any taxes or expenses incurred in connection with the Trust Account.  Pomerantz shall be solely responsible for any administrative costs associated with the Trust Account as well as the filing of all informational and other tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, or any other state or local taxing authority, as may be necessary or appropriate.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.3&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Fee and Expense Amount shall remain in the Trust Account until the entry of the Judgment by the Court finally approving the Settlement, at which time the Fee and Expense Amount shall be immediately releasable to Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel.  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Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel shall allocate the Fee and Expense Amount among themselves.  Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel agree that any disputes regarding the allocation of the Fee and Expense Amount among them shall be presented to and be mediated by the Mediator, and if mediation is unsuccessful, decided on a final, binding, non-appealable basis by the Mediator, on the terms and subject to the processes and procedures set forth by the Mediator in his sole discretion.  The Mediator&#8217;s fees and costs for any such mediation and&#47;or arbitration shall be borne solely by Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel and split evenly among Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel.  Defendants and Defendants&#8217; Counsel shall have no responsibility for the allocation or distribution of the Fee and Expense Amount amongst Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel.  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To the extent all or any remaining portion of the Fee and Expense Amount remains in the Trust Account at the time of a Triggering Event, then Pomerantz will return all (or any remaining portion) of the Fee and Expense Amount to RCI (with the interest accrued thereon) within fifteen (15) calendar days of the Triggering Event.  </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.6&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Trust Account, Pomerantz (as receiving agent), and each of Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel who receives any portion of the Fee and Expense Amount shall be subject to the Court&#8217;s jurisdiction for the purposes of enforcing Section V, paragraph 5.5 herein or any other of the provisions herein related to the Fee and Expense Amount (except as otherwise provided above).  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.7&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Except as otherwise provided herein, each of the Settling Parties shall bear his, her, or its own costs and attorneys&#8217; fees.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.8&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In light of the benefits they have helped to create for RCI and all Current RCI Shareholders, each of the Plaintiffs may apply for Court-approved service awards of up to three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) each (the &#8220;Service Awards&#8221;).  The Service Awards shall be funded exclusively from the Fee and Expense Amount.  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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, an order or proceeding relating to the Fee and Expense Amount, or any appeal from any order relating thereto (or reversal or modification thereof), shall not operate to cancel the Stipulation, allow for the termination of the Settlement, or affect or delay the finality of the Judgment.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">6.3&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the event that the Stipulation is not approved by the Court, or the Settlement is terminated for any reason, including pursuant to &#167; V, &#182; 6.2 above, all negotiations, proceedings, documents prepared, and statements made in connection herewith shall be without prejudice to the Settling Parties, shall not be deemed or construed to be an admission by any of the Settling Parties of any act, matter, or proposition, and shall not be used in any manner for any purpose in any subsequent proceeding in the Derivative Action.  In such event, the terms and provisions of the Stipulation, with the exception of &#182;&#182; 1.1-1.38, 5.5, 5.6, 6.2, 6.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.10, 8.11, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17 and 8.18 of this Section V, shall have no further force and effect with respect to the Settling Parties and shall not be used in the Derivative Action for any purpose, and any judgment or orders entered by the Court in accordance with the terms of the Stipulation shall be treated as vacated, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">nunc pro tunc</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Bankruptcy</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">7.1 &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the event any proceedings by or on behalf of RCI, whether voluntary or involuntary, are initiated under any chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code, including any act of receivership, asset seizure, or similar federal or state law action (&#8220;Bankruptcy Proceedings&#8221;), the Settling Parties agree to use their reasonable best efforts to obtain all necessary orders, consents, releases, and approvals to effectuate this Stipulation in a timely and expeditious manner.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">7.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the event of any Bankruptcy Proceedings by or on behalf of RCI, the Settling Parties agree that all dates and deadlines set forth herein will be extended for such periods of </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">time as are necessary to obtain necessary orders, consents, releases, and approvals from the Bankruptcy Court to carry out the terms and conditions of the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">8.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Miscellaneous Provisions</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">8.1&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Settling Parties&#58; (a) acknowledge that it is their intent to consummate this Stipulation&#59; and (b) agree to cooperate to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate and implement all terms and conditions of the Stipulation and to exercise their best efforts to accomplish the foregoing terms and conditions of the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;8.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Settling Parties intend this Settlement to be a final and complete resolution of all disputes between them with respect to the Derivative Action.  The Settling Parties further agree that the terms of the Settlement were negotiated in good faith and at arm&#8217;s length by the Settling Parties and reflect a settlement that was reached voluntarily based upon adequate information and after consultation with competent legal counsel.  The Settling Parties agree not to assert under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any similar law, rule, or regulation, that the Derivative Action was brought or defended in bad faith or without a reasonable basis. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">8.3&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Each of the Individual Defendants expressly denies and continues to deny all allegations of wrongdoing, liability, or damages against himself or herself arising out of any conduct, statements, acts, or omissions alleged, or which could have been alleged, in the Derivative Action.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">8.4&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Whether or not the Settlement is approved by the Court, and whether or not the Settlement is consummated, the fact and terms of this Stipulation (including any exhibits attached hereto, all proceedings in connection with the Settlement, and any act performed or document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Stipulation or the Settlement)&#58; 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Lewis</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="padding-left:252pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Jason S. 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<div id="i2d437528b8ac4d74ae5fbcf9d6d21636_1"></div><div style="min-height:48.96pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:18pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt;text-decoration:underline">EXHIBIT A</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.95pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt;text-decoration:underline">Corporate Governance Term Sheet</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">Within thirty (30) days of issuance of an order approving the settlement by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (&#8220;Final Settlement Approval&#8221;), RCI Hospitality, Inc.&#8217;s (&#8220;RCI&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) Board of Directors (&#8220;Board&#8221;) shall adopt resolutions and amend committee Charters and&#47;or its Corporate Governance Guidelines and&#47;or applicable corporate policies to ensure adherence to the following Corporate Governance Reforms (&#8220;Reforms&#8221;), which shall remain in effect for no less than four (4) years (&#8220;Minimum Term&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">RCI acknowledges and agrees that the stockholder derivative action filed by Shiva Stein and Kevin McCarty (&#8220;Plaintiffs&#8221;) and the Plaintiffs&#8217; efforts in connection therewith were cause of the Board&#8217;s adoption and implementation of the Reforms set forth herein.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">I.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Addition Of New Independent Directors</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.35pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.70pt">The Board shall identify and appoint two new qualified, independent directors to the Board. 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The purpose of this meeting will be to present the Skills Matrix and solicit the views of the attending shareowners and Employee Representative about the overall composition of the Board and about areas for improvement and development.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:7pt">The Company concurrently will post a notice on the investor relations section of its website that will include the Skills Matrix and a call for shareowner comments about the overall composition of the Board and about areas for improvement and development.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">D.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:6.34pt">The Nominating Committee will use the information obtained from this meeting, as well as other input from stockholders, to identify qualities to seek in director candidates.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">E.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:7.67pt">The Nominating Committee will consider, among other measures, engaging one of the following independent search firms&#58; (i) Robert Half&#59; (ii) Blue Steps&#59; (iii) Korn Ferry&#59; (iv) Odgers Berndston&#59; or (v) Boyden to identify prospective candidates for the director in keeping with the qualities identified above.</font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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:48.96pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:100.8pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">F.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:8.33pt">The Nominating Committee will review the prospective candidates identified and work together to select those candidates to be forwarded to the Board for consideration. This review, including background information and interviews of prospective candidates, will be conducted with respect to all candidates who express their consent to being considered and to serving as a director. No fewer than five (5) qualified director candidates will be sent to the Nominating Committee for review.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:100.8pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">G.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:6.34pt">Once the candidates are identified by the Nominating Committee, the Board shall, subject to its fiduciary duties, nominate the candidates for election to the Board or, if no stockholders&#8217; meeting is scheduled in the next ninety (90) days, the Board shall elect the candidates to fill any Board vacancies until such meeting is held and the candidates can be nominated for election by stockholders.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.15pt;padding-left:100.8pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">H.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:6.34pt">In the event that fewer than two (2) director candidates are selected via the process detailed in this section, the process shall be repeated, and any vacant director positions shall be filled pursuant thereto.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:100.8pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">I.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:11.01pt">The Company and the Board shall use its best good faith efforts to place two new directors onto the Board sufficiently in advance of the Company&#8217;s Annual meeting in 2024 for stockholders to vote on the directors&#8217; election.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.35pt;padding-left:28.8pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">II.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Amendments To The Company&#8217;s Related Party Transactions Policy</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.95pt;padding-left:99pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:24.34pt">The Board&#8217;s Related Party Transactions Policy will be amended to require advance approval by the Board&#8217;s Audit Committee of a Related Party vendor or employee prior to the entry of the initial Related Party Transaction.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:99pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:25pt">No director shall participate in any approval or ratification of any transactions with Related Parties for which he or she is a Related Party. The Board shall amend the &#8220;Standards of Review&#8221; section of the RPT Policy to explicitly require that for any proposed RPT between a member of the Board&#8217;s Audit Committee (or their immediate family members, as used therein) and RCI, then that Audit Committee member shall recuse his or herself from the review. The independent members of the Board shall then vote on and appoint a temporary replacement(s) for all conflicted Audit Committee member(s) to review and vote on the proposed RPT.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:99pt;padding-right:7.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt;padding-left:25pt">The Board shall amend the Related Party Transactions Policy to require that the CCO provide a memorandum or other background information regarding all transactions with Related Parties to the Audit Committee at least bi-annually, including any amounts expected to be paid by the Company under the agreement.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:99pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">D.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:24.34pt">The Board shall amend the definition section of &#8220;Related Party&#8221; to explicitly include &#8220;domestic partners.&#8221; For sake of clarity, the following sentence shall be added in this section&#58; &#8220;Immediate family member includes a person's spouse, parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, siblings, mothers- and fathers-in-law, sons- and daughters-in-law, and brothers- and sisters-in-law, </font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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:48.96pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:11.85pt;padding-left:99pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">domestic partner(s), and anyone residing in such person's home (other than a tenant or employee).&#8221;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.4pt;padding-left:99pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">E.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:25.67pt">The Board shall amend the &#8220;Charitable Contributions&#8221; section of the RPT Policy to require disclosure in the Company&#8217;s SEC filings, either in required Periodic Reports, Proxy Statements and&#47;or a Current Report any money donated for charitable purposes to any entity which a current officer or director has a material connection. This disclosure may be made once per year and include&#58; (i) the amount donated&#59; (ii) the reason for the donation&#59; and (iii) a description of the relationship between the officer and&#47;or director which has a connection to the charity.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.35pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">III.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Employee Training In Related Party Transactions And Conflicts</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.65pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">RCI shall amend its Code of Conduct and&#47;or other Corporate Governance Policies to require&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.05pt;padding-left:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt">A.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Enhanced Employee Training in Related Party, Conflicts and Perquisites</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:144pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:27pt">The CCO shall be charged with primary responsibility for education and training pursuant to this provision&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:144pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:27pt">Training shall be mandatory for all directors, officers, and employees of RCI. Training shall be annual for all such persons, and in the event a person is appointed or hired after the annual training for a particular year, a special training session shall be held for such individual within ninety (90) business days of his or her appointment or hiring&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.2pt;padding-left:144pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:27pt">Training shall include coverage of RCI&#8217;s Code of Conduct and manuals or policies established by RCI concerning legal or ethical standards of conduct to be observed in connection with work performed for RCI (including those discussed herein)&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.2pt;padding-left:144pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">4.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:27pt">Training for Board members, C-Suite executive management and senior accounting employees shall include, but not be limited to, coverage of pertinent GAAP principles and the laws and regulations regarding public disclosures.</font></div><div style="margin-top:18pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">IV.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Enhancements To The Management-Level Disclosure Committee</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">The Board shall amend the Company&#8217;s Disclosure Committee Charter to implement the following policies&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Conduct annual reviews to identify industry-leading oversight practices in connection with the Company&#8217;s disclosures to implement and review progress on such goals&#59; 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While the CEO is required to provide consent for all personal use of any corporate aircraft, the Disclosure Committee shall ensure that any such use of corporate aircraft for personal use, by any officer or director, does not violate the Company&#8217;s conflicts of interest policy. The Disclosure Committee shall also ensure that any use of the Company&#8217;s corporate aircraft for personal use is reported to the appropriate personnel, including the disclosure committee, the Audit Committee, and&#47;or the Company&#8217;s accounting department.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.55pt">F.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.55pt;padding-left:26.33pt">Report directly to and shall be accountable to RCI&#8217;s Audit Committee. Reports to the Audit Committee will address activities and the status of the conflicts program, including any identified, investigated and&#47;or resolved significant or material issues, and the results of internal and external audits.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.1pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">V.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Recoupment Policy</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">The Board shall adopt a recoupment policy titled &#8220;RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc Policy for Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Incentive Compensation&#8221;, attached hereto as Ex. A.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.4pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">VI.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:19.68pt">Chief Compliance Officer Reforms</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">The Company shall amend the job description of the Company&#8217;s Chief Compliance Officer (&#8220;CCO&#8221;) to include&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.7pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">A.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Tracking the status of the Reforms during the Minimum Term and overseeing the implementation of the Reforms, as detailed above&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt;padding-left:7pt">Working with the Audit Committee, the Risk Committee and the Nominating Committee to evaluate and define the goals of the Company&#8217;s </font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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:48.96pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New 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abuse&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">I.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:11.01pt">At least quarterly, the CCO shall discuss with senior management all areas vulnerable to being in noncompliance with the law, company policy, or other regulations as well as resources vulnerable to abuse&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.15pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">J.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:10.34pt">The CCO shall meet with the Company&#8217;s Audit Committee at least quarterly to discuss all known areas of internal control weakness as well as all areas vulnerable to internal control weaknesses.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.05pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">VII. Director Independence</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">The Board make best good faith efforts to ensure that at least two-thirds (2&#47;3) of the members of the Board shall be &#8220;independent&#8221; directors, as defined by the NASDAQ listing requirements. To be deemed independent in any calendar year, a director must confirm compliance with the following criteria&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.2pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">A.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The director has not been employed by the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates (defined for purposes of this demand as any individual or business entity that owns at least five percent (5%) of the securities of the Company having ordinary voting power) within the last three (3) calendar years&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:7pt">The director does not own or control, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the voting power of the Company&#59;</font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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:48.96pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:7pt">The director has not received, during the current calendar year or any of the three (3) immediately preceding calendar years, remuneration, directly or indirectly, as a result of service as, or compensation paid to, an entity affiliated in which the individual serves as&#58; (i) an advisor, consultant or legal counsel to the Company or to a member of the Company&#8217;s senior management&#59; or (ii) a significant customer or supplier of the Company&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">D.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:6.34pt">The director has no personal services contract(s) with the Company or any member of the Company&#8217;s senior management&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">E.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:7.67pt">The director is not affiliated with a not-for-profit entity that receives significant contributions from the Company&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.2pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">F.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:8.33pt">The director during the current calendar year or any of the three (3) immediately preceding calendar years, has not had any business relationship with the Company for which the Company has been required to make disclosure under Regulation S-K of the SEC&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">G.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:6.34pt">The director is not employed by a public company at which an executive officer of the Company serves as a director&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.15pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">H.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:6.34pt">The director has no interest in any investment that overlaps with an investment by the Company and&#47;or its senior management other than as a passive investor or any interest in the Company or its subsidiaries&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">I.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:11.01pt">The director is not a member of the immediate family of any person who fails to satisfy the qualifications described above.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">A director is deemed to have received remuneration (other than remuneration as a director), directly or indirectly, if remuneration, other than de minimis remuneration, was paid by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates, to any entity in which the director has a beneficial ownership interest of five percent (5%) or more, or to an entity by which the director is employed or self-employed other than as a director. Remuneration is deemed de minimis remuneration if such remuneration is $50,000 or less in any calendar year.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">Each independent director shall certify annually in writing that he or she is independent. Directors who subsequently enter into transactions or relationships inconsistent with the foregoing standards shall take all necessary actions to come into compliance with these requirements within 90 days or resign from the Board.</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">In conjunction with the Nominating Committee, the full Board shall review and approve all Proxy Statement disclosures regarding director independence prior to publication. As part of this review, the Board shall evaluate any relationships and&#47;or related party transactions that might compromise director independence.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">VIII. 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Policy for Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Incentive Compensation</font></div><div style="margin-top:12.3pt;padding-left:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">IX.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Board Education</font></div><div style="margin-top:11.75pt;padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.70pt">A.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Board will adopt a policy to explicitly require all new directors to attend a third-party Board of Directors training or similar program(s) within six (6) months of joining the Board. All costs in connection with attendance and participation in this director training shall be paid for by the Company.</font></div><div style="margin-top:1.1pt;padding-left:14.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.70pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><div id="i2d437528b8ac4d74ae5fbcf9d6d21636_4"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:63.36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:42pt;padding-left:14.4pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.70pt">EX. A</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.25pt;padding-right:3.25pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.25pt;padding-right:3.25pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">POLICY FOR RECOVERY OF ERRONEOUSLY AWARDED INCENTIVE</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.25pt;padding-right:3.25pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">COMPENSATION</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt;padding-left:169.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:12.20pt">(Adopted &#91;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#93;, 2023)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.80pt">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:27pt">INTRODUCTION</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:13.85pt">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">&#8221;) is adopting this policy (this &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:13.85pt">Policy</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">&#8221;) to provide for the Company&#8217;s recovery of certain Incentive Compensation (as defined below) awarded to Affected Officers and Key Employees (as defined below) under certain circumstances.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">This Policy is administered by the Compensation Committee (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:13.85pt">Committee</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">&#8221;) of the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:13.85pt">Board</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">&#8221;). The Committee shall have full and final authority to make any and all determinations required or permitted under this Policy. Any determination by the Committee with respect to this Policy shall be final, conclusive and binding on all parties. 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means the amount of Incentive Compensation received that exceeds the amount of Incentive Compensation that otherwise would have been received had it been determined based on the Restatement, computed without regard to any taxes paid. 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</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">means any Erroneously Awarded Compensation or any amount sought to be recovered from an Affected Officer or Key Employee under Section 4 below.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:13.80pt">Restatement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">&#8221; means an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance of the Company with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, including any required accounting restatement to correct an error in previously issued financial statements that is material to the previously issued financial statements (i.e., a &#8220;Big R&#8221; restatement), or that would result in a material misstatement if the error was corrected in the current period or left uncorrected in the current period (i.e., a &#8220;little r&#8221; restatement).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;RECOVERY FOR RESTATEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">If the Company is required to prepare a Restatement, the Company shall seek to recover and claw back from any Affected Officer reasonably promptly the Erroneously Awarded Compensation that is received by the Affected Officer&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:72pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt;padding-left:24.34pt">After the person begins service as an Affected Officer&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:72pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:25pt">Who serves as an Affected Officer at any time during the performance period for that Incentive Compensation&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:72pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.60pt;padding-left:25pt">While the Company has a class of securities listed on the Exchange&#59; 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This Section applies to all Affected Officers and Key Employees.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:75.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;text-decoration:underline">Triggering Event</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">. This Section shall apply if the Affected Officer or Key Employee engages in Detrimental Activity during their employment with the Company and its subsidiaries, and the Company becomes aware of the Detrimental Activity either during (A) the Affected Officer or Key Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company or any subsidiary, or (B) the two-year period following the termination of the Key Employee&#8217;s employment with the Company and its subsidiaries for any reason or no reason, or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:75.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;text-decoration:underline">Consequences</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">. If this Section applies, then to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, if and to the extent directed by the Committee in its sole discretion, the Affected Officer or Key Employee shall&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:104.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">i.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt;padding-left:26.07pt">Immediately forfeit all outstanding Incentive Compensation then held that has not yet been paid or exercised&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:104.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">ii.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:22.74pt">Immediately forfeit the remaining payments and benefits, if any, due to him or her under the Company&#8217;s severance policy or an individually negotiated separation agreement with the Company or a subsidiary (collectively, the &#8220;Severance Program&#8221;), and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:104.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">iii.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:19.41pt">Immediately upon written demand repay to the Company the severance amounts, if any, paid to the Affected Officer or Key Employee under the Severance Program prior to the date that the Affected Officer or Key Employee receives the written demand.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:39.6pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.70pt">B.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Termination For Cause</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:68.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:23.4pt;text-decoration:underline">Application</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">. This Section applies to all Affected Officers and Key Employees.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:68.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:23.4pt;text-decoration:underline">Triggering Event</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">. 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If this Section applies, then to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, if and to the extent directed by the Committee in its sole discretion, the Affected Officer or Key Employee shall&#58;</font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">5</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:63.36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">i.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt;padding-left:22.47pt">Immediately forfeit all outstanding Incentive Compensation then held that have not yet been paid or exercised, and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">ii.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;padding-left:19.14pt">Immediately forfeit the remaining payments and benefits, if any, due to him or her under the Severance Program, and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">iii.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt;padding-left:15.81pt">Immediately upon written demand repay to the Company the severance amounts, if any, paid to the Affected Officer or Key Employee under the Severance Program prior to the date that the Affected Officer or Key Employee receives the written demand.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;5.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;SOURCES OF RECOUPMENT</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee may, in its discretion, seek recoupment from the Affected Officer or Key Employee through any means it determines, which may include any of the following sources&#58; (i) prior Incentive Compensation payments&#59; (ii) future payments of Incentive Compensation&#59; (iii) cancellation of outstanding Incentive Compensation&#59; (iv) direct repayment&#59; and (v) non-Incentive Compensation or securities held by the Affected Officer or Key Employee. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company may offset such amount against any compensation or other amounts owed by the Company to the Affected Officer or Key Employee.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;6.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;LIMITED EXCEPTIONS TO RECOVERY</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee, in its discretion, may choose to forgo recovery of any Recovery Amount under the following circumstances, provided that the Committee has made a determination that recovery would be impracticable because&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.75pt;padding-left:17.14pt">The direct expense paid to a third party to assist in enforcing this Policy would exceed the recoverable amounts&#59; provided that the Company has made a reasonable attempt to recover such Recovery Amount, has documented such attempt and has (to the extent required) provided that documentation to the Exchange&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:17.8pt">Recovery would violate home country law where the law was adopted prior to November 28, 2022, and the Company provides an opinion of home country counsel to that effect to the Exchange that is acceptable to the Exchange&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.95pt;padding-left:17.8pt">Recovery would likely cause an otherwise tax-qualified retirement plan to fail to meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:7.2pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;7.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.65pt">MISCELLANEOUS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:39.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">A.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt;text-decoration:underline">Effective Date</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.65pt">. This Policy shall apply to all Incentive Compensation paid or awarded on or after the date of adoption of this Policy, and to the extent permitted or required by applicable law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:21.4pt;text-decoration:underline">Incorporation into Covered Agreements</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">. Effective on or after the Court&#8217;s approval of the Settlement, each award agreement or other document setting forth the terms and conditions of Incentive Compensation or a Severance Program (collectively, a &#8220;Covered Agreement&#8221;) shall include a provision incorporating the terms and conditions of the Recoupment Policy&#59; provided that the Company&#8217;s failure to incorporate the Recoupment Policy </font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">6</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:63.36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">into any Covered Agreement shall not waive the Company&#8217;s right to enforce the Policy. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the Policy and the applicable Covered Agreement, the terms of the Policy shall govern.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">C.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:21.4pt;text-decoration:underline">Not Exclusive Of Other Remedies</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">. This Policy does not preclude the Company from taking any other action to enforce an Affected Officer&#8217;s or Key Employee&#8217;s obligations to the Company, including termination of employment, institution of civil proceedings, or reporting of any misconduct to appropriate government authorities. This Policy is in addition to the requirements of Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (&#8220;Section 304&#8221;) that are applicable to the Company&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. However, any amount recovered from the Company&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer under Section 304 shall offset any Erroneously Awarded Compensation amount due from either person.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">D.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:20.74pt;text-decoration:underline">No Indemnification, Insurance Or Reimbursement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">. The Company will not indemnify, insure or otherwise reimburse any Affected Officer or Key Employee against the recovery of Recovery Amount.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">E.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt;padding-left:22.07pt;text-decoration:underline">Severability</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.80pt">. If any provision of this Policy is determined to be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law, such provision will be applied to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and shall automatically be deemed amended in a manner consistent with its objectives to the extent necessary to conform to any limitations required under applicable law.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:5pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:6.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">F.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt;padding-left:22.73pt;text-decoration:underline">Waiver</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:13.85pt">. The waiver by the Company or the Committee with respect to compliance of any provision of this Policy by a Covered Employee or Key Employee shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any other provision of this Policy, or of any subsequent acts or omissions by an Affected Officer or Key Employee under this Policy.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:11.8pt;padding-left:39.6pt;padding-right:6.4pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:48.96pt;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',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">7</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always">
<div id="if1587815824645e3a650a8ec89cfe8cd_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><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:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.234%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">United States District Court</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Southern District of Texas</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">ENTERED</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">May 15, 2024</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">Nathan Ochsner, Clerk</font></td></tr></table></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">HOUSTON DIVISION</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:47.048%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.651%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:48.901%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SHIVA STEIN and KEVIN McCARTY, </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Derivatively on Behalf of RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Plaintiffs,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">vs.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOUR-DEAN ANAKAR, YURA BARABASH, STEVEN L. 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PRELIMINARILY APPROVING SETTLEMENT AND PROVIDING FOR NOTICE</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.75pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:9.15pt"><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:8pt"><font><br></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="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">This matter came before the Court on the parties&#8217; (&#8220;Settling Parties&#8221;)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">1</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%"> Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement (the &#8220;Stipulation&#8221;), dated October 10, 2023, requesting that the Court enter an order&#58; (i) preliminarily approving the terms and conditions of the proposed settlement (&#8220;Settlement&#8221;) as set forth in the Stipulation&#59; (ii) directing that Notice of Proposed Derivative Settlement and of Settlement Hearing (&#8220;Notice&#8221;) be provided to Current RCI Shareholders</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">2</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">&#59; (iii) and scheduling a Settlement Hearing to consider whether the Settlement, Fee and Expense Amount, and Plaintiff service awards should be finally approved.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">3</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.1pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">WHEREAS, the Stipulation sets forth the terms and conditions for the Settlement, which will resolve the claims in the above-captioned shareholder derivative action, brought on behalf of RCI&#59;</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:32.4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">WHEREAS, the Court finds, upon a preliminary evaluation, that the proposed Settlement falls within the range of possible approval criteria, as it provides a beneficial result for RCI and appears to be the product of serious, informed, non-collusive negotiations overseen by an experienced mediator&#59; and</font></div><div style="border-bottom:1pt solid black;margin-bottom:5pt;margin-top:10pt;width:150pt"></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:6.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-3.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">1</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Stipulation is made and entered into by and among the following Settling Parties (as defined herein), each by and through their respective counsel&#58; (1) Shiva Stein (&#8220;Stein&#8221;) and Kevin McCarty (&#8220;McCarty&#8221;), plaintiffs in the verified shareholder derivative action captioned </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Stein v. Anakar, et al</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">., Civil Action No.&#58; 4&#58;22-cv-01310 (S.D. TX.) (the &#8220;Litigation&#8221;)&#59; (2) Individual Defendants Nour-Dean Anakar, Yura Barabash, Steven L. Jenkins, Eric Langan, Luke Lirot, Phillip K. Marshall, and Travis Reese&#59; and (3) nominal defendant RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (&#8220;RCI&#8221;), (together with the Individual Defendants and Plaintiffs, the &#8220;Settling Parties&#8221;). The proposed Settlement also will resolve and release claims against Elaine J. Martin and Allan Priaulx, who were dismissed from the case by earlier Court order.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">2</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> &#8220;Current RCI Shareholders&#8221; means any Person who owns RCI common stock as of the date of the execution of this Stipulation and continues to hold their RCI common stock as of the date of the Settlement Hearing, excluding the Individual Defendants, the officers and directors of RCI, members of their immediate families, and their legal representatives, heirs, successors, or assigns, and any entity in which Individual Defendants have or had a controlling interest.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">3</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Except as otherwise expressly provided below or as the context otherwise requires, all capitalized terms contained herein shall have the same meanings and&#47;or definitions as set forth in the Stipulation.</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">WHEREAS, the Court also finds, upon a preliminary evaluation, that Current RCI Shareholders should be apprised of the Settlement through the Settling Parties&#8217; proposed form and means of notice&#59; allowed to file objections, if any, thereto&#59; and appear at the Settlement Hearing.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED AS FOLLOWS&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">This Court preliminarily approves, subject to further consideration at the Settlement Hearing described below, the Settlement as set forth in the Stipulation as being fair, reasonable, and adequate.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">A hearing shall be held on&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;July 19, 2024 at 10&#58;00 a.m., before the Honorable Alfred H. Bennett, Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Avenue, Courtroom 9A, Houston, Texas 77002 (the &#8220;Settlement Hearing&#8221;), at which the Court will determine&#58; (i) whether the terms of the Stipulation should be approved as fair, reasonable, and adequate&#59; (ii) whether the Notice and Summary Notice fully satisfied the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1 and the requirements of due process&#59; (iii) whether to enter the proposed Judgment in its entirety, as set forth in Exhibit E to the Stipulation&#59; (iv) whether the agreed-to Fee and Expense Amount as well as the Service Awards should be approved&#59; and (v) such other matters as the Court may deem appropriate.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">The Court reserves the right to&#58; (i) approve the Settlement, with such modifications as may be agreed to by counsel for the Settling Parties consistent with such Settlement, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; (ii) continue or adjourn the Settlement Hearing from time to time, by oral announcement at the hearing or at 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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">adjournment thereof, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; and (iii) the right to conduct the Settlement Hearing remotely without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">4.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">The Court finds that the form, substance, and dissemination of information to Current RCI Shareholders regarding the proposed Settlement in the manner set out in this order (&#8220;Preliminary Approval Order&#8221;) constitutes the best notice practicable under the circumstances and complies with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and all other applicable law and due process.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">5.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">Within ten (10) business days after the entry of this Preliminary Approval Order, RCI shall&#58; (1) post a copy of the Notice and the Stipulation, with its exhibits, on the Investor Relations page of the Company&#8217;s website&#59; (2) publish the Summary Notice in </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">&#59; and (3) file with the SEC a Current Report on Form 8-K, or in a Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, attaching the Notice and the Stipulation (including exhibits). The Notice and Summary Notice shall provide a link to the Investor Relations page of RCI&#8217;s website where the Notice and Stipulation with its exhibits may be viewed, which link shall be maintained through the date of the Settlement Hearing.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">6.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">All costs incurred in the posting, filing, and publishing of the notice of the Settlement shall be paid by RCI, and RCI shall undertake all administrative responsibility for the posting, filing, and publishing of the notice of the Settlement.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">7.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:23.4pt">Before the Settlement Hearing, Defendants&#8217; Counsel shall file with the Court a declaration confirming the effectuation of the notice program as provided for in this Preliminary Approval Order.</font></div><div style="padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">8.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Pending final determination as to whether the Settlement should be approved, Plaintiffs and their Related Persons and Current RCI Shareholders and their Related Persons, </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">and anyone who acts or purports to act on their behalf, are barred and enjoined from filing, commencing, prosecuting, intervening in, participating in, or receiving any benefits or other relief from any other lawsuit, arbitration, or administrative, regulatory, or other proceeding (including a motion or complaint in intervention in any such action or proceeding if the person or entity filing such motion or complaint in intervention purports to be acting as, on behalf of, for the benefit of, or derivatively for any of the above persons or entities) or order, in any jurisdiction or forum, as to the Released Persons based on or relating in any way to the Released Claims.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">9.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Current RCI Shareholders who wish to object to the fairness, reasonableness or adequacy of the Settlement or to any term(s) of the Settlement must both serve on Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel and Defendants&#8217; Counsel (as set out below) and file with the Court a statement of objection, which must be received by no later than June 21, 2024 (which date shall be at least twenty-eight (28) calendar days before the date of the Settlement Hearing as initially set out in this Preliminary Approval Order). Any Current RCI Shareholder may object on his, her or its own, or through counsel hired at his, her or its own expense. Any Current RCI Shareholder&#8217;s objection should set out the specific reasons, if any, for each objection, including any legal support the Current RCI Shareholder wishes to bring to the Court&#8217;s attention and any evidence the Current RCI Shareholder wishes to introduce in support of such objections. The statement of objection must include the caption of this action and the following information&#58;  (i) the Current RCI Shareholder&#8217;s name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (if available)&#59;  (ii) the number of shares of RCI stock the Current RCI Stockholder currently holds, together with third-party documentary evidence, such as the most recent account statement, showing such share ownership, and proof of being a current RCI shareholder as of October 10, 2023, </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">5</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="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">through the present,  (iii) if the objection is made by the Current RCI Shareholder&#8217;s counsel, that counsel&#8217;s name, address, telephone number and e-mail address&#59;  (iv) a statement of specific objections to the Settlement, the grounds therefor, or the reasons for such Person desiring to appear and be heard, as well as all documents or writings such Person desires the Court to consider&#59; (v) the identities of any witnesses such Person plans on calling at the Settlement Hearing, along with a summary description of their likely testimony&#59; and (vi) a list &#8211; including dates, courts, case names and numbers, and disposition &#8211; of any other Settlements to which the individual or entity has objected during the previous seven (7) years.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">10.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:17.4pt">Any attorney retained by a Current RCI Shareholder for the purpose of objecting must both serve on Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel and Defendants&#8217; Counsel (as set out below) and file with the Court a notice of appearance, which must be received by no later than June 21, 2024 (which date shall be at least twenty-eight (28) calendar days before the date of the Settlement Hearing as initially set out in this Preliminary Approval Order).</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">11.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:17.4pt">A Current RCI Shareholder who wishes to object to the proposed Settlement does not need to attend the Settlement Hearing. However, any Current RCI Shareholder who files and serves a timely written objection pursuant to this Preliminary Approval Order may appear at the Settlement Hearing either in person or through personal counsel retained at his, her or its own expense, subject to the requirements of paragraphs 9 and 10 of this Preliminary Approval Order. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, no Person shall be heard or entitled to contest the approval of all or any of the terms and conditions of the Settlement or, if approved, the Order and Final Judgment to be entered thereon approving the same, unless that Person has complied with the provisions of paragraphs 9 and 10 of this Preliminary Approval Order.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">12.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:17.4pt">Any submissions made pursuant to paragraphs 9 through 11 of this Preliminary</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:3.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">Approval Order must be (i) sent or delivered to the following addresses&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">a.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:9.68pt">The Court&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt;padding-right:103.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Clerk of Court<br>U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Bob Casey United States Courthouse</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt;padding-right:103.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">515 Rusk Avenue</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt;padding-right:103.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">P. O. Box 61010</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt;padding-right:103.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Houston, Texas 77002</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">a.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:9.68pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SHUMAN, GLENN &#38; STECKER <br></font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Brett D. Stecker</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">326 W. Lancaster Avenue</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">b.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:9pt">Nominal Defendants&#8217; Counsel&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Jason S. Lewis</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">DLA PIPER LLP (US)</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1900 N. Pearl Street, Suite 2200</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201</font></div><div style="margin-top:14.05pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">c.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:9.68pt">Individual Defendants&#8217; Counsel&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Chris Davis</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">GRAY REED</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1601 Elm Street, Suite 4600</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201</font></div><div style="padding-left:99pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Telephone&#58; (214) 954-4135</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.65pt;padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:39.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">13.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:13.8pt">Counsel for the Settling Parties are directed to promptly inform each other of any submission served on them (or that otherwise comes into their possession) pursuant to paragraphs 9 through 12 of this Preliminary Approval Order.</font></div><div style="padding-left:4.5pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">14.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:16.5pt"> Any Current RCI Shareholder who fails to comply with the requirements of this Preliminary Approval Order shall waive and forfeit any and all rights he, she or it may otherwise have to object and&#47;or to appear separately at the Settlement Hearing. Current RCI </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:4.5pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">Shareholders do not need to appear at the hearing or take any other action to indicate their approval of the Stipulation. </font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">15.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:17.4pt">Any Current RCI Shareholder who submits an objection to the Stipulation shall be deemed to consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of this Court with respect to such objection and all issues that arise or relate to such objection, including any order issued or findings made by the Court regarding the objection.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;16.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Settling Parties shall file with the Court (and serve on each other) any papers <br>they wish to submit in support of the proposed settlement as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:111.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">a.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27.68pt">Any motions for final approval of the proposed Settlement must be filed and served at least thirty-five (35) days before the date of the Settlement Hearing as initially set by the Court in this Preliminary Approval Order&#59; and</font></div><div style="padding-left:111.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">b.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Any papers in response to objections must be filed and served at least fourteen (14) days before the date of the Settlement Hearing as initially set by the Court in this Preliminary Approval Order.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;17.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;All proceedings in this action are stayed until further order of the Court, except as <br>may be necessary to implement the Settlement or comply with the terms of the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;18.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This Court may, for good cause, extend any of the deadlines set forth in this <br>Preliminary Approval Order without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">19.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Neither the Stipulation nor the Settlement, nor any act performed or document <br>executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Stipulation or the Settlement&#58; (i) is or may be </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">deemed to be or may be offered, attempted to be offered or used in any way by the Settling Parties or any other Person as a presumption, a concession or an admission of, or evidence of, any fault, wrongdoing, liability, or non-liability of the Settling Parties or Released Persons, or of the validity or infirmity of any Released Claims&#59; or (ii) is intended by the Settling Parties to be offered or received as evidence or used by any other person in any other actions or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, or administrative, other than to enforce the terms therein.</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.6pt;padding-right:3.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">20.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The Court reserves the right to hold the Settlement Hearing telephonically or by <br>videoconference without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders. Any Current RCI Shareholder (or his, her or its counsel) who wishes to appear at the Settlement Hearing should consult the Court&#8217;s calendar and&#47;or the Investors Relations page of RCI&#8217;s website for any change in date, time or format of the Settlement Hearing. The Court may approve the Settlement and any of its terms, with such modifications as may be agreed to by the Settling Parties, if appropriate, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders. The Court retains jurisdiction to consider all further applications arising out of or connected with the Settlement, except as to those matters specifically referred to the Mediator in the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">IT IS SO ORDERED.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></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:43.380%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:54.420%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">DATED&#58; May 13, 2024</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:125%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#47;s&#47; Alfred H. Bennett</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">HONORABLE ALFRED H. BENNETT</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%"> </font></div><div><font><br></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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">9</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always">
<div id="ie3158caf59ea462596146b5cee1bc02d_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt">HOUSTON DIVISION</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:47.048%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.651%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:48.901%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">SHIVA STEIN and KEVIN McCARTY, </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Derivatively on Behalf of RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Plaintiffs,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">vs.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">NOUR-DEAN ANAKAR, YURA BARABASH, STEVEN L. JENKINS, ERIC LANGAN, LUKE LIROT, PHILLIP K. MARSHALL, ELAINE J. MARTIN, ALLAN PRIAULX, and TRAVIS REESE,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Defendants,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#8211; and &#8211;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC, a Texas corporation,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Nominal Defendant.</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:9.15pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Civil Action No. 4&#58;22-CV-01310</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.75pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.30pt">EXHIBIT C &#8211; NOTICE OF PENDENCY AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF DERIVATIVE MATTER</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.75pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:9.15pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font><br></font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</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="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">TO&#58; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES WHO HOLD OR BENEFICIALLY OWN, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC. (&#8220;RCI&#8221; OR THE &#8220;COMPANY&#8221;) COMMON STOCK AS OF OCTOBER 10, 2023 (&#8220;CURRENT RCI SHAREHOLDERS&#8221;).</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.  THIS NOTICE RELATES TO A PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND DISMISSAL OF THE ABOVE-CAPTIONED CONSOLIDATED SHAREHOLDER DERIVATIVE ACTION (THE &#8220;ACTION&#8221;) BY ENTRY OF THE JUDGMENT BY THE COURT AND CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR RIGHTS.  YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.  IF THE COURT APPROVES THE SETTLEMENT, YOU WILL BE FOREVER BARRED FROM CONTESTING THE APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND FROM PURSUING THE RELEASED CLAIMS.</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">IF YOU HOLD RCI COMMON STOCK FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANOTHER, PLEASE PROMPTLY TRANSMIT THIS DOCUMENT TO SUCH BENEFICIAL OWNER.</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">THE RECITATION OF THE BACKGROUND AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SETTLEMENT CONTAINED HEREIN DOES NOT CONSTITUTE THE FINDINGS OF THE COURT.  IT IS BASED ON REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO THE COURT BY COUNSEL FOR THE PARTIES.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">THIS ACTION IS NOT A &#8220;CLASS ACTION.&#8221;  THUS, THERE IS NO COMMON FUND UPON WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A CLAIM FOR A MONETARY PAYMENT.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Notice is hereby provided to you of the proposed settlement (the &#8220;Settlement&#8221;) of the above-referenced shareholder derivative lawsuit.  This Notice is provided by Order of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (the &#8220;Court&#8221;).  It is not an expression of any opinion by the Court.  It is to notify you of the terms of the proposed Settlement, and your rights related thereto. </font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">I.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:28.34pt">WHY THE COMPANY HAS ISSUED THIS NOTICE</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Your rights may be affected by the Settlement of the following action&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:13.8pt">Stein v. Anakar, et al.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">, Case No. 4&#58;22-cv-01310 (S.D. Tex.).</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs in this action (the &#8220;Litigation&#8221;), Shiva Stein and Kevin McCarty (derivatively on behalf of RCI) (collectively &#8220;Plaintiffs&#8221;)&#59; Individual Defendants Nour-Dean Anakar, Yura Barabash, Steven L. Jenkins, Eric Langan, Luke Lirot, Phillip K. Marshall, and Travis Reese (&#8220;Individual Defendants&#8221;)&#59; and nominal defendant RCI, have agreed upon terms to settle the Litigation, through counsel, and have signed a written Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement (&#8220;Stipulation&#8221;) setting forth those settlement terms.  Together, the Individual Defendants and nominal defendant RCI are referred to as &#8220;Defendants.&#8221;  The settlement also will resolve and release claims against Elaine J. Martin and Allan Priaulx, who were also named as defendants, and were dismissed by a prior Order of the Court.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On July 19, 2024, at 10&#58;00 a.m., Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Avenue, Courtroom 9A, Houston, Texas 77002, the Honorable Judge Alfred H. Bennett will hold a hearing (the &#8220;Settlement Hearing&#8221;) in this action.  The purpose of the Settlement Hearing is to determine, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1&#58; (i)&#160;whether the terms of the Settlement are fair, reasonable, and adequate and should be approved&#59; (ii) whether the notice of the Settlement to Current RCI Shareholders fully satisfied the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1 and the requirements of due process&#59; (iii) whether a final judgment should be entered&#59; (iv) whether the agreed-to Fee and Expense Amount and Service Awards to Plaintiffs should be approved&#59; and (v) such other matters as may be necessary or proper under the circumstances.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The Court may&#58; (i) approve the Settlement, with such modifications as may be agreed to by counsel for the Settling Parties consistent with such Settlement, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; (ii) continue or adjourn the Settlement Hearing from time to time, by oral announcement at the hearing or at any adjournment thereof, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; and (iii) conduct the Settlement Hearing remotely without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders.  If you intend to attend the Settlement Hearing, please consult the Court&#8217;s calendar and&#47;or the Investor Relations section of RCI&#8217;s website (https&#58;&#47;&#47;</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">www.rcihospitality.com&#47;investor&#47;default.aspx)) for any change in date, time or format of the Settlement Hearing.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">II.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:23.68pt">SUMMARY OF THE ACTION</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Description of the Derivative Actions and Settlement</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">RCI is a publicly traded corporation incorporated under the laws of Texas and headquartered in Houston, Texas.  The Company owns and operates night clubs offering adult entertainment, restaurants, and bar operations in the United States.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint (the &#8220;Complaint&#8221;) alleges that on February 14, 2018, RCI disclosed that it suffered from material weaknesses related to its internal controls over financial reporting.  According to RCI, these material weaknesses included&#58; (1) ineffective controls over complex accounting and management estimates&#59; (2) ineffective controls to support accurate accounting, reporting, and disclosures in the Company&#8217;s 2017 Annual Report on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) Form 10-K (the &#8220;2017 10-K&#8221;)&#59; and (3) ineffective controls to prevent unauthorized access to certain systems, programs, and data.  These material internal controls weaknesses were attributed to RCI not having &#8220;a sufficient complement of accounting and financial reporting personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge to address our financial reporting requirements.&#8221;  RCI subsequently disclosed the existence of the same material internal controls weaknesses on March 7, 2018, May 10, 2018, and August 9, 2018.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On December 31, 2018, RCI reported the existence of material weaknesses in RCI&#8217;s internal controls over financial reporting as reported in the 2017 Form 10-K, as well as the following additional problem area&#58;  ineffective controls to ensure against segregation of cash counts at its nightclubs and restaurants comingling of cash between RCI&#8217;s &#8220;Nightclubs&#8221; and &#8220;Bombshells&#8221; business lines and the review of journal entries used to record revenue transactions.  RCI further stated that the material weaknesses were due to the Company&#8217;s failure to have &#8220;a sufficient complement of accounting, financial and information technology personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge to assess internal control risks, address known internal </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">control weaknesses, and address the Company&#8217;s overall financial reporting and information technology requirements.&#8221;  RCI&#8217;s then-outside independent auditor also expressed its opinion that &#8220;RCI &#91;&#93; did not maintain, in all material respects, effective internal controls over financial reporting as of September 30, 2018.&#8221;  RCI subsequently disclosed the existence of the same areas of material weaknesses related to RCI&#8217;s financial reporting on March 1, 2019.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On May 10, 2019, RCI announced that it could not timely file its Quarterly Report on SEC Form 10-K for the second quarter of fiscal year 2019.  The Company disclosed that in response to the publication of a series of media reports in the short-seller community in mid-and late 2018 (concerning certain alleged related party transactions (&#8220;RPTs&#8221;) which were allegedly omitted from RCI&#8217;s financial statements), the SEC initiated an informal inquiry and a special committee of Company&#8217;s Audit Committee engaged independent outside counsel to conduct an internal review into those matters.  Several weeks later, on July 18, 2019, RCI disclosed that its independent registered public accounting firm had resigned.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On September 24, 2019, RCI announced that the SEC&#8217;s informal inquiry had transitioned into a formal investigation.  RCI additionally disclosed a series of RPTs which had not previously been reported.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On September 21, 2020, the SEC announced that it had settled charges against RCI, defendant Langan, and defendant Marshall relating to RCI&#8217;s disclosure controls, executive compensation and RPTs.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following the events described above, on March 31, 2021 and April 15, 2021, respectively, Plaintiffs Stein and McCarty issued pre-suit litigation demands (the &#8220;Litigation Demands&#8221;) to the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) pursuant to Tex. Bus. Org. Code &#167;21.553 (&#8220;&#167;21.553&#8221;).  The Litigation Demands each demanded that the Board undertake an independent internal investigation in good faith into the Individual Defendants&#8217; violations of Texas and&#47;or federal law and commence a civil action against each of the Individual Defendants to recover for the benefit of the Company the amount of damages sustained by the Company as a result of their alleged breaches of fiduciary duties and other serious misconduct.</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">5</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">By letters dated July 2, 2021, and July 12, 2021 (collectively referred to as the &#8220;Refusal&#8221;), RCI&#8217;s Chief Compliance Officer responded to the Litigation Demands on behalf of the Company.  The Refusal stated that following receipt of the Litigation Demands, the Board had formed a Special Committee to evaluate the Litigation Demands, that the Special Committee had conducted an investigation, and that the Special Committee had determined to reject the Litigation Demands in their entirety.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following receipt of the Refusal, on August 9, 2021, pursuant to Tex. Bus. Org. Code &#167; 21.218 (&#8220;&#167;21.218&#8221;) and Texas common law, Plaintiffs issued a books and records inspection request (the &#8220;Inspection Demand&#8221;) to the Company.  The Inspection Demand sought a production of Board-level internal books and records related to the evaluation of the allegations set forth in the Litigation Demands and the rejection of the Litigation Demands. On August 19, 2021, in response to the Inspection Demand, RCI produced certain non-public internal documents to Plaintiffs (the &#8220;Production&#8221;).  Plaintiffs thereafter reviewed and analyzed the Production.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following their review and analysis of the Production, Plaintiffs prepared a detailed Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint (the &#8220;Complaint&#8221;) asserting claims on behalf of the Company under Texas law for breach of fiduciary duty against the Individual Defendants, as well as Elaine J. Martin (&#8220;Martin&#8221;) and Allan Priaulx (&#8220;Priaulx&#8221;).  In addition, based in part on the non-public Production, the Complaint alleged that the Plaintiffs&#8217; Litigation Demands had been wrongfully refused by the Board.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On January 21, 2022, Plaintiffs filed a motion with the Court for leave to file the Complaint under seal, thus initiating the Derivative Action.  After that motion was granted, on February 23, 2022, Plaintiffs filed the operative Complaint under seal on behalf of RCI.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On April 4, 2022, RCI filed a motion to dismiss the Derivative Action, and the Individual Defendants, Martin, and Priaulx filed a separate motion to dismiss.  The defendants&#8217; respective motions to dismiss were brought pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23.1 (&#8220;Rule 23.1&#8221;) and 12(b)(6) (&#8220;Rule 12(b)(6)&#8221;) and argued that the Derivative Action should be dismissed </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">because Plaintiffs&#58; (1) failed to adequately allege wrongful refusal of the Litigation Demands and (2) failed to state any claims upon which relief could be granted.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On May 5, 2022, Plaintiffs filed an opposition to the motions to dismiss.  On June 2, 2022, RCI, the Individual Defendants, Martin, and Priaulx jointly filed a reply in support of the motions to dismiss.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On March 31, 2023, the Court issued an Order (the &#8220;MTD Order&#8221;) denying RCI&#8217;s motion to dismiss in its entirety and denying the motion to dismiss filed by the Individual Defendants, Martin, and Priaulx in substantial part.  The MTD Order concluded that Plaintiffs had adequately alleged pursuant to Rule 23.1 that the Litigation Demands had been wrongfully refused, and that all of Plaintiffs&#8217; claims for relief against the Individual Defendants had been adequately alleged pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6).  The MTD Order further concluded that because Martin and Priaulx joined the Board after the alleged misconduct in the Derivative Action, that the claims brought against those two individuals in the Derivative Action were dismissed.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:25pt">The Settlement Negotiations</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Following the entry of the Court&#8217;s MTD Order on March 31, 2023, the Settling Parties began discussing the potential for a resolution of the Derivative Action, and agreed to participate in a private, in-person mediation (the &#8220;Mediation&#8221;) for those purposes.  The Mediation was scheduled to take place on June 12, 2023 in Corona Del Mar, California, before an experienced neutral mediator, Michelle Yoshida, Esq. (&#8220;Ms. Yoshida&#8221; or the &#8220;Mediator&#8221;) of Phillips ADR Enterprises (&#8220;PADRE&#8221;).  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">In light of the Settling Parties&#8217; decision to explore potential resolution of the Derivative Action and participate in the Mediation, on May 11, 2023, the Settling Parties submitted a Joint Motion to Stay Pending Mediation to the Court, which was granted on June 5, 2023.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On May 26, 2023, the Settling Parties exchanged and submitted to the Mediator detailed mediation statements setting forth their respective views of the strengths and weaknesses of the claims and defenses in the Derivative Action. In addition, in advance of the Mediation, Plaintiffs </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">submitted to Defendants a comprehensive set of proposed corporate governance reforms designed to address the events and alleged deficiencies alleged in the Derivative Action.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On June 12, 2023, the Settling Parties attended the full day, in-person Mediation in California, overseen by Ms. Yoshida.  At the conclusion of the Mediation, the Settling Parties had agreed in principle on set of corporate governance reforms RCI would adopt and implement in settlement (the &#8220;Corporate Governance Measures&#8221;). </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">For several weeks after the Mediation, with the assistance and under the oversight of the Mediator, the Settling Parties conducted separate negotiations regarding the amount of attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses to be paid to Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel in consideration of the substantial benefits achieved for RCI and its stockholders through the Derivative Action.  After the Settling Parties reached an impasse as to this final remaining term, on July 21, 2023, Ms. Yoshida issued a double-blind mediator&#8217;s proposal to the Settling Parties (the &#8220;Mediator&#8217;s Proposal&#8221;).  On July 24, 2023, the Settling Parties each accepted the Mediator&#8217;s Proposal, pursuant to which Defendants and their insurer have agreed to pay $1,200,000.00 in attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses to Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel, subject to the Court&#8217;s approval.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">III.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.02pt">TERMS OF THE PROPOSED DERIVATIVE SETTLEMENT</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The proposed Settlement requires the Company to adopt the Corporate Governance Measures that are outlined in Exhibit A to the Stipulation.  The Corporate Governance Measures shall be maintained for a minimum period of four (4) years following the Effective Date of the Settlement, subject to certain terms set forth in the Stipulation.  The Settling Parties agree that the litigation and settlement efforts in the Litigation were the precipitating, substantial and material factor in the Board&#8217;s agreement to adopt, implement, and maintain the Corporate Governance Measures for the agreed term, and that the Corporate Governance Measures confer substantial benefits to RCI and its shareholders.  This summary should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the text of the Stipulation, which has been filed with the Court.</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">IV.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.68pt">PLAINTIFFS&#8217; COUNSEL&#8217;S ATTORNEYS&#8217; FEES AND EXPENSES</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">After </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">negotiating the principal terms of the Settlement, counsel for the Settling Parties, and the insurers, acting by and through their counsel, separately negotiated the attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses with the assistance of the mediator.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">RCI has agreed to cause its insurers to pay to Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel an award of attorneys&#8217; fees and expenses in the total amount of $1,200,000.00 (the &#8220;Fee and Expense Amount&#8221;), subject to approval by the Court.  The Settling Parties mutually agree that the Fee and Expense Amount is fair and reasonable in light of the benefits conferred upon RCI and the Current RCI Shareholders by the Settlement.  Additionally, Plaintiffs may apply to the Court for service awards in the amount of up to $3,000 for each of the seven Plaintiffs (&#8220;Service Awards&#8221;), to be paid out of such Fee and Expense Amount awarded by the Court.  </font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">V.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">REASONS FOR THE SETTLEMENT</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Counsel for the Settling Parties believe that the Settlement is in the best interests of RCI and its shareholders.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">Why Did Plaintiffs Agree to Settle&#63;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel believe that the claims asserted in the Litigation have merit and that their investigations support the claims asserted.  Without conceding the merit of any of Defendants&#8217; defenses or the lack of merit of any of their own allegations, and in light of the benefits of the Settlement as well as to avoid the potentially protracted time, expense, and uncertainty associated with continued litigation, including potential trials and appeals, Plaintiffs have concluded that it is desirable that the Litigation be fully and finally settled in the manner and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Stipulation.  Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel recognize the significant risk, expense, and length of continued proceedings necessary to prosecute the Litigation against the Individual Defendants through trials and possible appeals.  Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel also have taken into account the uncertain outcome and the risk of any litigation, especially complex litigation such as the Litigation, as well as the difficulties and delays inherent in such litigation.  Based upon their thorough investigation and evaluation 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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">the relevant evidence, substantive law, procedural rules, and their assessment of the interests of RCI and its shareholders, Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel have determined that the Settlement&#8217;s guarantee of substantial benefits conferred upon RCI and its shareholders in the form of the Measures is fair, reasonable and adequate consideration for forgoing the pursuit of a potentially superior recovery through further litigation, and serves the best interests of RCI and its shareholders.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel attest that they conducted an investigation relating to the claims and the underlying events alleged in the Litigation, including, but not limited to&#58; (i) negotiating for and reviewing the confidential Production&#59; (ii) reviewing and analyzing RCI&#8217;s public filings with the SEC, press releases, announcements, transcripts of investor conference calls, and news articles&#59; (iii) reviewing and analyzing the investigations referenced in publicly-available pleadings against RCI related to the allegations in the Derivative Action&#59; (iv) reviewing and analyzing the allegations contained in the related, settled securities class action captioned </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">In re RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. Securities Litigation</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">, No. 4&#58;19-cv-01841-AHB (S.D. Tex.)&#59; (v)&#160;researching, drafting, and filing the Complaint&#59; (vi) researching the applicable law with respect to the claims asserted (or which could be asserted) in the Derivative Action and the potential defenses thereto&#59; (vii)&#160;researching corporate governance issues&#59; (viii) preparing a detailed mediation statement in connection with the Mediation&#59; (ix) participating in the full-day, in-person Mediation&#59; (x) engaging in extensive discussions regarding settlement both before and after the Mediation with the Mediator and counsel for the Defendants&#59; and (xi) negotiating and drafting the formal settlement documentation for presentment to the Court.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel&#8217;s decision is further informed by their experience and thorough analysis of the facts and law governing the applicable derivative standing and pleading requirements, substantive claims and defenses, and damages and disgorgement remedies.  Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel&#8217;s assessment of the facts and legal issues material to their recommendation in favor of the Settlement was honed and refined in the course of drafting pleadings, in connection </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">with preparing and submitting mediation submissions, and during lengthy substantive written and verbal exchanges with Defendants&#8217; counsel and the mediator.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:25pt">Why Did the Defendants Agree to Settle&#63;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The Individual Defendants have denied, and continue to deny, each and every claim and contention alleged by Plaintiffs in the Derivative Action and deny any and all allegations of fault, wrongdoing, liability, or damages whatsoever.  The Individual Defendants affirm that at all relevant times they acted properly, lawfully, in good faith, in full accord with their fiduciary duties, and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in the best interests of RCI and its stockholders.  Further, the Individual Defendants have denied expressly, and continue to deny expressly, all allegations of wrongdoing, fault, liability, or damage against them arising out of any of the conduct, statements, acts, or omissions alleged, or that could have been alleged, in the Derivative Action.  The Individual Defendants deny that they have ever committed or attempted to commit any violations of law, any breach of fiduciary duty owed to RCI or its shareholders, or any wrongdoing whatsoever.  The Individual Defendants maintain that they had and have meritorious defenses to all claims alleged in the Derivative Action.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Without admitting the validity of any of the claims that Plaintiffs have asserted in the Derivative Action, or any liability with respect thereto, the Individual Defendants have concluded that it is desirable that the claims be settled on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.  The Individual Defendants are entering into this Settlement because (among other reasons) it will eliminate the uncertainty, distraction, disruption, burden, and expense of further litigation of the Derivative Action.  Neither this Stipulation, nor any of its terms or provisions, nor any act performed or document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Settlement&#58; (a) is, may be construed as, or may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, the truth or validity of any of the Released Claims, any claims or allegations made in the Derivative Action, or any purported acts or omissions by the Defendants&#59; (b) is, may be construed as, or may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, any fault, omission, negligence, or wrongdoing by the Defendants, or&#160;any concession of liability whatsoever&#59; or (c) is, may be construed as, or </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">may be used as, an admission of, or evidence of, a concession by any Individual Defendant of any infirmity in the defenses that Defendants asserted or could have asserted in the Derivative Action, or otherwise. </font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">VI.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.68pt">SETTLEMENT HEARING</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">On July 19, 2024, at 10&#58;00 a.m., the Court will hold the Settlement Hearing in Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Avenue, Courtroom 9A, Houston, Texas 77002.  At the Settlement Hearing, the Court will consider, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1, whether the terms of the Settlement are fair, reasonable, and adequate and should be finally approved&#59; whether to approve the separately negotiated and agreed Fee and Expense Amount&#59; and whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice by entry of the Judgment pursuant to the Stipulation.  The Court may&#58; (i) approve the Settlement, with such modifications as may be agreed to by counsel for the Settling Parties consistent with such Settlement, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; (ii) continue or adjourn the Settlement Hearing from time to time, by oral announcement at the hearing or at any adjournment thereof, without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders&#59; and (iii) conduct the Settlement Hearing remotely without further notice to Current RCI Shareholders.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">VII.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:15.02pt">RIGHT TO ATTEND SETTLEMENT HEARING</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Any Current RCI shareholder may, but is not required to, appear in person at the Settlement Hearing.  If you want to be heard at the Settlement Hearing, then you must first comply with the procedures for objecting, which are set forth below.  The Court has the right to change the hearing dates or times without further notice.  Thus, if you are planning to attend the Settlement Hearing, you should confirm the date and time before going to the Court. </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">RCI SHAREHOLDERS WHO HAVE NO OBJECTION TO THE SETTLEMENT DO NOT NEED TO APPEAR AT THE SETTLEMENT HEARING OR TAKE ANY OTHER ACTION</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">.</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">VIII.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:10.36pt">RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT AND PROCEDURES FOR DOING SO</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">You have the right to object to any aspect of the Settlement.  You must object in writing, and you may request to be heard at the Settlement Hearing.  If you choose to object, then you must follow these procedures.</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">A.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:24.34pt">You Must Make Detailed Objections in Writing</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Any objections must be presented in writing and must contain the following information&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">Your name, legal address, telephone number, and e-mail address&#59;</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">The number of shares of RCI stock you currently hold, together with third-party documentary evidence, such as the most recent account statement, showing such share ownership, and proof of being a RCI shareholder as of October 10, 2023 through the present&#59; </font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">If the objection is made by the Current RCI Shareholder&#8217;s counsel, the counsel&#8217;s name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (if available)&#59; </font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">4.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">A statement of specific objections to the Settlement, the grounds therefor, or the reasons for such Person desiring to appear and be heard, as well as all documents or writings such Person desires the Court to consider&#59;</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">5.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">The identities of any witnesses such Person plans on calling at the Settlement Hearing, along with a summary description of their likely testimony&#59; and</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">6.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:27pt">A list, including dates, courts, case names and numbers, and disposition of any other Settlements to which the individual or entity has objected during the previous seven (7) years. </font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">B.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:25pt">You Must Timely File Written Objections with the Court and Deliver to Counsel for Plaintiffs and the Defendants </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">ANY WRITTEN OBJECTIONS MUST BE ON FILE WITH THE CLERK OF THE COURT NO LATER THAN</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt"> June 21, 2024.  The Court Clerk&#8217;s address is&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:144pt"><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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Clerk of Court</font></div><div style="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas </font></div><div style="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Bob Casey United States Courthouse</font></div><div style="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">515 Rusk Avenue</font></div><div style="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">P. O. Box 61010</font></div><div style="padding-left:103.7pt"><font style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Houston, Texas 77002</font></div><div style="padding-left:144pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">YOU ALSO MUST DELIVER COPIES OF THE MATERIALS TO COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFFS AND THE DEFENDANTS SO THEY ARE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt"> June 21, 2024.  Counsel&#8217;s addresses are&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Counsel for Plaintiff</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Brett D. Stecker</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SHUMAN, GLENN &#38; STECKER</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">326 W. Lancaster Avenue</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Counsel for Nominal Defendant RCI</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt;text-decoration:underline">&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Jason S. Lewis</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">DLA PIPER LLP (US)</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1900 N. Pearl Street, Suite 2200 </font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201 </font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt;text-decoration:underline">Counsel for the Individual Defendants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt;text-decoration:underline">&#58;</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Chris Davis</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">GRAY REED</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1601 Elm Street, Suite 4600 </font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201</font></div><div style="padding-left:108pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Telephone&#58; (214) 954-4135</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Unless the Court orders otherwise, your objection will not be considered unless it is timely filed with the Court and delivered to the above-referenced counsel for the Parties.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Any attorney retained by a Person intending to appear, and requesting to be heard, at the Settlement Hearing, he, she, or it must, in addition to the requirements set forth above, file with the Clerk of the Court and deliver to counsel listed above for plaintiffs and the defendants a notice of appearance, which must be received by no later than June 21, 2024.</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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">Any Person or entity who fails to object or otherwise request to be heard in the manner prescribed above will be deemed to have waived the right to object to any aspect of the Settlement or otherwise request to be heard (including the right to appeal) and will be forever barred from raising such objection or request to be heard in this or any other action or proceeding.</font></div><div style="padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">IX.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt;padding-left:19.68pt">HOW TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">This Notice summarizes the Stipulation.  It is not a complete statement of the events of the Action or the Stipulation. For additional information about the claims asserted in the Action and the terms of the proposed Settlement, please refer to the documents filed with the Court in the Action, the Stipulation and its exhibits (they are filed as an exhibit to the Company&#8217;s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov), and this Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Derivative Matters.  The &#8220;Investor Relations&#8221; section of RCI website (https&#58;&#47;&#47;www.rcihospitality.com&#47;investor&#47;default.aspx) provides hyperlinks to the Notice and to the Stipulation and its exhibits.  You may obtain further information by contacting Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel at&#58; Shuman, Glenn &#38; Stecker, Brett D. Stecker, 326 W. Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003, Telephone&#58; (303) 861-3003.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:24.00pt">PLEASE DO NOT CALL, WRITE, OR OTHERWISE DIRECT QUESTIONS TO EITHER THE COURT OR THE CLERK&#8217;S OFFICE.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></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:43.380%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:54.420%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">DATED&#58; May 13, 2024</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#47;s&#47; Alfred H. Bennett</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">HONORABLE ALFRED H. BENNETT</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt"> </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',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">15</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always">
<div id="i7e123c768ec94a0aa3f4595c1bc67e27_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">HOUSTON DIVISION</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:51.112%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:46.688%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="padding-right:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SHIVA STEIN and KEVIN McCARTY, Derivatively on Behalf of RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC., </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Plaintiffs</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">,</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:4pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">vs.</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">NOUR-DEAN ANAKAR et al., </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Defendants</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">, and RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Nominal Defendant</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="border-left:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:9pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Civil Action No. 4&#58;22-CV-01310</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.9pt;padding-right:40.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SUMMARY NOTICE OF PROPOSED DERIVATIVE SETTLEMENT</font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:4pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">TO&#58;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;ALL RECORD HOLDERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC. (&#8220;RCI&#8221;) COMMON STOCK AS OF OCTOBER 10, 2023 (&#8220;CURRENT RCI STOCKHOLDER&#8221;).</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that pursuant to the May 13, 2024 Preliminary Approval Order in the above-captioned case (the &#8220;Action&#8221;), the Court has preliminarily approved a Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated October 10, 2023 (the &#8220;Stipulation&#8221; or &#8220;Settlement&#8221;).   Plaintiffs allege that RCI&#8217;s Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) filings and proxy statements for fiscal year 2016 through March 1, 2019 disclosed material weaknesses related to internal controls over financial reporting but omitted to disclose certain related party transactions (&#8220;RPTs&#8221;) and items of executive compensation. Plaintiffs assert shareholder derivative claims against Defendants on behalf of Nominal Defendant RCI on this basis.  To resolve and release these claims, RCI has agreed to adopt and&#47;or maintain corporate governance measures relating to RPTs and internal controls as set forth in the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">PLEASE READ THIS SUMMARY NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.  IF YOU ARE A RCI SHAREHOLDER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">  For additional information, you may refer to the Stipulation and the full-length Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Derivative Matter (the &#8220;Notice&#8221;).  They are hyperlinked on the &#8220;Investor Relations&#8221; section of RCI&#8217;s website (https&#58;&#47;&#47;www.rcihospitality.com&#47;investor&#47;default.aspx) and are attached as exhibits to RCI&#8217;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">On July 19, 2024, at 10&#58;00 a.m., a Settlement Hearing will be held at the Bob Casey United States Courthouse, 515 Rusk Avenue, Courtroom 8631, Houston, Texas 77002, before the Honorable Alfred H. Bennett, to determine whether&#58; (i)&#160; the terms of the Settlement are fair, reasonable, and adequate and should be approved and a Final Order and Judgment dismissing the Action with prejudice should be entered&#59; (ii) notice has been provided as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1 and due process&#59; (iii) the separately negotiated and agreed Fee and Expense amount of $1,200,000 to Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel should be approved&#59; (iv) Service Awards of up to $3,000 for each Plaintiff, payable out of the Fee and Expense Amount, should be approved&#59; and to consider such other matters as the Court may deem appropriate.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">If you are a Current RCI Stockholder, you may object to the Settlement, including by appearing at the Settlement Hearing personally or through counsel of your own choice and expense.  (If you or your counsel intend to appear, please consult the Court&#8217;s calendar and&#47;or the Investor Relations section of RCI&#8217;s website for any change in date, time, or format of the Settlement Hearing, which the Court may change without further notice to the stockholders.)  In order to object to the Settlement or be heard at the Settlement Hearing, </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">no later than</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">28 calendar days before </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">the </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">hearing (June 21, 2024</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">), you must file with the Court and serve on the counsel below a statement of objection&#58;</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:31.918%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:33.805%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:30.977%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Plaintiffs&#8217; Counsel</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Brett D. Stecker</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">SHUMAN, GLENN &#38; STECKER</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">326 W. Lancaster Avenue</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Telephone&#58; (303) 861-3003</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Nominal Defendant RCI&#8217;s Counsel</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Jason S. Lewis</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">DLA PIPER LLP (US)</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1900 N. Pearl Street, Suite 2200 </font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Telephone&#58; (214) 743-4500</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Defendants&#8217; Counsel</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Chris Davis</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">GRAY REED</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1601 Elm Street, Suite 4600 </font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Dallas, Texas 75201</font></div><div style="padding-left:2.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Telephone&#58; (214) 954-4135</font></div></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-top:4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The statement must include&#58; (i) the objector&#8217;s name, address, telephone number and e-mail address&#59; (ii) the number of RCI shares the objector holds with supporting third-party documentary evidence&#59; (iii) any objector&#8217;s counsel&#8217;s  name, address, telephone number and e-mail address&#59; (iv) the specific objections to the Settlement, including any supporting documents or the reasons why the objector or its counsel desire to appear and be heard&#59; (v) the identities of any witnesses planned to be called at the Settlement Hearing and a summary description of their testimony&#59; and (vi) a list of of any other settlements to which the objector has objected during the previous 7 years.  If you do not timely object, you shall be deemed to have waived the right to object (including the right to appeal), and if the Court approves the Settlement you will be bound by the Final Order and Judgment and be barred from asserting the claims released in the Settlement in this or in any other proceeding.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">If you have any questions about matters in this Summary Notice you may contact Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel at the address and telephone number above.  </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT REGARDING THIS NOTICE</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:9pt;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><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always">
<div id="i2f5aff82f21e43b6a4a6155a5fa78f5c_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:12.00pt">HOUSTON DIVISION</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:47.048%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.651%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:48.901%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">SHIVA STEIN and KEVIN McCARTY, </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Derivatively on Behalf of RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Plaintiffs,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">vs.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">NOUR-DEAN ANAKAR, YURA BARABASH, STEVEN L. JENKINS, ERIC LANGAN, LUKE LIROT, PHILLIP K. MARSHALL, ELAINE J. MARTIN, ALLAN PRIAULX, and TRAVIS REESE,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Defendants,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">&#8211; and &#8211;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC, a Texas corporation,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">Nominal Defendant.</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">)</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:9.15pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Civil Action No. 4&#58;22-CV-01310</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.75pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:13.30pt">EXHIBIT E &#8211; &#91;PROPOSED&#93; FINAL ORDER AND JUDGMENT</font></div><div style="padding-left:7.75pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:9.15pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font><br></font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">This matter came before the Court for hearing pursuant to the Preliminary Approval Order of this Court, dated ___________, 2023 (&#8220;Order&#8221;), on the motion of the parties for approval of the proposed settlement (&#8220;Settlement&#8221;) set forth in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement (the &#8220;Stipulation&#8221;), dated October 10, 2023.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:24.00pt">The Court has reviewed and considered all documents, evidence, objections (if any), and arguments presented in support of or against the Settlement. Being fully advised of the premises and finding that good cause exists, the Court enters this Judgment.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:8pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">1</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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that&#58;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">This Order and Final Judgment incorporates by reference the definitions in the Stipulation, and all terms used herein shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Stipulation, unless otherwise set forth herein.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this case, including all matters necessary to effectuate the Settlement, and over all Settling Parties.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Based on evidence submitted, the Court finds that notice was published and disseminated in accordance with this Court&#8217;s Preliminary Approval Order. This Court further finds that the forms and contents of the Notice and Summary Notice, as previously preliminary approved by the Court, complied with the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1, satisfied the requirements of due process of the United States Constitution, and constituted due and sufficient notice of the matters set forth therein.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">4.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">The Court finds that the terms of the Stipulation and Settlement are fair, reasonable, and adequate as to each of the Settling Parties, and hereby finally approves the Stipulation and Settlement in all respects, and orders the Settling Parties to perform its terms to the extent the Settling Parties have not already done so.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">5.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Pursuant to entry of this Judgment, the Action and all claims contained therein against Defendants, as well as all of the Released Claims against each of the Defendants and their Related Persons, are hereby dismissed with prejudice. As among the Plaintiffs and Defendants, the parties are to bear their own costs, except as otherwise provided in the Stipulation. For purposes of this paragraph, &#8220;Defendants&#8221; also includes Elaine J. Martin and Allan Priaulx, who were dismissed by earlier order of the Court.</font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">6.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Upon the Effective Date, the Released Persons shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged the Releasing Persons from all claims, sanctions, actions, liabilities, or damages arising out of, relating to, or in connection with the institution, prosecution, assertion, settlement, or resolution of the Released Claims. The foregoing release shall include a release of Unknown Claims.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">7.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Upon the Effective Date, RCI, Plaintiffs (on behalf of themselves and derivatively on behalf of RCI), and all other Releasing Persons (derivatively on behalf of RCI) shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged the Released Persons from the Released Claims. The Releasing Persons shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, covenanted not to sue any Released Person with respect to any Released Claims, and shall be permanently barred and enjoined from initiating, instituting, commencing, maintaining, or prosecuting any of the Released Claims against any of the Released Persons. Upon the Effective Date, the Releasing Persons shall be deemed to have waived and relinquished, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the provisions, rights, and benefits of any state, federal, or foreign law, or principle of common law, which may have the effect of limiting the foregoing release. The foregoing release shall include a release of Unknown Claims.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">8.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">Nothing in the Stipulation or this Judgment shall provide a release of any claims to enforce this Stipulation, the Settlement, or the Judgment or bar any action by any Settling Party to enforce the terms of the Stipulation, the Settlement, or the Judgment. In addition, nothing in the Stipulation is intended to release any rights to indemnification, insurance coverage, or advancement of expenses that any Released Person has or may have under any </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">insurance policy, contract, bylaw, or charter provision, or under Texas law, including, but not limited to, any rights any Released Person has or may have related to any pending or threatened civil or government proceedings.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">9.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:27pt">During the course of the litigation, all parties and their respective counsel at all times complied with the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11, and all other similar rules, laws, or statutes.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">10.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:21pt">The Court hereby approves the Fee and Expense Amount and Service Awards and finds that such awards are fair and reasonable.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">11.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:21pt">Neither the Stipulation (including any Exhibits attached thereto) nor the Settlement, nor any act performed or document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Stipulation or the Settlement&#58; (a) shall not be offered, received, or used in any way against the Settling Parties as evidence of, or be deemed to be evidence of, (i) a presumption, concession, or admission by any of the Settling Parties with respect to the truth of any fact alleged by Plaintiffs, or (ii) the validity, or lack thereof, of any claim that has been or could have been asserted or raised in the Derivative Action or in any other litigation, (iii) the deficiency or infirmity of any defense that has been or could have been asserted or raised in the Derivative Action or in any other litigation or (iv) any fault, wrongdoing, negligence, or liability of any of the Released Persons&#59; (b) shall not be offered, received, or used in any way (i) against any of the Released Persons as evidence of, or be deemed to be evidence of, a presumption, concession, or admission of any fault, misrepresentation or omission with respect to any statement or written document approved, issued, or made by any Released Person, or (ii) against Plaintiffs as evidence of any infirmity in their claims&#59; and (c) shall not be offered, received, or used in any way against any of the Released Persons as evidence of, or be deemed to be evidence of, a presumption, concession, </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">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="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">or admission of any liability, fault, negligence, omission, or wrongdoing, or in any way referred to for any other reason as against the Released Persons in any arbitration proceeding or other civil, criminal, or administrative action or proceeding in any court, administrative agency, or other tribunal.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">12.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:21pt">Without affecting the finality of this Judgment in any way, this Court hereby retains continuing jurisdiction with respect to implementation and enforcement of the terms of the Stipulation.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">13.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%;padding-left:21pt">This Final Order and Judgment is a final, appealable judgment and should be entered forthwith by the Clerk in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58 and all other similar laws.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:232%">IT IS SO ORDERED.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></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:43.380%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:54.420%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">DATED&#58; ________________</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:200%">HONORABLE ALFRED H. BENNETT</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt"> </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:12.00pt">5</font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always">

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<th class="tl" colspan="1" rowspan="1"><div style="width: 200px;"><strong>Cover<br></strong></div></th>
<th class="th"><div>May 24, 2024</div></th>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Two-character EDGAR code representing the state or country of incorporation.</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>The exact name of the entity filing the report as specified in its charter, which is required by forms filed with the SEC.</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>The Tax Identification Number (TIN), also known as an Employer Identification Number (EIN), is a unique 9-digit value assigned by the IRS.</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>Local phone number for entity.</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>Boolean flag that is true when the Form 8-K filing is intended to satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant as pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act.</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 13e<br> -Subsection 4c<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Boolean flag that is true when the Form 8-K filing is intended to satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant as pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act.</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 14d<br> -Subsection 2b<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">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">dei_PreCommencementTenderOffer</td>
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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>Title of a 12(b) registered security.</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<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">
<tr>
<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
<td style="white-space:nowrap;">dei_Security12bTitle</td>
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<td><strong> Balance Type:</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 Exchange on which a security is registered.</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 d1-1<br></p></div>
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<td><strong> Name:</strong></td>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Boolean flag that is true when the Form 8-K filing is intended to satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant as soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act.</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> -Section 14a<br> -Number 240<br> -Subsection 12<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Trading symbol of an instrument as listed on an exchange.</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>Boolean flag that is true when the Form 8-K filing is intended to satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant as written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act.</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 Securities Act<br> -Number 230<br> -Section 425<br></p></div>
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