EX-99.2 3 ex99_2.htm EXHIBIT 99.2
Exhibit 99.2
 
Service Agreement
 
  (1) Container Applications International (UK) Limited
 
  (2) Daniel Hallahan
 
Dated 20 August,                2013

Contents
 
1.
Definitions and interpretation
1
2.
Appointment
4
3.
Term
4
4.
Duties
4
5.
Hours of work
5
6.
Place of Work
5
7.
Expenses
5
8.
Salary
5
9.
Bonus
6
10.
Pension
6
11.
Share Option and Long Term Incentive Plan
6
12.
Car Allowance
7
13.
Other Benefits
7
14.
Holidays
8
15.
Sickness Absence
8
16.
Sick Pay
9
17.
Obligations during Employment
9
18.
Confidential Information
10
19.
Intellectual Property
10
20.
Garden Leave
11
21.
Payment in lieu of notice
12
22.
Change of Control
13
23.
Summary Termination
13
24.
Retirement
14
25.
Reconstruction and Amalgamation
14
26.
Obligations after Employment
14
27.
Property
14
28.
Resignation from Appointments
15
29.
Suspension
15
30.
Disciplinary and Dismissal Rules
15
31.
Grievance
15
32.
Data Protection
15
33.
Warranty
16
34.
Deductions
16
35.
Power of Attorney
17
36.
Collective Agreements
17
37.
Entire Agreement
17
38.
Third Parties
17
39.
Releases and waivers
17
40.
Notices
17
41.
Governing law and jurisdiction
17
Schedule 1
19
(Post termination restrictions)
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This Agreement is made on 20 August, 2013
 
Between:
 
(1) Container Applications International (UK) Limited (company number: 02939196) whose registered office is at Kingsgate, 1 King Edward Road, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4HG (the "Company"); and
 
(2) Daniel Hallahan of Gray’s Farm, Stanford Rivers Road, Marden Ash, Ongar Essex, CM5 9BT UK ("You").
 
It is agreed as follows:
 
1. Definitions and interpretation
 
1.1 In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
 
"Agreed Sum" means an amount equivalent to the gross value of one year's basic salary as specified in clause 8.1 plus an amount equivalent to one year's bonus (calculated on the basis of the average bonus received over a two year reference period).
 
"Agreement" means this Agreement (including any schedule or annexure to it and any document referred to in it or in agreed form).
 
"Board" means the board of directors of the Company from time to time and includes any committee of the Board duly appointed by it.
 
"Businesses" means intermodal container leasing and management and any trade or other commercial activity which is carried on by the Company and/or any Group Company, or which the Company and/or any Group Company shall have determined to carry on with a view to profit in the immediate or foreseeable future.
 
"CAI" means CAI International, Inc.
 
"Change of Control" shall mean
 
(a) a merger or consolidation of CAI with or into any other company or other entity, if (after giving effect to the merger or consolidation) the stockholders of CAI immediately prior to the merger or consolidation would not be able to elect a majority of CAI's board of directors immediately following the merger or consolidation;
 
(b) a sale in one transaction or a series of transactions undertaken with a common purpose of all or a controlling portion of CAI's outstanding voting securities or such amount of CAI's outstanding voting securities as would enable the purchaser to obtain the right to appoint a majority of CAI's board of directors;
 
 
 
 (c) a sale, lease, exchange or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions undertaken with a common purpose of all or substantially all of CAI's assets; or
 
(d)
Where CAI ceases to have the power (other than in the circumstances described in clause 25) to secure that the affairs of the Company are conducted in accordance with CAI's wishes:
 
 
(i)
by means of the holding of shares, or the possession of voting power, in or in relation to the Company; or
 
(ii) as a result of any powers conferred by the articles of association or any other document regulating the Company;
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provided, however, a private sale of CAI stock beneficially owned by Hiromitsu Ogawa, his spouse or his children shall not constitute a Change of Control unless (after giving effect thereto) a single party (or group of related parties) obtains control of CAI as a result of such transaction.
 
"Commencement Date" means the date of this Agreement;
 
"Confidential Information" means any trade secrets or other information which is confidential, commercially sensitive and is not in the public domain relating or belonging to the Company and/or any Group Company including but not limited to:
 
 
 
 (a) information relating to the business methods, corporate plans, management systems, finances, new business opportunities, research and development projects, marketing or sales of any past, present or future product or service;
 
(b) secret formulae, processes, inventions, designs, know-how discoveries, technical specifications and other technical information relating to the creation, production or supply of any past, present or future product or service of the Company and/or any Group Company;
(c) lists or details of customers, potential customers or suppliers or the arrangements made with any customer or supplier; and
 
(d) any information in respect of which the Company and/or any Group Company owes an obligation of confidentiality to any third party.
 
"Duties" means your duties as referred to in clause 4.
 
"Employment" means your period of employment under this Agreement which shall be deemed to include any period of garden leave served under clause 20.
 
"Group Companies" or "Group" means the Company and any holding company or any parent company or any subsidiary or subsidiary undertaking of the Company or such companies, as such terms are defined in s 1159, s 1162 (together with Schedule 7 and the definition of "parent company" in s 1173), s 1161 and Schedule 6 of the Companies Act 2006, and "Group Company" means any of them.
 
"HMRC" means Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
 
"Holiday Year" means the period 1 January to 31 December or such other period of one year as the Company may notify to you in writing from time to time.
 
"Invention" means any know how, technique, process, improvement, invention or discovery (whether patentable or not) which you (whether alone or with any other person) make, conceive, create, develop, write, devise or acquire at any time during your Employment and which relates or could relate directly or indirectly to the Businesses.
 
"Material Interest" means:
 
(a) the holding of any position (whether employed or engaged) or the provision of services as director, officer, employee, consultant, adviser, partner, principal, agent or volunteer;
 
 
 
 (b) the direct or indirect control or ownership (whether jointly or alone) of any shares (or any voting rights attached to them) or debentures save for the ownership for investment purposes only of not more than 5 per cent of the issued ordinary shares of any company whose shares are listed on any Recognised Exchange; or
 
(c) the direct or indirect provision of any financial assistance.
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"Model Code" means the Model Code on directors' dealings in securities set out in the Listing Rules contained in the FSA handbook.
 
"New Employer" means the company to which your employment transfers if the Change of Control results in a transfer pursuant to the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006.
 
"Pension Scheme" means the scheme referred to in clause 10.
 
"Recognised Exchange" means any of a recognised investment exchange (as defined in s 285 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA")), an overseas investment exchange (as defined in s 313 FSMA), or a relevant market (as defined in article 37 FSMA 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2001.
 
"Schemes" means such schemes as the Company may operate from time to time and which are referred to in clause 13.1.
 
"Termination Date" means the date on which the Employment terminates.
 
"Works" means all works including without limitation all copyright works or designs originated, conceived, developed or written by you alone or with others during the Employment which relate to or could relate to the Businesses.
 
1.2 In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
 
(a) words in the singular include the plural and vice versa and words in one gender include any other gender;
 
(b) a reference to a statute or statutory provision includes:
 
(i) any subordinate legislation (as defined in Section 21(1), Interpretation Act 1978) made under it; and
 
(ii) any statute or statutory provision which modifies, consolidates, re-enacts or supersedes it;
 
(c) a reference to:
 
 
 
 (i) a "person" includes any individual, firm, body corporate, association or partnership, government or state (whether or not having a separate legal personality);
 
(ii) clauses and schedules are to clauses and schedules of this Agreement and references to sub‑clauses and paragraphs are references to sub‑clauses and paragraphs of the clause or schedule in which they appear; and
 
(iii) "indemnify" and "indemnifying" any person against any circumstance include indemnifying and keeping him harmless from all actions, claims and proceedings from time to time made against him and all loss or damage and all payments (including fines, penalties and interest, costs or expenses) made or incurred by that person as a consequence of or which would not have arisen but for that circumstance;
 
(d) Except where otherwise stated, words and phrases defined in the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers or in the Companies Act 2006 have the same meaning in this Agreement.
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2. Appointment
 
The Company appoints you and you agree to serve as Senior Vice President of Marketing of the Company or such other position as the Company may reasonably require from time to time on the terms of this Agreement.
 
3. Term
 
3.1 Your Employment with the Company shall commence on the Commencement Date.  Your previous employment with the Company which began on 16 September 1994 and your previous employment with CAI which began on 1 July 1992 shall count as part of your continuous period of employment.
 
3.2 Subject to the terms of this Agreement, your Employment shall continue until terminated by either party giving to the other not less than 12 months' prior written notice.
 
4. Duties
 
4.1 You shall carry out such duties as attach to your office of Senior Vice President of Marketing and any other duties for the Company and/or any Group Company (whether or not commensurate with your position) which the Chief Executive Officer or the Board assigns to you from time to time. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, your duties will include, without limitation, the following:
 
(a) responsibility for relations with the Company's customers;
 
(b) responsibility for the Company's marketing staff.
 
4.2 Without additional remuneration, you shall accept and hold for such period(s) as specified by the Board, any office(s) including any post(s) as director, company secretary, trustee, nominee and/or representative of the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
4.3 Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you shall:
 
(a) devote the whole of your working time and attention to the Employment;
 
(b) perform the Duties faithfully and diligently and exercise such powers consistent with those Duties as are assigned to or vested in you by the Company and/or any Group Company and in all cases you shall do so jointly with any person(s) appointed by the Board from time to time and in line with Group signing authorities and other procedures in force from time to time;
 
 
 
 (c) comply with all common law, fiduciary and statutory duties to the Company and any Group Company, including, but not limited to the seven statutory duties set out in s 171 – 177 Companies Act 2006, so far as they are in force;
 
(d) obey all lawful and reasonable directions of the Board;
 
(e) observe in form and spirit such restrictions or limitations as may from time to time be imposed by the Board;
 
(f) implement and observe in form and spirit any relevant Company and/or Group Company policy, procedures, rules and regulations (whether formal or informal);
 
(g) use your best endeavours to foster the Company's interests and save where this causes a conflict with the Company's interests, those of its other Group Companies;
 
(h) report to the Board any relevant wrongdoing (including any misconduct or dishonesty) whether committed, contemplated or discussed by any director, employee or worker of the Company and/or any Group Company of which you are aware and irrespective of whether this may involve any degree of self incrimination; and
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(i) keep the Board properly and fully informed in such manner prescribed (with explanations where requested) of your compliance with the Duties and the affairs of the Company and/or any Group Company.; and
 
(j) do such things necessary to ensure that you and the Company and/or any relevant Group Company comply with the UK Corporate Governance Code (as amended from time to time).
 
5. Hours of work
 
You shall work such hours as may be necessary for the proper discharge of your Duties.  You agree that your employment falls within Regulation 20 of the Working Time Regulations 1998.
 
6. Place of Work
 
6.1 Your principal place of work shall be at Kingsgate, 1 King Edward Road,  Brentwood, Essex CM14 4HG.  The Company reserves the right to change your principal place of work on giving reasonable prior notice to you.
 
6.2 You shall travel to and work on a temporary basis from such locations within and outside of the United Kingdom as the Board may reasonably require.  You will be required to travel extensively on Company and any Group Company business both within in the UK, Europe and Worldwide for the proper performance of your Duties. There is no current requirement for you to work outside the United Kingdom for any consecutive period of one month or more.
 
7. Expenses
 
7.1 The Company will reimburse to you (or as the case may be procure the reimbursement of) all expenses wholly, properly and necessarily incurred by you in the performance of the Duties subject to production within 30 days of the expense being incurred of such receipts or other evidence of expenditure as the Company may reasonably require in accordance with the Company's policy on expenses in force from time to time.
 
7.2 You must take good care of your Company credit card and use it solely for expenses incurred by you in carrying out the Duties and in accordance with any applicable Company policy in force from time to time.  The loss of any such card must be reported immediately to the Company and it must be returned to the Company immediately upon request.
 
8. Salary
 
8.1 You will be paid a salary of £224,865 per annum, subject to deduction of such tax and national insurance as the Company is required by law to deduct and which is inclusive of any fees you are entitled to as a director or Company Secretary of the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
8.2 Your salary will accrue from day to day and is payable in equal monthly instalments in arrears on or about the first day of each month, directly into a bank or building society account nominated by you.
8.3 Your salary will be reviewed by the Board on or about 1st July each year, save where you are working under notice of termination.  There is no obligation on the Board to increase your salary.  Any increase awarded will be effective from the date specified by the Board.
 
8.4 The Company may, in its absolute discretion, pay additional remuneration to you, whether by way of bonus or otherwise.  Any such payment shall not form part of your salary for the purposes of this clause 8.
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9. Bonus
 
9.1 The Company may award you a bonus of such amount and subject to such conditions (including, but not limited to, conditions for and timing of payment) as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine from time to time.  The Board reserves the right to award a nil bonus.
 
9.2 Any bonus awarded to you shall be purely discretionary, shall not form part of your contractual remuneration under this Agreement and shall not be pensionable.  The making of an award shall not oblige the Company to make any subsequent bonus awards.
 
9.3 Notwithstanding clause 9.1, you shall have no right to be awarded or where an award has been made, paid a bonus (pro rata or otherwise) if:
 
(a) you have not been employed throughout the whole of the financial year to which the bonus relates; or
 
(b) you are subject to any capability and/or disciplinary procedures; and/or
 
(c) your employment has terminated (whether lawfully or unlawfully) or you are under notice of termination (whether given by you or the Company).
 
9.4 If you have been notified that you are under investigation in accordance with our disciplinary or capability procedure then your eligibility to be considered for a discretionary bonus will be postponed pending the conclusion of any such investigation and any subsequent disciplinary hearing or capability meeting.
 
10. Pension
 
10.1 You are eligible to join the Company's group personal pension scheme (or such other pension scheme as may be set up by the Company to replace its group personal pension scheme) subject to the rules and eligibility requirements of the scheme, as amended from time to time, and subject to the Company deciding to discontinue the scheme.
 
10.2 During each year of the Employment, the Company shall match your contributions to the pension scheme up to a maximum amount equal to 4% of your base salary as specified in clause 8.1.  The Company's contributions to the pension scheme will be made in equal monthly instalments in arrears (pro rated in the years your employment commences and terminates for each complete calendar month worked).  Your contributions will be made by way of deductions from salary.  For the avoidance of doubt, if you wish to contribute more than 4% of your base salary then the Company's contribution will be 4% of your base salary.  Contributions to the pension scheme shall be subject to the rules of the scheme and the tax relief and exemptions available from HMRC, as amended from time to time.
 
10.3 A contracting out certificate is not in force in respect of the Employment.
 
11. Share Option and Long Term Incentive Plan
 
11.1 The terms of the Employment shall not be affected in anyway by your participation or entitlement to participate in any long term incentive plan or share option scheme. Such schemes and/or plans shall not form part of the terms of the Employment (express or implied).
 
11.2 In calculating any payment, compensation or damages on the termination of the Employment for whatever reason (whether lawful or unlawful) which might otherwise be payable to you, no account shall be taken of your participation in any such schemes and/or plans referred to in clause 11.1 or any impact upon participation such termination may have.
 
11.3 This clause 11 does not in any way indicate any right or entitlement to participate in any such schemes and/or plans.
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12. Car Allowance
 
12.1 Subject to you holding a valid licence to drive a car in the United Kingdom, the Company will pay you a car allowance at the rate notified to you by the Company from time to time for use of your own car in performing your Duties.  This car allowance shall be payable together with and in the same manner as your salary, but shall not be treated for any purpose as part of your salary and shall not be pensionable.
 
12.2 You shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Company for the cost of fuel incurred during business use in accordance with the Company's car policy from time to time in force.
 
12.3 If you are disqualified from driving, you shall notify the Company immediately.
 
13. Other Benefits
 
13.1 Subject to clauses 13.2 to 13.6 below, you shall be entitled to participate in such of the following schemes as the Company may operate from time to time:
 
(a) the permanent health insurance scheme;
 
(b) the life assurance scheme; and
 
(c) the private medical expenses insurance scheme.
 
13.2 Participation and entitlement to benefits under any of the Schemes is subject to:
 
(a) the terms of the relevant Scheme as amended from time to time;
 
(b) the rules or policies as amended from time to time of the relevant Scheme provider;
 
(c) acceptance by the relevant Scheme provider; and
 
(d) satisfaction of the normal underwriting requirements of the relevant Scheme provider and the premium being at a rate which the Company considers reasonable.
 
13.3 The Company shall only be obliged to make any payment under any Scheme where it has received payment from the relevant Scheme provider for that purpose.  If a Scheme provider refuses to provide any benefit to you, whether based on its own interpretation of the terms and/or rules of the relevant Scheme or otherwise, the Company shall not be liable to provide you with any replacement benefit whatsoever or pay any compensation in lieu of such benefit.
 
13.4 The Company, in its absolute discretion, reserves the right to discontinue, vary or amend any of the Schemes (including the provider and/or level of cover provided under any Scheme) at any time on reasonable notice to you.
 
13.5 Any other benefit provided to you shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing, be at the absolute discretion of the Company who may, at any time, withdraw or vary the terms of any such benefit as it sees fit.
 
13.6 You agree that the Company shall be under no obligation to continue this Agreement and the Employment so that you continue to receive benefits under this Agreement. In particular, you agree that the Company may terminate the Employment notwithstanding any rights which you may have to participate in and/or obtain benefits under any permanent health insurance scheme which the Company operates from time to time.  You agree that you shall have no entitlement to compensation or otherwise from the Company and/or any Group Company for the loss of any such entitlements and/or benefits.
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14. Holidays
 
14.1 In addition to the usual public or bank holidays in England and Wales, you are entitled to 25 working days' paid holiday in each Holiday Year (pro rated to the nearest half day for the Holiday Year in which the Employment commences and terminates).
 
14.2 Holiday must be taken at such times as are agreed with the Board.  On giving at least 5 days notice, the Company may require you to take any accrued but untaken holiday where you are under notice of termination (including where you are on garden leave pursuant to clause 20).
 
14.3 You may not carry forward any part of your holiday entitlement to a subsequent Holiday Year.  Save as provided for in clause 14.4 no payment in lieu will be made of any unused holiday entitlement in any Holiday Year.
 
14.4 On termination of the Employment:
 
(a) you will be entitled to pay in lieu of any accrued but untaken holiday entitlement; and/or
 
(b)
you will be required to repay to the Company any salary received for holiday taken in excess of your accrued entitlement (which you agree may be deducted from any payments, including salary, due to you from the Company).
 
Any payment or repayment pursuant to this clause will be calculated on the basis of 1/260 of your salary payable pursuant to clause 8 for each day of holiday.
 
15. Sickness Absence
 
15.1 If you are unable to perform the Duties due to sickness or injury, you must comply with the Company's sickness policy from time to time in force report this on the first working day of such sickness or injury to the Group Vice President of Human Resources indicating so far as practicable the date on which you expect to return to work.  You shall keep the Company informed and provide it with such certification of your condition as it may require.
15.2 If at any time in the reasonable opinion of the Board you are unable to perform all or part of the Duties due to sickness or injury, you will at the request and expense of the Company:
 
(a) consent to an examination by a doctor nominated by the Company; and
 
(b) authorise the doctor to disclose to and discuss with the Company, his or her report (including copies) of the examination and your fitness for work.
 
15.3 The Company is entitled to rely on the reasonable opinion of any doctor engaged to examine you under clause 15.2 as to your fitness for work.  Where such doctor considers you to be unfit for work, you are not entitled to receive any payment in excess of any sick pay entitlement pursuant to clause 16.
 
15.4 If you are incapable of performing your Duties due to sickness or injury for a period or periods aggregating at least 90 days in any period of 12 months, the Company may by not less than 3 months' prior written notice given at any time terminate the Employment, even where, as result of such termination, you would or might forfeit your entitlement to benefit from sick pay under clause 16 below or any other benefit (including permanent health insurance pursuant to clause 13) and you agree that you shall have no entitlement to compensation or otherwise from the Company and/or any Group Company for the loss of any such entitlements and/or benefits.
 
16. Sick Pay
 
16.1 Subject to compliance with clause 15 and clauses 16.2 and 16.4 below, you will be entitled to your salary (pursuant to clause 8.1) and, subject to the rules of any applicable scheme, any contractual benefits for a total of 12 weeks absence in any period of 12 consecutive months and after that such remuneration or benefits (if any) as the Board may in its absolute discretion determine from time to time.  Any payment made to you under this clause is inclusive of your entitlement (if any) to statutory sick pay (for which your qualifying days are Monday to Friday).
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16.2 Where your absence(s) exceed(s) 12 weeks in any period of 12 consecutive months, you shall have no entitlement to any remuneration or benefits pursuant to clause 16.1 (whether or not the Board has exercised its discretion to provide any additional remuneration or benefits for any absence(s) in excess of the 12 weeks referred to in that clause) until you have returned to work and remained at work for a continuous period of 12 weeks.
 
16.3 For the purpose of clauses 16.1 and 16.2, any delay by the Company in terminating the provision of sick pay and/or any other remuneration and/or benefits will not constitute a waiver of its right to do so.
 
16.4 If your sickness or injury is or appears to be caused by the negligence, nuisance or breach of any statutory duty of a third party, in respect of which damages are or may be recoverable you shall:
 
(a) immediately notify the Board of all relevant facts and of any claim, compromise, settlement or judgement made or awarded in connection with it and all relevant particulars that the Board may reasonably require; and
 
(b) if required by the Board, refund to the Company that part of any damages or compensation recovered by you relating to your loss of earnings for the period of sickness or injury as the Board reasonably determines provided that the amount to be refunded shall not exceed the total amount paid to you by the Company in respect of the period of sickness or injury.
 
16.5 This clause 16 is without prejudice and does not limit in anyway the Company's right to terminate your employment pursuant to this Agreement.
 
17. Obligations during Employment
 
17.1 Save with the prior written permission of the Board, you shall not during your employment (whether during or outside normal working hours):
 
(a) hold any Material Interest in any person which:
 
(i) is or shall be wholly or partly in competition with any of the Businesses;
 
 
 
 (ii) impairs or might reasonably be thought by the Company to impair your ability to act at all times in the best interests of the Company and/or any Group Company; and/or
 
(iii) requires or might reasonably be thought by the Company to require you to make use of or disclose any Confidential Information to further your interests in that person;
 
(b) take any preparatory steps to become engaged or interested in any capacity whatsoever in any business or venture which is in or is intended to enter into competition with any of the Businesses;
 
(c) carry out any public or private work other than the Duties (whether for profit or otherwise);
 
(d) directly or indirectly receive in respect of any goods or services sold or purchased or any other business transacted (whether or not by you) by or on behalf of the Company and/or any Group Company any discount, rebate, commission or other inducement (whether in cash or in kind) which is not authorised by the relevant Company and/or Group Company rules or guidelines.  You will account to the Company for the value of any such inducement.
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17.2 You shall observe relevant rules of law and the Company guidelines/codes relating to dealings in shares, debentures or other securities of the Company and/or any Group Company.  In relation to overseas dealing you shall observe all laws and all regulations of the stock exchange, market or dealing system in which country or state such dealings take place.
 
18. Confidential Information
 
18.1 You shall not either during the Employment or at any time after its termination (howsoever arising), directly or indirectly, use, disclose or communicate to any person whatsoever, and shall use your best endeavours to prevent the publication or disclosure of, any Confidential Information.
 
18.2 Clause 18.1 does not apply to:
 
(a) any use or disclosure in the proper performance of the Duties, as authorised by the Board and/or as required by law;
 
(b) any information which is already in or comes into the public domain other than through your unauthorised disclosure; and/or
 
(c) any protected disclosure within the meaning of s43A Employment Rights Act 1996 provided, where at the relevant time you are employed by the Company, you have fully complied with the Company's procedures relating to such disclosures.
 
19. Intellectual Property
 
19.1 You shall promptly disclose to the Company full details of any Invention and/or Works (including, without limitation, any and all computer programs, photographs, plans, records, drawings and models) which you (whether alone or with any other person) make, conceive, create, develop, write, devise or acquire at any time during the Employment and which relates or could relate directly or indirectly to the Businesses.  You shall treat all Inventions and Works as Confidential Information of the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
19.2 To the extent not already vested in the Company and/or any Group Company by operation of law, you:
 
(a) shall hold any Invention and/or Work on trust for the Company and/or any Group Company until any rights to such Invention and/or Work have been fully and absolutely vested in the Company in accordance with the remaining provisions of this clause 19;
 
(b) shall subject to clauses 39-43 of the Patents Act 1977 assign to the Company all patents and rights to apply for patents or other appropriate forms of protection in each Invention throughout the world;
 
 
 
 (c) hereby assign by way of present and future assignment all copyright, design rights and other proprietary intellectual property rights (if any) for their full terms throughout the world in respect of the Works.
 
(d) shall execute any document necessary to assign to the Company any rights referred to under this clause 19 and at the request and expense of the Company, do all things necessary or desirable (including entering into any agreement that the Company reasonably requires) to vest such rights in the Company including without limitation applying and joining in with the Company in applying for any protection for or registration of any such rights to enable the Company and/or any Group Company and/or its or their nominee to obtain the full benefit and/or substantiate the rights of the Company and/or any Group Company under paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).
 
19.3 You acknowledge and agree that the patenting and exploitation of any Invention shall be at the sole discretion of the Company.
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19.4 You irrevocably and unconditionally waive in favour of the Company and/or any Group Company any and all moral rights conferred on you by Chapter IV, Part I, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and any other moral rights provided for under the laws now or in future in force in any part of the world for any Work the rights in which are vested in the Company whether by clause 19.2 or otherwise.
 
20. Garden Leave
 
20.1 During any period of notice to terminate the Employment (whether given by you or the Company), or if you purport to terminate the Employment in breach of this Agreement, the Board may for all or part of that period, in its absolute discretion (and notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement) require you:
 
(a) to perform only such of the Duties as it may allocate to you or such other projects or duties as may be required (whether or not they fall within clause 4);
 
(b) not to perform any of the Duties;
 
(c) not to have any contact (other than purely social contact) or deal with (or attempt to contact or deal with) any officer, employee, consultant, client, customer, supplier, agent, distributor, shareholder, adviser or other business contact of the Company and/or any Group Company save as determined by the Board;
 
(d) to disclose to the Board any attempted contact (other than purely social contact) with any person with whom you have been required not to have any contact pursuant to this clause;
 
(e) to take any accrued holiday entitlement (in accordance with clause 14.2);
 
(f) not to enter any premises of the Company and/or any Group Company nor to visit the premises of any suppliers and/or customers of the Company and/or any Group Company;
 
(g) to return as requested by the Board any mobile telephone handset, SIM card, laptop computer and/or any other Company and/or Group Company property, including Confidential Information, the Board may require; and/or
 
 
 (h) to resign immediately from any offices you hold in the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
20.2 You agree that any action taken on the part of the Company and/or any Group Company pursuant to clause 20.1 shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement of any kind whatsoever nor will you have any claim against the Company and/or any Group Company in respect of such action.
 
20.3 Without prejudice to any other terms of this Agreement and save as expressly agreed otherwise in clause 20.1 above, during any period in which action is taken on the part of the Company and/or any Group Company pursuant to clause 20.1:
 
(a) you shall continue to be entitled to your salary and contractual benefits save that, should you work for any other person or on your own account and fail to be available for work at any time, your right to salary and contractual benefits in respect of such period of non-availability shall be forfeit, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement;
 
(b) you shall owe a duty of utmost good faith to the Company and/or any Group Company; and
 
(c) you shall remain an employee of the Company and be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.  In particular, you agree that you will not work for any other person or on your own account and, save during any periods of holiday taken under this Agreement, you shall remain readily contactable and available to work for the Company and/or any Group Company.
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21. Payment in lieu of notice
 
21.1 The Company may in its absolute discretion, terminate the Employment at any time with immediate effect and pay you a sum equal to the basic salary you would have received during your notice period pursuant to clause 3.2 (or, if notice has already been given, during the remainder of the notice period) less income tax and National Insurance contributions ("Payment in Lieu").The Payment in Lieu shall not include any payment in respect of:
 
(a) any bonus or commission payments that might otherwise have been paid to you during the period for which the Payment in Lieu is made;
 
(b) benefits which you would have been entitled to receive during the period for which the Payment in Lieu is made; or
 
(c) any holiday entitlement that would have accrued to you during the period for which the Payment in Lieu is made.
 
21.2 Subject to clause 21.3, the Company will make any payment pursuant to clause 21.1, at its absolute discretion, either within 14 days of the termination of your employment or in equal monthly instalments in arrears until the date on which the period of notice referred to in clause 21.1 would have expired.
 
21.3 If the Company chooses to make the Payment in Lieu in instalments, you undertake to seek and take up, as soon as reasonably practicable, any opportunity to earn alternative income (whether in the form of cash or benefits in kind) over the period in which the instalments are to be made. You undertake to inform the Company in writing as soon as you receive an offer of any such opportunity and to disclose to the Company the gross amount of any such income.  You agree that the instalment payments will be reduced (including to zero) by the amount of such income you earn and/or are entitled to earn over the period in which such instalments are to be made.  You agree that no further payments will become payable to you under this clause 21 with effect from the first day of taking up such opportunity.
 
21.4 You shall have no right to receive a Payment in Lieu unless the Company has exercised its discretion in clause 21.1. Nothing in this clause 21 shall prevent the Company from terminating your Employment in breach.
 
22. Change of Control
 
22.1 If there is a Change of Control and, within 24 months following the Change of Control directly or indirectly in connection with it:
 
(a) your Employment is terminated unlawfully and/or in breach of the terms of this Agreement; or
 
(b) you terminate your Employment in response to a fundamental breach of contract,
 
the Company or your New Employer (as applicable) shall, subject to clause 22.2 below, pay the Agreed Sum to you within one month following the Termination Date. The Agreed Sum shall be payable less any income tax and National Insurance contributions which are legally required to be deducted.
 
22.2 The payment of the Agreed Sum shall be conditional on and in consideration of:
 
 
 
 (a) your complying with (and continuing to comply with) your obligations relating to confidentiality, intellectual property, restrictive covenants, property and resignation as set out in clauses 18, 19, 26, 27 and 28 respectively;
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 (b) clause 26 applying notwithstanding that your Employment may, or without the payment of the Agreed Sum might, otherwise have been repudiated by the Company or your New Employer (as applicable); and
 
(c) you executing such documents in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company or your New Employer (as applicable) as it may require to effect the termination of your Employment and your resignation from any appointments in full and final settlement of all and any claims or rights of action that you have or may have against the Company, any Group Company and/or your New Employer whether arising out of your Employment or its termination.
 
22.3 For the avoidance of doubt, the payment of the Agreed Sum shall not affect your entitlement to any of the following:
 
(a) any accrued but unpaid salary (including in relation to any period of notice or payment in lieu of notice);
 
(b) any payment in lieu of accrued but unused holiday; or
 
(c) the reimbursement of expenses, provided that all claims for reimbursement are submitted within four weeks after the Termination Date,
 
in relation, in each case, to the period before the Termination Date.
 
23. Summary Termination
 
23.1 The Company may terminate the Employment at any time, without notice or pay in lieu of notice, and with no liability to make any further payment to you, save for the amounts accrued due to the Termination Date, if:
 
(a) you commit any act of gross misconduct;
 
(b) your conduct (whether or not it occurs during or in the context of the Employment) is such that it may in the reasonable opinion of the Board bring the Company and/or any Group Company into disrepute and/or is calculated or likely prejudicially to affect the interests of the Company and/or any Group Company;
 
(c) you are negligent and/or incompetent in the reasonable opinion of the Board in the performance of your Duties;
 
(d) you commit any serious or repeated breach of this Agreement;
 
(e) you are convicted of any criminal offence (other than an offence under the road traffic legislation in the United Kingdom or abroad for which you are not sentenced to any term of imprisonment, whether immediate or suspended);
 
(f) you commit any act of fraud or dishonesty or corrupt practice or a breach of the Bribery Act 2010 relating to the Company and/or any Group Company, any of its or their employees, customers or otherwise;
 
 
 
 (g) you become prohibited by law from being a director, you are removed from office of director pursuant to the Company's articles of association or you resign as a director other than with the prior written approval or at the written request of the Board or pursuant to clause 28;
 
(h) you become of unsound mind or a patient for the purposes of any statute relating to mental health so that in the opinion of the Board you are unable to perform your Duties;
 
(i) a bankruptcy petition is presented against you or you become bankrupt or an interim order is made in respect of you pursuant to section 252 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or you make any arrangement or composition with your creditors generally (including an Individual Voluntary Arrangement) or have a County Court administration order made against you under the County Court Act 1984.
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23.2 The rights of the Company under clause 23.1 are without prejudice to any other rights that it may have at law to terminate the Employment or accept any breach of this Agreement by you as having brought the Agreement to an end and any delay by the Company in exercising its rights under clause 23.1 shall not constitute a waiver of such rights.
 
24. Retirement
 
The Company has no fixed retirement age although this will be reviewed from time to time to reflect business needs.
 
25. Reconstruction and Amalgamation
 
If the Employment is terminated by reason of any reconstruction or amalgamation of the Company and/or any Group Company whether by winding up or otherwise and you are offered employment with any concern or undertaking involved in or resulting from such reconstruction or amalgamation on terms which (considered in their entirety) are no less favourable to any material extent than the terms of this Agreement, you shall have no claim against the Company or any such undertaking arising out of or in connection with such termination.
 
26. Obligations after Employment
 
Without prejudice to the other terms of this Agreement, you agree that following the termination of your Employment for any reason whatsoever, you will be bound by and you will comply with the terms and conditions set out in Schedule 1 to this Agreement.
 
27. Property
 
At any time during the Employment or following its termination (for whatever reason), as requested by the Company and/or any Group Company, you agree to:
 
(a) return to the Company and/or any Group Company or irretrievably destroy or delete:
 
(i) any documents, drawings, designs, computer files or software, visual or audio tapes or other materials containing information (including, without limitation, Confidential Information) and/or any copies or extracts of the same relating to the Businesses; and
 
(ii) any other property of the Company and/or any Group Company
 
in your possession, custody and/or directly or indirectly under your control;
 
 
 
 (b) inform the Company of all passwords, pass codes, pin numbers and any other similar information used by yourself in relation to any information technology systems, vehicles, rooms and/or any other secured property of the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
28. Resignation from Appointments
 
At any time, at the request of the Company and/or any Group Company, you agree to resign from any directorships, offices, appointments and/or trusteeships which you hold with the Company and/or any Group Company without claim for compensation and your resignation shall not affect in anyway the continuance of this Agreement.
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29. Suspension
 
In order to investigate a complaint against you of misconduct and/or poor performance, the Company may suspend you for so long as may be necessary to carry out a proper investigation and complete any appropriate disciplinary and/or capability process.  During any period of suspension you shall continue to receive your salary and contractual benefits.
 
30. Disciplinary and Dismissal Rules
 
30.1 You are subject to the Company's disciplinary rules and procedures in force from time to time a copy of which is available from the Group Vice President of Human Resources and such other procedures of this nature as may from time to time be adopted.  Application of any such procedure is at the Company's discretion and is not a contractual entitlement.
 
30.2 If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary decision to dismiss you, you should refer such dissatisfaction in writing to Group Vice President of Human Resources, who will proceed in accordance with the appeal procedure set out in the appropriate Company procedure.
 
31. Grievance
 
If you have any grievance relating to the Employment (other than one relating to a disciplinary decision or a decision to dismiss you), you should refer such grievance in writing to the Group Vice President of Human Resources in accordance with the Company's grievance procedure in force from time to time (a copy of which is available from Group Vice President of Human Resources.  If the grievance is not resolved at this stage, you can appeal in accordance with the appeal procedure set out in the grievance procedure.  Application of the grievance procedure is discretionary and not a contractual entitlement.
 
32. Data Protection
 
32.1 The Company and any Group Company shall process your personal data (including, where necessary, sensitive personal data, such terms being defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) in their paper-based and computerised systems.  You consent to the processing of such data both inside and, where necessary, outside the European Economic Area for the purposes of:
 
(a) salary, benefits and pensions administration and employee management;
 
(b) health administration and for the purposes of health insurance/benefits;
 
(c) training and appraisal, including performance records and disciplinary records;
 
(d) equal opportunities monitoring;
 
 
 
 (e) any potential change of control of the Company and/or Group Company, or any potential transfer of employment under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006.  In such circumstances, disclosure may include disclosure to the potential purchaser or investor and their advisors;
 
(f) promoting or marketing of the Company and/or any Group Company and/or its or their products or services;
 
(g) compliance with applicable procedures, laws and regulations; and/or
 
(h) any other reasonable purposes in connection with your employment about which you shall be notified from time to time.
 
32.2 You acknowledge and accept that in order to fulfil the purposes set out above, it may be necessary to pass your personal data (or sensitive personal data, as appropriate) to regulatory bodies, government agencies and other third parties as required by law or for administration purposes.
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32.3 You acknowledge and accept that the Company and/or any Group Company may monitor electronic correspondence (including email, voice and text messages) which you receive at work and/or on Company systems and/or property provided to you by the Company and/or any Group Company for the purposes of your work in order to ensure the integrity of its information technology or to prevent or detect criminal behaviour or behaviour which contravenes employment legislation and/or other Company and/or Group Company policies.
 
32.4 You agree to use all reasonable endeavours to keep the Company informed of any changes to your personal data or sensitive personal data and to comply with all relevant data protection legislation.
 
33. Warranty
 
33.1 You warrant that you are not bound by nor subject to any court order, arrangement, obligation (express or implied), restriction or undertaking (contractual or otherwise) which prohibits or restricts you from entering into this Agreement or performing the Duties.
 
33.2 You undertake to indemnify the Company and/or any Group Company against any claims, costs, damages, liabilities and/or expenses which the Company and/or any Group Company may incur as a result of any claim that you are in breach of any order, arrangement, obligation, restriction or undertaking referred to in clause 33.1.
 
33.3 You warrant that you are entitled to work in the United Kingdom without any additional approvals and will notify the Company immediately if you cease to be so entitled during the course of your employment.
 
33.4 You warrant that you have no previous convictions and have not previously been reported for or been subject to investigation for bribery related offences including, without limitation, offences under the Bribery Act 2010.
 
34. Deductions
 
You agree that at any time the Company may deduct from your salary or any other sums owed to you any money you owe to the Company and/or any Group Company.
 
35. Power of Attorney
 
If you fail to comply with any request(s) under clauses 19, 20 and 28, you irrevocably authorise the Company and/or any Group Company to appoint a person in your name and on your behalf to sign any documents or do any things necessary or requisite for the purposes of giving the Company and/or any Group Company and its or their nominee the full benefit of clauses 19,20 and 28, as applicable.
 
36. Collective Agreements
 
There are no collective agreements which affect the terms and conditions of your employment.
 
37. Entire Agreement
 
This Agreement together with any documents referred to in it sets out the entire agreement and understanding between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings or arrangements (oral or written) in respect of your employment or engagement by the Company.  No purported variation of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the parties.
 
38. Third Parties
 
Unless expressly provided in this Agreement, no term of this Agreement is enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person who is not a party to it.
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39. Releases and waivers
 
39.1 The Company may, in whole or in part, release, compound, compromise, waive or postpone, in its absolute discretion, any liability owed to it or right granted to it in this Agreement by you without in any way prejudicing or affecting its rights in respect of any part of that liability or any other liability or right not so released, compounded, compromised, waived or postponed.
 
39.2 No single or partial exercise, or failure or delay in exercising any right, power or remedy by the Company shall constitute a waiver by it of, or impair or preclude any further exercise of, that or any right, power or remedy arising under this Agreement or otherwise.
 
40. Notices
 
40.1 Any notice to a party under this Agreement shall be in writing signed by or on behalf of the party giving it and shall, unless delivered to a party personally, be hand delivered, or sent by prepaid first class post or facsimile, with a confirmatory copy sent by prepaid first class post to, in your case, your last known residential address or, in the case of the Company, the Company Secretary at the Company's registered office.
 
40.2 A notice shall be deemed to have been served:
 
(a) at the time of delivery if delivered personally to a party or to the specified address;
 
(b) on the second working day after posting by first class prepaid post; or
 
(c) 2 hours after transmission if served by facsimile on a business day prior to 3pm or in any other case at 10 am on the business day after the date of despatch.
 
41. Governing law and jurisdiction
 
41.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
 
41.2 Each of the parties irrevocably submits for all purposes in connection with this Agreement to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
 
In witness this Deed has been executed on the date appearing at the head of page 1.
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Schedule 1
(Post termination restrictions)

1. Definitions and interpretation
 
1.1 In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires, the following additional definitions shall apply (in addition to the definitions contained in the Agreement to which this Schedule is annexed and of which it forms a part):
 
"the Business" means the business of the Company or any part thereof and any other business or part thereof carried on by any Group Company as at the Termination Date and/or during the Protected Period and in respect of which the Duties have been materially concerned or about which you have acquired Confidential Information.
 
"Customer" means any person who at any time during the Protected Period was a customer of the Company or any Group Company and was a person with whom you had material personal dealings or in relation to whom you have acquired Confidential Information.
 
"Garden Leave Period" means any period during which the Company has exercised its rights pursuant to clause 20 of the Agreement to which this Schedule is annexed.
 
"Goods and/or Services" means any goods and/or services competitive with those supplied by the Company or any Group Company at any time during the Protected Period and in relation to which you were materially involved or concerned or for which you were responsible during that period.
 
"Key Employee" means any person who at any time during the Protected Period is or was employed or engaged by the Company or any Group Company in a senior, managerial, sales, marketing, technical or supervisory capacity and with whom you dealt during that period.
 
"Prospective Customer" means any person who was at any time during the Protected Period engaged in negotiations, with which you were personally involved, with the Company or any Group Company with a view to obtaining goods or services from the Company or any Group Company or in relation to whom you have acquired Confidential Information.
 
"Protected Period" means the 12 months immediately preceding the earlier of the Termination Date and the commencement of any Garden Leave Period.
 
"Restriction Period" means the period of 9 months following the Termination Date less any Garden Leave period.
 
"Supplier" means any person with whom you have had material dealings as part of the Duties during the Protected Period and who has during that period supplied goods or services to the Company or any Group Company on terms other than those available to another purchaser in the market during that period, whether by reason of exclusivity (either de facto or contractually obliged), price or otherwise.
 
2. Obligations after employment
 
2.1 You shall not for the period of 6 months after the Termination Date less any Garden Leave Period hold a Material Interest in a business or venture which:
 
(a) is or is about to be in competition with the Business or any part thereof; or
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(b) is likely to result in the intentional or unintentional disclosure or use of Confidential Information by you in order for you to properly discharge your duties to or further your interest in that business or venture.
 
2.2 The provisions of clause 2.1 shall not operate so as to prevent you from being engaged, concerned or interested in any business or venture in so far as your work for that business or venture shall relate solely to services or activities with which the Duties were not concerned to a material extent or in relation to which you were not responsible and in relation to which you held no Confidential Information during the Protected Period.
2.3 You shall not for the Restriction Period in respect of any Goods and/or Services:
 
(a) deal with or supply any Customer;
 
(b) deal with or supply any Prospective Customer; or
 
(c) offer employment or any contract for services to or employ or engage any Key Employee.
 
2.4 You shall not for the Restriction Period in respect of any Goods and/or Services:
 
(a) solicit, facilitate the solicitation of or canvass the custom or business of any Customer;
 
(b) solicit, facilitate the solicitation of or canvass the custom or business of any Prospective Customer; or
 
(c) solicit or entice or endeavour to solicit or entice any Key Employee to leave his employment with or cease his directorship or consultancy with the Company or any Group Company, whether or not that person would breach any obligations owed to the Company or any relevant Group Company by so doing.
 
2.5 You shall not for the Restriction Period
 
(a) deal with or accept the supply of any goods or services from any Supplier where such supply is likely to be the detriment of any Group Company whether by causing the Supplier to reduce or alter the terms or quantity of supply to the Group Company or where the value of the Company’s arrangement with the Supplier is diminished; or
 
(b) solicit, facilitate the solicitation of or canvass the supply of any goods or services from any Supplier where such supply is likely to be the detriment of any Group Company whether by causing the Supplier to reduce or alter the terms or quantity of supply to the Group Company or where the value of the Group Company’s arrangement with the Supplier is diminished;
 
2.6 If, at any time during the Employment, two or more Key Employees leave the employment of the Company or any Group Company to provide Goods and/or Services for the same business or venture, you shall not, at any time during the 6 months following the last date on which any of those Key Employees was employed by the Company or any Group Company, be employed or engaged in any way with that business or venture in respect of any Goods and/or Services.
 
2.7 You shall not at any time after the Termination Date:
 
(a) induce or seek to induce by any means involving the disclosure or use of Confidential Information any Customer or Supplier to cease dealing with the Company or any Group Company or to restrict or vary the terms upon which it deals with the relevant Group Company;
 
 
 
 (b) be held out or represented by you or any other person as being in any way connected with or interested in the Company or any Group Company; or
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(c) disclose to any person or make use of any Confidential Information (except as required by law).
 
3. General
 
3.1 You have given the undertakings in this Schedule to the Company as trustee for itself and each Group Company in the business of which you have been concerned or involved to any material extent during the Employment or which benefits from each undertaking.  You agree that each such Group Company may enforce the benefit of each such undertaking. You shall at the request and expense of the Company enter into direct undertakings with any such Group Company which correspond to the undertakings in this Schedule.
 
3.2 You agree that if the Company transfers all or any part of its business to a third party ("transferee"), the restrictions contained in this Schedule 1 shall, with effect from the date of you becoming an employee of the transferee, apply to you as if references to the Company included the transferee and references to any Group Companies were construed accordingly and as if references to customers or suppliers were of the Company and/or the transferee and their respective Group Companies.
 
3.3 You agree that if you have material business dealings in other foreign jurisdictions on behalf of any Group Company, you will enter into undertakings providing the same level of protection for each such Group Company with such modifications (if any) as are necessary to render such undertakings enforceable in those jurisdictions.
 
3.4 You acknowledge that you have had the opportunity to take independent legal advice in relation to the undertakings contained in this Schedule.
 
3.5 The obligations imposed on you by this Schedule extend to you acting not only on your own account but also on behalf of any other firm, company or other person and shall apply whether you act directly or indirectly.
 
3.6 You warrant that you believe the covenants contained within this Schedule to be reasonable as between the parties and that you have no present intention of ever arguing that the restraints are unreasonable or otherwise unenforceable.

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Executed as a Deed
 
by Daniel Hallahan             /s/ Daniel Hallahan
 
in the presence of:
 
Signature of witness:     /s/ Laura Boswell
 
Name:
 
Address:

Occupation:    Executive Marketing Associate

Executed as a Deed                                    )
(but not delivered until the date   )
appearing at the head of page 1) )
by Container Applications                )
International (UK) Limited                 )
acting by Victor Garcia,                    )
a director in the presence of:          )
 
 
/s/ Victor Garcia
 
Director
 
 
Signature of witness:
/s/ Steven Garcia
 
 
Name:
 
Address:

Occupation:         Vice President, Legal Affairs
 
 
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