ARTICLE I
COVENANTS
Section 1.1 Agreement to Vote. The Investor hereby agrees to appear and vote at any duly called meeting of the shareholders of FLAC (or any adjournment or postponement thereof), provide his, her or its written consent in any action by written resolution of the shareholders of FLAC, or in any other circumstance in which the vote, consent or other approval of the shareholders of FLAC is sought, all of such FLAC Shares, and in each case cause all the FLAC Shares held by the Investor to be counted as present thereat for purposes of calculating a quorum, and vote or provide his, her or its consent: (a) in favor of the Business Combination Agreement and the Transactions, including in favor of each Transaction Proposal, (b) in favor of any other matter reasonably necessary or required to the consummation of the Transactions and considered and voted upon by the shareholders of FLAC and (c) against any proposal that conflicts or materially impedes or interferes therewith, including any FLAC Acquisition Proposal, or would adversely affect or delay the consummation of the Transactions.
Section 1.2 No Redemption. The Investor hereby agrees, for the benefit of FLAC, not to redeem, or to submit a request to FLAC’s transfer agent to redeem or otherwise exercise any right to redeem, any FLAC Shares and to reverse and revoke any prior redemption elections made with respect to the FLAC Shares.
Section 1.3 No Transfer. During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the earlier of (a) the Effective Date and (b) such date and time as the Business Combination Agreement shall be validly terminated in accordance with Section 7.1 thereof, the Investor shall not (i) sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, assign, hypothecate, pledge, create a Lien on, grant any option to purchase, transfer, or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, file (or participate in the filing of) a registration statement with the SEC (other than the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement), deposit into a voting trust, grant any proxy or power of attorney with respect to, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position (within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act) with respect to, any FLAC Shares or FLAC Warrants held by the Investor, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another Person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any FLAC Shares or FLAC Warrants held by the Investor (clauses (i) and (ii) collectively, a “Transfer”) or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii); provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit Transfers from the Investor to any of the Investor’s Affiliates, so long as, prior to and as a condition to the effectiveness of any such Transfer, such Affiliate executes and delivers to FLAC a joinder to this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Annex A.
Section 1.4 New Shares. In the event that (a) any FLAC Shares, FLAC Warrants or other Equity Securities of FLAC are issued to the Investor or any of its Affiliates after the date of this Agreement pursuant to any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, reclassification, combination, conversion or exchange of FLAC Shares or FLAC Warrants of, on or affecting the FLAC Shares or FLAC Warrants owned by the Investor or otherwise, (b) the Investor purchases or otherwise acquires beneficial ownership of any FLAC Shares, FLAC Warrants or other Equity Securities of FLAC after the date of this Agreement, or (c) the Investor acquires the right to vote or share in the voting of any FLAC Shares or other Equity Securities of FLAC after the date of this Agreement (such FLAC Shares, FLAC Warrants or other Equity Securities issued, purchased or acquired as described in any of the foregoing clauses (a) through (c), collectively, the “New Securities”), then (x) the Investor shall notify FLAC in writing and as promptly as practicable of any such New Securities and (y) such New Securities shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement to the same extent as if they constituted the FLAC Shares or FLAC Warrants owned by the Investor as of the date hereof.
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