(a) Each Partner by its signature below irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints each General Partner its true and lawful attorney in its name, place and stead in any capacities, with the power from time to time to substitute or resubstitute one or more others as such attorney, and to make, execute, swear to, acknowledge, verify, deliver, file, record and publish any and all documents, certificates or other instruments which may be required or deemed desirable by the General Partners to (i) effectuate the provisions of any part of this Agreement or any amendments to this Agreement, (ii) enable the Partnership to conduct its business, (iii) comply with any applicable law in connection with the Partnership’s conduct of its business, or (iv) retain professional services, including accounting and legal counsel, for the Partnership (including, without limitation, the waiver on behalf of the Partnership and each Partner of any conflict arising from such professional’s representation of another client on matters in which the interests of the Partnership, any Partner or any affiliate of the Partnership or any Partner may be adverse to such other client).
(b) If the Partnership owns Class A Shares or Class B Shares, then each Partner by its signature below irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints each of Alfred M. Rankin, Jr., Roger F. Rankin, Thomas T. Rankin, Claiborne R. Rankin, each then serving director of Rankin Management, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its successor in interest, and the then serving general counsel of each Company, its true and lawful attorney in its name, place and stead in any capacities, with the power from time to time to substitute or resubstitute one or more others as such attorney, to execute any and all statements under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, of beneficial ownership of Class A Shares and Class B Shares by the Partnership and its Partners, including all statements on Schedule 13D and all amendments thereto, all joint filing agreements pursuant to Rule 13d-1(k)(1) under such Act in connection with such statements, all initial statements of and changes of beneficial ownership on Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any and all other documents to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(c) Each Partner grants to said attorney or attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do so and to perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitutes or resubstitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Section 11.1.
11.2 Irrevocable Nature. It is expressly intended by each Partner that the foregoing power of attorney is a special power of attorney coupled with an interest in favor of each of those appointed as attorney-in-fact on its behalf, and as such shall be irrevocable and shall survive such Partner’s dissolution or other termination of existence.
11.3 Further Assurances-Power of Attorney. If applicable law requires additional or substituted language in order to validate the power of attorney intended to be granted by this Article 11, each Partner agrees to execute and deliver such additional instruments and to take such further acts as may be necessary to validate such power of attorney.
11.4 Transfer of Partnership Interests. The foregoing power of attorney shall survive the delivery of an instrument of transfer by any Partner of the whole or any portion of or interest in its Partnership Interest, except that (i) where a Partner becomes a Former Partner, or (ii) where a Transferee of such Partnership Interest has been approved as a successor Partner and the Transferor shall thereupon cease being a Partner (all in accordance with this Agreement), then the power of attorney of the Former Partner or the Transferor Partner, as the case may be, shall survive the cessation of Partner status or the delivery of such instrument of transfer, as the case may be, for the sole purpose of enabling the attorneys-in-fact for such Former Partner or the Transferor Partner (or any of them) to execute, swear to, acknowledge and file any and all instruments necessary to effectuate or reflect such cessation, transfer and succession.
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