Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-026144
Chunk: 21

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form: 425
Chunk 21
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 the Company may, in the discretion
                        of the Board of Directors, be indemnified by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
                        permits the Company to provide broader rights than said law permitted the Company to provide prior to such amendment) against any or all Expenses incurred by such Non-Officer Employee in connection with any Proceeding in which such
                        Non- Officer Employee is involved as a result of serving or having served (a) as a Non-Officer Employee of the Company, (b) as a director, officer or employee of any subsidiary of the Company, or (c) in any capacity with any other
                        corporation, organization, partnership, joint venture, trust or other entity at the request or direction of the Company, including service with respect to employee or other benefit plans, and shall continue as to a Non-Officer
                        Employee after he or she has ceased to be a Non-Officer Employee and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, personal representatives, executors and administrators; provided, however, that the Company may indemnify any such
                        Non-Officer Employee seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such Non-Officer Employee only if such Proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company.

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SECTION 4. GOOD FAITH. No indemnification shall be provided pursuant to this Article VIII to an Officer or to a Non-Officer Employee with respect to a
                        matter as to which such person shall have been finally adjudicated in any Proceeding (i) not to have acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company,
                        and (ii) with respect to any criminal Proceeding, to have had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. In the event that a Proceeding is compromised or settled prior to final adjudication so as to impose any
                        liability or obligation upon an Officer or Non-Officer Employee, no indemnification shall be provided pursuant to this Article VIII to said Officer or Non-Officer Employee with respect to a matter if there be a determination that
                        with respect to such matter such person did not act in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in