Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-026144
Chunk: 20

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-17
Form: 425
Chunk 20
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; (b) “ Non-Officer Employee ” means any person who serves or has served as an employee of the Company, but who is not or was not an Officer, and any heirs, executors, administrators or personal representatives of such person; (c) “ Proceeding ”
                        means any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof), whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative, any appeal of such an action, suit or proceeding, and any inquiry or
                        investigation which could lead to such an action, suit, or proceeding; and (d) “ Expenses ” means any liability fixed by a judgment, order, decree or award in a Proceeding, any amount reasonably paid in settlement of a
                        Proceeding and any professional fees and other expenses and disbursements reasonably incurred in a Proceeding or in settlement of a Proceeding, including fines, taxes and penalties relating thereto.

SECTION 2. OFFICERS. Except as provided in Section 4 of this Article VIII, each Officer of the Company shall be indemnified and held harmless 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 and all Expenses incurred by such Officer in connection with any Proceeding in which such Officer is involved as a result of serving or having served (a)
                        as an Officer or 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 written request or direction of the Company, including service with respect to employee or other benefit plans, and shall continue as to an Officer after he or she has ceased to be an Officer and shall inure to the benefit of
                        his or her heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives; provided, however, that the Company shall indemnify any such Officer seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such Officer only if
                        such Proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company.

SECTION 3. NON-OFFICER EMPLOYEES. Except as provided in Section 4 of this Article VIII, each Non-Officer Employee of