Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-043547
Chunk: 318

Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
Form: 425
Chunk 318
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, including any dispute as to the existence, validity, construction, interpretation, negotiation, performance, non-performance, breach, termination or enforceability of this Agreement shall initially sought to be resolved by non-binding confidential mediation administered by the American Arbitration Association (the “ AAA”) and conducted in accordance with the Commercial Mediation Procedures of the AAA. The location of the mediation shall be Delaware. The parties hereto shall share equally in the costs of mediation; provided, however, that each party shall bear its own legal fees and expenses in connection with the mediation. If the parties do not reach agreement on a mutually agreeable mediator within twenty (20) days of when either party first proposes mediation or the parties fail to reach a resolution within a period of sixty (60) days from the first meeting of the parties in mediation, then the dispute shall be finally resolved by and be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery in and for New Castle County, or in the event (but only in the event) that such Delaware Court of Chancery does not have subject matter jurisdiction over such dispute, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, or in the event (but only in the event) that such United States District Court also does not have jurisdiction over such dispute, any Delaware State court sitting in New Castle County. Each party hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) any objection that it may now or hereafter have to laying venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought in such court; (ii) any claim that any suit, action or proceeding brought in such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum; and (iii) any defense that it may now or hereafter have based on lack of personal jurisdiction in such forum Each party retains the right to seek judicial assistance: (A) to obtain interim measures of protection prior to or pending mediation, (B) to seek injunctive relief, and (C) to enforce any final settlement agreed during mediation. (b)All offers, promises, conduct and statements, whether written or oral, made in the course of conducting the negotiations or in mediation by either of the parties hereto, their agents, employees, experts and attorneys, are confidential, privileged and inadmissible for any purpose, including impeachment, in any litigation, or other proceeding involving the parties; provided that evidence that is otherwise admissible or discoverable shall not be rendered inadmissible or non-discoverable as a result of its use in