Company: ORBS
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-025615
Chunk: 80

Company: Eightco Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 80
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; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service that imposes duties with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries.

ARTICLE IX – EXCLUSIVE FORUM FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE CLAIMS; JURY TRIAL WAIVER; OWNERSHIP THRESHOLD FOR DERIVATIVE PROCEEDINGS

9.1 Exclusive Forum.Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the sole and exclusive forum for:

(a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation;

(b) any action asserting a claim for or based on a breach of fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, or employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s shareholders;

(c) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer, or employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the TBOC or the Corporation’s Certificate of Formation or these Bylaws (together, the “Proposed Organizational Documents”);

(d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine;

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(e) any action asserting an “internal entity claim” as that term is defined in Section 2.115 of the TBOC; or

(f) any other action or proceeding as to which the Business Court in the First Business Court Division of the State of Texas has jurisdiction,

shall be the Business Court in the First Business Court Division of the State of Texas. If such Business Court determines that it lacks jurisdiction, then the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, shall be the exclusive forum for such action or proceeding; and, if such federal court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, then the state district courts of Dallas County, Texas, shall be the exclusive forum. This Section 9.1 shall not apply to claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, or any claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Any person or entity acquiring or holding shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this Article IX.

9.2 Jury Trial Waiver for Internal Entity Claims.The Corporation and each shareholder, director, and officer of the Corporation irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right that the Corporation or such person may have