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Common Securities Subscription Agreement

 Exhibit 4.4 
  

COMMON SECURITIES SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT 
  
 COMMON SECURITIES SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of September 30, 2003 (this “Agreement”), between American Safety Capital Trust II, a
statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), and American Safety Holdings Corp., a Georgia corporation (the “Buyer”), relating to the Trust’s common securities (liquidation
amount of $1,000 per security) representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (the “Common Securities”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings ascribed
thereto in the Purchase Agreement (as defined below). 
  
 WHEREAS,
the Buyer, the Trust and the Purchaser named therein have entered into a Purchase Agreement, dated September 30, 2003 (the “Purchase Agreement”), in connection with the issuance and sale of Preferred Securities (liquidation amount
of $1,000 per security) by the Trust; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Buyer,
as depositor of the Trust, desires to purchase from the Trust, and the Trust desires to sell to the Buyer, all of the Common Securities. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the conditions and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:

  
 1. The Buyer hereby subscribes for and offers to purchase from
the Trust, and the Trust hereby accepts such offer and agrees to issue and sell to the Buyer, contemporaneous with the Closing Date, One Hundred Sixty (160) Common Securities with an aggregate liquidation amount with respect to the assets of the
Trust of One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($160,000) in consideration of the payment on or before the date hereof of One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($160,000) in immediately available funds. 
  
 2. The Trust represents and warrants that, upon execution and delivery of the
Common Securities to the Buyer, the Common Securities will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and entitled to the benefits and subject to the terms of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of September 30,
2003, among the Buyer, as depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Property Trustee, Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and Steven B. Mathis, Stephen R. Crim and Fred J. Pinckney, as Administrative Trustees, and the
holders from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the Trust. 
  
 3. This Agreement and the rights and obligations of each of the parties hereto shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflict of
laws provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law). 
  
 4. ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW
YORK, OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (IN EACH CASE SITTING IN THE 

  

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BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF APPEALS THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. 
  
 5. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Common Securities Subscription Agreement to be
duly executed as of the date first written above. 
  

	 AMERICAN SAFETY CAPITAL TRUST II

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Steven B. Mathis

	 	 	 Administrative Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Stephen R. Crim

	 	 	 Administrative Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Fred J. Pinckney

	 	 	 Administrative Trustee

	
	 AMERICAN SAFETY HOLDINGS CORP.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Stephen R. Crim

	 	 	 PresidentPurchase Agreement

 Exhibit 10.1 
  
 EXECUTION COPY 
  

 PURCHASE AGREEMENT 
  

among 
  
 AMERICAN SAFETY HOLDINGS CORP., 
  
 AMERICAN SAFETY INSURANCE HOLDINGS, LTD., 
  
 AMERICAN SAFETY CAPITAL TRUST II 
  
 and 
  
 DEKANIA CDO I, LTD. 
  

  
 Dated as of September 30, 2003 
  

  

 EXECUTION COPY 
  
 PURCHASE AGREEMENT 
 ($5,000,000 Trust Preferred Securities) 
  
 THIS PURCHASE
AGREEMENT, dated as of September 30, 2003 (this “Purchase Agreement”), is entered into among American Safety Holdings Corp., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”), American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda
corporation and the ultimate parent of the Company (the “Parent Guarantor”) and American Safety Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”, and together with the Company and the Parent Guarantor, the
“Sellers”), and Dekania CDO I, Ltd. or its assignee. (the “Purchaser”). 
  
 WITNESSETH: 
  
 WHEREAS, the Sellers propose to issue and sell five thousand Floating Rate Preferred Securities of the Trust, having a stated liquidation amount of $1,000 per security, bearing a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR (as defined in
the Indenture (as defined below)) plus 3.95% (the “Preferred Securities”); 
  
 WHEREAS, the Preferred Securities will be guaranteed by the Company and the Parent Guarantor (the “Guarantee”) pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement (the “Guarantee Agreement”), dated
as of the Closing Date (defined below), and executed and delivered by the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the holders from
time to time of the Preferred Securities; 
  
 WHEREAS, the entire
proceeds from the sale of the Preferred Securities will be combined with the entire proceeds from the sale by the Trust to the Company of its common securities (the “Common Securities”), and will be used by the Trust to purchase
Five Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($5,160,000) in principal amount of the unsecured junior subordinated deferrable interest notes of the Company (the “Junior Subordinated Notes”); 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor,
and the Parent Guarantor will derive substantial benefit from this Purchase Agreement and the transactions described herein; 
  
 WHEREAS, the payments on and payment of Junior Subordinated Notes will be unconditionally guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor pursuant to the Parent
Guarantee Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, and executed and delivered by the Parent Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee (the “Parent Guarantee”); 
  
 WHEREAS, the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities for the Trust will be issued pursuant to the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”), dated as of the Closing Date, among the Company, as depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property
Trustee”), Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, a national banking association, as Delaware trustee 

 
(in such capacity, the “Delaware Trustee”), the Administrative Trustees named therein (in such capacities, the “Administrative
Trustees”) and the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued pursuant to a Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the
“Indenture”), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, as indenture trustee (in such capacity, the “Indenture Trustee”). 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements and subject to the
terms and conditions herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows: 
  
 1. Definitions. The Preferred Securities, the Common Securities and the Junior Subordinated Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.” This Purchase Agreement, the
Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Guarantee Agreement, the Parent Guarantee Agreement and the Securities are collectively referred to herein as the “Operative Documents.” All other capitalized terms used but not defined in this
Purchase Agreement shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. 
  
 2. Purchase and Sale of the Preferred Securities. 
  
 (a) The Sellers agree to sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase from the Sellers the Preferred Securities for an amount (the
“Purchase Price”) equal to Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000). The Purchaser shall be responsible for the rating agency costs and expenses. The Sellers shall use the Purchase Price, together with the proceeds from the sale of the
Common Securities, to purchase the Junior Subordinated Notes. 
  
 (b) Delivery or transfer of, and payment for, the Preferred Securities shall be made at 10:00 A.M. Chicago time (11:00 A.M. New York time), on September 30, 2003 or such later date (not later than October 30, 2003 (30 days later)) as the
parties may designate (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Preferred Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”). The Preferred Securities shall be transferred and delivered to the Purchaser against the payment
of the Purchase Price to the Sellers made by wire transfer in immediately available funds on the Closing Date to a U.S. account designated in writing by the Company at least two business days prior to the Closing Date. 
  
 (c) Delivery of the Preferred Securities shall be made at such location, and
in such names and denominations, as the Purchaser shall designate at least two business days in advance of the Closing Date. The Company and the Trust agree to have the Preferred Securities available for inspection and checking by the Purchaser in
Chicago, Illinois, not later than 1:00 P.M., Chicago time (2:00 P.M. New York time), on the business day prior to the Closing Date. The closing for the purchase and sale of the Preferred Securities shall occur at the offices of Mayer, Brown, Rowe
& Maw LLP, 190 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603, or such other place as the parties hereto shall agree. 
  

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 3. Conditions. The obligations of the parties under this Purchase Agreement are subject to
the following conditions: 
  
 (a) the representations and
warranties contained herein shall be accurate as of the date of delivery of the Preferred Securities. 
  
 (b) Reserved. 
  
 (c) Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel for the Company and the Trust (the “Company Counsel”) shall have delivered an opinion, dated the
Closing Date, addressed to the Purchaser and JPMorgan Chase Bank, in substantially the form set out in Annex A-I hereto and (ii) the Company shall have furnished to the Purchaser the opinion of the Company’s General Counsel or a certificate
signed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President or an Executive Vice President and its Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Purchaser, in substantially the form set out
in Annex A-II hereto. In rendering their opinion, the Company Counsel may rely as to factual matters upon certificates or other documents furnished by officers, directors and trustees of the Company and the Trust and by government officials
(provided, however, that copies of any such certificates or documents are delivered to the Purchaser) and by and upon such other documents as such counsel may, in their reasonable opinion, deem appropriate as a basis for the Company Counsel’s
opinion. The Company Counsel may specify the jurisdictions in which they are admitted to practice and that they are not admitted to practice in any other jurisdiction and are not experts in the law of any other jurisdiction. If the Company Counsel
is not admitted to practice in the State of New York, the opinion of the Company Counsel may assume, for purposes of the opinion, that the laws of the State of New York are substantively identical, in all respects material to the opinion, to the
internal laws of the state in which such counsel is admitted to practice. Such Company Counsel Opinion shall not state that they are to be governed or qualified by, or that they are otherwise subject to, any treatise, written policy or other
document relating to legal opinions, including, without limitation, the Legal Opinion Accord of the ABA Section of Business Law (1991). 
  
 (d) The Purchaser shall have been furnished the opinion of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, special tax counsel for the Purchaser, dated the Closing
Date, addressed to the Purchaser and JPMorgan Chase Bank, in substantially the form set out in Annex B hereto. 
  
 (e) The Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., special Delaware counsel for the Purchaser and the Delaware
Trustee, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Purchaser, JPMorgan Chase Bank, the Delaware Trustee and the Company, in substantially the form set out in Annex C hereto. 
  
 (f) The Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, special counsel for the Guarantee
Trustee, the Property Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the Purchaser, in substantially the form set out in Annex D hereto. 
  
 (g) The Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., special Delaware counsel for the
Delaware Trustee, dated the Closing Date, 
  

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addressed to the Purchaser and JPMorgan Chase Bank, in substantially the form set out in Annex E hereto. 
  
 (h) The Company shall have furnished to the Purchaser a certificate of the
Company and the Parent Guarantor, signed by the Chief Executive Officer, President or an Executive Vice President and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of each of the Company and the Parent Guarantor, and the Trust
shall have furnished to the Purchaser a certificate of the Trust, signed by an Administrative Trustee of the Trust, in each case dated the Closing Date, and, in the case of the Company, as to (i) and (ii) below and, in the case of the Trust, as to
(i) below. 
  
 (i) the representations and
warranties in this Purchase Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date, and the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust have complied with all the agreements and satisfied all
the conditions on either of their part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; and 
  
 (ii) since the date of the Interim Financial Statements (as defined below), there has been no material adverse change in the condition
(financial or other), earnings, business or assets of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or their respective subsidiaries, whether or not arising from transactions occurring in the ordinary course of business. 
  
 (i) Subsequent to the execution of this Purchase Agreement, there shall not
have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or other), earnings, business or assets of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries, whether or not
occurring in the ordinary course of business, the effect of which is, in the Purchaser’s judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the purchase of the Preferred Securities. 
  
 (j) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the
Trust shall have furnished to the Purchaser and its counsel such further information, certificates and documents as the Purchaser or its counsel may reasonably request. 
  
 If any of the conditions specified in this Section 3 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this
Purchase Agreement, or if any of the opinions, certificates and documents mentioned above or elsewhere in this Purchase Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser or its counsel, this Purchase Agreement and
all the Purchaser’s obligations hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Purchaser. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust in writing or by telephone
or facsimile confirmed in writing. 
  
 Each certificate signed by
any trustee of the Trust or any officer of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and delivered to the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s counsel in connection with the Operative Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall be
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to be a representation and warranty of the Trust, the Parent Guarantor and/or the Company, as the case may be, and not by such trustee or officer in any
individual capacity. 
  
 4. Representations and Warranties
of the Company and the Trust. The Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust jointly and severally represent and warrant to, and agree with the Purchaser, as follows: 
  
 (a) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust, or any of their respective “Affiliates” (as defined in
Rule 501(b) of Regulation D (“Regulation D”) under the Securities Act (as defined below)), nor any person acting on its or their behalf, has, directly or indirectly, made offers or sales of any security, or solicited offers to buy
any security, under circumstances that would require the registration of any of the Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). 
  
 (b) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust, or any of their respective Affiliates, nor any person acting on
its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with any offer or sale of any of the Securities. 
  
 (c) The Securities (i) are not and have not been listed on a national
securities exchange registered under section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or quoted on a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system and (ii) are not of an open-end investment company,
unit investment trust or face-amount certificate company that are, or are required to be, registered under section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), and the Securities otherwise
satisfy the eligibility requirements of Rule 144A(d)(3) promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act (“Rule 144A(d)(3)”). The Parent Guarantor is not engaged in the “investment business” as defined in The Investment Business
Act of 1998. 
  
 (d) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or
the Trust, or any of their respective Affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged, or will engage, in any “directed selling efforts” within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act with respect to the
Securities. 
  
 (e) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor nor
the Trust is, and, immediately following consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and the application of the net proceeds therefrom, will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an
“investment company,” in each case within the meaning of section 3(a) of the Investment Company Act. 
  
 (f) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust has paid or agreed to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any
of the Securities, except for the Preferred Securities Commission and/or the sales commission the Company has agreed to pay to Dekania Capital Management, LLC (or to the Company’s introducing agent on behalf of Dekania Capital Management LLC)
pursuant to the letter of intent between the Company and Dekania Capital Management, LLC, dated as of the date thereof. 
  

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 (g) The Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in good standing as a statutory trust under
the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, 12 Del. C. §3801, et seq. (the “Statutory Trust Act”) with all requisite power and authority to own property and to conduct the business it transacts and proposes to transact and
to enter into and perform its obligations under the Operative Documents to which it is a party. The Trust is duly qualified to transact business as a foreign entity and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is
necessary, except where the failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or assets of the Trust, whether or not occurring in the ordinary course
of business. The Trust is not a party to or otherwise bound by any agreement other than the Operative Documents. The Trust is and will be, under current law, classified for federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust and not as an association or
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. 
  
 (h) The
Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and, on the Closing Date specified in Section 2(b), will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Administrative Trustees of the Trust, and, assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, will be a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Administrative Trustees, enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity. Each of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust is an employee of the Company or one of its subsidiary insurance
companies and has been duly authorized by the Company to execute and deliver the Trust Agreement. 
  
 (i) Each of the Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, on the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and
delivered by the Company. Each of the Guarantee Agreement and the Parent Guarantee Agreement has been duly authorized by the Parent Guarantor, and on the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Parent Guarantor. Assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by the Guarantee Trustee, in the case of each of the Guarantee Agreement and the Parent Guarantee Agreement, and by the Indenture Trustee, in the case of the Indenture, such agreements will be legal, valid and
binding obligations of each of the Company and the Parent Guarantor enforceable against them in accordance with their respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to
general principles of equity. 
  
 (j) The Preferred Securities and
the Common Securities have been duly authorized by the Trust and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor on the Closing Date in accordance with this Purchase Agreement, in the case of the Preferred Securities, and in accordance with the
Common Securities Subscription Agreement, in the case of the Common Securities, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will represent undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust entitled to the benefits of the Trust
Agreement, enforceable against the Trust in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity. The issuance of the Securities is
not subject to any preemptive or other similar rights. On the Closing Date, all of the issued and outstanding Common Securities will be directly owned by the Company free and clear of any pledge, security interest, claim, lien or other encumbrance
of any kind (each, a “Lien”). 
  

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 (k) The Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and, on the Closing Date, will
have been duly executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for authentication in accordance with the Indenture and, when authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered to the Trust against payment therefor in accordance
with the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity. 
  
 (l) This Purchase Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust. 
  
 (m) Neither the issue and sale of the Common Securities, the Preferred
Securities or the Junior Subordinated Notes, nor the purchase of the Junior Subordinated Notes by the Trust, nor the execution and delivery of and compliance with the Operative Documents by the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust, nor the
consummation of the transactions contemplated herein or therein, (i) will conflict with or constitute a violation or breach of the Trust Agreement or the charter or bylaws of the Company, the Parent Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Company or any
subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, governmental authority, agency or instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the
Trust, the Parent Guarantor or the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries or their respective properties or assets (collectively, the “Governmental Entities”), (ii) will conflict with or constitute a violation or breach of,
or a default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Company or any of the Parent
Guarantor’s subsidiaries pursuant to, any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which (A) the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party
or by which it or any of them may be bound, or (B) to which any of the property or assets of any of them is subject, or any judgment, order or decree of any court, governmental authority or arbitrator, except, in the case of this clause (ii), for
such conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults, Repayment Events (as defined below) or Liens which (X) would not, singly or in the aggregate, adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents and (Y) would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business, liabilities and assets (taken as a whole) or business prospects of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the subsidiaries
of the Company and of the Parent Guarantor taken as a whole, whether or not occurring in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”) or (iii) require the consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or
Governmental Entity. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to
require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Trust, the Parent Guarantor or the Company or any of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s respective subsidiaries prior to its scheduled
maturity. 
  

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 (n) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of Delaware, and the Parent Guarantor has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Bermuda, with, in the case of each of the Company and the Parent Guarantor respectively, all
requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct the business it transacts and proposes to transact. Each of the Company and the Parent Guarantor is duly qualified to transact business and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction where the nature of its activities requires such qualification, except where the failure of the Company or the Parent Guarantor, as applicable, to be so qualified would not, singly or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (o) Neither the
Company nor the Parent Guarantor has any subsidiaries that are material to its business, financial condition or earnings other than those subsidiaries listed in Schedule 1 attached hereto (collectively, the “Significant
Subsidiaries”). Each Significant Subsidiary has been duly incorporated or organized and is validly existing as a corporation or other entity in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized, with all
requisite corporate or other entity power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct the business it transacts and proposes to transact. Each Significant Subsidiary is duly qualified to transact business and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation (or other entity) in each jurisdiction where the nature of its activities requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect. 
  
 (p) Each of the Trust, the Company, the Parent
Guarantor and each of the Company’s and the Parent Guarantor’s respective subsidiaries hold all necessary approvals, authorizations, orders, licenses, consents, registrations, qualifications, certificates and permits (including, without
limitation, insurance licenses from the insurance departments of the various states and jurisdictions where the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s respective insurance subsidiaries write insurance business or otherwise conduct insurance
or reinsurance business, as the case may be, or as may be required by any applicable insurance statutes of such states or other jurisdictions (collectively, the “Insurance Licenses”)) (collectively, including the Insurance Licenses,
the “Government Licenses”) of and from Governmental Entities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now being conducted, and none of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of the Company’s or the
Parent Guarantor’s respective subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Government License, except where the failure to be so licensed or approved or the receipt of an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding, would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to
be in full force and effect, would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company, the Parent Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, judgments,
orders, decrees and consents, except where the failure to be in compliance would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

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 (q) All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and
each of their respective subsidiaries are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company and each subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor is owned by the Company or the
Parent Guarantor, respectively, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any Lien, claim or equitable right; and none of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiary
was issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights arising by operation of law, under the charter or by-laws of such entity or under any agreement to which the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries is a
party. 
  
 (r) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of
their respective subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its respective charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents or (ii) in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any such subsidiary is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound or to which any of the property or
assets of any of them is subject, except, in the case of clause (ii), where such violation or default would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (s) There is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any Governmental Entity, arbitrator or court, domestic or foreign,
now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust after due inquiry, threatened against or affecting the Trust, the Parent Guarantor or the Company or any of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s
subsidiaries, except for such actions, suits or proceedings that, if adversely determined, would not, singly or in the aggregate, adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents or have a Material
Adverse Effect; and the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Trust or the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s respective subsidiaries is a party or of which any
of their respective properties or assets is subject, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, are not expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (t) The accountants of the Parent Guarantor who certified the Financial Statements (as defined below) are independent public
accountants of the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) thereunder. The accountants of the Company who
certified the Company’s Financial Statements (as defined below) are independent public accountants of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Securities Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder. 
  
 (u) The audited consolidated financial statements
(including the notes thereto) and schedules of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 (the “Parent Guarantor’s Financial Statements”) and the interim unaudited
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the quarter ended June 30, 2003 (the “Parent Guarantor’s Interim Financial Statements”) provided to the Purchaser are the most recent
available audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including the Company), 
  

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respectively, and fairly present in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”), the
financial position of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including the Company), and the results of operations and changes in financial condition as of the dates and for the periods therein specified, subject, in the case of
Parent Guarantor’s Interim Financial Statements, to year-end adjustments (which are expected to consist solely of normal recurring adjustments). Such consolidated financial statements and schedules have been prepared in accordance with U.S.
GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein). The unaudited consolidated financial statements (including the notes thereto) and schedules of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 (the “Company’s Financial Statements” and together with the Parent Guarantor’s Financial Statements, the “Financial Statements”) and the interim unaudited consolidated
financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the quarter ended June 30, 2003 (the “Company’s Interim Financial Statements”, and together with the Parent Guarantor’s Interim Financial
Statements, the “Interim Financial Statements”) provided to the Purchaser are the most recent available audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, respectively, and
fairly present in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations and changes in financial condition as of the dates and for the periods
therein specified, subject, in the case of Company’s Interim Financial Statements, to year-end adjustments (which are expected to consist solely of normal recurring adjustments). Such consolidated financial statements and schedules have been
prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and have been consistently applied throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein). 
  
 (v) The statutory financial statements dated as of December 31, 2002 and June 30, 2003 (the “Statutory Financial Statements”) of each of
the Company’s and the Parent Guarantor’s insurance company subsidiaries have, for each relevant period, been prepared in accordance with statutory accounting principles (“SAP”) prescribed or permitted by the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners or other applicable regulatory authority, and with respect to each insurance company subsidiary, the insurance authorities of the state or other jurisdiction of domicile of such insurance company subsidiary,
and such accounting practices have been applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (whether U.S. GAAP or SAP, as applicable, the “Applicable Accounting Principles”). 
  
 (w) None of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their
respective subsidiaries has any material liability, whether known or unknown, whether asserted or unasserted, whether absolute or contingent, whether accrued or unaccrued, whether liquidated or unliquidated, and whether due or to become due,
including any liability for taxes (and there is no past or present fact, situation, circumstance, condition or other basis for any present or future action, suit, proceeding, hearing, charge, complaint, claim or demand against the Company, the
Parent Guarantor or their respective subsidiaries that could give rise to any such liability) of a nature required to be reflected in the financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, except for (i) liabilities set forth in the Financial
Statements or the Interim Financial Statements and (ii) normal fluctuations in the amount of the liabilities referred to in clause (i) above occurring in the ordinary course of business of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor and all of
their respective subsidiaries since the date of the most recent balance sheet included in such Financial Statements. 
  

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 (x) The reports required by Governmental Entities, regulators, insurance commissioners or similar
entities of the states of incorporation of the Company or its insurance subsidiaries, if any, (the “Regulatory Reports”), provided to the Purchaser are the most recently available such report, and the information therein fairly presents in
all material respects the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries. None of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has been requested by a Governmental Entity to republish, restate, or refile any regulatory or financial report.

  
 (y) Since the respective dates of the Financial Statements,
Interim Financial Statements, Statutory Financial Statements and the Regulatory Reports, there has not been (A) any material adverse change or development with respect to the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business, assets or business
prospects of the Parent Guarantor, the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not occurring in the ordinary course of business or (B) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or the Parent
Guarantor on any class of its capital stock other than regular quarterly dividends on the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor common stock. 
  
 (z) The authorized capitalization of the Company and its subsidiary insurance companies are as set forth in the Financial Statements, the Interim
Financial Statements, the Statutory Financial Statements and Regulatory Reports and meet all applicable regulatory requirements with respect thereto. 
  
 (aa) The documents of the Parent Guarantor filed with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act, from and including the commencement of the
fiscal year covered by the Parent Guarantor’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, at the time they were or hereafter are filed by the Parent Guarantor with the Commission (collectively, the “1934 Act Reports”), complied and
will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “1934 Act Regulations”), and, at the date of this Purchase Agreement and on the Closing
Date, do not and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The Company and the Parent Guarantor are in compliance with all currently applicable requirements of the Exchange Act that were added by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in all material respects. 
  
 (bb) None of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their
respective subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or representatives, is subject or is party to, or has received any notice from any Regulatory Agency (as defined below) that any of them will become subject or party
to any investigation with respect to, any cease-and-desist order, agreement, civil monetary penalty, consent agreement, memorandum of understanding or other regulatory enforcement action, proceeding or order with or by, or is a party to any
commitment letter or similar undertaking to, or is subject to any directive by, or has been a recipient of any supervisory letter from, or has adopted any board 
  

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resolutions at the request of, any Regulatory Agency that, in any such case, currently restricts in any material respect the conduct of their business or
that in any material manner relates to their capital adequacy, capital reserves, their marketing or sales practices, their ability or authority to pay dividends or make distributions to their shareholders or make payments of principal or interest on
their debt obligations, their management or their business (each, a “Regulatory Action”), nor has the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries been advised by any Regulatory Agency that it is
considering issuing or requesting any such Regulatory Action; and there is no unresolved violation, criticism or exception by any Regulatory Agency with respect to any report or statement relating to any examinations of the Trust, the Company, the
Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries, except where such unresolved violation, criticism or exception would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, the term “Regulatory
Agency” means any federal or state agency charged with the supervision or regulation of insurance companies or holding companies of insurance companies, or engaged in the insurance of insurance company reserves, or any court, administrative
agency or commission or other governmental agency, authority or instrumentality having supervisory or regulatory authority with respect to the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their subsidiaries. 
  
 (cc) No labor dispute with the employees of the Trust (if any), the Company,
the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the administrators or executive officers of the Trust, the Company or the Parent Guarantor is imminent, except those which would not, singly or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (dd) No filing
with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any Governmental Entity, other than those that have been made or obtained, is necessary or required for the performance by the Trust, the Parent
Guarantor or the Company of their respective obligations under the Operative Documents, as applicable, or the consummation by the Trust, the Parent Guarantor and the Company of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents. 
  
 (ee) Each of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor, each subsidiary of
the Parent Guarantor and each subsidiary of the Company has good and marketable title to all of its respective real and personal properties, in each case free and clear of all Liens and defects, except for those that would not, singly or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the leases and subleases under which the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any subsidiary of either of the Company or the Parent Guarantor holds properties are in full force and effect,
except where the failure of such leases and subleases to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and none of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any subsidiary of either of the
Company or the Parent Guarantor has any notice of any claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Trust, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any subsidiary of either of the Company or the Parent Guarantor under
any such leases or subleases, or affecting or questioning the rights of such entity to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, except for such claims that would not, singly or in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

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 (ff) The Company has no present intention to exercise its option to defer payments of interest on the
Junior Subordinated Notes as provided in the Indenture. The Company believes that the likelihood that it would exercise its rights to defer payments of interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes as provided in the Indenture at any time during which
the Junior Subordinated Notes are outstanding is remote because of the restrictions that would be imposed on the Company’s ability to declare or pay dividends or distributions on, or to redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock and on the Company’s ability to make any payments of principal, interest or premium, if any, on, or repay, repurchase or redeem, any of its debt securities that rank pari passu in
all respects with or junior in interest to the Junior Subordinated Notes. 
  
 (gg) The information provided by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust pursuant to this Purchase Agreement does not, as of the date hereof, and will not, as of the Closing Date, contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. 
  
 (hh) On the Closing Date, the Securities will not be of the same class as securities listed on a national securities
exchange registered under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in an automated inter-dealer quotation system. 
  
 (ii) None of the Company, the Trust nor any of their Affiliates has, directly or through any agent (provided that no representation is made as to the
Purchaser or any person acting on its behalf), sold, offered for sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of any of the
Securities in a manner that would require registration of any of the Securities under the Securities Act. 
  
 (jj) None of the Company, the Trust or any of their Affiliates or any other person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchaser or persons
acting on its behalf, as to which no representation is made) has (i) solicited offers for, or offered or sold, any of the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502 of Regulation D
or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act or (ii) engaged in any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”), and
all such persons have complied with the offering restrictions requirement of Regulation S. 
  
 (kk) Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser contained herein and the Purchaser’s compliance with its agreements set forth herein, it is not necessary, in connection with the
issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities to the Purchaser, to register the Preferred Securities under the Securities Act or to qualify the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 5. Representations and Warranties of the Purchaser. The Purchaser represents and warrants to, and
agrees with, the Company and the Trust as follows: 
  

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 (a) The Purchaser is aware that the Securities have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities Act and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to “U.S. persons” (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) except in accordance with Rule 903 of Regulation S under the Securities Act or pursuant to an
exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The Purchaser represents and agrees that, except as permitted by the Securities Act, it will offer and sell the Preferred Securities, through the date that is one (1) year after the
later to occur of (i) the date upon which the offering of the Preferred Securities commences and (ii) the Closing Date, only in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S. Accordingly, none of the Purchasers, its Affiliates nor any persons
acting on its or their behalf have engaged or will engage in any directed selling efforts with respect to Preferred Securities sold hereunder pursuant to Regulation S, and the Purchaser, its Affiliates and any person acting on its or their behalf
have complied and will comply with the offering restriction requirements of Regulation S. The Purchaser agrees that, at or prior to confirmation of a sale of Preferred Securities pursuant to Regulation S it will have sent to each distributor, dealer
or person receiving a selling concession, fee or other remuneration that purchases such Preferred Securities from it during the restricted period a confirmation or notice to substantially the following effect: 
  
 “The securities covered hereby have not been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and may not be offered and sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons until one (1) year after the later of the commencement of the offering
and the final closing date, except in either case in accordance with Regulation S (or pursuant to another available exemption from registration) under the Securities Act. Terms used above have the meaning given to them by Regulation S.”

  
 (b) The Purchaser is an “accredited investor,” as
such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. 
  
 (c) The Purchaser agrees not to engage in hedging transactions in regard to the Preferred Securities except in compliance with the Securities Act. 
  
 (d) The Purchaser represents, warrants and certifies that it is not a “U.S. person” as such term is defined in
Rule 902 of Regulation S under the Securities Act. 
  
 6.
Agreements of the Company and the Trust. The Company and the Trust jointly and severally agree with the Purchaser as follows: 
  
 (a) During the period from the date of this Agreement to the Closing Date, each of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust shall use their best
efforts and take all action necessary or appropriate to cause their representations and warranties contained in Section 4 hereof to be true as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Purchase
Agreement, as if made on and as of the Closing Date. 
  
 (b) The
Company and the Trust will arrange for the qualification of the Preferred Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Purchaser may designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the sale of the
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Securities. The Company or the Trust, as the case may be, will promptly advise the Purchaser of the receipt by the Company or the Trust, as the case may be,
of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Preferred Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. 
  
 (c) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust will, nor will any
of them permit any of their Affiliates to, nor will any of them permit any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchaser) to, resell any Preferred Securities that have been acquired by any of them. 
  
 (d) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust will, nor will any
of them permit any of their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, engage in any “directed selling efforts” within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act with respect to the Securities. 
  
 (e) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust will, nor will any
of them permit any of their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, directly or indirectly, make offers or sales of any security, or solicit offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require the registration of any of
the Securities under the Securities Act. 
  
 (f) None of the
Company nor the Trust will, nor will any of them permit any of their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, engage in any form of “general solicitation or general advertising” (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection
with any offer or sale of the any of the Securities. 
  
 (g) So
long as any of the Securities are outstanding, (i) the Securities shall not be listed on a national securities exchange registered under section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system and (ii) none of the
Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust shall be an open-end investment company, unit investment trust or face-amount certificate company that is, or is required to be, registered under section 8 of the Investment Company Act, and, the Securities
shall otherwise satisfy the eligibility requirements of Rule 144A(d)(3). 
  
 (h) Each of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust shall furnish to (i) the holders, and subsequent holders of the Preferred Securities, (ii) Dekania Capital Management, LLC (at 1818 Market Street,
28th Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19013, or such other address as designated by Dekania Capital Management,
LLC) and (iii) any beneficial owner of the Securities reasonably identified to the Company and the Trust (which identification may be made by either such beneficial owner or by Dekania Capital Management, LLC), a duly completed and executed
certificate in the form attached hereto as Annex F, including the financial statements referenced in such Annex, which certificate and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust not later
than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Parent Guarantor and not later than ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company and the Parent Guarantor. 

 

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 (i) Each of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust will, during any period in which it is not
subject to and in compliance with section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or it is not exempt from such reporting requirements pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Exchange Act, shall provide to each holder of the Securities
and to each prospective purchaser (as designated by such holder) of the Securities, upon the request of such holder or prospective purchaser, any information required to be provided by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. If the Company, the
Parent Guarantor and the Trust are required to register under the Exchange Act, such reports filed in compliance with Rule 12g3-2(b) shall be sufficient information as required above. This covenant is intended to be for the benefit of the Purchaser,
the holders of the Securities, and the prospective purchasers designated by the Purchaser and such holders, from time to time, of the Securities. 
  
 (j) None of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust will, until one hundred eighty (180) days following the Closing Date, without the
Purchaser’s prior written consent, offer, sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, (i) any Preferred Securities or other securities of the Trust other than as contemplated by this
Purchase Agreement or (ii) any other securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any Preferred Securities or other securities of the Trust. 
  

7. Payment of Expenses. Each of the Parent Guarantor, as parent guarantor, and the Company, as depositor of the Trust, agrees,
jointly and severally to pay all costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust under this Purchase Agreement, whether or not the transactions contemplated herein are consummated
or this Purchase Agreement is terminated, including all costs and expenses incident to (i) the authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Preferred Securities and any taxes payable in connection therewith; (ii) the fees and expenses of
qualifying the Preferred Securities under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided in Section 6(a); (iii) the fees and expenses of the counsel, the accountants and any other experts or advisors retained by the Company, the
Parent Guarantor or the Trust; (iv) the fees and all reasonable expenses of the Guarantee Trustee, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any other trustee or paying agent appointed under the Operative Documents,
including the fees and disbursements of counsel for such trustees, which fees shall not exceed a $1,250 acceptance fee and $3,000 in administrative fees annually; and (v) the fees and all reasonable expenses of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.,
special Delaware counsel retained by the Purchaser and the Delaware Trustee, which fees and expenses shall not exceed $3500. The Purchaser shall pay the fees and all reasonable expenses of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, special counsel retained
by the Purchaser. 
  
 If the sale of the Preferred Securities
provided for in this Purchase Agreement is not consummated because any condition set forth in Section 3 hereof to be satisfied by any of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust is not satisfied, because this Purchase Agreement is
terminated pursuant to Section 9 or because of any failure, refusal or inability on the part of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust to perform all obligations and satisfy all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied
hereunder other than by a reason of a default by the Purchaser, the Company and the Parent Guarantor, jointly and severally agree to reimburse the Purchaser upon demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and 
  

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expenses of each of the Purchaser’s counsel specified in subparagraphs (v) and (vi) of the immediately preceding paragraph) that shall have been
incurred by the Purchaser in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Preferred Securities. Neither the Company nor the Parent Guarantor shall in any event be liable to the Purchaser for the loss of anticipated profits from the
transactions contemplated by this Purchase Agreement. 
  
 8.
Indemnification. (a) The Company and the Trust agree jointly and severally to indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser, the Purchaser’s affiliates, Dekania Capital Management, LLC and Merrill Lynch & Co. (collectively, the
“Indemnified Parties”) and the Indemnified Parties’ respective directors, officers, employees and agents and each person who “controls” the Indemnified Parties within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the
Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common
law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any information or documents
furnished or made available to the Purchaser by or on behalf of the Company or the Parent Guarantor, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading or (iii) the breach or alleged breach of any representation, warranty or agreement of either Seller contained herein, and agrees to reimburse each such Indemnified Party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by
them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust may otherwise have. 

 
 (b) The Company and the Parent Guarantor agree to indemnify the Trust
against all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever due from the Trust under paragraph (a) above. 
  
 (c) Promptly after receipt by an Indemnified Party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such Indemnified Party will,
if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, promptly notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not
relieve the indemnifying party from liability under paragraph (a) above unless and to the extent that such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of material rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the
indemnifying party from any obligations to any Indemnified Party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) above. Purchaser shall be entitled to appoint counsel to represent the Indemnified Party in any action for which
indemnification is sought. An indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except with the consent of the Indemnified Party) also be
counsel to the Indemnified Party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all Indemnified Parties in connection with
any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Parties, settle or

  

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compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which
indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether or not the Indemnified Parties are actual or potential parties to such claim, action, suit or proceeding) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each
Indemnified Party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding. 
  
 9. Termination. This Purchase Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Purchaser, by notice given to the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust prior to
delivery of and payment for the Preferred Securities, if prior to such time (i) a downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or preferred stock by any “nationally
recognized statistical rating organization,” as that term is used by the Commission in Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act, or such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible
negative implications, its rating of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s debt securities or preferred stock, (ii) the Trust shall be unable to sell and deliver to the Purchaser at least $5,000,000 stated liquidation value of Preferred
Securities, (iii) the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries that is an insurance company shall cease to be “adequately-capitalized” under the statutes, rules, regulations, codes or ordinances of any
Regulatory Agency within the meaning of any applicable regulations of any Regulatory Agency, or any formal administrative or judicial action is taken by any appropriate state or federal insurance regulator against the Company, the Parent Guarantor
or of their respective subsidiary insurance companies for unsafe and unsound insurance practices, or violations of law, (iv) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally shall have occurred on the New York Stock Exchange,
(v) a suspension or material limitation in trading in any of the Parent Guarantor’s securities shall have occurred on the exchange or quotation system upon which the Parent Guarantor’s securities are traded, if any, (vi) a general
moratorium on commercial insurance activities shall have been declared either by federal, Georgia or Bermuda authorities or (vii) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or declaration by the United States of a national
emergency or war or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on financial markets is such as to make it, in the Purchaser’s judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Preferred Securities.

  
 10. Representations and Indemnities to
Survive. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust or their respective officers or trustees and of the Purchaser set forth in or made
pursuant to this Purchase Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser, the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust or any of their respective officers, directors, trustees
or controlling persons, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Preferred Securities. The provisions of Sections 7 and 8 shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Purchase Agreement. 
  
 11. Amendments. This Purchase Agreement may not be modified,
amended, altered or supplemented, except upon the execution and delivery of a written agreement by each of the parties hereto. 
  

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 12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on
receipt, and, if sent to the Purchaser, will be mailed, delivered by hand or courier or sent by facsimile and confirmed to the Purchaser c/o Dekania Capital Management, LLC, 1818 Market Street, 28th Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, Attention: Adam Schneider, Facsimile: (215) 861-7700; with a copy to Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, 190 South
LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603, Attention: J. Paul Forrester, Facsimile: (312) 701-7711 or other address as the Purchaser shall designate for such purpose in a notice to the Company and the Trust; if sent to the Company or the Trust, will
be mailed, delivered by hand or courier or sent by facsimile and confirmed to it at American Safety Holdings Corp.., 1845 the Exchange, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia, 30339, Attention: Steven B. Mathis, Treasurer, Facsimile: (770) 980-0628.

  
 13. Successors and Assigns. This Purchase
Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Purchase Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person other
than the parties hereto and the affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof and their successors, assigns, heirs and legal representatives, any right or obligation hereunder. None
of the rights or obligations of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust under this Purchase Agreement may be assigned, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the Purchaser’s prior written consent. The rights and obligations of
the Purchaser under this Purchase Agreement may be assigned by the Purchaser without the Company’s, the Parent Guarantor or the Trust’s consent; provided that the assignee assumes the obligations of the Purchaser under this Purchase
Agreement. 
  
 14. Applicable Law. THIS
PURCHASE AGREEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REFERENCE TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW). 
  
 15. Submission to Jurisdiction. ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING
BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR ARISING OUT OF THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (IN EACH CASE SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE
AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF APPEALS THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THIS SECTION 15 DOES NOT APPLY AND SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE PARENT GUARANTOR.

  

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 16. Counterparts and Facsimile. This Purchase Agreement may be executed by any one
or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. This Purchase Agreement may be executed by any one or more
of the parties hereto by facsimile. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Purchase Agreement has been entered into as of the date first written above.

  

	 AMERICAN SAFETY HOLDINGS CORP.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 AMERICAN SAFETY INSURANCE HOLDINGS,
LTD..

	
	 By:

	 Name:

	 Title:

	
	 AMERICAN SAFETY CAPITAL TRUST II

		
	 By:
	 	 American Safety Holdings Corp., as Depositor

	 	 	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 	 	 Title:

	
	 DEKANIA CDO I, LTD.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

  

 21 

 ANNEX A-I 
  

Pursuant to Section 3(c)(i) of the Purchase Agreement, Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel for the Company, shall deliver an opinion to the effect that:

  
 (i) the Company, the Parent Guarantor and
each Significant Subsidiary is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized; each of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries has full corporate
power and authority to own or lease its properties and to conduct its business as such business is currently conducted in all material respects; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Significant Subsidiaries and of the company have been
duly authorized and validly issued, and are fully paid and nonassessable and owned of record and beneficially, directly or indirectly by the Parent Guarantor; each of the Company and the Parent Guarantor has corporate power and authority to execute
and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, the Operative Documents to which it is a party; and the Company has corporate power and authority to issue and perform its obligations under the Notes; 
  
 (ii) neither the issue and sale of the Common Securities,
the Preferred Securities or the Junior Subordinated Notes, nor the purchase by the Trust of the Junior Subordinated Notes, nor the execution and delivery of and compliance with the Operative Documents by the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the
Trust nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will constitute a breach or violation of the Trust Agreement or the charter or by-laws of the Company, the Parent Guarantor; 
  
 (iii) the Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company and duly executed and delivered by the Administrative Trustees; 
  
 (iv) each of the Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and each of the
Guarantee Agreement and the Parent Guarantee has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Parent Guarantor and, assuming each such document has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Guarantee Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee, respectively, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Parent Guarantor enforceable against the Company and the Parent Guarantor, as applicable, in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity; 
  
 (v) the Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Company and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
authentication in accordance with the Indenture and, when authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to the Trust against payment therefor, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company
entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity; 
  

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 (vi) the Trust is not, and, following the issuance of the Preferred Securities and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents and the application of the proceeds therefrom, the Trust will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment
company,” in each case within the meaning of Section 3(a) of the Investment Company Act; 
  
 (vii) assuming that the Preferred Securities are sold in a manner contemplated by, and in accordance with the Purchase Agreement and the
Trust Agreement, it is not necessary in connection with the offer, sale and delivery of the Preferred Securities by the Trust to the Purchaser, to register any of the Securities under the Securities Act or to require qualification of the Indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended; 
  
 (viii) the Purchase Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust; 
  
 (ix) none of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any of their respective “Affiliates” (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation
D under the Securities Act (“Regulation D”) has directly or indirectly, made offers or sales of any security, or solicited offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require the registration of any of the Notes, the
Preferred Securities or the Common Securities being issued pursuant to this transaction under the Securities Act, engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with any offer or
sale of any of the Securities, or engaged, nor will engage, in any “directed selling efforts” within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act with respect to the Securities; 
  
 (x) none of the Company, the Parent Guarantor the Trust, nor
any Significant Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor is in breach or violation of, or default under, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, its articles of incorporation or charter, by-laws or other governing documents (including without
limitation, the Trust Agreement); the execution, delivery and performance of the Operative Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and the Operative Documents do not and will not (A) result in the
creation or imposition of any material lien, claim, charge, encumbrance or restriction upon any property or assets of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the Significant Subsidiaries, or (B) conflict with, constitute a material breach or violation
of, or constitute a material default under, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, any of the terms, provisions or conditions of (x) any of the articles of incorporation or charter, by-laws or other governing documents of the Company, the
Parent Guarantor or their respective Significant Subsidiaries, or (y) to the best of our knowledge, any material contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease, franchise, license or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company, the Parent Guarantor or their respective Significant Subsidiaries 
  

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is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may be bound or (z) any order, decree, judgment, franchise, license, permit, rule or
regulation of any court, arbitrator, government, or governmental agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, known to us having jurisdiction over the Company, the Parent Guarantor or their respective Significant Subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties which, in the case of each of (A) or (B) above, is material to the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; 
  
 (xi) except for filings, registrations or qualifications that may be required by applicable securities laws,
no authorization, approval, consent or order of, or filing, registration or qualification with, any person (including, without limitation, any court, governmental body or authority) is required under the laws of the State of Georgia, Bermuda, or in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents in connection with the offer and sale of the Common Securities as contemplated by the Operative Documents; 
  
 (xii) (A) no action, suit or proceeding at law or in equity is pending or threatened to which the Company,
the Trust or the Significant Subsidiaries are or may be a party, and (B) no action, suit or proceeding is pending or threatened against or affecting the Company, the Trust or the Significant Subsidiaries or any of their properties, before or by any
court or governmental official, commission, board or other administrative agency, authority or body, or any arbitrator, wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents or the issuance and sale of the Common Securities, or the Preferred Securities as contemplated therein or the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, affairs, business,
or results of operations of the Company, the Trust and the Significant Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; and 
  
 (xiii) assuming the truth and accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchaser in the Purchase Agreement, it is not
necessary in connection with the offering, sale and delivery of the Common Securities, the Preferred Securities, the Junior Subordinated Notes, the Guarantee Agreement and the Parent Guarantee Agreement to register the same under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, under the circumstances contemplated in the Purchase Agreement. 
  

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 ANNEX A-II 
  

Pursuant to Section 3(c)(ii) of the Purchase Agreement, General Counsel for the Company and the Parent Guarantor shall deliver an opinion, or the
Company shall provide an Officers’ Certificate, to the effect that: 
  
 (i) all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Significant Subsidiary are owned of record by the Company or the Parent Guarantor, and the issuance of the Preferred Securities and the Common
Securities is not subject to any contractual preemptive rights known to such [counsel/officer]; 
  
 (ii) no consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental authority is required for the issue and sale of the Common
Securities, the Preferred Securities or the Junior Subordinated Notes, the purchase by the Trust of the Junior Subordinated Notes, the execution and delivery of and compliance with the Operative Documents by the Company, the Parent Guarantor or the
Trust or the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Operative Documents, except such approvals (specified in such [opinion/certificate]) as have been obtained; 
  
 (iii) to the knowledge of such [counsel/officer], there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by
any government, governmental instrumentality, arbitrator or court, domestic or foreign, now pending or threatened against or affecting the Trust or the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary that could adversely affect the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents or could have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (iv) the Company and the Parent Guarantor are duly registered as [an insurance holding] company under the [Georgia regulatory
statute] of [Georgia] and the [Bermuda regulation statute] of Bermuda, respectively, and the regulations thereunder of the [state regulatory agency], and the capital reserves accounts of each of the Company’s and the
Parent Guarantor’s insurance subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over such entities; 
  
 (v) The execution, delivery and performance of the Operative Documents, as applicable, by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust
and the consummation by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trust of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents, as applicable, (i) will not result in any violation of the charter or bylaws of the Company, the charter or bylaws
of the Parent Guarantor, the charter or bylaws of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s respective subsidiaries, the Trust Agreement or the Certificate of Trust of the Trust, and (ii) will not conflict with, or result in a breach of any
of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge and encumbrance upon any assets or
properties of the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary under, (a) any agreement, indenture, mortgage or instrument that the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company is a party to or by which it may 
  

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be bound or to which any of its assets or properties may be subject, or (b) any existing applicable law, rule or administrative regulation [for General
Counsel only: except that I express no opinion with respect to the securities laws of the State of Delaware] of any court or governmental agency or authority having jurisdiction over the Company, the Parent Guarantor or any Significant
Subsidiary or any of their respective assets or properties, except in case of (ii), where any such violation, conflict, breach, default, lien, charge or encumbrance, would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, properties, business,
results of operations or financial condition of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries, taken as whole. 
  
  

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 ANNEX B 
  
 Pursuant to Section 3(d) of the Purchase Agreement, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, special tax counsel for the Purchaser, shall deliver an opinion to
the effect that: 
  
 (vi) the Trust will be
classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust and not as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation; and 
  
 (vii) for United States federal income tax purposes, the Junior Subordinated Notes will constitute
indebtedness of the Company. 
  
 In rendering such opinions, such
counsel may (A) state that its opinion is limited to the federal laws of the United States and (B) rely as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and public
officials. 
  

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 ANNEX C 
  
 Pursuant to Section 3(e) of the Purchase Agreement, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., special Delaware counsel for the Purchaser and the Delaware
Trustee, shall deliver an opinion to the effect that: 
  
 (i) the Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in good standing as a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, and all filings required under the laws of the State of Delaware with respect to the creation and
valid existence of the Trust as a statutory trust have been made; 
  
 (ii) under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Agreement, the Trust has the trust power and authority (A) to own property and conduct its business, all as described in the Trust Agreement, (B) to execute
and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Purchase Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement and the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities and (C) to
purchase and hold the Junior Subordinated Notes; 
  
 (iii) under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, the certificate attached to the Trust Agreement as Exhibit C is an appropriate form of certificate to evidence ownership of the Preferred Securities; the Preferred Securities have been duly
authorized by the Trust Agreement and, when issued and delivered against payment of the consideration as set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Preferred Securities will be validly issued and (subject to the qualifications set forth in this
paragraph) fully paid and nonassessable and will represent undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust; the holders of the Preferred Securities will be entitled to the benefits of the Trust Agreement and, as beneficial owners of the
Trust, will be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware; and such counsel may note that the holders of the
Preferred Securities may be obligated, pursuant to the Trust Agreement, to (A) provide indemnity and/or security in connection with and pay taxes or governmental charges arising from transfers or exchanges of Preferred Securities certificates and
the issuance of replacement Preferred Securities certificates and (B) provide security or indemnity in connection with requests of or directions to the Property Trustee to exercise its rights and remedies under the Trust Agreement; 
  
 (iv) the Common Securities have been duly authorized by the
Trust Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Trust to the Company against payment therefor as described in the Trust Agreement and the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, will be validly issued and fully paid and will represent
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust entitled to the benefits of the Trust Agreement; 
  
 (v) under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Agreement, the issuance of the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities is
not subject to preemptive or other similar rights; 
  

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 (vi) under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Agreement, the execution and
delivery by the Trust of the Purchase Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement and the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, and the performance by the Trust of its obligations thereunder, have been duly authorized by all
necessary trust action on the part of the Trust; 
  
 (vii) the Trust Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Trustees, and is enforceable against the Company and the Trustees, in accordance with its terms subject, as to enforcement, to the effect
upon the Trust Agreement of (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership, reorganization, liquidation, fraudulent conveyance or transfer and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally, (ii)
principles of equity, including applicable law relating to fiduciary duties (regardless of whether considered and applied in a proceeding in equity or at law), and (iii) the effect of applicable public policy on the enforceability of provisions
relating to indemnification or contribution; 
  
 (viii) the issuance and sale by the Trust of the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities, the purchase by the Trust of the Junior Subordinated Notes, the execution, delivery and performance by the Trust of the Purchase Agreement, the
Common Securities Subscription Agreement and the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, the consummation by the Trust of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and compliance by the Trust with its obligations thereunder do not
violate (i) any of the provisions of the Certificate of Trust or the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement or (ii) any applicable Delaware law, rule or regulation; 
  
 (ix) no filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or
decree of, any Delaware court or Delaware governmental authority or Delaware agency is necessary or required solely in connection with the issuance and sale by the Trust of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities, the purchase by the Trust
of the Junior Subordinated Notes, the execution, delivery and performance by the Trust of the Purchase Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement and the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, the consummation by the Trust of the
transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and compliance by the Trust with its obligations thereunder; and 
  
 (x) the holders of the Preferred Securities (other than those holders who reside or are domiciled in the State of Delaware) will have no
liability for income taxes imposed by the State of Delaware solely as a result of their participation in the Trust and the Trust will not be liable for any income tax imposed by the State of Delaware. 
  
 In rendering such opinions, such counsel may (A) state that its opinion is
limited to the laws of the State of Delaware and (B) rely as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and public officials. 
  

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 ANNEX D 
  
 Pursuant to Section 3(f) of the Purchase Agreement, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, special counsel for the Guarantee Trustee, the Property Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee, shall deliver an opinion to the effect that: 
  
 (viii) JPMorgan Chase Bank is a New York banking corporation with trust powers duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of New York with all necessary corporate power and
authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the terms of the Guarantee Agreement, the Trust Agreement and the Indenture; 
  
 (ix) the execution, delivery and performance by JPMorgan Chase Bank of the Guarantee Agreement, the Parent Guarantee Agreement, the Trust
Agreement and the Indenture have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of JPMorgan Chase Bank, each of the Guarantee Agreement, the Parent Guarantee Agreement, the Trust Agreement and the Indenture has been duly executed
and delivered by JPMorgan Chase Bank, and each of the Guarantee Agreement, the Parent Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of JPMorgan Chase Bank enforceable against JPMorgan Chase Bank in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity; 
  
 (x) the execution, delivery and performance of the Guarantee Agreement, the Parent Guarantee Agreement, the
Trust Agreement and the Indenture by JPMorgan Chase Bank do not conflict with or constitute a breach of (A) the restated organization certificate or by-laws of JPMorgan Chase Bank or (B) any law or regulation of the United States of America or the
State of New York governing the banking or trust powers of JPMorgan Chase Bank; 
  
 (xi) no consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or notice to, any governmental authority or agency of the United
States of America governing the banking or trust powers of JPMorgan Chase Bank is required for the execution, delivery or performance by it of the Guarantee Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the Indenture; 
  
 (xii) the Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly
authenticated and delivered by JPMorgan Chase Bank; and 
  
 (xiii) The Preferred Securities have been duly authenticated and delivered by JPMorgan Chase Bank. 
  
 In rendering such opinions, such counsel may (A) state that its opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the federal laws of the United
States and (B) rely as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers of JPMorgan Chase Bank, the Company, the Parent Guarantor and public officials. 
  

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 ANNEX E 
  
 Pursuant to Section 3(g) of the Purchase Agreement, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., counsel for the Purchaser and the Delaware Trustee, shall deliver
an opinion to the effect that: 
  
 (i) Chase
Manhattan Bank USA, National Association is duly formed and validly existing as a national banking association under the federal laws of the United States of America with trust powers and with its principal place of business in the State of
Delaware; 
  
 (ii) Chase Manhattan Bank USA,
National Association has the corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of, the Trust Agreement and to
consummate the transactions contemplated thereby; 
  
 (iii) The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, and is
enforceable against Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, in accordance with its terms subject as to enforcement, to the effect upon the Trust Agreement of (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
fraudulent conveyance or transfer and similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally, (ii) principles of equity, including applicable law relating to fiduciary duties (regardless of whether considered and
applied in a proceeding in equity or at law), and (iii) the effect of applicable public policy on the enforceability of provisions relating to indemnification or contribution; 
  
 (iv) The execution, delivery and performance by Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association of the Trust
Agreement do not conflict with or result in a violation of (A) articles of association or by-laws of Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association or (B) any law or regulation of the State of Delaware or the United States of America governing the
banking or trust powers of Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association or, to our knowledge, without independent investigation, of any indenture, mortgage, bank credit agreement, note or bond purchase agreement, long-term lease, license or other
agreement or instrument to which Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association is a party or by which it is bound or, to our knowledge, without independent investigation, of any judgment or order applicable to Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National
Association; and 
  
 (v) No approval,
authorization or other action by, or filing with, any governmental authority of the State of Delaware or the United States of America governing the banking and trust powers of Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National 

  

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Association is required in connection with the execution and delivery by Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association of the Trust Agreement or the
performance by Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association of its obligations thereunder, except for the filing of the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, which Certificate of Trust has been filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. 
  
 In rendering such
opinions, such counsel may (A) state that its opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States and (B) rely as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers
of the Company, the Parent Guarantor and public officials. 
  

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 ANNEX F 
  
 Officer’s Financial Certificate 
  
 The undersigned, the [Chairman/Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer/President/ Vice President] of the Company and the [Chief Financial
Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer] and the [Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer] of the Parent Guarantor of the Company, respectively, each hereby certifies, pursuant to Section 6(g) of the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
September 30, 2003, among American Safety Holdings Corp. (the “Company”), American Safety Capital Trust II (the “Trust”), American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (the “Parent Guarantor”) and Dekania CDO I, Ltd., that,
as of [date], [20    ], the Company had the following ratios and balances: 
  
 [For each Subsidiary Insurance Company (as defined below) provide:] 
  
 [INSURANCE COMPANY] 
 As of [Quarterly/Annual Financial Dates], 2003 
  

	 NAIC Risk Based Capital Ratio (authorized control level)
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Total Policyholders’ Surplus
	  	$	_____	 
		
	 Consolidated Debt to Total Policyholders’ Surplus
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Total Assets
	  	$	_____	 
		
	 NAIC Class 1 & 2 Rated Investments to Total Fixed Income Investments
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 NAIC Class 1 & 2 Rated Investments to Total Investments
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Return on Policyholders’ Surplus
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 [For Property & Casualty Companies also provide:]
	  	 	 	 
		
	 [Expense Ratio]
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Loss and LAE Ratio
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Combined Ratio
	  	 	_____	%
		
	 Net Premiums Written (annualized) to Policyholders’ Surplus
	  	 	_____	%]

	*	A table describing the quarterly report calculation procedures is provided on page      

  
 The following is a complete list as of [Annual/Quarterly Financial Date] of the Parent
Guarantor’s companies which are authorized to write insurance business or otherwise conduct insurance or reinsurance business (the “Subsidiary Insurance Companies”): 
  

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 ANNEX F 
  
 [List of Subsidiary Insurance Companies] 
  
 [FOR FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows,
and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent accountants thereon) of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including the Company) for the three years ended [date], 20     and all
required Statutory Financial Statements (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries for the year ended [date], 20    ] 
  
 [FOR FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and consolidating financial statements (including the balance
sheet and income statement) of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including the Company) and all required Statutory Financial Statements (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) of the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries for the
year ended [date], 20    ] for the fiscal quarter ended [date], 20    .] 
  
 The financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial
position of the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries (including the Company), and the results of operations and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [     quarter interim] [annual]
period ended [date], 20    , and such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period involved (expect as otherwise noted therein). 
  
 The Statutory Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects in accordance with
Applicable Accounting Principles as defined in the Indenture) the financial position of the subject insurance company and have been prepared in accordance with Applicable Accounting Principles. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer’s
Financial Certificate as of this          day of                 , 20    . 

 

	 AMERICAN SAFETY HOLDINGS CORP.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	
	 American Safety Holdings Corp.
 1845 The Exchange
 Atlanta, GA 30339

  

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 ANNEX F 
  

	 AMERICAN SAFETY INSURANCE
 HOLDINGS, LTD.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	
	 American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd.
 44 Church Street
 P.O. Box HM
2064
 Hamilton HM HX Bermuda

  

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 ANNEX F 
  
 Definitions for quarterly Officer’s Financial Certificate 
  

	 ITEM

	  	 Definition/Formula

	NAIC Risk Based Capital Ratio-P&C	  	(Total Adjusted Capital/Authorized Control Level Risk-Based Capita/)/2
	NAIC Risk Based Capital Ratio-Life	  	((Total Adjusted Capital-Asset Valuation Reserve)/Authorized Control Level Risk-Based Capita/)/2
	Total Capital and Surplus-Life	  	Common Capital Stock + Preferred Capital Stock + Aggregate Write-Ins for other than special surplus funds + Surplus Notes +Gross Paid-In and Contributed Surplus + Aggregate
Write-Ins for Special Surplus Funds + Unassigned Funds (Surplus) – Treasury Stock
	Total Capital and Surplus-P&C	  	Aggregate Write-Ins for Special Surplus Funds + Common Capital Stock + Preferred Capital Stock + Aggregate Write Ins for other than special surplus funds + Surplus Notes +Gross
Paid-In and Contributed Surplus + Unassigned Funds (Surplus) – Treasury Stock
	Total Class 1 & 2 Rated Investments to Total Fixed Income Investments	  	(Total Class 1 + Total Class 2 Rated Investments)/Total Fixed Income Investments
	Total Class 1 & 2 Rated Investments to Total Investments	  	(Total Class 1 + Total Class 2 Rated Investments)/Total Investments
	Total Assets	  	Total Assets
	Return on Policyholders’ Surplus	  	Net Income/Policyholders’ Surplus
	Expense Ratio	  	Other Underwriting Expenses Incurred/Net premiums Earned
	Loss and LAE Ratio	  	(Losses Incurred + Loss Expenses Incurred)/Net Premiums Earned
	Combined Ratio	  	Expense Ratio + Loss and LAE Ratio
	Net Premiums Written (annualized) to Policyholders’ Surplus	  	Net Premiums Written/Policyholders’ Surplus

  

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