Document:

EX-4.2

 Exhibit 4.2 

EXECUTION VERSION 
 KEMPER
CORPORATION 
 and 

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 

as Trustee 
 FIRST
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 
 dated as of February 27, 2014 

to the Indenture dated as of February 27, 2014 

7.375% Subordinated Debentures due 2054 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
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	 ARTICLE 1
	 	APPLICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE	  	 	1	  
			
	 Section 1.1.
	 	Application of First Supplemental Indenture	  	 	1	  
			
	 ARTICLE 2
	 	DEFINITIONS	  	 	2	  
			
	 Section 2.1.
	 	Terms Defined in the Indenture	  	 	2	  
	 Section 2.2.
	 	Additional Definitions	  	 	2	  
			
	 ARTICLE 3
	 	FORM AND TERMS OF THE DEBENTURES	  	 	5	  
			
	 Section 3.1.
	 	Form; Denominations; Depositary	  	 	5	  
	 Section 3.2.
	 	Execution and Authentication of Initial Debentures	  	 	6	  
	 Section 3.3.
	 	Paying Agent	  	 	6	  
	 Section 3.4.
	 	Terms of the Debentures	  	 	6	  
	 Section 3.5.
	 	Option to Defer Interest Payments	  	 	7	  
	 Section 3.6.
	 	Redemption at the Option of the Company	  	 	8	  
	 Section 3.7.
	 	Payment Restrictions During a Deferral Period	  	 	9	  
	 Section 3.8.
	 	Events of Default	  	 	10	  
	 Section 3.9.
	 	Tax Treatment	  	 	11	  
	 Section 3.10.
	 	Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance	  	 	11	  
			
	 ARTICLE 4
	 	SUBORDINATION	  	 	11	  
			
	 Section 4.1.
	 	Agreement to Subordinate	  	 	11	  
	 Section 4.2.
	 	Default on Senior Indebtedness	  	 	11	  
	 Section 4.3.
	 	Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness Upon Acceleration of Debentures	  	 	12	  
	 Section 4.4.
	 	Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy	  	 	12	  
	 Section 4.5.
	 	Subrogation	  	 	14	  
	 Section 4.6.
	 	Trustee to Effectuate Subordination	  	 	15	  
	 Section 4.7.
	 	Notice by the Company	  	 	15	  
	 Section 4.8.
	 	Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness	  	 	16	  
	 Section 4.9.
	 	Subordination May Not Be Impaired	  	 	16	  
	 Section 4.10.
	 	Article Applicable to Paying Agents	  	 	17	  
			
	 ARTICLE 5
	 	MISCELLANEOUS	  	 	17	  
			
	 Section 5.1.
	 	Trust Indenture Act Controls	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.2.
	 	Governing Law	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.3.
	 	Counterparts	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.4.
	 	Severability	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.5.
	 	Ratification	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.6.
	 	Effectiveness	  	 	17	  
	 Section 5.7.
	 	Trustee Makes No Representation	  	 	18	  
			
	 EXHIBIT A
	 	– Form of Debenture	  	 	A-1	  

  
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 FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “First Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of February 27, 2014, between Kemper Corporation,
a Delaware corporation, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”). 
 RECITALS OF THE
COMPANY 
 WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2014 (the
“Base Indenture,” as supplemented by this First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of Securities to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Base
Indenture; 
 WHEREAS, Section 14.01 of the Base Indenture provides, among other things, that the Company and the Trustee may
enter into indentures supplemental to the Base Indenture, without the consent of any Holders of Securities, to establish the form and terms of Securities of any series as permitted in Section 3.01 of the Base Indenture; 

WHEREAS, the Company desires to execute this First Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and terms of, and provide for the
issuance, of a series of its debt securities (which shall be a series of Securities as referred to in Section 3.01 of the Base Indenture) designated as its 7.375% Subordinated Debentures due 2054 (the “Debentures”), in an initial
aggregate principal amount of $150,000,000; 
 WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this First
Supplemental Indenture; 
 WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done by the Company to make this First Supplemental Indenture,
when executed and delivered by the Company, a valid supplement to the Indenture; and 
 WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done
by the Company to make the Debentures, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, the valid obligations of the Company; 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises stated herein and the purchase of the Debentures by the Holders thereof, the Company
and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Debentures as follows: 

ARTICLE 1 

APPLICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 

Section 1.1. Application of First Supplemental Indenture. Notwithstanding any other provision of this First Supplemental
Indenture, all provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture are expressly and solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Debentures and any such provisions shall not be deemed to apply to any other Securities 

  
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issued under the Indenture and shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture for any purpose other than with respect to the Debentures. Unless otherwise expressly
specified, references in this First Supplemental Indenture to specific Article numbers or Section numbers refer to Articles and Sections contained in this First Supplemental Indenture as they amend or supplement the Base Indenture, and not the Base
Indenture or any other document. 
 ARTICLE 2 

DEFINITIONS 

Section 2.1. Terms Defined in the Indenture. For purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture, all capitalized terms used but not
defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Base Indenture, as amended hereby. 
 Section 2.2. Additional
Definitions. For the benefit of the Holders of the Debentures, Section 1.01 of the Base Indenture shall be amended by adding the following new definitions: 

“Additional Debentures” has the meaning specified in Section 3.4 hereto. 

“Base Indenture” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto. 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security or securities selected by an Independent Investment Banker as
having an actual or interpolated maturity that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing a new issue of corporate debt securities maturing on February 27, 2019. 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average
of all such quotations. 
 “Debentures” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto. 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

“Global Debenture” has the meaning specified in 3.1(c). 

“Indebtedness for Money Borrowed” shall mean (i) any obligation of, or any obligation guaranteed by, the Company for which the
Company is responsible or liable as obligor or otherwise including principal, premium and interest (whether accruing before or after filing of any petition in bankruptcy or any similar proceedings by or against the Company and whether or not allowed
as a claim in bankruptcy or similar proceedings) for (A) indebtedness for money borrowed, (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities, bonds, debentures, notes or other similar written instruments, (C) any deferred obligation for the
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acquired other than in the ordinary course of business, (D) all obligations for the reimbursement of any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance, security purchase facility or similar
credit transaction, (E) all obligations under “keep-well” agreements required by insurance regulators or (F) any obligation referred to in (A) through (E) above of other Persons secured by any lien on any property or
asset of the Company and (ii) all indebtedness for obligations to make payment in respect of derivative products such as interest and foreign exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts (including future or options contracts), swap agreements,
cap agreements, repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements and similar arrangements, whether outstanding on February 27, 2014 or thereafter created, assumed or incurred. 

“Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Debentures” shall mean any Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, whether outstanding on
February 27, 2014 or thereafter created, assumed or incurred, which specifically by its terms ranks junior to and not equally with or prior to the Debentures (and any other Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures) in right of
payment upon any dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization or similar events of the Company. The securing of any Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, otherwise constituting Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Debentures, shall not be
deemed to prevent such Indebtedness for Money Borrowed from constituting Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Debentures. 

“Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures” shall mean Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, whether outstanding on
February 27, 2014 or thereafter created, assumed or incurred, which specifically by its terms ranks equally with and not prior to the Debentures in right of payment upon dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization or similar
events of the Company. The securing of any Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, otherwise constituting Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures, shall not be deemed to prevent such Indebtedness for Money Borrowed from constituting
Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures. 
 “Independent Investment Banker” means one of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and their successors, appointed by the Company or, if such firm is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the
Company. 
 “Initial Debentures” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4. 

“interest,” when used with respect to the Debentures, includes interest accruing on the Debentures, interest on deferred interest
payments and other unpaid amounts and compounded interest, as applicable. 
 “Interest Payment Date” means each
February 27, May 27, August 27 and November 27, beginning May 27, 2014. 
 “Optional Deferral
Period” means the period commencing on an Interest Payment Date with respect to which the Company defers interest pursuant to Section 3.5 and ending on the earlier of (i) the fifth anniversary of that Interest Payment Date and
(ii) the next Interest Payment Date on which the Company has paid all deferred and unpaid amounts (including compounded interest on such deferred amounts) and all other accrued interest on the Debentures. 

  
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 “Rating Agency Event” means that any nationally recognized statistical rating
organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act that then publishes a rating for the Company (a “rating agency”) amends, clarifies or changes the criteria it uses to assign equity credit to securities such
as the Debentures, which amendment, clarification or change results in (a) the shortening of the length of time the Debentures are assigned a particular level of equity credit by that rating agency as compared to the length of time the
Debentures would have been assigned that level of equity credit by that rating agency or its predecessor on the initial issuance of the Debentures; or (b) the lowering of the equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) assigned to the
Debentures by that rating agency compared to the equity credit assigned by that rating agency or its predecessor on the initial issuance of the Debentures. 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and its successors, (ii) a Primary Treasury Dealer (as
defined herein) selected by Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and its successors, (iii) two other primary U.S. government securities dealers (each a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), specified by the Company; provided that if any of the
foregoing or any Primary Treasury Dealer specified by the Company shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer. 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to a Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as
determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed, in each case, as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such
Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date. 
 “Senior
Indebtedness” shall mean all Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, whether outstanding on February 27, 2014 or thereafter created, assumed or incurred, except Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures or Indebtedness Ranking Junior
to the Debentures, and any deferrals, renewals or extension of such Senior Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Senior Indebtedness shall not include obligations to trade creditors created or assumed by the Company in the ordinary
course of business. 
 “Tax Event” means that the Company will have received an opinion of counsel, rendered by a law firm of
nationally recognized standing that is experienced in such matters, stating that, as a result of any: 
 (a) amendment to, or change in
(including any promulgation, enactment, execution or modification of) the laws (or any regulations under those laws) of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein affecting taxation; 

  
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 (b) official administrative pronouncement (including a private letter ruling, technical advice
memorandum or similar pronouncement) or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying the laws or regulations enumerated in clause (a) above, by any court, governmental agency or regulatory
authority; or 
 (c) threatened challenge asserted in connection with an audit of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or a
threatened challenge asserted in writing against any taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the Debentures, 

which amendment or change is enacted or effective or which pronouncement or decision is announced or which challenge is asserted against the Company or
becomes publicly known on or after February 27, 2014, there is more than an insubstantial increase in the risk that interest accruable or payable by the Company on the Debentures is not, or will not be, deductible by the Company in whole or in
part, for United States federal income tax purposes. 
 “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per
annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated maturity (on a day count basis) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal
to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. 
 ARTICLE 3 

FORM AND TERMS OF THE DEBENTURES 

Section 3.1. Form; Denominations; Depositary.  

(a) The Debentures and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto. The Debentures may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rules or usage. The Debentures and any beneficial interest in the Debentures shall be in denominations of $25 and multiples of $25 in excess thereof.
The Debentures shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons. 
 (b) The terms and notations contained in the Debentures shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of the Indenture, and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. 

(c) The Debentures shall be issued initially in the form of fully registered Global Securities (the “Global Debentures”). The
Depository Trust Company, New York, New York , is hereby designated as the Depositary with respect to the Debentures until one or more successor Depositaries for the Debentures shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the
Indenture. 

  
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 Section 3.2. Execution and Authentication of Initial Debentures. The Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 3.2 and Section 3.03(g) of the Base Indenture, authenticate and deliver a Global Debenture representing the Initial Debentures (as defined below) that shall be registered in the
name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depositary, and shall be deposited with the Trustee, as Security Custodian with respect thereto. 

Section 3.3. Paying Agent. The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Debentures and designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, which office at the date hereof is located at 2 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as the Place of Payment where the
Debentures may be presented for payment. 
 Section 3.4. Terms of the Debentures. The following terms relating to the Debentures
are hereby established: 
 (a) Designation. The Debentures shall constitute a series of Securities designated as and having the title
“7.375% Subordinated Debentures due 2054”. 
 (b) Principal Amount. The aggregate principal amount of the Debentures that
may be initially authenticated and delivered under the Indenture (the “Initial Debentures”) shall be $150,000,000 (except for Debentures authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Debentures pursuant to Sections 3.04, 3.06, 3.07, 4.06 or 14.05 of the Base Indenture). The Company may from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of Debentures, issue additional Debentures (in any such case “Additional
Debentures”) having the same ranking and the same interest rate, Stated Maturity and other terms as the Initial Debentures (other than the public offering price and date of issuance and, under certain circumstances, the date from which interest
thereon will begin to accrue), provided, however, that no Additional Debentures may be issued unless the Additional Debentures are fungible with the Debentures for U.S. federal income tax purposes or issued with a different CUSIP number. Any
Additional Debentures together with the Initial Debentures shall constitute a single series of Securities for all purposes under the Indenture, including waivers, amendments and redemptions, and all references to the Debentures shall include the
Initial Debentures and any Additional Debentures unless the context otherwise requires. The aggregate principal amount of Additional Debentures that may be authenticated and delivered under and pursuant to the Indenture is unlimited. 

(c) Maturity Date. The entire outstanding principal amount of the Debentures shall be due and payable on February 27, 2054. 

(d) Interest. The rate at which the Debentures shall bear interest shall be 7.375% per annum; interest shall accrue on the
Debentures from and including February 27, 2014, or, if interest has already been paid, from the last date in respect of which interest has been paid or duly provided for to, but excluding, the next succeeding Interest Payment Date or Maturity,
as the case may be; subject to the Company’s right to defer payment of interest on the Debentures in accordance with Section 3.5, interest on the 

  
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Debentures will be payable quarterly in arrears on February 27, May 27, August 27 and November 27 of each year, beginning May 27, 2014; the interest so payable
with respect to a Debenture on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Persons in whose names the Debenture (or predecessor Debenture) is registered (which shall initially be the Depositary or its nominee) at the close of business on the
Record Date for such interest, which shall be February 12, May 12, August 12 and November 12 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. However, interest paid at
Maturity will be payable to the Person to whom the principal will be payable. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. 

(e) Sinking Fund. The Debentures shall not be subject to any sinking fund (pursuant to Article V of the Base Indenture or otherwise).

 (f) Subordination. The Debentures shall be subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness
to the extent and in the manner set forth in Article IV. The provisions of Article XV of the Base Indenture and the definition of Senior Indebtedness in Section 1.01 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Debentures. 

(g) Payments. Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and the interest on the Debentures shall be made at the office of the
Paying Agent, which office at the date hereof is located at 2 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts,
provided that, at the option of the Company, payment of the interest on any Debenture may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Register or, in accordance with arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee, by wire transfer to an account designated by the Holder; and provided further that, in the case of any Debentures represented by a Global Debenture, all payments of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
thereon shall be made in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary for such Global Debenture. 
 Section 3.5.
Option to Defer Interest Payments. (a) So long as no Event of Default with respect to the Debentures has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right, at any time and from time to time, to defer the payment of interest on the
Debentures for one or more Optional Deferral Periods of up to five consecutive years, provided that no Optional Deferral Period shall extend beyond February 27, 2054, any earlier accelerated maturity date arising from an Event of Default
or any earlier redemption of the Debentures. 
 (b) During any Optional Deferral Period, interest shall continue to accrue on the Debentures,
and deferred interest payments shall accrue additional interest at the then applicable interest rate on the Debentures, compounded quarterly as of each Interest Payment Date to the extent permitted by applicable law. No interest otherwise due during
an Optional Deferral Period shall be due and payable on the Debentures until the end of such Optional Deferral Period except upon an acceleration or redemption of the Debentures during such deferral period. 

  
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 (c) At the end of any Optional Deferral Period, the Company shall pay all deferred interest
(including compounded interest thereon) on the Debentures to the Persons in whose names the Debentures are registered at the close of business on the Record Date with respect to the Interest Payment Date at the end of such Optional Deferral Period.

 (d) At the end of five years following the commencement of any Optional Deferral Period, the Company shall pay all accrued and unpaid
deferred interest, including compounded interest thereon, and the Company’s failure to pay all such accrued and unpaid deferred interest, including compounded interest thereon, for a period of 30 days after the conclusion of such five-year
period shall result in an Event of Default giving rise to a right of acceleration. If, at the end of any Optional Deferral Period, the Company shall have paid all deferred interest due on the Debentures, including compounded interest, the Company
may again defer interest payments on the Debentures pursuant to this Section 3.5. 
 (e) The Company shall give written notice of its
election to commence or continue any Optional Deferral Period to the Trustee and the Holders of the Debentures at least one Business Day and not more than 60 Business Days before the next Interest Payment Date. In addition, the Company’s
failure to pay interest on the Debentures on any Interest Payment Date will itself constitute the commencement of an Optional Deferral Period unless the Company pays such interest within five Business Days after any such Interest Payment Date,
whether or not the Company provides a notice of deferral. 
 Section 3.6. Redemption at the Option of the Company. The
provisions of Article IV of the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture, shall apply to the Debentures. 

(a) The Company may redeem the Debentures in increments of $25 principal amount: 

(i) in whole at any time or in part from time to time on or after February 27, 2019, at a Redemption Price equal to the
principal amount of the Debentures being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including compounded interest, if any) to, but excluding, the Redemption Date; provided that if the Debentures are not redeemed in whole, at least
$25 million aggregate principal amount of the Debentures must remain Outstanding after giving effect to such redemption; 

(ii) in whole, but not in part, at any time prior to February 27, 2019, within 90 days of the occurrence of a Tax Event,
at a Redemption Price equal to the principal amount of the Debentures being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including compounded interest, if any) to, but excluding, the Redemption Date; or 

  
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 (iii) in whole, but not in part, at any time prior to February 27, 2019,
within 90 days of the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (a) the principal amount of the Debentures being redeemed or (b) the present value of a payment on February 27, 2019 in an amount
equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Debentures being redeemed and scheduled payments of interest that would have accrued on the Debentures to be redeemed from the Redemption Date to February 27, 2019, discounted to the Redemption
Date on a quarterly basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, in each case, plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Debentures being redeemed (including compounded interest, if
any) to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. 
 Section 3.7. Payment Restrictions During a Deferral Period. After the
commencement of an Optional Deferral Period and until the Company has paid all accrued and unpaid interest on the Debentures, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to: 

(i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect
to, any Capital Stock of the Company, 
 (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium on or repay, repurchase or
redeem any Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures or Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Debentures, or 
 (iii)
make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of any securities of any Subsidiary of the Company if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Debentures; 

other than: 
 (a) dividends or distributions in
shares of, or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Capital Stock of the Company where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such options, warrants or other rights is the same stock as that on which the
dividend is being paid or ranks equally with or junior to such stock, 
 (b) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the
implementation of a stockholder’s rights plan, or the issuance of Capital Stock of the Company under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, 

  
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 (c) as a result of a reclassification of any series or class of Capital Stock of the Company or
the exchange or conversion of one class or series of Capital Stock of the Company for or into another class or series of Capital Stock of the Company, 

(d) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of Capital Stock of the Company pursuant to an acquisition or the conversion or exchange
provisions of such Capital Stock or the security being converted or exchanged, 
 (e) purchases or acquisitions of shares of Capital Stock of
the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of directors, officers, agents, consultants or employees of the Company or satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under
any dividend reinvestment plan of the Company or director, officer, agent, consultant or employee stock purchase plans of the Company, 
 (f)
any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of Capital Stock of the Company, or the Capital Stock of a Subsidiary of the Company, for any other class or series of Capital Stock of the Company, or of any class or series of
Indebtedness for Money Borrowed for any class or series of Capital Stock of the Company, 
 (g) purchases or acquisitions of shares of
Capital Stock of the Company in connection with satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any contract or security entered into before commencement of the Optional Deferral Period, and 

(h) (i) payment of current or deferred interest on Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures made pro rata to the amounts due on the
Debentures and all other Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures and (ii) payment of principal or current or deferred interest on the Company’s Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures that, if not made, would
cause the Company to breach the terms of the instrument governing such Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Debentures. 

Section 3.8. Events of Default. (a) With respect to the Debentures, the Events of Default set forth in clauses (a),
(c) and (d) of Section 7.01 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Debentures, and for purposes of the Debentures the following event shall be substituted for, and replace, the Event of Default set forth in clause (a) of
Section 7.01 of the Base Indenture: 
 (1) default in the payment of any interest upon any of the Debentures when due
and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; provided that if the Company defers the payment of interest on the Debentures in accordance with the provisions of the Debentures and the Indenture, the date on which such
payment is due and payable shall be the date on which the Company is required to make payment following the applicable Optional Deferral Period. 

(b) The Events of Default set forth in clauses (b), (e) and (f) of Section 7.01 of the Base Indenture shall apply to the
Debentures. 

  
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 Section 3.9. Tax Treatment. Each Holder or beneficial owner of the Debentures will,
by accepting the Debentures or a beneficial interest therein, be deemed to have agreed that the Holder or beneficial owner intends that the Debentures constitute indebtedness and will treat the debentures as indebtedness for all United States
federal, state and local tax purposes. 
 Section 3.10. Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance. Provision is hereby made for both
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance of the Debentures, in each case, upon the terms and conditions contained in Article XII of the Base Indenture. 

ARTICLE 4 

SUBORDINATION 

Section 4.1. Agreement to Subordinate. The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Debentures issued under the Indenture
likewise covenants and agrees, that the Debentures shall be issued subject to the provisions of this Article 4; and each Holder of a Debenture, whether upon original issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by
such provisions. 
 The payment by the Company of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Debentures shall, to the extent and
in the manner set forth in this Article 4, be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the date of this First Supplemental Indenture or thereafter incurred. 

No provision of this Article 4 shall prevent the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Debentures or any event, act or
condition that with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Debentures. 

Section 4.2. Default on Senior Indebtedness. Unless Section 4.3 shall be applicable, in the event and during the continuation of
any default by the Company in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due on any Senior Indebtedness, or in the event that the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness has been or would be permitted upon notice or the passage of
time to be accelerated because of a default, then, unless and until such event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist and such acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, no payment or distribution of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities shall be made by the Company with respect to the principal (including redemption payments) of or premium, if any, or interest on the Debentures or on account of the purchase or other
acquisition of Debentures by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, in each case unless and until all amounts due or to become due on such Senior Indebtedness are paid in full in cash or other consideration satisfactory to the holders of such
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 In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be received by the Trustee or
a Holder of any Debenture when such payment is prohibited by the preceding paragraph of this Section 4.2, such payment shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
respective representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the extent that the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness (or their representative or representatives or a trustee) notify a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in writing at its Corporate Trust Office, within 90 days of such payment, and only the amount specified in such notice to the Trustee
shall be paid to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. 
 Section 4.3. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness Upon Acceleration of
Debentures. In the event that any Debentures are declared due and payable before their Stated Maturity, then no payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities shall be made by the Company on account of
the principal (including redemption payments) of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Debentures or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Debentures by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, until all amounts due on or in
respect of Senior Indebtedness outstanding at the time of such acceleration shall have been paid in full to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness in cash or other consideration satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or provision
shall have been made for such payment. 
 In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be received by the Trustee or
the Holder of any Debenture prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.3, such payment shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their respective
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the extent that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness
(or their representative or representatives or a trustee) notify a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in writing at its Corporate Trust Office, within 90 days of such payment, and only the amounts specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be
paid to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. 
 The provisions of this Section 4.3 shall not apply to any payment with respect to which
Section 4.4 would be applicable. 
 Section 4.4. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy. In the case of the pendency of any
receivership, insolvency, dissolution, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshaling of assets or liabilities of the Company or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings (each such event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding”), then the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to
receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on such Senior Indebtedness, or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, before the
Holders of the Debentures are entitled to receive or retain any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the
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the Debentures, such payment or distribution being hereinafter referred to as a “Junior Subordinated Payment”), on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on the
Debentures or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Debentures by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, and to that end the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive, for application to the payment thereof, any
payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated Payment, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Debentures in any such Proceeding. 

In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.4, the Trustee or the Holders of any Debenture shall have
received any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated Payment, before all amounts due or to become due on all Senior Indebtedness are paid
in full or payment thereof is provided for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment or distribution, have been made
actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then in such event such payment or distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee,
custodian, assignee, agent or other Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application to the payment of all amounts due or to become due on all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all
amounts due or to become due on all Senior Indebtedness in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness. 

For purposes of this Article 4, the words “cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed (so long as the effect of any exclusion
employing this definition is not to cause the Debentures to be treated in any Proceeding as a part of the same class of claims as the Senior Indebtedness or any class of claims pari passu with, or senior to the Senior Indebtedness) to include shares
of stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other Person provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article 4
with respect to the Debentures to the payment of Senior Indebtedness that may at the time be outstanding, provided that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new Person, if any, resulting from any such reorganization or
readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company with
or into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person upon the terms and conditions provided
for in Section 6.04 of the Base Indenture shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section 4.4 if such other Person shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment,
transfer, lease or conveyance, comply with the conditions stated in Section 6.04 of the Base Indenture. 

  
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 Section 4.5. Subrogation. Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to
become due on all Senior Indebtedness to the extent provided herein or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the Holders of the
Debentures shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company, as the case may be, made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Article 4 (equally and ratably with the holders of all Indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to Senior Indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Debentures
are subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like rights of subrogation by reason of payments or distributions made to holders of such Senior Indebtedness) until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debentures
shall be paid in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Debentures or the Trustee would be entitled
except for the provisions of this Article 4, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this Article 4 to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Debentures or the Trustee, shall, as between the
Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the Holders of the Debentures, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of such Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of this
Article 4 are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Debentures, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. 

Nothing contained in this Article 4 or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Debentures is intended to or shall impair, as between the
Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the Holders of the Debentures, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Debentures the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Debentures as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the Debentures and creditors of the Company, as
the case may be, other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, as the case may be, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Debenture from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable
law upon default under the Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article 4 of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company, as the case may be, received upon the exercise of any
such remedy nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the application by the Trustee of any moneys or assets deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the
Debentures, unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received at its Corporate Trust Office written notice of any fact prohibiting the making of such payment from the Company or from the holder of any Senior Indebtedness or from the
trustee for any such holder, together with proof satisfactory to the Trustee of such holding of Senior Indebtedness or of the authority of such trustee more than two Business Days prior to the date fixed for such payment. 

  
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 Section 4.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. Each Holder of the Debentures by
such Holder’s acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder’s behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article 4 and appoints the Trustee such
Holder’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. 
 Section 4.7. Notice by the Company. The Company shall give
prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Debentures pursuant to the
provisions of this Article 4; provided that any failure by the Company to give such notice shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article 4 or any other provision of the Indenture, the Trustee
shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Debentures pursuant to the provisions of this Article 4, unless and until a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Article 4, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided that if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section 4.7 at least two Business Days
prior to the date (i) upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Debenture), or (ii) money and/or U.S.
Government Obligations are deposited in trust pursuant to Article XII of the Base Indenture then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such money and U.S. Government
Obligations and to apply the same to the purposes for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it within two Business Days prior to such date. 

The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article XI of the Base Indenture, shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the delivery to it of a
written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness of the Company (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of such Senior Indebtedness or a
trustee or representative on behalf of any such holder or holders. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such Senior Indebtedness to
participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article 4, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent
to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article 4, and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment. 

  
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 Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article 4, the
Trustee and the Holders of the Debentures shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution,
winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, custodian, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other person making such payment or distribution, delivered
to the Trustee or to the Holders of the Debentures, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article 4. 

Section 4.8. Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article 4 in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in the Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its
rights as such holder. 
 With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only
such of its covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article 4, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read into the Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall
not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the provisions of Article XI of the Base Indenture, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder of Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to
Holders of the Debentures, the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article 4 or otherwise. 

Nothing in this Article 4 shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.05 or Section 11.01
of the Base Indenture. 
 Section 4.9. Subordination May Not Be Impaired. No right of any present or future holder of any
Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by
any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of the Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with. 

Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to
time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Debentures, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Debentures and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article 4 or the
obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Debentures to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, such Senior
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Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing such Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any
Person liable in any manner for the collection of such Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person. 

Section 4.10. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been
appointed by the Company and then be acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this Article 4 shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meanings
as fully and for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this article in addition to or in place of the Trustee. 

ARTICLE 5 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Section 5.1. Trust Indenture Act Controls. If and to the extent that any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture limits,
qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or another provision included in this First Supplemental Indenture which is required to be included in this First Supplemental Indenture by any of the provisions of Sections 310 to 318, inclusive,
of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control. 
 Section 5.2. Governing Law. This
First Supplemental Indenture and the Debentures shall be deemed to be contracts made under the law of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York. 

Section 5.3. Counterparts. This First Supplemental Indenture 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. 

Section 5.4. Severability. In case any provision in this First Supplemental Indenture or in the Debentures shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 

Section 5.5. Ratification. The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this First Supplemental Indenture, is in all
respects ratified and confirmed. The Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument. All provisions included in this First Supplemental Indenture supersede any conflicting provisions included in the Base Indenture unless
not permitted by law. The Trustee accepts the trusts created by the Indenture, and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions of the Indenture. 

Section 5.6. Effectiveness. The provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture shall become effective as of the date hereof. 

  
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 Section 5.7. Trustee Makes No Representation. The recitals contained herein are made
by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture. All rights, protections,
privileges, indemnities, immunities and benefits granted or afforded to the Trustee under the Indenture shall be deemed incorporated herein by this reference and shall be deemed applicable to all actions taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee in
each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act under this First Supplemental Indenture. 

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly
executed as of the date first above written. 
  

			
	KEMPER CORPORATION
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Christopher L. Moses

		 	Name: Christopher L. Moses
		 	Title: Vice President and Treasurer
	
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Michael Countryman

		 	Name: Michael Countryman
		 	Title: Vice President

 EXHIBIT A 

[THIS DEBENTURE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY
(AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE) OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND,
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE
DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.]1 

[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION
(“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY (AS DEFINED BELOW) OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]2 

KEMPER CORPORATION 
 7.375%
Subordinated Debentures due 2054 
  

									
	No.	 		 		 		  	Principal Amount
	CUSIP No.	 		 		 		  	$

 Kemper Corporation, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”, which term includes
any successor Person under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of
                     United States Dollars, subject to increase or decrease as set forth in 

 

	1 	This legend to be included if the Debenture is a Global Debenture. 

	2 	To be included if the Debenture is a Global Debenture for which the Depositary is The Depository Trust Company, unless such Depositary requires a different legend or otherwise does not require this legend.

  
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the attached Schedule, on February 27, 2054 and to pay interest thereon from February 27, 2014 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, quarterly in arrears on February 27, May 27, August 27 and November 27 in each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning May 27, 2014, subject to the Company’s right to defer
the payment of interest on the Debentures in accordance with said Indenture, at the rate of 7.375% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly made available for payment. The interest so payable and punctually paid or duly provided
for on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such interest, which
shall be the February 12, May 12, August 12 or November 12 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. However, interest paid at Maturity shall be paid to the Person
to whom the principal will be payable. 
 Any interest on this Debenture that is payable but is not punctually paid or duly provided for on
any Interest Payment Date shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder hereof on the relevant Record Date by virtue of his, her or its having been such Holder, and may be paid by the Company, at its election (i) to the Person in whose name
this Debenture (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of the Debentures not less than 10 calendar days prior to such
Special Record Date, or (ii) in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Debentures may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture. 
 Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and the interest on this Debenture shall be made at the
office of the Paying Agent, in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts, provided that, at the option of the Company, payment of the interest on this
Debenture may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Register or, in accordance with arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee, by wire transfer to an account designated by the Holder
[; and provided further that all payments of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Debenture shall be made in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary for this Debenture]3. 
 This Debenture is one of the duly authorized series of Securities of the Company,
designated as the Company’s “7.375% Subordinated Debentures due 2054”, initially limited to an aggregate principal amount of $150,000,000, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture (the “Base Indenture”),
dated as of February 27, 2014, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (hereinafter referred to as the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of
February 27, 2014 (the “First Supplemental 
  

	3 	To be included if the Debenture is a Global Debenture. 

  
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Indenture”, and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a description of the respective rights, limitation of rights,
obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Debentures. The Company may from time to time following the issuance of the Initial Debentures, without consent of the Holders of Debentures, issue
Additional Debentures under and pursuant to the Indenture, and the aggregate principal amount of Additional Debentures that may be authenticated and delivered under and pursuant to the Indenture is unlimited; provided, however, that no Additional
Debentures may be issued unless the Additional Debentures are fungible with the Debentures for U.S. federal income tax purposes or issued with a different CUSIP number. 

This Debenture is an unsecured obligation of the Company and is subordinated to all Senior Indebtedness of the Company in the manner set forth
in the Indenture. 
 Subject to, and in accordance with, the Indenture, the Company has the right, at any time and from time to time, to
defer the payment of interest on the Debentures. 
 The Company may redeem the Debentures in the manner and under the circumstances set
forth in the Indenture. 
 If an Event of Default with respect to the Debentures shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the
Debentures may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. 
 The Indenture permits, with
certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Debentures under the Indenture from time to time and at any time by the Company and
the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Debentures. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Debentures at
the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Debentures, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Holder of this Debenture shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and every subsequent Holder of this Debenture and of any Debenture issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in place hereof, even if notation of such consent
or waiver is not made upon any such Debenture. 
 Nothing in the Indenture or this Debenture shall affect or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Debenture to the Holder of this Debenture at the respective due dates herein stated, subject to the Company’s right to defer the
payment of interest on the Debentures in accordance with the Indenture, or affect or impair the right, which is also absolute and unconditional, of such Holder to institute suit to enforce the payment thereof. 

  
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 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer
of this Debenture may be registered in the Register, upon surrender of this Debenture for registration of transfer at the Registrar, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company, the Trustee and the Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or by such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Debentures for like aggregate principal amount of any authorized denomination or
denominations shall be executed, authenticated and delivered in the name of the designated transferee. 
 The Debentures are issuable only
in registered form without coupons in denominations of $25 and multiples of $25 in excess thereof. Subject to certain limitations therein set forth in the Indenture and in this Debenture, the Debentures are exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Debentures in different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holders surrendering the same. 
 No service
charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Debenture, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of a Debenture, other than in certain cases expressly provided in the Indenture. 
 Prior to
the due presentation of this Debenture for registration of transfer or exchange, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar, any co-Registrar or any of their agents shall deem and treat the Person in whose name this Debenture is
registered as the absolute owner hereof (whether or not this Debenture shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon) for all purposes whatsoever, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the
Registrar, any co-Registrar or any of their agents shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. 
 The Indenture contains provisions
whereby (i) the Company may be discharged from its obligations with respect to the Debentures (subject to certain exceptions) or (ii) the Company may be released from its obligations under specified covenants and agreements in the
Indenture, in each case if the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all Debentures of this series, and satisfies certain other conditions, all
as more fully provided in the Indenture. 
 This Debenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the law of the State of New York, and
for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York. 
 All terms used in this Debenture
which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication
hereon has been executed by or on behalf of the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, this Debenture shall not be entitled, and shall not entitle the Holder hereof, to any benefits under the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. 

 

			
	KEMPER CORPORATION
		
	By:	 	  

		 	Name:
		 	Title:

  

  
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 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 

Date of authentication: 
  

			
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
TRUST COMPANY, N.A, as Trustee
		
	By:	 	  

		 	Authorized Signatory

  
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 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
                                         

 
  

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of Assignee) 

the within Debenture of KEMPER CORPORATION and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
                                         attorney
to transfer the said Debenture on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

					
	Dated:                                     
                                    	 		 	                                      
                                         
       
		 		 	(Signature)

 NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within
instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. 

  
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 Kemper Corporation 

7.375% Subordinated Debentures due 2054 
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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL DEBENTURE 

The following increases or decreases in this Global Debenture have been made: 

 

									
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	  	 Amount of increase in

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 Global
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Global Debenture following
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decrease or increase
	  	 Signature of authorized

signatory of Trustee or
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Custodian

  
 A-8EX-4.1

 Exhibit 4.1 
  

SUNLINK HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC. 

AND 
 AMERICAN STOCK
TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC 
 SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT 

Dated as of February 10, 2014 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
	 Section
	 	 	  	 Page
	 
	1.	 	 CertainDefinitions
	  	 	1	  
	2.	 	 Appointment of Rights Agent
	  	 	5	  
	3.	 	 Issuance of Rights Certificates
	  	 	5	  
	4.	 	 Form of Rights Certificates
	  	 	7	  
	5.	 	 Countersignature and Registration
	  	 	8	  
	6.	 	 Transfer, Split-up, Combination and Exchange of Rights Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Rights Certificates
	  	 	9	  
	7.	 	 Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights
	  	 	9	  
	8.	 	 Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates
	  	 	11	  
	9.	 	 Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock
	  	 	12	  
	10.	 	 Preferred Shares Record Date
	  	 	13	  
	11.	 	 Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights
	  	 	13	  
	12.	 	 Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares
	  	 	21	  
	13.	 	 Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power
	  	 	21	  
	14.	 	 Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares
	  	 	23	  
	15.	 	 Rights of Action
	  	 	24	  
	16.	 	 Agreement of Rights Holders
	  	 	24	  
	17.	 	 Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder
	  	 	25	  
	18.	 	 Concerning the Rights Agent
	  	 	25	  
	19.	 	 Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent
	  	 	26	  
	20.	 	 Duties of Rights Agent
	  	 	26	  
	21.	 	 Change of Rights Agent
	  	 	29	  
	22.	 	 Issuance of New Rights Certificates
	  	 	30	  
	23.	 	 Redemption and Termination
	  	 	30	  
	24.	 	 Notice of Certain Events
	  	 	31	  
	25.	 	 Notices
	  	 	31	  
	26.	 	 Supplements and Amendments
	  	 	32	  
	27.	 	 Successors
	  	 	33	  
	28.	 	 Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, Etc.
	  	 	33	  
	29.	 	 Benefits of This Agreement
	  	 	33	  
	30.	 	 Severability
	  	 	33	  
	31.	 	 Governing Law
	  	 	34	  
	32.	 	 Counterparts
	  	 	34	  
	33.	 	 Descriptive Headings
	  	 	34	  
	Exhibit A — Form of Amended Articles of Incorporation	  			
	Exhibit B — Form of Rights Certificate	  			

  
  
  

  
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 SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT 

This SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of February 10, 2014 (this “Agreement”), is entered into between SunLink Health
Systems, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, a limited liability trust company (the “Rights Agent”). 

WITNESSETH: 
 WHEREAS, on
February 10, 2014 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”), the Board of Directors of the Company authorized and declared a dividend distribution of one Right for each Common Share (as hereinafter defined) of the Company outstanding
at the close of business on February 10, 2014 (the “Record Date”), and has authorized the issuance of one Right (as such number may hereinafter be adjusted pursuant to the provisions of Section 11(o) hereof) for each Common Share
of the Company issued between the Record Date (whether originally issued or delivered from the Company’s treasury) and the Distribution Date (as hereinafter defined), each Right representing the right to purchase one one-hundredth of a
Series A Voting Preferred Share of the Company having the rights, powers and preferences set forth in the form of Amended Articles of Incorporation of the Company attached hereto as Exhibit A, upon the terms and subject to the conditions
hereinafter set forth (the “Rights”); 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements herein set
forth, the parties hereby agree as follows: 
 Section 1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following
terms have the meanings indicated: 
 (a) “Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933. 

(b) “Acquiring Person” shall mean any Person who or which, together with all Affiliates and Associates of such
Person, shall become, at any time after the date of this Rights Agreement (whether or not such status continues for any period), the Beneficial Owner of Common Shares representing 20% or more of the Common Shares then outstanding. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, (A) the term “Acquiring Person” shall not include the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or any entity holding Common Shares for or
pursuant to the terms of any such plan, (B) no Person shall be deemed to be an “Acquiring Person” either (X) as a result of the acquisition of Common Shares by the Company that, by reducing the number of Common Shares
outstanding, increases the percentage of shares beneficially owned by such Person together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person; except that if (i) a Person would become an Acquiring Person (but for the operation of this subclause
(X)) as a result of the acquisition of Common Shares by the Company, and (ii) after such share acquisition by the Company, such Person, or an Affiliate or Associate of such Person, becomes the Beneficial Owner of an additional number of Common
Shares equal to one percent of the number of Common Shares outstanding on the date immediately following the date on which the Person first 

 
became the beneficial owner of 20% of the outstanding Common Shares, then such Person shall be deemed an Acquiring Person, or (Y) if (i) such Person, or an Affiliate or Associate of
such Person, inadvertently becomes the Beneficial Owner of 20% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, (ii) within eight days thereafter such Person notifies the Board of Directors that such Person did so inadvertently, and (iii) within
two days after such notification, such Person is the Beneficial Owner of less than 20% of the outstanding Common Shares and (C) a Person engaged in business as an underwriter of securities shall not be deemed to be an “Acquiring
Person” as a result of such Person participating in good faith in a firm commitment underwriting unless such Person is the Beneficial Owner of such securities upon the expiration of 40 days after the commencement of such underwriting. 

(c) “Adjustment Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii) hereof. 

(d) “Affiliate” and “Associate” shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in
Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and in effect on the date of this Agreement. 

(e) A Person shall be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, and shall be deemed to “beneficially own,” any
securities: 
 (i) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or indirectly, has the
right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights,
rights, warrants or options, or otherwise; provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, or to “beneficially own,” (A) securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by such
Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange, or (B) securities issuable upon exercise of Rights at any time prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event, or
(C) securities issuable upon exercise of Rights from and after the occurrence of a Triggering Event which Rights were acquired by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates prior to the Distribution Date or pursuant to
Section 3(a) or Section 22 hereof (the “Original Rights”) or pursuant to Section 11(a)(i) hereof in connection with an adjustment made with respect to any Original Rights; 

(ii) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or indirectly, has the right to vote or
dispose of or has “beneficial ownership” of (as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date of this Agreement), including pursuant to any agreement,
arrangement or understanding, whether or not in writing; provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the 

  
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“Beneficial Owner” of, or to “beneficially own,” any security under this subparagraph (ii) as a result of an agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such security
if such agreement, arrangement or understanding: (A) arises solely from a revocable proxy given in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of the General Rules and
Regulations under the Exchange Act, and (B) is not also then reportable by such Person on Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report); or 

(iii) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person (or any Affiliate or Associate thereof) with
which such Person (or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing), to act together for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except pursuant to a revocable
proxy as described in the proviso to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph (e)) or disposing of any voting securities of the Company; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph (e) shall cause a person engaged in business as an
underwriter of securities to be the “Beneficial Owner” of, or to “beneficially own,” any securities acquired through such person’s participation in good faith in a firm commitment underwriting until the expiration of forty
days after the date of such acquisition. 
 Notwithstanding anything in this definition of Beneficial Ownership to the contrary, no Person shall be deemed
to be the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, any security Beneficially Owned by another Person solely by reason of any agreement, arrangement or understanding with such other Person relating to the solicitation of revocable proxies made
pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act, provided that such other Person retains the right at any time to withdraw from, revoke or terminate any such agreement,
arrangement or understanding and further provided that such Persons would not otherwise be deemed to be a group under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise be deemed to be acting in concert. 

(f) “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the
States of New York and Georgia are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 
 (g) “Close of
business” on any given date shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York, New York time, on such date; provided however, that if such date is not a Business Day it shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York, New York time, on the next succeeding Business Day.

 (h) “Common Shares,” each a “Common Share,” shall mean the common shares, no par value, of the
Company, except that “Common Shares” when used with reference to any Person other than the Company shall mean the capital stock of such Person with the greatest aggregate voting power, or the equity securities or other equity interest
having power to control or direct the management, of such Person. 

  
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 (i) “Current market price” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 11(d)(i) hereof. 
 (j) “Current Value” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii)
hereof. 
 (k) “Distribution Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) hereof. 

(l) “Exchange Act” shall have the meaning set forth in Section l(d) hereof. 

(m) “Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a) hereof. 

(n) “Final Expiration Date” shall mean the close of business on February 9, 2021. 

(o) “Original Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in Section l(e)(i) hereof. 

(p) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity. 

(q) “Preferred Shares,” each a “Preferred Share,” shall mean shares of Series A Voting Preferred
Shares, no par value, of the Company and, to the extent that there is not a sufficient number of Series A Voting Preferred Shares authorized to permit the full exercise of the Rights, any other series of Preferred Shares, no par value, of the
Company designated for such purpose containing terms substantially similar to the terms of the Series A Voting Preferred Shares. 

(r) “Preferred share equivalents” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii) hereof. 

(s) “Principal Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(b) hereof. 

(t) “Purchase Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof. 

(u) “Record Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the WHEREAS clause at the beginning of this Agreement. 

(v) “Redemption Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 23(a) hereof. 

(w) “Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in the WHEREAS clause at the beginning of this Agreement. 

(x) “Rights Certificates” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) hereof. 

(y) “Rights Dividend Declaration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) hereof. 

  
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 (z) “Section 11(a)(ii) Event” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 11(a)(ii) hereof. 
 (aa) “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 11(a)(iii) hereof. 
 (bb) “Section 13 Event” shall mean any event described in clause (x), (y)
or (z) of Section 13(a) hereof. 
 (cc) “Spread” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii)
hereof. 
 (dd) “Share Acquisition Date” shall mean the first date of a public announcement (which, for purposes of
this definition, shall include, without limitation, a report filed pursuant to Section 13(d) under the Exchange Act) by the Company or an Acquiring Person that an Acquiring Person has become such; provided, that, if such Person is determined
not to have become an Acquiring Person pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof, then no Share Acquisition Date shall be deemed to occur. 

(ee) “Subsidiary” shall mean, with reference to any Person, any corporation or financial institution of which an
amount of voting securities sufficient to elect at least a majority of the directors of such corporation or financial institution is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person, or otherwise controlled by such Person. 

(ff) “Trading Day” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d)(i) hereof. 

(gg) “Triggering Event” shall mean any Section 11(a)(ii) Event or any Section 13 Event. 

Section 2. Appointment of Rights Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Rights Agent to act as agent for the Company and the
holders of the Rights (who, in accordance with Section 3 hereof, shall prior to the Distribution Date also be the holders of the Common Shares) in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, and the Rights Agent hereby accepts such
appointment. The Company may from time to time appoint such Co-Rights Agents as it may deem necessary or desirable. The Rights Agent shall have no duty to supervise, and shall in no event be liable for, the acts or omissions of any such Co-Rights
Agent. In the event the Company appoints one or more Co-Rights Agents, the respective duties of the Rights Agents and any Co-Rights Agents will be as the Company may determine. 

Section 3. Issuance of Rights Certificates. 

(a) Until the earlier of (i) the close of business on the tenth business day after the Share Acquisition Date,
(ii) the close of business on the date that an Acquiring Person becomes the beneficial owner of 35% or more of the then outstanding Common Shares, or (ii) the close of business on the tenth business day after the date that a tender or
exchange offer by any Person (other than the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the Company, or any 

  
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Person or entity organized, appointed or established by the Company for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan) that, if consummated, would result in such Person being an Acquiring Person is
first published or sent or given within the meaning of Rule 14d-2(a) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof (the earlier of (i), (ii) or (iii) being herein referred to as the
“Distribution Date”), (x) the Rights will be evidenced (subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section 3) by the certificates for the Common Shares registered in the names of the holders of the Common Shares
(which certificates for Common Shares shall be deemed also to be certificates for Rights) and not by separate certificates, and (y) the Rights will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of the underlying Common Shares (including
a transfer to the Company). As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will send by first-class, insured, postage prepaid mail, to each record holder of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution
Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company, one or more rights certificates, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto (the “Rights Certificates”), evidencing one Right for each of the Common
Shares so held, subject to adjustment as provided herein. In the event that an adjustment in the number of Rights per Common Share has been made pursuant to Section 11(o) hereof, at the time of distribution of the Rights Certificates, the
Company shall make the necessary and appropriate rounding adjustments (in accordance with Section 14(a) hereof) so that Rights Certificates representing only whole numbers of Rights are distributed and cash is paid in lieu of any fractional
Rights. As of and after the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced solely by such Rights Certificates. 
 (b) As
promptly as practicable following the Record Date, the Company will send a copy of a Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares by first-class, postage prepaid mail, to each record holder of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the
Record Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company. With respect to certificates for the Common Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced by such certificates for
the Common Shares and the registered holders of the Common Shares shall also be the registered holders of the associated Rights. Until the earlier of the Distribution Date or the Expiration Date the transfer of any certificates representing Common
Shares in respect of which Rights have been issued shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with such Common Shares. 

(c) Rights shall be issued in respect of all Common Shares which are issued after the Record Date but prior to the earlier of
the Distribution Date or the Expiration Date. Certificates representing such Common Shares shall also be deemed to be certificates for Rights, and shall bear the following legend: 

This certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as set forth in the Shareholder Rights Agreement between
SunLink Health Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (the “Rights Agent”) dated as of February 10, 2014 (the “Rights Agreement”), the terms of which are hereby
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herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal offices of the Company. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such Rights will be evidenced by
separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by this certificate. The Company will mail to the holder of this certificate a copy of the Rights Agreement, as in effect on the date of mailing, without charge promptly after receipt of a
written request therefor. Under certain circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights issued to, or held by, any Person who is, was or becomes an Acquiring Person or any Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the
Rights Agreement), whether currently held by or on behalf of such Person or by any subsequent holder, may become null and void. 
 With
respect to such certificates containing the foregoing legend, until the earlier of (i) the Distribution Date or (ii) the Expiration Date, the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificates shall be evidenced by
such certificates alone and registered holders of Common Shares shall also be the registered holders of the associated Rights, and the transfer of any of such certificates shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common
Shares represented by such certificates. 
 Section 4. Form of Rights Certificates. 

(a) The Rights Certificates (and the forms of election to purchase and of assignment to be printed on the reverse thereof)
shall each be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto and may have such marks of identification or designation and such legends, summaries or endorsements printed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Rights may from time
to time be listed, or to conform to usage. Subject to the provisions of Section 11 and Section 22 hereof, the Rights Certificates, whenever distributed, shall be dated as of the Record Date and on their face shall entitle the holders
thereof to purchase such number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share as shall be set forth therein at the price set forth therein (such exercise price per one one-hundredth of a share, the “Purchase Price”), but the amount and type
of securities purchasable upon the exercise of each Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment as provided herein. 

(b) Any Rights Certificate issued pursuant to Section 3(a) or Section 22 hereof that represents Rights beneficially
owned by any Person known to be: (i) an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person; (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after the Acquiring
Person becomes such; or (iii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with the Acquiring Person becoming such and receives such Rights pursuant to either
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transfer (whether or not for consideration) from the Acquiring Person (or from any such Associate or Affiliate) to holders of equity interests in such Acquiring Person (or in any such Associate
or Affiliate) or to any Person with whom such Acquiring Person (or any such Associate or Affiliate) has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board of Directors of
the Company has determined is part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect avoidance of Section 7(e) hereof, and any Rights Certificate issued pursuant to Section 6 or Section 11 hereof upon
transfer, exchange, replacement or adjustment of any other Rights Certificate referred to in this sentence, shall when issued contain (to the extent feasible in the circumstances) the following legend, modified as applicable to apply to such Person:

 The Rights represented by this Rights Certificate are or were beneficially owned by a Person who was or became an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). Accordingly, this Rights Certificate and the Rights represented hereby may become null and void in the circumstances specified in Section 7(e) of
such Agreement. 
 Section 5. Countersignature and Registration. 

(a) The Rights Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President, Chief
Executive Officer or any Vice President, either manually or by facsimile signature, and shall have affixed thereto the Company’s seal or a facsimile thereof which shall be attested by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, either manually or by facsimile signature. The Rights Certificates shall be manually countersigned by the Rights Agent and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. In case any officer of
the Company who shall have signed any of the Rights Certificates shall cease to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by the Rights Agent and issuance and delivery by the Company, such Rights Certificates, nevertheless, may be
countersigned by the Rights Agent and issued and delivered by the Company with the same force and effect as though the person who signed such Rights Certificates had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Rights Certificates may be
signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual date of the execution of such Rights Certificate, shall be a proper officer of the Company to sign such Rights Certificate, although at the date of the execution of this Rights
Agreement any such person was not such an officer. 
 (b) Following the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will keep or
cause to be kept, at its office designated as the appropriate place for surrender of Rights Certificates upon exercise or transfer, books for registration and transfer of the Rights Certificates issued hereunder. Such books shall show the names and
addresses of the respective holders of the Rights Certificates, the number of Rights evidenced on its face by each of the Rights Certificates and the certificate number and the date of each of the Rights Certificates. 

  
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 Section 6. Transfer, Split-up, Combination and Exchange of Rights Certificates;
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Rights Certificates. 
 (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b),
Section 7(e) and Section 14 hereof, at any time after the close of business on the Distribution Date, and at or prior to the close of business on the Expiration Date, any Rights Certificate or Certificates may be transferred, split up,
combined or exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Certificates, entitling the registered holder to purchase a like number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share (or other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) as the Rights
Certificate or Certificates surrendered then entitled such holder (or former holder in the case of a transfer) to purchase. Any registered holder desiring to transfer, split up, combine or exchange any Rights Certificate or Certificates shall make
such request in writing delivered to the Rights Agent, and shall surrender the Rights Certificate or Certificates to be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose. Neither the Rights
Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to take any action whatsoever with respect to the transfer of any such surrendered Rights Certificate until the registered holder shall have completed and signed the certificate contained in the Form of
Assignment on the reverse side of such Rights Certificate and shall have provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner or former Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably
request. Thereupon the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 4(b), Section 7(e) and Section 14 hereof, countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto a Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates, as the case may be, as so
requested. The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, split-up, combination or exchange of Rights Certificates. 

(b) Upon receipt by the Company and the Rights Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to them of the loss, theft,
destruction or mutilation of a Rights Certificate, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to them, and reimbursement to the Company and the Rights Agent of all reasonable expenses incidental
thereto, and upon surrender to the Rights Agent and cancellation of the Rights Certificate if mutilated, the Company will execute and deliver a new Rights Certificate of like tenor to the Rights Agent for countersignature and delivery to the
registered owner in lieu of the Rights Certificate so lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated. 
 Section 7. Exercise of Rights;
Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights. 
 (a) Subject to Section 7(e) hereof, the registered holder of any
Rights Certificate may exercise the Rights evidenced thereby (except as otherwise provided herein including, without limitation, the restrictions on exercisability set forth in Section 9(b), Section 11(a)(iii) and Section 23(a)
hereof) in whole or in part at any time after the Distribution Date upon surrender of the Rights Certificate, with the Form of Election to Purchase and the Certificate on the reverse side thereof duly executed, to the Rights Agent at the office of
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payment of the aggregate Purchase Price with respect to the total number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share (or other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) as to which
such surrendered Rights are then exercisable, prior to the earlier of (i) the Final Expiration Date, or (ii) the time at which the Rights are redeemed as provided in Section 23 hereof (the earlier of (i) and (ii) being
herein referred to as the “Expiration Date”). 
 (b) The Purchase Price for each one one-hundredth of a Preferred
Share pursuant to the exercise of a Right shall initially be $7.50 and shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Sections 11 and 13(a) hereof and shall be payable in accordance with paragraph (c) below. 

(c) Upon receipt of a Rights Certificate representing exercisable Rights, with the Form of Election to Purchase and the
Certificate duly executed, accompanied by payment, with respect to each Right so exercised, of the Purchase Price per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (or other shares, securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) to be purchased as
set forth below and an amount equal to any applicable transfer tax, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 20(k) hereof, thereupon promptly (i)(A) requisition from any transfer agent of the Preferred Shares (or make available, if the
Rights Agent is the transfer agent for such shares) certificates for the total number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share to be purchased and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes its transfer agent to comply with all such requests, or
(B) if the Company shall have elected to deposit the total number of Preferred Shares issuable upon exercise of the Rights hereunder with a depositary agent, requisition from the depositary agent depositary receipts representing such number of
one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share as are to be purchased (in which case certificates for the Preferred Shares represented by such receipts shall be deposited by the transfer agent with the depositary agent) and the Company will direct the
depositary agent to comply with such request, (ii) requisition from the Company the amount of cash, if any, to be paid in lieu of fractional shares in accordance with Section 14 hereof, (iii) after receipt of such certificates or
depositary receipts, cause the same to be delivered to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Rights Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such holder, and (iv) after receipt thereof, deliver such
cash, if any, to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Rights Certificate. The payment of the Purchase Price (as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 11(a)(iii) hereof) may be made in cash or by certified bank check or
money order payable to the order of the Company. In the event that the Company is obligated to issue other securities of the Company, pay cash or distribute other property pursuant to Section 11(a) hereof, the Company will make all arrangements
necessary so that such other securities, cash or other property are available for distribution by the Rights Agent, if and when appropriate. 

(d) In case the registered holder of any Rights Certificate shall exercise less than all the Rights evidenced thereby, a new
Rights Certificate evidencing Rights equivalent to the Rights remaining unexercised shall be issued by the Rights Agent and delivered to, or upon the order of, the registered holder of such Rights Certificate, registered in such name or names as may
be designated by such holder, subject to the provisions of Section 14 hereof. 

  
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 (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, from and after
the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, any Rights beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person, (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or
Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after the Acquiring Person becomes such, or (iii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with the Acquiring Person
becoming such and receives such Rights pursuant to either (A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from the Acquiring Person (or from any such Associate or Affiliate) to holders of equity interests in such Acquiring Person (or in any
such Associate or Affiliate) or to any Person with whom the Acquiring Person (or any such Associate or Affiliate) has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board of
Directors of the Company has determined (whether before or after such transfer) is part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect the avoidance of this Section 7(e), shall become null and void without any
further action and no holder of such Rights shall have any rights whatsoever with respect to such Rights, whether under any provision of this Agreement or otherwise. The Company shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the provisions of this
Section 7(e) and Section 4(b) hereof are complied with, but shall have no liability to any holder of Rights Certificates or other Person as a result of its failure to make any determinations with respect to an Acquiring Person or any of
its respective Affiliates, Associates or transferees hereunder. 
 (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to undertake any action with respect to a registered holder upon the occurrence of any purported exercise as set forth in this Section 7 unless such registered holder shall
have (i) completed and signed the certificate contained in the Form of Election to Purchase set forth on the reverse side of the Rights Certificate surrendered for such exercise, and (ii) provided such additional evidence of the identity
of the Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably request. 

Section 8. Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates. All Rights Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise,
transfer, split-up, combination or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or any of its agents, be delivered to the Rights Agent for cancellation or in cancelled form, or, if surrendered to the Rights Agent, shall be cancelled by it, and no
Rights Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Company shall deliver to the Rights Agent for cancellation, and the Rights Agent shall so cancel, any other Rights
Certificate purchased or acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the exercise thereof. The Rights Agent shall deliver all cancelled Rights Certificates to the Company, or shall, at the written request of the Company, destroy such cancelled
Rights Certificates, and in such case shall deliver a certificate of destruction thereof to the Company. 

  
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 Section 9. Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock. 

(a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued
Preferred Shares, the number of Preferred Shares that, as provided in this Agreement, including Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights, provided that, prior to the occurrence of a
Triggering Event, the number of such shares to be reserved shall be only that number as shall be sufficient for that purpose prior to such an event. 

(b) The Company shall use its best efforts to (i) file, as soon as practicable following the earliest date after the first
occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event on which the consideration to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of the Rights has been determined in accordance with Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, or as soon as is required by law following the
Distribution Date, as the case may be, a registration statement under the Act, with respect to the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on an appropriate form, (ii) cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as
practicable after such filing, and (iii) cause such registration statement to remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the Act) until the earlier of (A) the date as of which the Rights are no longer
exercisable for such securities, and (B) the date of the expiration of the Rights. The Company will also take such action as may be appropriate under, or to ensure compliance with, the securities or “blue sky” laws of the various
states in connection with the exercisability of the Rights. The Company may temporarily suspend, for a period of time not to exceed ninety (90) days after the date set forth in clause (i) of the first sentence of this Section 9(b),
the exercisability of the Rights in order to prepare and file such registration statement and permit it to become effective. Upon any such suspension, the Company shall issue a public announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has
been temporarily suspended, as well as a public announcement at such time as the suspension is no longer in effect. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable in any jurisdiction, unless the
requisite qualification in such jurisdiction shall have been obtained and until a registration statement has been declared effective. 

(c) The Company covenants and agrees that it will take all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all one
one-hundredths of a Preferred Share delivered upon exercise of Rights shall, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such shares (subject to payment of the Purchase Price), be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and
non-assessable. 
 (d) The Company further covenants and agrees that it will pay when due and payable any and all federal and
state transfer taxes and charges which may be payable in respect of the issuance or delivery of the Rights Certificates and of any certificates for a number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may be) upon
the exercise of Rights. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any transfer tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer or delivery of Rights Certificates to a Person other than, or the issuance or delivery of a number of one
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name other than that of, the registered holder of the Rights Certificates evidencing Rights surrendered for exercise or to issue or deliver any certificates for a number of one one-hundredths of
a Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may be) in a name other than that of the registered holder upon the exercise of any Rights until such tax shall have been paid (any such tax being payable by the holder of such Rights Certificate
at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s satisfaction that no such tax is due. 

Section 10. Preferred Share Record Date. Each person in whose name any certificate for a number of one one-hundredths of a
Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may be) is issued upon the exercise of Rights shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of such fractional Preferred Shares (or other securities, as the case may be)
represented thereby on, and such certificate shall be dated, the date upon which the Rights Certificate evidencing such Rights was duly surrendered and payment of the Purchase Price (and all applicable transfer taxes) was made; provided, however,
that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may be) transfer books of the Company are closed, such Person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such shares
(fractional or otherwise) on, and such certificate shall be dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which the Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may be) transfer books of the Company are open. Prior to the exercise of the Rights
evidenced thereby, the holder of a Rights Certificate, as such, shall not be entitled to any rights of a shareholder of the Company with respect to shares for which the Rights shall be exercisable, including, without limitation, the right to vote,
to receive dividends or other distributions or to exercise any preemptive rights, and shall not be entitled to receive any notice of any proceedings of the Company, except as provided herein. 

Section 11. Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights. 

(a) The Purchase Price, the number and kind of shares covered by each Right and the number of Rights outstanding are subject to
adjustment from time to time as provided in this Section 11. 
 (i) In the event the Company shall at any time after the
date of this Agreement (A) declare a dividend on the Preferred Shares payable in Preferred Shares, (B) subdivide the outstanding Preferred Shares, (C) combine the outstanding Preferred Shares into a smaller number of shares, or
(D) issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the Preferred Shares (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), except
as otherwise provided in this Section 11(a) and Section 7(e) hereof, the Purchase Price in effect at the time of the record date for such dividend or of the effective date of such subdivision, combination or reclassification, and the
number and kind of Preferred Shares or capital stock, as the case may be, issuable on such date, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the holder of any Right exercised after such time shall be entitled to receive, upon payment of the Purchase
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aggregate number and kind of Preferred Shares or capital stock, as the case may be, which, if such Right had been exercised immediately prior to such date and at a time when the Preferred Share
transfer books of the Company were open, he would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification. If an event occurs which would require an adjustment under both
this Section 11(a)(i) and Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, the adjustment provided for in this Section 11(a)(i) shall be in addition to, and shall be made prior to, any adjustment required pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) hereof. 

(ii) A Section 11(a)(ii) Event shall be deemed to occur in the event any Person, alone or together with its Affiliates and
Associates, shall, at any time after the Rights Dividend Declaration Date, become an Acquiring Person, unless the event causing such Person to become an Acquiring Person is a transaction set forth in Section 13(a) hereof. 

Promptly following the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, proper provision shall be made so that each holder
of a Right (except as provided below and in Section 7(e) hereof) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of such number of one
one-hundredths of a Preferred Share covered by each Right immediately prior to the Section 11(a)(ii) event, such number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share as shall equal the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then-current
Purchase Price by the then-number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, and (y) dividing that product (which, following such
first occurrence, shall thereafter be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all purposes of this Agreement) by 50% of the current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per Common Share on the
date of such first occurrence (such number of shares, the “Adjustment Shares”). 
 (iii) In the event that the
number of Preferred Shares which are authorized by the Company’s Articles of Incorporation but not outstanding or reserved for issuance for purposes other than upon exercise of the Rights are not sufficient to permit the exercise in full of the
Rights in accordance with the foregoing subparagraph (ii) of this Section 11(a), the Company shall: (A) determine the excess of (1) the value of the Adjustment Shares issuable upon the exercise of a Right (the “Current
Value”) over (2) the Purchase Price (such excess, the “Spread”), and (B) with respect to each Right, make adequate provision to substitute for the Adjustment Shares, upon payment of the applicable Purchase Price,
(1) cash, (2) a reduction in the Purchase Price, (3) Common Shares or other equity securities of the Company (including, without limitation, preferred shares, or units of preferred shares, which the Board of Directors of the Company
has deemed to have the same value as one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (such preferred shares, “preferred share equivalents”)), (4) debt securities of the 

  
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Company, (5) other assets, or (6) any combination of the foregoing, having an aggregate value equal to the Current Value, where such aggregate value has been determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company based upon the advice of one or more investment or financial advisors selected by the Board of Directors of the Company; provided, however, if the Company shall not have made adequate provision to deliver value pursuant to
clause (B) above within thirty (30) days following the later of (x) the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event and (y) the date on which the Company’s right of redemption pursuant to Section 23(a) expires
(the later of (x) and (y) being referred to herein as the “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date”), then the Company shall be obligated to deliver, upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and without requiring payment of the Purchase
Price, Preferred Shares (to the extent available) and then, if necessary, cash, which shares and/or cash have an aggregate value equal to the Spread. For purposes of this Section 11(a)(iii), the value of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share
shall be deemed to be the current market price per Common Share (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) on the Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date and the value of any “preferred share equivalent” shall be deemed to have the
same value as one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share on such date. 
 (iv) In lieu of issuing Preferred Shares in accordance
with subparagraph (ii) of this Section 11(a), the Company may with respect to each Right, if a majority of members of the Board of Directors determine that such action is in the best interests of the Company and not contrary to the
interests of the holders of Rights, make adequate provision to substitute for the Adjustment Shares, (x) upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and payment of the Purchase Price (taking into account any reduction in the Purchase Price
pursuant to this subparagraph (iv)) (1) cash, (2) a reduction in Purchase Price, (3) Common Shares, or other equity securities of the Company (including without limitation preferred share equivalents), (4) debt securities of the
Company, (5) other assets or (6) any combination of the foregoing having an aggregate value equal to the Current Value where such aggregate value has been determined by the Board of Directors of the Company based upon the advice of one or
more investment or financial advisers selected by the Board of Directors of the Company or (y) upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and without requiring payment of the Purchase Price, (1) cash, (2) Preferred Shares, Common
Shares or other equity securities of the Company (including, without limitation, preferred share equivalents), (3) debt securities of the Company, (4) other assets or (5) any combination of the foregoing, having an aggregate value
equal to the Spread where such aggregate value has been determined by the Board of Directors of the Company based upon the advice of one or more investment or financial advisors selected by the Board of Directors of the Company. 

(b) In case the Company shall fix a record date for the issuance of rights, options or warrants to all holders of Preferred
Shares entitling them to subscribe for or purchase (for a period expiring within forty-five (45) calendar days after such record date) Preferred Shares (or shares having the same rights, privileges and preferences as the

  
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Preferred Shares (“equivalent preferred shares”)) or securities convertible into Preferred Shares or equivalent preferred shares at a price per Preferred Share or per share of
equivalent preferred shares (or having a conversion price per share, if a security convertible into Preferred Share or equivalent preferred share) less than the current market price (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(ii) hereof) per share
of Preferred Shares on such record date, the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be
the number of Preferred Shares outstanding on such record date, plus the number of Preferred Shares which the aggregate offering price of the total number of Preferred Shares and/or equivalent preferred shares so to be offered (and/or the aggregate
initial conversion price of the convertible securities so to be offered) would purchase at such current market price, and the denominator of which shall be the number of Preferred Shares outstanding on such record date, plus the number of additional
Preferred Shares and/or equivalent preferred shares to be offered for subscription or purchase (or into which the convertible securities so to be offered are initially convertible). In case such subscription price may be paid by delivery of
consideration part or all of which may be in a form other than cash, the value of such consideration shall be as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the
Rights Agent and shall be binding on the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights. Preferred Shares owned by or held for the account of the Company shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any such computation. Such adjustment shall be
made successively whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such rights or warrants are not so issued, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been
fixed. 
 (c) In case the Company shall fix a record date for a distribution to all holders of Preferred Shares (including
any such distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation) of evidences of indebtedness, cash (other than a regular quarterly cash dividend out of the earnings or retained earnings of
the Company), assets (other than a dividend payable in Preferred Shares, but including any dividend payable in shares other than Preferred Shares) or subscription rights or warrants (excluding those referred to in Section 11(b) hereof), the
Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the current market price (as determined
pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per share of Preferred Shares on such record date, less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed
with the Rights Agent) of the portion of the cash, assets or evidences of indebtedness so to be distributed or of such subscription rights or warrants applicable to a share of Preferred Share and the denominator of which shall be such current market
price (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per share of Preferred Shares. Such adjustments shall be made successively whenever such a record-date is fixed, and in the event that such distribution is not so made, the Purchase Price
shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would have been in effect if such record date had not been fixed. 

  
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 (d)(i) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “current per share
market price” of the Common Shares on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices of the Common Shares for the 30 consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to such date; provided, however, that in the event that the
current market price of a Common Share is determined during a period following the announcement by the Company of (A) a dividend or distribution on the Common Shares, payable in Common Shares or securities convertible into Common Shares, or
(B) any subdivision, combination or reclassification of the Common Shares, and prior to the expiration of 30 Trading Days after the ex-dividend date for such dividend or distribution, or the record date for such subdivision, combination or
reclassification, and such announcement shall have caused the closing prices used to determine the current per share market price on any Trading Day during such period not to be fully comparable with the closing price on such date, then, each such
closing price so used shall be appropriately adjusted to make it fully comparable with the closing price on such date. The closing price for each day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the
average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the Common
Shares are listed or admitted to trading or, if Common Shares are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices, as reported by The
Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (“Nasdaq”), or, if on any such date Common Shares are not quoted by Nasdaq, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in Common Shares, selected by
the Board of Directors of the Company. If on any such date no market-maker is making a market in Common Shares, the fair value of Common Shares on such date as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company shall be used, whose
determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent. The term “Trading Day” shall mean a day on which the principal national securities exchange on which Common Shares are listed or admitted to trading is open for
the transaction of business or, if Common Shares are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, a Business Day. If Common Shares are not publicly held or so listed or traded, “current per share market price”
shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent. 

(ii) The “current market price” per share of Preferred Shares shall be conclusively deemed to be an amount equal to
100 (as such number may be appropriately adjusted for such events as stock splits, stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Common Shares occurring after the date of this Agreement) multiplied by the current market price per share
of the Common Shares. If the Common Shares are not publicly held or so listed or traded, “current market price” per share of the Preferred Shares shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of
the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. For all purposes of this Agreement, the “current market price” of one one-hundredth of a Preferred
Share shall be equal to the “current market price” of one Preferred Share divided by 100. 

  
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 (e) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no adjustment in the
Purchase Price shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent (1%) in the Purchase Price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this Section 11(e) are not
required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Section 11 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest ten-thousandth of a Common Share or other share or
one-millionth of a Preferred Share, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 11(e), any adjustment required by this Section 11 shall be made no later than the earlier of (i) three years from the date of
the transaction which mandates such adjustment, or (ii) the Expiration Date. 
 (f) If as a result of an adjustment made
pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) or Section 13(a) hereof, the holder of any Right thereafter exercised shall become entitled to receive any shares of capital stock other than Preferred Shares, thereafter the number of such other shares so
receivable upon exercise of any Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the Preferred Shares contained in
Sections 11(a), (b), (c), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), and (l), and the provisions of Sections 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 hereof with respect to the Preferred Shares shall apply on like terms to any such other shares. 

(g) All Rights originally issued by the Company subsequent to any adjustment made to the Purchase Price hereunder shall
evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share purchasable from time to time hereunder upon exercise of the Rights, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein. 

(h) Unless the Company shall have exercised its election as provided in Section 11(i), upon each adjustment of the
Purchase Price as a result of the calculations made in Sections 11(b) and (c), each Right outstanding immediately prior to the making of such adjustment shall thereafter evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, that
number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share (calculated to the nearest one-millionth) obtained by (i) multiplying (x) the number of one one-hundredths of a share covered by a Right immediately prior to this adjustment, by
(y) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment of the Purchase Price, and (ii) dividing the product so obtained by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such adjustment of the Purchase Price. 

(i) The Company may elect on or after the date of any adjustment of the Purchase Price to adjust the number of Rights, in lieu
of any adjustment in the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share purchasable upon the exercise of a Right. Each of the Rights outstanding after the adjustment in the number of Rights shall be exercisable for

  
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the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to such adjustment. Each Right held of record prior to such adjustment of the number of
Rights shall become that number of Rights (calculated to the nearest one ten thousandth) obtained by dividing the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to adjustment of the Purchase Price by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after
adjustment of the Purchase Price. The Company shall make a public announcement of its election to adjust the number of Rights, indicating the record date for the adjustment, and, if known at the time, the amount of the adjustment to be made. This
record date may be the date on which the Purchase Price is adjusted or any day thereafter, but, if the Rights Certificates have been issued, shall be at least ten (10) days later than the date of the public announcement. If Rights Certificates
have been issued, upon each adjustment of the number of Rights pursuant to this Section 11(i), the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, cause to be distributed to holders of record of Rights Certificates on such record date Rights
Certificates evidencing, subject to Section 14 hereof, the additional Rights to which such holders shall be entitled as a result of such adjustment, or, at the option of the Company, shall cause to be distributed to such holders of record in
substitution and replacement for the Rights Certificates held by such holders prior to the date of adjustment, and upon surrender thereof, if required by the Company, new Rights Certificates evidencing all the Rights to which such holders shall be
entitled after such adjustment. Rights Certificates so to be distributed shall be issued, executed and countersigned in the manner provided for herein (and may bear, at the option of the Company, the adjusted Purchase Price) and shall be registered
in the names of the holders of record of Rights Certificates on the record date specified in the public announcement. 
 (j)
Irrespective of any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price or the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the Rights Certificates theretofore and thereafter issued may continue to express the
Purchase Price per one one-hundredth of a share and the number of one one-hundredths of a share which were expressed in the initial Rights Certificates issued hereunder. 

(k) In any case in which this Section 11 shall require that an adjustment in the Purchase Price be made effective as of a
record date for a specified event, the Company may elect to defer until the occurrence of such event the issuance to the holder of any Right exercised after such record date the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share and other capital
stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise on the basis of
the Purchase Price in effect prior to such adjustment; provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such holder a due bill or other appropriate instrument evidencing such holder’s right to receive such additional shares (fractional or
otherwise) or securities upon the occurrence of the event requiring such adjustment. 
 (l) Anything in this Section 11
to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled to make such reductions in the Purchase Price, in addition to those adjustments expressly required by this Section 11, as and to the extent that in their good faith judgment the
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order that any (i) consolidation or subdivision of the Preferred Shares, (ii) issuance wholly for cash of any Preferred Shares at less than the current market price, (iii) issuance
wholly for cash of Preferred Shares or securities which by their terms are convertible into or exchangeable for Preferred Shares, (iv) share dividends or (v) issuance of rights, options or warrants referred to in this Section 11,
hereafter made by the Company to holders of its Preferred Shares shall not be taxable to such shareholders. 
 (m) The
Company covenants and agrees that it shall not, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) consolidate with any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(n) hereof),
(ii) merge with or into any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(n) hereof), or (iii) sell or transfer (or permit any Subsidiary to sell or transfer), in one transaction,
or a series of related transactions, assets or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company and/or any of its
Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(n) hereof), if (x) at the time of or immediately after such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer there are any rights, warrants or other instruments or
securities outstanding or agreements in effect which would substantially diminish or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights or (y) prior to, simultaneously with or immediately after such consolidation, merger,
sale or transfer, the shareholders of the Person who constitutes, or would constitute, the “Principal Party” for purposes of Section 13(a) hereof shall have received a distribution of Rights previously owned by such Person or any of
its Affiliates and Associates. 
 (n) The Company covenants and agrees that, after the Distribution Date, it will not, except
as permitted by Section 23 or Section 26 hereof, take (or permit any Subsidiary to take) any action if at the time such action is taken it is reasonably foreseeable that such action will diminish substantially or otherwise eliminate the
benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights. 
 (o) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the
event that the Company shall at any time on or after the Rights Dividend Declaration Date and prior to the Distribution Date (i) declare a dividend on the outstanding Common Shares payable in Common Shares, (ii) subdivide the outstanding
shares of Common Shares, or (iii) combine the outstanding shares of Common Shares into a smaller number of shares, the number of Rights associated with each Common Share then outstanding, or issued or delivered thereafter but prior to the
Distribution Date, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the number of Rights thereafter associated with each Common Share following any such event shall equal the result obtained by multiplying the number of Rights associated with each Common
Share immediately prior to such event by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the total number of Common Shares outstanding immediately prior to the occurrence of the event and the denominator of which shall be the total number of shares of
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 Section 12. Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares. Whenever an
adjustment is made as provided in Section 11 and Section 13 hereof, the Company shall (a) promptly prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment and a brief statement of the facts accounting for such adjustment,
(b) promptly file with the Rights Agent, and with each transfer agent for the Preferred Shares and the Common Shares, a copy of such certificate, and (c) mail a brief summary thereof to each holder of a Rights Certificate (or, if prior to
the Distribution Date, to each holder of a certificate representing Common Shares) in accordance with Section 25 hereof. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on any such certificate and on any adjustment therein contained and
shall not be deemed to have knowledge of such adjustment unless and until it shall have received such certificate. 
 Section 13.
Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power. 
 (a) In the event that, following the Share
Acquisition Date, directly or indirectly, (x) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(n) hereof), and the Company
shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger, (y) any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(n) hereof) shall consolidate with, or merge with
or into, the Company, and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger and, in connection with such consolidation or merger, all or part of the outstanding Common Shares shall be changed into or
exchanged for stock or other securities of any other Person or cash or any other property, or (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer), in one transaction or a series
of related transactions, assets or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any Person or Persons (other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in one
or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(n) hereof), then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that: (i) each holder of a Right, except holders described in Section 7(e) hereof, shall thereafter
have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such number of validly authorized and issued, fully paid, non-assessable and freely tradeable Common Shares of
the Principal Party (as such term is hereinafter defined), not subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of first refusal or other adverse claims, as shall be equal to the result obtained by (1) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by
the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share for which a Right is exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 11(a)(ii) Event has occurred prior to the first occurrence of a
Section 13 Event, multiplying the number of such one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event by the Purchase Price in effect immediately
prior to such first occurrence), and dividing that product (which, following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, shall be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all purposes of this Agreement) by
(2) 50% of the current market price (determined pursuant to Section 13(d) hereof) per Common Share of such Principal Party on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; (ii) such Principal Party shall

  
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thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13 Event, all the obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) the term
“Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 hereof shall apply only to such Principal Party following the first occurrence of a
Section 13 Event; (iv) such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of its Common Shares) in connection with the consummation of any such transaction as may be necessary
to assure that the provisions hereof shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to its Common Shares thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights; and (v) the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii)
hereof shall be of no effect following the first occurrence of any Section 13 Event. 
 (b) “Principal Party”
shall mean 
 (i) in the case of any transaction described in clause (x) or (y) of the first sentence of
Section 13(a), the Person that is the issuer of any securities into which Common Shares of the Company are converted in such merger or consolidation, and if no securities are so issued, the Person that is the other party to such merger or
consolidation; and 
 (ii) in the case of any transaction described in clause (z) of the first sentence of
Section 13(a), the Person that is the party receiving the greatest portion of the assets or earning power transferred pursuant to such transaction or transactions; provided, however, that in any such case, (1) if the Common Shares of such
Person are not at such time and has not been continuously over the preceding twelve-month period registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and such Person is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of another Person the Common Shares of which
are and have been so registered, “Principal Party” shall refer to such other Person; and (2) in case such Person is a Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, of more than one Person, the Common Shares of two or more of which are and have
been so registered, “Principal Party” shall refer to whichever of such Persons is the issuer of the Common Shares having the greatest aggregate market value. 

(c) The Company shall not consummate any such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer unless the Principal Party shall have a
sufficient number of authorized Common Shares which have not been issued or reserved for issuance to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with this Section 13 and unless prior thereto the Company and such Principal Party
shall have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement providing for the terms set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 13 and further providing that, as soon as practicable after the date of any
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer mentioned in paragraph (a) of this Section 13, the Principal Party will: 

(i) prepare and file a registration statement under the Act, with respect to the Rights and the securities purchasable upon
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appropriate form, and will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to (A) become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and (B) remain effective (with a
prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the Act) until the Expiration Date; 
 (ii) use its best efforts to
qualify or register the Rights and the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights under the blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as may be necessary or appropriate; and 

(iii) deliver to holders of the Rights historical financial statements for the Principal Party and each of its Affiliates which
comply in all respects with the requirements for registration on Form 10 under the Exchange Act. 
 The provisions of this
Section 13 shall similarly apply to successive mergers or consolidations or sales or other transfers. In the event that a Section 13 Event shall occur at any time after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, the Rights which
have not theretofore been exercised shall thereafter become exercisable in the manner described in Section 13(a). 

Section 14. Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares. 

(a) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Rights, except prior to the Distribution Date as provided in
Section 11(o) hereof, or to distribute Rights Certificates which evidence fractional Rights. In lieu of such fractional Rights, there shall be paid to the registered holders of the Rights Certificates with regard to which such fractional Rights
would otherwise be issuable, an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of a whole Right. For the purposes of this Section 14(a), the current market value of a whole Right shall be the closing price of such Rights
for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date on which such fractional Rights would have been otherwise issuable. The closing price for any day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the
average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the Rights are
listed or admitted to trading or, if such Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices, as reported by Nasdaq, or if on
any such date the Rights are not quoted by Nasdaq, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in such Rights, selected by the Board of Directors of the Company. If on any such date no
such market maker is making a market in the Rights, the fair value of such Rights on such date as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent,
shall be used. 
 (b) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Preferred Shares (other than fractions which
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Share) upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates which evidence fractional Preferred Shares (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a Preferred
Share). In lieu of fractional Preferred Shares that are not integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share, the Company may pay to the registered holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are exercised as herein provided
an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share. For purposes of this Section 14(b), the current market value of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share shall be the current
market price of a Common Share (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(ii) hereof) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of such exercise. 

(c) The holder of a Right by the acceptance of the Rights expressly waives his right to receive any fractional Rights or any
fractional shares upon exercise of a Right, except as permitted by this Section 14. 
 Section 15. Rights of Action. All
rights of action in respect of this Agreement, other than rights of action vested in the Rights Agent pursuant to Section 18 hereof, are vested in the respective registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution
Date, the registered holders of the Common Shares); and any registered holder of any Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of the Common Shares), without the consent of the Rights Agent or of the holder of any other Rights
Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of the Common Shares), may, in his own behalf and for his own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company to enforce, or otherwise act in
respect of, his right to exercise the Rights evidenced by such Rights Certificate in the manner provided in such Rights Certificate and in this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing or any remedies available to the holders of Rights, it is
specifically acknowledged that the holders of Rights would not have an adequate remedy at law for any breach of this Agreement and shall be entitled to specific performance of the obligations hereunder and injunctive relief against actual or
threatened violations of the obligations hereunder of any Person subject to this Agreement. 
 Section 16. Agreement of Rights
Holders. Every holder of a Right by accepting the same consents and agrees with the Company and the Rights Agent and with every other holder of a Right that: 

(i) prior to the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of Common Shares; 

(ii) after the Distribution Date, the Rights Certificates are transferable only on the registry books of the Rights Agent if
surrendered at the principal office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purposes, duly endorsed or accompanied by a proper instrument of transfer and with the appropriate forms and certificates fully executed; 

(iii) subject to Section 6 (a) and Section 7(f) hereof, the Company and the Rights Agent may deem and treat the
person in whose name a Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, the associated Common Share certificate) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights evidenced thereby (notwithstanding any notations of

  
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ownership or writing on the Rights Certificates or the associated Common Share certificate made by anyone other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes whatsoever, and neither the
Company nor the Rights Agent, subject to the last sentence of Section 7(e) hereof, shall be required to be affected by any notice to the contrary; and 

(iv) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall have any
liability to any holder of a Right or other Person as a result of its inability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of any preliminary or permanent injunction or other order, decree or ruling issued by a court of
competent jurisdiction or by a governmental, regulatory or administrative agency or commission, or any statute, rule, regulation or executive order promulgated or enacted by any governmental authority, prohibiting or otherwise restraining
performance of such obligation; provided, however, the Company must use its best efforts to have any such order, decree or ruling lifted or otherwise overturned as soon as possible. 

Section 17. Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder. No holder, as such, of any Rights Certificate shall be entitled to
vote, receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share or any other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise of the Rights represented thereby, nor
shall anything contained herein or in any Rights Certificate be construed to confer upon the holder of any Rights Certificate, as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any
matter submitted to shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting shareholders (except as provided in Section 24 hereof), or to receive
dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by such Rights Certificate shall have been exercised in accordance with the provisions hereof. 

Section 18. Concerning the Rights Agent. 

(a) The Company agrees to pay to the Rights Agent reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder and, from
time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, its reasonable expenses and counsel fees and disbursements and other disbursements incurred in the administration and execution of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder.
The Company also agrees to indemnify the Rights Agent, its directors, officers, employees and agents for, and to hold each of them harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense, incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct
on the part of the Rights Agent, for anything done or omitted by any such indemnified party in connection with the acceptance and administration of this Agreement or the exercise or performance of the Rights Agent’s duties hereunder, including
the costs and expenses of defending against any claim of liability in the premises. 
 (b) The Rights Agent shall be
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of this Agreement or the exercise or performance of the Rights Agent’s duties hereunder, in reliance upon any Rights Certificate or certificate for Common Shares or for other securities of
the Company, instrument of assignment or transfer, power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter, notice, direction, consent, certificate, statement, or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to be signed, executed and, where
necessary, verified or acknowledged, by the proper Person or Persons. 
 (c) The indemnity provided in this Section 18
shall survive the expiration of the Rights, the resignation or removal of the Rights Agent and the termination of this Agreement. 

Section 19. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent. 

(a) Any corporation into which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may be merged or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust or stock transfer business of the Rights Agent
or any successor Rights Agent, shall be the successor to the Rights Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that such corporation would
be eligible for appointment as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of Section 21 hereof. In case at the time such successor Rights Agent shall succeed to the agency created by this Agreement, any of the Rights Certificates shall have
been countersigned but not delivered, any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of a predecessor Rights Agent and deliver such Rights Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Rights Certificates shall
not have been countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such Rights Certificates either in the name of the predecessor or in the name of the successor Rights Agent; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full
force provided in the Rights Certificates and in this Agreement. 
 (b) In case at any time the name of the Rights Agent
shall be changed and at such time any of the Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and deliver Rights Certificates so countersigned; and in case at
that time any of the Rights Certificates shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent may countersign such Rights Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full
force provided in the Rights Certificates and in this Agreement. 
 Section 20. Duties of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent
undertakes the duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of Rights Certificates, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound: 

(a) The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be legal counsel for the Company), and the advice or opinion of
such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection to the Rights Agent as to any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. 

  
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 (b) Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Rights
Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter (including, without limitation, the identity of any Acquiring Person) be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Rights Agent; and such certificate shall be full authorization to the Rights Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the
provisions of this Agreement in reliance upon such certificate. 
 (c) The Rights Agent shall not be liable hereunder to the
Company or any other Person except for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. 
 (d) The Rights Agent
shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement or in the Rights Certificates or be required to verify the same (except as to its countersignature on such Rights Certificates), but all
such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only. 
 (e) The Rights Agent shall not
be under any responsibility in respect of the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the due execution hereof by the Rights Agent) or in respect of the validity or execution of any Rights Certificate (except its
countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Rights Certificate; nor shall it be responsible for any adjustment required under the provisions
of Section 11 or Section 13 hereof or responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment (except with respect to the exercise of Rights
evidenced by Rights Certificates after receipt of the certificate described in Section 12 hereof setting forth any such adjustment); nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or
reservation of any Common Shares or Preferred Shares to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Rights Certificate or as to whether any Common Shares or Preferred Shares will, when so issued, be validly authorized and issued, fully paid and
non-assessable. 
 (f) The Company agrees that it will perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed,
executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Rights Agent for the carrying out or performing by the Rights Agent of the provisions of this Agreement. 

  
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 (g) The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to accept instructions
with respect to the performance of its duties hereunder from the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company, and to apply to such officers
for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and it shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with instructions of any such officer or for any delay in acting while awaiting
instructions. 
 (h) Any application by the Rights Agent for written instructions from the Company may, at the option of the
Rights Agent, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Rights Agent under this Rights Agreement and the date on or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Rights Agent shall not
be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Rights Agent in accordance with a proposal included in any such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than five Business Days after the
date the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in
writing to an earlier date) unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Rights Agent shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or
omitted. 
 (i) The Rights Agent and any shareholder, director, officer or employee of the Rights Agent may buy, sell or deal
in any of the Rights or other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were
not Rights Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Rights Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity. 

(j) The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights and powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder
either itself or by or through its attorneys or agents, and the Rights Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorneys or agents or for any loss to the Company resulting from any such
act, default, neglect or misconduct, provided that the Rights Agent was not grossly negligent in the selection or continued employment thereof. 

(k) No provision of this Agreement shall require the Rights Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of its rights if there shall be reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnification against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it. 
 (l) If, with respect to any Rights Certificate surrendered to the Rights Agent for exercise or
transfer, the certificate attached to the Form of Assignment or Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, has either not been completed or indicates an affirmative response to clause 1 and/or 2 thereof, the Rights Agent shall not take any
further action with respect to such requested exercise or transfer without first consulting with the Company. 

  
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 (m) The Rights Agent undertakes only the express duties and obligations imposed
on it by this Agreement and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Rights Agent. 

(n) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Rights Agent be liable for special,
indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits). 
 Section 21. Change
of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may resign and thereby be discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon thirty (30) days’ notice in writing mailed to the Company, and to each transfer agent of the
Common Shares and Preferred Shares, by registered or certified mail, and to the holders of the Rights Certificates by first-class mail. The Company may remove the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice in
writing, mailed to the Rights Agent or successor Rights Agent, as the case may be, and to each transfer agent of the Common Shares and Preferred Shares, by registered or certified mail, and to the holders of the Rights Certificates by first-class
mail. If the Rights Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Rights Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty
(30) days after giving notice of such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Rights Agent or by the holder of a Rights Certificate (who shall, with such notice,
submit his Rights Certificate for inspection by the Company), then any registered holder of any Rights Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a new Rights Agent. Any successor Rights Agent, whether
appointed by the Company or by such a court, shall be (a) a corporation or financial institution organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of the State of Ohio (or of any other state of the United States so long as
such corporation is authorized to act as Rights Agent in the State of Ohio), in good standing, which is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and
which has at the time of its appointment as Rights Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 or (b) an affiliate of a corporation or financial institution described in clause (a) of this sentence. After appointment, the
successor Rights Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named as Rights Agent without further act or deed; but the predecessor Rights Agent shall deliver, and transfer to the
successor Rights Agent any property at the time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment, the Company shall file
notice thereof in writing with the predecessor Rights Agent and each transfer agent of the Common Share and the Preferred Share, and mail a notice thereof in writing to the registered holders of the Rights Certificates. Failure to give any notice
provided for in this Section 21, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the Rights Agent or the appointment of the successor Rights Agent, as the case may be. 

  
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 Section 22. Issuance of New Rights Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the
provisions of this Agreement or of the Rights to the contrary, the Company may, at its option, issue new Rights Certificates evidencing Rights in such form as may be approved by its Board of Directors to reflect any adjustment or change in the
Purchase Price and the number or kind or class of shares or other securities or property purchasable under the Rights Certificates made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. In addition, in connection with the issuance or sale of
Common Shares following the Distribution Date and prior to the redemption or expiration of the Rights, the Company (a) shall, with respect to Common Shares so issued or sold pursuant to the exercise of stock options or under any employee
benefit plan or arrangement, or upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of securities hereinafter issued by the Company, and (b) may, in any other case, if deemed necessary or appropriate by the Board of Directors of the Company, issue Rights
Certificates representing the appropriate number of Rights in connection with such issuance or sale; provided, however, that (i) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if, and to the extent that, the Company shall be advised by counsel that
such issuance would create a significant risk of material adverse tax consequences to the Company or the Person to whom such Rights Certificate would be issued, and (ii) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if, and to the extent that,
appropriate adjustment shall otherwise have been made in lieu of the issuance thereof. 
 Section 23. Redemption and
Termination. 
 (a)(i) The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its option, at any time prior to the earlier of
(x) the Share Acquisition Date (or, if the Share Acquisition Date shall have occurred prior to the Record Date, the close of business on the tenth Business Day following the Record Date), or (y) the Final Expiration Date, redeem all but
not less than all the then outstanding Rights at a redemption price of $.001 per Right, as such amount may be appropriately adjusted, as determined by the Board of Directors, to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction
occurring after the date hereof (such redemption price being hereinafter referred to as the “Redemption Price”). 

(ii) The Company may, at its option, pay the Redemption Price in cash, Common Shares (based on the “current market
price,” as defined in Section 11(d)(i) hereof, of the Common Shares at the time of redemption) or any other form of consideration deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors. 

(b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the redemption of the Rights, evidence of
which shall have been filed with the Rights Agent and without any further action and without any notice, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right thereafter of the holders of Rights shall be to receive the Redemption Price
for each Right so held. Promptly after the action of the Board of Directors ordering the redemption of the Rights, the Company shall give notice of such redemption to the Rights Agent and the holders of the then outstanding Rights by mailing such
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of the transfer agent for the Common Shares. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such notice of
redemption will state the method by which the payment of the Redemption Price will be made. 
 Section 24. Notice of Certain
Events. 
 (a) In case the Company shall propose, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) to pay any dividend
payable in shares of any class to the holders of Preferred Shares or to make any other distribution to the holders of Preferred Shares (other than a regular quarterly cash dividend out of earnings or retained earnings of the Company), or
(ii) to offer to the holders of Preferred Shares rights or warrants to subscribe for or to purchase any additional shares of Preferred Shares or shares of stock of any class or any other securities, rights or options, or (iii) to effect
any reclassification of its Preferred Shares (other than a reclassification involving only the subdivision of outstanding Preferred Shares), or (iv) to effect any consolidation or merger into or with any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of
the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(n) hereof), or to effect any sale or other transfer (or to permit one or more of its Subsidiaries to effect any sale or other transfer), in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, of more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies
with Section 11(n) hereof), or (v) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, then, in each such case, the Company shall give to each holder of a Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible and in accordance with
Section 25 hereof, a notice of such proposed action, which shall specify the record date for the purposes of such share dividend, distribution of rights or warrants, or the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, liquidation, dissolution, or winding up is to take place and the date of participation therein by the holders of the Preferred Shares, if any such date is to be fixed, and such notice shall be so given in the case of any action covered by
clause (i) or (ii) above at least twenty (20) days prior to the record date for determining holders of the Preferred Shares for purposes of such action, and in the case of any such other action, at least twenty (20) days prior to
the date of the taking of such proposed action or the date of participation therein by the holders of the Preferred Shares, whichever shall be the earlier. 

(b) In case any of the events set forth in Section 11(a)(ii) hereof shall occur, then, in any such case, (i) the
Company shall as soon as practicable thereafter give to each holder of a Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible and in accordance with Section 25 hereof, a notice of the occurrence of such event, which shall specify the event and the
consequences of the event to holders of Rights under Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, and (ii) all references in the preceding paragraph to Preferred Shares shall be deemed thereafter to refer to Common Shares and/or, if appropriate, other
securities. 
 Section 25. Notices. Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Rights Agent or
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be sufficiently given or made if delivered by hand, sent by overnight courier or sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Rights
Agent) as follows: 
 SunLink Health Systems, Inc. 

900 Circle 75 Parkway, Suite 1120 

Atlanta, Georgia 30339 

Attention: Corporate Secretary 

Subject to the provisions of Section 21, any notice or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the
Company or by the holder of any Rights Certificate to or on the Rights Agent shall be sufficiently given or made if delivered by hand, sent by overnight courier or sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed
in writing with the Company) as follows: 
 American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC 

6201 15th Avenue 

Brooklyn, New York 11219 

Attention: Corporate Trust Department 

Telephone: 718-921-8200 

Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or the Rights Agent to the holder of any
Rights Certificate (or, if prior to the Distribution Date, to the holder of certificates representing shares of Common Share) shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such holder at the address
of such holder as shown on the registry books of the Company. 
 Section 26. Supplements and Amendments. Prior to the
Distribution Date and subject to the penultimate sentence of this Section 26, the Company and the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend any provision of this Agreement without the approval of any holders of
certificates representing shares of Common Share. From and after the Distribution Date and subject to the penultimate sentence of this Section 26, the Company and the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend this
Agreement without the approval of any holders of Rights Certificates in order (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provisions herein,
(iii) to shorten or lengthen any time period hereunder, or (iv) to change or supplement the provisions hereunder in any manner which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the
holders of Rights Certificates (other than an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any Acquiring Person); provided, this Agreement may not be supplemented or amended to lengthen, pursuant to clause (iii) of this sentence, (A) a
time period relating to when the Rights may be redeemed at such time as the Rights are not then redeemable, or (B) any other time period unless such lengthening of such other time period is for the purpose of protecting, enhancing or clarifying
the rights of, and/or the benefits to, the holders of Rights. Upon the delivery of a certificate from an appropriate officer of the Company which states that the proposed supplement or amendment is 

  
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in compliance with the terms of this Section 26, the Rights Agent shall execute such supplement or amendment. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, no
supplement or amendment shall be made which changes the Redemption Price, the Final Expiration Date, the Purchase Price or the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share for which a Right is exercisable, and no supplement or amendment that
changes the rights, duties or liabilities of the Rights Agent under this Agreement shall be effective without the consent of the Rights Agent. Prior to the Distribution Date, the interests of the holders of Rights shall be deemed coincident with the
interests of the holders of Common Shares. 
 Section 27. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or
for the benefit of the Company or the Rights Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns hereunder. 

Section 28. Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, Etc. For all purposes of this Agreement, any calculation of the
number of Common Shares outstanding at any particular time, including for purposes of determining the particular percentage of such outstanding Common Shares of which any Person is the Beneficial Owner, shall be made in accordance with the last
sentence of Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof. The Board of Directors of the Company (or, as set forth herein, certain specified members thereof) shall have the exclusive
power and authority to administer this Agreement and to exercise all rights and powers specifically granted to the Board of Directors of the Company or to the Company, or as may be necessary or advisable in the administration of this Agreement,
including, without limitation, the right and power to (i) interpret the provisions of this Agreement, and (ii) make all determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, a
determination to redeem or not redeem the Rights or to amend this Agreement). All such actions, calculations, interpretations and determinations (including, for purposes of clause (y) below, all omissions with respect to the foregoing) which
are done or made by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith, shall (x) be final, conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent, the holders of the Rights and all other parties, and (y) not subject the Board to any
liability to the holders of the Rights. 
 Section 29. Benefits of This Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed
to give to any Person other than the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the Common Shares) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under
this Agreement; but this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the Common Shares).

 Section 30. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent
jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or
invalidated; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if any such term, provision, covenant or restriction is held by such court or authority to be 

  
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invalid, void or unenforceable and the Board of Directors of the Company determines in its good faith judgment that severing the invalid language from this Agreement would adversely affect the
purpose or effect of this Agreement, the right of redemption set forth in Section 23 hereof shall be reinstated and shall not expire until the close of business on the tenth business day following the date of such determination by the Board of
Directors of the Company. 
 Section 31. Governing Law. This Agreement, each Right and each Rights Certificate issued hereunder
shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of Ohio and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of such State applicable to contracts made and to be performed entirely within such State.

 Section 32. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and each of such counterparts shall
for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 

Section 33. Descriptive Headings. Descriptive headings of the several Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only
and shall not control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the
day and year first above written. 
  

									
	Attest:	  		  	SUNLINK HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC.
					
	By:	  	 	  		  	By:	  	 
	Name:	  		  	Robert M. Thornton, Jr.,
	Title:	  		  	President and Chief Executive Officer
			
	Attest:	  		  	 AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER &

TRUST COMPANY, LLC

					
	By:	  	 	  		  	By:	  	 
	Name:	  		  	Name:
	Title:	  		  	Title:

  
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 EXHIBIT A 

AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 

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 SUNLINK HEALTH
SYSTEMS, INC. 
 FIRST: The name of the Corporation shall be SunLink Health Systems, Inc. 

SECOND: The principal office of the Corporation shall be located in the City of Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio 

THIRD: The purpose or purposes for which the Corporation is formed are: 

A. To engage in the trade or business of research, design, development and manufacture of semiautomatic and automatic equipment
and components in the electrical, electromechanical and electronic fields, to consult and perform services related to design application and integration of units and devices into systems in these fields; to conduct studies, consult, do research in,
make data processing reduction and analysis of, design and manufacture and perform other services related to these units, instrumentation, test, calibration, installation, maintenance, repair, component replacement on military and commercial flight
and space vehicles and devices, the instruments thereon, the components thereof and the equipment associated therewith. 
 B.
To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire, sell, assign and transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of, and to invest, trade, deal in or deal with goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every class and description. 

C. To purchase or otherwise acquire, construct, hold, maintain, work, develop, sell, lease, exchange, convey, transfer,
mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, loan money upon, or in any manner dispose of and deal in, within and without the State of Ohio, wherever situated, real property of every kind, character and description whatsoever and any interest therein, and
personal or mixed property of every kind, character and description whatsoever, including the shares of stock and other securities or obligations of other corporations, and any franchises, rights, licenses, or privileges necessary, convenient or
appropriate for any of the purposes herein expressed. 
 D. To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind of any
lawful purpose, with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, state or government, or any political or other subdivision of any of the same. 

E. To apply for, obtain, purchase, take licenses in respect of or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own, use, grant, pledge or
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any and all inventions, devices, processes and any improvement and modifications thereof; and any and all letters patent of the United States or of any other country, state, territory, or
locality, and all rights connected therewith or appertaining thereunto; any and all copyrights granted by the United States or any other country, state, territory, or locality; and any and all trade-marks, trade names, trade symbols and other
indications of origin and ownership granted by or recognized under the laws of the United States or of any other country, state, territory or locality. 

F. To purchase or otherwise acquire the whole or any part of the property, assets, business, goodwill and rights, and to
undertake and assume the whole or any part of the liabilities and obligations, or any person, firm, association or corporation, and to pay for the same in cash or in shares of any class or series, or in bonds, debentures, notes or other obligations
of the corporation, or otherwise, to hold or in any manner to dispose of the whole or any part of the property or assets so acquired, and to conduct the whole or any part of the business so acquired, and to exercise all the powers necessary or
convenient in and about the conduct, management and carrying on of any such business. 
 G. To do any and all things
necessary, convenient, or expedient for the accomplishment of any of the purposes or the furtherance of any of the powers hereinbefore set forth either alone or in association with other corporations, firms or individuals, and in general to carry on
any other business not forbidden by the General Corporation Law of the State of Ohio. 
 Each purpose specified in any clause or paragraph
contained in this Article THIRD shall be deemed to be independent of all other purposes herein specified and shall not be limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms of any other clause or paragraph of these Articles of
Incorporation. 
 FOURTH: The maximum number of shares which the Corporation is authorized to have outstanding is 14,000,000 shares which
shall be classified as follows: 
 2,000,000 Preferred Shares without par value (hereinafter called “Preferred Shares”); and 

12,000,000 Common Shares without par value (hereinafter called “Common Shares”). 

SECTION 1. The express terms and provisions of the Preferred Shares are as follows: 

I. Preferred Shares may be issued in series from time to time. Within the limitations and restrictions set forth in this
Article FOURTH, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized, at one time or from time to time, to adopt amendments to the Articles of Incorporation in respect of any authorized and unissued Preferred Shares to fix or alter the division of such
shares into series, the designation and number of shares of each series, the dividend rates, the date of payment of dividends, the dates from which dividends shall be cumulative, redemption rights, redemption prices, liquidation prices, sinking fund
requirements, conversion rights, and restrictions on issuance of shares of the same series or of any other class or series. The express terms and provisions of Preferred 

  
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Shares of different series shall be identical except that there may be variations in respect of any or all of the particulars hereinbefore set forth in this subsection I. In case the stated
dividends or the amounts payable on dissolution, liquidation, or sale of assets of the corporation are not paid in full, all Preferred Shares of all series shall participate ratably in the payment of dividends, including accumulations, if any, in
proportion to the sums which would be payable thereon if all dividends thereon were paid in full, and, in any distribution of assets other than by way of dividends, in proportion to the sums which would be payable on such distribution if all sums
payable thereon to holders of Preferred Shares were discharged in full. 
 II. The holders of Preferred Shares shall be
entitled to receive when and as declared out of the surplus of the Corporation, subject to any limitations prescribed by statute, cash dividends at the respective rates and on the respective dates fixed by the Board of Directors for the shares of
the several series of Preferred Shares, and no more. Dividends on each Preferred Share shall be cumulative from the date fixed therefor by the Board of Directors. 

Subject to the provisions of this Article FOURTH, the holders of all Common Shares shall be entitled to receive such dividends
as may from time to time be declared thereon by the Board of Directors. 
 III. Upon dissolution, liquidation or sale of all
or substantially all the assets of the Corporation, the holders of Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive the following sums, before any payment shall be made to the holders of Common Shares with respect to payment upon dissolution,
liquidation or sale of assets: 
 (a) in case of any involuntary dissolution or liquidation or forced sale of all or
substantially all the assets of the Corporation, each Preferred Share of each series shall be entitled to receive the sum fixed for such contingency by the Board of Directors in respect of such series, together with a sum, whether or not earned or
declared, equivalent to all accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon to the date of such payment; or 
 (b) in case of any
voluntary dissolution or liquidation or voluntary sale of all or substantially all the assets of the Corporation, each Preferred Share of each series shall be entitled to receive the amount fixed for such contingency by the Board of Directors in
respect of such series prior to the initial issuance of the first shares or series, together with a sum, whether or not earned or declared, equivalent to all accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon to the date of such payment. After all sums
payable on the Preferred Shares as herein provided upon a particular contingency shall have been paid in full, but not prior thereto, the Common Shares shall be entitled to payment of all other sums then distributable. For the purposes of this
subsection III, a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into any other corporation, or a consolidation or merger of any other corporation, with or into the Corporation shall not be deemed a dissolution, liquidation, or sale of assets.

  
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 IV. The holders of Preferred Shares shall be entitled to one vote for each
Preferred Share held by them respectively. 
 V. So long as any of the Preferred Shares shall remain outstanding, no dividend
(other than dividends payable in Common Shares) shall be paid, nor shall any distribution (by purchase, redemption, payment to any sinking fund or market fund, or otherwise) be made, on any of the Common Shares unless: 

(a) all dividends on all outstanding Preferred Shares shall have been paid, and full dividends thereon for the then current
quarterly dividend period shall have been declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart therefor; and 

(b) the Corporation shall not be in arrears in respect of any sinking fund obligation in respect of any series of Preferred
Shares. 
 VI. Preferred Shares acquired by the Corporation through the exercise by the holders thereof of any conversion
privilege shall not be re-issued except as hereinafter provided. Such shares and any other Preferred Shares acquired by the Corporation otherwise than through the operation of any sinking fund and not used to reduce the amount of any sinking fund
installment shall, upon compliance with such provisions of law relating to the retirement of shares as may be applicable, have the status of authorized and unissued Preferred Shares which are unclassified into any series. Preferred Shares acquired
by the Corporation through the operation of any sinking fund or which have been used to reduce the amount of any sinking fund installment shall be canceled and not reissued, and the Corporation shall from time to time take appropriate corporate
action to reduce the authorized number of Preferred Shares accordingly. 
 VII. Series A Voting Preferred Shares: 

From the authorized number of Preferred Shares of Corporation, a series of Preferred Shares designated as “Series A Voting
Preferred Shares” is hereby created and shall consist of 500,000 Preferred Shares of which the preferences, relative and other rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof shall be (in addition to those set forth
elsewhere in these Articles) as follows: 
 1. Voting Rights. The holders of Series A Voting Preferred Shares shall be entitled to
one vote for each Preferred Share held by them respectively. 
 2. Dividends. The Board shall declare a dividend or distribution on
the Series A Voting Preferred Shares immediately after it declares any dividend or distribution on the Common Shares. Such dividends or distributions shall be in an amount per share equal to the amount per share of the dividend or distribution
declared for each Common Share, multiplied by 100. 
 3. Reacquired Shares. Any Series A Voting Preferred Shares purchased or
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promptly after such acquisition. All such shares, upon their cancellation, shall become authorized but unissued Preferred Shares, without designation as to series, and may be reissued as part of
any series of Preferred Shares created by the Board (including Series A Voting Preferred Shares) subject to the condition and restrictions on issuance set forth herein. 

4. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be
made to: 
 (a) the holders of (x) Preferred Shares ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding
up) to the Series A Voting Preferred Shares or (y) any holder of Common Shares, unless (prior thereto) the holders of Series A Voting Preferred Shares have received the greater of: (i) One Dollar ($1.00) per share ($0.01 per one
one-hundredth of a share), plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon (whether or not declared) to the date of such payment, or (ii) an aggregate amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment
herein set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of Common Shares; or 
 (b) the holders of
Preferred Shares ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Voting Preferred Shares, except distributions made ratably on the Series A Voting Preferred Shares and all other such
parity Preferred Shares in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding up. 

If the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Shares payable in Common Shares, or effect a subdivision or
combination or consolidation of the outstanding Common Shares (by reclassification or otherwise) into a greater or lesser number of Common Shares, then (and in each such event) the aggregate amount to which the holder of each share of Series A
Voting Preferred Shares was entitled immediately prior to such event under paragraph (a) of this Section 4 shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Common Shares outstanding
immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of Common Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. 

5. Combination. If the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the Common
Shares are exchanged for or changed into other stock, securities, cash or any other property, then (in each such event) the Series A Voting Preferred Shares shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per Share (subject to
the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each Common Share is changed or exchanged.
If, at any time on or after the Rights Declaration Date, the Corporation (i) declares any dividend on Common Shares payable outstanding Common Shares into a smaller number of Shares, (ii) subdivides the outstanding Common Shares; or
(iii) combines the outstanding Common Shares into a smaller number of Shares, then (in each such case) the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of Series A Voting Preferred Shares shall be adjusted
by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of Common Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such
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 6. No Redemption. The Series A Voting Preferred Shares shall not be redeemable; provided,
however, that the Corporation may acquire Series A Voting Preferred Shares in any other manner permitted by law or these Articles. 
 7.
Ranking. Unless otherwise provided in these Articles or any subsequent amendment of these Articles relating to a subsequent series of Preferred Shares of the Corporation, the Series A Voting Preferred Shares shall rank junior to all other
series of the Corporation’s Preferred Shares as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets on liquidation, dissolution or winding up and shall rank senior to the Common Shares. 

8. Amendment. These Articles shall not, following the issuance of any shares of Series A Voting Preferred, be further amended in any
manner which would materially and adversely alter or change the powers, preference or special rights of the Series A Voting Preferred Shares without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Series A Voting
Preferred Shares, voting together as a single series. 
 9. Fractional Shares. Series A Voting Preferred Shares may be issued in
fractions of a share (in one one-hundredths (1/100) of a Share and integral multiples thereof) that shall entitle the holder (in proportion to such holder’s fractional shares) to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in
distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Series A Voting Preferred Shares. 
 SECTION 2. The express terms
and provisions of the Common Shares are as follows: 
 I. The rights and preferences of the Common Shares shall be subject in
all respects to the rights and preferences of the Preferred Shares in the manner and to the extent provided in this Article FOURTH. 

II. The Common Shares shall rank junior to the Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends. Out of the assets of
the Corporation available for dividends remaining after there shall have been paid or declared and set apart for payment full dividends on the Preferred Shares, and subject to the restrictions or limitations contained in the express terms and
provisions of any series of Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends, dividends may be declared and paid upon the Common Shares, but only when and as determined by the Board of Directors. 

  
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 III. The Common Shares shall rank junior to the Preferred Shares with respect to
payment upon dissolution, liquidation or sale of assets of the Corporation. Upon the dissolution, liquidation or sale of all or substantially all the assets of the Corporation, after there shall have been paid to or set apart for holders of the
Preferred Shares the full preferential amounts to which they are entitled, the holders of Common Shares shall be entitled to receive pro rata all of the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its shareholders. 

IV. The holders of Common Shares shall be entitled to one vote for each Common Share held by them respectively. 

SECTION 3. No shareholder of the Corporation shall have the right to vote cumulatively in the election of directors of the Corporation. 

FIFTH: When authorized by the affirmative vote of the Board of Directors, without the action or approval of the shareholders of this
Corporation, this Corporation may purchase, or contract to purchase, at any time and from time to time, shares of any class issued by this Corporation, voting trust certificates for shares, bonds, debentures, notes, scrip, warrants, obligations,
evidences of indebtedness or any other securities of this Corporation, for such prices and upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors may determine, provided that no such purchase shall be made, pursuant to any such
contract or otherwise, if after such purchase the assets of this Corporation would be less than its liabilities plus stated capital or if it is insolvent as defined in the General Corporation Law of Ohio or if there is reasonable ground to believe
that by such purchase it would be rendered insolvent. 
 SIXTH: No shareholder of this Corporation shall be entitled, as such, as a matter
of right to subscribe for or purchase shares of any class now or hereafter authorized, or to purchase or subscribe for securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Corporation or to which shall be attached or appertain any warrants
or rights entitling the holder thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares except such rights of subscription or purchase, if any, at such price or prices and upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors, in its discretion, from time to
time may determine. 
 SEVENTH: This Corporation may amend its Articles of Incorporation in any respect in the manner provided by law, and
may make amendments substantially changing the purposes for which the Corporation is formed. 
 EIGHTH: The Board of Directors is hereby
authorized to fix and determine and to vary the amount of working capital of the Corporation, to determine to the extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Ohio whether any, and, if any, what part of its surplus, however created or arising,
shall be used or disposed of or declared in dividends or paid to shareholders. 
 NINTH: Every statute of the State of Ohio hereafter
enacted whereby the rights or privileges of shareholders of a corporation organized under the General Corporation Law of said State are increased, diminished or in any way affected, or whereby effect is given to any action authorized, ratified or
approved, by less than all the Shareholders of any such corporation, shall apply to this Corporation and shall be binding upon every shareholder thereof to the same extent as if such statute had been in force at the date of the filing of these
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 TENTH: A director of this Corporation shall not be disqualified by his office from dealing or
contracting with the Corporation as a vendor, purchaser, employee, agent or otherwise; nor shall any transaction or contract or act of this Corporation be void or voidable or in any way affected or invalidated by reason of the fact that any director
or any firm of which any director is a member or any corporation of which any director is a shareholder or director is in any way interested in such transaction or contract or act, provided the fact that such director or such firm or such
corporation is so interested shall be disclosed or shall be known to the Board of Directors or such members thereof as shall be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors at which action upon any such contract or transaction or act shall be
taken; nor shall any such director be accountable or responsible to the Corporation for or in respect of any such transaction or contract or act of this Corporation or for any gains or profits realized by him by reason of the fact that he or any
firm of which he is a member or any corporation of which he is a shareholder or director is interested in such transaction or contract or act; and any such director may be counted in determining the existence of a quorum at any meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Corporation which shall authorize or take action in respect to any such contract or transaction or act, and may vote thereat to authorize, ratify or approve any such contract or transaction or act, with like force and effect as
if he or any firm of which he is a member or any corporation of which he is a shareholder or director were not interested in such transaction or contract or act. 

The Board of Directors shall have the power to fix compensation of officers or directors or both and a director may be counted in determining
the existence of a quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors which shall take such action and may vote thereat in favor or against such action whether or not such director may be interested in the action so taken. 

ELEVENTH: These Amended Articles of Incorporation supersede the existing Articles of Incorporation and all amendments thereto. 

  
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 EXHIBIT B 

FORM OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE 
  

			
	Certificate No. R-	 	                     Rights

 NOT EXERCISABLE AFTER FEBRUARY 9, 2021 OR EARLIER IF REDEEMED BY THE COMPANY. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, AT THE
OPTION OF THE COMPANY, AT $.001 PER RIGHT ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, RIGHTS BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT) AND ANY SUBSEQUENT HOLDER OF
SUCH RIGHTS MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. [THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED BY THIS RIGHTS CERTIFICATE ARE OR WERE BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY A PERSON WHO WAS OR BECAME AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR AN AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE OF AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED
IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT). ACCORDINGLY, THIS RIGHTS CERTIFICATE AND THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SPECIFIED IN SECTION 7(e) OF SUCH AGREEMENT.]1 

RIGHTS CERTIFICATE 

SUNLINK HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC. 

This certifies that
                                         
                   , or registered assigns, is the registered owner of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which entitles the owner thereof,
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2014 (the “Rights Agreement”), between SunLink Health Systems, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), and American Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, a limited liability trust company, (the “Rights Agent”), to purchase from the Company at any time prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York, New York time) on February 9, 2021 at the office or offices
of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, or its successors as Rights Agent, one one-hundredth of a fully paid, non-assessable share of Series A Voting Preferred Shares (the “Preferred Shares”) of the Company, at a purchase price of
$7.50 per one one-hundredth of a share (the “Purchase Price”), upon presentation and surrender of this Rights Certificate with the Form of Election to Purchase and related Certificate duly executed. The Purchase Price may be paid in cash
or by certified bank check or money order payable to the order of the Company. The number of Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate (and the number of shares which may be purchased upon exercise thereof) set forth above, and the Purchase Price
per share set forth above, are the number and Purchase Price as of                         ,
20    , based on the Preferred Shares as constituted at such date. 
  

 

	1 	The portion of the legend in brackets shall be inserted only if applicable and shall replace the preceding sentence. 

  
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 Upon the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (as such term is defined in the Rights
Agreement), if the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate are beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement), (ii) a transferee of
any such Acquiring Person, Associate or Affiliate, or (iii) under certain circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement, a transferee of a person who, after such transfer, became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any
Acquiring Person, such Rights shall become null and void and no holder hereof shall have any right with respect to such Rights from and after the occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event. 

As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number and kind of Preferred Shares or other securities which may be purchased
upon the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of certain events, including Triggering Events (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement). 

This Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions, and conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and
conditions are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the
Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates, which limitations of rights include the temporary suspension of the exercisability of such Rights under the specific circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement. Copies of the
Rights Agreement are available upon written request to the Company. 
 This Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates,
upon surrender at the principal office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, may be exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Rights entitling the holder to purchase a
like aggregate number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share as the Rights evidenced by the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered shall have entitled such holder to purchase. If this Rights Certificate shall be exercised in part,
the holder shall be entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates for the number of whole Rights not exercised. 

Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this Certificate may be redeemed by the Company at its option at a
redemption price of $.001 per Right at any time prior to the earlier of the close of business on (i) the tenth business day following the Share Acquisition Date (as such time period may be extended pursuant to the Rights Agreement), and
(ii) the Final Expiration Date. After the expiration of the redemption period, the Company’s right of redemption may be reinstated if an Acquiring Person reduces his beneficial ownership to less than 20% of the outstanding Common Shares in
a transaction or series of transactions not involving the Company and there are no other Acquiring Persons. 
 The Company may (but shall
not be required to) issue fractional Preferred Shares upon the exercise of any Right or Rights evidenced hereby (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a Preferred Shares, which may, at the election of the Company,
be evidenced by depositary receipts), and in lieu thereof a cash payment may be made, as provided in the Rights Agreement. 

  
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 No holder of this Rights Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends or
be deemed for any purpose the holder of Preferred Shares or of any other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything contained in the Rights Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon
the holder hereof, as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate
action, or, to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting shareholders except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the Rights Agreement. 
 This Rights Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for
any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the Rights Agent. 
 WITNESS, the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the
Company and its corporate seal. 
 Dated as of
                        , 20     

 

									
	ATTEST:	  		  	SUNLINK HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC.
				
	 	  		  	By:	  	 
	Secretary	  		  	Name:
                                         
                                   
		  		  	Title:
                                         
                                     
				
	COUNTERSIGNED:	  		  		  	
				
	 	  		  		  	
					
	By:	  	 	  		  		  	
	                Authorized Signature	  		  		  	

  
  
  

 
  
  

 

  
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 FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE 

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT 
 (To be
executed by the registered holder if 
 such holder desires to transfer the Rights 

Certificate.) 
  

			
	        FOR VALUE RECEIVED hereby	 	 

			
	sells, assigns and transfers unto	 	 
		 	        (Please print name and address of transferee)

  
 this Rights Certificate, together with all right, title
and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                          Attorney, to transfer
the within Rights Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. 
 Dated:
                         
  

			
	 	  	
	Signature	  	

 Signature Guaranteed: 

Certificate 
 The
undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that: 
  

	 	(1)	this Rights Certificate [ ] is [ ] is not being sold, assigned and transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined
pursuant to the Rights Agreement); 

  

	 	(2)	after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it [ ] did [ ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person. 

 Dated:
                         
  

			
	 	  	
	Signature	  	

 Signature Guaranteed: 

  
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 NOTICE 

The signature to the foregoing Assignment and Certificate must correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in
every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. 

  
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 FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE 

(To be executed if holder desires to 

exercise Rights represented by the 

Rights Certificate.) 
 To: SUNLINK HEALTH SYSTEMS,
INC. 
 The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise _______________ Rights represented by this Rights Certificate to purchase the
Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Rights (or such other securities of the Company or of any other person which may be issuable upon the exercise of the Rights) and requests that certificates for such shares be issued in the name of
and delivered to: 
 Please insert social security or other identifying number:
                                     

 

			
	 	  	
	(Please print name and address)	  	

 If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate, a new Rights Certificate for the
balance of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to: 
 Please insert social security or other identifying number:
                                     

 

			
	 	  	
	(Please print name and address)	  	

 Dated:
                                     

 

			
	 	  	
	Signature	  	

 Signature Guaranteed: 

  
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 Certification 

The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that: 

 

	 	(1)	the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate [ ] are [ ] are not being exercised by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are
defined pursuant to the Rights Agreement); 

  

	 	(2)	after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it [ ] did [ ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was or became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or
Associate of an Acquiring Person. 

 Dated:
                                     

 

			
	 	  	
	Signature	  	

 Signature Guaranteed: 

NOTICE 
 The signature to
the foregoing Election to Purchase and Certificate must correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. 

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC 

  
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