Document:

EX-4.1

 Exhibit 4.1 

RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
 THE
FINISH LINE, INC. 
 and 

BROADRIDGE CORPORATE ISSUER SOLUTIONS, INC. 

Rights Agent 
 Dated as
of August 28, 2017 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
	 Section 1.
	 	Certain Definitions	  	 	1	 
			
	 Section 2.
	 	Appointment of Rights Agent	  	 	5	 
			
	 Section 3.
	 	Issue of Right Certificates	  	 	5	 
			
	 Section 4.
	 	Form of Right Certificates	  	 	7	 
			
	 Section 5.
	 	Countersignature and Registration	  	 	7	 
			
	 Section 6.
	 	Transfer, Split-Up, Combination and Exchange of Right Certificates; Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Right Certificates	  	 	8	 
			
	 Section 7.
	 	Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights	  	 	9	 
			
	 Section 8.
	 	Cancellation and Destruction of Right Certificates	  	 	10	 
			
	 Section 9.
	 	Reservation and Availability of Preferred Shares	  	 	11	 
			
	 Section 10.
	 	Preferred Shares Record Date	  	 	12	 
			
	 Section 11.
	 	Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights	  	 	12	 
			
	 Section 12.
	 	Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares	  	 	21	 
			
	 Section 13.
	 	Consolidation, Merger, Statutory Share Exchange or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power	  	 	21	 
			
	 Section 14.
	 	Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares	  	 	24	 
			
	 Section 15.
	 	Rights of Action	  	 	25	 
			
	 Section 16.
	 	Agreement of Right Holders	  	 	26	 
			
	 Section 17.
	 	Right Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder	  	 	26	 
			
	 Section 18.
	 	Concerning the Rights Agent	  	 	27	 
			
	 Section 19.
	 	Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent	  	 	27	 

  
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	 Section 20.
	 	Duties of Rights Agent	  	 	28	 
			
	 Section 21.
	 	Change of Rights Agent	  	 	30	 
			
	 Section 22.
	 	Issuance of New Right Certificates	  	 	31	 
			
	 Section 23.
	 	Redemption	  	 	31	 
			
	 Section 24.
	 	Exchange	  	 	32	 
			
	 Section 25.
	 	Notice of Certain Events	  	 	33	 
			
	 Section 26.
	 	Notices	  	 	34	 
			
	 Section 27.
	 	Supplements and Amendments	  	 	35	 
			
	 Section 28.
	 	Successors	  	 	36	 
			
	 Section 29.
	 	Benefits of this Agreement	  	 	36	 
			
	 Section 30.
	 	Severability	  	 	36	 
			
	 Section 31.
	 	Governing Law	  	 	37	 
			
	 Section 32.
	 	Counterparts	  	 	37	 
			
	 Section 33.
	 	Descriptive Headings	  	 	37	 
			
	 Section 34.
	 	Book Entry	  	 	37	 
		
	Exhibit A — Articles of Amendment Establishing Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock	  			
		
	Exhibit B — Form of Right Certificate	  			
		
	Exhibit C — Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Shares	  			

  
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 RIGHTS AGREEMENT 

This Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of August 28, 2017, between The Finish Line, Inc., an Indiana
corporation (the “Company”), and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the “Rights Agent”). 

The Board of Directors of the Company has authorized and declared a dividend of one preferred share purchase right (individually a
“Right” and collectively the “Rights”) for each Common Share of the Company outstanding at the Close of Business on September 11, 2017 (the “Record Date”), each Right initially representing the
right to purchase one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and has further authorized the issuance of one Right (as such number may hereafter be adjusted under
Section 11) with respect to each Common Share that becomes outstanding (i) at any time between the Record Date and the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Redemption Date, the Early Expiration Date, or the Final Expiration Date or
(ii) upon the exercise or conversion, before the earliest of the Redemption Date, the Early Expiration Date, or the Final Expiration Date, of any option or other security exercisable for or convertible into Common Shares, which option or other
such security is outstanding on the Distribution Date. 
 Accordingly, the parties hereby agree as follows: 

Section 1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated: 

(a) (i) “Acquiring Person” means any Person who or which, together with all Affiliates and Associates of that
Person, shall be the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the Common Shares of the Company then outstanding, but does not include (A) the Company, (B) any Subsidiary of the Company, (C) any employee benefit plan of the Company or of
any Subsidiary of the Company, (D) any entity holding Common Shares for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan described in clause (C) (the Persons described in clauses (A) through (D) being referred to as “Exempt
Persons”), or (E) any other Person who, together with all of its Affiliates and Associates, is the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the then-outstanding Common Shares immediately before the public announcement of the adoption of
this Agreement, and has disclosed in a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the Record Date that such Person, together with all of its Affiliates and Associates, is (or was, immediately
before the public announcement of the adoption of this Agreement) the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the then-outstanding Common Shares, unless such Person, together with all of its Affiliates and Associates, acquires, after the public
announcement of the adoption of this Agreement, beneficial ownership of Common Shares in addition to those beneficially owned by it, together with all of its Affiliates and Associates, immediately before the public announcement of the adoption of
this Agreement that would render such Person, together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person, the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the Common Shares then outstanding. 

(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Person shall become an Acquiring Person as the result of an acquisition of Common Shares
by the Company that, by 

 
reducing the number of Common Shares outstanding, increases the proportionate number of Common Shares beneficially owned by that Person to 12.5% or more of the Common Shares of the Company then
outstanding; provided, however, that if a Person, together with all Affiliates or Associates of such Person, becomes the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the Common Shares of the Company then outstanding by reason of share
acquisitions by the Company and if that Person or that Person’s Affiliates or Associates, after such share acquisitions by the Company, becomes the Beneficial Owner of any additional Common Shares, and, immediately after becoming the Beneficial
Owner of such additional Common Shares, that Person, together with all Affiliates and Associates of that Person, is the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more of the Common Shares of the Company then outstanding, then that Person (unless that Person is
an Exempt Person) shall be deemed an Acquiring Person. 
 (iii) An entity other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company holding Common Shares for or pursuant to the terms of an employee benefit plan of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the Company and in addition being the Beneficial Owner of Common Shares that are not held for or pursuant to the terms of
any such plan shall be deemed to constitute an Acquiring Person, notwithstanding anything herein stated, if, but only if, the entity, together with its Affiliates and Associates, shall be the Beneficial Owner of 12.5% or more, exclusive of those
Common Shares held by it for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan, of the Common Shares then outstanding. 
 (iv)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that a Person who would otherwise be an Acquiring Person has become such inadvertently (including, without limitation, because (A) the Person was
unaware that it beneficially owned a percentage of the Common Shares that would otherwise cause the Person to be an Acquiring Person or (B) the Person was aware of the extent of its Beneficial Ownership but had no actual knowledge of the
consequences of such Beneficial Ownership under this Agreement), and without any intention of changing or influencing control of the Company, and the Person divests as promptly as practicable a sufficient number of Common Shares so that the Person
would no longer be an Acquiring Person, then the Person shall not be deemed to be an Acquiring Person. 
 (v) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if a bona fide swaps dealer who would otherwise be an Acquiring Person has become so as a result of its actions in the ordinary course of its business that the Board of Directors of the Company determines, in its sole discretion, were
taken without the intent or effect of evading or assisting any other Person to evade the purposes and intent of this Agreement, or otherwise seeking to control or influence the management or policies of the Company, then, and unless and until the
Board of Directors shall otherwise determine, such Person shall not be deemed to be an Acquiring Person. 

  
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 (b) “Affiliate” and “Associate” have the
respective meanings ascribed to such terms in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). 

(c) A Person is deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, and is deemed to “beneficially own” or have
“beneficial ownership” of, any securities: 
 (i) that the Person or any of the Person’s Affiliates or
Associates beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, including without limitation securities with respect to which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates has beneficial ownership under Rule
13d-3 under the Exchange Act; 
 (ii) that the Person or any of the Person’s
Affiliates or Associates has, directly or indirectly, (A) the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) under any agreement, arrangement, or understanding, whether or not in writing
(other than customary agreements with and between underwriters and selling-group members with respect to a bona fide public offering of securities), or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, other rights (other than the Rights),
warrants or options, or otherwise; provided, however, that a Person is not deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, or to have beneficial ownership of any securities solely because such securities are tendered pursuant
to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of the Person or any of the Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange; or (B) the right to vote or dispose of (including
without limitation under any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing)); provided, however, that a Person is not deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, or to have beneficial ownership of, any
securities solely because of the right to vote such securities under an agreement, arrangement, or understanding if the agreement, arrangement, or understanding to vote such securities (1) arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given
to the Person or any of the Person’s Affiliates or Associates in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and (2) is not also
then reportable by such Person on Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report) as being beneficially owned by such Person; or 

(iii) that are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person (or any Affiliate or Associate thereof) with
which the Person (or any of the Person’s Affiliates or Associates) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding 

  
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(other than customary agreements with and between underwriters and selling-group members with respect to a bona fide public offering of securities) for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting
(except pursuant to a revocable proxy as described in the final proviso to Section 1(c)(ii)) or disposing of any voting securities of the Company. 

Notwithstanding anything in these definitions of Beneficial Owner, beneficially own, or beneficial ownership to the contrary,
the phrase “then outstanding,” when used with reference to a Person’s beneficial ownership of securities of the Company, means the number of such securities then issued and outstanding together with the number of such
securities not then actually issued and outstanding that the Person would be deemed to beneficially own under this Agreement. 

(d) “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions in the
State of New York or Indiana are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 
 (e) “Close of
Business” on any given date means 5:00 P.M., Indianapolis, Indiana time, on such date; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day it means 5:00 P.M. Indianapolis, Indiana time, on the next Business
Day. 
 (f) “Common Shares,” when used with reference to the Company, means the Company’s Class A
Common Shares, no par value (as such par value may be changed from time to time). Common Shares, when used with reference to any Person other than the Company, means the capital stock (or equity interest) with the greatest voting power of the other
Person or, if the other Person is a Subsidiary of another Person, the Person or Persons that ultimately control the first-mentioned Person. 

(g) “Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 3. 

(h) “Early Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7. 

(i) “Final Expiration Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 7. 

(j) “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, or other
entity, including any successor (by merger or otherwise) of any such entity. 
 (k) “Preferred Shares” means
shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, no par value (as such par value may be changed from time to time), of the Company having the rights and preferences set forth in the Articles of Amendment in the form attached to this
Agreement as Exhibit A. 

  
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 (l) “Redemption Date” has the meaning set forth in
Section 7. 
 (m) “Section 11(a)(ii) Event” means an event described in the first sentence of
Section 11(a)(ii). 
 (n) “Section 13 Event” means any event described in clause (w), (x), (y), or
(z) of Section 13(a). 
 (o) “Shares Acquisition Date” means the first date of public announcement
(which, for purposes of this definition, includes, without limitation, a report filed pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) by the Company or an Acquiring Person that an Acquiring Person has become such. 

(p) “Subsidiary” of any Person means any corporation or other entity of which a majority of the voting power
of the voting equity securities or other equity interests entitled to vote in the election of directors (or Persons with comparable responsibilities if the entity has no directors) is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by the Person, or
otherwise controlled by the Person. 
 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, shall, before the Distribution Date, also be the holders of the Common Shares) in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, 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. 

Section 3. Issue of Right Certificates. 

(a) Until the Close of Business on the 10th Business Day after the Shares Acquisition Date (including any such date that is
after the date of this Agreement and before the issuance of the Rights), such date being the “Distribution Date”), (i) the Rights will be evidenced (subject to the provisions of Section 3(b)) by the certificates for Common
Shares registered in the names of the holders thereof (which certificates shall also be deemed to be Right Certificates where the context so requires) and not by separate Right Certificates, and (ii) the right to receive Right Certificates will
be transferable only in connection with the transfer of Common Shares. As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, the Company will prepare and execute, the Rights Agent will countersign, and the Company will send or cause to be sent (and
the Rights Agent will, if requested, send) by first-class, postage-prepaid mail, to each record holder of 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 Right Certificates, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto (the “Right 

  
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Certificates”), evidencing one Right for each Common Share so held, subject to adjustment under Section 11(i). If an adjustment in the number of Rights per Common Share has been
made under Section 11(i), at the time Right Certificates are distributed, the Company may, to the extent provided in Section 14(a), make the necessary and appropriate adjustments (as set forth in Section 14(a)) so that Right
Certificates are distributed representing only whole numbers of Rights and pay cash in lieu of fractional Rights under Section 14(a). As of and after the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced solely by such Right Certificates. 

(b) On the Record Date, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Company will send a copy of a Summary of Rights to Purchase
Preferred Shares, in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto (the “Summary of Rights”), by first-class, postage-prepaid mail, to each record
holder of 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 Common Shares outstanding as of the Record Date, until the Distribution Date
(or the earlier Redemption Date, Early Expiration Date, or Final Expiration Date), the Rights will be evidenced by such certificates registered in the names of the holders thereof, and the registered holders of the Common Shares shall also be the
registered holders of the associated Rights. Until the Distribution Date (or the earlier of the Redemption Date or the Final Expiration Date), the surrender for transfer of any certificate for Common Shares outstanding on the Record Date, with or
without a copy of the Summary of Rights attached thereto, shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented thereby. 

(c) Certificates for Common Shares that become outstanding after the Record Date and (i) before the earliest of the
Distribution Date, the Redemption Date, or the Final Expiration Date or (ii) upon the exercise or conversion, before the earliest of the Redemption Date, the Early Expiration Date, or the Final Expiration Date, of any option or other security
exercisable for or convertible into Common Shares, which option or other security is outstanding on the Distribution Date, shall have impressed on, printed on, written on or otherwise affixed to them the following legend: 

This certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as set forth in a Rights Agreement between The
Finish Line, Inc. and Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., as Rights Agent, dated as of August 28, 2017 (the “Rights Agreement”), the terms of which (including restrictions on the transfer of such Rights) are hereby
incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal executive 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 without 

  
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charge after receipt of a written request therefor to its Secretary from such holder. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights that are or were beneficially owned
by an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) may become null and void. 

With respect to certificates containing the foregoing legend, until the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Redemption Date,
the Early Expiration Date, or the Final Expiration Date, the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented by such certificates shall be evidenced by such certificates alone, the registered holders of the Common Shares shall also be the
registered holders of the associated Rights, and the surrender for transfer of any such certificate shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Shares represented thereby. If the Company purchases or acquires any
Common Shares after the Record Date but before the Distribution Date, any Rights associated with such Common Shares shall be deemed canceled and retired so that the Company shall not be entitled to exercise any Rights associated with the Common
Shares that are no longer outstanding. 
 Section 4. Form of Right Certificates. The Right Certificates (and the forms of
election to purchase Preferred Shares and of assignment to be printed on the reverse thereof) shall be in substantially the form of 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, rule, or regulation (including, without limitation, any rule
or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Rights may from time to time be listed) or to conform to usage or to reflect adjustments to the Rights made under this Agreement. Subject to Sections 11 and 22, the initial Right Certificates,
whenever distributed, shall entitle the holders thereof to purchase such number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share as shall be set forth therein at the price per one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share set forth therein (the price per
ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share being the “Purchase Price”), but the amount and type of securities purchasable upon the exercise of each Right and the Purchase Price shall be subject to adjustment as provided in this Agreement.

 Section 5. Countersignature and Registration. 

(a) The Right Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any one of its Chief Executive Officer, its Chairman
of the Board, the Chief Financial Officer, or any of its Vice Presidents, either manually or by facsimile signature. The Right Certificates shall be countersigned, either manually or by facsimile signature, by the Rights Agent and shall not be valid
for any purpose unless so countersigned. If any officer of the Company who shall have signed or whose facsimile signature shall appear on any of the Right Certificates ceases to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by the Rights
Agent and issuance and delivery by the Company, such Right Certificates, nevertheless, may be countersigned by the Rights 

  
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Agent and issued and delivered by the Company, with the same force and effect as though the person who signed such Right Certificates had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any
Right Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual date of the signing of such Right Certificate, shall be a proper officer of the Company to sign such Right 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 principal office or the office or offices designated as the appropriate place for surrender of Right Certificates upon exercise or transfer, books for registration and transfer of the Right Certificates. Such
books shall show the names and addresses of the respective holders of the Right Certificates, the number of Rights evidenced on its face by each of the Right Certificates and the date and certificate number of each of the Right Certificates. 

Section 6. Transfer, Split-Up, Combination and Exchange of Right Certificates; Lost,
Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Right Certificates. 
 (a) Subject to Section 14, at any time after the Close of
Business on the Distribution Date, and at or before the Close of Business on the earliest of the Redemption Date, the Early Expiration Date, or the Final Expiration Date, any Right Certificate or Right Certificates (other than Right Certificates
representing Rights that have become void under Section 11(a)(ii) or that have been exchanged under Section 24) may be transferred, split up, combined, or exchanged for another Right Certificate or Right Certificates, entitling the
registered holder to purchase a like number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share as the Right Certificate or Right 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 Right Certificate or Right Certificates shall make such request in writing delivered to the Rights Agent, and shall surrender the Right Certificate or Right Certificates to be
transferred, split up, combined, or exchanged at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose. Thereupon the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 14, countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto a Right
Certificate or Right Certificates, as the case may be, as so requested. The Company may require payment by the registered holder 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 Right Certificates. Neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to take any action whatsoever with respect to the transfer of any such surrendered Right
Certificate until the registered holder shall have duly completed and executed the form of assignment on the reverse side of such Right Certificate and shall have provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former
Beneficial Owner) of such Right Certificate or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably request. 

  
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 (b) Upon receipt by the Company and the Rights Agent of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to each of them of the loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation of a Right Certificate, and, in case of loss, theft, or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to them, and, at the Company’s request,
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 Right Certificate if mutilated, the Company will execute (either manually or by facsimile
signature) and deliver a new Right Certificate of like tenor to the Rights Agent for countersignature and delivery to the registered owner in lieu of the Right Certificate so lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated. 

Section 7. Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights. 

(a) Subject to Section 11(a)(ii), the registered holder of any Right Certificate may exercise the Rights evidenced thereby
(except as otherwise provided in this Agreement) in whole or in part at any time after the Distribution Date upon surrender of the Right Certificate, with the form of election to purchase on the reverse side thereof duly completed and executed, to
the Rights Agent at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, together with payment of the Purchase Price for each one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share as to which the Rights are exercised, before the earliest of
(i) the Close of Business on August 28, 2020 (the “Final Expiration Date”), (ii) the time at which the Rights are redeemed as provided in Section 23 (the “Redemption Date”), (iii) the time
at which such Rights are exchanged as provided in Section 24, or (iv) the Business Day immediately following the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of shareholders (including any adjournment thereof) if this Agreement shall not have been
approved, on or before such date, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power present, in person or by proxy, and entitled to vote at a meeting of the Company’s shareholders duly held in accordance with the
Company’s restated articles of incorporation and bylaws and Indiana law (the “Early Expiration Date”). 

(b) The Purchase Price for each one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share purchasable pursuant to the exercise of a Right shall
initially be $26.00, shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Sections 11 and 13, and shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America in accordance with Section 7(c). 

(c) Upon receipt of a Right Certificate representing exercisable Rights, with the form of election to purchase duly completed
and executed, accompanied by payment of the Purchase Price for the shares to be purchased and an amount equal to any applicable transfer tax required to be paid by the holder of such Right Certificate in accordance with Section 9 in cash, or by
certified check, bank cashier’s check, or money order payable to the order of the Company, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 20(k), thereupon promptly (i) (A) requisition from any transfer agent of the Preferred Shares
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Rights Agent is the transfer agent for such shares) certificates for the number of Preferred Shares 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 under this Agreement with a depositary agent, requisition from the depositary agent depositary
receipts representing such number of one ten-thousandths 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 of the Preferred Shares
with the depositary agent), and the Company hereby directs the depositary agent to comply with such request, (ii) when appropriate, requisition from the Company the amount of cash to be paid in lieu of issuance of fractional interests in shares
in accordance with Section 14, (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 Right Certificate, registered in such name or names as may
be designated by such holder, and (iv) when appropriate, after receipt, deliver such cash for fractional interests in shares to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Right Certificate. 

(d) If the registered holder of any Right Certificate exercises less than all the Rights evidenced thereby, a new Right
Certificate evidencing Rights equivalent to the Rights remaining unexercised shall be issued by the Rights Agent and delivered to the registered holder of such Right Certificate or to such holder’s duly authorized assigns, subject to
Section 14. 
 (e) 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) duly completed and executed the form
of election to purchase set forth on the reverse side of the Right Certificate surrendered for such exercise and (ii) provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) of such Right
Certificate or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably request. 
 Section 8. Cancellation and
Destruction of Right Certificates. All Right Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise, transfer, split-up, combination, or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or to any of its
agents, be delivered to the Rights Agent for cancellation or in canceled form, or, if surrendered to the Rights Agent, shall be canceled by it, and no Right 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 retirement, and the Rights Agent shall so cancel and retire, any other Right Certificate purchased or acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the
exercise thereof. Subject to applicable law and regulation, the Rights Agent shall maintain in a retrievable database electronic records of all Right Certificates that have been canceled or destroyed by the Rights Agent. The Rights Agent shall
maintain such electronic records or physical records for the time period required by applicable law and regulation. 

  
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Upon written request of the Company (and at the expense of the Company), the Rights Agent shall provide to the Company or its designee copies of such electronic records or physical records
relating to Rights Certificates canceled or destroyed by the Rights Agent. 
 Section 9. Reservation and Availability of
Preferred Shares. 
 (a) The Company will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued
Preferred Shares, the number of Preferred Shares that will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights. 

(b) The Company will prepare and file, as soon as practicable following expiration of the Company’s right of redemption
under Section 23, a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), with respect to the Rights and the Company’s securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on an appropriate form,
and use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to (i) become effective as soon as practicable after such filing, and (ii) 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 or (B) the Final Expiration Date. 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 90 days after the date the registration statement is filed, the
exercisability of the Rights in order to permit the registration statement 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 if the requisite qualification in such
jurisdiction shall not have been obtained or the exercise thereof is not permitted under applicable law. 
 (c) The Company
will take all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all Preferred Shares delivered upon exercise of Rights shall, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such Preferred Shares (subject to payment of the Purchase Price and any
applicable transfer taxes), be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and nonassessable shares. 
 (d) The
Company will pay when due and payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges that may be payable in respect of the issuance or delivery of the Right Certificates or of any Preferred Shares upon the exercise of Rights. The Company
shall not, however, be required to pay any transfer tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer or delivery of Right Certificates to a person other than, or the issuance or delivery of certificates or depositary receipts for the Preferred
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registered holder of the Right Certificate evidencing Rights surrendered for exercise, or to issue or to deliver any certificates or depositary receipts for Preferred Shares upon the exercise of
any Rights, until any such tax shall have been paid (any such tax being payable by the holder of such Right 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 Shares Record Date. Each person in whose name any certificate for Preferred Shares is issued upon the
exercise of Rights shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of the Preferred Shares represented thereby on, and such certificate shall be dated, the date upon which the Right Certificate evidencing such Rights was duly
surrendered and payment of the Purchase Price (and any applicable transfer taxes) was made; provided, however, that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the Preferred Shares transfer books of the Company are
closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such shares on, and such certificate shall be dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which the Preferred Shares transfer books of the Company are open. Before the exercise
of the Rights evidenced thereby, the holder of a Right Certificate as such shall not be entitled to any rights of a holder of Preferred 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. 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. 

(a) (i) If the Company at any time after the date of this Agreement (A) declares a dividend on the Preferred Shares
payable in Preferred Shares, (B) subdivides the outstanding Preferred Shares, (C) combines the outstanding Preferred Shares into a smaller number of Preferred Shares, or (D) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification
of the Preferred Shares (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation, merger, or statutory share exchange in which the Company is the continuing, surviving, or acquiring corporation), except as otherwise provided in this
Section 11(a), 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 shares of capital stock issuable on such
date pursuant to the exercise of the Rights, 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 Price then in effect (and any applicable transfer
taxes), the aggregate number and kind of shares of capital stock that, if such Right had been exercised immediately before such date and at a time when the Preferred Shares transfer books of the Company were open, such holder would have owned upon
such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification. If an event occurs that would require an adjustment under both Sections 11(a)(i) and 11(a)(ii), the adjustment provided for in
this Section 11(a)(i) shall be in addition to, and shall be made before, any adjustment required under Section 11(a)(ii). 

  
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 (ii) Subject to Section 24, if any Person becomes an Acquiring Person (other
than pursuant to any Section 13 Event occurring after the Distribution Date or within 10 Business Days prior thereto), proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, subject to Section 11(a)(iii), shall thereafter have a
right to receive, upon exercise thereof by payment of the amount equal to the product of the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share which would otherwise be issuable upon exercise of a Right and the then current Purchase Price in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of Preferred Shares, such number of Common Shares equal to the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share for
which a Right is exercisable immediately before the occurrence of the Section 11(a)(ii) Event and (y) dividing that product by 50% of the current per-share market price of the Company’s Common Shares (determined under
Section 11(d)) on the date of such occurrence. 
 From and after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event
or a Section 13 Event, any Rights that are beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) or were beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) after the Acquiring Person
became an Acquiring Person shall become null and void without any further action and no holder of such Rights shall thereafter have any rights to exercise such Rights or any other rights whatsoever with respect to such Rights, whether under any
provision of this Agreement or otherwise. No Right Certificate shall be issued under Section 3 that represents Rights that would be void under the preceding sentence; no Right Certificate shall be issued at any time upon the transfer of any
Rights to an Acquiring Person whose Rights would be void under the preceding sentence or any Associate or Affiliate of such an Acquiring Person or to any nominee of such Acquiring Person, Associate or Affiliate; and any Right Certificate delivered
to the Rights Agent for transfer to an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate of such an Acquiring Person whose Rights would be void under the preceding sentence shall be canceled. The Company shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that
the provisions of this Section 11(a)(ii) are complied with, but shall have no liability to any holder of a Right Certificate or other Person as a result of its failure in good faith to make any determinations with respect to an Acquiring Person
or its Affiliates or Associates. 
 (iii) If, on the date of the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (the
“Adjustment Date”), the Company does not have sufficient authorized, unissued and unreserved Common Shares available to permit the exercise in full of all Rights that are exercisable on the Adjustment Date for the number of Common
Shares per Right provided for in Section 11(a)(ii), then the Exercise Price and the number of Common Shares to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of a Right shall be further adjusted as provided in this Section 11(a)(iii). 

  
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 (1) Definitions: 

(A) The “Aggregate Market Value” is the product of (x) the number of Available Shares and (y) the
current per-share market price of the Common Shares on the Adjustment Date, determined as provided in Section 11(d). 

(B) The “Available Shares” are all unreserved Common Shares that are authorized and unissued immediately
before the Adjustment Date. 
 (C) The “Exercise Price” is the amount of the payment that must be made by
the holder of a Right in connection with the exercise of one Right immediately before the Adjustment Date. 
 (D) The
“Deficiency” is the amount by which (x) two times the Exercise Price exceeds (y) the quotient obtained by dividing the Aggregate Market Value by the number of Rights remaining outstanding immediately before the Adjustment
Date (the “Remaining Rights”) (which number shall not include the Rights that are beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) or were beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any
Associate or Affiliate thereof) after the Acquiring Person became an Acquiring Person that shall have become void under Section 11(a)(ii)). 

(2) If the Deficiency is less than or equal to the Exercise Price, then: 

(A) the number of Common Shares to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of a Right shall be adjusted to be equal to the
number of Available Shares divided by the number of Remaining Rights; and 
 (B) the amount of cash required to be delivered
by the holder of a Right upon the exercise thereof shall be adjusted (the “New Exercise Price”) to equal the Exercise Price minus the Deficiency; provided, however, that in no event will the New Exercise Price be less
than the aggregate par value of the Common Shares required to be delivered upon the exercise of one Right under Section 11(a)(iii)(2)(A). 

  
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 (3) If the Deficiency is greater than the Exercise Price, then: 

(A) the number of Common Shares to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of a Right shall be adjusted to equal the
quotient obtained by dividing the Exercise Price by the current per-share market price of the Common Shares on the Adjustment Date; 

(B) the New Exercise Price shall equal the aggregate par value of the Common Shares required to be delivered upon the exercise
of one Right under Section 11(a)(iii)(3)(A); and 
 (C) in lieu of issuing Common Shares (in whole or in part upon the
exercise of Rights) the Company may issue, upon the exercise of Rights at the New Exercise Price, other equity securities of the Company (including, without limitation, shares, or units or fractions of shares, of preferred stock, which may include
Preferred Shares, that the Board of Directors of the Company has determined to have substantially the same value, voting rights and other rights as Common Shares (such equity securities are called “common share equivalents”)). To
the extent that such common share equivalents (or fractions thereof) are substituted for Common Shares upon exercise of the Rights following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, they shall be substituted on a pro-rata basis with respect to all Rights (other than Rights that are beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) or were beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any
Associate or Affiliate thereof) after the Acquiring Person became an Acquiring Person that shall have become void under Section 11(a)(ii)). Such common share equivalents shall not be included in Available Shares, and all of the Available Shares
shall be reserved, as of the Adjustment Date, for issuance, on a pro-rata basis, upon exercise of the Rights and may not be substituted for with common share equivalents upon the exercise of any Right except
to the extent that the number of Common Shares required to be delivered under Section 11(a)(iii)(3)(A) upon the exercise of such Right exceeds the quotient of the number of Available Shares divided by the number of Remaining Rights. 

(4) If, at the time any adjustment is required under this Section 11(a)(iii), the Common Shares have no par value, then
for the purposes of this Section 11(a)(iii), the par value of the Common Shares shall be deemed to be $.001 per share. 

(5) If there are not sufficient authorized but unissued and unreserved Common Shares (or common share equivalents the issuance
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which is permitted under Section 11(a)(iii)(3)(C)) to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with this Section 11(a)(iii), the Company shall use its best efforts to
cause the authorization of sufficient additional Common Shares or common share equivalents to permit such exercise and, if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that it is likely that sufficient additional Common Shares or
common share equivalents could be authorized to permit such exercise, the Company may suspend the exercisability of the Rights for a period not to exceed 90 days (and not beyond the Final Expiration Date) in order to seek any authorization of
additional Common Shares or other common share equivalents. In the event of 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. 
 (b) If the Company fixes a record date for the
issuance of rights, options, or warrants to all holders of Preferred Shares entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 calendar days after such record date) to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares (or shares having the same rights,
privileges and preferences as the Preferred Shares (“equivalent preferred shares”)) or securities convertible into Preferred Shares or equivalent preferred shares at a price per Preferred Share or equivalent preferred share (or
having a conversion price per share, if a security convertible into Preferred Shares or equivalent preferred shares) less than the current per-share market price of the Preferred Shares (as determined under Section 11(d)) 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 before such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which is 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 per share market price, and the denominator of which is 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 in a consideration part or all of which shall 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 again be adjusted to be the Purchase Price that would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed. 

  
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 (c) If the Company fixes a record date for the making of a distribution to all
holders of the Preferred Shares (including any such distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation or in a statutory share exchange) of evidences of indebtedness or cash
or non-cash assets (other than a regular quarterly cash dividend or a dividend payable in Preferred Shares) or subscription rights or warrants (excluding those referred to in Section 11(b)), the Purchase
Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately before such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which is the then-current per-share market price of the Preferred Shares
(as determined under Section 11(d)) 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 and
shall be binding on the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights) of the portion of the evidences of indebtedness or cash or non-cash assets so to be distributed on, or of such subscription rights or
warrants applicable to, one Preferred Share, and the denominator of which is such then-current per-share market price of the 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 again be adjusted to be the Purchase Price that would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed. 

(d) (i) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “current per-share market price” of any security (a
“Security” for the purpose of this Section 11(d)(i)) on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices per share of such Security for the 30 consecutive Trading Days immediately before such date;
provided, however, that if the current per-share market price of the Security is determined during a period following the announcement by the issuer of such Security of (A) a dividend or distribution on such Security payable in
such Security or securities convertible into such Security (other than the Rights) or (B) any subdivision, combination or reclassification of such Security, and before 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, then, and in each such case, the current per-share market price shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect the current market price per share
equivalent of such Security. 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
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not listed and admitted to trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market, as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national
securities exchange on which the Security is listed or admitted to trading or, if the Security is 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 in the over-the-counter market, as reported on the quoting or reporting system then in use, or, if on any such day the Security is not so quoted or
reported, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in the Security selected by the Board of Directors of the Company. Except as provided in Section 11(d)(ii) with respect to
Preferred Shares, if on any such day the Security is not publicly held or no professional market maker is making a market in the Security, the fair value of such Security on such day 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) shall be used in lieu of the closing price for such day. “Trading
Day” means a day on which the principal national securities exchange on which the Security is listed or admitted to trading is open for the transaction of business or, if the Security is not listed or admitted to trading on any national
securities exchange, a Business Day. 
 (ii) If the Preferred Shares are not publicly held or traded in a manner described in
Section 11(d)(i), then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in Section 11(d)(i), the “current per-share market price” of the Preferred Shares shall be conclusively deemed to be the current per-share market price of
the Common Shares as determined under Section 11(d)(i) (appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction occurring after the date of this Agreement) multiplied by ten thousand. If neither the Common
Shares nor the Preferred Shares are publicly held or so traded, the “current per-share market price” 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 binding on the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights. 

(e) Except as provided in the third sentence of this Section 11(e), no adjustment in the Purchase Price shall be required
unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the Purchase Price; provided, however, that any adjustments that 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 one one-millionth of a Preferred Share or one ten-thousandth of any other share or security, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 11(e), any adjustment required by this Section 11, but for the first sentence of this
Section 11(e), shall be made no later than the earlier of (i) three years from the date of the transaction that requires such adjustment or (ii) the Final Expiration Date. 

(f) If, as a result of an adjustment made under Section 11(a) or 13(a), the holder of any Right thereafter exercised shall
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exercise of any Right 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) through (c), and the provisions of Sections 7, 9, 10, 13, and 14 with respect to the Preferred Shares shall apply on like terms to any such other shares. 

(g) All Rights originally issued by the Company after any adjustment made to the Purchase Price under this Agreement shall
evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share (or other securities) purchasable from time to time under this Agreement upon exercise of the Rights, all subject to further
adjustment as provided in this Agreement. 
 (h) Unless the Company exercises 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 before the making of such adjustment shall thereafter evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted
Purchase Price, that number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share (calculated to the nearest one one-millionth of a Preferred Share) obtained by (i) multiplying (x) the number of one
ten-thousandths of a share covered by a Right immediately before this adjustment by (y) the Purchase Price in effect immediately before 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 substitution for any adjustment in the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share purchasable upon the exercise of a Right. Each of the Rights outstanding after such
adjustment of the number of Rights shall be exercisable for the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share for which a Right was exercisable immediately before such adjustment. Each Right held of record before 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 before 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 Right Certificates have been issued on or after the Distribution Date, shall be at least 10 days later than the
date of the public announcement. If Right Certificates have been issued on or after the Distribution Date, upon each adjustment of the number of Rights under this Section 11(i), the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, cause to be
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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 Right Certificates held by such holders
before the date of adjustment, and upon surrender thereof, if required by the Company, new Right Certificates evidencing all the Rights to which such holders shall be entitled after such adjustment. Right Certificates so to be distributed shall be
issued, executed and countersigned in the manner provided for in this Agreement, shall bear the adjusted Purchase Price, and shall be registered in the names of the holders of record of Right 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 ten-thousandths of a
Preferred Share issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the Right Certificates theretofore issued may continue to express the Purchase Price and the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share that were expressed at the time of the issuance
of such Right Certificates under this Agreement. 
 (k) In any case in which this Section 11 requires 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 issuing to the holder of any Right exercised after such record date of the Preferred Shares and
other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the Preferred Shares and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise on the basis of the Purchase Price in
effect before 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 upon the occurrence of the
event requiring such adjustment. 
 (l) Anything in this Section 11 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company is
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 the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine to be advisable in order that any
(i) consolidation or subdivision of the Preferred Shares, (ii) issuance wholly for cash of any of the Preferred Shares at less than the current per share 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) dividends on Preferred Shares payable in Preferred Shares, or (v) issuance of rights, options, or warrants referred to in Section 11(b), hereafter
made by the Company to holders of its Preferred Shares shall not be taxable to such shareholders. 
 (m) Anything in this
Agreement or the Rights to the contrary notwithstanding, if at any time after the date of this Agreement and before the Distribution Date, the Company (i) declares or pays any dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares or
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such case (x) the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share purchasable after such event upon proper exercise of each Right shall be determined by multiplying the number of one
ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share so purchasable immediately before such event by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately before such event and the denominator of which is the number of Common
Shares outstanding immediately after such event, and (y) each Common Share outstanding immediately after such event shall have issued with respect to it that number of Rights which each Common Share outstanding immediately before such event had
issued with respect to it. The adjustments provided for in this Section 11(m) shall be made successively whenever such a dividend is declared or paid or such a subdivision, combination or consolidation is effected. If an event occurs that would
require an adjustment under Section 11(a)(ii) and this Section 11(m), the adjustments provided for in this Section 11(m) shall be in addition and before any adjustment required under Section 11(a)(ii). 

(n) If any adjustment in the Purchase Price under Section 11(b) or (c) would not be permitted by law, under the
Company’s Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or under the Articles of Amendment establishing the Preferred Shares, no such issuance of securities or distribution of evidences of indebtedness or other assets or subscription rights
or warrants, as the case may be, that would require such an adjustment but for the limitations established by law, the Company’s Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or such Articles of Amendment shall be made by the Company. 

Section 12. Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares. Whenever an adjustment is made as provided in
Sections 11 and 13, 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 Common Shares or the Preferred Shares a copy of such certificate, and (c) if such adjustment is made after the Distribution Date, mail a brief summary thereof to each holder of record of a Right Certificate in accordance with
Section 25. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on such certificate and on any adjustment therein contained. 

Section 13. Consolidation, Merger, Statutory Share Exchange or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power. 

(a) If, after the Distribution Date or within 10 Business Days prior thereto, directly or indirectly, 

(w) the Company consolidates with, or merges with and into, any other Person, and the Company is not the continuing or
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 (x) any Person consolidates with the Company, or merges with and into the Company
and the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation of such merger and, in connection with such consolidation or merger, all or part of the outstanding Common Shares held by existing shareholders of the Company are changed into or exchanged
for stock or other securities of any other Person (or the Company) or money or any other property (except as a result of the exercise of statutory dissenters’ rights), 

(y) the Company effects a statutory share exchange with outstanding Common Shares being exchanged for stock or other securities
of any other Person, money or other property, or 
 (z) the Company sells or otherwise transfers (or one or more of its
Subsidiaries sells or otherwise transfers), in one or a series of related transactions, assets or earning power aggregating 50% or more 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 one or more of its wholly owned Subsidiaries), 
 then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be
made so that (i) each holder of a Right (except as otherwise provided herein) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof by payment of the amount equal to the product of the number of one ten-thousandths of a
Preferred Share that would otherwise be issuable upon exercise of a Right and the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and in lieu of Preferred Shares, such number of validly authorized and issued, fully paid,
nonassessable and freely tradable Common Shares of the Principal Party, not subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of first refusal or adverse claims, as shall be equal to the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then current Purchase
Price by the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share for which a Right is, immediately before the occurrence of the Section 13 Event, exercisable and (y) dividing that product by 50% of the then-current per-share market price of
the Common Shares of such Principal Party (determined under Section 11(d)) on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; (ii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such merger,
consolidation, statutory share exchange, sale or transfer, all the obligations and duties of the Company under this Agreement; (iii) the term “Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party; and (iv) such
Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of its Common Shares to permit the exercise of all outstanding Rights) in connection with the consummation of any such transaction as may be
necessary to ensure 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. 

  
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 (b) “Principal Party” means: 

(i) in the case of any transaction described in clause (w), (x), or (y) of the first sentence of Section 13(a), the
Person (including, without limitation, the Company as successor thereto or as the surviving corporation) that is the issuer of any securities into which Common Shares are converted in such merger, consolidation or exchange, or if no securities are
so issued, the Person that is the other party to such merger, consolidation or exchange; 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 or have not been
continuously over the preceding 12-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 Section 13 Event unless the Principal Party shall have a sufficient number of authorized, unreserved Common Shares that have not been issued or are held in treasury 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 Sections 13(a) and (b) and further providing
that, as soon as practicable after the date of any Section 13 Event, the Principal Party will: 
 (i) prepare and file a
registration statement under the Act, with respect to the Rights and the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights, on an appropriate form, and 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 earlier of (1) the date as of which the Rights are no longer exercisable for such securities or
(2) the Final Expiration Date; 
 (ii) 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; and 

  
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 (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. 

(d) The Company shall not enter into any transaction of the kind referred to in this Section 13 if at the time of such
transaction there are any rights, warrants, instruments, or securities outstanding or any agreements or arrangements that, as a result of the consummation of such transaction, would eliminate or substantially diminish the benefits intended to be
afforded by the Rights. 
 The provisions of this Section 13 shall similarly apply to successive mergers, consolidations, statutory
share exchanges or sales, or other transfers. 
 Section 14. Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares. 

(a) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Rights or to distribute Right Certificates that evidence fractional
Rights. In lieu of such fractional Rights, there may be paid to the registered holders of the Right 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 the Rights for the Trading Day immediately before 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 or admitted to trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market or, if the Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market, 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 the 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 in the over-the-counter market, as reported on the
quoting or reporting system then in use or, if on any such date the Rights are not so quoted or reported, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in the 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 the Rights on such date as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company shall be used in lieu of the
closing price for such day. 
 (b) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Preferred Shares (other than
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or, if a Right shall then be exercisable for a fraction other than one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share, integral multiples of that fraction) upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute
certificates that evidence fractions of Preferred Shares (other than fractions that are integral multiples of one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share or, if a Right shall then be exercisable for a fraction other than one ten-thousandth of a
Preferred Share, integral multiples of that fraction). Fractions of Preferred Shares in integral multiples of one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share or, if a Right shall then be exercisable for a fraction other than one ten-thousandth of a
Preferred Share, integral multiples of that fraction may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depositary selected by it, provided, that such
agreement shall provide that the holders of such depositary receipts shall have all the rights, privileges and preferences to which they are entitled as beneficial owners of the Preferred Shares represented by such depositary receipts. In lieu of
fractional Preferred Shares that are not integral multiples of one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share, or, if a Right shall then be exercisable for a fraction other than one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share, integral multiples of that fraction,
the Company may pay to the registered holders of Right 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 Preferred Share. For purposes of this
Section 14(b), the current market value of a Preferred Share shall be the closing price of a Preferred Share (as determined under Section 11(d)(ii)) for the Trading Day immediately before the date of such exercise. 

(c) The holder of a Right by the acceptance of the Rights expressly waives such holder’s right to receive any fractional
Rights or any fractional shares (except as provided above) upon exercise of a Right. 
 Section 15. Rights of Action. All
rights of action in respect of this Agreement, except the rights of action given to the Rights Agent under Section 18, are vested in the respective registered holders of the Right Certificates (and, before the Distribution Date, the registered
holders of the Common Shares); and any registered holder of any Right Certificate (or, before the Distribution Date, of any Common Share), without the consent of the Rights Agent or of the holder of any other Right Certificate (or, before the
Distribution Date, of any other Common Share), may, in such holder’s own behalf and for such holder’s own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company to enforce, or otherwise act in
respect of, such holder’s right to exercise the Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate (or, before the Distribution Date, the associated Common Shares certificate) in the manner provided in such Right 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 will be entitled to specific
performance of the obligations under, and injunctive relief against actual or threatened violations of the obligations of any Person subject to, this Agreement. 

  
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 Section 16. Agreement of Right 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: 
 (a)
before the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of the Common Shares; 

(b) after the Distribution Date, the Right Certificates are transferable only on the registry books of the Rights Agent if
surrendered at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purposes, duly endorsed or accompanied by a proper instrument of transfer; 

(c) the Company and the Rights Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name the Right Certificate (or, before the
Distribution Date, the associated Common Shares certificate) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights evidenced thereby (notwithstanding any notations of ownership or writing on the Right Certificate or the associated Common
Shares certificate made by anyone other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes whatsoever, and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; 

(d) the Company may issue Rights after the Record Date as provided in this Agreement; and 

(e) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Rights to the contrary, the Company, the Rights Agent and the Board of
Directors of the Company shall not have any liability to any holder of a Right or other Person as a result of the inability of the Company or the Rights Agent 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. 
 Section 17. Right
Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder. No holder, as such, of any Right Certificate shall be entitled to vote, receive dividends, or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the Preferred Shares or any other securities of the Company
that may at any time be issuable on the exercise of the Rights represented thereby, nor shall anything contained in this Agreement or in any Right Certificate be construed to confer upon the holder of any Right 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 25), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate shall have been exercised in accordance with
the provisions of this Agreement. 

  
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 Section 18. Concerning the Rights Agent. 

(a) The Company will pay to the Rights Agent reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it under this Agreement and,
from time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, its reasonable expenses and counsel fees and other disbursements incurred in the administration and execution of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties under this Agreement.
The Company will indemnify the Rights Agent for, and will hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including the costs and expenses of defending against any claim of liability), incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent, for anything done or omitted by the Rights Agent in connection with the acceptance and administration of this Agreement. 

(b) The Rights Agent shall be protected and shall incur no liability for, or in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it in connection with, its administration of this Agreement in reliance upon any Right Certificate or certificate for the Preferred Shares or Common Shares or for other securities of the Company, instrument of assignment or transfer,
power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter, notice, direction, (including, without limitation, any direction given under Section 27) 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, or otherwise upon the advice of its counsel as set forth in Section 20. 

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, limited liability company or limited partnership 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 to
this Agreement; provided, however, that such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of Section 21. If at the time such successor Rights Agent shall succeed to the agency
created by this Agreement, any of the Right Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of the predecessor Rights Agent and deliver such Right Certificates so
countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Right Certificates shall not have been countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such Right Certificates either in the name of the predecessor Rights Agent or in the name of the
successor Rights Agent; and in all such cases such Right Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Right Certificates and in this Agreement. 

  
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 (b) If at any time the name of the Rights Agent is changed and at such time any
of the Right Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and deliver Right Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Right Certificates
shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent may countersign such Right Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such cases such Right Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Right 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 Right Certificates (or, before the Distribution Date, the Common Shares certificates), by their acceptance of the Rights, shall be
bound: 
 (a) The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be legal counsel for the Company), and the 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 opinion. 

(b) Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Rights Agent deems it necessary or desirable that any
fact or matter (including, without limitation, the identity of any Acquiring Person and the determination of the “current per-share market price”) be proved or established by the Company before taking or suffering any action under this
Agreement, 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 any one of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chairman of
the Board, the Chief Financial Officer or any Vice President 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 or for any delay in acting while waiting for the delivery of such certificate. 

(c) The Rights Agent shall be liable hereunder to the Company and any other Person only 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 Right Certificates (except its countersignature thereof) or be required to verify the same, but all such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only. 

  
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 (e) The Rights Agent shall not be under any responsibility in respect of the
validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery of this Agreement (except the due execution by the Rights Agent) or in respect of the validity or execution of any Right 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 Right Certificate; nor shall it be responsible for any change in the exercisability of the Rights (including the Rights becoming void under
Section 11(a)(ii)) or any adjustment in the terms of the Rights (including the manner, method or amount thereof) provided for in Section 3, 11, 13, 23, or 24, or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such change
or adjustment (except with respect to the exercise of Rights evidenced by Right Certificates after actual notice that such change or adjustment is required); nor shall it by any act under this Agreement be deemed to make any representation or
warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any Preferred Shares or Common Shares to be issued under this Agreement or any Right Certificate or as to whether any Preferred Shares or Common Shares will, when issued, be validly authorized and
issued, fully paid and nonassessable. 
 (f) The Company 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. 
 (g) The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to accept instructions with respect to the performance
of its duties under this Agreement from any one of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Financial Officer or any Vice President 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 delay in acting while waiting for those instructions. 

(h) 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 or its Subsidiaries may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the Company or its Subsidiaries, or otherwise act as fully
and freely as though it were not Rights Agent under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement precludes the Rights Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or its Subsidiaries or for any other legal entity. 

(i) The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty under this
Agreement 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 reasonable care was exercised in the selection and continued employment thereof. 

  
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 (j) No provision of this Agreement requires the Rights Agent to expend or risk
its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement or in the exercise of its rights or powers 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. 
 (k) If, with respect to any Right
Certificate surrendered to the Rights Agent for exercise or transfer, the form of assignment or form of election to purchase, as the case may be, has either not been duly completed and executed or indicates an affirmative response to enumerated
clause 1 and/or 2 on the reverse side of the applicable Right Certificate, the Rights Agent shall not take any further action with respect to such requested exercise or transfer without first consulting with the Company. 

Section 21. Change of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may resign and be discharged from its
duties under this Agreement upon 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, if such notice is mailed after the Distribution Date,
to the holders of the Right Certificates by first-class mail. The Company may remove the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent upon 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, if such notice is mailed after the Distribution Date, to the holders of the Right Certificates by first-class mail. If the Rights Agent resigns or is removed or otherwise becomes incapable of acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Rights Agent. If the Company fails to make such appointment within a
period of 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 Right Certificate (who shall, with such notice,
submit such holder’s Right Certificate for inspection by the Company), then the registered holder of any Right 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, limited liability company or limited partnership organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of the State of New York or Indiana (or of any
other state of the United States so long as such corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership is authorized to do business as a banking institution in the State of New York or Indiana), in good standing, having an office in the
State of New York or Indiana that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust or stock transfer powers and is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and that has at the time of its appointment as Rights
Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million or (b) an affiliate of a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership described in clause (a) of this sentence. After appointment, the successor Rights Agent
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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 under this Agreement, 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 Shares and Preferred Shares, and, if such notice is filed after the Distribution Date, mail a notice thereof in writing to the registered holders of the Right Certificates. Failure to
give any notice provided for in this Section, 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. 

Section 22. Issuance of New Right Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement or of the Rights to
the contrary, the Company may, at its option, issue new Right 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 Right Certificates made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. 

Section 23. Redemption. 

(a) The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its option, at any time before the earlier of (x) such time as a Person
becomes an Acquiring Person or (y) the Close of Business on the Final Expiration Date, redeem all but not less than all of the then-outstanding Rights at a redemption price of $.0001 per Right, appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split,
stock dividend, or similar transaction occurring after the date of this Agreement (such redemption price being the “Redemption Price”). The Redemption Price shall be payable in cash by the Company. The redemption of the Rights by
the Board of Directors of the Company may be made effective at such time and on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors of the Company in its sole discretion may establish. Except for the Company’s obligation to pay the
Redemption Price, the Board of Directors, the Company and the Rights Agent shall not have any liability to any Person as a result of the redemption of Rights under this Section 23. 

(b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the redemption of the Rights under
Section 23(a), 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 of the Company 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 notice to
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Shares; provided, however, that the failure to give, or any defect in, any such notice shall not affect the validity of such redemption. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
provided in this paragraph 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. Neither the Company nor any of its
Affiliates or Associates may redeem, acquire or purchase for value any Rights at any time in any manner except as specifically set forth in this Section or in Section 24 or in connection with the purchase of Common Shares before the
Distribution Date. 
 Section 24. Exchange. 

(a) The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its option, at any time after the date the Rights first become exercisable
for Common Shares under Section 11(a)(ii), exchange all or part of the then outstanding and exercisable Rights (which shall not include Rights that have become void under Section 11(a)(ii)) for Common Shares, with each Right to be
exchanged for such number of Common Shares as shall equal the result obtained by dividing (x) the Exercise Price (as defined in Section 11(a)(iii)) by (y) the current per-share market price of the Common Shares (determined under
Section 11(d)) on the date the Rights first become exercisable for Common Shares under Section 11(a)(ii) (such number of shares being the “Exchange Ratio”). The Exchange Ratio shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect any
stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction affecting the Common Shares that occurs after the date the Rights first become exercisable for Common Shares under Section 11(a)(ii). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors of
the Company shall not be empowered to effect such exchange at any time after any Person (other than an Exempt Person), together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person, becomes the Beneficial Owner of 50% or more of the Common Shares then
outstanding. 
 (b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the exchange of any Rights
under Section 24(a) and without any further action and without any notice, the right to exercise such Rights shall terminate and the only right thereafter of a holder of such Rights shall be to receive that number of Common Shares equal to the
number of such Rights held by such holder multiplied by the Exchange Ratio. The Company shall promptly give public notice of any such exchange; provided, however, that the failure to give, or any defect in, such notice shall not affect
the validity of such exchange. The Company shall promptly mail a notice of any such exchange to all of the holders of such Rights at their last addresses as they appear upon the registry books of the Rights Agent. 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 exchange will state the method by which the exchange of the Common Shares for Rights will be effected and, in the event of any partial
exchange, the number of Rights which will be exchanged. Any partial exchange shall be effected pro rata based on the number of Rights (other than Rights that have become void under the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii)) held by each holder of
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 (c) If there are not sufficient Common Shares authorized, unissued and unreserved
to permit the exchange of Rights as contemplated in accordance with this Section 24, the Company, at its option, may substitute Preferred Shares (or equivalent preferred shares, as such term is defined in Section 11(b), or common share
equivalents, as such term is defined in Section 11(a)(iii)(3)(C)), for Common Shares exchangeable for Rights, at the initial rate of one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share (or equivalent preferred share) or one common share equivalent for each
Common Share, as appropriately adjusted to reflect stock splits, stock dividends, or similar transactions affecting the Common Shares that occur after the date of this Agreement. 

(d) If there are not sufficient Common Shares, Preferred Shares, equivalent preferred shares or common share equivalents,
authorized, unissued and unreserved to permit the exchange of Rights as contemplated in accordance with this Section 24, the Company shall take all such action as may be necessary to authorize additional Common Shares or Preferred Shares,
equivalent preferred shares or common share equivalents for issuance upon exchange of the Rights. 
 (e) The Company shall
not be required to issue fractions of Common Shares or to distribute certificates that evidence fractional Common Shares. In lieu of such fractional Common Shares, the Company may pay to the registered holders of the Right Certificates with regard
to which such fractional Common Shares would otherwise be issuable an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of a whole Common Share. For the purposes of this Section 24(e), the current market value of a whole
Common Share shall be the closing price of a Common Share (as determined under the second sentence of Section 11(d)(i)) for the Trading Day immediately before the date of exchange under this Section. The Board of Directors, the Company and the
Rights Agent shall not have any liability to any Person as a result of the exchange of Rights under the terms of this Section. 

Section 25. Notice of Certain Events. 

(a) If the Company proposes, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) to pay any dividend payable in stock of any
class to the holders of its Preferred Shares or to make any other distribution to the holders of its Preferred Shares (other than a regular quarterly cash dividend), (ii) to offer to the holders of its Preferred Shares rights or warrants to
subscribe for or to purchase any additional Preferred Shares or shares of stock of any class or any other securities, rights or options, (iii) to effect any reclassification of its Preferred Shares (other than a reclassification involving only
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any sale or other transfer (or to permit one or more of its Subsidiaries to effect any sale or other transfer), in one or a series of related transactions, of 50% or more 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 wholly owned Subsidiaries), (v) to effect any statutory share exchange with outstanding Common Shares of the
Company being exchanged for stock or other securities of any other corporation or money or other property, (vi) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, or (vii) to declare or pay any dividend on the Common
Shares payable in Common Shares or to effect a subdivision, combination or consolidation of the Common Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), then, in each such case, the Company shall give to each holder of a Right Certificate, to the extent
feasible and in accordance with Section 26, a notice of such proposed action, which shall specify the record date for the purposes of such stock dividend or distribution of rights or warrants, or the date on which such reclassification,
consolidation, merger, exchange, sale, transfer, liquidation, dissolution, or winding up is to take place and the date of participation therein by the holders of the Common Shares and/or 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 10 days before 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 10 days before the date of the taking of such proposed action or the date of participation therein by the holders of the Common Shares and/or Preferred Shares, whichever is earlier. 

(b) If any Section 11(a)(ii) Event occurs, then, in any such case, the Company shall as soon as practicable thereafter
give to each holder of a Right Certificate, in accordance with Section 26 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). 

Section 26. Notices. Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Rights Agent or by the
holder of any Right Certificate to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage-prepaid, or delivered by hand or express
courier service, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Rights Agent) as follows: 
 The Finish Line, Inc. 

3308 N. Mitthoeffer Rd. 

Indianapolis, Indiana 46235 

Attention: General Counsel 

  
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 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 Right Certificate to or on the Rights Agent shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail,
postage-prepaid, or delivered by hand or express courier service, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Company) as follows: 

Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. 

1717 Arch Street, Suite 300 

Philadelphia, PA 19003 

Attention: Corporate Actions Department 

Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or the Rights Agent to the holder of any Right Certificate
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 27. Supplements and Amendments. 

(a) The Company may and the Rights Agent shall, if so directed by the Company, from time to time supplement or amend this
Agreement without the approval of any holders of Common Shares or Right Certificates in order: 
 (i) to extend the Final
Expiration Date, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in Section 27(a)(iv); 
 (ii) to cure any ambiguity,
or to correct or supplement any provision contained in this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provisions in this Agreement; 

(iii) before such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person, to otherwise change or supplement any provision in this
Agreement in any manner that the Company deems necessary or desirable; or 
 (iv) following such time as any Person becomes
an Acquiring Person, to otherwise change or supplement any provision in this Agreement in any manner that the Company deems necessary or desirable and that does not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Right Certificates (other than
Right Certificates evidencing Rights that have become null and void under Section 11(a)(ii)). 
 (b) Without limiting
Section 27(a), the Company may at any time before such time as any Person becomes an Acquiring Person amend this Agreement to lower the thresholds set forth in Sections 1(a) and 3(a) from 12.5% to not less than 10% (the
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Threshold”); provided, however, that no Person who beneficially owns, immediately after the public announcement of the Reduced Threshold, a number of Common Shares equal
to or greater than the Reduced Threshold and who would not have been an Acquiring Person but for the amendment to this Agreement to establish the Reduced Threshold shall become an Acquiring Person unless such Person shall, after the public
announcement of the Reduced Threshold, increase its beneficial ownership of the then outstanding Common Shares (other than as a result of an acquisition of Common Shares by the Company) to an amount equal to or greater than the greater of
(x) the Reduced Threshold or (y) the sum of .001% and the lowest percentage of beneficial ownership by such Person of the outstanding Common Shares after the public announcement of such Reduced Threshold. 

Section 28. 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 29. Benefits of
this Agreement. 
 (a) 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 Right Certificates (and, before the Distribution Date, the registered holders of Common Shares) any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim under this Agreement. This Agreement shall be
for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Right Certificates (and, before the Distribution Date, the registered holders of Common Shares). 

(b) The Board of Directors of the Company has the exclusive power and total and complete authority to administer this Agreement
and to exercise all rights and powers specifically granted to the Board of Directors or the Company or necessary or advisable in the administration of this Agreement, including without limitation the right and power to interpret this Agreement and
to make conclusively all determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this Agreement. All such acts, calculations, interpretations and determinations (including, for purposes of clause (y) below, all omissions with
respect to the foregoing) that are done or made by the Board of Directors in good faith shall (x) be final, conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent and the holders of the Rights and all other parties and (y) not subject the
Board of Directors to any liability to the holders of the Rights or any other party. 
 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. 

  
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 Section 31. Governing Law. This Agreement and each Right Certificate issued
hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of Indiana and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana applicable to contracts to be made and performed
entirely within such state, except for Sections 18, 19, 20 and 21, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York (without giving effect to the conflicts of laws principles of any jurisdiction other
than those of the State of New York). 
 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 of this Agreement. 

Section 34. Book Entry. Reference in this Agreement to certificates for Common Shares includes, in the case of
uncertificated shares, the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Shares, and any uncertificated Common Share will also represent the associated Right. Any legend required to be placed on any
certificate for Common Shares may instead be included on any book-entry confirmation or notification to the holder of such Common Shares. 

[signature page follows] 

  
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 The parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above. 

 

			
	THE FINISH LINE, INC.
		
	By:	 	/s/ Samuel M. Sato
	Its:	 	/s/ Chief Executive Officer
	
	 BROADRIDGE CORPORATE ISSUER

SOLUTIONS, INC.

		
	By:	 	/s/ John Dunn
	Its:	 	Senior Director – Transfer Agent Services

  
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 EXHIBIT A 

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT 

setting forth terms of 

SERIES A JUNIOR PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK 

of 
 The Finish Line, Inc.

 Pursuant to, and in accordance with the requirements of Section 23-1-25-2 of the Indiana Business Corporation Law (the
“IBCL”), The Finish Line, Inc., an Indiana Corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby certify: 

Article I 
 The name of
the corporation filing these Articles of Amendment is The Finish Line, Inc. 
 Article II 

Under the authority vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of its Restated Articles of
Incorporation, as amended, the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation are hereby amended by adding thereto a new Section 5.12 within Article 5, to specify the designation and amount, relative rights, preferences and limitations of the
shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, no par value, as fixed by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, as follows: 

Clause 1. Designation and Amount. The shares of such series shall be designated as “Series A Junior Participating Preferred
Stock” (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series shall be 10,000. 
 Clause
2. Dividends and Distributions. 
 A. The holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders
of Common Shares and of any other junior stock, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the 15th day of March, June, September, and December in each year (each such date being a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after
the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $1.00 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth,
10,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in Common Shares of the Corporation
or a subdivision of the outstanding Common Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Shares since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since
the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock. If the Corporation at any time after September 11, 2017, declares or pays any dividend on Common Shares payable in Common Shares, or effects 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 in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately before such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence 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 before
such event. 
 B. The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in
subparagraph (A) of this Clause 2 simultaneously with its declaration of a dividend or distribution on the Common Shares (other than a dividend payable in Common Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding Common Shares), provided that in the
event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Shares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A
Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. 
 C. Dividends shall begin
to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is before the
record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the
record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be
cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and
payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled
to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days before the date fixed for the payment thereof. 

Clause 3. Voting Rights. The holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights: 

A. Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the
holder thereof to 10,000 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Corporation. In the event the Corporation shall at any time after September 11, 2017, 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 in each such case the number of votes per share to which
holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately before such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number 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 before such event. 

  
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 B. Except as otherwise provided herein, in any other Articles of Amendment of the
Corporation, in the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended, or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of Common Shares and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general voting
rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders of the Corporation. 
 C. Except
as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no special voting rights and their consent shall not be required for taking any corporate action. 

Clause 4. Certain Restrictions. 

A. Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in
Clause 2 of this Section 5.12 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation
shall not: 
 (i) declare or pay dividends on, or make any other distributions on, any shares of stock ranking junior (either
as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock; 
 (ii) declare or pay
dividends on, or make any other distributions on, any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series A
Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled; 

(iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or
upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation
ranking junior (both as to dividends and upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock; or 

(iv) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock
ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to
all holders 

  
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of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and
classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes. 

B. The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any
shares of stock of the Corporation unless the Corporation could, under Section A of this Clause 4, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner. 

Clause 5. Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner
whatsoever shall constitute authorized but unissued Preferred Shares and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Shares to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors subject to the conditions and restrictions on
issuance set forth herein or in the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended. 
 Clause 6. Liquidation,
Dissolution or Winding Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, (a) no distribution shall be made to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have received $10,000 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or
not declared, to the date of such payment, provided that if such amount shall be less than 10,000 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of Common Shares, then the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall instead
participate with the Common Shares in such a manner that the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall receive 10,000 times the aggregate amount that is distributed per share to holders of Common Shares, and (b) no distribution shall be made to
the holders of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all other such parity stock in
proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding up. In the event the Corporation shall at any time after September 11, 2017, 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 in each such case the
aggregate amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately at the time of such event under the proviso of the preceding sentence 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 before such event. 

Clause 7. Consolidation, Merger, Exchange, etc. In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination,
statutory share exchange or other transaction in which the Common Shares are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case the shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time
be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment 

  
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hereinafter set forth) equal to 10,000 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each Common
Share is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time after September 11, 2017, 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 in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Series A
Preferred Stock 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 before such event. 
 Clause 8. No Redemption. The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be
redeemable. 
 Clause 9. Rank. The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank junior with respect to payment of dividends and on
liquidation, dissolution and winding up to all series of the Corporation’s Preferred Shares hereafter issued that specifically provide that they shall rank senior to the Series A Preferred Stock. 

Clause 10. Fractional Shares. Series A Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a share which shall entitle the holder, in
proportion to such holder’s fractional shares, to receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Series A Preferred Stock. 

Article III 
 These
Articles of Amendment were duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation at a meeting duly called and held on August 25, 2017. Pursuant to Section 23-1-25-2(d) and Section 23-1-38-2(7) of the IBCL, no action by the
Corporation’s shareholders was required. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed these Articles of Amendment, this 28th day
of August, 2017. 
  

	
	   

	 Christopher C. Eck
 Secretary

  
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 EXHIBIT B 

[FORM OF RIGHT CERTIFICATE] 
  

			
	 Certificate No. R-
	 	             Rights

 Not exercisable after
                        , 20         or such earlier date as the Board of
Directors orders redemption or exchange of the Rights. The Rights are subject to redemption, at the option of the Company, at $.0001 per Right (subject to adjustment) and to exchange on the terms set forth in the Rights Agreement. Under certain
circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights that are or were beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) may become null and void.

 Right Certificate 
 THE
FINISH LINE, 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 August 28, 2017 (the “Rights Agreement”) between The Finish Line, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), and
Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc. (the “Rights Agent”) to purchase from the Company at any time after the Distribution Date (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and before 5:00 P.M. (Indianapolis, Indiana time) on
August 28, 2020 at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, or of its successor as Rights Agent, one ten-thousandth of a fully paid, nonassessable share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, no par
value (the “Preferred Shares”), of the Company, at a purchase price of $26.00 per one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share (the “Purchase Price”), upon presentation and surrender of this Right Certificate with the
Form of Election to Purchase duly completed and executed. The number of Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate (and the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share which may be purchased upon exercise thereof) set forth above, and the
Purchase Price set forth above, are, except for adjustments required under the Rights Agreement, the number and Purchase Price as of September 11, 2017, based on the Preferred Shares as constituted at such date. 

As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share that may be purchased upon
the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of certain events. 

This Right 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 which contains 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 Right Certificates (which limitations of rights include the voiding of the Rights under certain circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement). Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal executive office of the Company and
will be mailed without charge by the Company or the Rights Agent to the holder of this certificate promptly following receipt by the Company or the Rights Agent of a written request therefor. 

 Upon the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (as defined in the Rights Agreement), any
Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate that are beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of such Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) or were beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person
or an Associate or Affiliate of such Acquiring Person after the Acquiring Person becomes an Acquiring Person shall be null and void from and after the occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event. 

This Right Certificate, with or without other Right Certificates, upon surrender at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for
such purpose, may be exchanged for another Right Certificate or Right Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Rights entitling the holder to purchase a like aggregate number of one ten-thousandths of a Preferred Share as the Rights evidenced
by the Right Certificate or Right Certificates surrendered then entitled such holder to purchase. If this Right Certificate shall be exercised in part, the holder shall be entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Right Certificate or Right
Certificates for the number of Rights not exercised. 
 Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this
Certificate (i) may, but are not required to, be redeemed by the Company at a redemption price of $.0001 per Right, subject to adjustment as provided in the Rights Agreement, payable in cash and (ii) may, but are not required to, be
exchanged by the Company in whole or in part for Common Shares or other shares of capital stock of the Company. The Board of Directors of the Company and the Company shall not have any liability to any person as a result of the redemption or
exchange of the Rights under the Rights Agreement. 
 No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued upon the exercise of any Right or Rights
evidenced hereby (other than fractional shares which are integral multiples of one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share or, if a Right shall then be exercisable for a fraction other than one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share, integral multiples of
that fraction, which may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts), if in lieu thereof a cash payment is made, as provided in the Rights Agreement. 

No holder of this Right Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the
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 Right Certificate shall have been exercised as provided
in the Rights Agreement. 

  
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 This Right Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been
countersigned, manually or by facsimile signature, by the Rights Agent. 
 WITNESS the manual or facsimile signature of the proper officer
of the Company. 
 Dated:
                                 

 

			
	THE FINISH LINE, INC.
		
	By:	 	 
		
	Its:	 	 

 Countersigned: 
  

			
	BROADRIDGE CORPORATE ISSUER SOLUTIONS, INC.
		
	By:	 	 
		 	 Authorized Manual or
 Facsimile
Signature

  
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 [Form of Reverse Side of Right Certificate] 

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

FOR VALUE RECEIVED
                                 hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 (Please print name and address of transferee) 

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

Dated:
                                 

 

	
	   

	            Signature

 Signature Medallion Guaranteed: 

Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States or by an eligible guarantor institution (bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union with membership in an approved signature
guarantee medallion program), under Rule 17Ad-15 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  
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 CERTIFICATE 

The undersigned hereby certifies (after due inquiry and to the best of its knowledge) by checking the appropriate boxes that: 

 

															
		 	(1)	 		 	the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	are	 	
		 		 		 		 		 		 	or	 	
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	are not	 	
	
	beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement); and
				
		 	(2)	 		 	the undersigned
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	did	 	
		 		 		 		 		 		 	or	 	
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	did not	 	

 acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate from any Person who, at any time that such Person beneficially owned
such Rights, is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person. 
  

	
	   

	            Signature

 NOTICE 

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

  
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 FORM OF ELECTION TO EXERCISE 

(To be executed if holder desires to exercise 

Rights represented by the Right Certificate.) 
 TO:
THE FINISH LINE, INC. 
 The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise
                     Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of such Rights
(or such other securities of the Company or of any other person that may be issuable upon exercise of the Rights) and requests that certificates for such shares be issued in the name of: 

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 Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining 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

  
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 Signature Medallion Guaranteed: 

Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States or by an eligible guarantor institution (bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union with membership in an approved signature
guarantee medallion program), under Rule 17Ad-15 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  
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 CERTIFICATE 

The undersigned hereby certifies (after due inquiry and to the best of its knowledge) by checking the appropriate boxes that: 

 

															
		 	(1)	 		 	the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	are	 	
		 		 		 		 		 		 	or	 	
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	are not	 	
	
	beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement); and
				
		 	(2)	 		 	the undersigned
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	did	 	
		 		 		 		 		 		 	or	 	
		 		 		 		 	☐	 		 	did not	 	

 acquire the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate from any Person who, at any time that such Person beneficially owned
such Rights, is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person. 
  

	
	   

	            Signature

 NOTICE 

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

  
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 EXHIBIT C 

Summary of Rights to Purchase 

Preferred Shares 
 of

 The Finish Line, Inc. 

On August 25, 2017, the Board of Directors of The Finish Line, Inc. (the “Company”) declared a dividend of one preferred
share purchase right (a “Right”) for each outstanding Class A Common Share, no par value (the “Common Shares”), of the Company. The dividend is payable on September 11, 2017 (the “Record
Date”) to shareholders of record at the close of business on that date. 
 Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase
from the Company one ten-thousandth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, without par value (the “Preferred Shares”), of the Company at a price of $26.00 per one ten-thousandth of a Preferred Share (the
“Purchase Price”), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”), dated as of August 28, 2017, between the Company and Broadridge
Corporate Issuer Solutions, Inc., as Rights Agent (the “Rights Agent”). 
 Initially, the Rights will attach to all
certificates representing Common Shares then outstanding and no separate Right Certificates will be distributed. The Rights will separate from the Common Shares and a Distribution Date for the Rights will occur at the close of business on the tenth
business day following a public announcement that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons has become an “Acquiring Person” (that is, has become, subject to certain exceptions, the beneficial owner of 12.5% or more of the
outstanding Common Shares). 
 Until the Distribution Date, 
  

	 	•	 	the Rights will be evidenced by the Common Share certificates and will be transferred with and only with the Common Shares, 

  

	 	•	 	new Common Share certificates issued after the Record Date upon transfer or new issuance of the Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference, and 

 

	 	•	 	the surrender for transfer of any Common Share certificate, even without such notation or a copy of this Summary of Rights attached thereto, will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common
Shares represented by such certificate. 

 As promptly as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates
evidencing the Rights (“Right Certificates”) will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights. 

The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on August 28, 2020, unless extended or earlier
redeemed or exchanged by the Company as described below. 

 
The Rights will expire early on the business day immediately following the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of shareholders (including any adjournment thereof) if the Rights Agreement shall not
have been approved, on or before such date, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power present, in person or by proxy, and entitled to vote at a meeting of the Company’s shareholders. 

The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon exercise of the Rights are
subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution: 
  

	 	•	 	in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the Preferred Shares, 

  

	 	•	 	upon the grant to holders of the Preferred Shares of certain rights, options, or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Shares or convertible securities at less than the then current market price of the
Preferred Shares, or 

  

	 	•	 	upon the distribution to holders of the Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends or dividends payable in Preferred Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants
(other than those described in the preceding bullet). 

 The number of Preferred Shares issuable upon the exercise of a Right
is also subject to adjustment in the event of a dividend on Common Shares payable in Common Shares, or a subdivision, combination or consolidation of the Common Shares. 

With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price will be required until cumulative adjustments require an adjustment of at least
1% in the Purchase Price. No fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than fractional shares that are integral multiples of one ten-thousandth (subject to adjustment) of a Preferred Share, which may, at the election of the Company, be
evidenced by depositary receipts) if in lieu thereof a payment in cash is made based on the closing price (pro-rated for the fraction) of the Preferred Shares on the last trading date before the date of
exercise. 
 If any person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person, proper provision shall be made so that
each holder of a Right, other than Rights that are or were beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right
that number of Common Shares having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right, subject to certain possible adjustments. 

If, after the Distribution Date or within 10 business days prior thereto, the Company is acquired in certain mergers or other business
combination transactions or 50% or more of the assets or earning power of the Company and its subsidiaries (taken as a whole) are sold after the Distribution Date or within 10 business days prior thereto, each holder of a Right (other than Rights

  
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that have become void under the terms of the Rights Agreement) will thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of
common shares of the acquiring company (or, in certain cases, one of its affiliates) having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. 

In certain events specified in the Rights Agreement, the Company is permitted to temporarily suspend the exercisability of the Rights. 

At any time after a person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person (subject to certain exceptions) and before
the acquisition by a person or group of affiliated or associated persons of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange all or part of the Rights (other than Rights that have become void under the
terms of the Rights Agreement) for Common Shares or equivalent securities at an exchange ratio per Right equal to the result obtained by dividing the exercise price of a Right by the current per share market price of the Common Shares, subject to
adjustment. 
 At any time before such time as a person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person, the Board
of Directors of the Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.0001 per Right, subject to adjustment (the “Redemption Price”), payable in cash. The redemption of the Rights may be made effective at such
time, on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. The Board of Directors and the Company shall not have any liability to any person as a result of the redemption or exchange of the Rights
under the Rights Agreement. 
 The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company, subject to certain
limitations after such time as a person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an Acquiring Person, without the consent of the holders of the Rights, including an amendment before the date a person or group of affiliated or associated
persons becomes an Acquiring Person to lower the 12.5% threshold for exercisability of the Rights to not less than 10%. In addition, the Board may not cause a person or group to become an Acquiring Person by lowering this threshold below the
percentage interest that such person or group already owns. 
 Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights
as a shareholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends. 
 A copy of the Rights Agreement
has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to a Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated August 28, 2017. A copy of the Rights Agreement is available free of charge from the
Company by contacting the Secretary at 3308 N. Mitthoeffer Rd., Indianapolis, Indiana 46235. This summary description of the Rights does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Rights Agreement, which is
hereby incorporated herein by reference. 

  
 C-3Exhibit 10.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

OMNIBUS AMENDMENT NO. 4

(Ares Capital JB Funding LLC)

 

THIS OMNIBUS AMENDMENT NO. 4, dated as of  August 24, 2017 (this “Amendment”), is entered into by and among Ares Capital JB Funding LLC, as the borrower (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Borrower”), Ares Capital Corporation, as the servicer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Servicer”) and as the transferor (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Transferor”), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”), as the administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), as the lender (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Lender”) and as the collateral agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as the collateral custodian (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Collateral Custodian”) and as the Bank (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Bank”).  Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Loan and Servicing Agreement (as defined below).

 

R E C I T A L S

 

WHEREAS, the above-named parties have entered into the Loan and Servicing Agreement dated as of January 20, 2012 (such agreement as amended on September 14, 2012 by Omnibus Amendment No. 1, as amended on December 20, 2013 by Omnibus Amendment No. 2, as amended on June 30, 2015 by Omnibus Amendment No. 3, and as may be further amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Loan and Servicing Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 11.01 of the Loan and Servicing Agreement, the parties hereto desire to amend the Loan and Servicing Agreement in certain respects as provided herein;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the above Recitals, the mutual premises and agreements contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

SECTION 1.                                                 AMENDMENTS.

 

(a)                                 The Loan and Servicing Agreement is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the bold and double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: bold and double-underlined text) as set forth on the pages of the Loan and Servicing Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto.

 

(b)                                 The Schedules to the Loan and Servicing Agreement are hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the bold and double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: bold and double-underlined text) as set forth on the pages to the Loan and Servicing Agreement attached as Exhibit B hereto.

 

 

SECTION 2.                                                 LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS AMENDED.

 

Except as specifically amended hereby, all provisions of the Loan and Servicing Agreement are hereby ratified and shall remain in full force and effect.  After this Amendment becomes effective, all references to the Loan and Servicing Agreement and corresponding references thereto or therein such as “hereof,” “herein,” or words of similar effect referring to the Loan and Servicing Agreement shall be deemed to mean the Loan and Servicing Agreement as amended hereby.  This Amendment shall not be deemed to expressly or impliedly waive, amend or supplement any provision of the Loan and Servicing Agreement other than as expressly set forth herein, and shall not constitute a novation of the Loan and Servicing Agreement.

 

SECTION 3.                                                 REPRESENTATIONS.

 

Each of the Borrower, the Transferor and the Servicer, with respect to the Loan and Servicing Agreement, severally for itself only, represents and warrants as of the date of this Amendment as follows:

 

(i)                                     it is duly incorporated or organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization;

 

(ii)                                  the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Amendment and the Loan and Servicing Agreement, each as amended hereby, are within its powers, have been duly authorized, and do not contravene (A) its corporate charter/certificate of incorporation, by-laws, or other organizational documents, or (B) any Applicable Law;

 

(iii)                               no consent, license, permit, approval or authorization of, or registration, filing or declaration with any governmental authority, is required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Amendment and the Loan and Servicing Agreement as amended hereby by or against it;

 

(iv)                              this Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by it;

 

(v)                                 each of this Amendment, the Loan and Servicing Agreement, as amended hereby, constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity; and

 

(vi)                              no Unmatured Event of Default, Event of Default or Servicer Termination Event has occurred and is continuing and the execution of this Amendment by the parties hereto will not result in the occurrence of an Event of Default, Unmatured Event of Default or Servicer Termination Event.

 

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SECTION 4.                                                 CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS.

 

The effectiveness of this Amendment is conditioned upon: (i) payment of the outstanding fees and disbursements of the Lender; (ii) delivery and execution of certain amendments to the SMBC Lender Fee Letter by the parties thereto; and (iii) delivery of executed signature pages by all parties hereto to the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 5.                                                 MISCELLANEOUS.

 

(a)                                 This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by facsimile), and by the different parties hereto on the same or separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original instrument but all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

(b)                                 The descriptive headings of the various sections of this Amendment are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.

 

(c)                                  This Amendment may not be amended or otherwise modified except as provided in the Loan and Servicing Agreement.

 

(d)                                 The failure or unenforceability of any provision hereof shall not affect the other provisions of this Amendment or the Loan and Servicing Agreement.

 

(e)                                  Whenever the context and construction so require, all words used in the singular number herein shall be deemed to have been used in the plural, and vice versa, and the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter and the neuter shall include the masculine and feminine.

 

(f)                                   This Amendment and the Loan and Servicing Agreement contain the final and complete integration of all prior expressions by the parties hereto only with respect to the matters expressly set forth herein and shall constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, superseding all prior oral or written understandings.  There are no unwritten oral agreements among the parties with respect to the matters set forth herein.

 

(g)                                  The provisions of Sections 11.08 and 11.09 of the Loan and Servicing Agreement are each incorporated by reference herein mutatis mutandis.

 

(h)                                 The Administrative Agent and the Lender hereby authorize, direct and consent to the execution of this Amendment by the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian and the Bank.

 

(i)                                     THIS AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHOICE OF LAW PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN THE LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL AND NOTICE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN THE LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

	
THE BORROWER:
    	
ARES CAPITAL JB FUNDING LLC, 
    
	
 
    	
as the Borrower
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Authorized Signatory
    
	
 
    	
 
    

 

[SIGNATURES CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE]

 

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THE SERVICER:
    	
ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION, 
    
	
 
    	
as the Servicer
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Authorized Signatory
    

 

[SIGNATURES CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE]

 

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THE TRANSFEROR:
    	
ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION,
    
	
 
    	
as the Transferor
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Scott Lem
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Authorized Signatory
    

 

[SIGNATURES CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE]

 

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THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
    	
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, as the   Administrative Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Managing Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE LENDER:
    	
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, as the Lender
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Managing Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE COLLATERAL AGENT:
    	
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, not in its   individual capacity but solely as the Collateral Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Christakis Droussiotis
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Managing Director
    

 

[SIGNATURES CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE]

 

 

	
THE COLLATERAL CUSTODIAN:
    	
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,   not in its individual capacity but solely as the Collateral Custodian
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ John Leurini
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
John Leurini
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Vice President
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE BANK:
    	
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,   not in its individual capacity but solely as the Bank
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ John Leurini
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
John Leurini
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Vice President
    

 

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Exhibit A

 

CHANGED PAGES TO THE LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

 

(See attached)

 

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EXECUTION VERSION 

Conformed through Omnibus Amendment No. 34

 

U.S. $400,000,000

 

LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

 

Dated as of January 20, 2012

 

By and Among

 

ARES CAPITAL JB FUNDING LLC,

as the Borrower

 

and

 

ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION,

as the Servicer and as the Transferor

 

and

 

SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION,

as the Administrative Agent, as the Collateral Agent and as the Lender

 

and

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as the Collateral Custodian and as the Bank

 

 

20% or more of the voting securities of such Person or to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing; provided that for purposes of determining whether any Loan Asset is an Eligible Loan Asset or for purposes of Section 5.01(b)(xix), the term Affiliate shall not include any Affiliate relationship which may exist solely as a result of direct or indirect ownership of, or control by, a common Financial Sponsor; provided further that, for the purposes of Section  2.07(b), Section 2.07(g), Section 4.01(ii), Section 4.03(q), Section 5.01(p) and Section 5.03(j) of this Agreement, as well as Section 4.1(ii), Section 5.2(j)(v) and Section 5.2(o) of the Purchase and Sale Agreement, the term “Affiliate” shall not include any Excluded Affiliate.

 

“Agented Note” means any Loan Asset (a) originated as a part of a syndicated loan transaction that has been closed (without regard to any contemporaneous or subsequent syndication of such Loan Asset) prior to such Loan Asset becoming part of the Collateral Portfolio and (b) with respect to which, upon an assignment of the note under the Purchase and Sale Agreement to the Borrower, the Borrower, as assignee of the note, will have all of the rights but none of the obligations of the Transferor with respect to such note and the Underlying Collateral.

 

“Agreement” means this Loan and Servicing Agreement, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time hereafter.

 

“Applicable Law” means for any Person all existing and future laws, rules, regulations (including proposed, temporary and final income tax regulations), statutes, treaties, codes, ordinances, permits, certificates, orders, licenses of and interpretations by any Governmental Authority which are applicable to such Person (including, without limitation, predatory lending laws, usury laws, the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulations “B” and “Z”, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003 and state adaptations of the National Consumer Act and of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code and all other consumer credit laws and equal credit opportunity and disclosure laws) and applicable judgments, decrees, injunctions, writs, awards or orders of any court, arbitrator or other administrative, judicial, or quasi-judicial tribunal or agency of competent jurisdiction.

 

“Applicable Percentage” means the following for each Eligible Loan Asset:

 

(a)                                 which is a First Lien Loan Asset, 65%;

 

(b)                                 which is a First Lien Last Out Loan Asset, 55%; and

 

(c)                                  which is a Second Lien Loan Asset, 35%;

 

provided that if, at the time any such Eligible Loan Asset is transferred to the Borrower the stated maturity date of such Eligible Loan Asset is a date subsequent to the Facility  Maturity Date in effect at such time, the Applicable Percentage for such Eligible Loan Asset shall  be 50% in the case of First Lien Loan Assets, 45% in the case of First Lien Last Out Loan Assets and 30% in the case of Second Lien Loan Assets; provided further that if, after any such Eligible

 

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Loan Asset is transferred to the Borrower, as a result of the Initial Stated Maturity Extension or the Second Stated Maturity Extension the stated maturity date of such Eligible Loan Asset is a date prior to the Facility Maturity Date (as extended), the Applicable Percentage for such Loan Asset shall be as set forth above in clauses (a), (b) or (c), as applicable, as of the date the applicable extension takes effect.

 

“Applicable Spread” means as of any date of determination, (a) with respect to any rate based on LIBOR or One Day Advance LIBOR, (i) if the Average Advances Outstanding are greater than $100,000,000,175,000,000, 1.75% per annum and (ii) if Average Advances Outstanding are less than or equal to $100,000,000,175,000,000, 2.00% per annum and (b) with respect to any rate based on the Base Rate, (i) if Average Advances Outstanding are greater than $100,000,000,175,000,000, 0.75% per annum and (ii) if Average Advances Outstanding are less than or equal to $100,000,000,175,000,000, 1.00% per annum; provided that, at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Applicable Spread shall be 4.00% per annum.

 

“Approval Notice” means, with respect to any Eligible Loan Asset, the written notice, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, evidencing the approval by the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, of the conveyance of such Eligible Loan Asset by the Transferor to the Borrower pursuant to the terms of the Purchase and Sale Agreement and the Loan Assignment by which the Transferor effects such conveyance.

 

“Approved Valuation Firm” shall mean (a) each of (i) Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, (ii) Lincoln International LLC (f/k/a Lincoln Partners LLC), (iii) Duff & Phelps Corp. and (iv) Valuation Research Corporation, and (b) any other nationally recognized valuation firm approved by each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in their sole reasonable discretion.

 

“Ares” means Ares Capital Corporation.

 

“Ares LIBOR Rate” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, the definition of “LIBOR Rate” or any comparable definition in the Loan Agreement for each such Loan Asset, and in any case that “LIBOR Rate” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Loan Agreement, the rate per annum appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to Dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time for such day; provided that if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day, as the rate for Dollar deposits with a one-month, a two-month or a three-month maturity, as applicable, as and when determined in accordance with the applicable Loan Agreement.

 

“Ares Prime Rate” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, the definition of “Prime Rate” or any comparable definition in the Loan Agreement for each such Loan Asset, and in any case that “Prime Rate” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Loan Agreement, the rate designated by certain reference lenders in the applicable Loan Agreement from time to time as its prime rate in the United States, such rate to change as and when the

 

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by Omnibus Amendment No. 3, dated as of June 30, 2015 and as may be further amended, restated, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

“Records” means all documents relating to the Loan Assets, including books, records and other information executed in connection with the origination or acquisition of the Collateral Portfolio or maintained with respect to the Collateral Portfolio and the related Obligors that the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer have generated, in which the Borrower or the Transferor have acquired an interest pursuant to the Purchase and Sale Agreement or in which the Borrower or the Transferor have otherwise obtained an interest.

 

“Recoveries” means, as of the time any Underlying Collateral with respect to any Loan Asset subject to a payment default, or other default, by the related Obligor is sold, discarded or abandoned (after a determination by the Servicer that such Underlying Collateral has little or no remaining value) or otherwise determined to be fully liquidated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard, the proceeds from the sale of the Underlying Collateral, the proceeds of any related Insurance Policy, any other recoveries with respect to such Loan Asset, as applicable, the Underlying Collateral, and amounts representing late fees and penalties, net of any amounts received that are required under such Loan Asset, as applicable, to be refunded to the related Obligor.

 

“Register” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14.

 

“Reinvestment Period” means the date commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the earliest to occur of (a) September 14, 20172018 (or such later date as is agreed to in writing by the Borrower, the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and the Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(b)), (b) the occurrence of an Event of Default (past any applicable notice or cure period provided in the definition thereof) and (c) the date of any voluntary termination by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18(b); provided that if any of the foregoing is not a Business Day, the Reinvestment Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

“Release Date” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.07(e).

 

“Remittance Period” means, (a) as to the Initial Payment Date, the period beginning on January 20, 2012 and ending on, and including, the Determination Date immediately preceding such Payment Date and (b) as to any subsequent Payment Date, the period beginning on the first day after the most recently ended Remittance Period and ending on, and including, the Determination Date immediately preceding such Payment Date, or, with respect to the final Remittance Period, the Collection Date.

 

“Replacement Servicer” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.01(c).

 

“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than an event for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.

 

“Reporting Date” means the date that is three Business Days prior to the Payment Date of each calendar month, commencing with the Payment Date in March, 2012.

 

“Required Lenders” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 11.01(a).

 

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in accordance with Applicable Law, the terms of this Agreement, the Loan Agreements, all customary and usual servicing practices for loans like the Loan Assets and, to the extent consistent with the foregoing, (a) if the Servicer is the originator or an Affiliate thereof, the higher of: (i) in a manner which the Servicer believes to be consistent with the practices and procedures followed by institutional servicers of national standing relating to assets of the nature and character of the Loan Assets, and (ii) the same care, skill, prudence and diligence with which the Servicer services and administers loans for its own account or for the account of others, and (b) if the Servicer is not the originator or an Affiliate thereof, the same care, skill, prudence and diligence with which the Servicer services and administers loans for its own account or for the account of others.

 

“SMBC” means Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, a Japanese banking corporation, in its individual capacity, together with its successors and assigns.

 

“SMBC Lender Fee Letter” means that certain lender fee letter, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Borrower, the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and SMBC, as such letter was amended (x) by the Amended and Restated Fee Letter Agreement, dated as of September 14, 2012, (y) by the Second Amended and Restated Fee Letter Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2013, and (z) by the Third Amended and Restated Fee Letter Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2015, and as may be further amended, restated, supplemented, modified, waived and/or replaced from time to time.

 

“Solvent” means, as to any Person at any time, having a state of affairs such that all of the following conditions are met: (a) the fair market value of the property of such Person is greater than the amount of such Person’s liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as such value is established and liabilities evaluated for purposes of Section 101(32) of the Bankruptcy Code; (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person in an orderly liquidation of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts and other liabilities as they become absolute and matured; (c) such Person is able to realize upon its property and pay its debts and other liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as they mature in the normal course of business; (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature; and (e) such Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and does not propose to engage in a business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property assets would constitute unreasonably small capital.

 

“State” means one of the fifty states of the United States or the District of Columbia.

 

“Stated Maturity Date” means September 14, 20222023 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) or such later date as is agreed to in writing by the Borrower, the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and the Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(a).

 

“Structured Finance Obligation” means any obligation secured directly by, referenced to, or representing ownership of, a pool of receivables or other financial assets of any obligor, including collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities, including (but

 

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Exhibit B

 

CHANGED PAGES TO THE SCHEDULES TO THE LOAN AND SERVICING

AGREEMENT

 

(See attached)

 

10

 

the date it is included as part of the Collateral Portfolio. For the purposes of this Section 38, “Equity Security” shall mean (i) any equity security or any other security that is not eligible for purchase by the Borrower as a Loan Asset and (ii) any security that trades “stapled” to a Loan Asset and that itself is not eligible for purchase by the Borrower as a Loan Asset.

 

39.                               As of the related Cut-Off Date, each such Loan Asset was originated or purchased pursuant to and in accordance in all material respects with the Credit Policy.

 

40.                               As of the related Cut-Off Date, each such Loan Asset is not a Loan Asset with respect to which interest required by the Loan Agreement to be paid in cash has previously been deferred or capitalized as principal and not subsequently paid in full; unless the Obligor has commenced paying in cash current interest required to be paid in cash.

 

41.                               As of the related Cut-Off Date and immediately after giving effect to the acquisition of such Loan Asset (and, in the case of any waiver, modification or other variation of the type described in clause (d) or clause (e) of the definition of “Material Modification”, as of the date of such waiver, modification or variation and immediately after giving effect thereto), the aggregate sum of the product of (A) the Applicable Percentage and (B) the Adjusted Borrowing Value with respect toof all Eligible Loan Assets consisting of each of the First Lien Last Out Loan Assets and Second Lien Loan Assets will not exceed, in the aggregate, 2025% of the Borrowing Base; provided that in no event shall Second Lien Loan Assets exceed 510% of the Borrowing Base.

 

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