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Exhibit 10.1

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

between

TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES, INC.

as Borrower

and

KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Lender

 

dated as of

September 27, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
	 	 	1	 
	Section 1.1. 
	 	Definitions 	 	 	1	 
	Section 1.2. 
	 	Accounting Terms 	 	 	13	 
	Section 1.3. 
	 	Terms Generally 	 	 	13	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE II. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT
	 	 	13	 
	Section 2.1. 
	 	Amount and Nature of Credit 	 	 	13	 
	Section 2.2. 
	 	Revolving Loans 	 	 	13	 
	Section 2.3. 
	 	Term Loan 	 	 	14	 
	Section 2.4. 
	 	Interest 	 	 	14	 
	Section 2.5. 
	 	Evidence of Indebtedness 	 	 	16	 
	Section 2.6. 
	 	Notice of Credit Event; Funding of Loans 	 	 	16	 
	Section 2.7. 
	 	Payment on Loans and Other Obligations 	 	 	16	 
	Section 2.8. 
	 	Prepayment 	 	 	17	 
	Section 2.9. 
	 	Certain Fees; Reduction of Commitment 	 	 	17	 
	Section 2.10. 
	 	Computation of Interest and Fees 	 	 	18	 
	Section 2.11. 
	 	Mandatory Payments 	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO LIBOR LOANS; INCREASED
CAPITAL; TAXES
	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.1. 
	 	Requirements of Law 	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.2. 
	 	Taxes 	 	 	19	 
	Section 3.3. 
	 	Funding Losses 	 	 	20	 
	Section 3.4. 
	 	LIBOR Rate and Daily LIBOR Rate Lending Unlawful; Inability to
Determine Rate 	 	 	20	 
	Section 3.5. 
	 	Funding 	 	 	21	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
	 	 	21	 
	Section 4.1. 
	 	Conditions to Each Credit Event 	 	 	21	 
	Section 4.2. 
	 	Conditions to the First Credit Event 	 	 	22	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V. COVENANTS
	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.1. 
	 	Insurance 	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.2. 
	 	Money Obligations 	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.3. 
	 	Financial Statements and Information 	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.4. 
	 	Financial Records 	 	 	24	 
	Section 5.5. 
	 	Franchises; Change in Business 	 	 	25	 
	Section 5.6. 
	 	ERISA Pension and Benefit Plan Compliance 	 	 	25	 
	Section 5.7. 
	 	Financial Covenants 	 	 	25	 
	Section 5.8. 
	 	Borrowing 	 	 	26	 
	Section 5.9. 
	 	Liens 	 	 	27	 
	Section 5.10. 
	 	Regulations T, U and X 	 	 	28	 
	Section 5.11. 
	 	Investments, Loans and Guaranties 	 	 	28	 
	Section 5.12. 
	 	Merger and Sale of Assets 	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.13. 
	 	Acquisitions 	 	 	30	 

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	Section 5.14.
	 	 Notice 	 	 	30	 
	Section 5.15. 
	 	Restricted Payments 	 	 	31	 
	Section 5.16. 
	 	Environmental Compliance 	 	 	31	 
	Section 5.17. 
	 	Affiliate Transactions 	 	 	31	 
	Section 5.18. 
	 	Use of Proceeds 	 	 	31	 
	Section 5.19. 
	 	Corporate Names 	 	 	32	 
	Section 5.20. 
	 	Restrictive Agreements 	 	 	32	 
	Section 5.21. 
	 	Other Covenants and Provisions 	 	 	32	 
	Section 5.22. 
	 	Guaranty Under Material Indebtedness Agreement 	 	 	32	 
	Section 5.23. 
	 	Amendment of Organizational Documents 	 	 	32	 
	Section 5.24. 
	 	Further Assurances 	 	 	32	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	32	 
	Section 6.1. 
	 	Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification 	 	 	32	 
	Section 6.2. 
	 	Corporate Authority 	 	 	33	 
	Section 6.3. 
	 	Compliance with Laws and Contracts 	 	 	33	 
	Section 6.4. 
	 	Litigation and Administrative Proceedings 	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.5. 
	 	Title to Assets 	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.6. 
	 	Liens and Security Interests 	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.7.
	 	Tax Returns 	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.8.
	 	 Environmental Laws 	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.9. 
	 	Employee Benefits Plans 	 	 	35	 
	Section 6.10. 
	 	Consents or Approvals 	 	 	35	 
	Section 6.11. 
	 	Solvency 	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.12. 
	 	Financial Statements 	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.13. 
	 	Regulations 	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.14. 
	 	Material Agreements 	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.15. 
	 	Maintenance of Insurance 	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.16. 
	 	FDIC Insurance 	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.17. 
	 	Dividend Restrictions; Other Restrictions 	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.18. 
	 	Capital Measures 	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.19. 
	 	Accurate and Complete Statements 	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.20. 
	 	Investment Company 	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.21. 
	 	Defaults 	 	 	37	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	 	 	37	 
	Section 7.1. 
	 	Payments 	 	 	37	 
	Section 7.2. 
	 	Special Covenants 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.3. 
	 	Other Covenants 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.4. 
	 	Representations and Warranties 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.5. 
	 	Cross Default 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.6. 
	 	ERISA Default 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.7. 
	 	Change in Control 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.8. 
	 	Money Judgment 	 	 	38	 
	Section 7.9. 
	 	Validity of Loan Documents 	 	 	38	 

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	Section 7.10. 
	 	FDIC or Governmental Authority Restrictions	 	 	39	 
	Section 7.11. 
	 	Bank Supervision 	 	 	39	 
	Section 7.12.
	 	 Solvency 	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VIII. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT 
	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.1. 
	 	Optional Defaults 	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.2. 
	 	Automatic Defaults 	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.3. 
	 	Offsets 	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.4. 
	 	Other Remedies 	 	 	41	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS 
	 	 	41	 
	Section 9.1. 
	 	No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Relationship of Parties 	 	 	41	 
	Section 9.2. 
	 	Amendments, Waivers and Consents 	 	 	41	 
	Section 9.3. 
	 	Notices 	 	 	41	 
	Section 9.4. 
	 	Costs, Expenses and Taxes 	 	 	41	 
	Section 9.5. 
	 	Indemnification 	 	 	42	 
	Section 9.6. 
	 	Execution in Counterparts 	 	 	42	 
	Section 9.7. 
	 	Binding Effect; Assignment 	 	 	42	 
	Section 9.8. 
	 	Patriot Act Notice 	 	 	42	 
	Section 9.9. 
	 	Severability of Provisions; Captions; Attachments 	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.10. 
	 	Confidentiality 	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.11. 
	 	Entire Agreement 	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.12. 
	 	Legal Representation of Parties 	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.13. 
	 	Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction 	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.14. 
	 	Jury Trial Waiver 	Signature Page 1 	 

	 	 	 
	Exhibit A
	 	Form of Convertible RC/TL Note
	Exhibit B
	 	Form of Notice of Loan
	Exhibit C
	 	Form of Compliance Certificate
	 
	 	 
	Schedule 5.8
	 	Indebtedness
	Schedule 5.9
	 	Liens
	Schedule 5.11
	 	Investments
	Schedule 6.1
	 	Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification
	Schedule 6.4
	 	Litigation and Administrative Proceedings
	Schedule 6.14
	 	Material Agreements

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     This CREDIT AGREEMENT (as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise
modified, this “Agreement”) is made effective as of the 27th day of September, 2007
between:

     (a) TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Borrower”); and

     (b) KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (“Lender”).

WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, Borrower and Lender desire to contract for the establishment of credits in the
aggregate principal amounts hereinafter set forth, to be made available to Borrower upon the terms
and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth;

     NOW, THEREFORE, it is mutually agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS

     Section 1.1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have
the meanings set forth below:

     “364-Day Revolving Credit Commitment” means the obligation hereunder of Lender, during the
Commitment Period, to make Revolving Loans, up to the Maximum Revolving Amount.

     “Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or
resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the
assets of any Person (other than a Company), or any business or division of any Person (other than
a Company), (b) the acquisition of in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital
stock (or other equity interest) of any Person (other than a Company), or (c) the acquisition of
another Person (other than a Company) by a merger, amalgamation or consolidation or any other
combination with such Person.

     “Affiliate” means any Person, directly or indirectly, controlling, controlled by or under
common control with a Company and “control” (including the correlative meanings, the terms
“controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the power, directly or
indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Company, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

     “Agreement” means that term as defined in the first paragraph hereof.

 

 

     “Authorized Officer” means a Financial Officer or other individual authorized by a Financial
Officer in writing (with a copy to Lender) to handle certain administrative matters in connection
with this Agreement.

     “Average Assets” means, for any period, the “average assets” of Texas Capital Bank, as
reported on the Regulatory Capital Schedule of its Call Report applicable to such period.

     “Bank Regulatory Authority” means the FRB, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, the OTS and all other relevant regulatory authorities (including,
without limitation, relevant state bank regulatory authorities).

     “Base Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate or (b) one-half
of one percent (.50%) in excess of the Federal Funds Effective Rate. Any change in the Base Rate
shall be effective immediately from and after such change in the Base Rate.

     “Base Rate Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2 hereof or a portion of the
Term Loan described in Section 2.3, on which Borrower shall pay interest at a rate based on the
Base Rate.

     “Borrower” means that term as defined in the first paragraph hereof.

     “Borrower Investment Policy” means the Investment Policy Guidelines of Borrower in effect as
of the Closing Date, together with such modifications as approved from time to time by the Board
of Directors of Borrower.

     “Business Day” means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or another day of the year on
which banks are not authorized or required to close in Cleveland, Ohio or Dallas, Texas, and, if
the applicable Business Day relates to a LIBOR Loan, a day of the year on which dealings in
deposits are carried on in the London interbank Eurodollar market.

     “Call Report” means, for each Financial Subsidiary, the “Consolidated Reports of Condition and
Income” (FFIEC Form 031 or Form 041), or any successor form promulgated by the Federal Financial
Institutions Examination Council.

     “Capital Distribution” means a payment made, liability incurred or other consideration given
by a Company to any Person that is not a Company, for the purchase, acquisition, redemption,
repurchase, payment or retirement of any capital stock or other equity interest of such Company or
as a dividend, return of capital or other distribution (other than any stock dividend, stock split
or other equity distribution payable only in capital stock or other equity of such Company) in
respect of such Company’s capital stock or other equity interest.

     “Capitalized Lease Obligations” means obligations of the Companies for the payment of rent
for any real or personal property under leases or agreements to lease that, in accordance with
GAAP, have been or should be capitalized on the books of the lessee and, for purposes hereof, the
amount of any such obligation shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance
with GAAP.

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     “Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of, or, if earlier, the shareholder or director
approval of the acquisition of, ownership or voting control, directly or indirectly, beneficially
(within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as then in
effect) or of record, on or after the Closing Date, by any Person or group (within the meaning of
Sections 13d and 14d of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as then in effect), of shares
representing more than thirty percent (30%) of the aggregate ordinary Voting Power represented by
the issued and outstanding capital stock of Borrower; (b) Borrower shall cease to own and control,
directly or indirectly, one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding capital stock of each
Material Subsidiary; (c) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the
board of directors or other governing body of Borrower by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by
the board of directors or other governing body of Borrower nor (ii) appointed by directors so
nominated; or (d) the occurrence of a change in control, or other similar provision, as defined in
any Material Indebtedness Agreement.

     “Closing Date” means the effective date of this Agreement as set forth in the first paragraph
of this Agreement.

     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, together with the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Commitment” means the obligation hereunder of Lender, (a) during the Commitment Period, to
make Revolving Loans pursuant to the 364-Day Revolving Credit Commitment and, and (b) on the
Conversion Date, if requested by Borrower, to convert the then outstanding Revolving Loans to the
Term Loan pursuant to the Term Loan Commitment; up to the Total Commitment Amount.

     “Commitment Period” means the period from the Closing Date to September 24, 2008, or such
earlier date on which the Commitment shall have been terminated pursuant to Article VIII hereof.

     “Companies” means Borrower and all Subsidiaries.

     “Company” means Borrower or a Subsidiary.

     “Compliance Certificate” means a Compliance Certificate in the form of the attached
Exhibit C.

     “Confidential Information” means all confidential or proprietary information about the
Companies that has been furnished by any Company to Lender, whether furnished before or after the
Closing Date and regardless of the manner in which it is furnished, but does not include any such
information that (a) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a
disclosure by Lender not permitted by this Agreement, (b) was available to Lender on a
nonconfidential basis prior to its disclosure to Lender, or (c) becomes available to Lender on a
nonconfidential basis from a Person that is not, to the best knowledge of Lender, acting in

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violation of a confidentiality agreement with a Company or is not otherwise prohibited from
disclosing the information to Lender.

     “Consideration” means, in connection with an Acquisition, the aggregate consideration paid or
to be paid, including borrowed funds, cash, deferred payments, the issuance of securities or notes,
the assumption or incurring of liabilities (direct or contingent), the payment of consulting fees
or fees for a covenant not to compete and any other consideration paid or to be paid for such
Acquisition.

     “Consolidated” means the resultant consolidation of the financial statements of Borrower and
its Subsidiaries (or Texas Capital Bank and its Subsidiaries, as the context requires) in
accordance with GAAP, including principles of consolidation consistent with those applied in
preparation of the consolidated financial statements referred to in Section 6.13 hereof.

     “Consolidated Net Earnings” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of Texas Capital
Bank for such period, as determined on a Consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.

     “Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” means, at any date, as determined on a Consolidated basis
and in accordance with GAAP, (a) the stockholders’ equity of Borrower, minus (b) patents,
goodwill, treasury stock and other intangibles of Borrower.

     “Controlled Group” means a Company and each Person required to be aggregated with a Company
under Code Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o).

     “Conversion Date” means September 24, 2008.

     “Conversion Request” means that term as defined in Section 2.3 hereof.

     “Convertible RC/TL Note” means the Convertible RC/TL Note, substantially in the form of the
attached Exhibit A, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.5 hereof.

     “Credit Event” means the making of a Loan, the conversion of a Base Rate Loan to a Daily
LIBOR Loan or a LIBOR Loan, the conversion of a Daily LIBOR Loan to a LIBOR Loan, or the
continuation of a LIBOR Loan after the end of the applicable Interest Period.

     “Credit Party” means Borrower and any Subsidiary or other Affiliate that is a Guarantor of
Payment. As of the Closing Date, no Subsidiary or Affiliate is a Guarantor of Payment.

     “Daily Interest Period” means, with respect to a Daily LIBOR Loan, the period commencing on
the date such Daily LIBOR Loan is made and ending on the next day, with successive Daily Interest
Periods automatically commencing daily thereafter.

     “Daily LIBOR Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2 hereof or a portion of the
Term Loan described in Section 2.3 hereof, that shall be denominated in Dollars and on which
Borrower shall pay interest at a rate based on the Daily LIBOR Rate.

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     “Daily LIBOR Rate” means, for any Daily Interest Period with respect to a Daily LIBOR Loan,
the per annum rate of interest at which, determined by Lender in accordance with its usual
procedures (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) as of approximately
11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Daily Interest Period,
dollar deposits in immediately available funds in an amount comparable to such Daily LIBOR Loan and
with a maturity of one day are offered to the prime banks by leading banks in the London interbank
market.

     “Default” means an event or condition that constitutes, or with the lapse of any applicable
grace period or the giving of notice or both would constitute, an Event of Default, and that has
not been waived by Lender in writing.

     “Default Rate” means (a) with respect to any Loan, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%)
in excess of the rate otherwise applicable thereto, and (b) with respect to any other amount, if
no rate is specified or available, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%) in excess of the
Base Rate from time to time in effect.

     “Dollar” or the sign $ means lawful money of the United States of America.

     “Environmental Laws” means all provisions of law (including the common law), statutes,
ordinances, codes, rules, guidelines, policies, procedures, orders-in-council, regulations,
permits, licenses, judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, orders, awards and standards
promulgated by a Governmental Authority or by any court, agency, instrumentality, regulatory
authority or commission of any of the foregoing concerning environmental health or safety and
protection of, or regulation of the discharge of substances into, the environment.

     “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

     “ERISA Event” means (a) the existence of a condition or event with respect to an ERISA Plan
that presents a risk of the imposition of an excise tax or any other liability on a Company or of
the imposition of a Lien on the assets of a Company; (b) the engagement by a Controlled Group
member in a non-exempt “prohibited transaction” (as defined under ERISA Section 406 or Code
Section 4975) or a breach of a fiduciary duty under ERISA that could result in liability to a
Company; (c) the application by a Controlled Group member for a waiver from the minimum funding
requirements of Code Section 412 or ERISA Section 302 or a Controlled Group member is required to
provide security under Code Section 401(a)(29) or ERISA Section 307; (d) the occurrence of a
Reportable Event with respect to any Pension Plan as to which notice is required to be provided to
the PBGC; (e) the withdrawal by a Controlled Group member from a Multiemployer Plan in a “complete
withdrawal” or a “partial withdrawal” (as such terms are defined in ERISA Sections 4203 and 4205,
respectively); (f) the involvement of, or occurrence or existence of any event or condition that
makes likely the involvement of, a Multiemployer Plan in any reorganization under ERISA Section
4241; (g) the failure of an ERISA Plan (and any related trust) that is intended to be qualified
under Code Sections 401 and 501 to be so qualified or the failure of any “cash or deferred
arrangement” under any such

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ERISA Plan to meet the requirements of Code Section 401(k); (h) the taking by the PBGC of any steps
to terminate a Pension Plan or appoint a trustee to administer a Pension Plan, or the taking by a
Controlled Group member of any steps to terminate a Pension Plan; (i) the failure by a Controlled
Group member or an ERISA Plan to satisfy any requirements of law applicable to an ERISA Plan; (j)
the commencement, existence or threatening of a claim, action, suit, audit or investigation with
respect to an ERISA Plan, other than a routine claim for benefits; or (k) any incurrence by or any
expectation of the incurrence by a Controlled Group member of any liability for post-retirement
benefits under any Welfare Plan, other than as required by ERISA
Section 601, et. seq. or Code
Section 4980B.

     “ERISA Plan” means an “employee benefit plan” (within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(3)) that
a Controlled Group member at any time sponsors, maintains, contributes to, has liability with
respect to or has an obligation to contribute to such plan.

     “Eurocurrency Liabilities” shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of
the FRB, as in effect from time to time.

     “Eurodollar” means a Dollar denominated deposit in a bank or branch outside of the United
States.

     “Event of Default” means an event or condition that shall constitute an event of default as
defined in Article VII hereof.

     “Excluded Taxes” means, in the case of Lender, taxes imposed on or measured by its overall
net income or branch profits, and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by
the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which Lender is
organized or in which its principal office is located.

     “FDIA” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Act of 1933, as amended from time to time; and the
regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

     “FDIC” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any governmental body or agency
succeeding to any of its principal functions.

     “Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum (rounded upward to the
nearest one one-hundredth of one percent (1/100 of 1%)) announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York (or any successor) on such day as being the weighted average of the rates on overnight
federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous trading day, as
computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank (or any successor) in substantially the same
manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as
the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” as of the Closing Date.

     “Financial Officer” means any of the following officers: chief executive officer, president,
chief financial officer or treasurer. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a Financial
Officer in this Agreement shall refer to a Financial Officer of Borrower.

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     “Financial Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary that is a financial institution and is subject to
the regulation of any Bank Regulatory Authority.

     “FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any successor thereto.

     “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as then in effect,
which shall include the official interpretations thereof by the Financial Accounting Standards
Board, applied on a basis consistent with the past accounting practices and procedures of
Borrower.

     “Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, province or territory or
other political subdivision thereof, any governmental agency (including the OCC, the OTS, the FDIC
and the FRB), department, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or
other governmental entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any
self-regulatory organization exercising such functions.

     “Guarantor” means a Person that shall have pledged its credit or property in any manner for
the payment or other performance of the indebtedness, contract or other obligation of another and
includes (without limitation) any guarantor (whether of payment or of collection), surety, co-maker,
endorser or Person that shall have agreed conditionally or otherwise to make any purchase, loan or
investment in order thereby to enable another to prevent or correct a default of any kind.

     “Guarantor of Payment” means any Person that shall deliver a Guaranty of Payment to Lender
subsequent to the Closing Date.

     “Guaranty of Payment” means each Guaranty of Payment, if any, executed and delivered to
Lender after the Closing Date in connection with this Agreement by the Guarantors of Payment, as
the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.

     “Hedge Agreement” means any (a) hedge agreement, interest rate swap, cap, collar or floor
agreement, or other interest rate management device entered into by a Company with any Person in
connection with any Indebtedness of such Company, or (b) currency swap agreement, forward currency
purchase agreement or similar arrangement or agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in
currency exchange rates entered into by a Company.

     “Indebtedness” means, for any Company, without duplication, (a) all obligations to repay
borrowed money, direct or indirect, incurred, assumed, or guaranteed, (b) all obligations in
respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable
in the ordinary course of business), (c) all obligations under conditional sales or other title
retention agreements, (d) all obligations (contingent or otherwise) under any letter of credit or
banker’s acceptance, (e) all net obligations under any currency swap agreement, interest rate
swap, cap, collar or floor agreement or other interest rate management device or any Hedge
Agreement, (f) all synthetic leases, (g) all lease obligations that have been or should be

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capitalized on the books of such Company in accordance with GAAP, (h) all obligations of such
Company with respect to asset securitization financing programs to the extent that there is
recourse against such Company or such Company is liable (contingent or otherwise) under any such
program, (i) all obligations to advance funds to, or to purchase assets, property or services from,
any other Person in order to maintain the financial condition of such Person, (j) all indebtedness
of the types referred to in subparts (a) through (i) above of any partnership or joint venture
(other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which
such Company is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such indebtedness is expressly made
non-recourse to such Company, (k) any other transaction (including forward sale or purchase
agreements) having the commercial effect of a borrowing of money entered into by such Company to
finance its operations or capital requirements, and (l) any guaranty of any obligation described in
subparts (a) through (k) hereof.

     “Interest Adjustment Date” means the last day of each Interest Period.

     “Interest Period” means, with respect to a LIBOR Loan, the period commencing on the date such
LIBOR Loan is made and ending on the last day of such period, as selected by Borrower pursuant to
the provisions hereof, and, thereafter (unless such LIBOR Loan is converted to a Base Rate Loan or
a Daily LIBOR Loan), each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately
preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of such period, as selected by Borrower
pursuant to the provisions hereof. The duration of each Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan shall be
one month, two months or three months, in each case as Borrower may select upon notice, as set
forth in Section 2.6 hereof; provided that if Borrower shall fail to so select the duration of any
Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan at least three Business Days prior to the Interest Adjustment
Date applicable to such LIBOR Loan, Borrower shall be deemed to have converted such LIBOR Loan to
a Daily LIBOR Loan at the end of the then current Interest Period.

     “Lender” means that term as defined in the first paragraph hereof.

     “LIBOR Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2 hereof or a portion of the Term
Loan described in Section 2.3, that shall be denominated in Dollars and on which Borrower shall
pay interest at a rate based upon the LIBOR Rate; as used in this Agreement, the term “LIBOR Loan”
shall not include a Daily LIBOR Loan.

     “LIBOR Rate” means, with respect to a LIBOR Loan, for any Interest Period, a rate per annum
equal to the quotient obtained (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/16th of
1%) by dividing (a) the rate of interest, determined by Lender in accordance with its usual
procedures (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) as of approximately
11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period
pertaining to such LIBOR Loan, as listed on British Bankers Association Interest Rate LIBOR 01 or
02 as provided by Reuters or Bloomberg (or, if for any reason such rate is unavailable from
Reuters or Bloomberg, from any other similar company or service that provides rate quotations
comparable to those currently provided by Reuters or Bloomberg) as the rate in the London
interbank market for Dollar deposits in immediately available funds with a maturity comparable to
such Interest Period, provided that in the event that such rate quotation is not available for any
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LIBOR Rate shall be the average (rounded upward to the nearest 1/16th of 1%) of the per annum
rates at which deposits in immediately available funds in Dollars for the relevant Interest Period
and in the amount of the LIBOR Loan to be disbursed or to remain outstanding during such Interest
Period, as the case may be, are offered to Lender (or an affiliate of Lender, in Lender’s
discretion) by prime banks in any Eurodollar market reasonably selected by Lender, determined as
of 11:00 A.M. (London time) (or as soon thereafter as practicable), two Business Days prior to the
beginning of the relevant Interest Period pertaining to such LIBOR Loan; by (b) 1.00 minus the
Reserve Percentage.

     “Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, security interest, lien (statutory or other),
charge, assignment, hypothecation, encumbrance on, pledge or deposit of, or conditional sale,
leasing (other than operating leases), sale with a right of redemption or other title retention
agreement and any capitalized lease with respect to any property (real or personal) or asset.

     “Loan” means a Revolving Loan or the Term Loan, granted to Borrower in accordance with
Section 2.2 or 2.3 hereof.

     “Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Note and each Guaranty of Payment,
if any, as any of the foregoing may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified or
replaced, and any other document delivered pursuant thereto.

     “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
liabilities (actual or contingent), operations, or condition (financial or otherwise) of Texas
Capital Bank or the Companies taken as a whole, (b) the rights and remedies of Lender under any
Loan Document, (c) the ability of any Credit Party to perform its obligations under any Loan
Document to which it is a party, or (d) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability
against any Credit Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.

     “Material Indebtedness Agreement” means any debt instrument, lease (capital, operating or
otherwise), guaranty, contract, commitment, agreement or other arrangement evidencing or entered
into in connection with any Indebtedness of any Company or the Companies equal to or in excess of
the amount of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000).

     “Material Subsidiary” means Texas Capital Bank, and any other Subsidiary of Borrower, that,
as of the most recently completed fiscal year of Borrower, has total equity capital (including
equity capital of all Subsidiaries of such Subsidiary) in an amount equal to five percent (5%) or
more of Consolidated total equity capital of Borrower.

     “Maximum Rate” means that term as defined in Section 2.4(d) hereof.

     “Maximum Revolving Amount” means Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000), as such amount may be
reduced pursuant to Section 2.9 hereof.

     “Multiemployer Plan” means a Pension Plan that is subject to the requirements of Subtitle E
of Title IV of ERISA.

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     “Non-Performing Assets” means, at any date, as determined on a Consolidated basis and in
accordance with GAAP, the aggregate amount of (a) all non-accrual loans of Texas Capital Bank, (b)
all loans of Texas Capital Bank ninety (90) days or more past due that are still accruing interest,
and (c) all “other real estate owned (OREO)”, as defined by the OCC, of Texas Capital Bank.

     “Non-Performing Assets Ratio” means, at any date, as determined on a Consolidated basis and
in accordance with GAAP, the ratio of (a) Non-Performing Assets; to (b) the sum of (i) Total
Loans, plus (ii) all “other real estate owned (OREO)”, as defined by the OCC, of Texas Capital
Bank; provided that all financial information of BankDirect Capital Finance shall not be included
in the calculation of Non-Performing Assets Ratio.

     “Note” means the Convertible RC/TL Note, or any other promissory note delivered pursuant to
this Agreement.

     “Notice of Loan” means a Notice of Loan in the form of the attached Exhibit B.

     “Obligations” means, collectively, (a) all Indebtedness and other obligations incurred by
Borrower to Lender pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and includes the
principal of and interest on all Loans; (b) each extension, renewal or refinancing of the
foregoing, in whole or in part; (c) any prepayment and other fees payable hereunder; (d) all
obligations and liabilities of any Company now existing or hereafter incurred under, arising out
of, or in connection with any Hedge Agreement with Lender (or an affiliate of Lender); and (e) all
costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by Lender in connection with the Credit
Agreement or in connection with the collection of any portion of the indebtedness or other
obligations described in (a), (b), (c) or (d) hereof.

     “OCC” means the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or any agency succeeding to any of
its principal functions.

     “Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person (other than an individual), such
Person’s Articles (Certificate) of Incorporation, operating agreement or equivalent formation
documents, and Regulations (Bylaws), or equivalent governing documents, and any amendments to any
of the foregoing.

     “Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other
excise, ad valorem or property taxes, goods and services taxes, harmonized sales taxes and other
sales taxes, use taxes, value added taxes, charges or similar taxes or levies arising from any
payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with
respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

     “OTS” means the Office of Thrift Supervision, or any agency succeeding to any of its
principal functions.

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     “Patriot Act” means Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required
to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, USA Patriot Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56,
signed into law October 26, 2001, as amended from time to time.

     “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and its successor.

     “Pension Plan” means an ERISA Plan that is a “pension plan” (within the meaning of ERISA
Section 3(2)).

     “Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture,
unincorporated organization, corporation, limited liability company, unlimited liability company,
institution, trust, estate, Governmental Authority or any other entity.

     “Prime Rate” means the interest rate established from time to time by Lender as Lender’s
prime rate, whether or not such rate shall be publicly announced; the Prime Rate may not be the
lowest interest rate charged by Lender for commercial or other extensions of credit. Each change
in the Prime Rate shall be effective immediately from and after such change.

     “Regularly Scheduled Payment Date” means the last day of each January, April, July and
October of each year.

     “Related Writing” means each Loan Document and any other assignment, mortgage, security
agreement, guaranty agreement, subordination agreement, financial statement, audit report or other
writing furnished by any Credit Party, or any of its officers, to Lender pursuant to or otherwise
in connection with this Agreement.

     “Reportable Event” means any of the events described in Section 4043 of ERISA except where
notice is waived by the PBGC.

     “Requirement of Law” means, as to any Person, any law, treaty, rule or regulation or
determination or policy statement or interpretation of an arbitrator or a court or other
Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its
property.

     “Reserve Percentage” means for any day that percentage (expressed as a decimal) that is in
effect on such day, as prescribed by the FRB (or any successor) for determining the maximum
reserve requirement (including, without limitation, all basic, supplemental, marginal and other
reserves and taking into account any transitional adjustments or other scheduled changes in
reserve requirements) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in Cleveland, Ohio, in
respect of Eurocurrency Liabilities. The LIBOR Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of
the effective date of any change in the Reserve Percentage.

     “Restricted Payment” means, with respect to any Company, (a) any Capital Distribution, or (b)
any amount paid by such Company in repayment, redemption, retirement or repurchase, directly or
indirectly, of any Subordinated Indebtedness.

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     “Return on Average Assets Ratio” means, for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters
of Texas Capital Bank, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Net Earnings, to (b) Average Assets; provided
that, with the prior written consent of Lender, adjustments may be made to Consolidated Net
Earnings for special restructuring or other exceptional non-recurring charges (specifically
excluding charges for normal operations, charges with respect to additional loan loss reserves or
other loan quality deterioration).

     “Revolving Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all
Revolving Loans outstanding.

     “Revolving Loan” means a Loan made to Borrower by Lender in accordance with Section 2.2
hereof.

     “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or any governmental body or
agency succeeding to any of its principal functions.

     “Subordinated” means, as applied to Indebtedness, Indebtedness that shall have been
subordinated (by written terms or written agreement being, in either case, in form and substance
satisfactory to Lender) in favor of the prior payment in full of the Obligations.

     “Subsidiary” means (a) a corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of the Voting Power of
which is owned, directly or indirectly, by Borrower or by one or more other subsidiaries of
Borrower or by Borrower and one or more subsidiaries of Borrower, (b) a partnership, limited
liability company or unlimited liability company of which Borrower, one or more other subsidiaries
of Borrower or Borrower and one or more subsidiaries of Borrower, directly or indirectly, is a
general partner or managing member, as the case may be, or otherwise has an ownership interest
greater than fifty percent (50%) of all of the ownership interests in such partnership, limited
liability company or unlimited liability company, or (c) any other Person (other than a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or unlimited liability company) in which
Borrower, one or more other subsidiaries of Borrower or Borrower and one or more subsidiaries of
Borrower, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority interest in the Voting Power or the power
to elect or direct the election of a majority of directors or other governing body of such Person.

     “Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes of any kind, including but not limited to,
levies, imposts, duties, surtaxes, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings now or hereafter
imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority (together with any
interest, penalties, fines, additions to taxes or similar liabilities with respect thereto) other
than Excluded Taxes.

     “Term Loan” means the Loan granted to Borrower by Lender pursuant to the Term Loan
Commitment, in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof.

     “Term Loan Commitment” means the obligation hereunder of Lender to make a Term Loan in the
original principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans
outstanding on the Conversion Date, in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof.

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     “Term Loan Maturity Date” means September 26, 2010.

     “Term Loan Scheduled Payment Amount” means an amount equal to the original principal amount
of the Term Loan divided by twenty (20).

     “Texas Capital Bank” means Texas Capital Bank, a national banking association.

     “Total Commitment Amount” means the principal amount of Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000),
or such lesser amount as shall be determined pursuant to Section 2.9 hereof.

     “Total Loans” means the net total loans of Texas Capital Bank as listed on its Call Report.

     “U.C.C. Financing Statement” means a financing statement filed or to be filed in accordance
with the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, in the relevant state or states.

     “Voting Power” means, with respect to any Person, the exclusive ability to control, through
the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or otherwise,
the election of members of the board of directors or other similar governing body of such Person.
The holding of a designated percentage of Voting Power of a Person means the ownership of shares of
capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other interests of such Person
sufficient to control exclusively the election of that percentage of the members of the board of
directors or similar governing body of such Person.

     “Welfare Plan” means an ERISA Plan that is a “welfare plan” within the meaning of ERISA
Section 3(1).

     Section 1.2. Accounting Terms. Any accounting term not specifically defined in this
Article I shall have the meaning ascribed thereto by GAAP.

     Section 1.3. Terms Generally. The foregoing definitions shall be applicable to the
singular and plural forms of the foregoing defined terms.

ARTICLE II. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT

     Section 2.1. Amount and Nature of Credit. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, Lender shall make Loans to Borrower, in such aggregate amount as Borrower shall request
pursuant to the Commitment. The Loans may be made as Revolving Loans as described in Section 2.2
hereof, and as the Term Loan as described in Section 2.3 hereof.

     Section 2.2. Revolving Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
during the Commitment Period, Lender shall make a Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans to Borrower in
such amount or amounts as Borrower, through an Authorized Officer, may from

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time to time request, provided that, in no event shall the Revolving Credit Exposure be in excess
of the Maximum Revolving Amount. Borrower shall have the option, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, to borrow Revolving Loans, maturing on the last day of the Commitment
Period, by means of any combination of Base Rate Loans, Daily LIBOR Loans or LIBOR Loans. Subject
to the provisions of this Agreement, Borrower shall be entitled under this Section 2.2 to borrow
funds, repay the same in whole or in part and re-borrow hereunder at any time and from time to time
during the Commitment Period.

     Section 2.3. Term Loan. So long as there shall be no Default or Event of Default,
Borrower shall have the option to request (the “Conversion Request”) that all outstanding
Revolving Loans convert to a Term Loan on the Conversion Date. So long as Lender shall receive the
Conversion Request no later than thirty (30) days prior to the Conversion Date, subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, all Revolving Loans outstanding on the Conversion Date
shall be refinanced by Lender with the Term Loan. On the Conversion Date, the 364-Day Revolving
Credit Commitment shall be automatically terminated and, on and after the Conversion Date,
Revolving Loans shall no longer be available. The Term Loan shall be payable in seven consecutive
quarterly installments, with each such payment to be in the amount of the Term Loan Scheduled
Payment Amount. Such payments shall commence on January 31, 2009, and continue on each Regularly
Scheduled Payment Date thereafter, with the balance thereof payable in full on the Term Loan
Maturity Date. Borrower shall notify Lender, in accordance with the notice provisions of Section
2.6 hereof, whether the Term Loan will be a Base Rate Loan, a Daily LIBOR Loan or LIBOR Loans. The
Term Loan may be a mixture of a Base Rate Loan, a Daily LIBOR Loan and LIBOR Loans.

     Section 2.4. Interest.

     (a) Revolving Loans.

     (i) Base Rate Loan. Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount
of a Revolving Loan that is a Base Rate Loan outstanding from time to time from the date
thereof until paid at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate (from time to time in effect)
minus one hundred twenty-five (125) basis points. Interest on such Base Rate Loan shall be
payable, commencing January 31, 2008, and continuing on each Regularly Scheduled Payment
Date thereafter and at the maturity thereof.

     (ii) Daily LIBOR Loan. Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal
amount of a Revolving Loan that is a Daily LIBOR Loan outstanding from time to time from
the date thereof until paid at a rate per annum equal to one hundred (100.00) basis points
in excess of the Daily LIBOR Rate (from time to time in effect). Interest on such Daily
LIBOR Loan shall be payable, commencing January 31, 2008, and continuing on each Regularly
Scheduled Payment Date thereafter and at the maturity thereof.

     (iii) LIBOR Loans. Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount
of each Revolving Loan that is a LIBOR Loan outstanding from time to time, fixed in advance
on the first day of the Interest Period applicable thereto through the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, at a rate per annum equal to one hundred

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(100.00) basis points in excess of the LIBOR Rate. Interest on such LIBOR Loan shall be
payable on each Interest Adjustment Date with respect to an Interest Period (provided that
if an Interest Period shall exceed three months, the interest must be paid every three
months, commencing three months from the beginning of such Interest Period).

     (b) Term Loan.

     (i) Base Rate Loan. With respect to any portion of the Term Loan that is a
Base Rate Loan, Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof
outstanding from time to time from the date thereof until paid, commencing on the first
Regularly Scheduled Payment Date after the Conversion Date, and continuing on each
Regularly Scheduled Payment Date thereafter and at the maturity thereof, at a rate per
annum equal to the Base Rate (from time to time in effect) minus one hundred twenty-five
(125.00) basis points.

     (ii) Daily LIBOR Loan. With respect to any portion of the Term Loan that is a
Daily LIBOR Loan, Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof
outstanding from time to time from the date thereof until paid, commencing on the first
Regularly Scheduled Payment Date after the Conversion Date, and continuing on each
Regularly Scheduled Payment Date thereafter and at the maturity thereof, at a rate per
annum equal to one hundred (100.00) basis points in excess of the Daily LIBOR Rate (from
time to time in effect).

     (iii) LIBOR Loans. With respect to any portion of the Term Loan that is a
LIBOR Loan, Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of such LIBOR Loan
outstanding from time to time, fixed in advance on the first day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto through the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, at a
rate per annum equal to one hundred (100.00) basis points in excess of the LIBOR Rate.
Interest on such LIBOR Loan shall be payable on each Interest Adjustment Date with respect
to an Interest Period (provided that if an Interest Period shall exceed three months, the
interest must be paid every three months, commencing three months from the beginning of
such Interest Period).

     (c) Default Rate. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, if an Event of
Default shall occur, upon the election of Lender and after written notice to Borrower, (i) the
principal of each Loan and the unpaid interest thereon shall bear interest, until paid, at the
Default Rate, and (ii) in the case of any other amount not paid when due from Borrower hereunder
or under any other Loan Document, such amount shall bear interest at the Default Rate; provided
that, during an Event of Default under Section 7.1 or 7.12 hereof, the applicable Default Rate
shall apply without any election or action on the part of Lender.

     (d) Limitation on Interest. In no event shall the rate of interest hereunder exceed
the maximum rate allowable by law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan
Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the
maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”). If Lender
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interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal,
refunded to Borrower. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by
Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (i)
characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than
interest, (ii) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (iii) amortize, prorate,
allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the
contemplated term of the Obligations.

     Section 2.5. Evidence of Indebtedness. The obligation of Borrower to repay the
Revolving Loans and the Term Loan, and to pay interest thereon, shall be evidenced by a
Convertible RC/TL Note of Borrower.

     Section 2.6. Notice of Credit Event; Funding of Loans.

     (a) Notice of Credit Event. Borrower, through an Authorized Officer, shall provide to
Lender a Notice of Loan prior to (i) 11:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the proposed date of borrowing or
conversion of any Base Rate Loan, (ii) 11:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the proposed date of borrowing
or conversion of any Daily LIBOR Loan, and (iii) 11:00 A.M. (Eastern time) three Business Days
prior to the proposed date of borrowing, conversion or continuation of any LIBOR Loan.

     (b) Conversion of Loans. At the request of Borrower to Lender, subject to the notice
and other provisions of this Section 2.6, Lender shall convert a Base Rate Loan or a Daily LIBOR
Loan to one or more LIBOR Loans at any time and shall convert a LIBOR Loan to a Base Rate Loan or
a Daily LIBOR Loan on any Interest Adjustment Date applicable thereto.

     (c) Minimum Amount. Each request for:

     (i) a Base Rate Loan or a Daily LIBOR Loan shall be in an amount of not less than Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), increased by increments of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000); and

     (ii) a LIBOR Loan shall be in an amount of not less than One Million Dollars
($1,000,000), increased by increments of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000).

     (d) Interest Periods. Borrower shall not request that LIBOR Loans be outstanding for

more than ten different Interest Periods at the same time.

     Section 2.7. Payment on Loans and Other Obligations.

     (a) Payments Generally. Each payment made hereunder by Borrower shall be made without
any offset, abatement, recoupment, counterclaim, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

     (b) Payments to Lender. All payments of principal, interest and fees shall be made to
Lender in Dollars in immediately available funds. Lender shall record (i) any principal, interest
or other payment, and (ii) the principal amounts of the Base Rate Loans, Daily LIBOR Loans

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and LIBOR Loans and all prepayments thereof and the applicable dates, including Interest Periods,
with respect thereto, by such method as Lender may generally employ; provided, however, that
failure to make any such entry shall in no way detract from the obligations of Borrower under this
Agreement or any Note. The aggregate unpaid amount of Loans, types of Loans, Interest Periods and
similar information with respect to the Loans set forth on the records of Lender shall be
rebuttably presumptive evidence with respect to such information, including the amounts of
principal, interest and fees owing to Lender. Lender shall provide Borrower with quarterly
statements regarding the outstanding Loans, in form and substance customary to Lender; provided
that Lender’s failure to provide such statements shall not affect the obligations of Borrower under
this Agreement.

     (c) Timing of Payments. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder, including, without
limitation, any payment to be made on any Loan, shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next Business Day and such extension of time shall
in each case be included in the computation of the interest payable on such Loan; provided,
however, that, with respect to a LIBOR Loan, if the next Business Day shall fall in the succeeding
calendar month, such payment shall be made on the preceding Business Day and the relevant Interest
Period shall be adjusted accordingly.

     Section 2.8. Prepayment.

     (a) Right to Prepay. Borrower shall have the right at any time or from time to time
to prepay all or any part of the principal amount of the Loans then outstanding as designated by
Borrower. Such payment shall include interest accrued on the amount so prepaid to the date of such
prepayment and, any amount payable under Article III hereof with respect to the amount being
prepaid. Prepayments of Base Rate Loans and Daily LIBOR Loans shall be without any premium or
penalty, other than any prepayment fees, penalties or other charges that may be contained in any
Hedge Agreement. Each prepayment of the Term Loan shall be applied to the principal installments
thereof in the inverse order of their respective maturities.

     (b) Notice of Prepayment. Borrower shall give Lender notice of prepayment of a Base
Rate Loan or Daily LIBOR Loan by no later than 11:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the Business Day on
which such prepayment is to be made and written notice of the prepayment of any LIBOR Loan not
later than 1:00 P.M. (Eastern time) three Business Days before the Business Day on which such
prepayment is to be made.

     (c) Minimum Amount. Each prepayment of a LIBOR Loan shall be in the principal amount
of not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), except in the case of a mandatory payment
pursuant to Section 2.11 or Article III hereof.

     Section 2.9. Reduction of Commitment. Borrower may at any time and from time to time
permanently reduce in whole or in part the 364-Day Revolving Credit Commitment to an amount not
less than the Revolving Credit Exposure, by giving Lender not fewer than five Business Days’
written notice of such reduction, provided that any such partial reduction shall be in an amount
of not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), increased in increments of Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($500,000). If Borrower reduces in whole the 364-Day Revolving

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Credit Commitment, on the effective date of such reduction (Borrower having prepaid in full the
unpaid principal balance, if any, of the Loans, together with all interest (if any) and other fees
accrued and unpaid), the Note shall be marked “Canceled” and delivered to Borrower. Any partial
reduction in the Maximum Revolving Amount shall be effective during the remainder of the Commitment
Period.

     Section 2.10. Computation of Interest and Fees. Interest on Loans, fees and charges
hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year having three hundred sixty (360) days and
calculated for the actual number of days elapsed.

     Section 2.11. Mandatory Payments.

     (a) Revolving Credit Exposure. If, at any time, the Revolving Credit Exposure shall
exceed the 364-Day Revolving Credit Commitment, Borrower shall, as promptly as practicable, but in
no event later than the next Business Day, pay an aggregate principal amount of the Revolving
Loans sufficient to bring the Revolving Credit Exposure within the 364-Day Revolving Credit
Commitment.

     (b) Application of Mandatory Payments. Unless otherwise designated by Borrower, each
prepayment pursuant to Section 2.11(a) hereof shall be applied in the following order (i) first,
to outstanding Base Rate Loans, (ii) second, to outstanding Daily LIBOR Loans, and (iii) third, to
outstanding LIBOR Loans; provided that, if the outstanding principal amount of any LIBOR Loan
shall be reduced to an amount less than the minimum amount set forth in Section 2.6(c) hereof as a
result of such prepayment, then such LIBOR Loan shall be converted into a Base Rate Loan (or a
Daily LIBOR Loan if so requested by Borrower) on the date of such prepayment. Any prepayment of a
LIBOR Loan pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be subject to the prepayment provisions set forth
in Article III hereof.

ARTICLE III. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO

LIBOR LOANS; INCREASED CAPITAL; TAXES

     Section 3.1. Requirements of Law.

     (a) If, after the Closing Date (i) the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or
in the interpretation or application thereof by a Governmental Authority, or (ii) the compliance
by Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central
bank or other Governmental Authority:

     (A) shall subject Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this Agreement or any LIBOR Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of
payments to Lender in respect thereof (except for Taxes and Excluded Taxes which
are governed by Section 3.2 hereof);

     (B) shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit,
compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits

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or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions
of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of Lender that is not
otherwise included in the determination of the LIBOR Rate; or

     (C) shall impose on Lender any other condition;

and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to Lender of making, converting
into, continuing or maintaining LIBOR Loans or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in
respect thereof, then, in any such case, Borrower shall pay to Lender, promptly after receipt of a
written request therefor, any additional amounts necessary to compensate Lender for such increased
cost or reduced amount receivable. If Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts
pursuant to this subsection (a), Lender shall promptly notify Borrower of the event by reason of
which it has become so entitled.

     (b) If Lender shall have determined that, after the Closing Date, the adoption of or any
change in any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or
application thereof by a Governmental Authority or compliance by Lender or any corporation
controlling Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having
the force of law) from any Governmental Authority shall have the effect of reducing the rate of
return on Lender’s or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to
a level below that which Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption,
change or compliance (taking into consideration the policies of Lender or such corporation with
respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time, upon submission by Lender to Borrower of a
written request therefor (which shall include the method for calculating such amount), Borrower
shall promptly pay or cause to be paid to Lender such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate Lender for such reduction.

     (c) A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 3.1 submitted
by Lender to Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. In determining any such
additional amounts, Lender may use any method of averaging and attribution that it (in its sole
discretion) shall deem applicable. The obligations of Borrower pursuant to this Section 3.1 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts
payable hereunder. Borrower shall not be required to compensate Lender pursuant to this Section
3.1 for any increased costs or reductions to the extent Lender notifies Borrower thereof more than
one hundred eighty (180) days after Lender becomes aware of such right to additional compensation.

     Section 3.2. Taxes.

     (a) All payments made by any Credit Party under any Loan Document shall be made free and
clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of any Taxes or Other Taxes. If
any Taxes or Other Taxes are required to be deducted or withheld from any amounts payable to
Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to
yield to Lender (after deducting, withholding and payment of all Taxes and Other Taxes) interest
or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in the Loan
Documents.

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     (b) Whenever any Taxes or Other Taxes are required to be withheld and paid by a Credit Party
pursuant to subpart (a) above, such Credit Party shall timely withhold and pay such taxes to the
relevant Governmental Authorities. As promptly as possible thereafter, Borrower shall send to
Lender a certified copy of an original official receipt received by such Credit Party showing
payment thereof or other evidence of payment reasonably acceptable to Lender. If such Credit Party
shall fail to pay any Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate Governmental Authority or
fails to remit to Lender the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, such Credit
Party and Borrower shall indemnify Lender on demand for any incremental taxes, interest or
penalties that may become payable by Lender as a result of any such failure.

     (c) The agreements in this Section 3.2 shall survive the termination of the Loan Documents
and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

     Section 3.3. Funding Losses. Borrower agrees to indemnify Lender, promptly after
receipt of a written request therefor, and to hold Lender harmless from, any loss or expense that
Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by Borrower in making a borrowing of,
conversion into or continuation of LIBOR Loans after Borrower has given a notice requesting the
same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by Borrower in making any
prepayment of or conversion from LIBOR Loans after Borrower has given a notice thereof in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (c) the making of a prepayment of a LIBOR Loan on
a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto or (d) any conversion of a
LIBOR Loan to a Base Rate Loan or a Daily LIBOR Loan on a day that is not the last day of an
Interest Period applicable thereto. Such indemnification shall be in an amount equal to the excess,
if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the amounts so prepaid, or not so
borrowed, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such prepayment or of such
failure to borrow, convert or continue to the last day of such Interest Period (or, in the case of
a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date
of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest for such Loans provided for herein
over (ii) the amount of interest (as determined by Lender) that would have accrued to Lender on
such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable period with leading banks in the
appropriate London interbank market, along with any administration fee charged by Lender. A
certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section 3.3 submitted to Borrower by Lender
shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The obligations of Borrower pursuant to this Section 3.3
shall survive after the termination of this Agreement, the payment of the Loans, and all other
amounts payable hereunder. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3.3 to the contrary, to the
extent that no certificate is submitted to Borrower by Lender as provided above, the obligations of
Borrower pursuant to this Section 3.3 shall expire one year after the termination of this
Agreement, the payment of the Loans, and all other amounts payable hereunder.

     Section 3.4. LIBOR Rate and Daily LIBOR Rate Lending Unlawful: Inability to Determine
Rate.

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     (a) If Lender shall reasonably determine (which determination shall, upon notice thereof to
Borrower, be conclusive and binding on Borrower) that, after the Closing Date, (i) the introduction
of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law makes it unlawful, or (ii) any Governmental
Authority asserts that it is unlawful, for Lender to make or continue any Loan as, or to convert
(if permitted pursuant to this Agreement) any Loan into, a LIBOR Loan or a Daily LIBOR Loan, the
obligations of Lender to make, continue or convert any such LIBOR Loan or Daily LIBOR Loan shall,
upon such determination, be suspended until Lender shall notify Borrower that the circumstances
causing such suspension no longer exist, and all outstanding LIBOR Loans and Daily LIBOR Loans
payable to Lender shall automatically convert (if conversion is permitted under this Agreement)
into a Base Rate Loan, or be repaid (if no conversion is permitted) at the end of the then current
Interest Periods with respect thereto or sooner, if required by law or such assertion.

     (b) If Lender determines that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
determining the LIBOR Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Loan
or the Daily LIBOR Rate with respect to a proposed Daily LIBOR Loan, or that the LIBOR Rate for
any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Loan or the Daily LIBOR Rate with
respect to a proposed Daily LIBOR Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to Lender
of funding such Loan, Lender will promptly so notify Borrower. Thereafter, the obligation of
Lender to make or maintain such Loan shall be suspended until Lender revokes such notice. Upon
receipt of such notice, Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to
or continuation of such Loan or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into
a request for a borrowing of a Base Rate Loan in the amount specified therein.

     Section 3.5. Funding. Lender may, but shall not be required to, make Daily LIBOR
Loans or LIBOR Loans hereunder with funds obtained outside the United States.

ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

     Section 4.1. Conditions to Each Credit Event. The obligation of Lender to participate
in any Credit Event shall be conditioned, in the case of each Credit Event, upon the following:

     (a) all conditions precedent as listed in Section 4.2 hereof required to be satisfied prior
to the first Credit Event shall have been satisfied prior to or as of the first Credit Event;

     (b) Borrower shall have submitted a Notice of Loan and otherwise complied with Section 2.6
hereof;

     (c) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or immediately after such Credit Event
would exist; and

     (d) each of the representations and warranties contained in Article VI hereof shall be true
in all material respects as if made on and as of the date of such Credit Event, except to the
extent that any thereof expressly relate to an earlier date.

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Each request by Borrower for a Credit Event shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by
Borrower as of the date of such request as to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent
specified in subsections (c) and (d) above.

     Section 4.2. Conditions to the First Credit Event. Borrower shall cause the following
conditions to be satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date. The obligation of Lender to
participate in the first Credit Event is subject to Borrower satisfying each of the following
conditions prior to or concurrently with such Credit Event:

     (a) Note. Borrower shall have executed and delivered to Lender the Convertible RC/TL
Note.

     (b) Officer’s Certificate, Resolutions, Organizational Documents. Borrower shall have
delivered to Lender an officer’s certificate (or comparable domestic or foreign documents)
certifying the names of the officers of Borrower authorized to sign the Loan Documents, together
with the true signatures of such officers and certified copies of (i) the resolutions of the board
of directors (or comparable domestic or foreign documents) of Borrower evidencing approval of the
execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the execution of other Related Writings to which
Borrower is a party, and (ii) the Organizational Documents of Borrower.

     (c) Good Standing Certificate. Borrower shall have delivered to Lender a good
standing certificate for Borrower, issued on or about the Closing Date by the Secretary of State
in the state or states where Borrower is incorporated or qualified as a foreign entity.

     (d) Legal Opinion. Borrower shall have delivered to Lender an opinion of counsel for
Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender.

     (e) Legal Fees and Expenses. Borrower shall have paid to Lender on the Closing Date
all reasonable legal fees and expenses of Lender in connection with the preparation and
negotiation of the Loan Documents.

     (f) Closing Certificate. Borrower shall have delivered to Lender an officer’s
certificate certifying that, as of the Closing Date, (i) all conditions precedent set forth in
this Article IV have been satisfied, (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists nor immediately
after the first Credit Event will exist, and (iii) each of the representations and warranties
contained in Article VI hereof are true and correct as of the Closing Date.

     (g) No Material Adverse Change. No material adverse change, in the reasonable opinion
of Lender, shall have occurred in the financial condition or operations of Borrower or Texas
Capital Bank since June 30, 2007.

     (h) Miscellaneous. Borrower shall have provided to Lender such other items and shall
have satisfied such other conditions as may be reasonably required by Lender.

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     (i) Letter of Direction. Borrower shall have delivered to Lender a letter of
direction authorizing Lender to disburse the proceeds of the Loans, which letter of direction
includes the authorization to transfer funds under this Agreement and the wire instructions
setting forth the locations to which such funds shall be sent.

ARTICLE V. COVENANTS

     Section 5.1. Insurance. Each Company (a) shall maintain insurance to such extent and
against such hazards and liabilities as is commonly maintained by Persons similarly situated, but
in a manner consistent with past practices; (b) within ten days of Lender’s written request, shall
furnish to Lender such information about such Company’s insurance as Lender may from time to time
reasonably request, which information shall be prepared in form and detail satisfactory to Lender
and certified by a Financial Officer, and (c) that is a Financial Subsidiary shall, as to each
deposit, maintain the maximum amount of FDIC insurance available.

     Section 5.2. Money Obligations. Each Company shall pay in full (a) prior in each case
to the date when penalties would attach, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges and levies
(except only those so long as and to the extent that the same shall be contested in good faith by
appropriate and timely proceedings and for which adequate provisions have been established in
accordance with GAAP) for which it may be or become liable or to which any or all of its properties
may be or become subject; (b) all of its material wage obligations to its employees in compliance
with the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 206-207) or any comparable provisions; and (c) all
of its other material obligations calling for the payment of money (except only those so long as
and to the extent that the same shall be contested in good faith and for which adequate provisions
have been established in accordance with GAAP) before such payment becomes overdue.

     Section 5.3. Financial Statements and Information.

     (a) Quarterly Financials. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, within forty-five (45)
days after the end of each of the first three quarter-annual periods of each fiscal year of
Borrower, balance sheets of Borrower as of the end of such period and statements of income (loss),
stockholders’ equity and cash flow for the quarter and fiscal year to date periods, all prepared
on a Consolidated basis, in accordance with GAAP, and in form and detail satisfactory to Lender
(provided that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Borrower for such quarter filed with the SEC
shall be deemed to be in form and detail satisfactory to Lender) and certified by a Financial
Officer. Borrower shall be deemed to be in compliance with its delivery obligations pursuant to
this Section 5.3(a) with respect to any material or information set forth in this Section 5.3(a)
to the extent (i) such material or information is publicly filed via the SEC’s Electronic Data
Gathering and Retrieval System (EDGAR) or any public electronic filing system successor thereto,
and (ii) Borrower has provided written notice to Lender of such filing.

     (b) Annual Audit Report. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, within one hundred twenty
(120) days after the end of each fiscal year of Borrower, an annual audit report of Borrower for
that year prepared on a Consolidated basis, in accordance with GAAP, and in form

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and detail satisfactory to Lender (provided that the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Borrower for
such quarter filed with the SEC shall be deemed to be in form and detail satisfactory to Lender)
and certified by an independent public accountant satisfactory to Lender, which report shall
include balance sheets and statements of income (loss), stockholders’ equity and cash-flow for that
period. Borrower shall be deemed to be in compliance with its delivery obligations pursuant to this
Section 5.3(b) with respect to any material or information set forth in this Section 5.3(b) to the
extent (i) such material or information is publicly filed via the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering
and Retrieval System (EDGAR) or any public electronic filing system successor thereto, and (ii)
Borrower has provided written notice to Lender of such filing.

     (c) Compliance Certificate. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, concurrently with the
delivery of the financial statements set forth in subsections (a) and (b) above, a Compliance
Certificate, certified by a Financial Officer.

     (d) Banking Reports. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, within thirty (30) days after
the end of each fiscal quarter of Borrower, a duly executed copy of the Call Report of each
Material Subsidiary, as submitted for the period then ending.

     (e) Shareholder and SEC Documents. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, as soon as
available, copies of all notices, reports, definitive proxy or other statements and other documents
sent by Borrower to its shareholders, to the holders of any of its debentures or bonds or the
trustee of any indenture securing the same or pursuant to which they are issued, or sent by
Borrower (in final form) to any securities exchange or over the counter authority or system, or to
the SEC or any similar federal agency having regulatory jurisdiction over the issuance of
Borrower’s securities. Borrower shall be deemed to be in compliance with its delivery obligations
pursuant to this Section 5.3(e) with respect to any material or information set forth in this
Section 5.3(e) to the extent (i) such material or information is publicly filed via the SEC’s
Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval System (EDGAR) or any public electronic filing system
successor thereto, and (ii) Borrower has provided written notice to Lender of such filing.

     (f) Financial Information of Companies. Borrower shall deliver to Lender, within ten
Business Days of the written request of Lender, such other information about the financial
condition, properties and operations of any Company as Lender may from time to time reasonably
request, which information shall be submitted in form and detail satisfactory to Lender and
certified by a Financial Officer of the Company or Companies in question.

     Section 5.4. Financial Records. Each Company shall at all times maintain true and
complete records and books of account, including, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, appropriate provisions for possible losses and liabilities, all in accordance with
GAAP, and at all reasonable times (during normal business hours and upon notice to such Company)
permit Lender to examine such Company’s books and records and to make excerpts therefrom and
transcripts thereof; provided that, if no Default or Event of Default shall exist, (a) Lender
shall give such Company thirty (30) days’ notice prior to such examination, and (b) such Company
shall have the option to transfer the books and records to an offsite location (satisfactory to
Lender) for Lender’s examination.

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     Section 5.5. Franchises; Change in Business.

     (a) Borrower and each Material Subsidiary shall preserve and maintain at all times its
existence, and its rights and franchises necessary for its business, except as otherwise permitted
pursuant to Section 5.12 hereof.

     (b) No Company shall engage in any business if, as a result thereof, the general nature of
the business of the Companies (taken as a whole) would be substantially changed from the general
nature of the business the Companies (taken as a whole) are engaged in on the Closing Date.

     Section 5.6. ERISA Pension and Benefit Plan Compliance. No Company shall incur any
material accumulated funding deficiency within the meaning of ERISA, or any material liability to
the PBGC, established thereunder in connection with any ERISA Plan. Borrower shall furnish to
Lender (a) as soon as possible and in any event within thirty (30) days after any Company knows or
has reason to know that any Reportable Event with respect to any ERISA Plan has occurred, a
statement of a Financial Officer of such Company, setting forth details as to such Reportable Event
and the action that such Company proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of the
notice of such Reportable Event given to the PBGC if a copy of such notice is available to such
Company, and (b) promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of any notice such Company, or any member
of the Controlled Group may receive from the PBGC or the Internal Revenue Service with respect to
any ERISA Plan administered by such Company; provided, that this latter clause shall not apply to
notices of general application promulgated by the PBGC or the Internal Revenue Service. Borrower
shall promptly notify Lender of any material taxes assessed, proposed to be assessed or that
Borrower has reason to believe may be assessed against a Company by the Internal Revenue Service
with respect to any ERISA Plan. As used in this Section 5.6, “material” means the measure of a
matter of significance that shall be determined as being an amount equal to five percent (5%) of
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth. As soon as practicable, and in any event within twenty (20) days,
after any Company shall become aware that an ERISA Event shall have occurred, such Company shall
provide Lender with notice of such ERISA Event with a certificate by a Financial Officer of such
Company setting forth the details of the event and the action such Company or another Controlled
Group member proposes to take with respect thereto. Borrower shall, at the request of Lender,
deliver or cause to be delivered to Lender true and correct copies of any documents relating to the
ERISA Plan of any Company.

     Section 5.7. Financial Covenants.

     (a) Return on Average Assets Ratio. Borrower shall not suffer or permit Texas Capital
Bank to suffer or permit at any time the Return on Average Assets Ratio to be less than one-half
of one percent (0.50%) on the Closing Date and on the last day of each fiscal quarter of Texas
Capital Bank thereafter.

     (b) Non-Performing Assets. Borrower shall not suffer or permit Texas Capital Bank to
suffer or permit the Non-Performing Assets Ratio to exceed two percent (2%) at any time.

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     (c) Capital Requirements.

     (i) Capitalization of Borrower. Borrower shall at all times be designated as
“adequately capitalized” by each Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over
Borrower.

     (ii) Capitalization of Financial Subsidiaries. Borrower shall at all times
cause each Financial Subsidiary, including Texas Capital Bank, to be designated as “well
capitalized” by each Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such
Financial Subsidiary.

     Section 5.8. Borrowing. No Company shall create, incur or have outstanding any
Indebtedness of any kind; provided that this Section 5.8 shall not apply to the following:

     (a) the Loans and any other Indebtedness owing to Lender or any affiliate of Lender;

     (b) in addition to the other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to this Section
5.8, any Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date that is set forth in Schedule 5.8
hereto (and any extension, renewal or refinancing thereof but only to the extent that the
principal amount thereof does not increase after the Closing Date);

     (c) the Indebtedness of any Financial Subsidiary owing to the Federal Reserve Board or the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board;

     (d) the Indebtedness of any Financial Subsidiary that constitutes federal funds purchased and
securities sold under agreements to repurchase, so long as such Indebtedness is incurred in the
ordinary course of the banking business of such Financial Subsidiary;

     (e) the Indebtedness constituting obligations of Borrower and any Financial Subsidiary under
debentures, indentures, trust agreements and guarantees in connection with the issuance by such
Company of trust preferred securities in the ordinary course of business of Borrower or such
Financial Subsidiary;

     (f) the Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money) of Borrower incurred in the
ordinary course of business (consistent with past practice) of Borrower;

     (g) the Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money) of a Financial Subsidiary
incurred in the ordinary course of the banking business (consistent with past practice) of such
Financial Subsidiary;

     (h) the Indebtedness (i) owed by Borrower or any “affiliate” of Borrower (as defined in
Regulation W of the FRB and sections 23A or 23B of the Federal Reserve Act) to any Financial
Subsidiary not in violation of Regulation W of the FRB (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified), (ii) owed by any Subsidiary to Borrower, or (iii) owed by Borrower or any Subsidiary to
a Subsidiary other than a Financial Subsidiary;

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     (i) Indebtedness under any Hedge Agreement, so long as such Hedge Agreement shall have been
entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

     (j) any loans granted to, or Capitalized Lease Obligations entered into by, any Company for
the purchase or lease of fixed assets (and refinancings of such loans or Capitalized Lease
Obligations), which loans and Capitalized Lease Obligations shall only be secured by the fixed
assets being purchased or leased, so long as the aggregate principal amount of all such loans and
Capitalized Lease Obligations (other than the Capitalized Lease Obligations (if any) incurred
pursuant to subpart (k) below) for all Companies shall not exceed Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000)
at any time outstanding;

     (k) the lease obligations (capitalized or otherwise) incurred in connection with the lease by
Texas Capital Bank of its principal offices located at 2000 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201,
so long as such lease payments do not exceed, in the aggregate, Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000)
during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the third anniversary of the
Closing Date; and

     (1) other unsecured Indebtedness, in addition to the Indebtedness listed above, in an
aggregate principal amount for all Companies not to exceed, at any time outstanding, an amount
equal to three percent (3%) of Consolidated total equity capital of Borrower, but only so long as
Borrower shall have delivered to Lender a pro forma financial statement of the Companies,
accompanied by a certificate of a Financial Officer showing pro forma compliance with Section 5.7
hereof, both before and after the proposed incurrence of such Indebtedness.

     Section 5.9. Liens. No Company shall create, assume or suffer to exist (upon the
happening of a contingency or otherwise) any Lien upon any of its property or assets, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired; provided that this Section 5.9 shall not apply to the following:

     (a) Liens for taxes not yet due or that are being actively contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves shall have been established in accordance
with GAAP;

     (b) other statutory Liens incidental to the conduct of its business or the ownership of its
property and assets that (i) were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or the
obtaining of advances or credit, and (ii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value
of its property or assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;

     (c) Liens on property or assets of a Subsidiary to secure obligations of such Subsidiary to
Borrower;

     (d) any Lien securing Indebtedness incurred to Lender or any affiliate of Lender;

     (e) Liens on property or assets of a Financial Subsidiary to secure Indebtedness incurred
pursuant to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of Section 5.8 hereof, provided that, with respect to
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 5.8(d) hereof, such Lien shall only extend to the
securities sold;

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     (f) Liens arising in the ordinary course of business of Borrower (securing Indebtedness
permitted pursuant to Section 5.8(f) hereof) or a Financial Subsidiary (securing Indebtedness
permitted pursuant to Section 5.8(g) hereof), which do not in the aggregate materially detract
from the value of the assets of Borrower or any Financial Subsidiary, or materially impair the use
thereof in the operation of the respective businesses of Borrower or such Financial Subsidiary;

     (g) Liens granted to secure any deposit liabilities with any Governmental Authority;

     (h) in addition to the other Liens permitted to be incurred pursuant to this Section 5.9, any
Lien existing on the Closing Date that is set forth in Schedule 5.9 hereto and
replacements, extensions, renewals, refundings or refinancings thereof, but only to the extent that
the amount of debt secured thereby shall not be increased;

     (i) easements or other minor defects or irregularities in title of real property not
interfering in any material respect with the use of such property in the business of any Company;

     (j) purchase money Liens on fixed assets securing the loans and Capitalized Lease Obligations
pursuant to Section 5.8(j) hereof, provided that such Lien is limited to the purchase price and
only attaches to the property being acquired; or

     (k) other Liens, in addition to the Liens listed above, securing amounts, in the aggregate
for all Companies, not to exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) at any time.

No Company shall enter into any contract or agreement (other than a contract or agreement entered
into in connection with the purchase or lease of fixed assets that prohibits Liens on such fixed
assets) that would prohibit Lender from acquiring a security interest, mortgage or other Lien on,
or collateral assignment of, any of the property or assets of such Company.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.9 to the contrary, except pursuant to this Agreement,
Borrower shall not create, assume or suffer to exist (upon the happening of a contingency or
otherwise) any Lien upon the capital stock of any Financial Subsidiary.

     Section 5.10. Regulations T, U and X. No Company shall take any action that would
result in any non-compliance of the Loans with Regulations T, U or X, or any other applicable
regulation, of the FRB.

     Section 5.11. Investments, Loans and Guaranties. Neither Borrower nor any Material
Subsidiary shall (a) create, acquire or hold any Subsidiary, (b) make or hold any investment in
any stocks, bonds or securities of any kind, (c) be or become a party to any joint venture or
other partnership, (d) make or keep outstanding any advance or loan to any Person, or (e) be or
become a Guarantor of any kind (other than a Guarantor of Payment under the Loan Documents);
provided that this Section 5.11 shall not apply to the following:

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     (i) investments and loans made by a Company, existing as of the Closing Date, as forth
on Schedule 5.11 hereto;

     (ii) investments and loans made in the ordinary course of business by a Financial
Subsidiary;

     (iii) the holding of each of the Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 6.1 hereto,
and the creation, acquisition and holding of and any investment in any new Subsidiary after
the Closing Date so long as such new Subsidiary shall have been created, acquired or held,
and investments made, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

     (iv) loans to and investments by a Company from or by a Company;

     (v) guaranties of the Indebtedness of a Company by a Company, so long as each such
Company is a Credit Party;

     (vi) guaranties by Texas Capital Bank of obligations by Bank Direct Capital Finance to
return money advanced by unaffiliated parties, provided that such monetary obligations are
fully secured by otherwise unrestricted and unencumbered cash and marketable securities of
an unaffiliated party; or

     (vii) other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations and consistent
with Borrower’s Investment Policy.

For purposes of this Section 5.11, the amount of any investment in equity interests shall be based
upon the initial amount invested and shall not include any appreciation in value or return on such
investment.

     Section 5.12. Merger and Sale of Assets. Neither Borrower nor any Material Subsidiary
shall merge, amalgamate or consolidate with any other Person, or sell, lease or transfer or
otherwise dispose of any assets to any Person other than in the ordinary course of business,
except that, if no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or, after giving effect to such
merger, amalgamation, consolidation, sale, lease or transfer, shall begin to exist:

     (a) a Subsidiary (other than Borrower or Texas Capital Bank) may merge with (i) Borrower or
Texas Capital Bank (provided that Borrower and Texas Capital Bank shall both be continuing or
surviving Persons) or (ii) any one or more other Subsidiaries;

     (b) a Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets to
Borrower or any Material Subsidiary;

     (c) a Company may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any assets that are obsolete
or no longer useful in such Company’s business (provided that Borrower may not sell or otherwise
transfer Texas Capital Bank); and

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     (d) Acquisitions may be effected in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.13 hereof.

     Section 5.13. Acquisitions. No Company shall effect an Acquisition; provided that a
Company may effect an Acquisition so long as:

     (a) in the case of a merger, amalgamation or other combination including Borrower, Borrower
shall be the surviving entity;

     (b) in the case of a merger, amalgamation or other combination including a Company (other
than Borrower), a Company shall be the surviving entity;

     (c) the business to be acquired shall be similar or complementary to the lines of business of
the Companies or permissible under applicable regulations governing financial institutions (so long
as the general nature of the business of the Companies (taken as a whole) would not be
substantially changed from the general nature of the business the Companies (taken as a whole) are
engaged in on the Closing Date;

     (d) the Companies shall be in full compliance with the Loan Documents both prior to and
subsequent to the transaction;

     (e) no Default or Event of Default shall exist prior to or after giving effect to such
Acquisition;

     (f) if the Consideration paid for such Acquisition is equal to or greater than Five Million
Dollars ($5,000,000), Borrower shall have provided to Lender, prior to the date of such
Acquisition, a pro forma financial statement of the Companies accompanied by a certificate of a
Financial Officer showing pro forma compliance with Section 5.7 hereof, both before and after the
proposed Acquisition; and

     (g) such Acquisition shall not be actively opposed by the board of directors (or similar
governing body) of the selling Persons or the Persons whose equity interests are to be acquired.

     Section 5.14. Notice.

     Borrower shall cause a Financial Officer to promptly notify Lender, in writing, whenever:

     (a) a Default or Event of Default has occurred hereunder or any representation or warranty
made in Article VI hereof or elsewhere in this Agreement or in any Related Writing may for any
reason cease in any material respect to be true and complete;

     (b) Borrower is informed in writing by a Governmental Authority, or otherwise given official
notice by a Governmental Authority, of the commencement of any action, examination, investigation,
litigation or proceeding against Borrower or a Material Subsidiary that, if successful, would be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; or

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     (c) Borrower learns that there has occurred any event, condition or thing that is reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     Section 5.15. Restricted Payments. No Company shall make or commit itself to make any
Restricted Payment at any time, except that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall then
exist or immediately thereafter shall begin to exist, Borrower may make Restricted Payments.

     Section 5.16. Environmental Compliance. Each Company shall comply in all material
respects with any and all Environmental Laws including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws
in jurisdictions in which such Company owns or operates a facility or site, arranges for disposal
or treatment of hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes, accepts for transport any
hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes or holds any interest in real property or
otherwise. Borrower shall furnish to Lender, promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of any notice
such Company may receive from any Governmental Authority or private Person, or otherwise, that any
material litigation or material proceeding pertaining to any environmental, health or safety
matter has been filed or is threatened against such Company, any real property in which such
Company holds any interest or any past or present operation of such Company. No Company shall
allow the material release or disposal of hazardous waste, solid waste or other wastes on, under
or to any real property in which any Company holds any ownership interest (other than an ownership
interest acquired as a result of a commercial or residential loan made by such Company, and only
so long as such Company has not taken control of such real property) or performs any of its
operations, in violation of any Environmental Law. As used in this Section 5.16, “litigation or
proceeding” means any demand, claim, notice, suit, suit in equity action, administrative action,
investigation or inquiry whether brought by any Governmental Authority or private Person, or
otherwise. Borrower shall defend, indemnify and hold Lender harmless against all costs, expenses,
claims, damages, penalties and liabilities of every kind or nature whatsoever (including
attorneys’ fees) arising out of or resulting from the noncompliance of any Company with any
Environmental Law. Such indemnification shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

     Section 5.17. Affiliate Transactions. No Company shall, directly or indirectly, enter
into or permit to exist any transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease
or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate (other than a
Company that is a Credit Party) on terms that shall be less favorable to such Company than those
that might be obtained at the time in a transaction with a non-Affiliate; provided, however, that
the foregoing shall not prohibit the payment of customary and reasonable directors’ fees to
directors who are not employees of a Company or an Affiliate.

     Section 5.18. Use of Proceeds. Borrower’s use of the proceeds of the Loans shall be
for (a) the repurchase of common stock of Borrower, (b) working capital and other general
corporate purposes of Borrower, and (c) the injection of capital into Texas Capital Bank.

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     Section 5.19. Corporate Names. No Company shall change its corporate name or its
state, province or other jurisdiction of organization, unless, in each case, Borrower shall have
provided Lender with at least thirty (30) days prior written notice thereof.

     Section 5.20. Restrictive Agreements. Except as set forth in this Agreement, Borrower
shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or
otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Subsidiary to (a) make, directly or indirectly, any Capital Distribution to
Borrower, (b) make, directly or indirectly, loans or advances or capital contributions to Borrower
or (c) transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the properties or assets of such Subsidiary to
Borrower; except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i)
applicable law, (ii) customary non-assignment provisions in leases or other agreements entered in
the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, or (iii) customary
restrictions in security agreements or mortgages securing Indebtedness, or capital leases, of a
Company to the extent such restrictions shall only restrict the transfer of the property subject
to such security agreement, mortgage or lease.

     Section 5.21. Other Financial Covenants and Provisions. In the event that Borrower or
any Material Subsidiary shall enter into, or shall have entered into, any Material Indebtedness
Agreement, wherein the financial covenants contained therein shall be more restrictive than the
financial covenants set forth herein, then the Companies shall be bound hereunder by such more
restrictive financial covenants with the same force and effect as if such financial covenants were
written herein.

     Section 5.22. Guaranty Under Material Indebtedness Agreement. Neither Borrower nor
any Material Subsidiary shall be or become a Guarantor of the Indebtedness incurred pursuant to
any Material Indebtedness Agreement, unless Borrower or such Material Subsidiary shall also be a
Guarantor of Payment under this Agreement prior to or concurrently therewith.

     Section 5.23. Amendment of Organizational Documents. No Company shall amend its
Organizational Documents to change its name or state, province or other jurisdiction of
organization, or otherwise amend its Organizational Documents in any manner adverse to Lender,
without the prior written consent of Lender.

     Section 5.24. Further Assurances. Borrower shall, promptly upon request by Lender,
(a) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the
execution or acknowledgment thereof, and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record,
file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates,
assurances and other instruments as Lender may reasonably require from time to time in order to
carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents.

ARTICLE VI. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     Section 6.1. Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification. Borrower is a
bank holding company, duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the state of

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Delaware. Each Company is duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing (or comparable
concept in the applicable jurisdiction) under the laws of its state or jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization, and is duly qualified and authorized to do business and is in good
standing (or comparable concept in the applicable jurisdiction) as a foreign entity in the
jurisdictions set forth opposite its name on Schedule 6.1 hereto, which are all of the
states or jurisdictions where the character of its property or its business activities makes such
qualification necessary, except where a failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 6.1 hereto sets forth, as of the Closing Date,
each Subsidiary of Borrower, its state or jurisdiction of formation, whether such Subsidiary is a
Financial Subsidiary, its relationship to Borrower, including the percentage of each class of stock
(or other equity interest) owned by a Company or the percentage of stock (or other equity interest)
of Borrower owned by it, the location of its chief executive office and its principal place of
business. Except as set forth in Schedule 6.1 hereto, Borrower owns all of the equity
interests of each of its Subsidiaries.

     Section 6.2. Corporate Authority. Each Credit Party has the right and power and is
duly authorized and empowered to enter into, execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is
a party and to perform and observe the provisions of the Loan Documents. The Loan Documents to
which each Credit Party is a party have been duly authorized and approved by such Credit Party’s
board of directors or other governing body, as applicable, and are the valid and binding
obligations of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with their
respective terms. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents do not conflict
with, result in a breach in any of the provisions of, constitute a default under, or result in the
creation of a Lien (other than Liens permitted under Section 5.9 hereof) upon any assets or
property of any Company under the provisions of, such Company’s Organizational Documents or any
material agreement.

     Section 6.3. Compliance with Laws and Contracts. Each Company:

     (a) holds permits, certificates, licenses, orders, registrations, franchises, authorizations,
and other approvals from any Governmental Authority necessary for the conduct of its business and
is in compliance with all applicable laws relating thereto, except where the failure to do so
would not have a Material Adverse Effect;

     (b) is in compliance with all federal, state, local, or foreign applicable statutes, rules,
regulations, and orders including, without limitation, those relating to environmental protection,
occupational safety and health, and equal employment practices, except where the failure to be in
compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect;

     (c) is not in violation of or in default under any agreement to which it is a party or by
which its assets are subject or bound, except with respect to any violation or default that would
not have a Material Adverse Effect;

     (d) has ensured that no Person who owns a controlling interest in or otherwise controls a
Company is (i) listed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person List maintained by
the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), Department of the Treasury, or

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any other similar lists maintained by OFAC pursuant to any authorizing statute, executive order or
regulation, or (ii) a Person designated under Section 1(b), (c) or (d) of Executive Order No.
13224 (September 23, 2001), any related enabling legislation or any other similar executive
orders;

     (e) is in compliance with all applicable Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) and anti-money laundering
laws and regulations, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material
Adverse Effect; and

     (f) is in compliance with the Patriot Act, except where the failure to be in compliance would
not have a Material Adverse Effect.

     Section 6.4. Litigation and Administrative Proceedings. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 6.4 hereto, there are (a) no lawsuits, actions, investigations, examinations or
other proceedings pending or threatened against any Company, or in respect of which any Company may
have any liability, in any court or before or by any Governmental Authority, arbitration board, or
other tribunal, (b) no orders, writs, injunctions, judgments, or decrees of any court or
Governmental Authority to which any Company is a party or by which the property or assets of any
Company are bound, and (c) no grievances, disputes, or controversies outstanding with any union or
other organization of the employees of any Company, or threats of work stoppage, strike, or pending
demands for collective bargaining, that, as to (a) through (c) above, if violated or determined
adversely, would have a Material Adverse Effect.

     Section 6.5. Title to Assets. Each Company has good title to and ownership of all
material property it purports to own, which property is free and clear of all Liens, except those
permitted under Section 5.9 hereof.

     Section 6.6. Liens and Security Interests. On and after the Closing Date, except for
Liens permitted pursuant to Section 5.9 hereof, (a) there is and will be no U.C.C. Financing
Statement or similar notice of Lien outstanding covering any personal property of any Company;
(b) there is and will be no mortgage outstanding covering any real property of any Company; and (c) no real or personal property of any Company is subject to any Lien of any kind. No Company has
entered into any contract or agreement (other than a contract or agreement entered into in
connection with the purchase or lease of fixed assets that prohibits Liens on such fixed assets)
that exists on or after the Closing Date that would prohibit Lender from acquiring a Lien on, or a
collateral assignment of, any of the property or assets of any Company.

     Section 6.7. Tax Returns. All material federal, state and local tax returns and other
reports required by law to be filed in respect of the income, business, properties and employees
of each Company have been filed (or extended as permitted by applicable law) and all material
taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges that are due and payable have been paid.
The provision for taxes on the books of each Company is adequate for all years not closed by
applicable statutes and for the current fiscal year.

     Section 6.8. Environmental Laws. Each Company is in material compliance with all
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which any Company owns or operates, or has owned or operated, a facility or site, arranges or has
arranged for disposal or treatment of hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes, accepts or
has accepted for transport any hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes or holds or has
held any interest in real property or otherwise. No material litigation or material proceeding
arising under, relating to or in connection with any Environmental Law is pending or, to the best
knowledge of each Company, threatened, against any Company, any real property in which any Company
holds or has held an interest or any past or present operation of any Company. No material release,
threatened release or disposal of hazardous waste, solid waste or other wastes is occurring, or has
occurred (other than those that are currently being remediated in accordance with Environmental
Laws), on, under or to any real property in which any Company holds any interest or performs any of
its operations, in violation of any Environmental Law. As used in this Section 6.8, “litigation or
proceeding” means any demand, claim, notice, suit, suit in equity, action, administrative action,
investigation or inquiry, whether brought by any Governmental Authority or private Person, or
otherwise.

     Section 6.9. Employee Benefits Plans. No ERISA Event has occurred or is expected to
occur with respect to an ERISA Plan. Full payment has been made of all amounts that a Controlled
Group member is required, under applicable law or under the governing documents, to have paid as a
contribution to or a benefit under each ERISA Plan. The liability of each Controlled Group member
with respect to each ERISA Plan has been fully funded based upon reasonable and proper actuarial
assumptions, has been fully insured, or has been fully reserved for on its financial statements.
No changes have occurred or are expected to occur that would cause a material increase in the cost
of providing benefits under the ERISA Plan. With respect to each ERISA Plan that is intended to be
qualified under Code Section 401(a), (a) the ERISA Plan and any associated trust operationally
comply with the applicable requirements of Code Section 401(a); (b) the ERISA Plan and any
associated trust have been amended to comply with all such requirements as currently in effect,
other than those requirements for which a retroactive amendment can be made within the “remedial
amendment period” available under Code Section 401(b) (as extended under Treasury Regulations and
other Treasury pronouncements upon which taxpayers may rely); (c) the ERISA Plan and any
associated trust have received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service
stating that the ERISA Plan qualifies under Code Section 401(a), that the associated trust
qualifies under Code Section 501(a) and, if applicable, that any cash or deferred arrangement
under the ERISA Plan qualifies under Code Section 401(k), unless the ERISA Plan was first adopted
at a time for which the above-described “remedial amendment period” has not yet expired; (d) the
ERISA Plan currently satisfies the requirements of Code Section 410(b), without regard to any
retroactive amendment that may be made within the above-described “remedial amendment period”; and
(e) no contribution made to the ERISA Plan is subject to an excise tax under Code Section 4972.
With respect to any Pension Plan, the “accumulated benefit obligation” of Controlled Group members
with respect to the Pension Plan (as determined in accordance with Statement of Accounting
Standards No. 87, “Employers’ Accounting for Pensions”) does not exceed the fair market value of
Pension Plan assets.

     Section 6.10. Consents or Approvals. No consent, approval or authorization of, or
filing, registration or qualification with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is
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be obtained or completed by any Company in connection with the execution, delivery or performance
of any of the Loan Documents, that has not already been obtained or completed.

     Section 6.11. Solvency. Borrower has received consideration that is the reasonable
equivalent value of the obligations and liabilities that Borrower has incurred to Lender. Borrower
is not insolvent as defined in any applicable state, federal or relevant foreign statute, nor will
Borrower be rendered insolvent by the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents to Lender.
Borrower is not engaged or about to engage in any business or transaction for which the assets
retained by it are or will be an unreasonably small amount of capital, taking into consideration
the obligations to Lender incurred hereunder. Borrower does not intend to, nor does it believe
that it will, incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature.

     Section 6.12. Financial Statements. The audited Consolidated financial statements of
Borrower for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and the unaudited Consolidated financial
statements of Borrower for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2007, furnished to Lender, have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP, and fairly present the financial condition of Borrower (on a
Consolidated basis) as of the dates of such financial statements and the results of their
operations for the periods then ending. Since the dates of such statements, there has been no
material adverse change in Borrower or any Material Subsidiary’s financial condition, properties or
business or any change in Borrower or any Material Subsidiary’s accounting procedures.

     Section 6.13. Regulations. No Company is engaged principally or as one of its
important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying any “margin stock” (within the meaning of Regulation U of the FRB of the United States of
America). Neither the granting of any Loan (or any conversion thereof) nor the use of the proceeds
of any Loan will violate, or be inconsistent with, the provisions of Regulation T, U or X or any
other Regulation of such Board of Governors.

     Section 6.14. Material Agreements. Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.14
hereto, as of the Closing Date, Borrower is not a party to any (a) debt instrument (excluding the
Loan Documents); (b) lease (capital, operating or otherwise), whether as lessee or lessor
thereunder; (c) contract, commitment, agreement, or other arrangement involving the purchase or
sale of any inventory by it, or the license of any right to or by it; (d) contract, commitment,
agreement, or other arrangement with any of its “Affiliates” (as such term is defined in the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) other than a Company; (e) management or employment
contract or contract for personal services with any of its Affiliates that is not otherwise
terminable at will or on less than ninety (90) days’ notice without liability; (f) collective
bargaining agreement; or (g) other contract, agreement, understanding, or arrangement with a third
party that, as to subsections (a) through (g) above, if violated, breached, or terminated for any
reason, would have or would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     Section 6.15. Maintenance of Insurance. Each Company maintains with financially sound
and reputable insurers insurance as is commonly maintained by Persons similarly situated, but in a
manner consistent with past practices.

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     Section 6.16. FDIC Insurance. The deposits held by each Financial Subsidiary that is
an “insured depository institution” (within the meaning of 12 U.S.C. 1813(c)(2)) and the deposits
held by each Financial Subsidiary are insured by the FDIC in the maximum amount available for such
deposits. No act has occurred that would adversely affect the status of such Financial Subsidiary
as an FDIC insured bank.

     Section 6.17. Dividend Restrictions; Other Restrictions.

     (a) No Material Subsidiary has violated any applicable regulatory restrictions on dividends,
and no Governmental Authority has taken any action to restrict the payment of dividends by any
Financial Subsidiary.

     (b) No Company is under investigation by, or is operating under any restrictions (excluding
any restrictions on the payment of dividends referenced in subsection (a) above) imposed by or
agreed to with, any Governmental Authority, other than routine examinations by such Governmental
Authority.

     Section 6.18. Capital Measures. As of the Closing Date, Borrower and each Material
Subsidiary have been, or are deemed to have been, notified by the appropriate Governmental
Authority having regulatory authority over Borrower or such Material Subsidiary, as applicable,
that each of them is “well capitalized” (or “adequately capitalized with respect to Borrower”), as
determined in accordance with any regulations established by such Governmental Authority.

     Section 6.19. Accurate and Complete Statements. Neither the Loan Documents nor any
written statement made by any Company in connection with any of the Loan Documents contains any
untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements contained therein or in the Loan Documents not misleading. After due inquiry by
Borrower, there is no known fact that any Company has not disclosed to Lender that has or is
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     Section 6.20. Investment Company. No Company is an “investment company” or a company
“controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended.

     Section 6.21. Defaults. No Default or Event of Default exists hereunder, nor will any
begin to exist immediately after the execution and delivery hereof.

ARTICLE VII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT

     Each of the following shall constitute an Event of Default hereunder:

     Section 7.1. Payments. If (a) the interest on any Loan, any fee, or any other
Obligation not listed in subpart (b) hereof shall not be paid in full when due and payable or
within three days thereafter, or (b) the principal of any Loan shall not be paid in full when due
and payable.

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     Section 7.2. Special Covenants. If any Company shall fail or omit to perform and
observe Section 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.15, 5.21 or 5.22 hereof.

     Section 7.3. Other Covenants. If any Company shall fail or omit to perform and
observe any agreement or other provision (other than those referred to in Section 7.1 or 7.2
hereof) contained or referred to in this Agreement or any Related Writing that is on such
Company’s part to be complied with, and that Default shall not have been fully corrected within
thirty (30) days after the earlier of (a) any Financial Officer of such Company becomes aware of
the occurrence thereof, or (b) the giving of written notice thereof to Borrower by Lender that the
specified Default is to be remedied.

     Section 7.4. Representations and Warranties. If any representation, warranty or
statement made in or pursuant to this Agreement or any Related Writing or any other material
information furnished by any Company to Lender or any other holder of any Note, shall be false or
erroneous in any material respect.

     Section 7.5. Cross Default. If any Company shall default in the payment of principal
or interest due and owing under any Material Indebtedness Agreement beyond any period of grace
provided with respect thereto or in the performance or observance of any other agreement, term or
condition contained in any agreement under which such obligation is created, if the effect of such
default is to allow the acceleration of the maturity of such Indebtedness or to permit the holder
thereof to cause such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity.

     Section 7.6. ERISA Default. The occurrence of one or more ERISA Events that (a)
Lender determines could have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) results in a Lien on any of the
assets of any Company, to the extent that the aggregate of all such Liens for all Companies
exceeds Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000).

     Section 7.7. Change in Control. If any Change in Control shall occur.

     Section 7.8. Money Judgment. A final judgment or order for the payment of money shall
be rendered against any Company by a court of competent jurisdiction, that remains unpaid or
unstayed and undischarged for a period (during which execution shall not be effectively stayed) of
sixty (60) days after the date on which the right to appeal has expired; provided that the
aggregate of all such judgments, for all such Companies, shall exceed Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000).

     Section 7.9. Validity of Loan Documents. If (a) any material provision, in the sole
opinion of Lender, of any Loan Document shall at any time cease to be valid, binding and
enforceable against any Credit Party; (b) the validity, binding effect or enforceability of any
Loan Document against any Credit Party shall be contested by any Credit Party; (c) any Credit
Party shall deny that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document; or
(d) any Loan Document shall be terminated, invalidated or set aside, or be declared ineffective or
inoperative or in any way cease to give or provide to Lender the benefits purported to be created
thereby.

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     Section 7.10. FDIC or Governmental Authority Restrictions. If (a) any Governmental
Authority having regulatory authority over Borrower or any Subsidiary shall impose any restriction
on Borrower or such Subsidiary with respect to the payment of dividends from any such Subsidiary to
Borrower, (b) any Financial Subsidiary shall cease for any reason to be an insured bank under the
FDIA, (c) the FDIC or any other federal or state regulatory authority shall issue a cease and
desist order or take other action of a disciplinary or remedial nature against Borrower or any
Financial Subsidiary and such order or other action could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect or there shall occur with respect to any Financial Subsidiary any event that is
grounds for the required submission of a capital restoration plan under 12. U.S.C. 1831o (e)(2) and
the regulations thereunder, or (d) Borrower or any Financial Subsidiary shall enter into a written
supervisory or similar agreement with any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over
such Person for any reason, but only to the extent that such supervisory or similar agreement would
have a materially adverse effect on such Person.

     Section 7.11. Bank Supervision. Without limiting the generality of Section 7.11
above, the appointment of a conservator or receiver for any Financial Subsidiary that is an
“insured depository institution” as defined in the FDIA (12 USC 1813(c)(2)), by any “appropriate
Federal banking agency” as defined in the FDIA (12 USC 1813(q)), by any state supervisory agency
or by the FDIC or any successor thereto pursuant to the FDIA; or the organization of a new bank to
assume the insured deposits of such Financial Subsidiary pursuant to the FDIA; or the organization
of a bridge bank to purchase assets and assume liabilities of such Financial Subsidiary pursuant
to the FDIA; or the provision of any form of assistance to any such Financial Subsidiary by the
FDIC pursuant the FDIA.

     Section 7.12. Solvency. If Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall (a) discontinue
business, (b) generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, (c) make a general assignment
for the benefit of creditors, (d) apply for or consent to the appointment of an interim receiver,
a receiver, a receiver and manager, an administrator, sequestrator, monitor, a custodian, a
trustee, an interim trustee, liquidator, agent or other similar official of all or a substantial
part of its assets or of Borrower or such Material Subsidiary, (e) be adjudicated a debtor or
insolvent or have entered against it an order for relief under Title 11 of the United States Code,
or under any other bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, winding-up, corporate or similar statute
or law, foreign, federal state or provincial, in any applicable jurisdiction, now or hereafter
existing, as any of the foregoing may be amended from time to time, or other applicable statute
for jurisdictions outside of the United States, as the case may be, (f) file a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy, or file a proposal or notice of intention to file a proposal or have an involuntary
proceeding filed against it and the same shall continue undismissed for a period of sixty (60)
days from commencement of such proceeding or case, or file a petition or an answer or an
application or a proposal seeking reorganization or an arrangement with creditors or seeking to
take advantage of any other law (whether federal or state, or, if applicable, other jurisdiction)
relating to relief of debtors, or admit (by answer, by default or otherwise) the material
allegations of a petition filed against it in any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or other
proceeding (whether federal or state, or, if applicable, other jurisdiction) relating to relief of
debtors, (g) suffer or permit to continue unstayed and in effect for sixty (60) consecutive days
any judgment, decree or order entered by a court of competent jurisdiction, that approves a
petition or an application or a proposal seeking its reorganization or appoints an interim
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and manager, an administrator, custodian, trustee, interim trustee or liquidator of all or a
substantial part of its assets, or of Borrower or such Material Subsidiary, (h) have an
administrative receiver appointed over the whole or substantially the whole of its assets, or of
Borrower or such Material Subsidiary, (i) take, or omit to take, any action in order thereby to
effect any of the foregoing, (j) have assets, the value of which is less than its liabilities
(taking into account prospective and contingent liabilities), or (k) have a moratorium declared in
respect of any of its Indebtedness, or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any
jurisdiction.

ARTICLE VIII. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT

     Notwithstanding any contrary provision or inference herein or elsewhere:

     Section 8.1. Optional Defaults. If any Event of Default referred to in Section 7.1,
7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10 or 7.11 hereof shall occur, Lender shall have the
right, in its discretion, to give written notice to Borrower to:

     (a) terminate the Commitment, if not previously terminated, and, immediately upon such
election, the obligation of Lender to make any further Loan immediately shall be terminated;
and/or

     (b) accelerate the maturity of all of the Obligations (if the Obligations are not already due
and payable), whereupon all of the Obligations shall become and thereafter be immediately due and
payable in full without any presentment or demand and without any further or other notice of any
kind, all of which are hereby waived by Borrower.

     Section 8.2. Automatic Defaults. If any Event of Default referred to in Section 7.12
hereof shall occur:

     (a) all of the Commitment shall automatically and immediately terminate, if not previously
terminated, and Lender thereafter shall not be under any obligation to grant any further Loan; and

     (b) the principal of and interest then outstanding on all of the Loans, and all of the other
Obligations, shall thereupon become and thereafter be immediately due and payable in full (if the
Obligations are not already due and payable), all without any presentment, demand or notice of any
kind, which are hereby waived by Borrower.

     Section 8.3. Offsets. If there shall occur or exist any Event of Default referred to
in Section 7.12 hereof or if the maturity of the Obligations is accelerated pursuant to Section
8.1 or 8.2 hereof, Lender shall have the right at any time to set off against, and to appropriate
and apply toward the payment of, any and all of the Obligations then owing by Borrower to Lender,
whether or not the same shall then have matured, any and all deposit (general or special) balances
and all other indebtedness then held or owing by Lender (including, without limitation, by
branches and agencies or any affiliate of Lender, wherever located) to or for the credit or

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account of Borrower, all without notice to or demand upon Borrower or any other Person, all such
notices and demands being hereby expressly waived by Borrower.

     Section 8.4. Other Remedies. The remedies in this Article VIII are in addition to, not
in limitation of, any other right, power, privilege, or remedy, either in law, in equity, or
otherwise, to which Lender may be entitled.

ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS

     Section 9.1. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Relationship of Parties. No omission or
course of dealing on the part of Lender or the holder of any Note in exercising any right, power
or remedy hereunder or under any of the Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder or under
any of the Loan Documents. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and in addition to any
other rights, powers or privileges held under any of the Loan Documents or by operation of law, by
contract or otherwise. Nothing contained in this Agreement and no action taken by Lender pursuant
hereto shall be deemed to constitute Borrower and Lender a partnership, association, joint venture
or other entity. The relationship between Borrower and Lender with respect to the Loan Documents
is and shall be solely that of debtor and creditor, respectively, and Lender shall have no
fiduciary obligation toward Borrower with respect to any such documents or the transactions
contemplated thereby.

     Section 9.2. Amendments, Waivers and Consents. No amendment, modification,
termination, or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document nor consent to any variance
therefrom, shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Lender and
Borrower and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the specific purpose for which given.

     Section 9.3. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications
provided for hereunder shall be in writing and, if to Borrower, mailed or delivered to it,
addressed to it at the address specified on the signature pages of this Agreement, if to Lender,
mailed or delivered to it, addressed to the address of Lender specified on the signature pages of
this Agreement, or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party
in a written notice to the other party. All notices, statements, requests, demands and other
communications provided for hereunder shall be given by overnight delivery or first class mail
with postage prepaid by registered or certified mail, addressed as aforesaid, or sent by facsimile
with telephonic confirmation of receipt (if received during a Business Day, otherwise the
following Business Day), except that all notices hereunder shall not be effective until received.

     Section 9.4. Costs, Expenses and Taxes. Borrower agrees to pay on demand all
reasonable costs and expenses of Lender, including but not limited to (a) administration, travel
and out-of-pocket expenses, including but not limited to attorneys’ fees and expenses, of Lender
in connection with the preparation, negotiation and closing of the Loan Documents and the
administration of the Loan Documents, the collection and disbursement of all funds hereunder

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and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder, (b) extraordinary expenses of
Lender in connection with the administration of the Loan Documents and the other instruments and
documents to be delivered hereunder, and (c) the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of
special counsel for Lender, with respect to the foregoing, and of local counsel, if any, who may be
retained by said special counsel with respect thereto. Borrower also agrees to pay on demand all
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, in connection with any
restructuring, amendment, or enforcement of the Obligations, this Agreement or any Related Writing.
In addition, Borrower shall pay any and all stamp, transfer, documentary and other taxes,
assessments, charges and fees payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution
and delivery of the Loan Documents, and the other instruments and documents to be delivered
hereunder, and agrees to hold Lender harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect
to or resulting from any delay in paying or failure to pay such taxes or fees.

     Section 9.5. Indemnification. Borrower agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
Lender (and its affiliates, officers, directors, attorneys, agents and employees) from and against
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees), or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever
that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Lender in connection with any
investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding (whether or not Lender shall be designated a
party thereto) or any other claim by any Person relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents
or any actual or proposed use of proceeds of the Loans or any of the Obligations, or any
activities of any Company or its Affiliates; provided that Lender shall not have the right to be
indemnified under this Section 9.5 for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (as
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction). All obligations provided for in this Section 9.5
shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

     Section 9.6. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts and by facsimile
signature, each of which counterparts when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement.

     Section 9.7. Binding Effect; Assignment. This Agreement shall become effective when
it shall have been executed by Borrower and Lender and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure
to the benefit of Borrower and Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that
Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without
the prior written consent of Lender.

     Section 9.8. Patriot Act Notice. Lender hereby notifies the Credit Parties that,
pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, Lender is required to obtain, verify and record
information that identifies the Credit Parties, which information includes the name and address of
the Credit Parties and other information that will allow Lender, as applicable, to identify the
Credit Parties in accordance with the Patriot Act. Borrower shall provide, to the extent
commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by
Lender in order to assist Lender in maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act.

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     Section 9.9. Severability of Provisions; Captions; Attachments. Any provision of this
Agreement that shall be prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such
provision in any other jurisdiction. The several captions to sections and subsections herein are
inserted for convenience only and shall be ignored in interpreting the provisions of this
Agreement. Each schedule or exhibit attached to this Agreement shall be incorporated herein and
shall be deemed to be a part hereof.

     Section 9.10. Confidentiality. Lender shall hold all Confidential Information in
accordance with the customary procedures of Lender for handling confidential information of this
nature, and in accordance with safe and sound banking practices. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Lender may in any event make disclosures of, and furnish copies of Confidential Information (a)
when reasonably required by any bona fide transferee or participant in connection with the
contemplated transfer of any Loans or Commitment or participation therein (which information shall
be provided under a notice of confidentiality); (b) to the parent corporation or corporations of
Lender (or any affiliate of any of the foregoing), and to its respective auditors and attorneys,
and any other advisors or consultants with a need to know; and (c) as required or requested by any
Governmental Authority or representative thereof, or pursuant to legal process, provided, that,
unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, Lender, as applicable, shall
notify the chief financial officer of Borrower of any request by any Governmental Authority or
representative thereof (other than any such request in connection with an examination of the
financial condition of Lender by such Governmental Authority), and of any other request pursuant to
legal process, for disclosure of any such non-public information prior to disclosure of such
Confidential Information. In no event shall Lender be obligated or required to return any materials
furnished by or on behalf of any Company. Borrower hereby agrees that the failure of Lender to
comply with the provisions of this Section 9.10 shall not relieve Borrower of any of the
obligations to Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

     Section 9.11. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, any Note and any other Loan Document
or other agreement, document or instrument attached hereto or executed on or as of the Closing
Date integrate all of the terms and conditions mentioned herein or incidental hereto and supersede
all oral representations and negotiations and prior writings with respect to the subject matter
hereof.

     Section 9.12. Legal Representation of Parties. The Loan Documents were negotiated by
the parties with the benefit of legal representation and any rule of construction or
interpretation otherwise requiring this Agreement or any other Loan Document to be construed or
interpreted against any party shall not apply to any construction or interpretation hereof or
thereof.

     Section 9.13. Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.

     (a) Governing Law. This Agreement, each of the Notes and any Related Writing shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio and the

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respective rights and obligations of Borrower and Lender shall be governed by Ohio law, without
regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

     (b) Submission to Jurisdiction. Borrower hereby irrevocably submits to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of any Ohio state or federal court sitting in Cleveland, Ohio, over any
action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Obligations or any Related
Writing, and Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect of such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such Ohio state or federal court. Borrower, on behalf of
itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
any objection it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue in any action or proceeding in
any such court as well as any right it may now or hereafter have to remove such action or
proceeding, once commenced, to another court on the grounds of FORUM NON CONVENIENS or otherwise.
Borrower agrees that a final, non-appealable judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law.

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     Section 9.14. JURY TRIAL WAIVER. BORROWER AND LENDER, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN
CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, BETWEEN BORROWER AND LENDER, ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH,
RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN
CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Credit Agreement as of the
date first set forth above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Address:	 	2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 900	 	TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES, INC.	 	 
	 

	 	Dallas, Texas 75201	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Attention: Chief Financial Officer
	 	By:
	 		 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Peter B. Bartholow

Chief Financial Officer	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Address:	 	127 Public Square	 	KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION	 	 
	 

	 	Cleveland, Ohio 44114	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Attention: Financial Institutions Group
	 	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	James R. Cribbet	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Vice President	 	 

Signature Page to

Credit Agreement

 

 

     Section 9.14. JURY TRIAL WAIVER. BORROWER AND LENDER, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN
CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, BETWEEN BORROWER AND LENDER, ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH,
RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN
CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Credit Agreement as of the
date first set forth above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Address:	 	2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 900	 	TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES, INC.	 	 
	 

	 	Dallas, Texas 75201	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Attention: Chief Financial Officer
	 	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Peter B. Bartholow

Chief Financial Officer	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Address:	 	127 Public Square	 	KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION	 	 
	 

	 	Cleveland, Ohio 44114	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Attention: Financial Institutions Group
	 	By:
	 		 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	James R. Cribbet	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Vice President	 	 

Signature Page to

Credit Agreementexv10w1

 

Exhibit 10.1

BELO CORP.

CHANGE IN CONTROL SEVERANCE PLAN

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	1.

	 	Purpose of the Plan
	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	2.

	 	Definitions
	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	3.

	 	Eligibility
	 	 	6	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	4.

	 	Effect of a Change in Control on Long-Term Incentive Compensation Awards
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	5.

	 	Termination of Employment
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	6.

	 	Certain Additional Payments by the Company
	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	7.

	 	Section 409A
	 	 	12	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	8.

	 	No Mitigation or Offset; Enforcement of the Plan
	 	 	13	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	9.

	 	Insurance and Indemnification
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	10.

	 	Withholding
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	11.

	 	Default in Payment
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	12.

	 	Term
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	13.

	 	Funding of Benefits
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	14.

	 	Amendment or Modification
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	15.

	 	Successors
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	16.

	 	Severability
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	17.

	 	Survival
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	18.

	 	Notices
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	19.

	 	Governing Law
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	20.

	 	Headings and References
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	21.

	 	Interpretation
	 	 	16	 

 

 

BELO CORP.

CHANGE IN CONTROL SEVERANCE PLAN

     1. Purpose of the Plan. The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Belo Corp.
(the “Company”) recognizes the importance to Company and its shareholders of ensuring that
the Company and its subsidiaries have the continued dedication and leadership of the Company’s
management team, notwithstanding the possibility, threat or occurrence of a Change in Control (as
defined below). The Board recognizes that the possibility of a Change in Control and the
uncertainty it may create among management may result in the departure or distraction of management
personnel to the detriment of the Company and its shareholders. Therefore, the Board has decided
to adopt this Change in Control Severance Plan (the “Plan”) in order to encourage the
retention of management and to reduce the level of uncertainty and distraction that is likely to
result from a Change in Control or a potential Change in Control. The Plan is intended to qualify
for purposes of ERISA (as defined below) as an unfunded welfare plan maintained by the Company for
the purpose of providing benefits for a select group of management or highly compensated employees
exempt from the reporting and disclosure requirements of ERISA.

     2. Definitions. For purposes of the Plan, the following terms have the meanings set
forth below:

          (a) “Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person that,
directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under
common control with, such specified Person.

          (b) “Annual Base Salary” means a Participant’s annual base salary at the rate in
effect on the Severance Protection Date or such higher rate as may be in effect at any time after
the Severance Protection Date.

          (c) “Annual Bonus” means, except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 5(b)(ii)
and Section 5(b)(iii), the Participant’s annual incentive pay opportunity at the level in effect
on the Severance Protection Date or such higher level as may be in effect at any time after the
Severance Protection Date.

          (d) “Average Annual Bonus Award” means, as of a Participant’s Termination Date, the
Average Annual Bonus Award payable or actually paid to the Participant in respect of the three
fiscal years preceding such Participant’s Termination Date; provided, however, that
(i) if the Participant has not been employed by the Company or a Subsidiary for a sufficient length
of time to have been eligible for payment of at least one such annual incentive award, “Average
Annual Bonus Award” will then mean the target payout under the then-current annual incentive
plan for the fiscal year in which such Participant’s Termination Date occurs, (ii) for any fiscal
year during which an annual incentive award that was paid or is payable to the Participant was
prorated because of less than a full fiscal year of plan participation or employment, such award
will be annualized and (iii) if the Participant was not employed during any one or more of the
three fiscal years immediately preceding such Participant’s Termination Date or otherwise was not
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Average Annual Bonus Award will be determined on the basis of the number of fiscal years
during such period with respect to which the Participant was eligible to receive such an award.

          (e) “Cause” means, with respect to any Participant, the occurrence of any one of the
following:

          (i) the Participant is convicted of, or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony
involving moral turpitude or that involves misappropriation of the assets of the Company or
a Subsidiary;

          (ii) the Participant commits one or more acts or omissions constituting negligence,
fraud or other misconduct that have a materially detrimental effect on the Company or a
Subsidiary; or

          (iii) the Participant willfully commits a violation of any of the Company’s material
policies (including the Company’s code of business conduct and ethics, as in effect from
time to time) that is materially detrimental to the best interests of the Company.

          For purposes of this Section 2(e), no act or failure to act on the part of the Participant
will be considered “willful” unless it is done, or omitted to be done, by the Participant in bad
faith or without reasonable belief that the Participant’s action or omission was in the best
interests of the Company. The termination of employment of the Participant for Cause will not be
effective unless and until there has been delivered to the Participant a copy of a resolution duly
adopted by the Compensation Committee at a meeting called and held for such purpose (after
reasonable notice is provided to the Participant and the Participant is given an opportunity,
together with counsel, to be heard before the Compensation Committee), finding that, in the good
faith opinion of the Compensation Committee, the Participant is guilty of the conduct described in
clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above and specifying the particulars of such conduct in detail;
provided, however, that if the Participant is the Chief Executive Officer of the
Company, the foregoing determination will be made by the Board (excluding the Participant) before
which the Participant will be entitled to be heard with counsel.

          (f) “Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:

          (i) individuals who, as of the Effective Date, were members of the Board (the
“Incumbent Directors”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the
Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director after the
Effective Date whose election, or nomination for election, by the Company’s shareholders was
approved by a vote of at least a majority of the Incumbent Directors will be considered as
though such individual were an Incumbent Director, other than any such
individual whose assumption of office after the Effective Date occurs as a result of an
actual or threatened proxy contest with respect to election or removal of directors or other
actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a “person” (as
such term is used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) (each, a “Person”), other
than the Board;

          (ii) the consummation of (A) a merger, consolidation or similar form of corporate
transaction involving the Company (each of the events referred to in this

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clause (A) being hereinafter referred to as a “Reorganization”) or (B) a sale
or other disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Company (a
“Sale”), unless, immediately following such Reorganization or Sale, (1) all or
substantially all the individuals and entities who were the “beneficial owners” (as such
term is defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act (or a
successor rule thereto)) of
shares of the Company’s common stock or other securities eligible to vote for the election
of the Board outstanding immediately prior to the consummation of such Reorganization or
Sale (such securities, the “Company Voting Securities”) beneficially own, directly
or indirectly, more than 60% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting
securities of the corporation or other entity resulting from such Reorganization or Sale
(including a corporation or other entity that, as a result of such transaction, owns the
Company or all or substantially all the Company’s assets either directly or through one or
more subsidiaries) (the “Continuing Entity”) in substantially the same proportions
as their ownership, immediately prior to the consummation of such Reorganization or Sale, of
the outstanding Company Voting Securities (excluding any outstanding voting securities of
the Continuing Entity that such beneficial owners hold immediately following the
consummation of the Reorganization or Sale as a result of their ownership prior to such
consummation of voting securities of any corporation or other entity involved in or forming
part of such Reorganization or Sale other than the Company or a Subsidiary), (2) no Person
(excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the
Continuing Entity or any corporation or other entity controlled by the Continuing Entity)
beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 30% or more of the combined voting power of the
then outstanding voting securities of the Continuing Entity and (3) at least a majority of
the members of the board of directors or other governing body of the Continuing Entity were
Incumbent Directors at the time of the execution of the definitive agreement providing for
such Reorganization or Sale or, in the absence of such an agreement, at the time at which
approval of the Board was obtained for such Reorganization or Sale;

          (iii) the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or
dissolution of the Company; or

          (iv) any Person, corporation or other entity or group (within the meaning of
Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) becomes the beneficial owner, directly or
indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 30% or more of the combined voting
power of the Company Voting Securities; provided, however, that for purposes
of this subparagraph (iv), the following acquisitions will not constitute a Change in
Control: (A) any acquisition directly from the Company, (B) any acquisition by the Company
or any Subsidiary, (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust)
sponsored or maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary, (D) any acquisition by an
underwriter temporarily holding such Company Voting Securities pursuant to an offering of
such securities or (E) any acquisition pursuant to a Reorganization or Sale that does not
constitute a Change in Control for purposes of Section 2(f)(ii).

          For purposes of applying the provisions of Section 2(f)(ii)(B)(2) and Section 2(f)(iv)
at any time on or after the Effective Date, neither Robert W. Decherd nor any

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Person holding voting securities of the Continuing Entity or Company Voting Securities, as
applicable, over which Robert W. Decherd has sole or shared voting power will be considered to be
the beneficial owner of 30% or more of such voting securities or Company Voting Securities.

          (g) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and
the regulations promulgated thereunder.

          (h) “Compensation Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the Board.

          (i) “Disability” means the Participant’s absence for a period of 180 consecutive
business days as a result of incapacity due to a physical or mental condition, illness or injury
which is determined to be total and permanent by a physician mutually acceptable to the Company and
the Participant or the Participant’s legal representative (such acceptance not to be unreasonably
withheld) after such physician has completed an examination of the Participant.

          (j) “Effective Date” means October 1, 2007.

          (k) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to
time, or any successor statute thereto.

          (l) “Excise Tax” means the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, together
with any interest or penalties imposed with respect to such tax.

          (m) “Good Reason” means, with respect to any Participant and without the Participant’s
express written consent, the occurrence of any one or more of the following at any time during the
Severance Protection Period:

          (i) the failure to elect or reelect or otherwise to maintain the Participant in the
office or the position, or a substantially equivalent or better office or position, of or
with the Company or a Subsidiary, which the Participant held immediately prior to a Change
in Control, or the removal of the Participant as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Company (or any successor to the Company) if the Participant was a Director of the Company
immediately prior to the Change in Control;

          (ii) (A) a significant adverse change in the nature or scope of the authorities,
powers, functions, responsibilities or duties attached to the position with the Company and
any Subsidiary which the Participant held immediately prior to the Change in Control, (B) a
reduction in the aggregate of the Participant’s Annual Base Salary or Annual Bonus received
from the Company and any Subsidiary, (C) a reduction in the Participant’s long-term
incentive compensation opportunity from the level in effect on the Severance Protection Date
or such higher level as may be in effect at any time after the Severance Protection Date or
(D) the termination or denial of the Participant’s rights to retirement or welfare benefits
or a reduction in the scope or value of such benefits (other than any such reduction that is
generally applicable to all employees of the Company), and such change, reduction or
termination is not remedied by the Company within ten business days after receipt by the
Company of written notice from the Participant of such change, reduction or termination, as
the case may be;

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          (iii) any change of the Participant’s principal place of employment to a location more
than 50 miles from the Participant’s principal place of employment immediately prior to a
Change in Control;

          (iv) any failure of the Company to pay the Participant any compensation when due (other
than an inadvertent failure that is remedied within ten business days after receipt of
written notice from the Participant);

          (v) the delivery by the Company or any Subsidiary of a written notice to the
Participant of the intent to terminate the Participant’s employment for any reason, other
than Cause or Disability, regardless of whether such termination is intended to become
effective during or after the Severance Protection Period; or

          (vi) any failure by the Company to comply with and satisfy Section 15.

          The Participant’s right to terminate employment for Good Reason will not be affected by the
Participant’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness. A termination of employment by the
Participant for Good Reason for purposes of the Plan will be effective only if the Participant
gives the Company written notice (“Notice of Termination for Good Reason”) of the
termination setting forth in reasonable detail the specific conduct of the Company that constitutes
Good Reason and the specific provisions of the Plan on which the Participant relied. Unless the
parties agree otherwise, a termination of employment by the Participant for Good Reason will be
effective on the 30th day following the date when the Notice of Termination for Good Reason is
given, unless the Company elects to treat such termination as effective as of an earlier date;
provided, however, that so long as an event that constitutes Good Reason occurs
during the Severance Protection Period and the Participant delivers the Notice of Termination for
Good Reason at any time prior to the expiration of the Severance Protection Period, the termination
of the Participant’s employment will be deemed to be a resignation for Good Reason during the
Severance Protection Period. If the Company disputes the existence of Good Reason, the Company
will have the burden of proof to establish that Good Reason does not exist. If the Participant
continues to provide services to the Company after one of the events giving rise to Good Reason has
occurred, the Participant will not be deemed to have consented to such event or to have waived the
Participant’s right to terminate his or her employment at any time during the Severance Period for
Good Reason in connection with such event.

          (n) “Payment” means any payment, benefit or distribution (or combination thereof) by
the Company, any of its Affiliates or any trust established by the Company or its Affiliates, to or
for the benefit of a Participant, whether paid, payable, distributed, distributable or provided
pursuant to the Plan or otherwise, including any payment, benefit or other right that constitutes a
“parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code.

          (o) “Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(f)(i).

          (p) “Separation from Service” means a Participant’s separation from service within the
meaning of Section 409A of the Code.

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          (q) “Severance Multiple” will mean, with respect to any Participant, the number that
corresponds to such Participant’s Tier (as set forth on Schedule A) as of the Severance Protection
Date.

          (r) “Severance Protection Date” means the date on which a Change in Control occurs
during the Term, except as otherwise provided in Section 3(b).

          (s) “Severance Protection Period” means, with respect to any Participant, the period
commencing on the Severance Protection Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the second anniversary
of the Severance Protection Date and (ii) the Participant’s Termination Date. If a Participant’s
Severance Protection Period ends on the Participant’s Termination Date, the Severance Protection
Period will be deemed to include such Termination Date.

          (t) “Subsidiary” means any entity in which the Company, directly or indirectly,
possesses 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of its stock.

          (u) “Term” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.

          (v) “Termination Date” means the date on which a Participant has a Separation from
Service.

          (w) “Tier” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.

     3. Eligibility.

          (a) Employees in Certain Positions. Participants in the Plan (“Participants”)
are those employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than an employee who enters into an
individual change in control severance agreement with the Company) who are actively employed by the
Company or a Subsidiary on or following the Effective Date in a position set forth on Schedule A
(each set of positions set forth on Schedule A is referred to the Plan as a “Tier”) and who
are designated by the Compensation Committee as eligible to participate in the Plan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an employee becomes a Participant prior to the Severance
Protection Date but is not actively employed by the Company or a Subsidiary in a position set forth
on Schedule A immediately prior to the Severance Protection Date, or if an employee was not
employed in a position set forth on Schedule A prior to the Severance Protection Date but became
employed in such a position following such date as a result of hiring or promotion, such employee
will not be considered a Participant for any purpose under the Plan unless otherwise determined by
the Compensation Committee.

          (b) Employment Rights. Participation in the Plan does not alter the status of a
Participant as an at-will employee, and nothing the Plan will reduce or eliminate the right of the
Company and its Subsidiaries to terminate a Participant’s employment at any time for any reason or
the right of a Participant to resign at any time for any reason. However, any Separation from
Service of a Participant or removal of a Participant from his or her office or position in the
Company or any Subsidiary that follows the commencement of any discussion with a Person that
ultimately results in a Change in Control will be deemed to be a Separation from Service or removal
of the Participant following the Severance Protection Date; provided that if the Separation
from Service precedes the Change in Control, then for purposes of determining the

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timing of any payments to be made pursuant to Section 5(b), such payments will be measured
from the date of the Change in Control rather than from the date of the Participant’s Separation
from Service.

     4. Effect of a Change in Control on Long-Term Incentive Compensation Awards. In the
event of a Change in Control during the Term, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any
of the Company’s equity-based, equity-related or other long-term incentive compensation plans,
practices, policies and programs (including the Company’s 1986 Long Term Incentive Plan, 1995
Executive Compensation Plan, 2000 Executive Compensation Plan and 2004 Executive Compensation Plan)
each as amended or any award agreements thereunder, (i) all outstanding stock options, stock
appreciation rights and similar rights and awards then held by each Participant that are
unexercisable or otherwise unvested will automatically become fully vested and immediately
exercisable, as the case may be, (ii)  all outstanding equity-based, equity-related and other
long-term incentive awards then held by such Participant that are subject to performance-based
vesting criteria will automatically become fully vested and earned at a deemed performance level
equal to the greater of the target performance level or the performance level determined by actual
performance through the date ending on the date of the Change in Control and (iii) all other
outstanding equity-based, equity-related and long-term incentive awards, to the extent not covered
by the foregoing clause (i) or (ii), then held by such Participant that are unvested or subject to
restrictions or forfeiture will automatically become fully vested and all restrictions and
forfeiture provisions related thereto will lapse.

     5. Termination of Employment.

          (a) Termination by the Company for Cause; Voluntary Resignation by the Participant without
Good Reason. If, during the Severance Protection Period, a Participant’s employment is
terminated either by the Company or its Subsidiaries for Cause or, except as otherwise provide in
Section 5(c), by resignation of the Participant without Good Reason, the Participant will not be
entitled to any compensation or benefits under the Plan other than any payments the Company is at
the time of such termination or resignation obligated to make pursuant to Section 4 (the
“Accrued Rights”).

          (b) Termination During the Severance Protection Period by the Company without Cause or by
the Participant for Good Reason.

          (i) Release of Claims. If during the Severance Protection Period a
Participant’s employment is terminated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than
for Cause or Disability or by resignation of the Participant with Good Reason, then, in
addition to the Accrued Rights the Participant will be entitled to the payments and benefits
set forth in this Section 5(b), provided that the Participant has executed and
delivered to the Company a Separation Agreement and Release substantially in the form
attached to the Plan as Exhibit A and such release has become effective and irrevocable in
accordance with its terms no later than the first day of the seventh month after the
Participant’s Termination Date. If the Participant fails to furnish such release, or if the
release furnished by the Participant has not become effective and irrevocable by the first
day of the seventh month after the Participant’s Termination Date, the Participant will not
be entitled to any payment or benefit under the Plan other than the Accrued Rights.

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          (ii) Severance Pay. The Company will pay the Participant an amount equal to
the Participant’s Severance Multiple times the sum of (A) the Participant’s Annual Base
Salary (determined without regard to any reduction giving rise to Good Reason) and (B) the
greater of the Participant’s Average Annual Bonus Award and the Participant’s Annual Bonus
at the target level of performance for the fiscal year that includes the Termination Date in
a lump-sum payment payable as soon as practicable on or after the first day of the seventh
month after the Participant’s Termination Date but in no event later than 30 days after the
first day of such seventh month. The foregoing amounts will be reduced by the value of any
other cash severance payments relating to salary or bonus continuation the Participant is
otherwise eligible to receive upon termination of employment under any severance plan,
practice, policy or program of the Company or any Subsidiary, unless such plan, policy or
program expressly provides that a cash severance or retention payment is in addition to the
payments and benefits under this Plan.

          (iii) Annual Bonus. To the extent not paid under the Company’s annual bonus
plan then in effect, the Company will pay the Participant an amount equal to the
Participant’s Annual Bonus in effect as of the Participant’s Termination Date at a deemed
performance level equal to the greater of the target performance level or the performance
level determined by actual performance through the Termination Date, without proration for
less than a full performance period, in a lump-sum payment payable as soon as practicable on
or after the first day of the seventh month after the Participant’s Termination Date but in
no event later than 30 days after the first day of such seventh month.

          (iv) Retirement Plan Benefits. With respect to any employee pension plan
(within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA) that is a defined contribution plan in which
the Participant was an active participant immediately prior to the Participant’s Termination
Date, the Company will determine the amount of Company contributions the Participant would
have been entitled to receive pursuant to such plan if the Participant (A) had remained an
active participant in such plan during the number of years equal to the Participant’s
Severance Multiple (such period, the “Continuation Period”), and (B) had made
pre-tax and after-tax contributions at the highest rate permitted by the plan, based on the
terms of the plan in effect on the Termination Date. The Company will make a lump-sum cash
payment to the Participant in an amount equal to the amount of such Company contributions as
soon as practicable on or after the first day of the seventh month after the Participant’s
Termination Date but in no event later than 30 days after the first day of such seventh
month.

          (v) Welfare Benefits. In lieu of continued participation during the
Continuation Period (as defined in Section 5(b)(iv)) in the Company’s medical and dental
benefits, the Company will make a lump-sum cash payment to the Participant in an amount
equal to (A) the Company’s annual cost of providing such benefits to the Participant and the
Participant’s spouse and dependents based on the Participant’s medical and dental benefit
elections in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date multiplied by (B) the number
of years in the Continuation Period. For purposes of this Section 5(b)(v), the Company’s
annual cost of providing medical or dental benefits will

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be equal to the COBRA cost of such benefits on the Termination Date determined without
regard to the two percent administrative charge, less the rate of employee premiums for such
benefits charged to the Participant immediately prior the Termination Date.

          (vi) Long-Term Incentive Compensation Awards. Notwithstanding any provision to
the contrary in any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiary’s equity-based, equity-related
or other long-term incentive compensation plans, practices, policies and programs or any
award agreements thereunder, (A) all outstanding stock options, stock appreciation rights
and similar rights and awards then held by the Executive that are unexercisable or otherwise
unvested will automatically become fully vested and immediately exercisable, and all stock
options and stock appreciation rights then held by the Executive (whether vested or
unvested) will remain exercisable until the earlier of the end of the maximum period of time
permissible without the imposition of the Section 409A Tax and their originally scheduled
expiration dates, (B) all outstanding equity-based, equity-related and other long-term
incentive awards then held by the Executive that are subject to performance-based vesting
criteria will automatically become fully vested and earned at a deemed performance level
equal to the greater of the target performance level or the performance level determined by
actual performance through the Termination Date and (C) all other outstanding equity-based,
equity-related and long-term incentive awards, to the extent not covered by the foregoing
clauses (A) and (B), then held by the Executive that are unvested or subject to restrictions
or forfeiture will automatically become fully vested and all restrictions and forfeiture
provisions related thereto will lapse.

          (vii) Outplacement Services. The Participant will be entitled to reimbursement
from the Company, upon such Participant’s presentation to the Company of a written invoice
from the applicable vendor requesting payment, for the cost of profession management support
offered by a reputable and experienced vendor selected by the Participant, provided that
(A) the cost of such services do not exceed $25,000 and (B) such services are provided for a
period not to exceed 18 months following the Participant’s Termination Date.

          (c) Resignation During the Severance Protection Period. A Participant may voluntarily
terminate employment with the Company or any Subsidiary for any reason or without reason during the
30-day period immediately following the first anniversary of a Change in Control, the Participant
will be entitled to the payments and benefits set forth in Section 5(b) in the same manner and
subject to the same conditions as if the termination of employment was with Good Reason.

          (d) Death or Disability. In the event of the termination of a Participant’s
employment at any time as a result of death or Disability, neither the Participant nor the
Participant’s estate will be entitled to any payments or benefits under the Plan, other than
payments with respect to the Accrued Rights. If, however, a Participant dies after his Termination
Date but prior to receiving payment of the amounts set forth in Section 5(b)(ii), (iii) and (iv),
such amounts will be paid to the Participant’s estate as soon as practicable but in no event later
than 30th day after the Participant’s death; provided that the Participant had
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the release described in Section 5(b)(i) prior to his or her death and such release has
become effective and irrevocable by the 30th day after the Participant’s death. If the
Participant failed to furnish such release, or if the release furnished by the Participant has not
become effective and irrevocable by the 30th day after the Participant’s death, the
Participant’s estate will not be entitled to any payment or benefit under the Plan other than the
Accrued Rights.

          (e) Termination of Employment and Payment Provisions. For purposes of the Plan, a
Participant will not be considered to have a termination of employment unless the termination of
employment qualifies as a Separation from Service. The date on which a Participant’s benefit under
the Plan is paid will be determined at the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Section 5, and the Participant will have no
discretion with respect to the date of such payment.

     6. Certain Additional Payments by the Company.

          (a) Gross-Up Payment. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary and except
as set forth below, in the event it will be determined that any Payment that is paid or payable to
or for the benefit of a Participant during the Term would be subject to the Excise Tax, such
Participant will be entitled to receive an additional payment (a “280G Gross-Up Payment”)
in an amount such that, after payment by such Participant of all taxes (and any interest or
penalties imposed with respect to such taxes), including any income and employment taxes (and any
interest and penalties imposed with respect thereto) and Excise Taxes imposed upon the 280G
Gross-Up Payment, such Participant retains an amount of the 280G Gross-Up Payment equal to the
Excise Tax imposed upon such Payments. The Company’s obligation to make 280G Gross-Up Payments
under this Section 6 will not be conditioned upon a Participant’s termination of employment and
will survive and apply after such Participant’s termination of employment.

          (b) Calculation of Gross-Up Payment. Subject to the provisions of Section 6(c), all
determinations required to be made under this Section 6, including whether and when a 280G
Gross-Up Payment is required, the amount of such 280G Gross-Up Payment and the assumptions to be
utilized in arriving at such determination, will be made in accordance with the terms of this
Section 6 by a nationally recognized certified public accounting firm that will be selected by the
Participant in his or her sole discretion (the “Accounting Firm”). The Accounting Firm
will provide detailed supporting calculations both to the Company and the Participant within 15
business days of the receipt of notice from the Participant that there has been a Payment or such
earlier time as is requested by the Participant or the Company. For purposes of determining the
amount of any 280G Gross-Up Payment, each Participant will be deemed to pay Federal income tax at
the highest marginal rate applicable to individuals in the calendar year in which any such 280G
Gross-Up Payment is to be made and deemed to pay state and local income taxes at the highest
marginal rates applicable to individuals in the state or locality of the Participant’s residence or
place of employment in the calendar year in which any such 280G Gross-Up Payment is to be made, net
of the maximum reduction in Federal income taxes that can be obtained from deduction of state and
local taxes, taking into account limitations applicable to individuals subject to Federal income
tax at the highest marginal rate. All fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm will be borne
solely by the Company. Any Gross-Up Payment, as determined pursuant to this Section 6, will be
paid by the Company to the applicable Participant within five business days of the receipt of the
Accounting Firm’s determination. If the

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Accounting Firm determines that no Excise Tax is payable by the Participant, it will so
indicate to the Participant in writing. Any determination by the Accounting Firm will be binding
upon the Company and the Participant. As a result of the uncertainty in the application of the
Excise Tax, it is possible that the amount of the 280G Gross-Up Payment determined by the
Accounting Firm to be due to a Participant, consistent with the calculations required to be made
hereunder, will be lower than the amount actually due (an “Underpayment”). In the event
the Company exhausts its remedies pursuant to Section 6(c) and the Participant thereafter is
required to make a payment of any Excise Tax, the Accounting Firm will determine the amount of the
Underpayment that has occurred, and any such Underpayment will be paid by the Company to such
Participant within five business days of the receipt of the Accounting Firm’s determination.

          (c) Notice of Claims. A Participant will notify the Company in writing of any written
claim by the Internal Revenue Service that, if successful, would require the payment by the Company
of a 280G Gross-Up Payment. Such notification will be given as soon as practicable, but no later
than 30 days after the Participant is informed in writing of such claim. Failure to give timely
notice will not prejudice any Participant’s right to 280G Gross-Up Payments and rights of indemnity
under this Section 6, unless, and solely to the extent that, the Company has been prejudiced in a
material respect by such failure. The Participant will advise the Company of the nature of such
claim and the date on which such claim is requested to be paid. No Participant will pay such claim
prior to the expiration of the 30-day period following the date on which the Participant gives such
notice to the Company (or such shorter period ending on the date that any payment of taxes with
respect to such claim is due). If the Company notifies a Participant in writing prior to the
expiration of such period that the Company wishes to contest such claim, the Participant will
(i) give the Company any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to such claim,
(ii) take such action in connection with contesting such claim as the Company will reasonably
request in writing from time to time, including accepting legal representation with respect to such
claim by an attorney reasonably selected by the Company, (iii) cooperate with the Company in good
faith in order effectively to contest such claim and (iv) permit the Company to participate in any
proceedings relating to such claim; provided, however, that the Company will bear
and pay directly all costs and expenses (including additional income taxes, interest and penalties)
incurred in connection with such contest, and will indemnify and hold the Participant harmless, on
an after-tax basis, for any Excise Tax or income tax (including interest or penalties) imposed as a
result of such representation and payment of costs and expenses. Without limitation on the
foregoing provisions of this Section 6(c), the Company will control all proceedings taken in
connection with such contest, and, at its sole discretion, may pursue or forgo any and all
administrative appeals, proceedings, hearings and conferences with the applicable taxing authority
in respect of such claim and may, at its sole discretion, either direct the Participant to pay the
tax claimed and sue for a refund or contest the claim in any permissible manner, and the
Participant agrees to prosecute such contest to a determination before any administrative tribunal,
in a court of initial jurisdiction and in one or more appellate courts, as the Company will
determine; provided, however, that (A) if the Company directs the Participant to
pay such claim and sue for a refund, the Company will advance the amount of such payment to the
Participant, on an interest-free basis, and will indemnify and hold the Participant harmless, on an
after-tax basis, from any Excise Tax or income tax (including interest or penalties) imposed with
respect to such advance or with respect to any imputed income in connection with such advance and
(B) if such contest results in any extension of the statute of limitations relating to payment of
taxes for the taxable

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year of the Participant with respect to which such contested amount is claimed to be due, such
extension must be limited solely to such contested amount. Furthermore, the Company’s control of
the contest will be limited to issues with respect to which the 280G Gross-Up Payment would be
payable hereunder, and each Participant will be entitled to settle or contest, as the case may be,
any other issue raised by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority.

          (d) Refunds. If, after the receipt by a Participant of an amount advanced by the
Company pursuant to Section 6(c), the Participant becomes entitled to receive any refund with
respect to such claim, the Participant will (subject to the Company’s complying with the
requirements of Section 6(c)) promptly pay to the Company the amount of such refund received
(together with any interest paid or credited thereon after taxes applicable thereto). If, after
the receipt by a Participant of an amount advanced by the Company pursuant to Section 6(c), a
determination is made that the Participant will not be entitled to any refund with respect to such
claim and the Company does not notify Participant in writing of its intent to contest such denial
of refund prior to the expiration of the 30-day period after such determination, then such advance
will be forgiven and will not be required to be repaid and the amount of such advance will offset,
to the extent thereof, the amount of 280G Gross-Up Payment required to be paid.

          (e) Payment Deadline. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 6 to the
contrary, any Gross-Up Payment, Underpayment or other payment or reimbursement made pursuant to
this Section 6 will be paid or reimbursed no later than December 31st of the year
following the year in which the applicable taxes are remitted or, in the case of reimbursement of
expenses incurred due to a tax audit or litigation to which there is no remittance of taxes, no
later than the end of the year following the year in which the audit is completed or there is a
final and nonappealable settlement or other resolution of the litigation in accordance with
Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(1)(v).

     7. Section 409A.

          (a) Compliance. It is the intention of the Company that the provisions of the Plan
comply with Section 409A of the Code, and all provisions of the Plan will be construed and
interpreted in a manner consistent with Section 409A of the Code. From and after the Severance
Protection Date, (i) the Company will administer and operate the Plan and each Participant’s rights
and benefits hereunder in compliance with Section 409A of the Code and any rules, regulations or
other guidance promulgated thereunder as in effect from time to time and (ii) in the event that the
Company determines that any provision of the Plan does not comply with Section 409A or any such
rules, regulations or guidance and that a Participant may become subject to additional tax,
interest or penalties under Section 409A of the Code (such tax, interest and penalties a
“Section 409A Tax”), the Company may amend or modify such provision solely to the extent
necessary to avoid the application of such Section 409A Tax, provided that such amendment
or modification will not reduce the economic value to the affected Participant of such provision.

          (b) 409A Gross-Up Payment. (i) In the event that, notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 7(a), a Participant is subject to a Section 409A Tax with respect to any such provision,
the Participant will be entitled to receive an additional payment from the Company (a “409A
Gross-Up Payment”) in an amount such that, after payment by the

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Participant of all taxes (and any interest or penalties imposed with respect to such taxes),
including any income and employment taxes (and any interest and penalties imposed with respect
thereto) and any Section 409A Tax imposed upon the 409A Gross-Up Payment, the Participant retains
an amount of the 409A Gross-Up Payment equal to the Section 409A Tax imposed with respect to such
provision. The provisions of Sections 6(c) and 6(d) will apply, to the same extent and in the
same manner as if the Section 409A Tax were an Excise Tax, to any claim by the Internal Revenue
Service that, if successful, would give rise to a 409A Gross-Up Payment by the Company;
provided, however that any 409A Gross-Up Payment will be paid or reimbursed no
later than December 31st of the year following the year in which the applicable taxes
are remitted or, in the case of reimbursement of expenses incurred due to a tax audit or litigation
to which there is no remittance of taxes, no later than the end of the year following the year in
which the audit is completed or there is a final and nonappealable settlement or other resolution
of the litigation in accordance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(1)(v).

          (c) Acceleration of Payments. To the extent that any payment or benefit required to
be made under the Plan constitutes nonqualified deferred compensation subject to Section 409A of
the Code, the time or schedule of such payment or benefit may not be accelerated except to the
extent permitted by Section 409A of the Code. Where Section 409A of the Code permits a payment or
benefit that constitutes nonqualified deferred compensation to be accelerated but does not require
the Plan to expressly provide for such acceleration, the payment or benefit may be accelerated in
the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee.

     8. No Mitigation or Offset; Enforcement of the Plan.

          (a) Mitigation and Offset. The Company’s obligation to make the payments and
otherwise perform its obligations provided for in the Plan will not be affected by any set-off,
counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other claim, right or action which the Company may have
against any Participant or others. In no event will any Participant be obligated to seek other
employment or take any other action by way of mitigation of the amounts payable to the Participant
under any of the provisions of the Plan and, except as otherwise expressly provided for in the
Plan, such amounts will not be reduced whether or not the Participant obtains other employment.

          (b) Expense of Enforcement. The Company will reimburse, upon the Participant’s
demand, any and all reasonable legal fees and expenses that the Participant may incur as a result
of any contest, dispute or proceeding (regardless of whether formal legal proceedings are ever
commenced and regardless of the outcome thereof and including all stages of any contest, dispute or
proceeding) by the Company, the Participant or any other Person with respect to the validity or
enforceability of, or liability under, any provision of the Plan or any guarantee of performance
thereof (including as a result of any contest by the Participant regarding the amount of any
payment owed pursuant to the Plan), and will indemnify and hold the Participant harmless, on an
after-tax basis, for any tax (including Excise Tax) imposed on the Participant as a result of
payment by the Company of such legal fees and expenses. Any such payment or reimbursement will be
for expenses incurred by the Participant during his lifetime, and such payment or reimbursement
will be made not later than December 31st of the year following the year in which the
Participant incurs the expense; provided, that in no event will the

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amount of expenses eligible for payment or reimbursement in one year affect the amount of
expenses to be paid or reimbursed in any other taxable year.

     9. Insurance and Indemnification. Beginning upon the Severance Protection Date and
for so long thereafter as any Participant could be subject to liability, the Company will keep in
place a directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy (or policies) providing comprehensive
coverage to each Participant for claims relating to the Participant’s service as an employee,
officer or director of the Company or its Subsidiaries, at a level (if any) that is no less
favorable to the Participant (e.g., with respect to scope, amounts and deductibles) than the level
(if any) provided to similarly situated active employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The
Company will indemnify each Participant to the fullest extent permitted by the Company’s
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, any officer indemnification agreement between the
Participant and the Company and the general laws of the State of Delaware and will provide
indemnification expenses in advance to the extent permitted thereby. The indemnification and
advance of any expenses provided by the Company pursuant to the Plan will not be deemed exclusive
of any other rights to which a Participant may be entitled under any law (common or statutory), or
any agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or other provision that is
consistent with law, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another
capacity while holding office or while employed or acting as agent for the Company or any
Subsidiary, and such rights will continue in respect of all events occurring while the Participant
was a director of or employed by the Company or any Subsidiary that continue after the Participant
has ceased to be a director of or employed by the Company or any Subsidiary, and will inure to the
benefit of the estate, heirs, executors and administrators of the Participant.

     10. Withholding. The Company will deduct and withhold from any amounts payable under
the Plan such Federal, state, local, foreign or other taxes as are required to be withheld pursuant
to any applicable law or regulation.

     11. Default in Payment. Any payment not made within ten business days after it is due
in accordance with the Plan will thereafter bear interest, compounded annually, at the so-called
composite “prime rate” as quoted from time to time during the relevant period in The Wall Street
Journal. Any change in such prime rate will be effective on and as of the date of such change.
For purposes of this Section 11, the due date of the payments required under Section 5(b)(ii),
(iii) and (iv) and under Section 5(d) is the first day of the seventh month after the
Participant’s Termination Date or date of death, as applicable, or if such payments are measured
from the date of the Change in Control pursuant to Section 3(b), the date of the Change in
Control.

     12. Term. The Plan will remain in effect until the third anniversary of the Effective
Date (such period, as extended by the provisions of this Section 12, the “Term”);
provided that beginning on the second anniversary of the Effective Date and on each
anniversary thereafter (each, an “Extension Date”), the Plan will be automatically extended
for an additional one-year period, unless, pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board at least
60 days prior to the Extension Date, the Company determines not to extend the Plan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of a Change in Control during the Term, the Plan will
continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and will not terminate or expire
until all the Company’s obligations to all Participants have been satisfied in full;
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notwithstanding any extension of the Term, the Plan will only be effective with respect to the
first Change in Control that occurs following the Effective Date, and the Participants will not be
entitled to any payments or benefits pursuant to the Plan with respect to any subsequent Change in
Control.

     13. Funding of Benefits. Promptly following the earlier of (i) the approval by the
Board of a transaction that, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control or (ii) the
occurrence of an event that constitutes a Change in Control, the Company will contribute to a trust
an amount sufficient to provide the payments and benefits (including any 280G Gross-Up Payment and
any 409A Gross-Up Payment) that may become payable under the Plan. The trust will be irrevocable
from and after the date on which a Change in Control occurs, and the assets of the trust will at
all times be subject to the claims of the Company’s unsecured creditors. If a transaction approved
by the Board is terminated or abandoned before a Change in Control occurs, the Company may
terminate the trust and direct the trustee to pay to the Company the assets of the trust;
provided that the Company will remain obligated to fund payments and benefits to the extent
provided in this Section 13 upon the approval by the Board of any subsequent transaction or upon a
subsequent Change in Control.

     14. Amendment or Modification. The Board may amend or modify the Plan at any time;
provided, however, that except as specifically provided in Section 7, (i) no
amendment that is adverse to the interests of a Participant will be effective during the one-year
period ending on the Severance Protection Date without the prior written consent of such
Participant and (ii) on and after the Severance Protection Date, the Plan may not be amended at any
time in a manner that is adverse to a Participant without the prior written consent of such
Participant. The failure of a Participant to insist upon strict adherence to any term of the Plan
on any occasion will not be considered a waiver of such Participant’s rights or deprive such
Participant of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term
of the Plan. No failure or delay by any Participant in exercising any right or power hereunder
will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any single or partial exercise of any such right or
power, or any abandonment of any steps to enforce such right or power, preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power.

     15. Successors. This Plan will bind any successor (a “Successor”) to all or
substantially all of the business or assets of the Company (whether direct or indirect, by
purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise), in the same manner and to the same extent that the
Company would have been obligated under the Plan if no such succession had taken place. In the
case of any transaction in which a Successor would not, pursuant to the foregoing provision or by
operation of law, be bound by the Plan, the Company will require such Successor expressly and
unconditionally to assume and agree to perform the Company’s obligations under the Plan, in the
same manner and to the same extent that the Company would have been required to perform such
obligations if no such succession had taken place. The term “Company,” as used in the Plan, will
mean the Company as hereinbefore defined and any Successor and any assignee to such business or
assets which by reason hereof becomes bound by the Plan.

     16. Severability. If any term or provision of the Plan is invalid, illegal or
incapable of being enforced by any applicable law or public policy, all other conditions and
provisions of the Plan will nonetheless remain in full force and effect.

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     17. Survival. The provisions of the Plan will survive and remain binding and
enforceable, notwithstanding the expiration or termination of the Plan, the termination of a
Participant’s employment with the Company for any reason or any settlement of the financial rights
and obligations arising from such Participant’s participation under the Plan, to the extent
necessary to preserve the intended benefits of the Plan.

     18. Notices. All notices or other communications required or permitted by the Plan
will be made in writing and all such notices or communications will be deemed to have been duly
given when delivered or (unless otherwise specified) mailed by United States certified or
registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	If to the Company:	 	Belo Corp.
	 	 	 	 	400 South Record Street

Dallas, Texas 75202
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Attention:
	 	Vice President and General Counsel
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Fax: (214) 977-7116

and

Senior Vice President/Human Resources

Fax: (214) 977-2721
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	If to a Participant:	 	 to such Participant’s address as most
recently furnished to the Company and set forth in the Company’s records;

or to such other address as any party may have furnished to the other in writing in accordance
herewith, except that notices of change of address will be effective only upon receipt.

     19. GOVERNING LAW. THIS PLAN WILL BE DEEMED TO BE MADE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND THE
VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF THIS PLAN IN ALL RESPECTS WILL BE
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

     20. Headings and References. The headings of the Plan are inserted for convenience
only and neither constitute a part of the Plan nor affect in any way the meaning or interpretation
of the Plan. When a reference in the Plan is made to a Section, such reference will be to a
Section of the Plan unless otherwise indicated.

     21. Interpretation. For purposes of the Plan, the words “include” and “including,”
and variations thereof, will not be deemed to be terms of limitation but rather will be deemed to
be followed by the words “without limitation.” The term “or” is not exclusive. The word “extent”
in the phrase “to the extent” will mean the degree to which a subject or other thing extends, and
such phrase will not mean simply “if.”

	 	 	 
	 

	 	Adopted by the Board of Directors of Belo Corp.

on September 28, 2007.

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SCHEDULE A

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	POSITION	 	TIER	 	SEVERANCE MULTIPLE
	Chief Executive Officer

	 	Tier I
	 	 	3.0	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Members of the Company’s Management

	 	Tier II
	 	 	2.5	 
	Committee (other than the Chief Executive 

Officer)
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Executive Vice Presidents and Senior Vice

	 	Tier III
	 	 	2.0	 
	Presidents (other than Management
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Committee members)
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Vice Presidents (not described in Tier II 

or Tier III)

	 	Tier IV
	 	 	1.5	 

 

EXHIBIT A

SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND RELEASE

     This SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND RELEASE (the “Agreement”), by and between Belo Corp. [or
appropriate employer company], a Delaware corporation (“Belo”), and                      (“Employee”), is
hereby delivered to Employee for consideration on                     . Employee shall have until 5:00
P.M. [time zone] on                      to consider and execute this Agreement.

WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, Employee is a participant in the Belo Corp. Change in Control Severance Plan (the
“Plan”); and

     WHEREAS, Belo and Employee mutually agree to sever their employment relationship in accordance
with the terms of the Plan; and

     WHEREAS, Employee’s contributions to Belo are of material value to Belo;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the
parties do hereby agree as follows:

     Section 1. Separation of Employee. Effective                      (the “Separation Date”),
Employee shall no longer be employed by Belo or any Subsidiary (as defined in the Plan).
Employee’s termination of employment qualifies as a Separation from Service within the meaning of
the Plan.

     Section 2. Severance Payment. Should Employee execute and comply with this
Agreement, Belo shall provide Employee with the consideration under the Plan set forth below, to
which he would not otherwise be entitled. Employee acknowledges that if he has not executed and
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Agreement after it has been executed by Employee has not expired by the first day of the seventh
month following the Separation Date, Employee will not be entitled to any payments or benefits
under the Plan.

          (a) Severance Pay and Annual Bonus. A lump-sum severance payment of $                     in
accordance with Sections 5(b)(ii) and 5(b)(iii) of the Plan, less applicable taxes and deductions.
Such amount shall be paid as soon as practicable on or after the first day of the seventh month
after the Separation Date. Under the terms of the Plan, Belo is under no obligation to make this
payment, and will do so only subject to Employee’s agreement to, and compliance with, the terms of
this Agreement. Unless otherwise provided for herein, except for this payment and other
obligations under the Plan, Employee will not be entitled to any further payments by Belo with
respect to salary, bonus, equity or other compensation matters arising from his employment with
Belo.

          (b) Retirement Plan Benefits. Employee shall be paid a lump-sum cash payment in lieu
of continued retirement plan contributions in accordance with Section 5(b)(iv) of the Plan.

          (c) Continued Welfare Benefits. Employee shall be paid a lump-sum cash payment in
lieu of continued medical and dental plan benefits in accordance with Section 5(b)(v) of the Plan.

          (d) Outplacement Services. Employee shall be entitled to reimbursement from Belo
upon presentation to Belo of a written invoice from the applicable vendor requesting payment for
the cost of profession management support offered by a reputable and experienced vendor selected by
Employee, provided that (1) the cost of such services

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do not exceed $25,000 and (2) such services are provided for a period not to exceed 18 months
following the Separation Date.

          (e) Gross-Up Payment. If applicable, Employee shall receive gross-up payments in
accordance with Sections 6 and 7 of the Plan and shall comply with all other terms and conditions
of such Sections 6 and 7.

          (f) Long-Term Incentive Compensation Awards. Consistent with Section 5(b)(vi) of the
Plan, Belo’s equity-based, equity-related or other long-term incentive compensation plans and the
terms and provisions under which Employee’s long-term incentive awards were granted, (i) all of
Employee’s stock options, stock appreciation rights and similar rights and awards that
unexercisable or are not yet vested as of the Separation Date shall become fully vested and
immediately exercisable on the Separation Date, (ii) all of Employee’s outstanding equity-based,
equity-related and other long-term incentive awards that are subject to performance-based vesting
criteria will automatically become vested and earned at a deemed performance level equal to the
greater of the target performance level or the performance level determined by actual performance
through the date ending on the Separation Date and (iii) all other outstanding equity-based,
equity-related and long-term incentive awards held by Employee that are unvested or subject to
restrictions or forfeiture will automatically become fully vested and all restrictions and
forfeiture provisions related thereto will lapse. All stock options vested as of the Separation
Date shall remain exercisable for the full length of their original term.

     Section 3. Post-Separation Covenants. In consideration of the promises and payments
made or to be made by Belo pursuant to this Agreement, and in order to aid in

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the protection of the confidential and proprietary information and goodwill of Belo, Employee
agrees as follows:

          (a) Company Property, Trade Secrets and Proprietary Information. Employee
acknowledges that, in his employment with Belo, he received sophisticated training and development
in the broadcasting business. Employee further agrees that he acquired knowledge of trade secrets
and other confidential and proprietary information of a highly sensitive nature, and that the
protection of this information is critical to Belo and Belo’s other subsidiaries and affiliates
(collectively, the “Companies”). This information includes, but is not strictly limited to: (1)
all trade secrets as defined by the [applicable state law], as amended, including, but not limited
to, current and future Belo business strategies, opportunities, deals and partnerships/alliances
under consideration; strategies on staffing levels and personnel assignments; current or
contemplated promotional, branding and marketing strategies; economic, business and market
conditions as currently envisioned and discussed by Belo and Belo management; zoning strategies;
and current and projected financial considerations (collectively, “Trade Secrets”); (2) all
information that has or could have commercial value or other utility in the business in which Belo
is engaged or contemplates engaging, and (3) all information of which the unauthorized disclosure
could be detrimental to the interests of Belo, whether or not such information is identified as
confidential information by Belo (subgroups (2) and (3) collectively, “Confidential and Proprietary
Information”). Without limitation, examples of Confidential and Proprietary Information include:
(1) the sales and billing account records of Belo’s advertisers or sponsors; (2) the names,
addresses, and telephone numbers of Belo’s past, current or prospective advertisers, sponsors,
personnel,

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representatives or suppliers; (3) all advertiser or sponsor lists and lead lists, whether made
by Employee, Belo, or anyone else; (4) all written or verbal correspondence by or with Belo’s past,
present or prospective advertisers, sponsors, personnel, representatives or suppliers; (5) this
Agreement, other agreements, and leases, (6) all documents, records, programs, creative products,
concepts, treatments, productions, formats, plans, designs, strategies, trade secrets, technology,
marketing and promotion, distribution, operations, finances, projections, and other information
regarding Belo’s business or its opportunities; and (7) all other information concerning Belo that
is not generally known to the public. Trade Secrets and Confidential and Proprietary information
can appear in any form, such as writings, documents, email, verbal statements, computer disks or
tapes, audio or video tapes, photographs, microfiches, or any other form of communication, media or
storage. Employee agrees that he shall not disclose any of the Confidential and Proprietary
Information, for doing so could interfere with Belo’s prospective economic relations or contractual
relations. Employee further agrees never to disclose or use Belo’s Trade Secrets. Employee hereby
certifies that he has returned or will return by                      (without retaining copies) all
files, records or information of any sort with respect to such Trade Secrets, confidential dealings
or other Confidential or Proprietary information concerning the Companies, as well as any other
property of the Companies he has in his possession, and that he shall not use or disclose them at
any time, during or after his employment, to any third party. This obligation is continuing, and
Employee agrees to immediately return any property of the Companies that comes into his possession
after the Separation Date.

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          (b) Non-Solicitation; Non-Compete. Employee agrees that, for one year following the
Separation Date, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, for his own account or for the benefit
of any other party, solicit, induce, or entice any employee or subcontractor of Belo to terminate
his/her employment or contract with Belo. Employee further agrees that for one year following the
Separation Date, Employee shall not, as principal, partner, officer, director, agent, employee or
consultant, or in any other capacity, engage in, assist, or advise, in any manner similar to or
consistent with his job and duties at Belo, any person, firm or entity which competes with Belo in
[geographic area].

          (c) Cooperation and Assistance. During the two (2) year period following the
Separation Date, Employee agrees that he will voluntarily comply with the Companies’ reasonable
requests for his assistance with or attendance at meetings, depositions, court hearings, trials, or
other events relating to or in connection with any legal proceedings to which Belo or the Companies
are a party; provided that Employee shall be entitled to reimbursement for reasonable and properly
documented travel and related expenses incurred by Employee directly as a result of his attendance
of such events. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Employee shall not be paid for any time spent
giving testimony, whether it be as a deponent, trial witness, or otherwise. Employee also agrees
that he shall in no way interfere with the ongoing business operations of Belo, at any time.

          (d) Legal Proceedings. Employee represents that he has not, at any time up to and
including the date on which he signs this Agreement, commenced any action or proceeding, or filed
any complaints, of any nature arising out of the matters released by

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and in paragraph 5, and that he waives any right to any financial or equitable relief in any
proceeding that may relate to the matters released by paragraph 5. Nothing in this Agreement
precludes Employee from participating in any investigation or proceeding conducted by any state or
federal agency, provided that Employee agrees to waive any financial or equitable relief available
to him with respect to such proceeding.

     Section 4. Non-Exclusive Remedies. Employee recognizes and acknowledges that Belo
would suffer irreparable harm and substantial loss if he violated any of the terms and provisions
of Section 3. Accordingly, and because of the fact that the actual damages which might be
sustained by the Companies as a result of any breach of the foregoing Section 3 would be difficult,
if not impossible, to ascertain, Employee agrees, at the election of the Companies and in addition
to, and not in lieu of, the Companies’ right to seek all other remedies and damages which the
Companies may have at law or in equity for such breach, that the Companies shall be entitled to
injunctive relief restraining Employee from violating such terms and provisions of this Agreement.
It is the express intention of the parties to this Agreement to comply with all laws that may be
applicable to this Agreement. Should any restriction contained in Section 3 be found to exceed in
duration or scope the restriction permitted by law, it is expressly agreed that this Agreement may
be reformed or modified by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to reflect the
maximum lawful duration or scope.

     Additionally, in the event that Employee breaches any of the material terms and provisions
contained in this Agreement, including but not limited to all the terms contained in Section 3
hereunder (which are hereby agreed to be material to the parties), unless otherwise prohibited by
law, Employee shall repay to Belo $                     previously

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paid to Employee under this Agreement. The parties intend this amount as a reasonable forecast of
only some of the damages that would result from Employee’s breach, and not as a penalty.
Employee’s repayment obligation shall not preclude Belo’s exercise of any other right or remedy
available to it at law or in equity, including the right to obtain a preliminary and permanent
injunction.

     Section 5. Release. Employee, in consideration of the payments to be made by Belo
and the provision of the other benefits hereunder, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally releases
and forever discharges all of the Companies and their past and present officers, trustees,
directors, agents, employees, representatives, attorneys, successors and assigns (collectively, the
“Releasees”), from any and all suits, actions, charges, causes of action, rights, damages, debts,
demands, claims or liabilities of any kind, whatsoever, known or unknown (collectively referred to
herein as “Claims”), which he has or may have against any or all of the Releasees, for any alleged
acts, practices or events occurring prior to the date of execution of this Agreement, or any
alleged continuing effects of such acts, practices or events, or any other factors or conditions
relating to or arising out of Employee’s employment with Belo, as well as the separation of his
employment with Belo. This release expressly includes, but is in no way limited to, Claims arising
under federal, state, or local laws prohibiting employment discrimination, harassment, or
retaliation, such as, without limitation, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans
with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, all laws of the
[state] governing employment, the [applicable state law], and the Family and Medical Leave Act;
Claims for breach of contract (excluding breach of this Agreement by Belo), quasi-contract, or
wrongful or

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constructive discharge; Claims for personal injury, harm, or damages (whether intentional or
unintentional), including, but not limited to, libel, slander, assault, battery, invasion of
privacy, negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress, or interference with business
opportunity or with contracts; Claims arising out of any legal restrictions on Belo’s right to
terminate its employees; Claims arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; and
Claims for salary, vacation pay, sick pay, bonus, severance pay, future pay, compensation of any
kind, retirement, health insurance, long-term disability, AD&D, life insurance, or any other
employee benefit; provided, however, that no release or discharge is hereby made with respect to
the rights and obligations of the Releasees and Employee under this Agreement. Employee also
specifically releases the Releasees from any claims for attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses
incurred in connection with this Agreement or any matter herein released.

     Employee further declares and represents that he has carefully read and fully understands the
terms of this Separation Agreement and Release, that he has been advised and has had the
opportunity to seek the advice and assistance of counsel with regard to this Separation Agreement
and Release, that he has had more than [21 or 45] days from receipt of this Separation Agreement
and Release to consider whether to sign this Separation Agreement and Release, that he may revoke
this Separation Agreement and Release within seven calendar days after signing it by delivering to
Belo written notification of revocation, and that he knowingly and voluntarily, of his own free
will, without any duress, being fully informed and after due deliberate action, accepts the terms
of and signs the same as his own free act.

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     Section 6. Miscellaneous. This Agreement represents the entire understanding and
agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior
agreements, written or oral, with respect thereto. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance
with and governed by the laws of the State of Texas. The provisions of this Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective heirs, executors,
administrators, successors and permitted assigns. Employee shall not encumber or dispose of the
right to receive any payment or benefit under this Agreement, such rights hereunder being expressly
agreed to be non-assignable and non-transferable and, in the event of any attempted assignments or
transfer, the Companies shall have no further liability hereunder. No waiver, alteration or
modification of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same shall be in
writing and signed by the parties hereto. If either party to this Agreement brings any litigation
regarding the rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement, the prevailing party in
such litigation shall be entitled to reimbursement by the other party of reasonable attorneys’ fees
and costs incurred by the prevailing party in connection with the defense or pursuit of such
litigation.

     Section 7. Severability. If any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement is
found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be null and void or otherwise unenforceable, it shall
not affect the enforceability of any other clause or section of this Agreement.

     Section 8. Taxes. Employee agrees that Belo is obligated to deduct and withhold
certain amounts for taxes and other amounts required by law from the total amounts payable by Belo
to Employee under this Agreement.

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     Section 9. Further Assurances. From time to time after the execution of this
Agreement, each of Belo and Employee will execute and deliver such other documents and take such
other actions as the other party to this Agreement reasonably may request in order to effect the
transactions contemplated hereby.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement and initialed all pages prior to
this signature page, as of the date set forth above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Employee	 	 	 	Belo Corp.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	[Employee name]

	 	 	 	[Name]	 	 	 	 
	Date:

	 	 	 	[Title]	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Date:	 	 	 	 

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