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10-K
Feb 25, 4:18 PM ET
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. 10-K
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Article IDEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Section 1.02 Other Definitional and Interpretative Provisions. The definitions in Section 1.01 shall apply equally to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The captions herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the construction or interpretation hereof. References to Articles, Sections and Schedules are to Articles, Sections and Schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. All Schedules annexed hereto or referred to herein are hereby incorporated in and made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full herein. Any capitalized terms used in any Schedule but not otherwise defined therein, shall have the meaning as defined in this Agreement. Any singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term, the singular. The terms “clause(s)” and “subparagraph(s)” shall be used herein interchangeably. Whenever the words “include”, “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”, whether or not they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import. “Writing”, “written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form. References to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute as amended from time to time and to any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, any agreement or instrument defined or referred to herein or in any agreement or instrument that is referred to herein means such agreement or instrument as from time to time amended, modified, supplemented or restated, including by waiver or consent, and references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein, but in the case of each of the foregoing, only to the extent that such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement, waiver or consent is effected in accordance with this Agreement. References to any Person include the successors and permitted assigns of that Person. References from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including or through and including, respectively. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, when any approval, consent or other matter requires any action or approval of any group of Members, including any holders of any class of Units, such approval, consent or other matter
shall require the approval of a majority in interest of such group of Members. Except to the extent otherwise expressly provided herein, all references to any Member shall be deemed to refer solely to such Person in its capacity as such Member and not in any other capacity.
Article IITHE COMPANY
Section 2.01 Continuation of the Company. The Members hereby agree to continue the Company as a limited liability company pursuant to the Delaware Act, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement. The authorized officer or representative, as an “authorized person” within the meaning of the Delaware Act, shall file and record any amendments and/or restatements to the Certificate and such other certificates and documents (and any amendments or restatements thereof) as may be required under the Laws of the State of Delaware and of any other jurisdiction in which the Company may conduct business. The authorized officer or representative shall, on request, provide any Member with copies of each such document as filed and recorded. The Members hereby agree that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and, except as provided herein, the Delaware Act.
Section 2.02 Name. The name of the Company shall be TKO Operating Company, LLC. The Managing Member may change the name of the Company in its sole discretion and shall have the authority to execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and record such further certificates, amendments, instruments and documents, and to do all such other acts and things, as may be required by Law or necessary or advisable to effect such change.
Section 2.03 Term. The term of the Company began on July 27, 2016, the date the Certificate was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and the Company shall have perpetual existence unless sooner dissolved and its affairs wound up as provided in Article XII.
Section 2.04 Registered Agent and Registered Office. The name of the registered agent of the Company for service of process on the Company in the State of Delaware shall be Corporation Service Company, and the address of such registered agent and the address of the registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware shall be 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, Delaware 19808. Such office and such agent may be changed to such place within the State of Delaware and any successor registered agent, respectively, as may be determined from time to time by the Managing Member in accordance with the Delaware Act.
Section 2.05 Purposes. The Company has been formed for the object and purpose of engaging in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be organized under the Delaware Act.
Section 2.06 Powers of the Company. The Company shall have the power and authority to take any and all actions necessary, appropriate or advisable to or for the furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 2.05.
Section 2.07 Partnership Tax Status. The Members intend that the Company shall be treated as a partnership for federal, state and local tax purposes to the extent such treatment is available, and agree to take (or refrain from taking) such actions as may be necessary to receive and maintain such treatment and refrain from taking any actions inconsistent therewith.
Section 2.08 Regulation of Internal Affairs. The internal affairs of the Company and the conduct of its business shall be regulated by this Agreement, and to the extent not provided for herein, shall be determined by the Managing Member.
Section 2.09 Ownership of Property. Legal title to all Property conveyed to, or held by, the Company or its Subsidiaries shall reside in the Company or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, and shall be conveyed only in the name of the Company or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, and no Member or any other Person, individually, shall have any ownership of such Property.
Article IIIUNITS; MEMBERS; BOOKS AND RECORDS; REPORTS
Section 3.01 Units; Admission of Members.
Section 3.02 Substitute Members and Additional Members.
Section 3.03 Tax and Accounting Information.
Section 3.04 Books and Records. The Company shall keep full and accurate books of account and other records of the Company at its principal place of business. No Member (other than the Managing Member) shall have any right to inspect the books and records of PubCo, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
Section 3.05 Equity Incentive Plans. If, at any time or from time to time, in connection with any Equity Incentive Plan, equity incentive awards are granted to, vested, settled or exercised by any grantee (including employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries), such awards shall be administered between the Company, PubCo and their respective Affiliates in accordance with an equity grant policy adopted by the Company and PubCo, as may be amended from time to time, which policy shall comply with the terms of this Agreement (including Section 4.02).
Section 3.06 Units Governed by Article 8. The Company hereby irrevocably elects that all Units shall be securities governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Delaware. Should the Company issue certificates to a Member evidencing the Units held by such Member in the Company, each such certificate shall bear the following legend, among others determined by the Board: ‘This certificate evidences an interest in TKO Operating Company, LLC and shall be a security governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Delaware.
Article IVPUBCO OWNERSHIP; RESTRICTIONS ON PUBCO UNITS
Section 4.01 PubCo Ownership.
Section 4.02 Restrictions on PubCo Units.
Article VCAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS; CAPITAL ACCOUNTS;DISTRIBUTIONS; ALLOCATIONS
Section 5.01 Capital Contributions.
Section 5.02 Capital Accounts.
Section 5.03 Amounts and Priority of Distributions.
Section 5.04 Allocations.
Section 5.05 Other Allocation Rules.
Section 5.06 Tax Withholding; Withholding Advances.
Section 5.07 Tax Proceedings. In representing the Company before any Governmental Authorities and courts in tax matters affecting the Company and the Members in their capacity as such, the Company Representative shall, to the extent practicable and permitted under the circumstances, provide each of PubCo and EOC with prompt notice of any such administrative and judicial proceedings (including with respect to any Subsidiary) and keep the Members reasonably informed of any material developments with respect to such administrative and judicial proceedings. Each Member shall reasonably cooperate, and cause their respective Affiliates and agents to cooperate, with each other and each other’s agents (including the Company and its Subsidiaries) with respect to any such tax matter and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain documentation from any Governmental Authority or other third party necessary or helpful with respect to any such tax matter.
Article VICERTAIN TAX MATTERS
Section 6.01 Company Representative.
Section 6.02 Section 83(b) Elections.
Article VIIMANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY
Section 7.01 Management by the Managing Member. Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Managing Member shall be deemed to be a “manager” for purposes of the Delaware Act. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement or the Delaware Act, the day-to-day business and affairs of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be managed, operated and controlled exclusively by the Managing Member in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and no other Members shall have management authority or rights over the Company or its Subsidiaries. The Managing Member is, to the extent of its rights and powers set forth in this Agreement, an agent of the Company for the purpose of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ business, and the actions of the Managing Member taken in accordance with such rights and powers shall bind the Company (and no other Members shall have such right). Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Managing Member shall have all necessary powers to carry out the purposes, business and objectives of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Managing Member may delegate to Members, employees, officers or agents of the Company or any Subsidiary in its discretion the authority to sign agreements and other documents on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary. The Managing Member shall have the exclusive power and authority, on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries, to take such actions not inconsistent with this Agreement as the Managing Member deems necessary or appropriate to carry on the business and purposes of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
Section 7.02 Withdrawal of the Managing Member. PubCo may withdraw as the Managing Member and appoint as its successor at any time upon written notice to the Company (a) any wholly owned Subsidiary of PubCo, (b) any Person into which PubCo is merged or consolidated or (c) any transferee of all or substantially all of the assets of PubCo, which withdrawal and replacement shall be effective upon the delivery of such notice. No appointment of a Person as Managing Member shall be effective unless PubCo and the new Managing Member provide all other Members with contractual rights, directly enforceable by such other Members against the new Managing Member, to cause the new Managing Member to comply with all the Managing Member’s obligations under this Agreement.
Section 7.03 Decisions by the Members.
Section 7.04 Fiduciary Duties. (a) The Managing Member shall, in its capacity as Managing Member, and not in any other capacity, have the same fiduciary duties to the Company and the Members as a member of the board of directors of a Delaware corporation (assuming such corporation had in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating the liabilities of directors and officers to the maximum extent permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL); and (b) each Officer shall, in their capacity as such, and not in any other capacity, have the same fiduciary duties to the Company and the Members as an officer of a Delaware corporation (assuming such corporation had in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating the liabilities of directors and officers to the maximum extent permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL). Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, neither the Managing Member nor any Officer shall be subject to corporate opportunity or similar doctrines.
Section 7.05 Officers.
Article VIIITRANSFERS OF INTERESTS
Section 8.01 Restrictions on Transfers.
Section 8.02 Certain Permitted Transfers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, but subject to compliance with Sections 8.01(b) through (e), the following Transfers shall be permitted (any such Transfer, a “Permitted Transfer” XE “Permitted Transfer“ \t “8.01(f)“ and, the applicable Transferee, a “Permitted Transferee” XE “Permitted Transferee“ \t “8.01(f)“ ):
Section 8.03 Registration of Transfers. When any Units are Transferred in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall cause such Transfer to be registered on the books of the Company.
Section 8.04 Restricted Units Legend. The Units have not been registered under the Securities Act and, therefore, in addition to the other restrictions on Transfer contained in this Agreement, cannot be sold unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is then available. To the extent such Units have been certificated, each certificate evidencing Units and each certificate issued in exchange for or upon the Transfer of any Units (if such securities remain Units as defined herein after such Transfer) shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend in substantially the following form:
Article IXREDEMPTION RIGHTS
Section 9.01 Redemption Right of a Member.
Section 9.02 Reservation of Shares of Class A Common Stock; Listing; Certificate of PubCo, etc.
Section 9.03 Effect of Exercise of Redemption. This Agreement shall continue notwithstanding the consummation of a Redemption and all other rights set forth herein shall be
exercised by the remaining Members and the Redeeming Member (to the extent of such Redeeming Member’s remaining interest in the Company). No Redemption shall relieve such Redeeming Member of any prior breach of this Agreement.
Section 9.04 Tax Treatment. Unless otherwise required by applicable Law, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, in the event PubCo delivers a timely Election Notice with respect to a Redemption, such Redemption shall be treated as a direct exchange between PubCo and the Redeeming Member for US federal and applicable state and local income tax purposes (and in furtherance thereof, the parties agree that any Cash Settlement will be treated as a disguised sale of partnership interests for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law).
Section 9.05 Other Redemption Matters.
Section 9.06 Employee Unit Redemption Right.
Article XCERTAIN OTHER MATTERS
Section 10.01 Employee Holdco Members. The Managing Member may from time to time cause the Company to issue Equity Securities to Employee Holdco Members. By virtue of their ownership of Equity Securities in any Employee Holdco Members, any members thereof (the “Employee Holdco Member Members” XE “Employee Holdco Member“ \t “10.01“ ) will indirectly hold interests in the Company (the “Employee Holdco Member Interests” XE “Employee Holdco Member Interests“ \t “10.01“ ). In applying the provisions of this Agreement and in order to determine equitably the rights and obligations of any Employee Holdco Members and Employee Holdco Member Members, the Managing Member, the Company and/or the applicable Employee Holdco Member may treat (a) the Units held by an Employee Holdco Member as if they were hypothetically directly held by the Employee Holdco Member Members having an indirect economic interest therein and (b) any Employee Holdco Member Member as if it were hypothetically a Member with a corresponding interest in a proportionate portion of the Units owned by such Employee Holdco Member. Accordingly, with respect to any Employee Holdco Member, upon (i) any issuance of additional Units to such Employee Holdco Member for the benefit of any Employee Holdco Member Member (or the occurrence of any event that causes the repurchase or forfeiture of any Units), (ii) the Transfer of Units by such Employee Holdco Member or (iii) any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company, issuance of debt or any other similar capital transaction of the Company (each, an “Employee Holdco Member Action” XE “Employee Holdco Member Action“ \t “10.01“ ), the Managing Member, the Company and/or the Employee Holdco Member(s), as applicable, may take any action or make any adjustment with respect to the Employee Holdco Member Interests to replicate, as closely as possible, such Employee Holdco Member Action (including the effects thereof), and the Members shall take all actions reasonably requested by the Managing Member in connection with any Employee Holdco Member Action and this Section 10.01.
Article XILIMITATION ON LIABILITY, EXCULPATIONAND INDEMNIFICATION
Section 11.01 Limitation on Liability. The debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and no Covered Person shall be obligated personally for any such debt, obligation or liability of the Company; provided, that the foregoing shall not alter a Member’s obligation to return funds wrongfully distributed to it.
Section 11.02 Exculpation and Indemnification.
Article XIIDISSOLUTION AND TERMINATION
Section 12.01 Dissolution.
Section 12.02 Winding Up of the Company.
Section 12.03 Termination. The Company shall terminate when all of the assets of the Company, after payment of or reasonable provision for the payment of all debts and liabilities of the Company, shall have been distributed to the Members in the manner provided for in this Article XII, and the Certificate shall have been cancelled in the manner required by the Delaware Act.
Section 12.04 Survival. Termination, dissolution or Liquidation of the Company for any reason shall not release any party from any liability which at the time of such termination,
dissolution or Liquidation already had accrued to any other party or which thereafter may accrue in respect to any act or omission prior to such termination, dissolution or Liquidation.
Article XIIIMISCELLANEOUS
Section 13.01 Expenses. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party incurring such cost or expense.
Section 13.02 Further Assurances. Each Member agrees to execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and record such further certificates, amendments, instruments and documents, and to do all such other acts and things, as may be required by Law or as, in the reasonable judgment of the Managing Member, may be necessary or advisable to carry out the intent and purposes of this Agreement.
Section 13.03 Notices. All notices, requests and other communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including electronic mail (“email”) transmission) and shall be given to such party at the address, facsimile number or email address specified for such party on the Member Schedule hereto or to such other address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to the other parties hereto. All such notices, requests and other communications shall be deemed received on the date of receipt by the recipient thereof if received prior to 5:00 p.m. on a Business Day in the place of receipt. Otherwise, any such notice, request or communication shall be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day in the place of receipt.
Section 13.04 Binding Effect; Benefit; Assignment.
Section 13.05 Jurisdiction.
Section 13.06 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 13.07 Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. Until and unless each party has received a counterpart hereof signed by the other party hereto, this Agreement shall have no effect and no party shall have any right or obligation hereunder (whether by virtue of any other oral or written agreement or other communication).
Section 13.08 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Transaction Documents, the Registration Rights Agreement, PubCo’s bylaws and those documents expressly referred to herein and therein constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both oral and written, between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall create any third-party beneficiary rights in favor of any Person or other party,
except to the extent provided herein with respect to Indemnitee-Related Entities, each of whom are intended third‑party beneficiaries of those provisions that specifically relate to them with the right to enforce such provisions as if they were a party hereto.
Section 13.09 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner materially adverse to any party. Upon such a determination, the parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.
Section 13.10 Amendment.
Section 13.11 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the conflicts of law rules of any State that would result in the application of the Laws of any other State.
Section 13.12 No Presumption. With regard to each and every term and condition of this Agreement, the parties hereto understand and agree that the same have or has been mutually negotiated, prepared and drafted, and if at any time the parties hereto desire or are required to interpret or construe any such term or condition, no consideration will be given to the issue of which party hereto actually prepared, drafted or requested any term or condition of this Agreement.
Section 13.13 Attorney-In-Fact. Each Member hereby appoints the Company as such Member’s attorney-in-fact (with full power of substitution) and hereby authorizes the Company to execute and deliver in such Member’s name and on its behalf any amendment of this Agreement or other document relating hereto in furtherance of such Member’s rights and obligations pursuant to this Agreement. Each Member hereby acknowledges and agrees that such proxy is coupled with an interest and shall not terminate upon any bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, death or incapacity of such Member.
Section 13.14 Immunity Waiver. Each Member acknowledges that it is a commercial entity and is a separate entity distinct from its ultimate shareholders and/or the executive organs of the government of any state and is capable of suing and being sued. The entry by each Member into this Agreement constitutes, and the exercise by each Member of its respective rights and performance of its respective obligations hereunder will constitute, private and commercial acts
performed for private and commercial purposes that shall not be deemed as being entered into in the exercise of any public function.
Section 13.15 Specific Performance. It is hereby agreed and acknowledged that it will be impossible to measure in money the damages that would be suffered if the parties fail to comply with any of the obligations herein imposed on them and that, in the event of any such failure, an aggrieved Member or other party or third-party beneficiary specified in Section 13.08 will be irreparably damaged and will not have an adequate remedy at Law. Any such Person shall, therefore, be entitled (in addition to any other remedy to which such party may be entitled at Law or in equity) to injunctive relief, including specific performance, to enforce such obligations, without the posting of any bond and if any action should be brought in equity to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement, none of the Company or Members shall raise the defense that there is an adequate remedy at Law.
Section 13.16 Agreement of Certain Members. By accepting the benefits of this Agreement, each Employee Member that is or was an employee or service provider of the Company, PubCo or any of their respective Affiliates (or is a Member that holds Units Transferred from or on behalf of any such individual) and each Employee Holdco Member on behalf of any Employee Holdco Member Member that is or was an employee or service provider of the Company or any of its Affiliates (or is an Employee Holdco Member Member that holds Units Transferred from or on behalf of any such individual) agrees that, to the extent any Award Agreement, award agreement, guaranteed compensation agreement, employment agreement or other similar agreement between the Company or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and such employee or service provider (or any Affiliate that holds Units Transferred from or on behalf of any such individual) on the other hand, provides for rights and obligations of the parties thereto to be triggered upon the termination for “Cause” XE “Cause“ \t “13.16“ (or other similar construct) of such employee or service provider, unless a definition of “Cause” is expressly set forth in such agreement without reference to a definition thereof in any limited liability company or operating agreement, then the definition of “Cause” applicable to such agreement shall be the definition thereof in the applicable predecessor limited liability company or operating agreement referred to in such Award Agreement, award agreement, guaranteed compensation agreement, employment agreement or other similar agreement; provided, however, that, by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, each such Employee Member further agrees and acknowledges that any such definition in any such predecessor limited liability company or operating agreement shall cease to be effective and shall be superseded at such time as the Managing Member adopts a new definition of “Cause” and provides thirty (30) days’ advance notice of such new definition to any such employee or service provider, in which event, such new definition shall become effective, but shall only apply to such employee or service provider with respect to matters first occurring after such effectiveness (whether or not discovered only after such effectiveness).