Lock Up Agreement - 范本

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This Lock Up Agreement (this "Agreement"), dated as of June 1, 2009, is entered into by and among General Motors Nova Scotia Finance Company, a Nova Scotia unlimited company (the "Company"), General Motors of Canada Limited, a Canadian federal corporation ("GM Canada" or "GMCL"), GM Nova Scotia Investments Ltd., a Nova Scotia company ("GM Investments" and, collectively with the Company and GM Canada, the "Canadian Entities"), General Motors Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and each of the undersigned beneficial owners (each a "Holder" and collectively, the "Holders") of the Company's 8.375% Guaranteed Notes due December 7, 2015 (the "2015 Notes") or the Company's 8.875% Guaranteed Notes due July 10, 2023 (the "2023 Notes" and together with the 2015 Notes, the "Notes"). The Holders, the Canadian Entities, the Guarantor and any subsequent person that becomes a party hereto in accordance with the terms hereof are referred to herein as the "Parties." Each of the terms used herein not defined herein shall have the meaning given such term in the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement, dated as of July 10, 2003 (the "Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement"), among the Company, the Guarantor, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S. A., as fiscal agent (the "Fiscal Agent") and Banque Généraledu Luxembourg S. A. governing each series of Notes.

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WHEREAS, the Guarantor and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates who shall be debtors in the Chapter 11 Cases (as defined below) intend to commence on or about June 1, 2009 jointly administered chapter 11 cases (the "Chapter 11 Cases") by filing voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11, title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code"), in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the "Bankruptcy Court");

WHEREAS, the Holders, the Canadian Entities and the Guarantor desire to, among other things, take certain actions and consummate certain transactions contemplated hereby to facilitate the resolution and settlement of various direct, indirect or derivative claims and causes of action of the Holders against one or more of the Canadian Entities and the Guarantor and to facilitate the business and financial restructuring of the Guarantor, the other debtors in the Chapter 11 Cases and certain of the Canadian Entities;

WHEREAS, the Company has requested and the Holders have agreed to vote to amend the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement and the global securities representing the Notes as contemplated by this Agreement, in exchange for certain cash payments and the preservation in the Chapter 11 Cases of certain direct, indirect or derivative claims and causes of action of the Holders and the Company against the Guarantor;

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the Company shall, in accordance with the terms of the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement, convene a meeting (the "Meeting") of holders of the Notes for the purpose of passing an extraordinary resolution to amend the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement and the global securities representing the Notes to provide for the waiver of certain rights of the holders of the Notes, the release and discharge of certain claims and demands by such holders and the payment of certain amounts by the Company to the holders of the Notes upon the terms set forth in the form of extraordinary resolution attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "Extraordinary Resolution").

WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, Holders beneficially owning at least two-thirds of the aggregate principal amount of the 2015 Notes and Holders beneficially owning at least two-thirds of the aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes intend to vote such Notes in favor of the Extraordinary Resolution;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

1. Support of the Extraordinary Resolution; Additional Covenants.

(a) Each Holder agrees (i) that the Extraordinary Resolution, when duly passed at a Meeting, shall be binding on such Holder; (ii) to deliver or cause to be delivered irrevocably within three Business Days after the date of this Agreement voting instructions, in such form as specified by the Company, in favor of the Extraordinary Resolution at the Meeting at which the Extraordinary Resolution is to be submitted in respect of the principal amount of each series of Notes held by such Holder as set forth on the signature page of such Holder or over which such Holder has voting power; provided such instruction shall cease to be irrevocable and shall become void and of no further force and effect automatically upon termination of this Agreement; (iii) to the extent permitted under the terms of the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement, to waive compliance with all covenants contained in the Fiscal and Paying Agency Agreement (other than those applicable to the Company's or the Guarantor's obligations hereunder) and to forebear from exercising their rights thereunder resulting from any default or event of default so long as this Agreement is in effect; and (iv) to cooperate in good faith in satisfying any other conditions required for the passage of the Extraordinary Resolution and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (the "Transactions"), including effecting the voting commitments hereunder and the negotiation of any documents or agreements to be executed or implemented in connection therewith, or otherwise contemplated thereby, each of which documents and agreements shall be consistent in all material respects with this Agreement and the Extraordinary Resolution (all such proxies, instructions, documents and agreements, collectively, the "Transaction Documents").

 

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