Our Bylaws include the provisions relating to advancement of expenses and indemnification
rights consistent with those set forth in our Certificate of Incorporation. In addition, our Bylaws provide for a right of indemnity to bring a suit in the event a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses is not paid in full by us within
a specified period of time. Our Bylaws also permit us to purchase and maintain insurance, at our expense, to protect us and/or any director, officer, employee or agent of our corporation or another entity, trust or other enterprise against any
expense, liability or loss, whether or not we would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.
Any repeal or amendment of provisions of our Bylaws affecting indemnification rights, whether by our Board of Directors, stockholders or by
changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provisions inconsistent therewith, will (unless otherwise required by law) be prospective only, except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits us to provide broader
indemnification rights on a retroactive basis, and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing thereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such
inconsistent provision.
In connection with our Earthstone Merger, we have agreed to indemnify, defend and hold harmless, in the same
manner as provided by Earthstone immediately prior to August 21, 2023, each person who has been at any time prior to August 21, 2023 or who became, prior to the Initial Company Merger Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement (as
defined below)), an officer, director of Earthstone or any of its subsidiaries or who acts as a fiduciary under any employee benefit plan sponsored, maintained, or contributed to by Earthstone, or was serving at the request of Earthstone or any of
its respective subsidiaries as a director, officer or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, employment benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, in each case, when acting in such capacity (whom are
referred to herein as the indemnified persons) against all losses, claims, damages, costs, fines, penalties, expenses (including attorneys and other professionals fees and expenses), liabilities or judgments or amounts that
are paid in settlement of, or incurred in connection with, any actual or threatened proceeding to which such indemnified person is a party or is otherwise involved (including as a witness) based on, in whole or in part, or arising out of, in whole
or in part, the fact that such person was an officer or director of Earthstone or any of its subsidiaries, a fiduciary under any employee benefit plan sponsored, maintained, or contributed to by Earthstone or is or was serving at the request of
Earthstone or any of its respective subsidiaries as an officer, director or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, as applicable, or by reason of
anything done or not done by such person in any such capacity, whether pertaining to any act or omission occurring or existing prior to, but not after, the Initial Company Merger Effective Time and whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after,
the Initial Company Merger Effective Time (which liabilities are referred to herein as indemnified liabilities), including all indemnified liabilities based in whole or in part on, or arising in whole or in part out of, or pertaining to
that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 21, 2023 (the Merger Agreement), among us, Smits Merger Sub I Inc., Smits Merger Sub II LLC, OpCo, and Earthstone, or the transactions contemplated thereby, in each case
to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law (and we will pay expenses incurred in connection therewith, including but not limited to expenses for the retention of Earthstones regularly engaged legal counsel or other counsel
satisfactory to Earthstone, in advance of the final disposition of any such proceeding to each indemnified person to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law).
Until the six-year anniversary date of the Initial Company Merger Effective Time,
we will not amend, repeal or otherwise modify any provision in the organizational documents of the Company or of any subsidiaries of Earthstone in any manner that would affect adversely the rights of any indemnified person to indemnification,
exculpation and advancement except to the extent required by applicable law. We shall, and shall cause subsidiaries of Earthstone to, fulfill and honor any indemnification, expense advancement, or exculpation agreements between Earthstone or any of
its subsidiaries and any of its officers, directors existing and in effect immediately prior to the Initial Company Merger Effective Time.
We have put in place and fully prepaid tail insurance policies with a claims reporting or discovery period of at least six years
from the Initial Company Merger Effective Time (the tail period) from an insurance carrier with the same or better credit rating as Earthstones previous insurance carrier with respect to directors and
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