As the Settlement is now approved, Final Judgment has been entered by the court on July 21, 2022. The Judgment will dismiss with prejudice the claims against Defendants and will provide that Plaintiffs, and all other Released Plaintiff Parties (as defined in ¶48 in the Notice) shall have waived, released, discharged, and dismissed each and every one of the Released Claims (as defined in ¶45 in the Notice), including Unknown Claims (as defined in ¶49 in the Notice), against each and every one of the Released Defendant Parties (as defined in ¶47 in the Notice) and shall forever be barred and enjoined from commencing, instituting, prosecuting, or maintaining any and all of the Released Claims against any and all of the Released Defendant Parties, whether or not they execute and deliver the Claim Form or share in the Settlement Fund. Claims to enforce the terms of the Settlement are not released.
“Released Claims” means any and all claims, rights, liabilities, and causes of action of every nature and description, including both known claims and Unknown Claims, whether contingent or absolute, mature or unmature, discoverable or undiscoverable, liquidated or unliquidated, accrued or unaccrued, including those that are concealed or hidden, regardless of legal or equitable theory, that Lead Plaintiff or any other member(s) of the Class asserted or could have asserted in any forum that both (i) arise out of, are based upon, or are related in any way to the allegations, transactions, facts, events, matters, occurrences, disclosures, statements, representations, or omissions referred to in the Action, and (ii) relate to the purchase or acquisition of Impax common stock or 2% Convertible Senior Notes by the Class during the Class Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Released Claims” does not include claims relating to the enforcement of the Settlement.
“Released Defendants’ Claims” means all claims and causes of action of every nature and description, including both known claims and Unknown Claims (as defined in the Notice), whether arising under federal, state, common or foreign law, or any other law, that Defendants could have asserted against any of the Released Plaintiff Parties, including Lead Counsel, that arise out of or relate in any way to the institution, prosecution, or settlement of the claims in the Action, except for claims relating to the enforcement of the Settlement.
“Released Defendant Parties” means each and all of the Defendants, and each of their Related Persons.
“Released Plaintiff Parties” means the Plaintiffs, each and every Class Member, Plaintiffs’ Counsel, and each of their respective past or present trustees, officers, directors, partners, employees, contractors, auditors, principals, agents, attorneys, predecessors, successors, assigns, insurers, parents, subsidiaries, general or limited partners or partnerships, and limited liability companies; and the spouses, members of the immediate families, representatives, and heirs of any Released Plaintiff Party who is an individual, as well as any trust of which any Released Plaintiff Party is the settlor or which is for the benefit of any of their immediate family members. Released Plaintiff Parties does not include any Person who timely and validly seeks exclusion from the Class.
“Unknown Claims” means any and all Released Claims that Plaintiffs or any other Class Member do not know or suspect to exist in his, her, or its favor at the time of the release of the Released Defendant Parties, and any and all Released Defendants’ Claims that any Defendant does not know or suspect to exist in his, her or its favor, which if known by him, her or it, might have affected his, her or its decision to enter into this Settlement, execute the Stipulation, and agree to all the various releases set forth herein, or might have affected his, her or its decision not to object to this Settlement or not exclude himself, herself or itself from the Class. Unknown Claims include, without limitation, those claims in which some or all of the facts composing the claim may be unsuspected, undisclosed, concealed, or hidden. With respect to any and all Released Claims and Released Defendants’ Claims, the Released Parties stipulate and agree that, upon the Effective Date, Plaintiffs and Class Members (as regards the Released Claims) and the Defendants (as regards the Released Defendants’ Claims) shall expressly waive and relinquish, and each Class Member shall be deemed to have and by operation of law and of the Judgment shall have, expressly waived and relinquished, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all provisions, rights and benefits conferred by California Civil Code §1542, or any law of any state or territory of the United States, or principle of common law or of international or foreign law, which is similar, comparable, or equivalent to Cal. Civ. Code §1542, which provides:
A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.
The Judgment also will provide that Defendants and each of the other Released Defendant Parties shall be deemed to have waived, released, discharged, and dismissed as against the Released Plaintiff Parties all Released Defendants’ Claims which includes all claims and causes of action of every nature and description, including both known claims and Unknown Claims, whether arising under federal, state, common or foreign law, or any other law, that Defendants could have asserted against any of the Released Plaintiff Parties, including Lead Counsel, that arise out of or relate in any way to the institution, prosecution, or settlement of the claims in the Litigation, except for claims relating to the enforcement of the Settlement.