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TURKISH REPUBLIC
PRIME MINISTRY
PRIVATISATION ADMINISTRATION
CONFIDENTIALITY
UNDERTAKING
.../.../2008
We have disclosed that an Adviser, has
been retained by the Privatization Administration, Prime
Ministry of the Republic of Turkey with respect to
privatization of …………………Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş.
incorporated under the laws of Turkey (any such sale or
other disposition transaction being referred to herein
as a “Sale”). In connection with your analysis of the
possible negotiation of a Sale with the PA, certain oral
and written information concerning Türkiye Elektrik
Dağıtım A.Ş. (“Tedaş”) and the Company (collectively,
the “Evaluation Material”) may be provided to you by the
PA or its official representatives, or by officers,
directors, employees and/or agents of Tedaş and the
Company, including its subsidiaries, and by the Adviser.
In consideration of and as a condition to furnishing you
with the Evaluation Material, the PA and the Company
require your undertaking to the following, it being
understood that you are also agreeing and undertaking to
cause your Affiliates and your advisers to comply with
the provisions hereof (“Affiliate” being defined herein,
with respect to any entity, as any other entity that is
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with, such entity):
1. The Evaluation Material will
be used solely for the purpose of evaluating such a
possible Sale between you (or a consortium, partnership
or similar purchasing group of which you are a member)
and the PA and not for any other purpose, and such
information will be kept confidential by you and your
professional advisors, if any, engaged by you to assist
in your evaluation of the Company for purposes of
considering making a Sale offer and will not be used
either for any purpose that is competitive with or
detrimental to the PA, Tedaş and/or the Company or for
any other purpose other than evaluating a possible Sale
(whether or not such purpose shall be competitive with
or detrimental to the Company), except that you may
disclose the Evaluation Material or portions thereof (a)
where this is required by law, regulation, supervisory
authority or other applicable judicial or governmental
order, or (b) where this is made to those of your
directors, officers, employees, advisers and
representatives of such advisors (the persons to whom
such disclosure is permissible being collectively called
“Representatives”) who need to know such information for
the purpose of evaluating such a possible Sale (it being
understood that those Representatives will be informed
by you of the confidential nature of the Evaluation
Material and will agree to be bound by this undertaking
and not to disclose the information to any other party).
In any event, you agree to be responsible for any breach
of this undertaking by your Representatives and
Affiliates. You will make all reasonable and appropriate
efforts to safeguard the Evaluation Material from
disclosure to anyone other than as permitted hereby.
In the event that you or any of your
Representatives or Affiliates are requested or required
by law, regulation, supervisory authority or other
applicable judicial or governmental order to disclose
any of the Evaluation Material, you shall provide the PA,
the Adviser, Tedaş and the Company with written notice
of such requirement as soon as reasonably practicable so
that an appropriate protective order may be sought, and
you shall cooperate with the PA, the Adviser, Tedaş and
the Company to the fullest extent permitted by law in
seeking to obtain such protective order. In the absence
of such an order or the waiver by the PA, Tedaş and the
Company of compliance with the provisions hereof, you
may disclose only that portion of the Evaluation
Material which you are advised by counsel is legally
required, provided that you give the PA, Tedaş and the
Company written notice of what is to be disclosed as far
in advance as is reasonably practicable and you will use
all reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that
confidential treatment will be accorded such Evaluation
Material.
2. The term “Evaluation Material”
does not include any information which (i) at the time
of disclosure or thereafter is generally available to
and known by the public (other than as a result of a
disclosure directly or indirectly by you or your
Representatives or Affiliates), (ii) was available to
you on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than
the PA, Tedaş or the Company or their respective
advisors, provided that such source is not and was not
known by you to be bound to confidentiality, whether by
agreement with the PA, Tedaş, the Company, or their
respective advisors or otherwise, or (iii) has been
independently acquired or developed by you without
violating any of your obligations under this undertaking.
The fact that information included in the Evaluation
Material is or becomes otherwise available to you or
your Representatives or Affiliates pursuant to clauses
(i), (ii) or (iii) above, shall not affect your
obligations with respect to the balance of the
Evaluation Material, under any of the provisions of this
undertaking.
3. If the PA or the Adviser at
any time so requests, you will as soon as reasonably
practicable return to the PA all copies of the
Evaluation Material in your possession or in the
possession of your Representatives or Affiliates, and
you will destroy all copies of any analyses,
compilations, studies or other documents or media
prepared by you or your Representatives or Affiliates
for your or their use containing or reflecting any
Evaluation Material (the “Derivative Material”), and
will confirm such destruction in writing to the PA,
Tedaş, the Adviser and the Company, except that you
shall be permitted to preserve copies of board
resolutions or materials of a similar nature that form a
part of your internal record of governance and that are
enacted consistent with your past generally-established
business practices. Except for the foregoing difference
in treatment for Derivative Material, the Derivative
Material shall be held in confidence in accordance with
the terms of this undertaking applicable to the
Evaluation Material. Notwithstanding the return or
destruction of such material, you will continue to be
bound by the terms of this undertaking.
4. Without the prior written
consent of the PA, you will not, and you will direct
your Representatives and Affiliates not to, disclose to
any person (i) the fact that any investigation,
discussions or negotiations are taking place concerning
a possible transaction between the PA and you, or (ii)
the fact that you have requested or received Evaluation
Material from the PA, Tedaş, the Company, or the Adviser,
or (iii) any of the terms, conditions or other facts
with respect to any such possible transaction, including
the status thereof. The term “person” as used in this
undertaking will be interpreted broadly to include,
without limitation, any corporation, company,
partnership or individual.
If you wish to discuss the possibility of
forming a bidding consortium with another party or
parties you should so notify the PA in writing,
identifying the other party or parties that you wish to
consider including in a bidding consortium.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding
paragraph, the PA consents to your discussing with the
party or parties you have so identified in writing your
potential interest in forming a bidding consortium with
such party or parties, but such consent does not include
consent to discuss any of the Evaluation Material with
any such party unless and until such other party has
also executed a Confidentiality Undertaking and
delivered it to the PA.
5. Until the earlier of (i) the
execution by you (or a consortium, partnership or
similar investing group of which you are a member) and
the Company and/or the PA of a definitive sale and
purchase agreement (a “Share Purchase Agreement”) in
respect of a Sale, (ii) the execution by the Company and
/ or the PA of a Share Purchase Agreement in respect of
a Sale with a third party, or (iii) 2 years from the
date of this undertaking, you agree not to initiate or
maintain contact (except for those contacts made in the
ordinary course of business) with any officer, director
or employee or agent of Tedaş, the Company or of the PA
regarding the Company's businesses, operations,
prospects or finances in connection with or for the
purpose of evaluating a possible Sale except with the
prior written consent of the PA: provided that
contacts with respect to the tender process which are
required to be carried out directly by the PA pursuant
to Law no. 4046, Article 18 shall be exempt from the
foregoing restriction. It is understood that the PA will
arrange for appropriate contacts for due diligence
purposes. You further agree, unless and until you are
directed otherwise in writing by the PA, that you will
submit and direct all (i) communications regarding a
possible Sale, (ii) requests for additional information,
(iii) requests for selected visits or management
meetings and (iv) discussions or questions regarding
procedures, only to the PA, or with the PA’s permission
to the Adviser.
You agree that for a period of one year
from the date hereof, or until the execution by you (or
a consortium, partnership or similar investing group of
which you are a member) and the Company and/or the PA of
a Share Purchase Agreement, if that occurs earlier,
neither you nor any of your Representatives or
Affiliates will try to solicit for employment any of the
employees of the Company or Tedaş or its subsidiaries to
whom you or any of your Representatives or Affiliates
had been directly or indirectly introduced or otherwise
had contact with as a result of your consideration of
Sale so long as they are employed by the Company.
6. You understand and agree that
none of the PA, Tedaş, the Company, the Adviser, nor any
of their respective representatives and Affiliates,
directors, officers, employees, stockholders, owners,
advisors or agents, is making any representation or
warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or
completeness of the Evaluation Material, and none of the
PA, the Company, the Adviser, nor any of their
respective representatives, and Affiliates, directors,
officers, employees, stockholders, owners, advisors or
agents will have any liability to you or any other
person resulting from your use of the Evaluation
Material. You further acknowledge that certain of the
contracts of the Company with third parties or
applicable provisions of law may prohibit or restrict
the Company from disclosing the existence or content of
such contracts or information obtained by the Company
thereunder, and that the Evaluation Material therefore
may omit certain materials responsive to your requests
in order to comply with such contracts or provisions of
law. Only those representations or warranties that are
made to a purchaser or group of purchasers in a Share
Purchase Agreement when, as, and if it is executed and
delivered, and subject to such limitations and
restrictions as may be specified in the Share Purchase
Agreement, will have any legal effect.
7. You also understand and agree
that no contract or agreement providing for a Sale shall
be deemed to exist between you and the PA unless and
until a Share Purchase Agreement with you has been
executed and delivered, and you hereby waive, in advance,
any claims (including, without limitation, breach of
contract) in connection with a Sale unless and until you
shall have entered into such a Share Purchase Agreement.
You also agree that unless and until a Share Purchase
Agreement between you and the PA has been executed and
delivered, neither you nor the PA, nor Tedaş, nor the
Company, nor any of their respective representatives (including
the Adviser and her respective representatives and
Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, stockholders,
owners, advisors and agents), has any legal obligation
of any kind whatsoever with respect to any such
transaction by virtue of this undertaking (except for
the matters specifically agreed to herein) or any other
written or oral expression with respect to such
transaction. You further understand and agree that (i)
the PA, Tedaş, the Company and the Adviser shall be
free to conduct the sale process contemplated herein as
they in their sole discretion shall determine (including,
without limitation, negotiating with any of the
prospective buyers and entering into a Share Purchase
Agreement without prior notice to you or any other
person), (ii) any procedures relating to a Sale may be
changed at any time without notice to you or any other
person, (iii) the PA reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to reject any and all proposals made by you
or your Representatives regarding a Sale and to
terminate discussions or negotiations with you at any
time and for any reason, and (iv) you shall not have any
claims whatsoever against any of the PA, Tedaş, the
Company, the Adviser, or any of their respective
Representatives and Affiliates, directors, officers,
employees, stockholders, owners, advisors or agents
arising out of or relating to a Sale (other than those
as against the party or parties to a Share Purchase
Agreement with you in accordance with the terms thereof).
Neither this paragraph nor any other provision in this
undertaking can be waived or amended except by written
consent of the PA, which consent shall specifically
refer to this paragraph (or such other provision) and
explicitly make such waiver or amendment.
8. You hereby acknowledge that
you are aware, and that you will advise your
Representatives and Affiliates who are informed as to
the matters which are the subject of this letter, that
Turkish securities laws prohibit any person who has
received material, non-public information concerning the
matters which are the subject of this letter from
purchasing or selling securities of the Company or from
communicating such information to any other person under
circumstances in which it is reasonably foreseeable that
such person is likely to purchase or sell such
securities.
9. This undertaking and the
obligations set out herein will terminate 2 years from
the date hereof with the exception of paragraphs 3, 6,
10 and 13 which shall continue without limitation as to
time.
10. You agree that the PA, Tedaş,
the Company and the Adviser shall be entitled to
equitable relief, including injunction and specific
performance, in the event of any breach of the
provisions of this undertaking, in addition to all other
remedies available to them at law or in equity. You also
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to submit
to the jurisdiction of the Ankara courts in any actions,
suits or proceedings arising out of or relating to this
undertaking and the transactions contemplated hereby (and
you agree not to commence any action, suit or proceeding
relating thereto except in such courts), and further
agree that service of any process, summons, notice or
document by registered mail to your address set forth
below shall be effective service of process for any
action, suit or proceeding brought against you in any
such court. You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
waive any objection to the laying of venue of any action,
suit or proceeding arising out of this undertaking or
the transactions contemplated hereby in such courts and
hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waive and
agree not to plead or claim in any such court that any
such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such
court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. You
also agree that, notwithstanding your submission to the
jurisdiction of the courts of Ankara, as set forth above,
nothing herein contained shall limit the right of the PA,
Tedaş, the Company or the Adviser from commencing an
action, suit or proceeding against you in any other
court of appropriate jurisdiction. You further agree
that a final judgment in any such action, suit 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.
11. It is further understood and
agreed that no failure or delay by the PA, Tedaş, the
Company or the Adviser in exercising any right, power
or privilege hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof,
nor will any single or partial exercise thereof preclude
any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of
any right, power or privilege hereunder.
12. The undertakings contained in
this letter are not in lieu or exclusive of any other
obligations and duties that you may have to the PA,
Tedaş or the Company, or the Adviser, whether express
or implied in fact or in law, with respect to the
subject matter of this letter. This undertaking is for
the benefit of the PA and the Company, and also of (a)
the Adviser and (b) with respect to the matters
addressed in Paragraph 6 hereof, the persons enumerated
in the first sentence thereof, in both cases as third
party beneficiaries hereof, and is binding on you and on
your respective successors and assigns.
13. This undertaking shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the Republic of Turkey. You acknowledge and agree that
in all other respects the tender, sale, and bidding
process in connection with which you are executing this
undertaking is also governed by Turkish law and you
further agree (i) that you shall assert no claims
against the PA, Tedaş or the Company relating to or
arising out of such tender, sale, or bidding process
except such claims as you may have under Turkish law,
and (ii) that you will bring no actions against PA,
Tedaş or the Company relating to or arising out of such
tender, sale, or bidding process except in the Ankara
courts.
14. This undertaking is signed both
in English and Turkish. In the event of any doubt
concerning its interpretation, the Turkish version shall
govern.
If you declare, agree and undertake the
foregoing, please sign and return two copies of this
letter which when signed will constitute a binding
undertaking.
Very truly yours,
Republic of Turkey, Prime Ministry
Privatization Administration
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