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Exhibit 10.3
 | Execution version |
Accession and Retirement Deed
Genworth Financial International Holdings, Inc.
Genworth Holdings, Inc.
Brookfield Life Assurance Company Limited
Genworth Financial, Inc.
Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Limited
Accession of Genworth Holdings and retirement of GFIH
CONTENTS
| CLAUSE | PAGE | |||||||
| 1. | INTERPRETATION | 1 | ||||||
| 1.1 | Definitions | 1 | ||||||
| 1.2 | Rules for interpreting this document | 1 | ||||||
| 2. | ACCESSION AND RETIREMENT TO THE SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT | 2 | ||||||
| 3. | GENERAL | 2 | ||||||
| 3.1 | Governing law | 2 | ||||||
| 3.2 | Giving effect to this document | 2 | ||||||
| 3.3 | Counterparts | 2 | ||||||
THIS DEED is made on 15 September 2015
BETWEEN:
| (1) | Genworth Financial International Holdings, Inc. (GFIH); |
| (2) | Genworth Holdings, Inc. (Genworth Holdings); |
| (3) | Brookfield Life Assurance Company Limited (Brookfield); |
| (4) | Genworth Financial, Inc. (GFI); and |
| (5) | Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Limited ACN 154 890 730 (the Company). |
RECITALS:
| (A) | GFIH, Brookfield, GFI and the Company are parties to the Shareholder Agreement. |
| (B) | GFIH and Brookfield are partners of an Australian general partnership pursuant to a Partnership Agreement dated 23 April 2014, as amended from time to time (Partnership). Certain shares in the Company are held by GFIH and Brookfield as partners. |
| (C) | GFIH has agreed to transfer its entire interest in the Partnership to Genworth Holdings. As a result of the transfer of GFIH’s interest in the Partnership, Genworth Holdings (as the new partner) will be a shareholder in the Company and will agree to be bound by the Shareholder Agreement, and GFIH will cease to be a shareholder in the Company and will cease to be a party to the Shareholder Agreement. |
THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
| 1. | INTERPRETATION |
| 1.1 | Definitions |
The following definitions apply in this document.
Effective Date means the date on which GFIH transfers its interest in the Partnership to Genworth Holdings.
Shareholder Agreement means the Shareholder Agreement between Brookfield, GFIH, GFI and the Company dated 21 May 2014, as amended from time to time.
Stated Time means 5.00pm on the Effective Date.
| 1.2 | Rules for interpreting this document |
Headings are for convenience only, and do not affect interpretation. The following rules also apply in interpreting this document, except where the context makes it clear that a rule is not intended to apply.
| (a) | A term (other than a term defined in this document) that is defined in the Shareholder Agreement has the same meaning in this document. |
| (b) | The rules specified in clause 1.2 of the Shareholder Agreement apply in interpreting this document. |
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| 2. | ACCESSION AND RETIREMENT TO THE SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT |
| (a) | With effect from the Stated Time: |
| (i) | Genworth Holdings is taken to be a party to the Shareholder Agreement; |
| (ii) | Genworth Holdings agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Shareholder Agreement; |
| (iii) | GFIH ceases to be bound by, and ceases to be a party to, the Shareholder Agreement; and |
| (iv) | a reference in the Shareholder Agreement to “Shareholderco” as the Partnership between Brookfield and GFIH means the Partnership as between Brookfield and Genworth Holdings as at completion of the transfer by GFIH of its interest in the Partnership to Genworth Holdings. |
| (b) | Each party to this document agrees to, and acknowledges the effect of, the accession and retirement contemplated in paragraph (a) above. The Shareholder Agreement is confirmed as remaining in full force and effect. |
| 3. | GENERAL |
| 3.1 | Governing law |
This document is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales.
| 3.2 | Giving effect to this document |
Each party to this document must do anything (include executing any document), and must ensure that its employees and agents do anything (including executing any document), that any other party may reasonably require to give full effect to this document.
| 3.3 | Counterparts |
This document may be executed in counterparts.
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| EXECUTED as a deed. | ||||
| SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED by GENWORTH FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC.: |  | |||
| /s/ Theresa A. Myers | /s/ Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Signature of witness | Signature of authorised signatory | |||
| Theresa A. Myers | Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Name | Name | |||
| SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED by GENWORTH HOLDINGS, INC.: | | |||
| /s/ Theresa A. Myers | /s/ Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Signature of witness | Signature of authorised signatory | |||
| Theresa A. Myers | Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Name | Name | |||
| SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED by BROOKFIELD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED: | | |||
| /s/ Nancy Eve Staples | /s/ Richard J. Oelhafen, Jr. | |||
| Signature of witness | Signature of authorised signatory | |||
| Nancy Eve Staples | Richard J. Oelhafen, Jr. | |||
| Name | Name | |||
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| SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED by GENWORTH FINANCIAL, INC.: | | |||
| /s/ Theresa A. Myers | /s/ Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Signature of witness | Signature of authorised signatory | |||
| Theresa A. Myers | Ward E. Bobitz | |||
| Name | Name | |||
| SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED by GENWORTH MORTGAGE INSURANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED ACN 154 890 730: | ||||
| /s/ Ellen Comerford | /s/ Jonathan Downes | |||
| Signature of director | Signature of | |||
| Ellen Comerford | Jonathan Downes | |||
| Name | Name | |||
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