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BILLING ARRANGEMENTS AND PAYMENT TERMS We will bill you on a regular basis — normally, each month — for both fees and other charges. You agree to make payment within 30 days of the date of our statement, unless a different period of time is specified in the Engagement Letter. If you have any issue with our statement, you agree to raise it specifically before 30 days from the date of our statement or any other due date established in an Engagement Letter. If the issue is not immediately resolved, you agree to pay all fees and other charges not directly affected by the issue before 30 days from the original bill or any other due date established in an Engagement Letter and all amounts affected by the issue within 10 days of its resolution. If we have rendered a final bill and we become liable for other charges incurred on your behalf, we will be entitled to render a further bill or bills to recover those amounts. In the event that a statement is not paid in full before 30 days from the date of our statement or any other due date established in an Engagement Letter, interest and /or late charges will be imposed on any unpaid fees and /or costs at the combined rate of eight percent (8 %) per annum or at any lower rate legally required by a particular jurisdiction. If the cover letter accompanying these Standard Terms of engagement specifies an event or an alternate date upon which payment is due, interest and /or late charges will be imposed on any unpaid fees and /or costs 30 days after the specified event or date or any other period specified in an Engagement Letter. The purpose of the late payment charge is to encourage prompt payment, thus reducing our billing and collection costs. In addition, if your account becomes delinquent and satisfactory payment terms are not arranged, we may postpone or defer providing additional services or withdraw, or seek to withdraw, from the representation consistent with applicable rules. You will remain responsible for payment of our legal 7 fees rendered and charges incurred prior to such withdrawal. If our representation of you results in a monetary recovery by litigation or arbitration award, judgment, or settlement, or by other realization of proceeds, then (when permitted by applicable law) you hereby grant us an attorneys' lien on those funds in the amount of any sums due us. We look to you, the client, for payment regardless of whether you are insured to cover the particular risk. From time to time, we assist clients in pursuing third parties for recovery of attorneys' fees and other costs arising from our services. These situations include payments under contracts, statutes or insurance policies. However, it remains your obligation to pay all amounts due to us before expiration of 30 days from the date of our statement unless a different period is established in an Engagement Letter. REVENUE AND EXPENSE SHARING IN NETWORKS AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS WITH INDEPENDENT LAW FIRMS We have relationships with selected other independent law firms with offices in locations outside the United States where we do not have a Squire office. These include the Squire Sanders Legal Counsel Worldwide Network, a network of independent firms that share resources and work together to serve clients. Unless we actually form an attorney - client relationship with a client of such a selected independent law firm, such a party is not our client for any purpose, including conflicts of interests. In many cases we share revenues and expenses with such firms in a mutual relationship designed for multiple matters on a continuing basis over a substantial period of time. For example, each member of the Squire Sanders Legal Counsel Worldwide Network pays a base membership fee, with additional membership fees payable based on the cumulative amount of business referred to each member firm from