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INSURANCE NOT REQUIRED Return FULLLY EXECUTED <br />WORK MAY PROCEED Copy to COTC, M-30 A-2023-060-02A <br />CITY CLERK <br />DATE. <br />APPENDIX t' <br />0 = CPru -0 <br />C3 WnT-.) fp�- CALIFORNIA-SUBDIVISION BACKSTOP AGREEMENT <br />o On August 6, 2021, Judge Polster of the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio issued <br />sv an Order (the Order), docket number 3814, in In Re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL <br />N 2804, addressing contingent attorney fee contracts between political subdivisions eligible to <br />`— participate in the Teva Settlement and their counsel. <br />J <br />In light of the Order, and at the request of the City of Santa Ana, the City of Santa Ana, its counsel <br />Robins Kaplan LLP, and the California Attorney General, on behalf of the State of California, are <br />entering into this California -Subdivision Backstop Agreement (Backstop Agreement). <br />The City of Santa Ana and Robins Kaplan LLP intend this Backstop Agreement to constitute a State <br />Back- Stop Agreement as that term is used in the Order and in Exhibit R (Agreement on Attorneys' <br />Fees, Costs, and Expenses) of the Teva Settlement Agreement. <br />Pursuant to this Backstop Agreement, the City of Santa Ana may, subject to the limitations of the <br />Teva Settlement Agreement and CA Teva Allocation Agreement, as well as any other limitations <br />imposed by law, use funds that it receives from the Teva Settlement CA Subdivision Fund to pay <br />a contingent fee to Robins Kaplan LLP. Any such payment from the City of Santa Ana to Robins <br />Kaplan LLP, together with any contingency fees that Robins Kaplan LLP may receive from the <br />national Attorney Fee Fund, will not exceed a total contingency fee of 15% of the total gross <br />recovery of the City of Santa Ana from the Teva Settlement. <br />Robins Kaplan LLP certify that they first sought fees and costs from the Attorney Fee Fund created <br />under the Teva Settlement Agreement before seeking or accepting payment under this backstop <br />agreement. Robins Kaplan LLP further certify that they are not seeking and will not accept payment <br />under this backstop agreement of any litigation fees or costs that have been reimbursed through <br />prior settlements or judgments. <br />The Attorney General is executing this agreement solely because the definition of "State Back - <br />Stop Agreement" in Exhibit R of the Teva Settlement Agreement requires such agreements to be <br />between "a Settling State" and private counsel for a participating subdivision. Neither the <br />California Attorney General nor the State of California have any obligations under this Backstop <br />Agreement, and this Backstop Agreement does not require the payment of any state funds to the <br />City of Santa Ana, Robins Kaplan LLP, or any other party. r / <br />Dated: —1 1?— 2023 � v .Vim'' , � <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Dated: 2023 <br />Dated: 2023 <br />Robins Kaplan LLP <br />ATTORNEY GENERAL <br />