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(vi) contracts for the purchase or sale of Depositary Shares, Preferred Stock or Common Stock (the “Purchase Contracts”);
(vii) warrants for the purchase of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Debt Securities or units of two or more of such securities (the “Warrants”); and
(viii) units of the Company comprised of any combination of Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Warrants, Depositary Shares, Purchase Contracts, Debt Securities or Debt Securities Guarantees (the “Units”).
The Debt Securities, Debt Securities Guarantees, Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Purchase Contracts, Warrants, and Units are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.” The Senior Debt Securities are to be issued under an indenture entered into among the Company, the guarantors from time to time party thereto, and Truist Bank (formerly known as Branch Banking and Trust Company) (the “Trust Company”), as indenture trustee (the “Senior Base Indenture”). The Senior Subordinated Debt Securities are to be issued under an indenture to be entered into among the Company, the guarantors from time to time party thereto, and the Trust Company, as indenture trustee (the “Senior Subordinated Base Indenture”). The Subordinated Debt Securities are to be issued under an indenture to be entered into among the Company, the guarantors from time to time party thereto, and the Trust Company, as indenture trustee (the “Subordinated Base Indenture,” and together with the Senior Base Indenture and the Senior Subordinated Base Indenture, the “Base Indentures”).
In arriving at the opinions expressed below, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction as being true and complete copies of the originals of the Senior Base Indenture, the forms of the Senior Subordinated Base Indenture and Subordinated Base Indenture, forms of the Debt Securities and Debt Securities Guarantees, specimen Common Stock certificates and such other documents, corporate records, certificates of officers of the Company and the Guarantors and of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable to enable us to render these opinions. In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies. To the extent that our opinions may be dependent upon such matters, we have assumed, without independent investigation, that each of the Guarantors identified on Annex A as a “Specified Guarantor” (each Guarantor so identified, a “Specified Guarantor”) is validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation, has all requisite corporate or other entity power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture (defined below) and the Debt Securities Guarantees to which it is or may be a party, that the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of such documents by each Specified Guarantor and the performance of its obligations thereunder do not and will not violate the charter or bylaws or other constituent documents of any Specified Guarantor or any law, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to such Specified Guarantor. As to any facts material to these opinions, we have relied to the extent we deemed appropriate and without independent investigation upon statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and the Guarantors and others.