Section 5.05. Maintenance of Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 6, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 5.06. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFEROR LEASE
Section 6.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, in a single transaction or a series of transactions, consolidate with or merge into any other Person or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person, unless:
(a) either (i) the Company is the continuing Person or (ii) the resulting, successor or transferee Person, if not the Company (such Person, the “Successor Company”), is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any State of the United States, or the District of Columbia;
(b) such Person (if other than the Company) expressly assumes by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and the conversion rights shall be provided for in accordance with Article 4;
(c) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
(d) if as a result of such transaction the Securities become convertible into common stock or other securities issued by a third party, such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all of the obligations of the Company or such Successor Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and
(e) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this Article 6 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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