(a) the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be the surviving Person or the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, under the Indenture and the Securities or the Guarantee, as applicable;
(b) the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, delivers an officer’s certificate and opinion of counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent relating to such amalgamation, consolidation, merger or sale of assets have been complied with; and
(c) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under the Indenture with respect to the Securities.
Section 9.03 Successor Company to Be Substituted. In case of any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee,
(i) in the case of the Company, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of (including any Fundamental Change Purchase Price), accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and the due and punctual delivery of any consideration due upon exchange of, all of the Securities and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of the Indenture and the Securities to be performed by the Company under the Indenture and the Securities or
(ii) in the case of the Guarantor, of the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of the Indenture and the Guarantee to be performed by the Guarantor under the Indenture and the Guarantee,
such Successor Company shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, under the Indenture, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder or the notation of the Guarantee thereon, as the case may be, which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in the Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall, with respect to such Securities, authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Securities that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
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