(v) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, winding-up, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and such supplemental indentures, if any, comply with this Indenture.
(b) The Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for such Issuer or Nielsen HF, as applicable, as the case may be, under this Indenture, the Guarantee and the Notes, as applicable. Notwithstanding clause (iii) of Section 5.01(a) hereof,
(i) any Covenant Party or Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or merge with or into or wind-up into or sell, assignment transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or part of its properties and assets to an Issuer or Restricted Guarantor; and
(ii) an Issuer may merge with an Affiliate of such Issuer, as the case may be, solely for the purpose of reorganizing such Issuer in a State of the United States so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Covenant Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries is not increased thereby.
(c) Subject to certain limitations described in this Indenture governing release of a Guarantee thereunder upon the sale, disposition or transfer of a Guarantor, no Restricted Guarantor shall, and the Covenant Parties shall not permit any Restricted Guarantor to, consolidate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not an Issuer or Restricted Guarantor is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets, in one or more related transactions, to any Person (other than to give effect to the Connect Transactions) unless:
(i) such Restricted Guarantor is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Restricted Guarantor) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition will have been made is organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Restricted Guarantor, as the case may be, or the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, any member state of the European Union as of the Issue Date or the jurisdiction of organization of any Restricted Guarantor (such Restricted Guarantor or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Person”);
(ii) the Successor Person, if other than such Restricted Guarantor, expressly assumes all the obligations of such Restricted Guarantor under this Indenture and such Restricted Guarantor’s related Guarantee pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee;
(iii) immediately after such transaction, no Default exists; and
(iv) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indentures, if any, comply with this Indenture.
(d) In the case of Section 5.01(c), the Successor Person shall succeed to, and be substituted for, such Restricted Guarantor under this Indenture and such Restricted Guarantor’s Guarantee thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Restricted Guarantor may merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to another Restricted Guarantor or an Issuer.
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