conveyance or other disposition will have been made, is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of the Issuer or the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof (such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Company”); provided, that in the case where the surviving Person is not a corporation, a co-obligor of the Notes is a corporation;
(2) the Successor Company, if other than the Issuer, expressly assumes all the obligations of the Issuer under the Notes, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Collateral Documents pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments;
(3) immediately after such transaction, no Default exists;
(4) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and any related financing transactions, as if such transactions had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period,
(a) the Issuer or the Successor Company, as applicable, would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the first paragraph of the covenant described under “—Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock”, or,
(b) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Issuer or the Successor Company, as applicable, and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be equal to or greater than the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction;
(5) each Guarantor, unless it is the other party to the transactions described above, in which case clause (1)(b) of the second succeeding paragraph shall apply, shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee shall apply to such Person’s obligations under the Indenture, the Notes, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Collateral Documents;
(6) the Issuer or, if applicable, the Successor Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or transfer and such supplemental indentures, if any, comply with the Indenture;
(7) the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Company shall:
(a) continue to constitute Collateral under the Indenture and the Collateral Documents with the same priorities as existed immediately prior to such transaction,
(b) be subject to the Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, and
(c) not be subject to any Lien other than Liens permitted by the Indenture; and
(8) the property and assets of the Person which is merged or consolidated with or into the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made, to the extent that they are property or assets of the types that would constitute Collateral under the Collateral Documents, shall be treated as After Acquired Property and the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to cause such property and assets to be made subject to the Lien of the Collateral Documents in the manner and to the extent required in the Indenture.
The Successor Company, if other than the Issuer, will succeed to, and be substituted for the Issuer under the Indenture, the Guarantees and the Notes, as applicable and the Issuer will automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under the Indenture, the Guarantees and the Notes.
Notwithstanding the immediately preceding clauses (3) and (4),
(1) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge with or into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor,
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