5.3 Resignation, Removal and Appointment of Successors.
(a) The Company agrees, for the benefit of the holders from time to time of the Warrant Certificates, that there will be at all times a Warrant Agent until all the Warrants have been exercised or are no longer exercisable.
(b) The Warrant Agent may at any time resign as agent by giving written notice to the Company of its intention, specifying the date on which its desired resignation will become effective; as long as the date of resignation is not less than three months after the date on which such notice is given unless the Company otherwise agrees. The Company may remove the Warrant Agent at any time by filing with the Warrant Agent an instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of the Company and specifying its intent to remove the Warrant Agent and the intended date when the removal will become effective. Any resignation or removal will take effect upon the appointment by the Company, as provided in this Agreement, of a successor Warrant Agent (which will be a bank or trust company authorized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization to exercise corporate trust powers) and the acceptance of the appointment by the successor Warrant Agent. The obligation of the Company under Section 5.2(a) will continue to the extent set forth therein notwithstanding the resignation or removal of the Warrant Agent.
(c) If, at any time, the Warrant Agent resigns, or is removed, or becomes incapable of acting, or is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or commences a voluntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or under any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Warrant Agent or its property or affairs, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or takes corporate action in furtherance of any action, or a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises will have been entered in respect of the Warrant Agent in an involuntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises will have been entered for the appointment of a receiver, custodian, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Warrant Agent or of its property or affairs, or any public officer takes charge or control of the Warrant Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation, winding up or liquidation, a successor Warrant Agent, qualified as described above, will be appointed by the Company by an instrument in writing, filed with the successor Warrant Agent. Upon the appointment as aforesaid of a successor Warrant Agent and acceptance by the successor Warrant Agent of such appointment, the Warrant Agent will cease to be Warrant Agent.
(d) Any successor Warrant Agent appointed under this Agreement will execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor and to the Company an instrument accepting the appointment, and immediately after, successor Warrant Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, will become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of the predecessor as if originally named as Warrant Agent under this Agreement, and the predecessor, on payment of its unpaid charges and disbursements, will then become obligated to transfer, deliver and pay over, and the successor Warrant Agent will be entitled to receive, all funds, securities and other property on deposit with or held by the predecessor, as Warrant Agent hereunder.
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