(b) The Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for the Issuer, Parent or a Subsidiary of Parent that is a Parent Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Indenture, the Note Guarantees, the Notes and the Security Documents, as applicable, and such Issuer, Parent or such Parent Guarantor, as applicable, shall automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture, the Note Guarantees, the Security Documents and the Notes.
Notwithstanding Sections 5.01(a)(3) and 5.01(a)(4),
(1) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or part of its properties and assets to the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary,
(2) the Issuer, Parent or a Subsidiary of Parent that is a Parent Guarantor may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into an Affiliate of the Issuer, Parent or such Parent Guarantor, as the case may be, solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Issuer, Parent or such Parent Guarantor in the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory thereof; and
(3) any License Subsidiary may be merged or consolidated with or into (i) any other License Subsidiary or (ii) a newly formed Subsidiary of the Issuer (which may be organized as a limited liability company) established for the purpose of becoming a License Subsidiary; provided that such newly formed Subsidiary, if it is the continuing or surviving entity, shall have assumed all of the obligations of such Subsidiary under this Indenture, the Note Guarantees, the Security Documents and the Notes, as applicable.
(c) From and after the Issue Date and other than as permitted or not prohibited by Section 10.06 upon the sale, disposition or transfer of Capital Stock of a Subsidiary Guarantor, no Subsidiary Guarantor shall, and the Issuer shall not permit a Subsidiary Guarantor to, merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into or wind up into (whether or not the Issuer or a 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 unless:
(1)
(a) such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation (if other than such Subsidiary Guarantor) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition will have been made is a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Subsidiary Guarantor or the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof (such Subsidiary Guarantor or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Guarantor”);
(b) the Successor Guarantor, if other than such Subsidiary Guarantor, expressly assumes all the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture and such Subsidiary Guarantor’s related Note Guarantee and the applicable Security Documents pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (provided that, in making such determination, the Trustee may rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition and such supplemental indentures and/or other documents or instruments, if any, comply with this Indenture);
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