(f) The Company shall not permit any Guarantor that is a Subsidiary of the Company to consolidate with or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving corporation), or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets, in one or more related transactions, to any Person (other than to the Company or another Guarantor) unless:
(1) (a) if such entity remains a Guarantor, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Guarantor”) is a Person (other than an individual) organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or the laws under which such Guarantor was formed;
(b) the Successor Guarantor, if other than such Guarantor, expressly assumes all the obligations of such Guarantor under this Second Lien Exchangeable Notes Indenture, the Second Lien Exchangeable Notes, its Note Guarantee and the Security Documents pursuant to a supplemental indenture or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee;
(c) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(d) the Company will have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, winding up or disposition and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Second Lien Exchangeable Notes Indenture; or
(2) in the event the transaction results in the release of the Restricted Subsidiary’s Note Guarantee under clause (1)(A) of Section 10.06(a), the transaction is made in compliance with Section 4.16 (it being understood that only such portion of the Net Available Cash as is required to be applied on the date of such transaction in accordance with the terms of this Second Lien Exchangeable Notes Indenture needs to be applied in accordance therewith at such time).
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Guarantor may merge with or into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to a Guarantor or merge with a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, so long as the resulting entity remains or becomes a Guarantor and such resulting entity shall be a Domestic Subsidiary.
(h) For purposes of this Section 5.01, the sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or a Guarantor, as the case may be, which properties and assets, if held by the Company or such Guarantor instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company or such Guarantor on a consolidated basis, will be deemed to be the disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable.
Section 5.02. Successor Entity Substituted.
Upon any consolidation, merger, winding up, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or a Guarantor in accordance with Section 5.01, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be released from its obligations under this Second Lien Exchangeable Notes Indenture and the Second Lien Exchangeable Notes or its Note Guarantee, as the case may be, and the Successor Company or the Successor Guarantor, as the case may be, shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company or a Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Second Lien Exchangeable Notes Indenture, the Second Lien Exchangeable Notes and such Note Guarantee; provided that, in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, the Company shall not be released from the obligation to pay the principal of and interest on the Second Lien Exchangeable Notes.
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