(y) in all other cases, an Issuer or a Guarantor, as the case may be, is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation (if other than an Issuer or a 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 United States, any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia (in each of clauses (x) and (y) above, such Issuer, such Guarantor or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Company”); provided that in the case where the Successor Company of an Issuer is not a corporation, a co-issuer of the Securities is a corporation;
(2) the Successor Company, if other than an Issuer or a Guarantor, expressly assumes, in the case of a Guarantor, all the obligations of such Guarantor under this Indenture and its Security Guarantee and, in the case of an Issuer, all of the obligations of such Issuer under this Indenture and the Securities, in each case, pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee; and
(3) immediately after such transaction, no Event of Default exists.
(b) The Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for an Issuer or a Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Indenture, the Security Guarantees and the Securities, as applicable, and such Issuer or Guarantor, as applicable, shall automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture, the Security Guarantees and the Securities, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
(1) any Subsidiary of Parent 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 Parent and any of its Subsidiaries (including the Issuers); and
(2) an Issuer or a Guarantor may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into an Affiliate of such Issuer or such Guarantor, as the case may be, solely for the purpose of reincorporating such Issuer or such Guarantor in the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory thereof.
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation, merger or amalgamation, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of Parent or an Issuer in accordance with Section 5.01, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which Parent or such Issuer is merged or amalgamated or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such consolidation, merger, amalgamation, sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Indenture referring to Parent or such Issuer shall refer instead to the successor corporation and not to Parent or such Issuer), and may exercise every right and power of Parent or such Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as Parent or such Issuer herein; provided that Parent or Issuer shall not be relieved from the obligation to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities except in the case of a sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all of Parent’s or such Issuer’s assets that meets the requirements of Section 5.01.
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