Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic Rent, assuming that the Lessee is a U.S. Person. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee and the Owner Trustee or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee and Owner Trustee), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) provide representations, warranties, and covenants substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED that, without the prior written consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Term.
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Samples: Lease Agreement (Republic Airways Holdings Inc), Participation Agreement (Republic Airways Holdings Inc), Participation Agreement (Republic Airways Holdings Inc)
Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time -------------------------------------------- after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee and the -------- Indenture Trustee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic RentRent or by any foreign jurisdiction on the interest on the Equipment Notes or the Pass-Through Certificates, in each case assuming that the Lessee is a and the Holders of the Equipment Notes and the Pass-Through Certificates are U.S. PersonPersons. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Indenture Trustee or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee, Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee, it being acknowledged that by acceptance of the Owner Participant Guaranty on the Delivery Date, the Lessee is not acknowledging that the form of such Owner Participant Guaranty is acceptable if delivered by any party other than the original Owner Participant Guarantor who executed and delivered such Owner TrusteeParticipant Guaranty on the Delivery Date), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) provide representations, warranties, representations and covenants warranties substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.015.01(a); PROVIDED provided that, without the prior written consent of the Lessee, -------- such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED provided that Lessee's consent shall -------- not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER provided further that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Term.-------- -------
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time after -------------------------------------------- the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee Lessee, the Loan -------- Participant and the Indenture Trustee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (viv) the Lessee shall have received with respect to each Identified Country identified by Lessee as provided for below either (A) a certificate from such transferee stating that it is not presently subject to income taxation in such Identified Country or (B) an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax taxes will be imposed by such Identified Country on the U.S. interest on Basic Rentthe Equipment Notes, assuming that the Lessee is a U.S. Personperson and assuming all relevant facts concerning the Equipment Notes are as they exist on the date of the transfer. Within 7 days of Lessee receiving notice of a proposed transfer it will send to Owner Participant a list of "Identified Countries", if any, as to which Lessee has received a written opinion from legal counsel that there is a significant likelihood that withholding taxes will be imposed by such Identified Country on the interest on the Equipment Notes due to the presence of the prospective transferee in such Identified Country, together with a copy of the opinion describing the basis on which Lessee has determined that the country is a Identified Country; provided, however, that in no event ----------------- shall a country be considered an Identified Country if such country imposes withholding taxes on the interest on the Equipment Notes prior to the proposed transfer to the same extent as such country would impose such withholding taxes after the proposed transfer. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated tangible net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee and the Owner Trustee or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee Lessee, Owner Trustee and Owner Indenture Trustee), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated tangible net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party and (c) provide representations, warranties, and covenants substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED provided that, without the prior written -------- consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED provided that Lessee's -------- consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER provided further that neither such -------- ------- transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be (I) a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (II) a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee Trustee, and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant Participant, Indenture Trustee, any Noteholder or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be promptly reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDEDprovided, HOWEVER-------- however, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant ------- prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the LeaseLease and after the Lien of the Indenture shall have been discharged in accordance with its terms, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Term.
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time after -------------------------------------------- the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee Lessee, the -------- Noteholders and the Indenture Trustee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and a Majority in Interest of Noteholders) to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and a Majority in Interest of Noteholders) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic Rent, Rent or by any foreign jurisdiction on the interest on the Equipment Notes assuming that the Lessee is a and the Noteholders are U.S. PersonPersons. In connection with any such transfer, the Owner Participant shall use reasonable efforts to consult with the Noteholders in respect of the identity of the transferee and its experience in aircraft leveraged leasing. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee and Lessee, the Owner Trustee and a Majority in Interest of Noteholders or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee Lessee, Owner Trustee and Owner Trusteea Majority in Interest of Noteholders), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement Participant, and (c) provide representations, warranties, representations and covenants warranties substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.015.01(a); PROVIDED provided that, without the prior -------- written consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED provided that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an Event of -------- Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER provided further that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall -------- ------- (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to a Majority in Interest of Noteholders, the Owner Trustee Trustee, and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant Participant, Indenture Trustee, any Noteholder or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDEDprovided, HOWEVERhowever, that in each case bills -------- ------- shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Term.
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction all obligations of the conditions set forth Owner Participant under Section 3.07 hereof have been satisfied in this full (or upon the direction of the Lessee if Section 5.01(c3.05(a)(i) hereof shall be applicable), the Owner Participant may (or shall, as the case may be) assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person institutional investor or an Affiliate of an institutional investor all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant it gives the Lessee and the Indenture Trustee at least 10 daysBusiness Days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) transfer and provided further that the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period incurred on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) transfer and provided that the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee to assume primary liability for, and undertake performance of, for all obligations of the as an Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period incurred after the date of transfertransfer and the Owner Participant shall remain secondarily liable for all such obligations assumed by its successor as Owner Participant; provided, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant need not so agree to remain and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will shall not be imposed by the U.S. on Basic Rent, assuming that the Lessee is a U.S. Person. Any such transferee shall so secondarily liable if (a) be such transferee is (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated tangible net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,00075,000,000, (ii) a direct or indirect subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Indenture Trustee or (B) a an unconditional guaranty reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee and Owner Trustee)obligations, or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated tangible net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement)75,000,000, (b) be such transferee is legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree agrees to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) such transferee shall provide representations, warranties, and covenants representations substantially similar to those contained in clauses (aSection 7.03(a) and (c) hereof. In the event of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED thatany such assignment, without conveyance or transfer, the prior written consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be become a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate Trust Agreement and shall agree to be bound by all the terms of and will undertake all of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover obligations of the Lessee or any Affiliate of Owner Participant contained in the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements in such manner as is reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be (i) a "U.S. Person" as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (or any successor provision thereto) or if the transferee shall not be such "U.S. Person" then (A) each Certificate Holder shall be provided an indemnity in form and substance satisfactory to each such Certificate Holder, for any Taxes that may be imposed on such Certificate Holder (currently or in the future) due to such transferee's failure to be such a "U.S. Person" and (B) such transferee shall be personally liable for any debt service to the extent that its receipt of rentals is reduced by reason of any withholding Taxes that result from such transferee's failure to be such a "U.S. Person" and (ii) a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Indenture Trustee and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code. A transferee hereunder shall not be, without and in any way restricting acquiring the Lessee's Beneficial Interest shall not use and operation the assets of, an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA or an individual retirement account or a plan subject to Section 4975 of the AircraftCode. Assuming the truth of the representations made in Section 6.01(m) hereof, no such assignment, conveyance or transfer shall violate any provision of law or regulation or create a relationship which would be in violation thereof. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" or "Trustor" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have made all the payments previously made by its transferor and to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" or "Trustor" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements transferee. Notwithstanding anything to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lesseecontrary contained in this Section 7.03(d), Owner Participant or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by no event shall the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, transfer its interest in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance to any entity whose business is that of a nationwide or worldwide overnight or expedited delivery small package air courier, cargo or freight deliverer and which competes with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from Lessee in one of its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end principal lines of the Termbusiness.
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person institutional investor or an Affiliate of an institutional investor all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee and the Indenture Trustee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to LesseeLessee and Indenture Trustee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic RentRent or by any foreign jurisdiction on the interest on the Equipment Notes or the Pass-Through Certificates, in each case assuming that the Lessee is a and the Holders of the Equipment Notes and the Pass-Through Certificates are U.S. PersonPersons. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Indenture Trustee or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee Lessee, Owner Trustee and Owner Indenture Trustee), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) provide representations, warranties, and covenants substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a), (c) and (cf) of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED provided that, without the prior written consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED provided that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER provided further that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee Trustee, and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant Participant, Indenture Trustee, any Holder or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDEDprovided, HOWEVERhowever, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Term.
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any time -------------------------------------------- after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person institutional investor or an Affiliate of an institutional investor all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that -------- (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee at least 10 days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) Lessee and such transferee to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 B (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is locatedLaw, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic Rent, assuming that the Lessee is a U.S. Person. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, company or leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee and the Owner Trustee or (B) a guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 A (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee and Owner Trustee), or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) provide representations, warranties, and covenants substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED thatprovided that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and -------- is continuing, without the prior written consent of the Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) thereof; and provided further that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not so long as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an no Event of Default shall have has occurred and be continuing at the time of such transfer; and PROVIDED FURTHER that is -------- ------- continuing, neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by Lessee, Owner Participant or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to the extent so requested by the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Owner Participant in effecting any no assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c)by the Owner Participant of the Beneficial Interest shall increase the amount of the liability of the Lessee under Article 6 hereof or under the Tax Indemnity Agreement over the amount of liability the Lessee would have incurred had such assignment, conveyance or transfer not occurred. The Owner Participant shall pay all costs and expenses (including providing its written consent the Lessee's costs and acknowledgement to expenses) in connection with any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Termtransfer.
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Assignment of Interests of Owner Participant. At any -------------------------------------------- time after the Delivery Date and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 5.01(c), the Owner Participant may assign, convey or otherwise transfer to a single Person institutional investor or an Affiliate of an institutional investor all (but not less than all) of the Beneficial Interest, PROVIDED provided that (i) the Owner Participant gives the Lessee and the Indenture Trustee at least 10 days' days' notice of such assignment, conveyance or other transfer, (ii) the Owner Participant and any Owner Participant Guarantor shall remain liable for all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which the Owner Participant is a party to the extent (but only to the extent) relating to the period on or before the date of such transfer, and (iii) the transferee agrees by a written instrument substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) B to assume liability for, and undertake performance of, all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and the other Operative Agreements to which such Owner Participant is a party relating to the period after the date of transfer, (iv) the transferee shall make a representation to the effect that the funds to be used by the transferee to acquire the Beneficial Interest do not constitute the assets of an ERISA Plan, (v) at or prior to the time of such transfer, the transferee shall furnish an opinion of counsel substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-3 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee) (which counsel may be in-house counsel) to the effect that such transferee and any guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, shall have requisite power and authority and legal right to enter into and carry out the transactions contemplated hereby; and that such agreement and any guaranty of the transferee's obligations has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee, as the case may be, and is a valid and binding agreement of the transferee or the guarantor of the payment and performance obligations of such transferee enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions for such opinions and that the transfer does not violate the Applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which such counsel is located, and (vi) the Lessee shall have received an opinion from counsel selected by Owner Participant and reasonably acceptable to Lessee that no withholding tax will be imposed by the U.S. on Basic Rent, assuming that the Lessee is a U.S. Person. Any such transferee shall (a) be (i) a bank, savings institution, finance company, leasing company or trust company, national banking association acting for its own account or in a fiduciary capacity as trustee or agent under any pension, retirement, profit sharing or similar trust or fund, insurance company, financial institution, fraternal benefit society or a corporation acting for its own account having a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000, (ii) a subsidiary of any Person described in clause (i) where such Person provides (A) support for the obligations assumed by such transferee subsidiary reasonably satisfactory to the Lessee Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Indenture Trustee or (B) a an unconditional guaranty of such transferee subsidiary's obligations substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-2 (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lessee and Owner Trustee)obligations, or (iii) an Affiliate of the transferring Owner Participant, so long as such Affiliate has a combined capital and surplus (or, if applicable, consolidated net worth or its equivalent) of not less than $50,000,000 (unless the Owner Participant remains liable for the obligations of such Affiliate under the Operative Agreements, in which case there shall be no such net worth requirement), (b) be legally capable of binding itself to the obligations of the Owner Participant and shall expressly agree to assume all obligations of the Owner Participant under the Trust Agreement and this Agreement and (c) provide representations, warranties, and covenants substantially similar to those contained in clauses (a) and (c) of this Section 5.01; PROVIDED provided that, without the prior written consent of the -------- Lessee, such transferee shall not be an airline or other aircraft operator or competitor of the Lessee in the business of air transportation or an Affiliate of any thereof unless such Affiliate is (i) General Electric Company, International Lease Finance Corporation, GPA, GATX Corporation or Bouillon Aviation, (ii) any wholly-owned subsidiary of an entity listed in the foregoing clause (i) that is (X) a special purpose corporation limited to holding Owner Participant's interest in the transactions or (Y) primarily engaged in the business of owning and leasing assets to third-party lessees and which is not engaged in the business of an airline, other commercial aircraft operation or freight forwarder or (iii) an entity from which Lessee has leased an aircraft directly (or through a trust) and not as a result of the transfer to such entity of any aircraft subject to an existing lease with Lessee; PROVIDED that Lessee's consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such transferthereof; and PROVIDED FURTHER provided further -------- ------- that neither such transferee nor any Affiliate thereof shall (x) be a party to any material litigation or arbitration (whether as plaintiff or defendant) with the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or (y) be attempting a hostile takeover of the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee. A transferee hereunder shall be a Citizen of the United States or has established a voting trust, voting powers or other arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee Trustee, and the Lessee to permit the Owner Trustee to be the registered owner of the Aircraft under the Transportation Code, without in any way restricting the Lessee's use and operation of the Aircraft. The Owner Trustee shall not be on notice of or otherwise bound by any such assignment, conveyance or transfer unless and until it shall have received an executed counterpart of the instrument of such assignment, conveyance or transfer. Upon any such disposition by the Owner Participant to a transferee as above provided, the transferee shall be deemed the "Owner Participant" for all purposes of the Operative Agreements, and shall be deemed to have acquired the same interest in the Lessor's Estate as theretofore held by its transferor; and each reference therein to the "Owner Participant" shall thereafter be deemed a reference to such transferee and the transferring Owner Participant shall be released from all of its obligations under the Operative Agreements to the extent such obligations are assumed by such transferee. All reasonable fees and expenses incurred by LesseeNo assignment, Owner Participant conveyance or Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer by the Owner Participant permitted by this Section 5.01(c) will be reimbursed by the Owner Participant, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case any fees and expenses incurred by Lessee shall not be so reimbursed; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in each case bills shall be submitted to the Owner Participant prior to payment. Each of the parties hereto agree, to Beneficial Interest shall increase the extent so requested by amount of the Owner Participant, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with liability of the Owner Participant in effecting any Lessee under Article 6 hereof or under the Tax Indemnity Agreement over the amount of liability the Lessee would have incurred had such assignment, conveyance or other transfer permitted pursuant to this Section 5.01(c), not occurred. The Owner Participant shall pay all costs (including providing its written consent and acknowledgement to the Lessee's costs) in connection with any such assignment, conveyance or other transfer and, in the case of the Lessee, providing new insurance certificates that reflect the interest of the transferee. After the expiration or termination of the Term of the Lease, the Owner Participant may freely assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of the Beneficial Interest without compliance with this Section 5.01(c), provided that no such transfer shall release the Owner Participant from its obligations under the Operative Agreements accrued prior to the end of the Termtransfer.
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