Change of Ownership Contractor agrees that if there is a change or transfer in ownership of Contractor’s business prior to completion of this Contract, the new owners shall be required under terms of sale or other transfer to assume Contractor’s duties and obligations contained in this Contract and complete them to the satisfaction of County.
Change in Name The Purchaser shall intimate the Seller of any change in its name (on account reasons other than a change in its Control), immediately upon occurrence of name change. The Parties shall thereafter take necessary steps to record such change in the name of the Purchaser in the books and records of the Seller and shall also execute an amendment agreement to the Agreement to record such name change.
Assignment; Change of Control 10.3.1 Except as provided in this Section 10.3, this Agreement may not be assigned or otherwise transferred, nor may any right or obligation hereunder be assigned or transferred, by either Party without the consent of the other Party, such consent not be unreasonably withheld. Any permitted assignee under this Agreement shall assume in writing all assigned obligations of its assignor under this Agreement. All validly assigned rights of a Party shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, and all validly assigned obligations of such Party shall be binding on and enforceable against, each permitted assignee of such Party; provided that such Party shall remain jointly and severally liable for the performance of the assigned obligations under this Agreement. Any attempted assignment not in accordance with this Section 10.3 shall be void. 10.3.2 Astellas may, without Ambit’s consent, assign this Agreement and all its rights and obligations hereunder in whole (but not in part) to an Astellas Affiliate, or to Astellas’s successor in interest (whether by acquisition, merger, reorganization, restructuring, asset purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all the business or assets to which this Agreement relates. In addition, Astellas may, without Ambit’s consent, perform any or all of its obligations and exercise any or all of its rights under this Agreement through any of Astellas’s Affiliates. 10.3.3 Ambit may, without Astellas’s consent, assign this Agreement and all its rights and obligations hereunder in whole (but not in part) to Ambit’s successor in interest (whether by acquisition, merger, reorganization, restructuring, asset purchase or otherwise) to all or substantially all the business or assets to which this Agreement relates; provided, however, that Ambit shall notify Astellas promptly upon the completion of any such transaction. Further, upon any Change of Control of Ambit, Astellas shall have the right, at its sole discretion upon thirty (30) days prior written notice at any time within three (3) months after completion of such a Change of Control of Ambit, to exercise one or more of the following options: (a) Terminate any existing Co-Promotion Option that has not been exercised prior to the date of such Astellas termination; (b) Terminate any existing Co-Promotion Agreement, provided however that in the event of a termination of any applicable Co-Promotion Agreement existing as of the date of Astellas’s termination in accordance with this Section 10.3.3 based on a Change of Control of Ambit, the following shall apply from and after the effective date of such termination event(s): (i) The applicable Product(s) shall no longer constitute a Co-Promoted Product(s) under this Agreement, except that (A) the Parties shall be required to pay to one another Co-Promotion Payments in accordance with Section 3.8.5 with the applicable financial terms and conditions of this Agreement applied for purposes of calculating such payments as if such Product(s) were a Co-Promoted Product(s) hereunder; and (B) such Product(s) shall continue to be treated as a Co-Promoted Product(s) for purposes of Article 7 (including for purposes of applying defined terms used in Article 7 to give effect to the provisions thereof); (ii) Notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement to the contrary, Allowed Expenses for purposes of determining such Co-Promotion Payments shall be deemed to include any and all costs (internal and out-of-pocket), whether direct or indirect, incurred to build, maintain and operate Astellas’s, its Related Party’s or subcontractors’s sales force(s) in the U.S. for the Product(s) that was the subject of the Co-Promotion Agreement, and to use such sales force(s) to Promote the Product(s) in the U.S., including any such amounts incurred to provide, support and maintain sales force managers for such sales force(s); (iii) Without limitation to the foregoing, for purposes of calculating Co-Promotion Payments, (A) any requirement that Allowed Expenses be incurred in accordance with any budget shall not apply, (B) Sections 3.8 and 3.9 shall have no further force or effect, and, for clarity, (x) Astellas shall not be under any obligations to prepare or present for Ambit’s review any Co-Promotion Plan, (y) the JCC shall be terminated, and (z) Astellas shall have no obligations to continue providing to Ambit information with respect to commercialization activities for the U.S., and (C) Astellas shall have sole control over all commercialization matters in the U.S., except that Astellas shall provide to Ambit summary reports each Calendar Quarter with respect to its commercialization activities in the U.S; (iv) For clarity, nothing contained herein is intended or shall be construed to be in derogation of Astellas’s obligations to use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to commercialize the applicable Product(s) in the U.S. as required pursuant to Section 3.6.1, or Ambit’s right to conduct audits pursuant to Section 4.6;